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  1. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    I largely agree with the analysis you make here. Where I disagree is in the belief that some level of sanity could alter the Reich while keeping it a National Socialist state. The ability of a ideological based state to fundamentally alter its core beliefs is very rare (the only large scale...
  2. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    They had no plans to completely eliminate the Slavic population. Had they just planned to "kill everyone" the pan would have been just normal evil insanity. They planned to reduce the population by specific percentages that varied by the country of occupation. Latgalians ( an ethnic group in...
  3. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    I never said it was efficient, or logical, just that it was doable. I doubt that a Reich that had achieved victory conditions in the East and stalemate in the West (achieving full victory on both fronts is close enough to impossible that it may as well be, just managing it in the East takes some...
  4. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    The Soviets did a decent job of COIN through what everyone thought to be brutal means (booby trapped toys, chemical weapons, collective punishment) that would be seen by an SS official as coddling behavior. The Soviets also had to deal with the nature of the Country and its immense challenges...
  5. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    There were relatively easy ways to keep the contact between the laborers and the public to a minimum. One is to keep those destined for "extermination through labor" (ya, think about a country that actually had that as an official term) in separate barracks at or near the worksite. Another is to...
  6. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    The Reich had no interest or intention of going beyond the Urals. The partisan issue is self correcting when you are actively starving 80% of the population to death while also working them 14 hour a day in all weather with no proper clothing. The brutal nature of the Reich had a perverse logic...
  7. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    This is a good simile. With the endless propaganda what we see today as virtually evil incarnate would become "something that had to be done" inside the Reich. There would be exceptions, just as there were in the U.S. (or Australia, or Canada, or any other place where the resident population...
  8. Extreme AHC/WI: Soviet troops in Jamaica in 2016

    June 9, 2016. "Today the final 200 Soviet prisoners of war, who had fought repatriation for decades, left the Jamaican PoW Camp where they have lived since the end of the 1989 Collapse Conflict. These men had fought being returned to the wreckage of what was once the Soviet Union, with their...
  9. [DBWI] Former First Lady Wins Democratic Presidential Nomination!

    DO NOT turn this into a current politics debate.
  10. Romney runs

    Do NOT try to start political fights outside of Chat again.
  11. Romney runs

    Yes it is. It is an attempt to argue current politics outside of Chat. You have been here WAY too long to not know the difference. LOCKED
  12. PC/WI. LVT "Amtrac's" us instead of Sherman DD's at Normandy?

    True. Just shows that even the commanders don't always know what the hell is going on.
  13. Decisive battle at Caroline Islands (WW II)

    Probably not. By that point in the war the JNAF was a shadow of what it had been even a year before. The U.S. carriers were vastly stronger, with better aircraft, good radar and excellent fighter direction. CAP would have been a minimum of 32 aircraft, probably closer to 40. Any airstrike...
  14. PC/WI. LVT "Amtrac's" us instead of Sherman DD's at Normandy?

    Actually the most interesting part of the first link you provided is just how shallow the water was where she sank. Apparently at low tide parts of the ship were above the surface.
  15. Colonisation of the Kerguelen Islands?

    The problem is that there is no point to the place. Even if you could wrest survival from the region (and humans are damned good at that) what is the point? The islands offer nothing of value, not pre-1900 and not post-1900. Visiting whalers and seal hunters pretty much wiped the local...
  16. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    I would say yes. Some elements might not reach the level they desired (Lake Moscow seems to be a bit of a stretch), but the gradual, continuos eradication of the Jewish and Roma people of Europe, the winnowing of the Slavic peoples through a combination of overwork, disease, and starvation...
  17. No Abu Ghraib

    TWELVE YEARS? With the new software you have to make a positive decision to necro a thread. It can NOT be accidental. DO NOT do this again
  18. PC/WI. LVT "Amtrac's" us instead of Sherman DD's at Normandy?

    Captain Hoffman's official debrief: http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/logs/DD/dd463-Hoffman.html
  19. PC/WI. LVT "Amtrac's" us instead of Sherman DD's at Normandy?

    They also only had 100 LVT there. The theory that they could be used to shuttle back and forth didn't quite work out.
  20. PC/WI. LVT "Amtrac's" us instead of Sherman DD's at Normandy?

    Actually there were three destroyers taken out by mines in the first three days. Two Gleaves class (Corry (6/6 mine) & Glennon (disabled by a mine on 6/8, sunk by shore batteries on 6/10) one Sumner class Meredith (disabled by mine 6/8, sunk 6/9 possibly by to heavy bomb near miss) along with...
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