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Originally posted by StellarX
Originally posted by bothered
I'm just curious now, for the sake of curiosity. Does anyone have an opinion to offer why the Reich did NOT succeed for the predicted 1000 yrs.?
1000 Years is a aweful long time but i can tell you why Germany did not defeat Britain and the USSR by the end of 1941 and why the cold war was then with the USSR and not Germany...
I mean seriously, all this well-advanced equipment, and they fell, estimated to be within 2 years of the onset of the war.
I don't think anyone here i suggesting that Germany had the means to win the war by UFO in 1943 or 1944... As is evident by Hitlers antics he would probably have found a way to waste the advantage anyways which might be the case if anyone can prove these anti grav ( or whatever) platforms were in fact factual and deployable in any significant sense ( having five with 1 .50 cal machine gun each does not win wars) by say mid late 1943 when i believe Germany still had a marginal change to effect the strategic balance so as to draw out the whole thing for many more years.
The might have hit too rapid of an expansion, I don't know. All I do know is, they lost.
They lost but only because Hitler were apparently ( my opinion as of around the mid 2006) trying so very hard.
Originally posted by StellarX
Originally posted by bothered
I'm just curious now, for the sake of curiosity. Does anyone have an opinion to offer why the Reich did NOT succeed for the predicted 1000 yrs.?
1000 Years is a aweful long time but i can tell you why Germany did not defeat Britain and the USSR by the end of 1941 and why the cold war was then with the USSR and not Germany...
I mean seriously, all this well-advanced equipment, and they fell, estimated to be within 2 years of the onset of the war.
I don't think anyone here i suggesting that Germany had the means to win the war by UFO in 1943 or 1944... As is evident by Hitlers antics he would probably have found a way to waste the advantage anyways which might be the case if anyone can prove these anti grav ( or whatever) platforms were in fact factual and deployable in any significant sense ( having five with 1 .50 cal machine gun each does not win wars) by say mid late 1943 when i believe Germany still had a marginal change to effect the strategic balance so as to draw out the whole thing for many more years.
The might have hit too rapid of an expansion, I don't know. All I do know is, they lost.
They lost but only because Hitler were apparently ( my opinion as of around the mid 2006) trying so very hard.
Originally posted by bothered
Adolf Hitler then turned on the Soviet Union, launching a surprise attack (codenamed Operation Barbarossa) on June 22, 1941. Despite enormous gains, the invasion stalled on the outskirts of Moscow in late 1941,
as the winter weather made further advances difficult. The Germans initiated another major offensive the following summer, but the attack bogged down in vicious urban fighting in Stalingrad.
The Soviets later launched a massive encircling counterattack to force the surrender of the German Sixth Army at the Battle of Stalingrad (1942–43),
decisively defeated the Axis at the Battle of Kursk, and broke the Siege of Leningrad.
The battle of Kursk was quite the disaster for the USSR but by that time they were used to disasters and they were attacking elsewhere which drew away the German armored forces and prevented them from breaking trough and once again creating a great pocket
The Red Army then pursued the retreating Wehrmacht to Berlin, and won the street-by-street Battle of Berlin, as Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker on April 30, 1945.
It's not that i do not appreciate what is being done by the wikipedians but they do not know it all and a pursuit that takes two years costing millions of casualties is hardly to be described in this way!
in which it states, as I recalled, the Axis stalled on the Western front. Rather than pull troops, they saved face and fought to the last man. Of the couple or so hundred that survived, were not enough to recover strength.
They did not stall and simply halted due to in-fighting in the OKH and the conflicting orders they were receiving. Hitler's decision to give the stand 'wherever' order were probably the correct one in my opinion but it's hard to forgive considering the victory he threw away mere months earlier. Apparently he did not want Germany to win or lose but simply to suffer as much as he could manage for them.
Hitler was a dreamfitter's pipe, who still is instilled as a main causal. I'd dare say him more of a puppet than W.
Might be a ( gangster?) puppet but comparing him to W must be considered a insult to him by and all.
Stellar
Originally posted by jetflock
Even though the Nazi's may have been brilliant scientists and organize very well, they made some stupid mistakes as far as battle plans(to quote Eddie Izzard, "...Hitler never played Risk as a kid..."),
Sometimes they would rely too heavily on occult practices-things like swinging a pendulin on a map, and attacking/moving ships into areas of defense/offense that were pointless and/or fatal
Even without the "alien-like" Nazi superweapons, The Axis could have won the war-they just became too delusional.
-Maybe the Germans just went into hiding with the technology they had, hoping to build more war machines.
-They first went to the arctic in the early to late 1930's, who knows if the "master race" was primarily based in the Arctic, "closed off" from the "old world".
-its farfetched, but what if the Nazi's had developed space travel? Makes you a little sick that our Earth emessary was something spawned from Adolf Hitler(Keep in mind the first TV broadcast to reach Alpha Centauri was Adolf Hitler during the Olympics).
Supression of German technology could be some sort of phychological thing- to learn that the racists Nazi's had achieved so much could sway moral conscience.
Couple this with the fact that this technology in part is supposedly derived from ANCIENT races/texts/religions-this could have shattered the already battered faith of the allied countries after the war.(Or could have even gave more gas to the threatening New Age movements)
Or maybe we just looted everything, America that is, and all this is suppressed, and even hidden deeper by putting little green aliens in front of it. I mean, this stuff would destroy the oil industry.
(Personally I do believe in extradimensional/ extraterrestrial beings, though its more believable to me that the Nazi's/humans are causing many UFO sightings-regardless, I love this stuff! )
Originally posted by bothered
Yes, Stellar, I readily hand out insults to Hitler. I do not like what he represented, and what's more I don't have to.
To say the Reich was an advance War Machine is just as aptly said they were overly aggressive and their attacks were not anticipated.
Although, many fault themselves for allowing them to build up in the first place.
The _ONLY_ reason the Germans expanded as rapidly as they did is because, well, they seemed to like to attack neutral states that weren't prepared to fight, and didn't want to.
Bullying is not a state of war, but rather an act of domination.
In the case of the Germans in WWII, it did have limited success.
But, I still hold to the notion they lost.
Originally posted by StellarX
Originally posted by bothered
Yes, Stellar, I readily hand out insults to Hitler. I do not like what he represented, and what's more I don't have to.
And i don't care other than mentioning that it's quite pathetic that you want to throw insults around without really understanding the history involved.
To say the Reich was an advance War Machine is just as aptly said they were overly aggressive and their attacks were not anticipated.
Their attacks were anticipated by most of those they attacked and especially by the major powers such as Britain and France that both bankrupted themselves in the preparation for the war they knew was coming. Stalin also knew the attack was coming but could not prepare a counter stroke fast enough and it's in the midst of preparation for that attack the the German army caught the USSR.
Originally posted by bothered
[Picks up Hockey puck and looks for issuing Bull]
The Warsaw Pact where it was agreed on how to divide European territories was essentially a peace treaty signed into by Germany and Russia. Stalin never saw it coming, and was caught totally off guard.
In fact, if I recall correctly, there was a Russian General that wanted to instill troops for the attack, just in case.
He was promptly dispatched by Stalin, for being paranoid, and possibly inciting a war, which would have violated the pact.
Originally posted by StellarX
I really have looked at these issues in some depth so if you want to discuss it in more detail do your best to show some common courtesy.
Stellar
German preparations
"When Barbarossa commences, the world will hold its breath and make no comment."
Adolf Hitler [2]
In preparation for the attack, Hitler moved 3.2 million German soldiers and about 1 million Axis soldiers to the Soviet border, launched many aerial surveillance missions over Soviet territory, and stockpiled material in the East. The Soviets were still taken by surprise, mostly due to Stalin's belief that the Third Reich was unlikely to attack only two years after signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
Originally posted by Long Lance
let me introduce the KSK, because, frankly all we got is photos and the KSK is therefore just as credible as the rest:
www.bibliotecapleyades.net...
formed cascade oscillators that were connected to a long barrel-shrouded transmission rod wrapped in a
precision tungsten spiral, or coil to transmit a powerful energy burst suitable to pierce up to 4 in (100 mm) of enemy armor. The heavy gun installation, however, badly destabilized the disc and in subsequent Haunebu models lighter MG and MK cannon were supposedly installed.
even without such a toy, the ability to land anywhere would make targetting them a bit harder than destroying jet fighters on the airfield,
comparable to targetting V2 vs. V1 sites, and i don't understand why you brush that off as if it was a minor difference.
putting bombs on target will necessarily cripple any opponent, the reson why strategic bombing generally sucked was its poor accuracy combined with concealed or sheltered high value targets (in europe at least ).
the fact that germany did not rely much on ships did not help a lot either because chasing locomotives is much harder to boot and they normally don't *sink* (unless they fall off a river bridge), and can therefore be retrieved and restorred with comparable ease.
if you honestly believe the B29 did not make much of a difference, you are missing an important detail, aside from transporting the a-bombs to target, of course: aerial mining.
on a side note: US subs sank more ships with mines than with torpedoes, at a fraction of the cost and at minimal danger to themselves...it's just not sexy and therefore seldom told.
as for the 'no economy' comment, d'uh well they orderd their navy at the nearest hardware store, right,
and their notorious lack of fuel had nothing to do with sunk tankers.
i'm not debating whether they could have won the war, they had no chance
but they could have commited more forces provided their merchant shipping had worked as advertised.
there is no way to guard targets scattered around the globe against an *aircraft*, in the widest sense, with global reach, you can't protect every ship with fighters (as if they could do anything against a UFO with the cited capabilites)
and ships are a weak link when you're fighting on one end of the world, producing tons of war material on the other and shipping just as many desperately needed resources in between.
i'm just trying to make some sense of the scenario.
the bottom line is that such tech remained unused, for all we know, and if it was used sporadically, it happened on a miniscule scale only.
the most plausible reason is that this stuff never existed, of course,
if you want to speculate you'll have to come up with sound reasons and claims that VTOL capabilies are irrelevant or that they were probably useless because other systems (namely jet fighters) were vulnerable upon takeoff and landing do not hold water.
if they existed and if the reason for their underuse wasn't technical (in which case they should have still recon'ed D-Day preparations, f-ex. and acted accordingly) in nature,
then political reasons would be my next bet, read splinter fractions, vulnerabilty as you implied by your comparison to jet fighters does not square well with the claimed specs, though.
anyways:
all of these points are irrlevant due to two factors, namely endurance and range.
whatever the Luftwaffe did, they were limited by range, which means the area they covered was smaller therefore easier to control.
if you can freely choose location and time of your attack, weather is less important and any countermeasure quickly becomes ineffective.
you can't guard the entire world at the same time, but that's exactly what you'd face if your opponent had these 'vril' disks.
regarding your statement about antigravity craft alledgedly operated by 3 countries, wouldn't they make conventional forces completely obsolete?
if yes, why would the situation in WW2 have been compeltely different? the only way to explain the situation, aside form proclaiming it a hoax is the inclusion of segregated circles using the tech against everyone else, isn't it? that said i don't see why you tried to invalidate my notion of 'splinter fractions'.
PS: if i came of as agressive, i apologize, but afaics,
saying this kind of tech would not have made a strategic difference is akin to claiming that even a few SSNs operating for kriegsmarine would not have mad much of a difference.
22 Type XXIs were destroyed by the Allies in the yards, 84 were scuttled by their crews following Admiral Doenitz's orders from May 4th, 1945. However, 12 vessels fell into Allied hands intact and gave valuable impulses towards post-war submarine development, both on the eastern and the western side. Major post-war submarine constructions in the Soviet Union, the UK, France and the USA were visibly influenced by the Type XXI.
ipmsstockholm.org...
So am i but i don't believe as you do that the existence of a few experimental anti-gravity craft means ANYTHING in a strategic sense even if they could be made to carry crude ineffective guns that could not hit a damn thing on a good day. I don't see why the lack of operational deployment ( in the sense that they were affecting the outcome of the war) PROVES in some way that they did not exist and all i am doing is attempting to point out the, in my opinion, illogical nature of such arguments.
Originally posted by bothered
Ok. In simmer mode.
German preparations
"When Barbarossa commences, the world will hold its breath and make no comment."
Adolf Hitler [2]
In preparation for the attack, Hitler moved 3.2 million German soldiers and about 1 million Axis soldiers to the Soviet border, launched many aerial surveillance missions over Soviet territory, and stockpiled material in the East.
The Soviets were still taken by surprise, mostly due to Stalin's belief that the Third Reich was unlikely to attack only two years after signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
The article also describes this as the downfall of the Reich according to many due to the failure of the Wermacht.
Hitler's most profound troops, which due to the attrition they were to inflict essentially also cutting of their support lines.