Aragorn2002

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System kept hanging and now I seem to have one thousand posts...

Seriously? That's how an American talks about one of his respected and brave brother-in-arms? Montgomery was a very skilled and intelligent general. There's not much glory for him nowadays due to the inflated American ego with regard to WW2, but especially you Americans should pay him more respect than you usually do. Don't get me wrong, I like Americans, really do, but the way some of you guys are looking at history nowadays...

Is it? Personally I think Citino is a good example of a bad historian. Calling Rommel's performance in North Africa overestimated confirms my low opinion of him. Rommel never had the means or logistics to force a decisive victory. He perhaps wasn't the genius propaganda made him, but deserved his reputation as a great tactician. And the British, South Africans, Australians etc were tough opponents and equally skilled in desert warfare. All these little men nowadays, judging men so much greater than themselves. It makes me nautious. No offence intended, Bluecher.

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Great stuff! Thank you!

Absolutely. At the moment I'm reading a book about the fighting between the Austrians/Germans on the one side and the Italians on the other in the Alpine region between Austria and Italy in 1915.How many people know the Allies promised the 100% German speaking Austrian provence of South Tirol to the Italians in exchange for Italy changing sides and attacking already hard pressed Austria-Hungary? After ww1 the Italians annexed the whole area and began to make life hard for the German speaking population. Such injustice made a lot of Austrians ready for another war. Imagine the USA fighting a bloody war against Russia and China, losing it and Mexico attacking and annexing Texas. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't go down well with the American people. Just an example... Btw the Middle East was mainly Christian before the muslims came and wiped the Christians out. Puts the crusades in a somewhat different light, doesn't it? Anyway, history is important.

And yet, you can't understand ww2 without ww1, you can't understand ww1 without the war of 1870, you can't understand the war of 1870 without the napoleonic wars, etc usw

Absolutely brilliant!

Yeah, that should do the trick. In protestant Denmark or the Netherlands you wouldn't come off so easily.

O yes, that would be superb!

I'm pretty sure you will go to hell for this, Umlaut.

Not sure about that. How many people have a decent knowledge about what happened in WW1? The fighting at the Eastern front or the Alpine front for example is hardly known anymore. Not even in the German speaking countries. Or the fighting in the Middle East against the Turks? Most people are so incredibly ignorant about history nowadays. Very frightening.

They probably are. They all look a bit like me according to my wife.

That's very clear and fortunately within my limited skills, MJ. Thank you for your instructions!

Sounds interesting. I read Château de Cayx is now the residence of the Danish Royal family in France? Did anyone already tried this link? Always a bit cautious when I'm the first.

I'm looking for a weathered faces mod for the British. Couldn't find it . Perhaps someone has made such a mod?

I think you misunderstand each other, guys, but are of the same opinion.

Lunatic indeed. But Stalin was no fool. His plan to push Britain, France and Germany into another bloodbath worked, but wasn't followed by another trenchwar, so he could attack Germany in the back. That's why Stalin for a large part is responsible for WW 2. He easily could have made an alliance with France and Britain, but he tried to be smart. And without those numbers you mention, build up in 20 years of preparation for total war, the Red Army could/would have been beaten. That's the point many Russians are making now. Without Stalin's terror Russia would have been wiped out. In Hitler's view Germany didn't have any other choice than attack Stalin as soon as possible. I think the Germans knew more about the Red army and Russian industry than we are led to believe now. They had enough Baltic, Ukrainian and other spies working for the Abwehr, even in heavily guarded Russia itself. But Hitler knew he would never get a better opportunity than in the summer of 1941. It wasn't a blind gamble, it was an inevitable next step for him. Both Stalin and Hitler knew that they were enemies to the death and it was just a question of who was forced to attack first. Stalin was prepared to attack in 1940, if the situation in the West developed into another WW 1-style trenchwar, but in 1941 he knew the Germans were coming for him. Smart fellow, that Joseph Vissarionovich. .

Interesting stuff, John. Thanks!

I agree. That's why I keep saying that no country was better prepared for war than Soviet-Russia. Let's not forget the Germans rebuild their war industry in less than 8 years. Stalin had almost 20 years to prepare for a war he tried to promote in every possible way and hoped to profit from for his own dark plans. And in that period his secret service gathered almost every defence secret in the US, Britain, Germany and the rest of the world. The development of Russian weapons benefitted greatly from that. Apart from that Stalin invested huge sums of money in the Soviet armed forces and war industry, while his country suffered under terror and poverty. Hey, wait a minute. That sounds familiair!

Looks good. Will it work in CMRT?

My dear Falaise, i like everything you make.