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Captain_Swoop · 27th November 2020, 05:00 AM

Originally Posted by Cosmic Yak

I'd like to see the evidence for the claim that the position of the Nazi Party in 1936 was that precarious.
I also find it hard to believe that France, dedicated to an almost entirely defensive strategy, and Britain, woefully ill-equipped, would have won this war 'easily'.
If it took Britain, France, Russia, the US, plus the efforts of the resistance movements in the occupied countries and the free forces outside them, 6 years to defeat Germany, what makes you think that Britain and France alone could have done it easily and cheaply?

Because the German forces of 1936 were not the German forces of 1936.

27th November 2020, 05:00 AM	#89
Captain_Swoop Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 31,877	Originally Posted by Cosmic Yak I'd like to see the evidence for the claim that the position of the Nazi Party in 1936 was that precarious. I also find it hard to believe that France, dedicated to an almost entirely defensive strategy, and Britain, woefully ill-equipped, would have won this war 'easily'. If it took Britain, France, Russia, the US, plus the efforts of the resistance movements in the occupied countries and the free forces outside them, 6 years to defeat Germany, what makes you think that Britain and France alone could have done it easily and cheaply? Because the German forces of 1936 were not the German forces of 1936.