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Skriven 2005-01-31 22:33:55 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 8283 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
Ärende: Ww 2
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John Hull -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 JH> 31 Jan 05 01:36, Ed Hulett wrote to VERN HUMPHREY:

 EH>> VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT wrote:
 VH>>>>> But let me point out that in 1917, Germany DID defeat Russia.
 VH>>>>> The Russians collapsed, signed the peace of Brest-Litovsk, and
 VH>>>>> freed
 VH>>> the
 VH>>>>> Germans to send their forces west -- almost crushing the Allies
 VH>>> before
 VH>>>>> the American Army was fully formed.

 EH>>>> Russia collapsed because the people just didn't want to fight for
 EH>>>> the
 VH>>> Czar a
 EH>>>> longer. It was during then that the Russian revolution began and
 EH>>>> the
 VH>>> army ju
 EH>>>> didn't want to fight Germany. The Czar also made himself supreme
 VH>>> commander o
 EH>>>> the Russian army while having no real military strategic
 EH>>>> knowledge at
 VH>>> all.

 VH>>> Nevertheless, the Germans DID beat the Russians in WWI, and given
 VH>>> the brutality of Stalin's rule, they had a good chance of repeating
 VH>>>  the performance.  In fact, at first many Russians welcomed the
 VH>>> Nazis as liberators -- until they found out how brutal they were.

 VH>>>>> So there was some possibility that the Germans could repeat
 VH>>>>> their earlier victories.

 EH>>>> There was some possiblity, in fact, they did chase Britain out of
 EH>>>> France at
 EH>>>> Dunkirk. It wasn't until the US joined the war and helped defeat
 EH>>>> Germany in
 EH>>>> northern Africa and then invaded Europe that Germany was on the
 EH>>>> defensive.

 VH>>> True -- they could have won, but for a few fatal mistakes.

 EH>> They could have won even after the US entered the war. Had the
 EH>> weather favored them longer at Bastogne, they may have broke free
 EH>> and at least prolonged the war.

 EH>> Tonight, Sunday, on the History Channel they had a program about
 EH>> secret weapons of WWII and later. If Germany had been able to
 EH>> build some of the planes and weapons that had been developed, they
 EH>> could have bombed the US. They had a stealth flying wing bomber
 EH>> that looks very much like the B-2 Spirit. Had they been able to
 EH>> produce more it might have turned the war in their favor.

 JH> Anybody who thinks it wasn't a near thing hasn't been paying attention.

The good Lord was on the side of the Allies. It wasn't just luck.

Ed

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