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im a little concerned here:
this was the quotes that concerned me: I'm sorry but this is complete rubbish. There is abundant documentation and literature to support the fact that the Soviet forces were caught completely unawares by Operation Barborossa. Well, that isn't quite true as Stalin was told by the famous spy Richard Sorge that Hitler intended to attack his country. Stalin was worried that this was part of a plot to try and get him to attack Germany first and so he had Sorge executed as a traitor. what the encyclopedia britanica said: Sorge supplied Soviets with information about Anti-Comintern Pact, the German-Japanese Pact and warning of Pearl Harbor attack. In 1941 Sorge informed them of Hitler's intentions to launch Operation Barbarossa. Moscow answered with thanks but little was done. Before the battle for Moscow, Sorge transmitted information that Japan was not going to attack Soviet Union in the East. This information allowed Georgy Zhukov to redeploy Siberian troops for the defense of Moscow. Japanese secret service had already intercepted many of his messages and begun to close in. Ozaki was arrested in October 14 and interrogated. Sorge was arrested in October 18 in Tokyo. Sorge was not exchanged for Japanese prisoners of war, although reason for that is unclear. He was incarcerated in Sugamo Prison. Both Ozaki and Sorge were hanged on November 7, 1944. The Soviet Union did not acknowledge Sorge until 1964 This would indicate that Sorge was executed by the Japaneese for spying, and not by Stalin. Unless of course, You meant that by witholding his acknowlegement that Sorge was really a russian, that caused this mans death. nice posting though. ![]() |
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The problem in the USSR was that Hitler ordered the most advanced units to stop, turn around, and round up 300,000 defeated Russian soldiers, this cause a delay in the advance on Moscow and most likely ended up costing Germany the war, or just made it last longer, I firmly believe that the US and Britain alone could have defeated Germany, since Germany's only threat to the US was their navy, and Russia did not have much of a Navy after the Russo-Japano war, so Russia was not helping much, the US handled Japan while helping Britain with Germany, so even if Germany had conquered Russia they did not have a practical way to invade Britain since Britain had established air superiority and their navy was no match for the Royal Navy and the US Navy.
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We can thank hitler's madness in tactics, we're FREE, what's else there to say. Not all Germans were nazis, Hitler got into power not very much by help of the German people. I think on first elections before he was in the nick he won 13,5% of the votes, and those are not all of the Germans! But from the mid 1930s many people gone nazis(aka Crazy).
Hitlers grandfather was half jew, I think he didn't like his grandpa much! It wouldn't happen if there wasn't that bloody Wagner, he was the creator of the nazi ideology, and Hitler was a big fan of his! And it's all fault of the WWI. |
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There are alot of "what if's" during WW2. What if Hitler had deployed his panzer reserves to the DDay landings. I have thought about the fact that if he hadnt invaded Russia and Russia stuck by the non aggression pact, like they showed they could have since they didnt attack Japan, would it have turned out different at Normandy or would it have just taken longer to end the war. Thats an iffy right there because if they didnt invade Russia, they'd have armies extra to send into the fight. But if the Russians didnt get the equipment the allies sent it during the war, that could have been used in the fighting also. The drawback would be the number of troops to send against the Germans and the Germans not being so sparsely spread out and weaker. It would have opened a whole new can of worms during the Italy landings. That and the fact that if say the UK did fall to the Reich, the US would be isolated on both sides and be pretty much surrounded. Then it'd be a matter of time before we were hit here. Thats just my opinion though and my conclusion is this... <shrug> iono!
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Last wednesday I attended a ceremonie which involved survivors of WWII, and I don't think they agree with you on thanking Hitler's madness in anything.... |
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