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Old October 5th, 2002, 01:42 AM
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Friedrich will become famous soon enough
This what if COULD be done.

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I knew it!! I knew it when I wrote that - somebody would say it!!!
No, not somebody. CRAZY. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Forget about surface ships in the 1930s and build a lot of U-boats instead.

Total mobilisation of industry in 1939.

Let Von Runstedt and Von Bock smash the Allies in Dunkirk.

No battle of Britain. With more submarines Dönitz would have made the job.

USSR attacked in the East by Japanesse forces.

Done. War won. With all these factors you have a total-mobilised Germany for summer 1941. The three Army Group in Russia are huge and powerful enough to do all their tasks by themselves and finish the war in a single campaign.
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