Re: WinSP MBT: Das Reich
To try to understand WWII you have to know that in 1939:
Hitler was in some respects not very bright, including his moronic hatred of Jewish people.
Italy and Japan, generally, sensibly, did not share Hitler's views on Jewish people.
In the 1930's the USA and the British Empire mainly saw themselves as trade rivals. The USA had a war plan against Canada and the British Empire that was updated into the 1930's.
Winston Churchill had an American mother he was very, very, fond of that gave his, always very emotional, view of the world a pro-American bias that most of us thinking British folks, thought/think was a little bit excessive...
Prior to 1939 Stalin in the USSR had killed vastly more civilians than Germany. By 1944/45 Roosevelt said he trusted Stalin more than Churchill and acted on it. We all know what that led to...
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