Reading post 388664 in main thread: Why did Germany lose WW2?
December 31st, 2007  
MontyB
 
 
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Originally Posted by Infern0
i think if they had simply charged east instead of into france, captured moscow and the caspian oil fields, we'd be looking at very different maps right now

I think this would have been an option only in the event that France and Britain had failed to declare war over Poland and had they not signed the deal to "share" Poland.

Once the west had declared war Germany had to secure France or risk a war on two fronts.


We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Last edited by MontyB; December 31st, 2007 at 21:38..
 
 
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