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originally posted by: Specimen
Also I bet Hitler would of shot himself again if he saw the rise of Israel and it was by his doing)
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: nwtrucker
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: Raggedyman
Actually they tried on multiple occasions to get their fleet, such as it was, into the Atlantic. Fleet units, surface raiders, and of course submarines.
That they failed to make an appreciable impact outside of the aforementioned submarines and maritime attack aircraft such as the FW-200 Condor is quite beside the point. They attempted and it cost them virtually everything they tried with.
They most certainly did try to form a navy to rival, in some ways, the Royal Navy. Not to the extent of fighting another Jutland, but a fleet in being, to quote Mahan, that had to be taken seriously by the Royal Navy. Given the resources that were tied up by Home Fleet, they succeeded admirably.
Too bad the execution sucked. Graf Spee, Bismark, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Geisnanau (sp?), and many other surface combatants, including the never finished Graf Zeppelin, all were either sunk, or rendered useless.
The fact that they didn't have an aircraft carrier ever in commission isn't because they didn't need one, their gloriously deluded leader didn't see the need. More idiot, he.
The exception that proves the rule was the Admiral Scheer, A Graf Spee class heavy Cruiser/Pocket battleship operated in the North and South Atlantic as well as the Indian Ocean. She sank/captured an amazing amount of tonnage during her years at sea. Eventual sunk at port, not unlike Tirpitz.
I'm guessing she had more tonnage to her credit than any ship in WWII.
Those bastard Graf Spee classes where more dangerous than the U-boats.
Maybe Germany should of invested more in those buggers.
originally posted by: Specimen
Apparently, Hitler kill count didn't really measure up to Stalin's and Mao Zedong score card, and it was their own people who make a good chunk of those numbers.
Also I bet Hitler would of shot himself again if he saw the rise of Israel and it was by his doing)
originally posted by: nwtrucker
originally posted by: Specimen
Apparently, Hitler kill count didn't really measure up to Stalin's and Mao Zedong score card, and it was their own people who make a good chunk of those numbers.
Also I bet Hitler would of shot himself again if he saw the rise of Israel and it was by his doing)
Actually, the Brits were selling visas to Jews over and above their arbitrary annual quota to enter what was to become Israel as early as the 1930's. Definitely before the start of the war.
originally posted by: crazyewok
originally posted by: nwtrucker
originally posted by: Specimen
Apparently, Hitler kill count didn't really measure up to Stalin's and Mao Zedong score card, and it was their own people who make a good chunk of those numbers.
Also I bet Hitler would of shot himself again if he saw the rise of Israel and it was by his doing)
Actually, the Brits were selling visas to Jews over and above their arbitrary annual quota to enter what was to become Israel as early as the 1930's. Definitely before the start of the war.
Interestingly one of the plans the NAZI considered was deporting the jews to Palestine once they took it from the British.
To be honest they could of used that plan to goo effect.
Imagine if hitler had given a million jewish men guns and sent them to fight with the African corps on the promise they get palestine?
Jews get a country and Hitler gets cannon fodder.
originally posted by: Specimen
Apparently, Hitler kill count didn't really measure up to Stalin's and Mao Zedong score card, and it was their own people who make a good chunk of those numbers.
Also I bet Hitler would of shot himself again if he saw the rise of Israel and it was by his doing)
originally posted by: crazyewok
Nazi Germany, overhyped?
originally posted by: crazyewok
Two to three years not because of anything the UK did but as Speer stated that the Chromium and Tungsten receives Germany had would be gone by 1947. That means no more tanks or artillery. It was actually a genuine and terrifying fear of his. 1947 and the German industry's would collapse. After that Russia or the UK could walk in.
originally posted by: crazyewok
Germany could not have survived a prolonged war, there economy was too fragile.
originally posted by: AMPTAH
The stats say 50 million people died because of Hitler's war. I don't think anybody has topped that figure.
Also, wasn't Hitler 1/4 Jewish?
How do we know that Hitler wasn't the Jewish Messiah that came and took up 6 million Jewish souls to heaven?
After all, the Jews in Iran say that Israel isn't supposed to exist until the Messiah comes.
Well, Israel exists, so perhaps the Messiah came, but not everybody recognized him.
Who else could that Messiah have been?
Same man cause both events the Messiah comming results in
1) 6 x 10^n Jewish souls taken up from Earth
2) Israel comes into existance as a nation
The only difference, is that the Jewish Rabbis say 600,000 Jewish souls are taken up by the Messiah, and Hitler took 6,000,000, so they are off by one "0".
All the rest of the events are consistent with the coming of the Jewish Messiah.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: makemap
The only thing the stopped Hitler invasion of UK was he lacked a proper Navy.
That and air superiority. They kinda lost that in the Battle of Britain.
originally posted by: InsaneIthorian
Yup no air superiority, no sea control = No Invasion.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: makemap
The only thing the stopped Hitler invasion of UK was he lacked a proper Navy.
That and air superiority. They kinda lost that in the Battle of Britain.