Re: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]

[Rick v100 <rickv100-at-yahoo.com>]

Yes, but WWI was a rematch of the 1870 Franco-Prussian
war which had bad feelings left over from the
Napoleanic wars.

Rick
--- Steve Edwards <sedwards-at-awger.net> wrote:
> Rick v100 wrote:
> 
> >I would think that multitudes of projects and no
> clear
> >direction where the projects were kept going for
> >politcal rather then project needs and the Germans
> >overwhelming over complicating everything was there
> >down fall. 
> >
> 
> Hard to say if that's the cause or the effect. So
> much was micromanaged 
> and ultimately done on Hitler's say-so that you
> can't tell if he created 
> the cult or if the cult created him. Probably a
> combination of both.
> 
> >The Germans and there equipment have achieved near
> >mythical status in the last 20 years. 
> >
> 
> Not for me. They had some great stuff, but so did we
> (they had heavy 
> tanks, we had heavy bombers, etc). And in the final
> analysis, would you 
> rather have Me262s or penicilin?
> 
> >But lets face
> >facts, this was WWII and right or wrong they
> started
> >WWI and II. Rommel just like Robert E. Lee was
> blinded
> >by duty and took the cause of the losing side. 
> >
> 
> Actually, WWI was started by Austria -- they were
> first to declare war 
> (against Serbia because the Serbians refused to hand
> over the guys that 
> assassinated Archduke Ferdinand).  The rest of
> Europe was dragged in 
> because of mutual defense treaties (not that they
> weren't interested in 
> gobbling up somebody else's land under any
> convenient pretext, but the 
> treaties did exist). The US joined in after the
> sinking of the Lusitania 
> by a German submarine.
> 
> Germany "officially" kicked off WWII by invading
> Poland in 1939, but it 
> very well could have started in 1938 when they
> annexed the Sudetenland, 
> or even when Japan invaded Manchria in 1931, had the
> prevailing winds 
> not been blowing appeasement and isolationism.
> 
> >Granted Rommel was a great commander but he still
> >supported and furthered the aims of a madman. 
> >  
> >
> 
> Rommel wasn't one of Hitler's accolites (like, say,
> Goering) but he was 
> a nationalist. That some of his goals coincided with
> Hitler's is 
> undeniable, but Rommel was driven by something other
> than love of Hitler.
> 
> Here's an interesting telegram Rommel sent to Hitler
> that underscores 
> the production aspects of warfare:
> http://www.joric.com/Conspiracy/Memo-Rommel.html
> 
>     - Steve "getting pretty far afield" Edwards
> 
> 
> 


                
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