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Wasn't the Me 321 and 323 also a massive honking failure?

Wait...*looks it up* Sweet jesus...what on EARTH were the designers smoking and snorting...I...bwuh!? How would that even work and all it would take is a mechanical failure during the rotation to...would just be easier to machine gun the crews on the ground. You'd at least save the fuel.

Heh it reminds me of a holiday I went on with my Parents. Went to Cyprus (lovely place) and got talking to a Danish couple and then we got friendly with some Germans, all staying at the same hotel. The Danish found that the Germans lived about 15 miles away on the German side of the border...

Oh you'll have to tell us what was said now.

I'd say its more that the german steriotype of being meticulious planners etc isn't quite so true :)

Indeed there's only so many times you can say "This won't work because of X" "Okay so this won't work because of Y." "And this won't work because of N to the power of Llama" and in the end you just go "Sweet fucking christ! YOUR IDEA IS BLOODY STUPID AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU'RE...

I guess with a non-purged and more rationally and better re-armed and re-supplied soviet army it might be possible, but thats many many many flaps of the butterflies. With the Soviet army as it was in 41 - 43, simply not possible unless the Germans drove their tanks into the sea.

Remind me to show you some debates with Christopher Hitchens in them :p The snark, the irony and ridicule he could (and often did repeatedly) Hitchslap someone with was delicious.

We are attacking the logic behind it, along with others, but its clear that Gudestein is not taking anything said by anyone in and is content to wank, the nazis, whilst utterly ignoring the thinking/actions/people of other countries of the time and having them be utterly retarded and or myopic...

Most of the research takes 5 - 10 minutes on google. Unless you ask about something really really specific which requires specific information about something then its usually easily found on das interwebs.

oh okay, so its now 1933, the Luftwaffe still does not exist for another 2 years. I was going off your original one of it being 1932 and fatty going "Anti-shipping!" whilst running around Hitlers office making plane noises. Its still a huge amount of foresight though and to splurge on...

It would make sense if your PoD and change in priorities was one that would actually happen. As folks have said, going suddenly mad anti-navy bombing/torpedoes etc (still in 1932 when the Luftwaffe does not exist, when Hitlers not in power and Raeder and anyone else in this train wreck are...