Having visited auschwitz recently (auschwitz and the jews thread ) it was a terrible machine the nazis built to dispose of the jews.
Both Europe and the usa plus many other commonwealth countries, Canada, Australia etc suffered losses in there millions. These are very well documented in the west.
As you say lp Russia lost some 25 million people and we don't seem to recognise this!
I'm often ashamed when I see the Russians commemorate there losses and no western leaders attend.
What ever Russia is now (partly made by us ) it is the past that we should remember regardless!
Yes, the jews have a very strong voice.
Now is this more seen because they care?
And is the Russian voice on this matter not listened to because we don't like them now?
Not sure.
Many American and British died in the north Atlantic getting essential supplies to Russia.
Not so long ago they were recognised by Russia with medals, we had snubbed them for years!
As for film makers, well many have an agenda of there own.
Good post
Stalin was just as evil and twisted as Hitler. We made a deal with the Devil when we aligned ourselves with Russia.
Definitely but the war could have dragged on for years more and possibly a different outcome if Hitler hadn't tried to fight both fronts!
At the end Churchill did warn Roosevelt about the Russians, I think supplying them was the lesser of the two evils at the time!
There were a few things that would have changed the outcome of the war. First Hitler should have waited the extra four to five years until Germany was fully armed. Second he should never have attacked Russia. That made the Germans fight on so many different fronts. Plus if they would have waited until after winter to attack the probable would have been successful against Russia. Stalin thought his Government was going to collapse to the Germans and ordered every Russian Citizen to fight with what ever they could find, if they didn't they were to be killed for cowardice. Also he should have listened to his Generals and top officers instead of playing them off one another.
I think you are correct, but my line of thinking is Hitler made 3 main mistakes..
1. He had England on its kness, another month or so he would have taken England...he should have finished off England before betraying Russia...
2. He started his Russian attack in the beginning of winter...they lost supply routes from the snow and ice, and his troops were starving and unable to do much without supplies and food, because the Russians were using a "scorched earth" policy while retreating....
3. He should have never declared war on the U.S. till he had more of Europe under his control... He figured the Japanese would keep us busy and destroy most of our naval fleet... But what he didn't understand is how fast we swithed from peace time conversion to full war conversion On our manufacturing of warships and other wartime needs...
It's defined as "the battle of Britain"
Yes we were close and if the luftwaffe hadn't of stopped bombing our airfields to bomb the cities at Hitlers orders that would have been it!
Not sure how a land invasion would have gone, it wouldn't have been a walk in the park for them!
Also, you had every industry set up as you were starting to supply us.
It wasn't even our war really, we just kept to our word and tried to help the polish. then the french (who just caved in) and we were overwhelmed.
Plus we had our empire to protect, but we must not forget the millions of people from our commonwealth that helped and died. also we had lost generations in ww1.
As notbeold says and I've said many times,
Imo, the us didn't want to get involved because of the millions being made from oil and the nazi war machine!
Pearl harbour changed that!
