This Memorable Day
John Kelsey
kelsey.j at ix.netcom.com
Mon Nov 8 06:12:34 PST 2004
>From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz>
>Sent: Nov 6, 2004 2:10 AM
>To: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net, ocorrain at yahoo.com
>Subject: Re: This Memorable Day
>The figure that's usually quoted is that 80% of German's military force was
>directed against Russia. Of the remaining 20%, a lot had already been engaged
>by France, the UK (via the BEF, the RAF, North Africa), Greece, etc etc before
>the US got involved in Europe. So the Russians should get most of the credit.
Yep. I think to a first approximation, the US defeated Japan and the USSR defeated Germany. My impression is that a lot of the push to do the D-Day invasion was to make sure the USSR didn't end up in possession of all of Europe at the end of the war. (Given how things developed, this was a pretty sensible concern.)
>Peter.
--John
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