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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (42601)	1/23/2002 8:25:28 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Respond to of 82486

If Germany had conquered Europe... Those were interesting speculations. Once you go one step out, then further projections become less and less dependable, because unknowns and the unexpected would have surely entered the picture in a way we cannot imagine. Hitler might have been assassinated, for example. You wonder also how the Axis three would have gotten along as time passed. There are so many unpredictables. Germany was working on a few secret weapons when the war ended. They were ahead of us with rocket science. They also beat us with the first jet planes. Some of these actually saw combat and totally outclassed anything we had. Hitler did not seem interested in the jets, and refused the advice of others who wanted to produce them in greater numbers. Had they built more of them, we could have suddenly found ourselves no longer with air supremacy. Germany was capable of developing nuclear weapons as well. If I recall correctly, we managed to destroy their source for heavy water which was essential to their program. We were fighting formidable enemies, and we will probably never know how close we might have come at one time or another to losing the war, or at least to suffering a major setback.. Even our victory at Midway was the result of some lucky breaks.