So, the black stripe that all French sailors wore on their uniforms to commemorate their defeat at Trafalgar was an example of what? Love for...
Read the original post in the thread. The original post quoted Raeder's proposed Southern Strategy: I then said that Goering presented a similar...
1. Some was lost, not all. 2. 1.3 million tons was caught outside the Med. Mussolini could have avoided that problem with a little bit of...
Planes?
I read somewhere that if Hitler had stopped after retaking Memel from Lithuania he would have gone down as the greatest German leader ever (at...
All Hitler had to do was ask. Petain said as much. No they didn't. The British proposed the union. The French rejected it out of hand and...
If launched in summer of 1940 this is mostly an Italian operation, if combined with the declaration of war it can also be a surprise attack. I...
Yes, I know about the rail guages. What does that matter? Spanish trains can be used. There is a good road network fallowing the same route....
Do your own research, this is a well known plan, easy to find. I'll summarize it for you. Canary Islands - one of Franco's concerns was the need...
The panzer armies continued to press south until the armistice was signed. On June 22 Panzer Group Kleist and Panzer Group Guderian occupy a line...
Then you didn't read the original premise of the thread or my original post. The original premise was "could the Germans have won if they had...
1. Gibraltar. If done as soon as France capitulates the needed trucks, planes, and rail assets were in southern France. 2. South Atlantic -...
There were a number of related plans put together by Raeder, Donitz, the Luftwaffe, and others that are necessary for this southern strategy to...
