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  1. Britain last war debt payment was dec of 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/6215847.stm
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  2. I think the middle class today live better than a millionaire's of 1912.
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  3. The USSR had a large population not Russia.
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  4. The US produces it's own oil unlike Germany. In war the US is self sustainable once oil is not used for civilian pleasures.
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  5.  @gamebook727  People do not realize Germany was a small country of 70 million in 1940.The US alone had twice their manpower and 3 times their manufacturing capacity.
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  6.  @gamebook727  I never realized how America was in a category onto itself in WW2 until you see these charts http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm Germany lost ww2 on Dec 11th 1941.
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  7. Little know fact is the US gets 40% of its oil imports from Canada and only 13% from Saudi Arabia. http://www.worldstopexports.com/us-crude-oil-imports-by-supplier-countries/ So not way to even block US oil imports when they get oil from a county that only borders the US and no other.
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  8.  @agentc7020  Remember the US in WW2 had only a population of 125 million not 330 million like today, so it could sustain itself in oil during WW2.
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  9. People do not realize Germany was a small country of 70 million in 1940.The US alone had twice their manpower and 3 times their manufacturing capacity.
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  10. Love pre-Islam Swedish history.
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  11. @Charles YuditskyI think during the battle of britain pilot shortages was more the problem than planes. A shot down German was a POW. A shot down RAF pilot was put back in the air hours later.
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  12. Germany was a small country of only 70 million people while fighting the UK,USA and USSR. The US (without help) had twice Germany's population and 4 times their manufacturing capacity and could have beat two Germany's.
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  13. Britain was bankrupt after ww2 and lost their standing as a world superpower. In 2006 Britain paid it's last ww2 payment to its allies http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/6215847.stm You call that getting rich?
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  14. That was what I was thinking.
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  15.  @bprogressive  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Shla50pRxA When a country can throw you in a reeducation camp without notice ,then you live in fear.
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  16. No matter after Stalin's Order No. 270 any Russian POW after the war were sent to the gulags anyways.
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  17. In 1940 Germany's population was 70 Million. In 1940 USSR population was 160 Million. Stalin had more people alright.
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  18. Most Russians before the war spent time in Gulags and were used to it. What was wrong with shooting Communist Commissars , even the Russians hated them.
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  19.  @bdz_bdz  Stalin killed more Russian officers before the war. That is why the Germans ad a good start.
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  20. To this guy's math is 90,000 German POW from Stalingrad and 5000 returning home =13%.
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  21. When you surprise attack a country and lose , all bets are off. The Russians could do whatever they wanted with German POWs and citizens.
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  22.  @fliegeroh  And burning German cities would be some sort of hindrance to the war effort in the east for the Germans.
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  23. I don't think Stalin cared about lives.
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  24. I keep watching different Stalingrad docs and movies and keep hoping the Germans win this time.
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  25. A SMG used lower powered handgun ammunition like 9mm or 45 cal. A rifle used high powered rifle rounds which can blow a person head off over 200 metres away while a submachine gun i lucky to reach that far with any accuracy. . The only semi/full automatic rifle with a high powered rifle round in WW2 was the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR).
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  26. Same reason Finland was so hard for the Russians. Lots of lakes,rivers and woods no so much roads and bridges. A tank,s and army nightmare.
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  27. Even with all the oil in the world , Germany a country of only 70 million people was not beating the US, UK and Russia all at once. The US alone had twice Germany's population and 4 times its manufacturing capacity.
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  28. @Charles Yuditsky Britain would have always been supplied. The west shipyards were out of German bombing range. France was buying planes from the US like the P-36 because France could not supply themselves. Germany never went ito full war production until 1943 ,because they thought the war would not last that long.
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  29.  @gamebook727  Not sure I would invade a country and want the people of that country building my airplane or welding my submarine hulls.
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  30. Germany was a small country of 70 million in the 1940. The US had twice Germany's population and 3 times their manufacturing capacity. On paper the US could have fought two Germans by themselves. The US Navy and airforce grew to be larger than the rest of the world 's combined. Like to today a country can not even sail to North America let alone invade it.
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  31. You do know the Russians had over twice Germany's population and were on par with manufacturing and had more natural resources. How much backup did they need? The Russians were just not smart fighters, how else does the winner lose 5 million more troops than the loser at the end of a war?
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  32. Britain Mobilized 5 million servicemen during the war. The loss of 200,000 was not much in the big picture.
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  33. The Russians went for Denmark but the Canadian and British got there fist. The Russian and Canadians even shot at each other. Here is a Mark Felton Video about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWcRl7Q7pGs&list=PLx2GRxi-rDiHjJkgDl8iI_wshbpeNTzvq&index=53
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  34. Peaceful USSR? Before the war Stalin took over Latvia, Lithuania Estonia 1/4 of Finland and east Poland. Russia also had 20,000 tanks on it's west borders when Germany invaded.
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  35. The US alone had twice Germany's population and 4 times their manufacturing capacity.
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  36. In Russia case the Germans did the first move. Your not going to be nice to a country that invaded you.
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  37.  @3ddevelopment979  Captured people can not be added as resource to the cause. The Germans needed many soldiers held back to police Norway, France and the Ukraine. The Ukrainian partisans held back 200,000 German troops that could have been fighting.
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  38. Yes but then Germany would have the have the  UK France and US on their side and Russia would now be vastly out numbered in people and resources.
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  39.  @jussim.konttinen4981  The Taliban like Vietnam never faced ALL OUT WAR. That's where women work in factories that once made washing machines and cars and are building bombers and tanks. During the the Vietnam war people were rocking at Woodstock and driving muscle cars.
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  40. Norway was a ally. As if the Allies would let a German trading partner move into any country after defeating Germany. Lucky the US and Britain did not hand Sweden over to Norway is more like it. Or the Russian move in like they did Poland for supplying Germany in the war.
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  41.  @kaletovhangar  Stalin made sure every Russian spent some Gulga time in Siberia to keep them inline.
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  42. Even later in the war with the Russians with better planes and out numbering the Germans the Germans shot down more planes % wise. The Russians were not smart fighters, how else does the (winning side) lose 5 million more troops than the (losing side) after the war was over?
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  43. If Steiner counter attacked none of this would have happen.
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  44. No worries the Russians raped 2 million German women aged 8 to 80 so they got pay back.
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  45. Supplying Germany with Iron Ore is pretty close to it.
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  46. Germany was a small country of 70 million people in 1940. Occupying countries take up a lot of soldiers . The Germans were already out numbered by the Russians , so Occupying yet another country would have worsen the odds.
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  47.  @derekbaker3279  The US navy was larger than the rest of the world navies combined. Good luck getting those oil shipment from South America to Europe.
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  48. The Germans lost because they fought the USA ,UK and USSR all at once. The US alone had twice Germany's population and 4 times their manufacturing capacity.
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  49. I do not care how much oil Germany had ,a country of only 70 million is not beating the US let alone the US, UK and USSR.  Germany was just plain out numbered in everything. THE END.
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  50. Britain and France declared war on Germany for invading WEST Poland (Stalin took east Poland) at the end of the war Stain took all of Poland ,Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. Hitler doing it or Stalin what's the difference ,except one dictator was on our side.
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  51.  @farinatty  The Bren was Light machine gun to support a group rather than a soldier's personal weapon. It needed a two leg stands in most cases.
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  52.  @ВячеславСкопюк  Your right about the M1 and Fg 42 , and SVT-40 ,me bad. But the AVT used a lower powered short 7.62mm x 39mm or 7.62x41mm not a true 7.62x54mm round. Like the German StG 44 that used a in between 7.9x33mm round stronger than a pistol round but less than a true rifle round.
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  53. People do not realize Germany was a small country of 70 million in 1940.The US alone had twice their manpower and 3 times their manufacturing capacity.
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  54.  @nkristianschmidt  Maybe for the Ukraine ,but France , Norway and Poland would never be cooperative. Occupying a country takes up manpower it does not create it.
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  55. But that would give Russia time to build up as well and they had more people and Resources.
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  56. They hosted the 1936 Olympics to the world . How did they hide that Germany had no food?
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  57. If Germany had all the fuel they ever needed they were lost. You can not fight the USSR,UK and USA all at once. The US (Alone) had twice Germany's population and 4 times their manufacturing capacity. Final nail is the Manhattan Project was going to be completed no matter what. What is fascinating is how long Germany lasted though.
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  58. Even without nukes the US had twice Germany's population and 4 times it's manufacturing capacity. Britain's anti sub tech (sonar ,Radar) came fast and britain would have never been blockaded by sea from supplies.
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  59.  @alphax4785  OK say the US stayed out. Britain still had a much larger Navy than Germany and there was nothing Canada (UK Member) could not supply Britain with in Raw material and natural resources from nearby Halifax harbour.. It would have been a long statemate. Germany can not get to Britain and Britain could not get back on Europe.
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  60. It's a was a country of living in fear. Like North Korea and China today.
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  61. The US on two Fronts? You mean the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were at war with the US?The US navy and Air Force was larger than the rest of the world's navies and Air Forces combined. No country was even close to North America let alone land on it.
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  62. Maybe. Stalin knew the allies were holding of a landing as long as possible to let both Germany and Russia bleed each other white for as long as possible ,which they did .June 1944 was very late into the war.
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  63. Yawn. The head north and are stopped dead by the Germans at the alps until the war ends.
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  64. No matter after Stalin's Order No. 270 any Russian POW after the war were sent to the gulags anyways.
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  65.  @oscartang4587u3  Your right about those jobs. You sure do not want Russian POW welding U-Boat hulls though.
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  66. Germany had a population of only 70 million and was fighting a war on 3 fronts. The Russians had a population of 170 million fighting on one front. The Russian lost 1.3  million troops in encirclement t early in the war yet it did not effect them. Germany lost 250,000 Troops in Stalingrad and never recovered. That's call manpower and it's very important in wars of attritions.
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  67. Problem was even what the Germans  occupied they has partisans tying up their troops. Germany did not have the population to enforce a occupation of Russia and Europe if they did some how take it all.
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  68. Also they did not build enough trucks even if they had the fuel.
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  69. If Germany had all the oil they wanted they still did not have the population and manufacturing capacity of it's enemies. The US alone could out produce 3 Germanys and had twice their population. Germany went to war agaims to many strong countries  , math beat Germany.
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  70.  HistoryMan  Here is some good production charts and facts. http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm The US was just in a complete category of its own in WW2. The two best examples are building 98,000 planes in one year ,it would have been higher if the US only built small planes like Germany. At 1942 Midway they had 3 large Carriers ,3 years later they had 32 large fleet Carriers. All this while having the 2 billion dollar Manhattan Project in operation. No other nation could do that stuff in WW2.
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  71. Germany was a nation of only 70 million people. USSR was 160 million the US was 120 million and Britain was 56 million. If no other country fought Germany they were going to lose the long game no matter what.
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  72.  @TKUA11  True . Even the occupied countries like Norway, France and Poland held back a lot of German soldiers to police them.
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  73. Mine was General Winter.
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  74. Britain last war debt payment was Dec of 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/6215847.stm
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  75.  @georgedimakopoulos8114  The US built up faster than that . Here is a good short read with charts http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm 5 Japans were not beating the US. Even if Germany took Russia and Europe that hinders their manpower , you need large amount of forces to occupy hostile countries. The German had large amount of soldiers policing the Ukraine and Norway., let alone all of Europe and France and the Middle East. A country with only 70 million people just can not take over the world , the math just does not work does not work.
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  76. Arm 5 million POWs , what can go wrong?
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  77. If Germany had all the oil they wanted they still did not have the population and manufacturing capacity of it's enemies. The US alone could out produce 3 Germanys and had twice their population. Germany went to war agaims to many strong countries  , math beat Germany.
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  78. The British mobilized 5 million service people during the war , the loss of 200,000 would be bad but in the Grand scheme of things not devisating. The Germans lost that many in Stalingrad yet fough a bigger battle at Kursk months later.
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  79. If your right about Stalin Invading Germany than all that would have changed is Hitler would be on our side not Stalin. NOWAY , Britain,France and the USA would let a communist regime exist in Western Europe , unlike Eastern Europe. Germany was no France they could hold off a Russian advance long enough for Britain and France to get their act together as American supplies pour over the atlantic with Russia's non existent navy not hindering convoys.
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  80. I thought everyone was driving 1955 Chevys to the drive ins and listening to Elvis Presley. Good times.
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  81. Population of Germany in 1940 was 70 million. Population of the USSR in 1940 was 160 million. Stalin had more people alright.
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  82.  @artiombeknazaryan7542  Actually going back to rearm is smarter than (Trying) ramming. The Russian were not smart fighters. The Russians lost 5 million more soldiers than the losing side after the war.
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  83. He invaded east Poland with his ally Hitler.
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  84. Even with all the oil Germany wanted 70 million people Germany was not beating the 130 million people US and 60 million people UK even if Russia surrendered. The US had almost twice Germany's population and 4 times it's manufacturing capacity.
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  85.  @kingorange7739  Then comes the Manhattan Project which would not care how good the Germans were doing or not. It was just a total loss for Germany no matter what.
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  86.  @kingorange7739  All the top German and European Nuclear scientist were Jews and fled to America to work on the Project.
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  87. The Russian advantage was they had more soldiers than the Germans had bullets.
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  88.  MemeLover  In 1940 Germany had a population of 70 million (80 million today) and the USSR had 160 million , who could call on more replacement soldiers?
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  89. Even with all the oil in the world , Germany a country of only 70 million people was not beating the US, UK and Russia all at once. The US alone had twice Germany's population and 4 times its manufacturing capacity.
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  90. I think Fighting the USSR, USA and UK all at the same time beat the Germans. Warm weather and all the oil in the world was not changing the results of that math.
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  91. Operation Winter Storm  got to 30 miles of the 6th army why not break out? Why have a Operation Winter Storm going on if the other end is not trying to mean their rescuer part way? What's to lose , zero people of the 6th army made it out ,so even 100,000 weaken solders on a small point of the Russia line may of had some get through rather than zero getting through by not trying.
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  92.  @3ddevelopment979  Italy was more of a henderace for Germany. Even before Italy surrendered I think more italians had relatives in the US and were cheering for the other side. Germany had to bail Italy out of Africa and Greece holding back the Russian invasion Forces for two months.
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  93. Basically Germany was fighting 5 other Germanys when you add the man power and resources of the US ,UK and Russia.
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  94. Not even sure if beating Russia would have helped. The US alone had twice Germany's population and almost 4 times its manufacturing capacity. Then you add the UK nations which was close to on par with Germany. People do not realized Germany was a small country of 70 million in 1940, the talk about Germany taking over the world just sounds so silly today.
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  95.  @Jameson-d8x  Do you know the man power required to occupy and Police Europe and Russia? Germany would not have much left to expand. Occupation is expensive , like Russia found out in 1990 with the Warsaw pact.
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  96. http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm The US did not take long to get rolling and once rolling no country was in their league. No outside events was stopping the development of the A-Bomb in 1945.
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  97. They called the Panther a medium tank . How can the PZ3 also be a medium tank? The Sherman was medium tank and it was the size of a PZ4.
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  98. What the Movie "DownFall" the reason Germany lost was because of Steiner!
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  99. True. Basically Germany was fighting 5 other Germanys when you add up the man power and resources of the US ,UK and Russia.No amount of oil was going to save Germany.
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  100.  @jarl8815  Sweden was lucky the allies let them be after the war let alone Sweden was invading ANY country.
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  101. Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia were all taken over by Stalin at the end of the war. Britain declared war on Germany for invading West Poland , talk about a failure. The Difference between Stalin and Hitler is about nothing.
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  102. Even with oil. Germany was a small country of only 70 million people while fighting the UK,USA and USSR. The US (without help) had twice Germany's population and 4 times their manufacturing capacity and could have beat two Germany's.
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  103. You still have to count occupied USSR population . Do you know home many german troops had to be held due to the rear attacks by the partisans? Soviet Ukraine partisans inflicted thousands of casualties on Axis forces. In Belarus alone, the partisans claimed to have killed, injured and taken prisoner some 500,000 German soldiers.
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  104. If Germany made zero mistakes . The United States alone had twice Germany's population and 3 times their manufacturing capacity. On paper the US could have fought two Germany's on its own and won. (Not counting the A-Bomb).
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  105. Germany was a small country of only 70 million people while fighting the UK,USA and USSR. The US (without help) had twice Germany's population and 4 times their manufacturing capacity and could have beat two Germany's even without the bomb.
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  106. If Hitler did not declare war on the USA. The US would have supplied both side and watched the show.
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  107. The video is about Germany's first defeat due to winter and that was the march to Moscow that was stopped and thrown back in retreat. Stalingrad was the next winter defeat.
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  108. Because France declared war on Germany and they were at war. When two countries are at war they kind of have to meet each other to fight or the hole war thing is pointless.
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  109. Stalin was building up to invade Europe. Hitler just made the first move before the Russian build up was done.
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  110. If Germany had all the fuel they ever needed they were lost. You can not fight the USSR,UK and USA all at once. The US (Alone) had twice Germany's population and 4 times their manufacturing capacity. Final nail is the Manhattan Project was going to be completed no matter what. What is fascinating is how long Germany lasted though.
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  111. Everyone knows 80% of the Germans forces were in the east.
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  112. The USSR was a mess before,during and after WW2. The words Communism and Economy should not be used together.
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  113.  Dwarov 1  Superpower militarily is not the same a superpower economically. Even today Russia's GDP per capita is below Poland and Portugal. http://statisticstimes.com/economy/projected-world-gdp-capita-ranking.php North Korea militarily is strong but economicaily is ranked with 3rd world Africa.
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  114. In 1940 the US made more domestic oil than it could use and needed no imported oil. Texas alone was plenty.
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  115. Even if Germany beat Russia and had all the oil they wanted ,the fat remains The US alone had twice Germany's population and 4 times their manufacturing capacity. Now add the UK. Germany would still be massively outnumbered in EVERYTHING. Here is a good production charts http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm The US was in a complete league of its own.
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  116. Math beat Germany. No country with a population of only 70Million is beating the US, the UK and Russia . The US alone had twice Germany's population 5 times their resources and 4 times Germany's manufacturing capacity .  You might as well say Germany was fighting 5 other Germanys.
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  117. How could any country beat the US, Russia and the UK at once ? The US alone had twice Germany's population and 4 times their manufacturing capacity and 5 times their resources.  Germany was basically fighting 6 other Germanys.
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  118. .Watch the movie DownFall. "Steiner" lost the war. .
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  119. Love to see a doc on (Operation Bagration) 2nd largest offensive in the war after Barbarossa and most people never heard of it and it was 2 weeks after D-Day which was a skirmish in comparison. Do you do any about the Pacific theatre?
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  120. Can,t believe the Russian never added Sweden to their colection countries after the war , just for trading with Germany.
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  121. In body count terms the Germans won the war.
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  122. When added all up the losing side did lose less people than the winning side?
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  123.  @kingorange7739  It sure would not have mattered if Germany still declared war on the US after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The US by itself had twice Germany's population and 4 times their manufacturing capacity. Let alone the UK involved. Japan was no help http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm the US could have beaten 4 Japans.
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  124.  @ilnigromante666  At the end of the war the Vatican helped thousand of nazi escape to South America https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/26/world/vatican-is-reported-to-have-furnished-aid-to-fleeing-nazis.html look up (Ratline)
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  125. Britain declared war on Germany for invading west Poland. At the end of the War Stalin took all of Poland and eastern Europe anyways. Britain went bankrupt lost its empire and became a distant 3rd world power behind the US and USSR. Britain had bad leadership.
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  126. Germany only had a population of 70 million in 1938. Hard to believe they can not feed themselves .
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  127. At the end Finland sued for peace and handed over lots of Finland territory after the Winter War. But because they put up a great fight Finland was not completely taken over like Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia .
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  128. If German had all the oil they wanted. A county of 70 million is not beating the US , UK and USSR at once. Example : The US alone built more war planes than Germany, Russia and the UK during ww2.
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  129.  MemeLover  Czechoslovakia was more occupied. The would suck up German man power by needed policing. Like the Ukraine held back 200, 000 from fighting in Russia just to guard the rail lines.
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  130. Germany was a country of 70 million the USSR had 160 Million people Britain was 56 Million and the USA was 130 Million. What was Hitler thinking?
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  131.  @Aragorn195  And the Fins did get there lost land back when the Germans invaded Russia but had to return it after the war.
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  132. Britain last WW2 debt payment was made on Dec of 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/6215847.stm
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  133. Once the US got in it was over. The US alone could out produce 2 Germanys and 4 Japans.
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