Text 36307, 45 rader
Skriven 2006-08-08 15:10:06 av Bob Ackley (1:2905/3)
  Kommentar till text 36034 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
Ärende: Israel
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Replying to a message of Dan Ceppa to Bob Ackley:

 DC> -> On 30 Jul 06  21:48:30, Bob Ackley got back to Dan Ceppa 
 DC> -> Re: Israel

 DC>> Hitler's obsession with Stalin saved the British.  

 BA>> Nonsense.  The English Channel, coupled with the Royal Navy and the
 BA>> Royal Air Force, saved the British.  There was no way the Germans
 BA>> could force a channel crossing, they simply didn't have the shipping
 BA>> or the naval forces to support it.  Look at how much shipping was
 BA>> required to put our troops ashore on June 6, 1944, and how much
 BA>> naval support was used to prevent German interference.

 DC> You are looking at a picture after 3 1/2 years of infusion of 
 DC> US mat riel and troops.  

 DC> Until 1943, England was slowly being starved to death.  It was 
 DC> that year that allied ship building finally exceeded ship losses.  

 DC> It was also at that time that the needed invasion army was 
 DC> being amassed.  Those units comprised some 54 divisions, the 
 DC> vast majority of them being US soldiers.  

 DC> In opposition to them were some 83 German units.  Granted, a 
 DC> a portion of those were conscripts who were poorly motivated 
 DC> and ill equiped.  However, some of the best German armour 
 DC> was deployed there.  

 DC> The fact of the matter is that Germany, ng Hitler, didn't 
 DC> press his advantage in the west before he took on the far 
 DC> more intensive battle with Stalin.  Remove Britain as a 
 DC> jumping off point for a Western Front and imagine the 
 DC> difficulty.  

Hitler didn't even have to do that.  Had he (a) captured Malta (which
was certainly doable, even without Student) and (b) given Rommel's
Afrika Korps the supplies and personnel that he sent *after* Torch and
El Alamein rendered it a lost cause from the gitgo, it's quite likely that
Rommel would have taken Egypt and Palestine, and perhaps even crossed
Iraq and northern Iran to join with the German southern front forces in
Russia east of the Black Sea.  Fortunately, Hitler didn't do that either.

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