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In Reply to: RE: Germany should still be split posted by Tom Brennan on June 25, 2007 at 14:49:36
...is difficult for some, I realize.)
It began with a movie. Then it moved to a partially-false allegation, which I countered. Then along came Tom Brennan.
The fact remains, Eastern Europe was carved up by an agreement at Yalta among the Big Three Allies. It had nothing to do with the heroism of the Red Army. Not only that, Germany's Western front at that time was less well-defended; nor would the battle have been down to the Americans.
As for the gruesome math you wish me to do, let's toss in the thirty or forty million East Germans and Ukrainians that Stalin murdered and see how the equation balances.
clark
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"As for the gruesome math you wish me to do, let's toss in the thirty or forty million East Germans and Ukrainians that Stalin murdered and see how the equation balances."
These numbers that Stalin supposedly killed just get bigger and bigger. Give me a reliable source for forty million Germans and Ukrainians killed after the end of the war.
You failed to answer my question, how many American lives would it have worth to capture eastern Germany. Personally, to paraphrase Bismarck, I don't think the whole of Germany would be worth the life of one American grenadier.
Beethoven.
Want another: Goethe.
A third: Schiller.
... the German atomic and rocket scientists?
The German rocket guys were very good but we already had the best atomic guys. The Germans were nowhere near developing the bomb.
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