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To: koan who wrote (977871)	11/2/2016 4:58:43 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575728

Churchill's opinion is a dominant one. Especially among wingnuts. They like simple answers to complex problems. Unless you look into the exact events, it is easy to decide that Chamberlain made a bad decision and could have ended the war early if he had only stood tall. The reality is that the Germans had massive air superiority. They had experienced pilots because of the Spanish Civil War. They also were able to hone the designs of both their planes and their armor during that conflict.Not only that, by the time that Germany started WWII, they had thousands of modern planes, more than anyone else. Everyone else still had significant numbers of biplanes in their inventory. Net result, Germany had the upper hand. And would maintain that until Operation Barbarossa. While the Soviets had a lot of planes and even some decent designs, their tactics were not so hot. But, they had a much bigger manufacturing base and weren't bothered by causalities. The Nazis got smothered.