Comments by "Mike O\x27Neill" (@EllieMaes-Grandad) on "War Academy" channel.

  1. Plenty of them did so in the camps. Mengele might be the best known, but he wasn't alone.
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  2. Those few weeks of delay cost them Moscow, according to many sources, along with other contributory mistakes.
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  3. NATO did not come into being until after WW2.
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  4. So, what exactly was the "Leuthen Project" ?
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  5. "focus on vehicles for transporting supplies" Many of the 'vehicles' were horse-drawn, requiring a big logistics train of their own, over vast distances.
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  6. From Dunkerque 1940, 200k British, 100k French (many of whom chose to return to France).
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  7. Not only was aircraft production at a respectable level during the Battle of Britain, but fast repairs returned many damaged aircraft back to the front line.
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  8. British re-armament was already well under way by then.
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  9. Economically, the war had to begin then as a further-prolonged build-up was unaffordable. The intended time was 1944, but they would never have got there.
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  10. Bad move in starting it really.  @mikeypeinado383 
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  11. Economic reasons compelled a start, to acquire the resources of other nations to pay for the military build-up.
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  12. Follow the money . . . ?  @jguenther3049 
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  13. Good point, but break-of-gauge stymied the use of railways in USSR pending time-consuming alteration. Not that there were many railways there anyway. Horses were used in huge, but huge, numbers by Germany, carrying lower loads on wagons, more slowly, than trucks could do.  @vincnetjones3037 
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