thats right,there is no doubt the air battle for britain was significant and was the germans first failure i think,i can't remember what was going on in the eastern front then,and with pilots from all over the world and supplies from anglo/commonwealth countries,saved from her empire days,i doubt you can say that too often in history
i've seen docos on battle of britain too and it is a real fight for survival,the raf wouldn't even let the poles fight until it was desperate and they were very exprienced and good,just had them sitting around,that is classic england but they got there in the end
if you believe the stories we were on our knees and last breath with supplies so if help wasn't coming from the ex colonies,i 'm not sure we would have held
of course occupying other countries is never going to end well and especially with nazi policies,it seems hitler didn't compromise or listen to his very clever generals on the ground when he needed to,it was crazy times in europe and i guess hitler would always fail in the end but he could have shaped a different europe if he wasn't so bonkers at the time
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