Barbarossa

Originally posted by infomast
The whole premise is invalid. History does not have what if clauses. Nazi Germany was defeated and anything else will remain merely an unproven speculation. Why can't we discuss if Germany could successfully occupy the US in the same breath? Or, if USSR decided to annex the parts of Germany it occupied and make itanother Soviet Republic?

BTW the 70th ann elligence with an exact date (and sometimes time) of the German attack in the two prior weeks.

Churchill also warned him. By mid June everyone in the world seemed to know an attack was imminent except for Stalin. In the last weeks, even the Germans did little to hide it. They were running reconnaissance sorties to scout out Soviet airfields well in advance of the invasion. German defectors also warned the Soviets. But Stalin refused to believe it and so, by fiat, the Soviet Union refused to believe it.

Nazi Germany was defeated and anything else will remain merely an unproven speculation

Uh, gee. Ya think?

Originally posted by sh76
I can just paste in the whole magnum opus (Winds of War and War and Remembrance) from my Kindle for PC if you'd like. It's only about 2,500 pages long.

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Heh. It's because of those long German words, you know...