[lbo-talk] Oliver Stone's first episode

Bill Bartlett william7 at aapt.net.au
Mon Dec 3 19:09:43 PST 2012


At 4:27 PM -0500 3/12/12, c b wrote:


>The Soviets inflicted 90% of the Nazis casualties. So, clearly it was
>the Red Army that defeated the Nazis. The Western front was tiny
>compared to the Eastern front.

Surely what ultimately defeated the nazis was the relative productive capacity of the US compared to the Germans and the Japanese.

I imagine the Nazis coming to realise, with horror, that the US could replace ships faster than the nazis could replace the torpedoes they were sinking American ships with. But maybe they never did realise that?

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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