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And you think no one would notice that nice little battleship that suddenly appeared at Wilhemshaven docks
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It was already there before the war. And what did they do about it? Nothing at all.
They let Hitler spit on the Versailles treaty (written allright?) and, understandably reluctant of another war, they let him have it's his way.
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that time is too short for the industrial power of Germany to accomplish enough to even hope to challenge the Royal Navy for sea supremacy
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There was hardly anything the Royal Navy could do about and against the force of the German U-boats. They were holding GB in a grasp for the first couple of years of WWII.
A year or two more would have meant more ships, more (and even better) U-boats.
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Although the countries were ill prepared for war that quicky changed when war was declared, make shift tanks and quick produced weapons would have filled the armies ranks
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What Allied ranks?
If Germany had taken more time before going to war they would have swept across Europe even quicker the they did.
And England would have been left to fight all alone. Which they actually did in the beginning.
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seeing that American had more time to make up its mind, seeing that if Germany entered the war say at the same time as Japan
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Even after Pearl Harbor America did not want to get involved in the European war.
There only intrest was in the Pacific. That was, in their opinion, a just war. Just wage revence.
But it was Hitler who was stupid and ignorant enough to declare war on America.
[quote] How would getting resourses through regular channels get to this "would have had a big advantage to the rest of the world"? How? QUOTE]
I'll try to explain. Don't know the right word for through regular channels.
They had merchants sailing all over the world, buying Iron, coal, etc. etc. And there was this pact with Stalin. Russia is full of resources.
And, thus, the devolpment and building-up of an army could have been done easily while the rest of the world was kept quite by false promises.
Off the record, Nice discussion, intersting points of view. Been missing this for a long time. There is hardly any interest back home for this.
Happy to have found this forum.