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To: Bilow who wrote (112509)	8/23/2003 9:57:16 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

This is ignorant bullshit. Unless by "conquered or held off" you really mean "lost". Germany conquered Poland in 4 weeks. It conquered France in 6 weeks. It conquered the Balkans and Crete in 4 weeks. Germany could have destroyed the majority of Britain's army at Dunkirk, had it not been for Goering pledging that he could destroy them by air, freeing German divisions to press farther into France.. Had Germany concentrated on British aircraft production, and airfields, rather than engaging in revenge raids against civilian targets, they would have captured air superiority and the British Navy would not have been able to interfere with Operation Sea Lion. Had Germany accelerated their U-Boat war, they would have sank more tonnage than could be effectively replaced, starving the British Isles. (this nearly happened anyway). But let's move on and imagine a few more "what if" scenarios... What if Hitler hadn't interfered in the production of the ME-262, trying to turn it into a fighter-bomber, Germany would have had this fighter 2 years earlier. This would have been 1943, before the fruit of Germany's fighter pilot force was eliminated trying to disrupt the strategic bombing campaign.. Then should we mention that had Britain fallen in 1940, it's unlikely that the Germany nuclear weapon program would have suffered the sabotage that it did? And if Britain had fallen, the bulk of the German army could have been directed against Russia, without the worry of a second front. The US would have recognized that defeating Japan was their primary interest since there was little they could do to defeat Germany from 3,000 miles away... It was hard enough to carry on an amphibious campaign in the Pacific, let alone project and supply an invasion force across the Atlantic as well.. Oh man.. Bilow.. just how wrong you are about "how close" a thing it was... Just how different an outcome could have been derived had certain decisions been made, or not made.. Sure, the US would have likely survived behind its oceans and fought on, but it would have been a cold war between Germany, not Russia, and the United States. And the shape of this world would have been far different. Hawk