The forgotten sneak attack on Britain that backfired on the Kaiser

Daily Mail ^ | 14th December 2014 | Tony Rennell

[dfwgator]

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.

[ansel12]

So my correction to your post, was correct.

[AppyPappy]

The Communists took over Russia during WW1.

[DoodleDawg]

Think about it. No Hitler, and likely no Bolsheviks.

Perhaps no Hitler but the Bolsheviks were coming no matter what. It was Germany who returned Lenin to Russia from Switzerland.

[dfwgator]

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.

[DoodleDawg]

But a victorious Germany would have kept them in check.

How?

[dfwgator]

You think a victorious Germany would have allowed the Bolsheviks to spread their revolution?

[Trailerpark Badass]

The White Russian coalition wasn’t defeated until late 1920, and separatist fighting continued the civil war until at least 1922.

[RitchieAprile]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Scarborough,_Hartlepool_and_Whitby

[DoodleDawg]

You think a victorious Germany would have allowed the Bolsheviks to spread their revolution?

Not sure how they could have prevented it.

[X Fretensis]

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.

[Leaning Right]

Thanks for the info. I do remember reading about an RAF raid early in the war, where German civilians were mistakenly bombed. Perhaps that was a minor incident.

[the scotsman]

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.

[wita]

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.