Just amused that, as of the above date, Bosda Di’Chi was one more warning away from being banned, yet he is still here 8 years later, and presumably in good standing.
He didn’t have any long range plans for anywhere else, either.
He had a bunch of nutcase ideas along the lines of “wouldn’t it be awesome if…” and “when I am Fuhrer Of The Universe I shall…” and a bunch of short-term tactical gambles, but no kind of proper long-term strategy other than hating Jews, Slavs, people with more style than him, people who could eat pastries without getting indigestion, and so on and so forth.
Hence the spectacular success of the Thousand-Year Reich - wheels coming off the wagon three years after the first shots were fired, dead and buried in six.
Peculiar, then, that one can find here a detailed account of doing exactly that with a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in 1982, just off the soviet coastline.
It’s almost as if an aircraft carrier was some sort of massively powerful but fragile ocean-dominating weapon system that could be put out of action for months by a single-engined aircraft hitting it with one bomb in the right spot and therefore lurked about so it could guarantee landing a knockout punch first - can’t think why.
For a minute I was excited to see Tuckerfan until I realized it was a zombie thread.
I didn’t notice this was a zombie thread, either.
Can anyone tell me how World War II ended?
It was soooo cliche. Believe me , it’s not worth watching again. Though Eva Braun was kinda hot, in a kind of husky Germanic way.
[The Brain]The same plan he had *every *night. Try To Take Over The World[/The Brain]
(I know this is a zombie.)
One thing to remember is that the US Army was small in 1939 (ranked 17th world wide), with less than 200,000 men on active duty. The average citizen was very isolationist, as well.
I presume that in 1939, Hitler did not think much of the US or it’s Army.
By December of 1941, I think Hitler was hoping that after declaring war on the US, Japan would reciprocate with a DoW on the Soviet Union (his drive on Moscow had stalled out, and the Soviets were beginning to launch counterattacks).
Hitler’s military planners totaly underestimated the size of the Soviet military, and the size of it’s mobilization potential. It’s quite possible that those same planners underestimated the mobilization potential of the US military, as well as it’s industry.
In short, I don’t think the German’s had realistic long range plans for dealing with a long war against anyone.
three-two on penalties after extra time. 25 million players were sent off and no rematches have been held due to worries about crowd trouble among the home supporters.
What, he wasn’t delivering plans on the Nazi A-bomb? How many more half decade or older zombie threads about Hitler do you plan on bumping to advance bizarre conspiracy theories with by the way? I think this is number 4.
None of the above. Germany and Japan were allies. After the US declared war against Japan, Germany was obligated to assist Japan by the terms of the alliance.
Hitler never planned any kind of invasion of the US. he expected the European war to be over within a year or two, and that the US would be occupied fighting the Japanese for at least that long. Once Russia was defeated, and England forced into a some kind of settlement, the US would be forced to go along. And, if it didn’t, Germany’s position would be unassailable, so it wouldn’t matter in any event.
From what I recall, this is not actually the case: the treaty with Japan only required Germany to declare war if Japan was attacked, not assist Japan in attacking others. The Tripartite Pact:
Hitler’s decision was off-the-cuff, not required by treaty (not that Nazi Germany was exactly in the business of honouring treaties to begin with!)
I once read a quip that I think was very true: Hitler could make plans for ninety days in the future or fifty years in the future but nothing in between.