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@confederatenationalist7283 Let me address your points one by one. "how many ships did it take to corner not destroy the Graf Spee" is not a testiment to the Graf Spee, but a comment to the size of the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the task of trying to find a single ship hiding in that vastness without air surveillance and only the most rudimentary short range radar. You point has utterly NO application to the German navy in the English channel and North Sea, where it would have immediately been located and sunk in short order. By "devastating form" are you referring to the S & G running away from a single WW1 battlecruiser after she bitch slapped BOTH of them?? Yes Scharnhost & Gneisenau later fell completely by chance upon a poorly managed aircraft carrier and sank it.... and in the process Scharnhorst had to run for her life and was put out of action for over 6 months thereby removing her from the field of play for Seelowe. After Which Gneisenau & Admiral Hipper ineffectively stalked British convoys but took no action because they were too weak to oppose the escorting RN ships, then as Gneisenau attempted to decoy the Home Fleet from the crippled Scharnhorst's return to Germany, she only went and got herself torpedoed and was put out of action until late 1940. Such was their "devastating form" that the fleet commander Admiral Marschall was relieved of command for the damage that was inflicted on Scharnhorst, and his failure to follow orders. When you refer to "the combined attacks of battleships and U-boats", What "battleships" are you referring to exactly? The Kriegsmarine had NO battleships available in the time frame of Seelowe. Neither of the Bismarck's were ready and even if you stoop to consider 11in gun armed ships as "battleships" BOTH of them were out of action for Seelowe as I detailed above.... leaving ZERO battleships available. As for "close in U-boat attacks" U-47's strike at Scapa was an excellent feat of navigation, followed by sinking a berthed and unaware WW1 battleship. When they operated in an active war zone, such as the English channel (where Seelowe was going to take place) there fared MUCH worse. In 1939 Donitz sent three U-boats to pass through the straits of Dover, U-12 (sunk in the straits of Dover on the 8th Oct 1939), U-40 (sunk in the straits of Dover on the 13th Oct 1939), & U-16 (sunk in the straits of Dover on the 25th Oct 1939). They decided not to send any more uboats into the English channel until desperation forced them to in 1944. As for "It's obvious they never tried to wipe us out at Dunkirk", Your mate Hitler begs to differ. I'll refer you to the opening lines of his FührerBefehl No. 13 The Leader And Supreme Commander Of The Armed Forces. Headquarters. 24th May, 1940. 7 copies Directive No. 13 1. The next object of our operations is to annihilate the French, English, and Belgian forces which are surrounded in Artois and Flanders, by a concentric attack by our northern flank and by the swift seizure of the Channel coast in this area. The task of the Air Force will be to break all enemy resistance on the part of the surrounded forces, to prevent the escape of the English forces across the Channel, and to protect the southern flank of Army Group A. When you say the Luftwaffe was "capable of taking out large naval assets", can you give some examples of that? The Luftwaffe, inspite of facing an English channel PACKED with British and French warships managed only to sink FOUR RN destroyers during the Dunkirk Evacuation. As a further illustration of the Luftwaffe's poor maritime success rate study the Mediterranean where the RN operated for 5 years with ALL manner of Aircraft carriers, Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers and submarines, in a sea SURROUNDED by enemy territory and land based air forces both German and Italian, What was the LARGEST ship they managed to sink in all that time? A Light Cruiser. Compare that performance to the single RN FAA operation at Taranto, which left 3 Italian battleships sitting on the sea floor. What makes you think the Germans successfully supplied their forces in North Africa? The only time they had victories was when the British had to withdraw troops to other areas, The axis in north Africa were consistently struggling for supplies 2 million tons of which ended up on the Mediterranean seabed, sunk by the British Fleet air arm and RAF flying from Malta, they couldn't beat the British who didn't have the luxury of simply getting supplies from the Toe of Italy to Tripoli, but instead had to transport their supplies from across the Atlantic, around the Cape of Good Hope and up the East African coastline !!! My father was in the Royal Navy for 6 years during WW2 and never for one second though that the nazis would be stupid enough to dip a toe in the English Channel. The fact that they never did proves he was right !!!!
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The British Isles (and latterly the United Kingdom), not being joined onto continetal Europe for at least the last 10,000 years has never needed huge land armies like the nations on the continent have. Now compare the Luftwaffe to the Royal Air Force and even moreso the Kriegsmarine to the Royal Navy, and see how the Germans got pissed over in those categories.
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Of course the US Govt made its OWN secret deals with Stalin at Yalta in February 1945. In return for the USSR declaring war on Japan in the far east (and thereby reducing the pressure on the US to launch "Operation downfall" as the atmoic bomb had not yet been succesfully tested in Feb 1945), and also to get the USSR to sign up to the forthcoming "United Nations" organisation Roosevelt and then Truman quietly agreed to acquiesce to the Soviet Union's retention of Eastern and central Europe within a soviet "sphere on Influence". "Damn Yankees"
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No matter how much you suppose they could have just "gone for it", you've completely forgotten about the world's strongest navy protecting the shores of the United Kingdom, that the Germans tiny navy would have to confront. As well as the... 2 British Armoured divisions 2 British Armoured tank brigades 15 British infantry divisions (full strength) 7 British infantry divisions (under strength). 7 British independent infantry Brigades 2 British motor machine gun Brigades 1 Canadian infantry division (full strength) (plus some small under equipped subordinate units of a 2nd division) 1 NZ infantry "division" (actually 2 understrength infantry Brigades but with an attached British motor machine gun brigade) 2 Australian infantry brigades (under strength & unequipped) In addition to these forces were the 1,500,000 million men of the British "Home Guard", that were ready to confront the 13 divisions struggling to cross the English channel at 3 knots in the face of the Royal Navy. And before you say "the luftwaffe would take care of the Royal Navy", you would be referring to the same luftwaffe that had 3 months earlier completely failed to stop the Royal Navy and the flotilla of hundreds of small ships from evacuating 338,000 Aliied troops from the coast of Northern France, after Herman Goering had promised Hitler that they would do just that. The most reasonable evalaution of the Germans chances in 1940 suggests that they MIGHT have be able to land their first wave ashore (if the RN were napping), but that once ashore they had utterly NO chance of keeping that small first wave supplied.
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"all paratroop divisions"? They had 1 fallschirmjager division which had lost a fair number of troops during their operations in Norway & the low countries in Apr-June 1940, but more importantly was the number of TRANSPORT aircraft they nazis had lost during those ops. 150 Ju 52s were lost in Norway and 125 Ju 52s were lost in the Netherlands alone, The Germans themselves considered they had enough transport aircraft to carry just 4,500 Paratroopers during any attempted invasion of Britain.... as that was all they had ANY hope of keeping supplied if they suffered no further losses of their Ju 52 fleet (which was incredibly unlikely) You've also not explained how the German army was going to sneak its 2,500 towed canal barges past the world's largest navy at the stately speed of 3 knots !!! (Any faster and the barges would swamp). They also had to contend with nightly mine laying operations by the fleet of minelaying ships the RN had stationed in the English Channel and southern part of the North sea. And before you say "the luftwaffe would take care of the Royal Navy", you would be referring to the same luftwaffe that had completely failed to stop the Royal Navy and the flotilla of hundreds of small ships from evacuating 338,000 Aliied troops from the coast of Northern France just 2 months earlier, after Herman Goering had promised they would do just that. Also by "the entire U-boat fleet" you're referring to the 57 U boats they possessed in 1940.... of which at any one time only a THIRD could be on operational patrols. No matter which way you try to dress it up, the nazis had utterly NO hope of successfully conquering the UK in 1940 (or at any other time for that matter!!!)
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While I'm fully in agreement with you post, the Luftwaffe THROUGHOUT WW2 demonstrated surprising poor performance against the RN, only 4 RN destroyers sunk during Operation Dynamo, nothing larger than an RN light cruiser sunk in 4 years of combat in the Mediterranean, a sea full of RN capital ships that was encircled by land based German and Italian air forces. It even took the Germans till mid 1942 to achieve the ability to air launch a torpedo. There was NO way a German invasion would have took place.
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"If the U.S would have leaned even a little bit toward better relations with Germany that would have changed the outcome as well". The US was NEUTRAL until Dec 1941, and American corporations were trading EVERY BIT as much with nazi Germany as they were with the UK. Britain in 1940 saved HERSELF, INSPITE of the US as much as it did BECAUSE of the US.
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Below I've "copy and pasted" the preamble to Hitler's "Fuhrerbefehl No. 16" (Fuhrer Directive 16) issued from the "Berghof" (Hitler's "holiday home" in Bavaria), on 16th July 1940 to the German armed forces high command (OKW). The directive was transmitted over secure landlines encrypted in what the Germans believed was an unbreakable code, showing that it was NOT for the digest of the British and simply designed to initmidate them into coming to the surrender table, but was a true indication of Hitler's intent. "The Fuhrer And Supreme Commander Of The Armed Forces. The Fuhrer's Headquarters. 16th July, 1940. 7 copies Directive No. 16 -- On Preparations For A Landing Operation Against England Since England, in spite of her hopeless military situation, shows no signs of being ready to come to an understanding, I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and, if necessary, to carry it out. The aim of this operation will be to eliminate the English homeland as a base for the prosecution of the war against Germany and, if necessary, to occupy it completely."
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@datredhat "Hitler allowed the troops trapped at Dunkirk to evacuate". Nonsense. Hitler would like to disagree with you. "Fuhrer Directive No. 13. 24th May 1940 1. The next object of our operations is to annihilate the French, English, and Belgian forces which are surrounded in Artois and Flanders, by a concentric attack by our northern flank and by the swift seizure of the Channel coast in this area. The task of the Air Force will be to break all enemy resistance on the part of the surrounded forces, to prevent the escape of the English forces across the Channel, and to protect the southern flank of Army Group A. The enemy airforce will be engaged whenever opportunity offers." The truth is that the German army was, contrary to the perception created by their own propaganda films, very poorly mobilised. Apart from its 10 Panzer and a small number of "motorised" regiments in 1940, 90% of its army and supporting combat logistics depended on foot and horse transport. Its panzer formations had by 24th May WELL over extended and outrun their supply and supporting infantry, even though the infantry had been provided with MILLIONS of German manufactured "Pervitin" methamphetamine tabets, known today as "crystal meth" to enable the advance to continue. The effect of the drug use was to enable the foot soldiers to march day and night with reduced food requirements for the 2 weeks of the initial French campaign. By the time of the battle of the Dunkirk perimeter, the infantry were burned out and STILL had the conquest of the rest of France ahead of them. It was actually the commander of "Panzer Gruppe Kleist" (Ewald von Kleist) who aware of the wide dispersal of his armoured divisions, and the heavy losses his panzers had absorbed (in many cases reduced to <50% by combat and mechanical breakdowns) who had requested from his superior von Rundstedt, that a halt to the advance be requested. Von Rundstedt concurred with the request and forwarded it via von Brauchitsch at OKH to Hitler who then authorised the halt. The simple fact is that the German infantry (and also to a slightly lesser degree the German panzers) were completely shagged out. They were UNABLE to close the Dunkirk pocket, as a large part of the perimeter was marshy boggy ground unsuitable for tanks, which put more of the onus for the final assault onto its already shagged out foot soldiers. Step forward Feldmarschall Hermann Goering, with his promise to Hitler that his Lufwaffe alone would prevent the evacuation of the allied forces trapped within the Dunkirk perimeter..... and we all know what happened there. The rest as they say is history.
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"Britain" isn't giving anything away.... It's the globalist funded politicians who have been insinuated into each and every mainstream party that are doing it.... but admittedly the sheep like electorate continue to vote for those parties in their pathetic unthinking political sleepwalk.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Fweddy the duck.. Awwwwww.
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Erm... what about the World's largest navy? Don't they have a say in the matter?
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"Their scientists understood the concept (of atomic weapons) earlier than the Allies". Incorrect. The FIRST nuclear weapons programme in the world was NOT that of nazi Germany, and was also NOT that of the US, but surprisingly it was the BRITISH "Tube Alloys" programme, which in their "hour of need" they were forced to hand over to the US in 1940 and which provided the majority of the research for the US "Manhattan project". Google "tube alloys" for more information.
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You do realise that Operation Paukenschlag "Drumbeat", started in January 1942 1 month AFTER the German declaration of war on the US on 11th Dec 1941. The incidents that had occured between the Kriegsmarine and the USN PRIOR to the German declaration of war (The USS Kearny, USS Greer & USS Reuben James incidents) were all caused by the US Govt's decision to escort merchant shipping of ALL nations between the US east coast as far as Iceland from 9th August 1941 onwards.
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Factors counting against the Spanish joining the Axis were the facts that Franco's Spain was totally dependent on imports of grain and oil from the US, and he was diplomatically assured that if he joined the "Axis" that the tap of US resources would be shut off immediately. Franco had also become a good friend of the head of the German Abwehr, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who privately warned him to think twice about joining Hitler and his planned European empire. Hitler privately said of meeting Franco that he would "rather attend a dentist to have three of four teeth pulled". Google "Hendaye summit" to see what occured between the two countries and their respective leaders.
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Hood wasn't sunk for another 8 months after these events. But they were pissed off about the sinkings of HMS Courageous and Glorious.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Wow This HAS taken off, hasn't it !!! Once again YT "forgetting" to notify people of responses to their comments. Still I see that you're handling the nonsense with your usual aplomb. I've landed myself into a veritable shitstorm on a video discussing the "History of Colonialism", which conveniently talks for 2 minutes about several millenia of imperialism before launching into a one hour tirade against European colonialism but mostly the British Empire. I don't know what it is about these marxists, but you just ask one or two slightly awkward questions and you're immediately inundated with legions of the clueless lefty kidults talking disjointed bollocks they've picked up from the Guardian and the "Socialist Worker". It's been quite enjoyable tying them up in knots. Still it makes a difference from crossing swords with neo-nazis !!! Keep up the good work Dove !!!
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Wow This HAS taken off, hasn't it !!! Once again YT "forgetting" to notify people of responses to their comments. Still I see that you're handling the nonsense with your usual aplomb. I've landed myself into a veritable shitstorm on a video discussing the "History of Colonialism", which conveniently talks for 2 minutes about several millenia of imperialism before launching into a one hour tirade against European colonialism but mostly the British Empire. I don't know what it is about these marxists, but you just ask one or two slightly awkward questions and you're immediately inundated with legions of the clueless lefty kidults talking disjointed bollocks they've picked up from the Guardian and the "Socialist Worker". It's been quite enjoyable tying them up in knots. Still it makes a difference from crossing swords with neo-nazis !!! Keep up the good work Dove !!! (If this appears multiple times (instead of not at all) you know its YT up to their usual BS)
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"Not a serious proposition"? Hitler begs to differ. What better than the order issued by none other the Adolf Hitler himself? Below I've "copy and pasted" the preamble to Hitler's "Fuhrerbefehl No. 16" (Fuhrer Directive 16) issued from the "Berghof" (Hitler's "holiday home" in Bavaria) on 16th July 1940 to the German armed forces high command (OKW). The directive was transmitted over secure landlines encrypted in what the Germans believed was an unbreakable code, showing that it was NOT for the digest of the British and simply designed to initmidate them into coming to the surrender table, but was a true indication of Hitler's intent. "The Fuhrer And Supreme Commander Of The Armed Forces. The Fuhrer's Headquarters. 16th July, 1940. 7 copies Directive No. 16 -- On Preparations For A Landing Operation Against England Since England, in spite of her hopeless military situation, shows no signs of being ready to come to an understanding, I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and, if necessary, to carry it out. The aim of this operation will be to eliminate the English homeland as a base for the prosecution of the war against Germany and, if necessary, to occupy it completely." But as we both know the first phase of the operation, that being the battle of Britain, was smashed, meaning the rest of the plan was academic. The operation had been stopped in its first phase. What would be described in common parlance as "A resounding British victory".
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Would the US ALCOA (ALuminium COrporation of America) corporation's huge supply of aircraft grade aluminium to the nazi regime be a cassus belli for the British to declare war on the US? Or the Ford corporation's auto production facility in Cologne and General Motor's Opel Subsiduary in Berlin producing 60% of the Wehrmacht's transpotation requirements also be one?
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And a navy capable of protecting the amphibious assault, which the nazis were even FURTHER away from achieving.
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The nazis DID assemble a sizeable though ragged assortment of hastily contrived vessels for a potential amphibious assault. The RAF DID bomb them, and the only time they left port was to return to Germany, and NOT the UK.
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