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Originally Posted by Bravo104
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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The Germans created Pocket battleships such as the Graff Spee to get around the Versailles treaty, they had no real battleships until the Bismarck and later the Tirpitz as wall as no aircraft carrier, so they couldn't just start building them.
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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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That was only true in the beginning of the Battle for the Altantic until Destroyer technology caught up with the Uboats and then the Uboast could not sustain enough sinkings to get their quota, and the "starving" of Britian woudl never had worked, I read somewhere that the Americans were able to build 1 transport ship a month from one company, then sold them to Britain to ferry goods. Also to get around this Britain instead of loading the merchant ships could just as easily paid the Americans to ferry the goods using their ships, thus making the trips safe, since the Americans were neutral at the time.
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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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I do agree with that, more time means more tanks, but I don't think that it would have made a big enough difference, because many inovative designs that were created and developed during the course of the war only came about from war experience, such as armour skirtings on the StuG's and Pz IV tanks, as well as later models of StuG's having machine guns for infantry defense, so you could argue that the assualt may not have been so successful due to that fact.
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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.
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Very True, but why would Hitler not do the same now?
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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.
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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[/quote]I doubt the Allies would be fooled becuase that would be a lot of military hardware that would have to be built and then hidden, as well as the allies having their own suspicions about such a build up due to the fact that Germany is buying up so much extra resources.
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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.
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Slow down we aint finished yet
You have defenitely come to the right place then, every week it is a discussion with someone different, some more heated then others
