Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII" video.

  1. The Germans could not have won WW2 at all. Their economy was not up to it. This guy needs to read Wages of Destruction - The Making and Breaking of the NAZI Economy.
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  2. Jos van Doorn  Roosevelt was of mostly English and Dutch descent. Not Jewish. You are silly.
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  3. Jos van Doorn Stalin had no such plans to attack anyone. The Red Army was not up to it. He had no desires on countries. He attacked the Japanese in 1939 after "they" moved in to disputed territory. You are deluded. Sad but true.
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  4. Nathan Robinson The Japanese took a hiding from the Soviets in 1939. The Soviets kept 40 divisions facing the Kwangtung army in the Soviet Far East. The Japanese only had light tanks.
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  5. Nathan Robinson Your knowledge of events you comment about is scant or absent. Please do some objective reading from objective authors. Quick!
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  6. nfd1960 The US army in 1939 was smaller than Portugals. The air force had two poor fighters; why the British worked with North American to get them to build a better plane for them, which the British named the Mustang. The B17 was a slow lumbering bomber with a poor bomb load - the same size as the DH Mosquito. The USA had some big aircraft carriers though, designed to operate in the huge Pacific.  The USA had an amazing amount of natural resources. About one fifth of US industry was British owned and most cereals came from North America and had done for decades.  US industry was not that great in 1939 because of the depression. It was how fast it was expanded - similar with the USSR. 
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  7. Crazy Gaming King! "I'm german im not evil" Your Granddad was. 
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  8. Bettertext How could have the Germans got to Iraq and Iran? Please think and read some.
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  9. Maybe this author should write a book titled: Why The Allies Did Not Snuff Out Hitler immediately : Allied Strategic Mistakes in WWII
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  10. peter feltham If the Germans had a foothold on the English coast they had to be supplied. As they had virtually no navy facing the largest in the world that is a tall order. They faced a well dug in and well supplied army waiting with heavy armour. They would have been slaughtered. Churchill said he wished they would have made an invasion attempt to give them a bloody nose. Operation Sealion was ruse to get the British to make peace - nothing else.
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  11. ***** You need to read and "understand" some history. 
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  12. Nathan Robinson You have not read enough history.
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  13. Nathan Robinson Learn some history. It will do you good.
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  14. nfd1960 US industry DID expand greatly. Many new shipyards opened up to make the Liberty ships. Brand new aircraft factories were built. Similar in the UK. Companies that made furniture were now assembling planes. A standard set airfield design was laid down and teams of men and vehicles were laying hundreds out complete with standard hangars and pre-fabbed buildings. Teams would go from site to site laying them out zipping them up in super-fast time. The same with the USSR who also had to take their factories from the west to the Urals, which was a greater achievement.  In the last year of the war the US produced 98,000 aircraft, displaying the rapid expanse of US industry. British aircraft production was relaxed in some areas, like aircraft, as the USA was pouring them out, so no need to overproduce. The British during WW2 produced more aircraft, and better aircraft, than the Germans. In hindsight, the British put too much resources into shipbuilding, maybe the US put too much into planes. Army logistics support: oil, supplies and transport could have been much better. Also better armour, especially from the US side. 
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  15. nfd1960 "the USA built very few new factories or ship yards, " Seriously? "liberty ships were built in existing ship yards" Liberty ships were a British design from a Sunderland shipyard and the USA only made them in WW2. "this Industry is also why the south lost in the Civil war" Wrong war. Please try harder.
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  16. Dale Riccetti The British empire declared war on Hitler as did France. 
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  17. Dan C writes.... "And yet, in your post you bring up the "British colonies", some of which assisted less than the weaker Axis powers. How about you don't cherry pick your facts." The manpower pool of the British empire was vast. The Turkish ambassador stated that Germany will lose the war as the British can raise an army of 45 million. The Japanese were stopped at the Burma/Indian border taking 60,000 dead in one battle - the biggest defeat in Japanese history. The Japanese were going nowhere. Britain assembled an Indian army of over 2.6 million and when ready they rolled into Burma. 
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  18. ***** The Germans were in no position to occupy England in 1940. Their surface fleet had all been wiped out by the RN in Norway and they were facing the largest navy in the world. The Luftwaffe was defeated over Dunkirk and southern England. Germany never even had a workable torpedo plane.  Only one third of the British army went to France, the rest was at home and was digging in with those who came back with heavy armour. The chances of Germany occupying England were about nil at best. Any invasion attempt would have been slaughter on the beaches. 
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  19. Crazy Gaming King! Germany was winning?  New to me. Before the USA had boots on the ground the Axis lost at El Alemein and Stalingrad. From that point they were on the run big time. The Yanks came in blowing bugles of course.  There were stopped in the west at the Battle of Britain and in the east at Moscow. 
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  20. Nathan Robinson  Oh my God. Japan had a massive surface navy. The Germans had none. Japan keeps the British away from them Germans and would reduce British arms aid to the USSR.  Chant every 4 hours for 2 years: "The Yanks never won the war; The Yanks never won the war". 
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  21. Edwin Wirz "Well Germany lost because they had to fight the U.K, U.S.A, Canada, France, Soviet Union (not Russia but much bigger), while the British colonies are helping with food, supplies and everything else. It's like saying this ONE guy has to fight 6-7 guys at once, you tell me why he lost!?" Justin Liu was 100% correct. 
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  22. Edwin Wirz Your comment was totally unrelated to Justin Lieu's comment. 
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  23. Ayy Lmao Who are these "we" and "your"?
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  24. Ayy Lmao Is America the "we" or the "you"?
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  25. Ayy Lmao Who are the "you"?
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  26. The Canadians would fight back. They did in 1812 and won.
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  27. Ayy Lmao Of course they could. The Yanks got beat in Viet Nam.
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  28. "That is why they betrayed him at Normandy and let the Allies Walt right on in with barely any resistance." What drivel.
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  29. Bettertext The Soviets may have went into Iran and over to Iraq. They would not like the German on their southern flank. First they have to defeat the British. That is one tall order. The Germans/Italians were well supplied in the desert, with Italy being so close, but still got beat.  Also the British Indian Army would mobilise and move west. It was swelled to 2.6 million and moved into Burma like a steamroller. Do some reading.
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  30. Bob Do 75% of all Axis supplies got through to Africa. Italy was a hop away. Hitler saw the advantage of circling the Med. Once circled he had oil and in a great strategic situation. He could then operate his Mesopotamia plan.  He partially linked up with Japanese operating U-Boats out of Penang.  The British Indian Army could move west and join up with the Soviets. The point is the British had a massive pool of men in which to dip into. The Turkish ambassador to the UK stated in 1940 that anyone who can raise an army of 45 million will win. He was right. 
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  31. Bob Do 75% of all supplies (mixed). Towards the end it was the reverse, as allied power was so great, but overall 75% of Axis supplies got through. That is not difficult to understand.  Hitler sending 41 U boats to Penang was a very big deal. Those U Boats would have been better used in the Atlantic against the Arctic convoys. Most of them were lost. Sending U Boats to Penang  were a part of Hitler's Mesopotamia plan which was to link up with the Japanese. A massive British Empire army moving west to join up with the Soviets would have annihilated the Germans. An army of 2.6 million was mustered of the Burma border and they just rolled over the Japanese. N Africa was not a sideshow, The British stopped the Med from being an Axis lake. Many tend to dismiss Germany's allies as well. It wasn't just Germany fighting. Italy (44m popn) Romania (20m popn) and Hungary (9m popn) each had casualties approaching of that of the USA in all WW2. The British in N Africa stopped the Germans getting at the magic oil and the vital Suez Canal. It tied up a considerable amount of Axis men and resources. It was very important. If the Med was an Axis lake and the Axis moved in on the Middle East oil fields, the Axis would have a highly probability of winning. The German's prime aim was to conquer the USSR as after the Battled of Moscow in Dec 41 the Soviets were not going to crumble. The Germans wanted to secure the southern flank and then circle the Med to enact the Mesopotamia plan. To circle the Med means getting the British Empire out of the way. That was one tall order.
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  32. peter feltham Only one third of the British Army was in France - 9% of the allied forces - French, Dutch, British and Belgian forces. The French complained of the luke-warm British response on the ground. The British concentrated on the sea and air as the French had a massive armoured army. The BEF was small and the first army that was fully motorised - no one marched. Nevertheless they stopped the German advance at Arras using the new Matilda 2 tank, with German troops running away in panic. The German anti-tank guns could not knock out the tank. They had to level 88mm guns in panic to knock it out.  The British started a retreat across water well before the Germans arrived as the French lines had broken down. Dunkirk was not a fiasco. It was retreat across water in which 350,000 men got to England. A success. They lived to fight another day. The RAF's CAP was a huge success in largely keeping the Luftwaffe away killing more German aircraft than what they lost. Back in the UK British industry was turning over 24/7 producing the latest equipment, not the old stuff used in France. Matlida 2s were being tuned out, of which the Germans had met and feared.  The Germans first had to get a beachhead on a coast full of cliffs, there are few suitable landing beaches.  They would be crossing in concrete barges towed by tugs and Rhine barges. The barges were being bombed by the RAF in port. It would take them about 24 hours to cross, and through the night, being straffed by the RAF, shore batteries and even the wash from an RN frigate would turn them over. The beaches were oiled up setting the water on fire as invasion barges came in. The Germans never even had a torpedo plane. The Ju97 Stuka was easy to knock out - they withdrew it from the Battle of Britain the losses were so high.  If they managed to get ashore it would not have lasted. They had no surface navy worth talking of as most had been destroyed in Norway. Supply would have been near impossible. How you think this army with hand weapons on a beach was to be resupplied facing the world's largest navy? Well I suggest you read some history and absorb some figures.  Then the British army afters Dunkirk is re-equipped with heavy tanks moving in on these men. The German paras might take a small town for a few days until the tanks come in. Annihilation of Germans are the words that come to mind. General Jodle said it would be like sending his men through a British mincing machine. BTW, the British took Sealion so seriously they sent 55 Matilda 2 tanks to North Africa during the Battle of Britain.  Look at the preparation for Normandy and with 100% air and sea superiority. And you think the German had a chance in concrete barges?  My oh my!
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  33. gantzisballs The Germans could not finish off Britain, as they had no surface fleet (the RN destroyed it in Norway) and the Luftwaffe was beaten twice over Dunkirk and southern England. Please read some real history books and do not go on History Channel docs and Hollywood.
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  34. ***** The USA saved the USA's ass, no one else's.  The U-Boats at no time were in danger of wiping out the UK. At no time. Read some history. Stop going by Hollywood. 
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  35. *****  What a charming person. The USA saved itself and charged for everything. The war was won before the Yanks came into it. Stop taking your history lessons from Hollywood. BTW, I regularly put big mouth Yanks in their place to their faces. 
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  36. bruce nassar Another idiotic Yank. The Yanks won sweet nothing. They were not needed. The British could raise an army of 40 million from its empire. But they wanted to have a go and then thought they won everything all by themselves. Pathetic really. Look at the first 6 months of the Yanks being in the war. The U-Boats sunk 600 ships on the eastern seaboard. The Brits told them to form convoys. They never of course. 
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  37. bruce nassar Look up and read about John Perkins. A US economic hit man.
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  38. Durk Banks How wrong you are. Stop getting your history from Hollywood.
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  39. Durk Banks Britain could raise an army of 45 million from its empire. 2.6 million were raised to stop the Japanese and roll into Burma. You need to stop going on Hollywood history.
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  40. Durk Banks Few US weapons were used by the British.
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  41. Durk Banks if Germany increased its military the UK and USA would intervene.
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  42. Durk Banks you are some sort of idiot with no idea of history. Sad but true.
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  43. Durk Banks you are an idiot
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  44. The Germans were starved of everything because of the RN blockade. They had no chance of winning.
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  45. Jos van Doorn Can gives facts?
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  46. Jos van Doorn Again...."The Soviet Union had no plans to attack Europe"!!!  That is easy to understand.
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  47. ***** Why don't you learn some history?  It is easier that way. Ukrainian People's Republic was with Poland and against the Soviets. There were Red and White armies fighting over who will control Russia. After the USSR was cemented there was no fighting between the USSR and and Poland. 
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  48. Nathan Robinson You need to read some history.
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  49. nfd1960 US industry DID expand greatly. Now stop being silly.
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  50. Crazy Gaming King! Right after the retreat over water at Dunkirk because the massive French army capitulated, up until early 1941, the British had: * destroyed the German surface fleet * destroyed most of the French fleet * disabled a major part of the Italian fleet. * Beat the Luftwaffe over Dunkirk * Beat the Luftwaffe in the misnomer the Battle of Britain as Britain was never threatened. * Pushed the Italians out of East Africa * Decimated the Italian army in North Africa * Were about to take all the southern Med coast. * Germany was being bombed from the air with raids of over 100 bombers - 150 over Nuremberg - using the new navigational devices, Gee, HS2 and Oboe. * A massive air bombing fleet was being assembled. The RAF shot down over 700 German fighters over continental Europe in 1941. After the small BEF (only 9% of all allied forces in France) left France in June 1940, the Brits went on the rampage. So much so Franco told Hitler the Brits would win and he would not join in with Germany. The Turkish ambassador to the UK stated that the UK can raise 45 million troops from its empire so will win. He was right.
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  51. Paul Pena Romania alone raised an army of 800,000. Germany were not on their own. With the Axis countries (and Finland) Germany could never have gone on so long.
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  52. Nathan Robinson The strategy was Japan goes west and Germany goes east and they meet up in the middle. If Germany had overcome the USSR in 1942, German and Japanese armies would have met up in the Soviet Far East/Manchuria. The Kwantung army would have been released to fight in the south or Burma/India.
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  53. lucky_kid nutter.
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  54. Ayy Lmao The Yanks still lost.
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  55. They still lost. They were losing the jungle war.
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  56. Ayy Lmao Of course not!  He made it al up. Numerous reading though. 
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  57. Neil Stuckey German could never win, its economy was far too small.
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  58. This book is drivel. This book is aimed at a US audience to give them what they want to hear to sell a book. Avoid if you want to know how matters really progressed. Spitfires used "grass" runways. He was on about filling in "concrete" runways. At no time during the Battle for Britain was the RAF near finished as he is putting across. Spitfire production increased, the RAF was never short of fighters, while Me109 production decreased and the Germans were losing pilots like crazy, while British pilots who bailed out went back into battle - sometimes the same day. The British early warning system of radar, and visual spotters was the first ever "intranet". The Battle was rather one sided and stacked hopelessly against the Germans. The Luftwaffe had first been defeated over Dunkirk, the first German defeat, when the Spitfire made its first appearance. The RAF, and a few French, kept the Luftwaffe largely away from the evacuation beaches hence why it was such a success. More German planes were lost than British. He goes on about that the RAF was nearly defeated. The RAF were far from defeated. They easily won. "Germany First" was Churchill's idea and his statesmanship and powers of persuasion convinced the USA that was the right way. He suggested appointing an American as the head to lead the European campaign, to soften them up. The US assumed a Brit would be in charge. This author is saying it was the US politicians and generals who came up with the idea. Roosevelt stated he was to make 50,000 planes per year in May 1940. On top of UK production, UK industry was about the same size as Germany's, Hitler knew this mass of planes were to come his way with or without US pilots in them. The lead to a full operational plane from order was 18 months and Hitler knew that, hence the gamble to invade the USSR to gain the resources of the east. No resources came from the rest of the world as the RN blockaded Germany. Hitler was preparing for the coming air war with the UK. It came - he was right. This author never knew this. The Japanese took a hiding from the Soviets in 1939 at the Battles of Khalkhin Gol in which the Japanese took 45,000 casualties. The Soviets kept 40 armoured divisions facing the Kwantung army in the Soviet Far East. The Japanese only had poor light tanks. The Japanese were not going to advance on the USSR, with almost certain defeat, when they needed resources for the battles in the south. Again this author is wrong.
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