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Re: D-Day… More Drama Than Decisive in World War II Victory
« Reply #50 on: June 23, 2019, 03:49:30 PM »

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http://alstewart.com/publicfiles/HISTORY_roadstom.htm

Thanks for the link above and I have already told you, I am not promoting any revisionist view ... just the truth, which obviously you and the other American's do not want to accept. For you and the Americans, USA was the only Nation who fought Germany and won the WWII and nobody else offered anything to the war.

May I point out to you and your friends.... that any person (with bad will) could easily accuse the Americans that they were the only Nation that benefited from the expansion of your defence and other industries and you took advantage of the USSR and the UK, who paid you dearly for your help!

MAY I REMIND YOU .....In June 1941 "Harry Truman" was quoted in the pages of New York Times saying, “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible".





The 1st Baltic Front tankers having a rest near the Sherman tank, supplied under Lend-Lease by the US.

This month marks 75 years since the United States launched its Lend-Lease program to supply the Allies with much-needed war materiel for the fight against Hitler. Downplayed by the Soviet Union, the program was of vital importance to the USSR’s war effort, as even Marshal Zhukov later admitted.

On 11 March 1941 American "President Franklin D. Roosevelt" signed the Lend-Lease bill, which permitted the U.S. to supply its anti-Hitler coalition allies with materiel.

A loan that became history

The history of Lend-Lease began on May 15, 1940 when UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked Roosevelt to temporarily give Britain 40-50 old destroyers in exchange for British naval and air bases in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Americans remembered a law from 1892 in accordance with which the defense secretary can "lease army property for a maximum of five years if the country does not need it." Based on this law a supply program was developed, which Roosevelt signed into law on March 11, 1941.

According to the program, American materials "destroyed, lost or used during the war were not subject to payment." What had to be paid for was the property that remained after the war and was used for civilian purposes.

‘The common enemy – bloodthirsty Hitlerism’

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin decided to join Lend-Lease soon after Hitler's Germany invaded the USSR in June 1941.



The U.S., UK and Canada supplied the USSR with some $130 billion worth of supplies during WWII.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE BELOW.

Lend-Lease: How American supplies aided the USSR in its darkest hour
Why the sun does not shine on the Ex- British Empire Anymore? Because God never trusted an Englishman in the dark!

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Re: D-Day… More Drama Than Decisive in World War II Victory
« Reply #51 on: June 24, 2019, 05:36:08 PM »
Germany decided to engage in a dual front War. America was forced into this reality and the fact is the United States won on both sides.

Germany's fate was sealed, if not before, certainly when it declared war on America. 

Also, our Eurocentric friends seem to forget that America was fighting a two-front war also.

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Breaking the pact with the Soviets was the number one stupid thing the Germans did.

Declaring war on the USA was the second and decisive stupid thing they did.

The decision to take on the USSR and the USA is not that illogical when you consider the opponents to be subhuman.  The Slavs and a nation populated by African immigrants were considered inferior and to be subjugated.  You need to reshape the gene pool.   (:)
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