Comments by "AFGuidesHD" (@AFGuidesHD) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1. Germans: Relying on paratroopers for strategic objectives isn't a good idea Allies: Hold my beer
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  2. They might have been slightly more effective if they didn't invade Greece and Egypt at the same time, therefore weakening both attacks.
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  3.  @marcokite  there's no "plus" when the reason the greeks trounced them is because they had half their forces in egypt lol
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  4. 26:39 - this same paragraph could be said of Churchill in 1940 when he wanted women to use kitchen knives to fight hardened German soldiers, ordered anthrax, ordered fire bombs to be used on Kent and said such things as "let it only end when each one of us lies upon the ground choking on his blood."
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  5. The amount of people who think history began in 1900 is staggering. Alliances are never meant to last, especially during wars.
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  6. it hits because that's what propaganda is designed to do.
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  7. Yeah no, the allies did not get along with the USSR lol The entante ultimately succeeded despite constant suspicion from both sides. The allies were suspicious the Russians would make peace with Germany and the USSR was suspicious the allies were just letting Germany grind Russia down without a western front.
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  8.  @martinmarcinkevic3893  You need to do your research and preferably not from movies. If he didn't care about other countries, why then, did he not agree to Spain taking Algeria and Morocco from the French? He refused their demands because he didn't want to upset the French government who at this point he was trying to court into a proper alliance in the Axis.
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  9.  @wolfmuller6737  precisely
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  10.  @kleerude  except that's a much more unbelievable statement
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  11. "no common goals" like the allies then ? Of course not, no. The allies common goal was the destruction of Germany whilst the Axis common goal was the destruction of Russia. Japan would famously betray this goal in April 1941 with it's non-aggression pact which the Russians broke in 1945.
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  12.  @peteryang8991  No they didn't. They could have remained neutral but instead chose to take advantage of the German victory in France. They thought the war would soon be over so decided to invade France and then Greece, Egypt etc.
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  13.  @DrCruel  I'd say splitting their armies between Greece and Egypt was a bigger reason as to why they got trounced. Some historians would also say Germany was corrupt yet German corruption didn't affect it's operations negatively, until it's forces were split in July 1942 and further more in 1943 and 1944.
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  14. Yes if Italy wasn't useless then the Axis would have done better. Just like how if Germany didn't lose they could have won. There is a reason why Britain feared and tried to prevent an Italian-German alliance so much before the war. The Italian navy posed a real threat and very well could have wounded the Royal Navy in 1940, I can't remember which battle it was but basically the Italians were just too timid despite having numerical advantage, and were 2 other Battleships nearby called into the battle it could have been superiority.
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  15.  @user-jq2iz9zn4p  He did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_Warfare_Department He envisioned Kent to be set on fire in order to frustrate the German invasion.
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  16.  @peterlindstrom4233  yes because giving Germany a better trade deal is "Certain death." The German economists specifically recommended to not demand a total abolition of the Ottawa preference system because it could mean the end of the British Empire.
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  17.  @user-jq2iz9zn4p  Yeah Sorry I don't keep sources like a redditor. But I read it in a book where he was at dinner with the some diplomats and told his wife that she could always use a kitchen knife. Imagine yes. Again I don't have a source, I read it somewhere on wikipedia, somewhere from the link I gave where he envisioned Kent to be burnt down and the sea set on fire, an apocalyptic vision, which had it come from Hitler, it would have been "insane" or "mad" but since its from Churchill... its never mentioned.
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  18.  @suityboi2126  I keep some sources but not every single thing. The one about the kitchen knife may have come from a book about the Battle of Britain but i've forgot the name of the author lol
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  19. Yeah, yeah "they were forced into the alliance" just like how; if Germany won WW2 then France and Britain were forced into war by their evil masters.
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