parsifal
Colonel
Waynos and Mike
Everything in youjr last two posts I agree with, except one....that a breakout of war in 1938 would have doomed the allies to defeat. i beg to differ. in 1938, Czechoslovakia was militarily as strong as Germany. germany in the air was not so overwhelmingly powerful, and she possed just three panzer units with which to fight. The germans, with hitlers blessing were intending to back down if the Britsh and french showed even the slightest signs or military reaction to the takeover of the Sudeten. Hitler has wanted war, but he was eventually persuaded that not to push this point.
In the lead up to the war it was germany that held the lead in military production. This situation continued until the 1st quarter of 1940, when the limits in the "stretchability" of the german economy began to force her to lag behind the allies....
Everything in youjr last two posts I agree with, except one....that a breakout of war in 1938 would have doomed the allies to defeat. i beg to differ. in 1938, Czechoslovakia was militarily as strong as Germany. germany in the air was not so overwhelmingly powerful, and she possed just three panzer units with which to fight. The germans, with hitlers blessing were intending to back down if the Britsh and french showed even the slightest signs or military reaction to the takeover of the Sudeten. Hitler has wanted war, but he was eventually persuaded that not to push this point.
In the lead up to the war it was germany that held the lead in military production. This situation continued until the 1st quarter of 1940, when the limits in the "stretchability" of the german economy began to force her to lag behind the allies....