Recent content by Markus

Yet they could have had less. Sometime in the early 30´s they decided to go from 30 triangular to 80 binary infantry divisions. That meant an increase of 70 infantry regiments(+77%) and 50 artillery regiments(+166%). Producing that much additional weapons and equipment was simply beyond Italy´s...

MerryPrankster, GR has had the nerve to call men who got tortured in conzentration camps "Nazis and opportunists". That disqualifies him as a participant in a discussion.

Thanky you very much for the frank statement!

You need glasses! I wrote: "latecomers like von Staufenberg turned away from Hitler ... between 39 and 42" I assume you are familiar with the meaning of that word? And here I got some info that should shut up BS-peddlers: The cabinet list of the post-Nazi goverment would have included three...

What a bullshit! Yes, they were nationalists but latecomers like von Staufenberg turned away from Hitler when they saw the Nazi war crimes machine in high gear between 39 and 42. Oster, Beck and a couple of high ranking Generals opposed Hitler even before the war broke out, Goerdeler too so stop...

Err, fighting a long war was basically impossible for Germany too. After Poland it took more than half a year of deliveries from the USSR to refill the depleted German fuel supply. And the German people´s moral was very shaky, unlike the French!

The large French Air Force and the well trained fighter pilots could have taken care of that. Emphasis on could.

Indeed! If the Fall of France had not actually happened AH-fans would ridicule the idea as mercilessly as "Operation S...n has succeeded"

Not at all? By June 1942 Sevastopol´s fate seems to have been decided already. While von Manstein was good but the Wehrmacht did have plenty of quite capable Generals and "felxible defence" had been a part of the German military doctrine from the 1920´s onwards with roots back to WW1.

The Pak 43 was the 88mm AT gun, I guess you mean the 75mm Pak 40? As others said the Germans put this gun and captured filed guns in the 75mm range on any tracked chassis they could get their hands on.

Reminds me of my attempted TL but I got a new idea for how Italy can outlast Germany and Japan. It´s simply bypassed! From North Africa the Allies go to Sicily, than Sardinia, Corsica and southern France. IIRC the USA was never much into the Med and Churchill might be able to use 8th Army for...

A short term arrangement I guess, sooner or later 8th Army would have gotten a new CO regardless of what happens with the CiC, wouldn´t it?

Monty is credited for realizing the "limitations" of 8th Army and scaling down the objectives accordingly. He also improved training and operational security to a large degree. From "Military errors of WW2" by K. Macksey I recall a highly critical assesment of Auchinleck, Ritchie ect...

In WW1 huge German victories and utter defeat happened in a matter of months of each other. That and the press censorship did not allow the public to have a realistic view of the situation. In WW2 it was VERY different: Stalingrad, Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Kursk, the massive air raids, the...

Well, that is your theory. And my point is that they do not need to be disarmed as they posed no threat to the plotters. Another theory. A wild one!