Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich. There were serious financial implications to support Fascism, as those countries...
Dresden was a railway hub to bring troops and supplies to the East, there was manufacturing and other war administration there, and it paved the...
I prefaced my first answer with why I think, based on ideology, that Fascism needs war for expansion. Japan and Germany were both on the short...
I wrote that in the context of "What if Germany didn't invade the USSR and Japan didn't attack the US." I think it works in both theatres as a...
The fact that the Western Allies would have overwhelming sea power and air power, Germany would have to take away from their land forces to build...
Does anyone know how effective the .50 caliber guns on the B-17 and B-24 were against enemy fighters? Were they able to shoot down a lot of...
I think Fascism/Nazism inherently needs war/conflict, as the need for expansion requires the need for resources. Hitler was a believer in Social...
What about the US effort was not as thorough or complete?
Hitler: the Downfall (1939-1945).
I agree with the impressiveness of US mobilization and logistics. The fact that the US had to transport millions of men and materiel across the...
Page 9 on the Adobe download of the paper. "amounting to only 121,600 infantry" from an Army of "2.75 million men."
I checked out that dissertation the OP mentioned and he says something along those lines, like 112,000 for the army. I don't understand how that...
How did the British Army only have 100,000 men near the end of 1944?
I would like to learn more about that topic as well. Is that British Crisis available online or is it a book?
The French had 1 or 2 good fighters that could have played a role in fighting back the attack. France should have known from World War I that...
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Didn't the French have 5 million men available? 100 divisions active? and the BEF?
The French had capable aircraft at their disposal, as well as tanks on an equal or better footing than Germany, and millions of men. Why did they...
Many fascist sympathizers in the West. Nazi economics was not true socialism.
