Not that this excuses anything, but probably a factor in the Stalingrad case was that the Russians had offered the defenders surrender under very...
IIRC, Stalin never considered the Atom Bomb to be a serious threat, so it's unlikely that this would be a major factor in their planning. The...
Because the Polish refused to allow Russian troops to even enter the country if the Germans attacked. Because the Polish refused to make an...
Those self serving Polish, only fighting the Nazis to keep their own land! Those self serving French, only keen on liberating their own country!...
I can't believe we are arguing about this. Soldiers serving in foreign countries, that are technically under military occupation, have as part of...
I find that quite unlikely. I suspect more that the Germans would spend those five years carrying out Operation Sealion, and the British will...
Done: Stalin to be honoured in Russia's war monument - Europe, World - The Independent Really, there aren't that many shrines to Stalin regarding...
I'm assuming that the scenario we are looking at here is one where there is no war with Russia, so by this point the Germans are pretty much the...
No one on the allied side would settle for an end to the war without the occupation and division of Germany, to ensure that Germany would never be...
Roughly equal numbers of people were killed in the Tokyo firebombings. The bombing of Dresden killed about half the death toll. The thing to...
I'm not really convinced that A bombs were so important at this stage - without fusion devices, individual A bombs could have their effects...
Well, the UK and France didn't declare war on Japan when it invaded China either. Nor did they declare war on Italy when they invaded Abyssinia....
I think that to some extent, the target of taking Moscow is based on an application of what happened in France. In the French campaign, taking...
Well, commanders in the field usually want to attack or advance. Their higher ups look at their maps, at the big blank zone of 'we don't know...
Personally, I don't know if this counts, but I nominate the Zimmerit paste. The Germans spent ages applying this paste to all their tanks, to...
Well, maybe. But my overall point is that the Germans were greatly overstretched, and barring any major miracles, by 1944 German defeat on any and...
But can Germany concievably *hold* Moscow in 1941? I mean, it's one think asking if Blitzkrieg could have made it an extra hundred miles or so....
Haha, if he is a russian soldier in German uniform, then he'd have some very serious questions to answer from his superiors...
I wouldn't really see Moscow falling completely so easily. Barring a surrender (which it's deeply unlikely that Stalin would), it would be easy...
Seriously, though, attacking the Luger for terrible handling? The Luger was famed at the time for being one of the best balanced pistols around....
