Recent content by Alan

Hitler may have settled for a white peace with Britain, in so far as Britain and its empire were concerned, but would have insisted on the retention of Alsace-Lorraine. He may have been prepared to give some sort of nominal independence to the General Government as a sop to the British, but by...

The Russians are going to be bringing their new generation of tanks into the war, the T34 and the KV1. The best Japanese tank is the type 97, which is equivalent to an early model Panzer 3 at best, and totally incapable of damaging a T34. They are going to be facing the same problem the...

In the scenario you describe, the Luftwaffe would not have been hamstrung by the fuel shortages which hamstrung their pilot training program., since they ha d the Caucasus oilfields. Also, the research programmes which has been mothballed for the duration of Barbarossa would have been...

What would have happened if the Rwandan Patriotic Front had failed to liberate Rwanda from the genocidal Hutu government in 1994? The Tutsis would have been entirely wiped out, and the catastrophic wars in the Congo resulting from the hordes of Hutu refugees fleeing retribution probably would...

The North African campaign was a training school for the British army, which brought it up to parity in tactics and technique with the Germans by the end of 1942. Without this experience the British, and the Americans for that matter would have been much harder-pressed in Normandy. Also, the...

The campaign would probably take a similar course to the Yugoslav invasion. There would be a quick victory over a technically outmatched army followed by a nightmarish partisan war. Turkey's large size, mountainous terrain, poor infrastructure and an extremely warlike and belligerent populace...

Whatever technical advantages Germany had would have rapidly waned under Nazi rule. They devoted a lot of emphasis to PE, race science, and volkisch history but deprecated everything else as far as education was concerned. The Third Reich was dedicated to breeding the proverbial dumb blonde in...

The idea that the French army was a demoralised and incapable force in 1940 is not actually true. The problem was that the battle plan of the Germans pitted their most elite troops against low grade French reservists, while the best of the French troops were lured by a feint into Belgium...

Believe it or not, Hitler wanted to drain the Med and form a land bridge to Africa.. Was this even slightly possible? https://historyofyesterday.com/the-atlantropa-project-hitlers-plan-to-drain-the-mediterranean-sea-e0c4e2a65590

PM, although the question of what would have happened if she had not been elected leader is also interesting.

Do you mean successful in terms of their operational objectives, or successful in the sense of knocking the Soviet Union out of the war? Barbarossa had the aim of establishing a line from Archangel to Astrakhan, a logistic challenge so extreme that they would have struggled to reach it even if...

How different would Britain be now if Margaret Thatcher had never been elected?

I suppose I could be a closet Nazi, but I think my wife (black Afro-Caribbean) might have had something to say about it if I were . You chose your name well. It goes with your personality. Insults do not an argument make.

The Germans were ahead in avionics and aviation, submarine design, computing, jet engines, rocket technology, virtually every category of weapons technology including chemical warfare, radio navigation, radar countermeasures, and infrared night-fighting technology. The Germans had several...

I suggest the resources could have come from the V2 rocket programme, which consumed vast resources and manpower. While the V2 programme did cause panic and demoralisation in London, it was on far too small a scale to affect the outcome of the war. For anybody who doubts the fact that Germany...