It is not difficult to overhear the pleasure Corsair has in the destruction of his mother civilization.
I haven't actually looked into it, but given my surname, my background lies with the French, not the Germans. But that is immaterial.
The Germans were outnumbered 7 to 1 by the Allies and never were looking for this war.
Then they should have tried harder to avoid it by not initiating an invasion of Poland, an invasion of Belgium, and France, Demark, Holland... the list goes on.
The Americans and Russians were looking for this war at the cost of Europe.
Yeah, I guess that's why Russia didn't start fighting Germany until
after being invaded by it, why the U.S. didn't start fighting Germany until
after being attacked by Japan and
after Germany declared war on the U.S.
And the Anglos played an insignificant part in WW2, they just limited themselves to killing civilians, nothing else...
Other than help cripple the German economy that is. I guess that vaunted German military intelligence should have paid a little more attention to the defence of its airspace.
and joined the party only when it was almost over (mid 1944), when the Russians had already won.
Other than help liberate occupied western Europe from the clutches of the Nazis, that is. It was the North American cousins of the Anglos who freed most of your nation from the Germans and helped stop the mass starvation that was setting in. Or have you forgotten that little bit of history already?
As soon as the Anglo encounters real resistance, he runs; uh sorry, 'gloriously advances towards the Channel'.
I seem to recall it was the Germans running in Normandy once the breakout happened.
Seriously, the war between the Soviets and the Nazis was the core of WW2.
But not without the help of the progressive destruction of the German economy by American and British bomber forces which eventually made Germany incapable of defending itself to any meaningful degree. Or do 1,200 German tanks without fuel constitute a useful military force in your alternate reality?
Then of course there is the huge amount of aid which flowed from the U.S. and Britain to the Soviets via the convoys. The U.S. supplied Russia with some 12,500 armoured vehicles; the British, 4,200 (Canada contributed another 2,700). The United States sent Russia more than 13,000 aircraft, and the British sent some 4,600. Now, in fairness, the Soviets weren't particularly impressed with many of the Western designs, but they did very much like the American P-39 and P-63, which they put to very effective use. They received a total of 4,700 of the former and 2,400 of the latter.
But perhaps even more important that the combat equipment was the enormous amount of vitally important support vehicles delivered. The western Allies supplied Russian with nearly 78,000 jeeps and some 350,000 transport trucks. Then add to that nearly 2,000 locomotives, over 11,000 railroad cars, 540,000 tons of rails, and huge amounts of other important war material such as explosives, chemicals, tires, food, gasoline, machine tools, combat boots, and over 1,000,000 miles of field telephone cable, just to name some of the items.
But I'm sure none of that was of any value to the Russian war effort, was it?
But the times are changing, Corsair. Now it is you who is going to be destroyed. We have a united Europe (500 million), that is still whiter than America has ever been, plus a valuable trojan horse position within the Atlantic 'alliance' and we will never forget what you did to us....
*remainder of bizarre rant snipped*
I'm not an American. One does not have to be an American to point out the idiocy and borderline insanity of your comments.