Posted on 12/11/2013 5:51:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Korean civilian security guards at our intelligence compound carried M-1s and M-14s. I always joshed with them that they were trading weapons with me when the balloon went up, whether they liked it or not. As a sorta NCO I had a .45, as well.
Something like that...
First, all of the blather printed here should be ignored. Hitler declared war on the US for two reasons, neither of which had anything to do with plans to invade.
beat me to it...
From what I have read years ago, Germany tried to get Mexico into the first world war. They failed.
They tried again in the Second World war. The Mexican people wanted war with the US and when Mexico DID declare war the people were ecstatic! Till they found out Mexico had declared war against GERMANY!
Hitler believed he could beat the U.S. because he thought they were decadent and degenerate....mainly by watching Hollywood movies and the America News Media....even then, they were causing problems for our country. The reason he started the Battle of the Bulge, was because he still believed that the American soldier was inferior and couldn't fight (instead of using the bulk of his resources to fight the Russians).
Finally, there was a reason World War II didn't have an anti-war movement like all the other wars we've had since the Revolution- Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, and all Leftists and Democrats had to do anything to come to the aid or their hero-country..
Hitler had a good thing going till he attacked the USSR and then this declaration on US.
It shows that he was very small minded but got some great opportunities and luck for a while.
Notice Japan stabbed Hitler in back and didnt declare war on USSR in return.
@ Post 20 - I agree.
Had Hitler been more patient the world would look far different today. His biggest mistake was believing Germany would easily secure the Eastern front. His second mistake was his fantasy that the British people (and possibly the U.S.) would come over to his side when they saw the glory of the Third Reich.
Hitler didn’t even TRY to come up with a long-range bomber. He would have one if he did
No, mutual assistance agreement.
German generals were shocked Hitler declared war on America. His greatest folly and there were a lot of them but that one took the cake.
Good points. Also the Battle of Moscow was in full swing, with the Soviets just beginning their counter-attack. No doubt Hitler believed victory was imminent, given his contempt for Russian military ability. As you point out, he didn’t know about the Japan-Soviet agreement that allowed Stalin to move dozens of divisions from Siberia to Moscow.
If Japan had invaded Siberia at the same time the panzers were driving on Moscow, the USSR would have fallen and world history would be a lot different.
they had nothing to invade with; the japanese were committed to conquest of SE asia with its tin/rubber/oil. all their armies were holding china or preparing to move into philipines and malaya..
moving on siberia would have made no sense.
Same here. It got a little bitter with Germans calling captured Americans, particularly troops with German surnames—’scheiss amis’ (s*** friends).
Screw them. They always looked sharp in those snappy uniforms,
surrendering!
In the U.S., I recently read Britain has the highest preponderance of descendants in the U.S. Britain includes Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland. Sometimes people tend to only count descendants from England, and often mistakenly refer to all of Britain as England, which then skew the results and show most descendants come from German ancestry. Germany runs a close second. Many of my friends have German ancestry, a hard working bunch who share very similar traits with the Brits (not surprising since teutonic tribes flooded Scotland many years back).
WW II was Three wars all fought at the same time.
1. Germany and the west. 1939—41
2. Germany and Soviet Union—1941-1845
3. US and Japan 1941—1945
67 million died—3% of the worlds population—the most killed by starvation and disease. Russia and China lost the most in people. The world lost the best and the bightest in this grim and terrible conflict. It took decades to rebuild. Let us pray that we never face a war of this size and savagery.
Well, we didn’t have Hugo Boss designing our uniforms.
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