I have this class in school right now that talks about Wars of the past and we just spent like 2 months on WW2 and the Holocaust so I learned some stuff there.
[QUOTE="BrainSplatter89"]My dad. He said Germany would have beaten the Allies if Hitler would have been more pacient.Jandurin
We don't know that for sure, but it sure would've helped (him).
Debatable.
Goerings massive overspending on the German armed forces casued the Economoy to overheat. (Only with newly conquered and millions of slaves was Albert Speer able to sort out the econmy in 1941)
The extra year would have enabled the UK a hige amount of spending, it had already gone up by over 20% in the 1938/39.
That's all I was saying :x Do you think there's no scenario in which he could've won? Or at least held onto what he had already grabbed? If he had kept Russia out of the war. Even if Moscow had fallen, the war would still have been lost.
Video games piqued my interest in the subject. Following that I did my own independent research in the local library seeing as to my then complete lack of internet. So now I know more about WW II than most people around here...
I like history, I have done a huge amount of reading on history in general,which has lead to reading several dozen books on world warII. As for hitlers fatal flaw it was not going into russia,or the time frame. It was the fact that he tried fighting on multiple fronts. If he had stuck with the plan and quickly ate up peices of land on singular fronts,he may have possibly won the war.
And do not think he would have not invaded russia. he pretty much outlined his plan in meinkampf long before he rose to power,and his whole idea was to take the russian steppes for german expansion. He started war with the west to distract them and try to keep them out of his russian war. That was his flaw. And one more reason all these people who say he was a great leader have no idea what they are talking about.
[QUOTE="Hungry_bunny"]School, had to do a 30 page report about it in 8th grade and another one in high school. Steven Spielberg taught me the rest.XD4NTESINF3RNOX
that's ridiculous i would had died trying to finish that! :(I almost did, our Literature and History teachers gave us this project together... But 14 year olds are the biggest procrastinators in the world. I still remember the night before the deadline, almost the entire class was sitting in the computer lab doing some "final changes", that's what we called it. :P
I happen to be a history buff so I learned alot from independent research. Also learned alot from school, documentaries, and to a lesser extent, video games.
We studied the first World War a lot more than the second at school. My knowledge of either isn't particularly great since both wars were only ever covered indirectly... as a cause of certain political ongoing in Russia and Germany rather than the battles and such.
Great uncles: one was a Parl Habor servivor the other was a Iwo Jima Surviver (Japanese POW for a year). I also worked with two differnt WWII vets, one was a P51 Pilot and the other was an infrantry over in Germany. Then I studied it a little back in College.
The victors write the history books... I learned most from my 10th grade history teacher. She was really into WWII and we went pretty much a quarter of the year going over both the World Wars. That being said, I'm not a HUGE history buff so my knowledge isn't as expansive as most people's. It's said that a large part of Hitler's downfall was that he spread out his fronts too much. Particularly Russia's scorched earth policy was a huge drain to his force. By concentrating his forces to the West, he may have been able to get a solid grip on Europe. Even with an increase in the arming of the troops necessary, he wouldn't have had to put out nearly the amount of capital and resources. However, the attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent American engagement didn't help his chances either. Inadvertantly, this injected a fresh army, economy, etc. and ultimately the development and application of the bomb. In hindsight, it's actually amazing that Hitler was able to keep up the fight for as long as he did. He was constantly making misteps and adding road blocks. Then again, he isn't known for being a rational man. He was half jewish himself...
School has taught me the most about WWII. TV has been a close second. Videogames don't really teach me anything about the war. Shad0ki11
The History channel, Call of Duty, and a little research of my own. Although, i didnt actually know what CoD was based off of until i actually did some research.
Documentaries taught me all the stuff about the actual fighting and i used to read alot of books on the subject too. but it was formal education that taught me about the politics behind it.
my own research taught me the most about WWII. or rather laid out the real stories behind who was who and why it happened
Finding out about the Bushs involvement back then and how Prescott was more or less the banker and supplier of weapons for the 'Nazi' movement was pretty much an eye opener into the activities undertaken by the Bush family
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