Nick Against the World (70 Viewers)

Slagathor

Bedpan racing champion
Jul 25, 2001
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well, the battle of Britain, and the battle of El Alemain...and well Nomandy and the whole of North Africa were important....

But the Brits fucked up a lot in both North Africa and in Normandy. Look at the battle of St. Lo when the Americans were trying to push the Germans back to Chambois and the Brits screwed it up.

Also, if it were the whole German military in North Africa and not the German Panzercorps and Afrikakorps, the Brits would have been owned... The joke Italian Air Force was shite because the Ferrari engines in their aircraft were really succeptible to problems with the sand. If the Germans had their Messerschmitt BF 109's, or Focke-Wulf Fw 190's in the desert... we could all be speaking German.
We wouldn't be speaking German because most of us would be dead.

As for America liberating Europe: it was the Canadians who decided to head North and free that little country below sea-level. The US was planning on skipping it, figuring it would be freed automatically by occupying Germany. Never mind that would have cost the lives of a couple of hundred thousand more innocent civilians.

Don't mean to diss America (I'm not dumb enough to be anti-American), but this "We brought you freedom" claim is a little exaggerated.
 

Jem83

maitre'd at Canal Bar
Nov 7, 2005
22,871
Germany was the greatest war-waging nation. She brought 5 great nations to their knees but as soon as the Americans decided to enter fully she was destined to fall. As far as war-waging goes I got to hand it to Nazi-Germany. As for America as the great liberator, I'd say the combination of Britain and America was what sealed the deal. They were the financial powerhouses, lending money to other countries, and battled well. Soviet also, obviously, played a huge part, with their endless number of soldiers. But anyway, my point, if it had been a battle between Nazi Germany and USA, The Nazis would have won. The only reason they didn't is because they had shit allies and had to battle Britain, Soviet, France, smaller countries with resistance movements, basically they took the World head on! Not an easy task but they almost freaking did it.
 

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