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Thread #162232   Message #3864833
Posted By: Teribus
07-Jul-17 - 08:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Time to choose on June 8th-UK Elections
Subject: RE: BS: Time to choose on June 8th-UK Elections
What part of the following did you fail to understand Gnome?

"Nothing imaginary about it apart from Hitler getting his war in 1938"

Apart from that everything I have stated did happen in a scenario where both France and Britain KNEW FOR CERTAIN that War was inevitable and after they had had 12 to 20 months to prepare for Hitler's onslaught in the West. For Great Britain those 20 months were vital, those 20 months meant the difference between a Great Britain being defenceless and a Great Britain that held vital advantages in defence of the air space that was so essential for the Germans to win in order to defeat Britain and knock her out of the War: "Hitler knows he must break us on this Island or lose the War" - Winston Churchill

Had Hitler got his war in 1938 then Great Britain would have lost the Battle of Britain in late 1938 or early 1939 - no speculation, no imagination required as the tools that proved essential to defeat the vastly numerically superior Luftwaffe would simply not have been in place and combat details relating to encounters between RAF aircraft of the type we would have had to rely on and German fighters in 1939 clearly showed that they wouldn't have stood a chance of defending Britain, as stated no imagination just plain simple FACT.

Czechoslovakia was sacrificed so that formal alliances were made with Poland in the hope of deterring Hitler. War in 1938 would have run in the following order (Which is what the German General Staff WANTED):

1: Invade and occupy the whole of Czechoslovakia in concert with Poland and Hungary.

2: Invade Holland, Belgium and France simultaneously

3: Battle of Britain - No radar, No Spitfires, No Army - Britain would have been defeated and taken out of the war without any need for an invasion

4: Consolidate the gains and prepare for War in the East

5: Invade and take over Poland in concert with the Soviets and with Hungary.

6: Consolidate the gains and prepare to attack Russia before 1944 - No imagination required there either Gnome