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Thread #145275   Message #3363777
Posted By: GUEST,Teribus
15-Jun-12 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Normandy -- 68 years ago...
Subject: RE: BS: Normandy -- 68 years ago...
Had Churchill's Norwegian operation been carried out as orignally envisioned the war would have been over in 1940, or 1941 at the latest.

It was not just landing troops in Norway it was landing troops in Norway to occupy a strip of territory in both Norway and Sweden that would have cut Germany off from its only source of iron ore.

Had the Norwegian venture been executed with vigour and with the correct resources the Blitzkrieg that fell on the west in May of 1940 would never have happened, the Germans would have been far too busy fighting to the North. There their tanks would have been of no use to them, neither would their superiority in aircraft through lack of suitable airfields. There Army would have been split as they would still have to defend their own border with France.

Churchill, by the way wrote all his own speeches.

That being the case (as he never had a speech writing staff) his Nobel Prize in Literature awarded in 1953 was "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values". Pretty accurate I'd say and entirely his own work.

As I asked previously who were the alternative candidates who could have taken on the job in 1940??

"Further to the above Churchill represented everything that the working class hated about the ruling class"

With the Third Reich with all its evil hammering on the door who gives a rats ass about what the "working class", or any other class for that matter, hated.