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Hi Tigre,just want to say thank-you for those great articles about Stalingrad.Please keep them coming,much appreciated REgards TimWells

Could it be that you have some residual shame about the disgraceful performance of the Ialian army in WW2. Mussolini took 3 years to defeat ethiopian tribesman armed with spears,a pathetic british force in egypt kicked your arses in 1940,and as for Russia.Atleast the romanians put up a fight,and did...

Enrico.sei patso!

Enrico it is quite clear to a lot of people on this forum that historically speaking,you are from another planet.Maybe your version of history happened in another Solar System.Could that be it?If it is,then we extend to you a warm welcome to planet Earth.It is strange how your posts are heavy on con...

Hey DXTR,are you sure they weren't tigers in the street battle scene in SPR?I am pretty sure they were.The tank that they blew the traks off was definitely a tiger.It did not have the sloping armor of the T34,and its gun was an 88.If I am mistaken please let me know.Also is Bovington the only place ...

Well I saw the movie with a friend of mine and we both were 'shell shocked' by the realism of the first 15 minutes.It was well done,but the really enjoyable part for me was the authenticity of the weaponry.It was easy to recognize the M1 garand,and the M1 carbine,the military version of the Thompson...

Hi Pirx,I think if you look at it,the whole focus of Hitlers actions were on creating Lebensraum for the German nation.He wrote Mine Kampf in 1923,and if you read his last will and testament written in the bunker in april 45,they have the same idea.IE that the german people should look to having Leb...

Well,this is an interesting topic.I will give you my contribution.Before the beginning of Barbarossa,hitler had basically given blanket exemption to his troops for anything they did because he said the war in the east was a'war of annaillation' [Bad spelling]This comment was made in a pre-campaign c...

Trust us Laurent,Europe is as socialist as Karl Marx's underwear.

An absolutely definitive analysis Tigre.Thank-you for that.

In my view,the failure to take moscow in December 1941 was the point at which the germans could not win the war,and Stalingrad made defeat inevitable for them.Before Barbarossa,Germany faced one enemy,Britain and its empire.Barely 6 months later,they had to take on the USSR and the USA as well.Produ...

Uli,I have heard a similar figure bandied about for some time,so maybe it has some accuracy.War being as it is,it is bound to have a margin of error though.

Yes Hoofgard,it was hitlers decisions from start to finish that produced the disaster at Stalingrad.There are so many 'fuhrer' decisions during that campaign that were stuff ups,I really would not know where to start.Infact the entire premise for operation blue was rubbish,and the OKW was silently o...

Congratulations Sean Oliver.a very correct analysis of what happened in strategic terms.I thought your summation was faultless.If I can add even more,I would like to respond to oleg about soviet resistance 'stiffening' in september.Barbarossa started 5 weeks late due to a few factors,none of which r...

Congratulations Paul J.A very concise and historically accurate analysis of this 'oil war thing.Hitlers 'idea' was lebensraum,and his tool to achieve was the wehrmacht,luftwaffe,etc.But being an idiot and an egotist,he thought his genius to be above military realities.The 'resources' thing led to hi...