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To: Steve Lee who wrote (36088)	8/6/2002 8:16:55 AM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Steve are you talking about the same Eastern Front that tied close to 10 million German soldiers with most of the tanks and good chunk of the airplanes. I take my hat before British Airforce but England alone had no chance at all against Germany. If Germany would decide to invade England the best case scenario is that it would put more resistance than France. re: Certainly Russia was a distraction where did you study your history? Russia had more than just winter on it's side. Russia had t34s, yaks, katushas (rocket launchers) and over 10 million soldiers. Stalin killed off most of the officers and generals right before the war and he also disarmed his army counting on peace treaty with Hitler. Within a year of war Russia managed to rearm its troops. -Albert

To: Steve Lee who wrote (36088)	8/6/2002 8:34:27 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yep, the Germans were really surprised by radar, and it made a big difference in the defense of Britain. But from what I've read I don't think the Brits could have held off the Germans for much longer if Hitler hadn't turned elsewhere, even with air superiority.

To: Steve Lee who wrote (36088)	8/7/2002 2:30:30 AM
From: Spytrdr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

those are factors, but the truth is A.H. never really wanted to invade or conquer Britan. <<At an early date he had recognized the frightful danger of Bolshevism and dedicated his existence to this struggle. At the end of his struggle, of his unswerving straight road of life, stands his hero's death in the capital of the German Reich. His life has been one single service for Germany. His activity in the fight against the Bolshevik storm flood concerned not only Europe but the entire civilized world. [...] It is my first task to save Germany from destruction by the advancing Bolshevist enemy. For this aim alone the military struggle continues. As far and for so long as achievement of this aim is impeded by the British and the Americans, we shall be forced to carry on our defensive fight against them as well. Under such conditions, however, the Anglo-Americans will continue the war not for their own peoples but solely for the spreading of Bolshevism in Europe.>> ibiblio.org ___ <<Certainly Russia was a distraction that diluted the German's effectiveness on the Western Front. But that was not the major factor in the German's losing the Battle of Britain. Don't forget that the British invented Radar during WW2, and gained immediate air superiority with that invention.>>