This is a perfect example of the phrase that makes "What if?"'s so interesting: Just change one thing and you change everything.
I agree that Truman was pretty much left between two bad choices in the summer of 1945. A Soviet invasion against the lightly defended and...
Mussolini, I'm sorry if I didn't phrase my response correctly. economically the US in the 1930's was not strong but had a lot of potential, a vast...
Sorry Billy Bones, naturally the Canadians won. ;) Carl, you're right in a way, the man with the scythe and black hood had his best harvest in...
Economically, it has to have been the United States, they were powerful on economic terms before the war, but after it they were by far the number...
My grandparents fought with Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia. One of my grandfathers and his entire male family were members of the 6th Montenegrin...
I don't think either would have happened. In the East the Soviets had become almost invincible, and they were ready to throw almost 200 divisions...
One reason for why Rommel chose to agitate for the forward defense of the beaches was that aside from the Panzer divisions the units involved were...
Andreas, only the Heer parts of the Wachbattalion wear green berets, the marinesicherung and Luftwaffe companies have their own berets. The...
Carl, I think we talked about the medals once on the militaria forum, and we agreed that it is time for Germany to bring back the EK's or RK's....
I have been a cheerful 22 yrs of age since December 8, which makes me so far number two in the "Youngest man on WW2online" contest.
That is actually pretty novel to me, I had never heard of the submarine-borne fighters that the Japanese had. It is a great idea though, one has...
For Anti-tank weapons you would probably have to go with the German Pak-37, although it was nicknamed the doorknocker in Russia because it could...
I have to say this is one of those perfect What-ifs: Change one thing and you change everything! I have to agree with Andreas, the timing is the...
HAHA, nice one Andreas, I can also recall that in my time in the military, we had a guy salute with his left hand once while reporting to the...
Andreas, they don't charge to read the online edition, which is quite different from the actual articles printed in the magazine itself. Those...
Carl, if you need the Spiegels website, it is www.spiegel.de , now the article costs .50cents to read onlinebut I can copy and paste it here if...
I agree guys the sinking of the Gustloff was a massive tragedy. Lately Guenther Grass one of germany's greatest post-war poets wrote a book about...
That seems to be the problem with all politicians I am afraid, they are drawn to publicity like maggots to a rotting fruitcake. ;)
I agree Erich, the battles in East Pruussia and Pomerania were brutal and fueled by the Wehrmachts desire to let as many civilians escape as...