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I've read Marvel "What If" comics that were more plausible than Hitler and Stalin being allies.
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Always ask 'Why?"
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The more interesting question is what happened to Patton?
Was the car accident an "accident" or not? Did it prevent a war? |
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![]() Even if Patton wanted a war with the Soviets (which I presume your are talking about), he had already been relieved of his post at Third Army at the time of his accident. Eisenhower certainly didn't want a war with them, nor did Truman. So, no, his death didn't prevent a war and if he had lived, there wouldn't have been a war.
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Always ask 'Why?"
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Why was he relieved? End of conflict? Slap another soldier or insult someone? Amazing the things one learns on CP! ![]() |
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Going from memory, the final straw was when he compared NAZI members to not being any different than Republicans and Democrats. Just "party members."
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[QUOTE=Donger;11546360]Going from memory, the final straw was when he compared NAZI members to not being any different than Republicans and Democrats. Just "party
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Well...how far off was he, really?
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His increasingly erratic behavior probably hastened his dismissal as military governor and as head of Third Army, but the Army was very rapidly demobilizing anyway. The conspiracy theories around his death are fairly absurd. He had no power or authority or ability to start a war with the Russians, and had never shown any MacArthur like delusions that he was a separate power, above and not answerable to his commanding officers and the President. MacArthur's delusions were fed in part by his long, LONG tenure away from home, and away from any more senior military officers. Patton never had that. And, suffice to say, since Ike had punished him for slapping an officer, and then relieved him of Third Army, and since Truman would later dismiss MacArthur, NEITHER would be afraid to dismiss Patton completely from service if they felt it was warranted.
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Germans were close to developing weapons that would have beat America. Glad we had luck on our side.
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I watched that video, and it had a few interesting tidbits. I knew that Stalingrad was big, but I didn't realize that it was that big.
However, the numbers in this video seem larger than numbers I see elsewhere. The video reports "half a million Nazis died", plus roughly 100,000 POWs. But the numbers in other sources show the figures as being much lower: http://necrometrics.com/battles.htm
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I heard from an aged relative once, now deceased, that in Korea the brutality of the two Korean sides toward each other was shocking even to people who had fought against the Japanese a few years earlier. I don't know as much as I should about Korea, but it sounds like those two sides were just ruthless.
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