Did Slavery destroy Africa?

[GoldenDelicious]

Yea those bloody Australians, too busy drinking beer and watching out for dingo eating babies. Still, we shouldn't expect much from colonial convicts

(Yea I'm aware it's Oceania / Australasia).

you unnappreciative fuck, what about kylie minogue? eh? no australia = no doing the locomotion

bloody poofter

 

[Spartacus]

and naval blockade trumps everything
how are you gonna get fuel/materials to operate, when you are cut off at the high seas/atlantic/and med?

germany didn't need anything from overseas
except for nickel in sweden and that's beneath the luftwaffe umbrella

 

[Powerbuilder333]

germany didn't need anything from overseas
except for nickel in sweden and that's beneath the luftwaffe umbrella

Hardwater from Norway.

 

[Spartacus]

Hardwater from Norway.

they took norway and the merchant route is within landbased luftwaffe aircover

 

[manny78]

So Britain was talking about installing an Israeli state long before ww2??? And bro, had the U.S not stepped into the war Britain would have eventually succumbed to Ze Germans. The Germans may not have put ground troops in England, but the Luftwaffe did do a good number on London. WIthout the U.S landing in France.........they would have consolidated on Britain.........game over. And Churchill knew which is why he tossed alot of yankee salad to get us over there.

Balfour made it clear in 20's that jews deserved their own state (in Palestine). And the Luftwaffe raids on London were a failure. They had no heavy bombers, V-1 and V-2 rockets didnt show up until late 1944 and the german navy never managed to control the english channels.

 

[wootoom]

i blessed the rains down in africa

 

[Spartacus]

Balfour made it clear in 20's that jews deserved their own state (in Palestine). And the Luftwaffe raids on London were a failure. They had no heavy bombers, V-1 and V-2 rockets didnt show up until late 1944 and the german navy never managed to control the english channels.

bombing the airfields and the radar net about brought the RAF to the brink of capitulation
something the luftwaffe's light and medium bombers were capable of
then goering and hitler switched to terror bombing and that was a blunder
I believe they did this in answer to an RAF air raid on berlin

in any event the luiftwaffe's lt/med bombers were ill suited to saturation bombing
not to mention terror bombing doesn't work
3 years later the 8th airforce and RAF bomber command tried to bomb germany into oblivion
when the allies strategic bombing peaked (late '44)
germany's armaments production peaked

germany eventually starved for oil and men

 

[manny78]

bombing the airfields and the radar net about brought the RAF to the brink of capitulation
something the luftwaffe's light and medium bombers were capable of
then goering and hitler switched to terror bombing and that was a blunder
I believe they did this in answer to an RAF air raid on berlin

in any event the luiftwaffe's lt/med bombers were ill suited to saturation bombing
not to mention terror bombing doesn't work
3 years later the 8th airforce and RAF bomber command tried to bomb germany into oblivion
when the allies strategic bombing peaked (late '44)
germany's armaments production peaked

germany eventually starved for oil and men

From what I read they never reached air superiority. Early versions of the BF109 were no match for the Spitfires. FW190 came a year later when England wasnt a target anymore. And if I'm correct it happened the other way. German started with terror bombing (kindda like Rotterdam) and Berlin was bombed a few days later. Goering himself had one said no RAF would fly over Germany....

 

[Spartacus]

From what I read they never reached air superiority. Early versions of the BF109 were no match for the Spitfires. FW190 came a year later when England wasnt a target anymore. And if I'm correct it happened the other way. German started with terror bombing (kindda like Rotterdam) and Berlin was bombed a few days later. Goering himself had one said no RAF would fly over Germany....

I believe the Rotterdam bombing was an accident
they were supposed to bomb in support of a german paradrop
and it went awry
I'd have to research it again

 

[Spartacus]

Battle for Rotterdam

The situation in Rotterdam on the morning of 13 May 1940, was one of a stalemate. The Dutch garrison forces under the command of Colonel Scharroo held the north bank of the Nieuwe Maas River, which runs through the city, and prevented the Germans (consisting of German airborne forces of General Student, and the newly arrived ground forces under General Schmidt (based on the 9th Panzer Division and the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, a motorized "SS" regiment) from crossing.

A Dutch counterattack led by a Dutch marine regiment had failed to re-capture the Willemsbrug road bridge, the key crossing over the river. A last gasp effort by the Dutch air force to destroy the bridge had also failed.

Gen. Schmidt had planned for a combined assault the next day, 14 May, using tanks of the 9th Panzer supported by flame throwers and combat engineers. The SS were to make an amphibious crossing of the river farther upstream and then make a flank attack through the Kralingen district. The attack was to be preceded by a massive artillery bombardment, while Gen. Schmidt had requested the support of the Luftwaffe in the form of a gruppe (about 25 aircraft) of Ju-87 Stuka precision dive-bombers.

However, General Student was the one in overall command, and also controlled all air operations. Schmidt's request for air support had to go through Student's HQ, and instead of the precision bombers, Student requested a carpet bombing attack and had replaced the Stukas, by a massed attack by Heinkel He 111 bombers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Rotterdam