yeah i disagree with that. Mostly because of the way the Nazis tried really, really hard to make it look like the Polish were the ones being hostile and refusing negotiations. Why, if the Nazis wanted war with the west, would they try to convince them they were not the aggressors? Didn't do it...
totally wrong though. The main focus was the bolsheviks, always. Look up GeneralPlan Ost, whichwas the reason for the invasiono f Poland in the first place. Not even the Nazis wanted a 2 front war. They believed wrongly that the Allies would stay neutral and not declare war after they invaded...
From what i know Soviet and Italian relations were pretty bad since the Spanish Civil war, which the Italians aided Franco's troops quite a lot more than they did the Finns. I believe thats what stopped any crucial supplies coming to Italy, not the aid to the Finns, which was mostly stopped by...
Is it possible the SS will go overboard in their power and violence? Meaning they will turn inwards looking for enemies, meaning they will cause some sort of "reign of terror" and eventually measures have to be taken to stop them? This either originating from Himmler, Heydrich or the Waffen-SS.
Sure they were nazis, sure they believed in the cause, sure they were war criminals. But being that is different than being a competent military commander. The problem was Hitler because he listened to the bad ones(like von Manstein, and von Bock) and disregarded the "good" ones(like von...
I got so many question from this map. Who owns Sakhalin? What is that pink blob above Slovakia? Why is Denmark partially independent? Why are the Caucasus countries independent? What is going on in Afghanistan?
no and no.
The war would hardly take longer, no way the Germans last long enough for nukes to be felt neccesary. Certainly not with Japan still proving much tougher to crack. Also, the division of Europe, as agreed upon at the Yalta conference, would not change even if the Soviets are further...
well there is a reason they didn't want to play it that way, i can understand that reason. its mostly got to do with not wanting your country destroyed and your people homeless and hungry.
Might be a good thing for France and England to have a military alliance with The Dutch and Belgium, but...
But are they allied armies in your country if there is no war yet? Or are they an occupation force trying to tell these nation what to do, how to defend? Technically Belgium and The Netherlands were not in a military alliance with UK and France, so any foreign soldiers entering a sovereign...
Is there a camp 3 that says that the collapse of France was mainly due to poor leadership, as the French government was weak and corrupt? I am part of that camp. They were so terrified. They just handed France over. Nobody was as surprised by the fall of France as the Germans were.
Maybe they...
I'd like to point out again that LL to Far East was not limited to Vladivostok. They unloaded a lot of the shipping on the Kamchatka peninsula before steaming on to Vladivostok(especially military equipment). They'd unload all on Kamchatka if they can't go further. The Japanese will have to...
2 things AFAIK.
1. Before the ship split the aft section was already dragged unwater considerably. So even if they did split fully at the time of the break, a large portion of the aft section would already be flooded and sinking will occur almost as quickly as it was when it was supposedly...