That's actually a typo. A little known fact is his name was RON Ribbentrop. Well, that's what i heard.
The Italian troops did tend to be innefectual. There are several reasons for this, and in a nutshell after studying WW2 for decades, here are the...
everyone here seems to have covered all the reasons, but the most important reason it failed was, of course, the mind of Adolph Hitler. Most...
I have read much about Hitler but never heard he had an American nephew...source?
If i understand half of what you were trying to say, yes WW2 might have been unwinnable without Britain. The British bankrupted their country...
I actually have to doubt your source, i suspect these numbers are questionable - too low. To use just one example, the number of German prisoners...
+1 lol glorified janitors, indeed. In The Forgotten Soldier, Sajer is taken prisoner at the end of the book by the "Amis". He comments about the...
In terms of functionality the Garand was certainly better. It was made in american workshops, using top quality metallurgy, with first class...
I saw one documentary that said one Tiger cost as much as 3 fighter planes. These figures are interesting, but someone said an M1 garand cost...
It's safe to say most German officers did comprehend what they were facing, but what were they to do about it? All there was to be done was to...
After their crushing defeat by Hitler's armies in 1940, the French military was esentially a shell. Even before the war the French had few or no...
On the Eastern front, the battle at Demyansk, oftene referred to as the Demyansk Pocket, in 1942 has been largely ignored by historians. It is...
U-boats were used quite succesfully in world war 1, because although they were very primitive, the allies had absolutely no way to detect them. So...
I'm sure your grandfather knows a lot more about WW2 than i do because he was there. However there's something in the post that may not be...
Assuming any plane ever made during the war, it's gotta be the P-51, no contest. Powerful and manuevable enough to fight with a Jap Zero, and...
Does anybody know how the allies found out the Germans were using acoustic-homing torpedoes? It seems unlikely that the allies would have ever...
Well the Germans had probably the best infantry in the world at the point of the war. Those who survived that long (everyone was in for the...
You didn't mention my real favorites, those were the American PT boats and the German E-boats. The idea of a fast (relatively) small ship...
Yes the Soviets fought heroically at Sevastopol, nevertheless the achievement of Manstein's armies, and Manstein's winning strategy, can't be...
The reason they did not do the maneuver you suggest is because of the unfavorable terrain, as other people mentioned, but primarily because the...
