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The World War II Discussion Thread.
To counter-balance the WWI thread ,this is a discussion thread concerning all things WWII.
There is a Bond link of course,with Fleming being involved in his pre 007 days.
So any comments about the war or Hitler,Mussolini,Churchill,Roosevelt,Chamberlain et all or any questions about the period of 1939-1945,please feel free to post.
There is a Bond link of course,with Fleming being involved in his pre 007 days.
So any comments about the war or Hitler,Mussolini,Churchill,Roosevelt,Chamberlain et all or any questions about the period of 1939-1945,please feel free to post.
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Not surprising as he was one lucky individual,leaving early from his speech when the pillar bomb went off,the non exploding bomb in the brandy box on his aircraft,the fact that many Nazi salutes blocked off an assassins view as Hitler walked during the Pusch anniversary,the exploding bomb moved to behind a table leg in Hitlers 'Wolf's Lair' (Operation Valkyrie) etc.
Even Speer's admission (dubious though in my opinion) that he was going to gas the Fuhrerbunker,only to find the air vent chimney was extended heightwise when he was checking the area.
Having studied Hitler and the Third Reich for approaching 2 years now,his luck is a BIG factor.
Unfortunately, he also had the wrong ideas...
Don't worry, I understand how it can be interpreted in a different way. As long as you lot don't think I'm pro-Hitler, then I'm fine!
I've just finished reading Prelude to War, a book on the famous Time Life collection.
What I like the most are the military aspects and the political strategies. My biggest knowledge gap is on the Pacific front.
About the discussion you were having, I think that Hitler's charismatic qualities are a little overrated. In my opinion, he had more fortune than virtue. Mussolini had a more powerful rethoric and look that he managed to stay longer in power.
Britain was never in any real danger of invasion in 1940. Germany had no experience in large amphibious operations (at the time Japan was the only country that knew the first thing about the subject). The Kriegsmarine had suffered so many losses during the invasion of Norway the the British Home Fleet was a formidible force that the Germans could not contend with.
They thought about doing a submarine blockade and starve Britain into submission but this undertaking would require 200 U-boats and at the time Germany had 17....
Lets not overlook the Pacific War. World War 2 was global and fought on six continents. It was the worst war in the 5,000 year history of the human race.
- "Fall Gelb": Hitler's invasion of France and the Low Countries (1940)
- Operation Compass: British forces destroy the much larger Italian Army in North Africa (1940)
- German airborne assault on Crete (1941)
- Guadalcanal (1942-43)
- Rommel's DAK in North Africa (1941-43)
- "Manstein's Miracle": German counteroffensive, southern Russia (Feb.-Mar. 1943)
- Caen: France (Jun.-Jul. 1944)
- Operation Bagration: The destruction of German Army Group Center (Russia-Poland, Jun.-Aug. 1944)
The airborne assault on Crete was daring and a great victory for Germany. The downside:
the German airborne divisions suffered such appalling losses that Hitler cancelled all airborne training and Germany never undertook any more of these for the duration of the war.
But the Blitzkrieg's they performed at the beginning of the war were,to say the least,impressive.
Also 'Discovery History' is pretty good.
Good call on that one Barry007, have caught some on their too!
http://graemeshimmin.com/double-cross-british-spy-garbo-d-day/
Japan built up its navy and modernized its army and by 1898 they began down a road of imperialism and conquest in the far East that would culimate with the attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941.
But a myth that had been spread was that Germany (and Japan) wanted to conquer the world. That is such bullshytt.
Neither country had any plans for world domination. Germany simply wanted to expand at the expense of Eastern Europe while Japan only wanted to follow the European colonial practices. they felt that Asians should have been ruled by other Asians, and since they fancied themselves as culturally and racially superior, then why not them?
German neighbourhood evacuated as collector's WWII grenades explode in summer heat
A neighbourhood in Germany had to be evacuated after World War Two-era grenades bought by a collector at a car boot sale began exploding in the early summer heat.
Authorities were called after an explosion on Monday afternoon in the town of Hennef, east of Bonn, police said on Tuesday.
They arrived to find a garage in flames, and more explosions followed after munitions bought at a flea market ignited in the warming temperatures.
They cleared a wide area around the home, shutting a stretch of railway and highway as experts were brought in. The munitions were secured and destroyed in a controlled explosion in a field.
The 51-year-old collector who bought the firearms, and is now under investigation for weapons law violations, had been at work as the explosions began.
He is reported to live in the house with his parents, who were the first to call the emergency services. There were no injuries.
A neighbour told the Bild newspaper: “It was banging and it didn’t stop banging.”
A police spokesman said: “At around 3.20pm several residents rang the emergency line and reported that there had been several detonations in a garage.”
Bild reported that the munitions collector regularly goes searching in the fields with a metal detector for old war weapons.
Unexploded bombs from the Second World War are often discovered in Germany.
Earlier this month, an estimated 50,000 people had to be evacuated from Hanover to allow a series of World War Two bombs to be defused.
British treasure hunters find chest that could contain Nazi gold worth £100m in sunken cargo ship.
British treasure hunters are seeking permission to recover a mysterious chest from a German ship's watery grave amid claims that it could contain £100m worth of Nazi gold.
The box was found by UK-based Advanced Marine Services inside the post room of the SS Minden at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off Iceland.
There have been claims that the cargo ship was transporting gold from South American banks to Nazi Germany when it sank in September 1939.
The ship was intercepted by the Royal Navy's HMS Calypso and scuttled by its own crew so the vessel couldn't be captured by Britain just weeks after the start of World War II.
It was claimed that the chest contains up to four tons of metal, and the British firm is now applying to Iceland's government for a permit to cut a hole in the ship's hull and remove the box.
The crew of the Seabed Constructor was previously stopped by Iceland's Coast Guard in April for not having permits to conduct research in the country's waters.
Advanced Marine Services want to bring the chest back to Britain, claiming the contents belong to the finder, the Sun reported.
The company is awaiting a decision from Icelandic officials on who owns the wreck and its contents.
The SS Minden left Brazil on September 6, 1939 - five days after the war broke out - and there were claims that officials from Banco Germanico, a subsidiary of German Dresdner bank, helped load its cargo.
The ship was sunk by its crew nearly three weeks later on September 24.
The crew was rescued by the HMS Dunedin and taken to a British naval base.
That's a nice little bonus for someone !!!
As far as I know,history is being phased out in some schools,which really annoys me.
About that treasure hunter's tale, I'm really curious what the icelandic government will say. Thing is, when it's a boy and his metal detector, you're inclined to give the lad the prize. If it's a high tech organisation with bored investors who want a ROI it just doesn't sit right.