This doc more or less sums up how things come down. More or less a mind game of chess.

http://www.stage6.com/History---World-War-II/video/1935810/Hitler-vs-Stalin

you might have to install ActiveX, but the quality is much better than opening 20 Youtubes just to watch a doc. Plus they have some cool docs.

hmmm, you have unlimited bandwidth? that file size is 233 megs! Geez I'm at work and wouldn't touch files that size unless I absolutely had to.

thegunny-

Just click the activeX next time you are there. Very simple and small. Within 5 seconds you are watching a cool doc or hundreds of other historic deals. Once the boss clumps around just chunk it. They'll never know.

TYPHOON44 -Well worth the download great read.

Thanks SULLY1

They have great clarity compared to Youtube. Plus it's not sliced up like a loaf of bread.

Sure did I watched the viedos for about four hrs I am sure I will go back today.

Stage6 has it's " goof " days, but for the most part they are gaining a crowd. The good news is that Docs are adding up everyday. Not bad.

Because they were financed by the rockefellers. Do you really think an indebted nation that just lost a war is going to rise up in a few years to give the entire world a run for its money. The germans are smart people and germany is where 80% of our technology originally came from but they are not going to mine and finance a war machine capable of taking on the world in a few years with out some help. watch zietgeist.

as quoted from one of my favorite people:

Don't take any shit from the zeitgeist.

George Carlin

rppearso

You should dust off that theory and wonder where the Germans got all of that " tech " you think they conceived of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRUxG1RK0s&feature=related

Sun Tzu has nothing to do with technology that the germans came up with. I agree that germany also had really good generals that likely followed sun tzu and that also contrubuted to there success but so did the panzer battle tank that our shells bounced off of or guided missles to sink our ships without having to fire an entire barage of munitions just to sink something.

Hummmmm didn't know there were guided missles in WWII. Learn something everyday.

Actually, the individual German soldier made the German army what it was. They had some good leadership and technological wonders but all would be for naught without the individual German soldier.

rppearso

The Germans had a tank our shells bounced off of? Have you been watching " Battle Of The Bulge " with Robert Shaw again? Those big tanks came too late ( test pilots at Kursk ) and more or less BOGGED DOWN during the BULGE thanks to little villages and the small roads they contain. Like HarryP said, the German soldier and the leadership ( Manstein for one ) had more to do than some silly V1 buzz bomb. And yes Sun Tzu has plenty to do with almost everything.

Manstein :

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4024441722410998257&hl=en

SULLY1

You like Docs so here is a good selection. Just scroll down and the links will show up.

http://popperslist.blogspot.com/

Actually, it's because they had bratwurst!

On a more serious note, repeatso is right. The Germans developed a sort of guided torpedo during WWII, that would circle underwater around a ship, until it hit the ship, guided by the sound of the ship moving.

They also developed some form of guided bomb (admittedly, it didn't work very brilliantly).

Fieseler Fi 103R

Ruhrstahl/Kramer X-1 (Fritz X, SD 1400)

X-series Missiles

Tanks

German 88 mm guns along with 128mm guns were tank killers. The best we could come up with was this tank with a 90mm gun that was almost as good as the German 88's:
M26 Pershing

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thegunny

1) The Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was the logical conclusion of the trend of heavier and heavier German tanks. The PzKpfw VIII, if completed, would have super heavy armor and a huge main gun (the "secondary" gun was 75mm). However, the Maus was not completed before the war's end.

2) The Panzerkampfwagen E-100 was another unrealistic superheavy monstrocity conceived and ordered by the struggling German army late in the war. A chassis was constructed but even the prototype was not finished before the war's end.

The quest for bigger and more complex tanks was an obsession with Hitler and led to nothing. Your link ( 1 and 2 ) confirms this.

Hummm I wonder if organization had anything to do with it?

The odd thing about Hitler is he never declared war but instead just invaded. That tactic alone more or less led to most victories. After Japan attacked America, Hitler declared war against America. Bad mistake. That and the foolish invasion of the USSR.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1802991377083076426&hl=en