"thunder" wrote in message


It's fun speculating, but I'm not sure Sea Lion would have worked. The
RAF may have been in ruins, but the Royal Navy was still quite powerful
and the Germans didn't have the naval assets to support an invasion. They
intended to use river barges as landing craft, far from an optimum
solution.

Wasn't the Royal Navy running to us for safe haven? I'm a little fuzzy here,
but I thought that Britian was offloading ships to US and Canada so they
wouldn't be fair game.?


Again, I'm speculating, but if England had lost, I'm wondering if we would
have entered the war in Europe.

I doubt it, we would have been busy driving Japan from the Pacific. Again I
speculate that had Hitler not declared war on US after Pearl, we might have
taken a "Pacific 1st" position anyway. I sure don't see us running out of
our way to help Joe Stalin.... LOL. It's only in hindsight that we know
that Hitler was a monster of the same caliber as old Joseph. Had Germany
won, most of the evidence of the incredible atrocities would have been
hidden and erased. I know I never would have believed in "stray rumors" of
the systemic death factories without some evidence. The mind is slow to
believe that which boggles it so profoundly. I can at least comprehend (but
not agree with!) how Stalin could have "purged" the Soviet Union of
"unbelievers" , since theoretical communism needs everybody on board to even
hope to work. But I would have had a harder time swallowing systemic
genocide based on race or religion only - without evidence.


-W

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 01:16:38 +0000, Clams Canino wrote:


Wasn't the Royal Navy running to us for safe haven? I'm a little fuzzy
here, but I thought that Britian was offloading ships to US and Canada so
they wouldn't be fair game.?

That would be news to me. Warships?



But I would have had a harder time swallowing
systemic genocide based on race or religion only - without evidence.

One would think, but it seems too common throughout history.