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Old Post! Jan 19, 2009 @ 14:57:48#46
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Erlend said:

Wasn't the summer uniforms thing Napoleon?



The Germans also had problems, supply lines simply weren't capable of moving winter clothing due to it's low priority rather than a refusal to issue it. There was a drive to collect winter clothing from citizens and the concentration camps once the scale of the problem became evident. Strangely enough quite a bit of the pressure was applied from the home front where citizens were questioning why they were getting letts from relatives at the front asking for furs etc to be sent.



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Old Post! Jan 19, 2009 @ 16:03:04#47
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If you want details here are some. The Wehrmacht issued standard gun grease to the troops,it froze up and made the guns practically useless.The Red Army mixed gasoline with their gun grease making it flow smoothly in the coldest temperatures. The T34 Tank regarded by experts as the best tank of WWII,more T34s were manufactured than any other tank of any nation. The IL2 Ilyushin,"Sturmovik" ground attack aircraft extremely effective against nazi tanks. the Katyusha rocket launcher ordered in long ranks on the battlefield terrified the Germans, they called it "Stalin's Organ" because of the almost musical sound it made when launching it's rockets.




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Old Post! Jan 19, 2009 @ 17:50:45#48
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karljkampovsky said:

If you want details here are some. The Wehrmacht issued standard gun grease to the troops,it froze up and made the guns practically useless.The Red Army mixed gasoline with their gun grease making it flow smoothly in the coldest temperatures. The T34 Tank regarded by experts as the best tank of WWII,more T34s were manufacture than any other tank of any nation. The Ilyushin,"Sturmovik" ground attack aircraft extremely effective against nazi tanks. the Katyusha rocket launcher ordered in long ranks on the battlefield terrified the Germans, they called it "Stalin's Organ" because of the almost musical sound it made when launching it's rockets.

Interesting.

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Old Post! Feb 21, 2009 @ 23:45:21#49
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I say it was becuase of Hitlers mistakes.
He should have never invaded Russia, that was his biggest mistake which cost him the war. He also should not have declared was on the USA.




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Old Post! Feb 22, 2009 @ 13:50:00#50
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CenturionMacro said:

I say it was becuase of Hitlers mistakes.
He should have never invaded Russia, that was his biggest mistake which cost him the war. He also should not have declared was on the USA.

While you are correct that hitler declared war on the US, but it was ineviteble that the US would have declared war on Germany,in order to aid their British allies!



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Old Post! Mar 23, 2009 @ 03:20:41#51
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henry_ireton said:

The Germans also had problems, supply lines simply weren't capable of moving winter clothing due to it's low priority rather than a refusal to issue it. There was a drive to collect winter clothing from citizens and the concentration camps once the scale of the problem became evident. Strangely enough quite a bit of the pressure was applied from the home front where citizens were questioning why they were getting letts from relatives at the front asking for furs etc to be sent.



Agreed. In both Russia and Africa the Germans had bad supply lines.



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Old Post! Mar 23, 2009 @ 03:41:09#52
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emily_florence said:

must have been worrying?!?
his most loyal "allies", the reichmark (army) turned against hitler when the war started to go badly (july bomb plot)



Die Wehrmacht.... was the army. The Reichsmark was the 'coin of the realm' so-to-speak. As long as you're talking history, you might as well be accurate.



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Old Post! Apr 16, 2009 @ 20:45:00#53
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henry_ireton said:

The Germans also had problems, supply lines simply weren't capable of moving winter clothing due to it's low priority rather than a refusal to issue it. There was a drive to collect winter clothing from citizens and the concentration camps once the scale of the problem became evident. Strangely enough quite a bit of the pressure was applied from the home front where citizens were questioning why they were getting letts from relatives at the front asking for furs etc to be sent.

The reason for not issuing winter clothing was that the invasion was scheduled to be over before winter came. By the time they realized that they would need it, they were already busy fighting a far more potent force than they had expected.




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Old Post! Apr 24, 2009 @ 15:12:57#54
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There are many reasons that hitler lost WW2. There was two major causes and many little causes. The first major was that he allied himself with the Japanese Empire, who at the time were as Impirialistic as the Hitlers germany. This mistake brought the USA, with their superior resources such as manpower and industrial power, into the war with Germany. If the Germans hadn't allied with the Japs then even after Pearl harbour (which i believe the japanese would have still gone ahead with) there would have been two different wars. (at least for a while. Don't forget that the British empire at the time was also fighting a two pronged war, one with the Germans and another with the Japanese, and this solidarity in fighting the Japanese would, i believe, eventually brought the USA on the side of the allies against the germans) This brings me to the other major mistake, in that Hitler, (after defeating the french) did not have another overpowering victory over the allies. He was defeated in the battle of britain, and bogged down in the Soviet Union. If he a totally defeated the British Isles then this would have allowed him to concentrate on the Eastern front (as well as knocking morale in the middle eastern conflict, where the majority nation opposing him where British) This may have also prevented the USA from entering the War (at least in Europe) as British involvement was one of the primary reasons (Roosavelt being allies with Churchill) that the USA went to war with germany. The are many more minor reasons, such as extending himself in russia, being in conflict on so many fronts against one of the biggest Empires the world had seen (although the Brits got a drumming in Europe and in some parts of asia, singapore being a prime example, in the middle east and afica the german made very little ground, tieing up forces that would be needed elsewhere such as the eastern front)




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Old Post! Jun 05, 2009 @ 15:42:35#55
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He tried to fight on both fronts, where he was fighting people off from opposite sides of his country which made it easier for the allies to surround him. He gave up on England to invade Russia during winter. He didn't listen to his generals.

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Old Post! Jun 05, 2009 @ 15:45:55#56
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I did World War Two as part of my GCSE history course and there was a girl in my class who, 2 weeks before the exam asked

'so who won the war then'

She got a B in her exam

Its kind of irrelevant but i enjoy it




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Old Post! Jun 05, 2009 @ 15:50:02#57
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DeepRed said:

I did World War Two as part of my GCSE history course and there was a girl in my class who, 2 weeks before the exam asked

'so who won the war then'

She got a B in her exam

Its kind of irrelevant but i enjoy it


Did she mean it literally or in the same way you did?

edit: sorry...that was someone else who asked if they really won the war...but point stands...was it a literal or figurative question?
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Old Post! Jun 05, 2009 @ 15:52:02#58
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DisenchntedBeliever said:

Did she mean it literally or in the same way you did?



She simply didn't know, after two years of education on the subject she hadn't worked it out



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Old Post! Jun 05, 2009 @ 15:53:40#59
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DisenchntedBeliever said:

Did she mean it literally or in the same way you did?

edit: sorry...that was someone else who asked if they really won the war...but point stands...was it a literal or figurative question?



DeepRed said:

She simply didn't know, after two years of education on the subject she hadn't worked it out



Wow...what? That's not even something you have to work out...its a fact...and pretty much the first one you learn about WWII
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Old Post! Jun 05, 2009 @ 15:55:57#60
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DisenchntedBeliever said:

Wow...what? That's not even something you have to work out...its a fact...and pretty much the first one you learn about WWII



See if anyone want evidence of the exams getting easier this girl got a good grade



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