Posted on 12/14/2014 6:32:50 AM PST by the scotsman
'A bank of fog was sitting a couple of miles out at sea and a heavy mist lay over the East Coast resort of Scarborough as postman Alfred Beal climbed the wide front steps of Dunollie, a porticoed mansion high on the town’s South Cliff.
He never reached the door that fateful morning on December 16, 1914, almost exactly a century ago.
Three German warships had burst out of the fog bank and were now steaming past the headland, firing volley after volley of shells.
One caught poor Beal and blasted his shattered body back down the drive. A second smashed into the house and killed the maid, Margaret Briggs, as she hurried from the library to the front door to collect the post Beal had been about to deliver.
The Great War had suddenly and violently arrived on the home front — and in staid Scarborough of all unlikely places, with its medieval castle, Victorian promenade and high proportion of elderly gentlefolk and hoteliers.
Over in Belgium and France, men in khaki were dying in the rapidly established stalemate of the trenches. Now civilians were being slaughtered in England too.'
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I still wonder if the world would have been better off in the end had Germany won WWI. Think about it. No Hitler, and likely no Bolsheviks.
So my correction to your post, was correct.
The Communists took over Russia during WW1.
Perhaps no Hitler but the Bolsheviks were coming no matter what. It was Germany who returned Lenin to Russia from Switzerland.
But a victorious Germany would have kept them in check.
And also the Turks would have still controlled the Muslim world instead of the Arabs.
How?
You think a victorious Germany would have allowed the Bolsheviks to spread their revolution?
The White Russian coalition wasn’t defeated until late 1920, and separatist fighting continued the civil war until at least 1922.
Not sure how they could have prevented it.
The RAF raid on Berlin was intentional. It was ordered the day after a German flight of bombers dropped their bomb loads on a London suburb. That bombing was by accident. The bomber flight got lost is heavy weather, decided to dump their bomb loads and return to base. The did not realize that they bombed a civilian area.
Which has led to the myth that the Germans would have won the Battle of Britain if they had just continued their original plan. Actually not true, as the evidence shows the Germans still would have lost, the RAF still not shattered, but its a myth still to this day widely believed.
I guess in my mind it came down to who was going to run out of airplanes first. If the Luftwaffe had continued to pound RAF airfields, then maybe the Brits, but the Germans switched to cities, thus losing more planes in the process and protecting the British aircraft on the ground.
Perhaps a zillion ways to review, but in the end, we know who and what won the Battle of Britain and the war. Good, not Evil. May it ever be so, as we face the latest evil run-a-muck in the world, the religion of peace.
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