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re: When did the German soldiers of WWII realize they were the 'bad guys'?
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:55 pm to CoachChappy
Posted on 7/18/17 at 2:55 pm to CoachChappy
Even if they had left Britain alone, there's no way the British would stand by and let the Germans take over its neighbors like France. So war between them was inevitable if Germany wanted to expand in Europe.
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Posted on 7/18/17 at 3:12 pm to 1BamaRTR
quote:But did Germany really want to expand, or did they want to simply fortify their defensive position? What, really, was it about?
So war between them was inevitable if Germany wanted to expand in Europe.
Posted on 7/18/17 at 9:49 pm to 1BamaRTR
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Even if they had left Britain alone, there's no way the British would stand by and let the Germans take over its neighbors like France. So war between them was inevitable if Germany wanted to expand in Europe.
If the neither the USA nor USSR get involved in WWII, there is no way the UK alone would have been able to.
The UK was bled white at that point. Remember, the British had transferred a vast amount of military equipment to France which she hoped the USA would replace with Lend-Lease.They sent all of their gold reserves to the USA to pay for the armaments and materials already purchased...they literally had nothing left to buy more. It took the UK until the 21st century to pay off their war loans to the USA.
History might have seen a different type of Cold War, between the UK and a German-dominated European continent.
This post was edited on 7/18/17 at 9:59 pm
Posted on 7/19/17 at 2:48 am to 1BamaRTR
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Even if they had left Britain alone, there's no way the British would stand by and let the Germans take over its neighbors like France. So war between them was inevitable if Germany wanted to expand in Europe.
There was a lull in, I think 41, where the fighting with Britain had stopped. Britain was trying to recruit us to fight Germany. But 95% of Americans were against a War with Germany. Very bad memories of WW1 were prevalent.
Roosevelt wouldn't have even been able to declare war against Germany, if they hadn't have declared war on us after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. That was a huge stroke of luck for Churchill. Otherwise, we'd have only fight Japan until Roosevelt could find a reason.
We really didn't aggressively go after Japan at first. Roosevelt was more focused on Germany. Because beating Japan wouldn't stop Germany. But beating Germany could stop Japan (help from Allies).
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