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From what I've understood Zhukov wanted to prevent the German 9. Armée to retreat back to Berlin and instead encirle and destroy it outside the city. Anything but a brutal frontal assault on the Seelower Höhen might have allowed the Germans to retreat back into Berlin and make that fight all the...

Tonnage by itself is a useless measure. What Japan lacked was spliways for large warships and engines (and to lesser extent) guns for smaller warships. But, the slipways Japan used for Yamato, Musashi and particulary Shinano could have been used to build 5-6 Unryū-class carriers.

That's German, the Swedish term is "jägar" for unit, like for instance 'jägarregementet' and "jägare" for an individual. So the best would actually be to write 'a unit of "jägare" in Norrland.'

It's the inconsistencies that will get you, either here online or IRL at university. If you actaully wanted to cover your bases you'd write "Case Blue (Fall Blau, Ger.) " the first time and thereafter simply refer to it as Case Blue. Though I'd prefer to use Fall Blau. Case Blue sounds likes...

Just because it bugs me, it's either Case Blue or Fall Blau. Make up your mind.

I've always thougth Aruba should have been a prime target to Skorzeny. Nazi SS-soldiers wading ashore in the night from rubber dingies. The stuff propaganda is made for. Perfect bad guys for a Hollywood 80-ies action flick.

Patton looked like a true hero to those who believed in military values, said the writer, a "red-blooded American who loves to fight and whose crude talk is straight talk." To those who despised militarism, however, Patton showed the worst kind of red-blooded American mystical maniac who...

That's why it's so popular both among "hawks" and "doves". It appeals to both and reinforces their beliefs. It's a masterpiece in that regard.

That could just be the typical 1940-ies mikes that were better att picking mid-tone sounds. If you look at movies for instance from this era you'll notice that voices are much more high-pitched then what you hear today. That's because of the mikes, not the voices themselves.

Define "successful" and define "armoured attack" because it sounds to me as if you're setting up this argument for a true scotsmen fallacy.

I'd be careful about using Shirer, his book(s) are good for a general overview of the history of Nazi-Germany but when it comes to details I'd be very careful.

In the end it doesn't really matter if the Germans win or loose in Normandy. Stalins sledgehammer is about to be unleashed anyway on Heeregruppe Mitte. Normandy is a sideshow compared to that.

Better? Sinking four battleships and damaging a fifth to the point it's later sunk by other RN ships and you're saying they had bad luck?

Kind of. The Westelbian farms were small, something like 7-9 acres per family farm on average (of my head, so don't quote me on the exact numbers), while the maximum size of a one-family farm would be 20 acres. East of Elbe the farms were dominated by the junker estates. A land reform where the...

About which? Resettling Poland or retaining the loyalty of its core supporters?

I think the likelier answer is that the different ruling upper classes had very divergant goals and objectives. The same kind of split happend for instance with the Kalmarunion and we saw the same kind of split in the USA, so no the USA isn't a special snowflake it's just that the USA managed to...

I find myself thinking about other butterflies rathern then just how the Pz IV would affect the course of the war or how many were produced. Would there be a need for Fireflies or Shermans armed with 76mm guns or even the T-34-85? All of these tanks filled the rather niche role of knocking out...

AFAIK a land reform was more or less impossible for the Nazis. While needed it was against their very core philosophy of Blut und Boden. Just with glancing on some numbers, the Nazis could have resettled the entirity of occupied Poland with German farmers if they'd conducted a land reform. But...

The US shifts its vector of attack from multiple (Central pacific, south pacific, south west pacific) to a pure south west approach. Lots of planes and resources are poured into MacArthurs command who begin a systematic attack into New Britain and up the Northern New Guniea coast. This of course...

Like the rest of the Nordic countries the Finnish navy was a coastal fleet built to protect the coastline from (Soviet) attacks. Not to conduct offensive warfare against the Royal Navy.