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The "Atlantic Wall" was where the Heer sent formations to reconstitute after getting mauled in the East/West Africa and "static" divisions (with a high percentage of Ostlegionen and Hiwi personnel). The Wall, and France in general, was far less well garrisoned than any of the Eastern Front Army...

Enough. Just enough.

As I noted earlier, it very much depends on the conditions of the Soviet surrender. That one factor determines much of what the Reich and its Italian Allies can hope to achieve. What would be needed to hold the Reich at bay (assuming some sort of armistice is not concluded with the WAllies)...

Very possibly. A lot would depend on a whole notebook full of specifics (what does the actual treaty between the Reich and Soviets lay out as conditions is, IMO, far and away the largest of them). You could either see the Japanese's position considerably improved OR vastly worsened, depending...

The minute you start talking "more intelligent than other ethnic groups", especially based on IQ testing (especially testing not specifically formatted for and designed with the potential testing sample in mind) you are so far out on thin Ice that even a tiny extra step will result in major...

Did you just actually say that a specific ethnic group is MORE INTELLIGENT than other groups? Please DO expand. I quite insist. Within four hours of your next log-in.

The number of rapes committed by Japanese troops in WW II are so mind boggling that most commenters simply ignore the issue except for a sentence or two regarding "comfort women". Given that virtually every Japanese soldier, and a good number of sailors/airmen that deployed out of the Home...

Kindly put, this is preposterous. There were any number of reasons for the well document depredations by the Red Army, some of them quite obvious, others less so, but "everything for the people" doesn't even make it to a footnote of a footnote on the list.

Kindly keep current politicians and commetary regarding them in Chat. Thanks

There isn't a single answer to this question. If the collapse is between August-October of 1941 the result if very different than if it after the Japanese have attacked the UK & U.S. Same goes for later collapses and on how badly the Soviets actually crumple.

There were 110,000 Japanese-American on the Hawaiian Islands during WW II. 320 Japanese-American citizens were interned across the Islands, with an additional 800 moved to the mainland. there were, to be very clear, a small percentage of Japanese-Americans who were, in fact, working against the...

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Oh, I never bought Gobbel’s BS (he was the first one to rollout the 200k figure shortly after the attacks). The simple truth remains that no one really knows, with absolute certainty, how many deaths actually occurred. Too many variables. No one knows who was actually there (if someone died and...

Even with a parachute you can only slow down the bomb to a certain point. The Lincoln, on the other hand, had performance closer to the Silverplates, with a top speed to 310mph and a ceiling of 30,000 feet. That would make it marginal, at best, but far better than the slower, far lower...

Population of Dresden was vastly higher in 1945 than today since it was, in addition to a major supply center for the Wehrmacht forces trying to hold off the Red Army. In addition to the approx.360,000 permanent residents of the city there were estimated to be roughly 800,000 refugees in the...