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KWG -> RE: VON RUNDSTEDT EXPLAINS (1/24/2015 6:09:53 PM)
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I had to go outside for a little. we got snow overnight. melting now.
i like analyzing the "what ifs" of history. without putting limits on such analysis some variables will have a tidal wave effect on everything else.
Given extra time Hitler and his inner power circle may have been taken out by some part of the Germans themselves.
"The atomic bomb was designed to be dropped on Germany....we basically annihilated whole German cities anyway, what makes you think we would have hesitated"?
fire bombing just as bad. there was hesitation to drop it on anyone. one bomb, one plane and you get the results of legions.
"The Allies won the war, but the cost would have been much higher with better choises, but its easy to be a Monday morning quarterback."
While looking back at history and doing "what if's" we use too much logic. illogic thinking and logical fallacies have had the biggest influence and moved people the most throughout history.
there are many truths in life and many contradict.
"I think any thoughts to the contrary could only be based on a whole topic that will get this thread closed rather quickly."
i was thinking that same thought while outside. Bombing, Patton, Western Allies, end of war outcome the entire 1914-1945 timeline and how it relates to today.
i dont mean that in a bad way. iam not setting anything into concrete and i could find the opposite i said. most of the time i use a mouse (closed laptop) or one the little "gizmo gadgets" to type so my statements may seem cold and direct.
But dont get me started on the wars of the roses. my namesake says ancestors probably yorkist, i favor the lancasters when reading and when playing kingmaker. i believe richard iii gets a bad rap. i theorize that one side of his body was offset and bigger from swinging that one hand battleax for so many years. since he could walk maybe.
"And you need to study the German economy a little. They could have resisted more effectively in early 45 if no Bulge but I estimate a month longer only..."
by economy, you mean making stuff, buying stuff, civilian , military ?
resources wise the germans only had what they could get their hands on some way. Ive read Speer, military production was increasing on the most part.
i remember reading as a kid how a panther tank, without radio, cost 245,000 or so reichsmarks. are you serious !!!!
I have the "Furher Card" never leave home without it, print the money or put it in the account. Or even better i will show up with 1st ss and get panthers with a radio, a outside phonograph player and leather seats all with just a smile.
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