In June and July 1940 there were plenty of practical-minded appeasers like Lord Halifax and Rab Butler at the top of the British Conservative Party who were thinking about asking Hitler for terms. We owe Churchill a lot.
The Russians may have done most of the fighting and shed most of the Allied blood, but they would have been in deep trouble without American supplies. They would also have been in trouble without British codebreaking (which owed much to the Poles originally). It seems that "Lucy" and the Red Orchestra in Switzerland who transmitted to Moscow, were fed carefully with Ultra intercepts by the British, presented to Moscow as the result of Soviet espionage. The successful German counterattack at Kharkov after Stalingrad seems to have occurred because von Manstein was able for a while to make decisions on his own without consulting German headquarters by radio and being exposed to British eavesdropping, because of the temporarily poor state of German communications due to the rapid retreat. Stalin and the Soviet system were responsible for the miserable state of the Russian army in 1941, and for Hitler's ability to catch the Russians ill-prepared to resist in the early stages of his campaign. Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Chris Burck wrote: > did i sleep through a lecture back wien i was in school, or something? > because i don't remenber about a loud outcry in favor of capitulation > during the blitz. and where defeating nazi germany is concerned, the > soviets deserve at least 50% of the credit, maybe even two thirds. > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
