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Originally Posted by northwind
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Originally Posted by Jelster
You obviously read different history books to me then..
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By the time we got into continental europe, it wasn't so much about beating the germans- it was about beating the germans before the russians did, since stalin with most of europe under his belt wasn't a welcome thought. Damn right too... |
Hmmmm..... I think perhaps the thinking of the time was to let the Soviets do as much as possible unaided as a means of depleting the Red Army. Initially, the Western Allies planned to assist in the capture of Berlin by dropping paratroops into the city. However, decided against it, seeing no need to suffer casualties taking a city that would be in the Soviet sphere of influence once the war was over. Hence the Western allies sat by and watched the slaughter as the Soviets took Berlin alone.
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Originally Posted by northwind
The red army was getting set up to march all the way to the english channel, as most see it now, and then we'd just have a different enemy/rival over the water, one with the biggest fighting force the world's ever seen and the willingness to grind it to a pulp to win.
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..... said the Western Paranoia