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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
guys, there is no need to get aggressive on each other over a matter that was resolved 65 years ago.
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living in England has taught me that Britons are probably one of the most stubborn populations on this planet (if not the Solar System)
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Some Britons can't be objective: characters like Dowding, Harris and above all Montgomery (a pompous imbecile, nothing more nothing less) embody a military ineptitude that, again hadn't the Americans joined, would have been fatal to them.
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Wow, Pot Kettle.
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Originally Posted by Kongo-Otto
You Sir are an asshole! Not more and not less!!
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Classy.
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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
from Wikipedia
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so it must be true
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The total cost of these reparations was assessed at 132 billion Marks (then $31.4 billion, £6.6 billion) in 1921 which is roughly equivalent to US $442 billion and UK £217 billion in 2011, a sum that many economists at the time, notably John Maynard Keynes, deemed to be excessive and counterproductive and would have taken Germany until 1988 to pay.
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Britain has only recently stopped paying for the wars. If the treaty was unfair, Germany should have concentrated on renegotiating it. Going to war again was hardly the solution was it.
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Originally Posted by Dutch_851
it is my opinion that but for the Channel and the existence of the Royal Navy, Germany's land and airforces combined would've stuffed us.
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As above, that's a pointless comparison. Were it not for the channel, world history would be completely different.