Well, I for one don't think it improper to honor the sacrifice of the kamikazes. They were willing to not just risk their lives for the cause...
Sigh. It always disappoints me to see emotional comments like this as they reveal a lack of reflection and a reliance upon emotion rather than...
Germany, through both World Wars, had to contend with being outnumbered so they could never compete in terms of quantity and almost always went...
This is another problematic "What If ...?" as it assumes that Hitler would agree not only to a tactical retreat, but to strategic one. Hitler did...
The industry that was moved to Siberia did not return to production until mid-1942. If the Soviet Union was also deprived of all the factories in...
Hitler did not have to declare war on the US. The alliance with Japan was in effect only if Japan was attacked. Japan was the one doing the...
Note that I'm not arguing that Hitler's moves were the best, either politically or militarily. What I am arguing is that in order to understand...
But that channel, with Britain's undisputed naval superiority and local air superiority, meant that the massive Germany army couldn't get over and...
Withdrawing to the Rhine would have been an unmitigated disaster for the Germans and particularly their leader, not the superior defensive...
I seem to have touched a nerve here. So you accuse me of belittling the dead. Far from it; I am trying to help you understand people you...
I don't think this idea is actually very feasible. (Certainly it would never have been countenanced by Hitler given his hatred of giving up any...
If Germany had conquered Stalingrad or Moscow in 1942 there is a good chance that the other, and Leningrad, could have fallen as well, forcing the...
That seems to have been the big picture that Hitler was looking at. With Russia out of the war either Britain would realize they wer doomed and...
You are forgetting that the commander in chief of Germany was Hitler and he was not only a military leader but a political one as well. You will...
Germany is a big country and due to the inaccuracy of the bombs it took a long time to bomb enough of Germany to seriously affect it. The...
Agreed, knowing what know about how things ultimately fell out it was a mistake. However, if Germany had conquered Moscow and Leningrad in 1941,...
I think the reason the Battle of the Bulge seems like such a hopeless cause to us is that we're looking at it from a tactical or strategic...
Good point. With the USSR in the bag Churchill's government almost certainly would have fallen. If Chamberlain couldn't survive the loss of...
FDR was itching to get into the war for quite a while and had already got the US financial foot in the door of the war long before US troops took...
Maybe delay the inevitable conquest of Germany (from the Allied side at least) for a few months. If that, even. If the Germans had taken Antwerp...
