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Originally Posted by JeffinMNUSA
Kai (That is a Finnish name isn't it? My mother is Finnish/Karelian.);
I think that Romania also shows what a formidable defense the Axis might have mounted if they would have withdrawn from Russia sometime before or even after Kursk-or really anytime before Bagration. Leave it to a pig headed supreme commander like Herr Hitler to hang onto every inch of captured territory despite the fact that Russia became increasingly untenable. And those who argue "that it was only a matter of time before the Allies prevailed" are not factoring in the Axis vs. Allied technological gap-as well as the capricious nature of the fortunes of war. If I would have been an NKVD general during WWII I would have argued for a secret protective cordon around Der Fuhrer so as to prevent people from taking a shot at him and to keep the cockeyed strategic decisions coming.
JeffinMNUSA
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Yes, that is a Finnish name. I know thereīs lots of Finns in the US as well as other nationalities moving there mostly in the 19th century and early 20th century, I guess. ANyway, can you speak any Finnish?
BTW, did you know Pamela Andersonīs grandfather was Finnish...
On the military subject: I think it is a miracle Germans did as well as they did if you consider the number of troops Hitler ordered to stay back and hold the line leaving loads of men to be trapped by the Red Army. If you for instance simply think about the August-September 1944 situation and German losses in the west and east you must wonder how on earth it all did not crumble down....