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The Russian had (long) planned to start the invasion of Germany in July 1941.
The Germans got to know this and attacked preemptively in June.
You must have some awesome roses.
The Russian had (long) planned to start the invasion of Germany in July 1941.
The Germans got to know this and attacked preemptively in June.
You could probably drop the word "Europeans" from that last sentence.
Not just becuase it was an unnecessary pluralization.![]()
And what did such U-boat contribution really amount to? Not much. Plus every U-boat sent to the Med was a U-boat permanently lost to the more important Atlantic struggle. (Though given the degree to which the U.S. churned out Liberty ship during the war, the chances of the U-boats successfully shutting down the Atlantic by sinking enough Alied shipping seems remote.)
During the Gallipoli campaign British aircraft spotted mines under 18 feet of water. Presumably a sub would be easier to spot.It was hard for subs in the Med, the water is clear and fairly shallow so they are easy to spot from the air.
During the period just prior to the planned Soviet invasion, the USSR's western military districts were ordered to deploy all 114 divisions, then stationed in the interior, to positions on the frontier. Thus, remarks Suvorov, June 13, 1941, "marks the beginning of the greatest displacement of troops in the history of civilization."
Such a massive buildup of forces directly on the frontier simply could not be kept secret. As Suvorov notes, Wilhelm Keitel, Field Marshal and Chief of Germany's armed forces High Command, spoke about the German fears during a postwar interrogation:
All the preparatory measures we took before spring 1941 were defensive measures against the contingency of a possible attack by the Red Army. Thus the entire war in the East, to a known degree, may be termed a preventive war ... We decided ... to forestall an attack by Soviet Russia and to destroy its armed forces with a surprise attack. By spring 1941, I had formed the definite opinion that the heavy buildup of Russian troops, and their attack on Germany which would follow, would place us, in both economic and strategic terms, in an exceptionally critical situation ... Our attack was the immediate consequence of this threat ...
In 1941, Admiral N. G. Kuznetsov was the Soviet Navy minister, as well as a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. In his postwar memoirs, published in 1966, he recalled:
For me there is one thing beyond all argument -- J. V. Stalin not only did not exclude the possibility of war with Hitler's Germany, on the contrary, he considered such a war ... inevitable ... J. V. Stalin made preparations for war ... wide and varied preparations -- beginning on dates ... which he himself had selected. Hitler upset his calculations.
Suvorov comments:
The admiral is telling us quite clearly and openly that Stalin considered war inevitable and prepared himself seriously to enter it at a time of his own choosing. In other words, Stalin was preparing to strike the first blow, that is to commit aggression against Germany; but Hitler dealt a preventive blow first and thereby frustrated all Stalin's plans ...
Let us compare Keitel's words with those of Kuznetsov. Field Marshal Keitel said that Germany was not preparing an aggression against the Soviet Union; it was the Soviet Union which was preparing the aggression. Germany was simply using a preventive attack to defend itself from an unavoidable aggression. Kuznetsov says the same thing -- yes, the Soviet Union was preparing for war and would inevitably have entered into it, but Hitler disrupted these plans with his attack. What I cannot understand is why Keitel was hanged [at Nuremberg], and Kuznetsov was not.
Suvorov believes that Hitler's preemptive strike came just two or three weeks before Stalin's own planned assault. Thus, as Wehrmacht forces smashed Soviet formations in the initial weeks of the "Barbarossa" attack, the Germans marveled at the great numbers of Soviet tanks and other materiel destroyed or captured -- an enormous buildup sufficient not just for an assault on Germany, but for the conquest of all of Europe
I was taking Nein 11's bigotry toward Non White ( for lack of a better term) for granted); I was pointing out he seems to subscribe to the Nazi belief that The Nordics were also superior to other branches of the White Race, Slav, Medditerrean, etc.
With an admirable tenacity dudalb, like a woodpecker, continuous to hammer out his defamation campaign. Dudalb opined earlier that he is of Irish-German descent. It would be interesting to know when the 'German' leg came to the US. I would be surprised if it was not somewhere between 1933 and 1947.
The Russian had (long) planned to start the invasion of Germany in July 1941.
The Germans got to know this and attacked preemptively in June.
As for the Atlantic. Improved weapons like HFDF, Radio telephones, forward firing AS Mortars, Centrimetric Airborne centimetric Radar that could detect just a Periscope from a submerged sub, 'Leigh' lights on aircraft and long range air cover all contributed.
For an effective submarine campaign look at the US/British in the Pacific and Far East. Japanese shipping was hammered.
For an effective submarine campaign look at the US/British in the Pacific and Far East. Japanese shipping was hammered.
The US succeeded where the germans tried twice and failed; the strangulation of an island based economy by submarine warfare.
For a so-called "master race", it's rather hard to find anything the germans were really good at (aside from tank design) in WW2.
The Germans started their plans to invade Russian in July of 1940, as I've mentioned now several times.
So you are saying that Keitel is lying?
Here is Dolfie's magnum opus:
http://greatwar.nl/books/meinkampf/meinkampf.pdf
Could you please point out to me where he is talking about his fellow Germans as the 'masterrace'?
Maybe it is my Ctrl/F that doesn't work.
Thanks in advance!
Oh, and I checked the German version as well, but nowhere says Hitler that he considers the his fellow Germans as das Herrenvolk.
But again it must be my Ctrl/F
Read it and weep, Mein Herr:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrenvolk
Defeated by a wikipedia search that took 10 seconds (I even copy-pasta'd "herrenvolk" from your own post).
How embarrassing and humiliating this must be for you.
Are you saying Directive No. 21, Operation BARBAROSSA, document is a forgery?
The silence of my opponents is very telling...