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To: vannrox
Thanks vannrox. But, meh. Just a nitpicky op-ed, really.
Had the Poles had tanks, it wouldn't have mattered -- the USSR also attacked, from the rear, by prearrangement with Hitler, after the Germans had basically defeated the Poles. And for that matter, during the war in the USSR, the Soviets built around 80,000 tanks, rather a lot really, and by the end of the war they had perhaps 10,000 left -- a lot of tanks, but that shows how good the Germans were at knocking out tanks.
Our biggest asset in WWII was the fact that a big-talking nutjob and coward, Hitler, was leading our principal adversary in Europe, without any grasp of either strategy or tactics.

14 posted on 02/21/2019 10:27:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv
Our biggest asset in WWII was the fact that a big-talking nutjob and coward, Hitler, was leading our principal adversary in Europe, without any grasp of either strategy or tactics.

Lets get realistic here. That "coward" was a decorated WWI veteran.

The NAZIs were winning the war until the U.S. came in. Without U.S. assistance, the Brits would have been done, and the Russians very likely would not have been able to hold out.

I believe Hitler lost it later in the war, because he had been so right early on. His biggest mistake was believing the war in the West was over after Dunkirk. He expected the Brits to come the the negotiating table. So did most of the Brits.

Hitler got lucky, or was a genius, early in the war. Then he believed he was always smarter than his professional generals. It cost him a lot later on.

It was Churchill who through the wrench in the works. Churchill's major strategy to win the war, was to get the Americans into it.

16 posted on 02/22/2019 11:04:24 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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