Theos-Talk Archives (February 2003 Message tt00169)

Theo Paijmans wrote:
> Well, it wasn't exactly the Americans who liberated France and Germany, as
> they entered the war on European soil in 1944, one year before the 2nd world
> war ended. The same, by the way in the 1st world war, when America entered in
> 1917, again, a year before the war ended. Of course, the Canadian/American
> efforts did contribute to the final outcome.
> 
> Nazi Germany was almost brought to its knees in 1944 owing to the relentless
> Russian offensives. Nazi Germany would sooner or later have collapsed through
> the sheer devastation of these offenses.

Britain was on the verge of collapse. If Britain fell, Germany would
have been able to turn its full attention to the Soviet Union, which was
on the verge of falling, itself.

Bart Lidofsky