Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1.  @kwanchan6745  Could be. It does look like a deception operation.
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  2. I'd hope people would not waste their time on this worthless book, unless they're professionally interested in the psychology of Soviet defectors
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  3.  @richardvernon317  Yep. Battle of The Ruhr (1943).
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  4. Was it slow? I thought its problem was bad handling which made it liable to crash if the pilot pushed it hard?
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  5.  @dragosstanciu9866  Exactly. They wanted to prevent the quasi - alliance between Germany and The USSR becoming more solid. Though there was a hare brained scheme to attack the Caucasus Oil industry following the Soviet attack on Finland.
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  6. Inflation generally benefits both workers and employers. It's those on fixed incomes who lose out.
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  7. Dwight MacDonald has some good essays about this problem.
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  8. That seems rather tautological. That a broad front allows you to establish a broad front is only an advantage if there's some actual reason to prefer a broad front.
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  9.  @EdAtoZ  They didn't spread out though. Instead they concentrated in The Ardennes, though that didn't work out too well for them.
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  10.  @TheImperatorKnight  If he had really understood US politics he would have realised why declaring war was such a bad idea. He seems to have believed that Roosevelt was a dictator like himself.
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  11.  @ВячеславСкопюк  Flattened Helsinki with their bombers. Not in 1941 of course but in 1944 they could have done it in an afternoon.
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  12.  @TheImperatorKnight  I like the theory that the British ordered the assassination of Heydrich to protect Canaris. If it's true they clearly regarded him as a valuable asset.
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  13.  @jimtaylor294  I would say this lack of "commonality" is simply another way of saying that the Austrians were Catholics, which meant that Bismarck and the National Liberals didn't want them in their new Reich.
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  14. The career of Beust is interesting. A Saxon Protestant but not a National Liberal he became the first prime minister of the new Dual Monarchy, a symbolic declaration by Franz Josef that Austria did not want to be severed from Germany.
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  15.  @jimtaylor294  We'll have to agree to disagree here. I see you as down playing the Importance of confessional conflict in typical "post Christian" fashion. I will concede that permitting the annexation of Catholic Alsace - Lorraine was a blunder by Bismarck if he wanted the new Reich to be as Protestant as possible.
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  16.  @simplicius11  I think you're wrong there. You could trade them, but people preferred to keep them because the rate of interest was good (for a depression).
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  17.  @simplicius11  Agree to disagree. I would like to see a fuller account than those currently available online.
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  18.  @TheImperatorKnight  Don't let these idiots get to you. I'm very impressed with your Stalingrad series.
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  19. We are not worthy to speak his holy name.
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  20.  @leohard1814  The German production figures are lying propaganda.
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  21. It was a newspaper tag. The men of Bomber Command usually called him "Butch". It was not altogether a compliment.
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  22. Stalin was not such a fool as to fall for that. He was never going to make any aggressive move unless convinced it would not pose any threat to The USSR.
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  23. Thanks.
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  24.  @damyr  Have to agree. The US dating system is super - weird. Though we're not going to make any friends talking about 11/9.
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  25. It was his middle name.
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  26. That's an interesting conjecture.
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  27. Yes. But he couldn't have waged the great war for Lebensraum which he regarded as his mission.
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  28. He was among those killed in the wake of the Stauffenberg Plot.
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  29. Most likely The Allies simply didn't want to take on the task of caring for these people.
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  30.  @rfe8nn2  Absolutely right. The blame can be shared between Browning, Gavin, and SHAEF.
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  31. The secret is finally revealed. The Death Maginot Line was the ultimate secret weapon.
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  32.  @andrewwmacfadyen6958  The Americans lacked trained hangmen, and some executions were messy. Dunno why they didn't use firing squads like the Brits.
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  33.  @TheImperatorKnight  That 90% success claim is nonsense. Though Nijmegen was useful as a base for the February Offensive. There's a memorial at Groesbeek to the Canadian soldiers killed in the Battle of The Reichswald.
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  34.  @daarksideyt  There were many reasons why an invasion of France wasn't possible until 1944. But you're right in suggesting that even if it had been possible it would have been a bad decision to proceed with it if the cost had been a decline in the ability of the Soviet Army to kill Germans.
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  35. Lend Lease allowed each party to produce what they were best at producing, tanks for the Soviets, trucks for the Americans.
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  36. That is a good point. And there was a near certainty that an Anglo - Soviet alliance would lead to a German - Japanese alliance in response. Both The UK and The USSR had good reason for not wanting an alliance.
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  37.  @russellwright6190  Armies have always been very reluctant to punish their soldiers for killing enemy prisoners.
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  38.  @mahlapropyzm9180  Rhineland Pfalz is predominantly Catholic too.
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  39. Nightmarish. The Wehrmacht's fearsome operational skill was negated by it's logistical incompetence. Fortunately for the the world.
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  40. This is true.
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  41.  @Seven_FM  The Finns joined in Hitler's murderous war but it wasn't altogether a free choice and they did so half - heartedly. So it's not much counted against them.
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  42. It was sometimes said that many British armoured units were former cavalry, and still had that mindset.
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  43. All nations have been female since The Roman Empire.
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  44.  @fiddlersgreen2433  Yeremenko seems to have been reasonably competent. Stalin kept him in active commands until the end of the war.
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  45. According to Wikipedia The USA executed 141 of its military personnel in WW2. Apart from Slovik all executions were either for murder or (predominantly) rape. The large number of executions for rape are associated with US racism and are a very queasy topic.
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  46.  @thewoodpekker7980  Very interesting. The Finns seem to have been the victims of German disinformation.
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  47.  @taphos9469  It's an interesting question. The Soviets seemed to have wavered about the question. Sometimes they thought they should annex Finland (since it had been part of the old Russian Empire) and other times they just wanted it to be harmless. In the end the second view prevailed but it could quite possibly have gone the other way.
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  48.  @seanadler918  The Nazis couldn't have an alliance with both Japan and The Soviet Union. It was when they gave up on The Japanese (late July) that they began serious approaches to The Soviets.
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  49.  The Colonel  Koch was quite prominent in the 1970s as an expert on various aspects of German fascism (The Free Corps, The Hitler Youth, The Nazi justice system) but never became famous.
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  50.  @johnweber6612  Yes. The jet fighters were a huge leap forward in aircraft design but came into service too late to affect operations. Rather like The British Centurion tank.
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