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Will the British trigger WWIII ?

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    #21
    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    Where in the article you referenced says that (I quote your own words): "Most of Hitlers munitions were supplied by the Swiss"?

    40mm air-defences ammo was hardly "most" munitions, frankly it was a minor amount of ammo that barely worth talking about.

    Now compare this help of the Swiss with the secret protocol signed by USSR and Germany in 1939 according to which USSR obliged to provide the following:

    o 1,000,000 tons of grain for cattle, and of legumes, in the amount of 120 million Reichsmarks
    o 900,000 tons of mineral oil in the amount of approximately 115 million Reichsmarks
    o 100,000 tons of cotton in the amount of approximately 90 million Reichsmarks
    o 500,000 tons of phosphates
    o 100,000 tons of chrome ores
    o 500,000 tons of iron ore
    o 300,000 tons of scrap iron and pig iron
    o 2,400 kg. of platinum Manganese ore, metals, lumber, and numerous other raw materials.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-...cial_Agreement

    See the scale of supplies used directly for war? And you think that Swiss somehow did anything that affected Germany's war machine, what, with 40mm anti-aircraft guns? Frankly 40mm was not cutting mustard, it was 88 mm flaks that did good job and fighter planes.

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      #22
      I never mentioned the USSR.
      I did however make you do some legwork for a change
      Confusion is a natural state of being

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        #23
        Originally posted by Diver View Post
        I never mentioned the USSR.
        I did however make you do some legwork for a change
        I'm learning more history than I did at School - bring it!!!
        "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

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          #24
          ATW your knowledge is wonderous -

          well done
          "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

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            #25
            Originally posted by Diver View Post
            I never mentioned the USSR.
            I did however make you do some legwork for a change
            You said: "Most of Hitlers munitions were supplied by the Swiss", now prove me with references that your claim was true - prove me that most of Hitlers munitions were actually supplied by the Swiss, go on - prove that the Swiss were making 9mm ammo (tens of millions of rounds), 88mm ammo, fausts and lots more. Go on, have you got any proof or just a big gob?

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              #26
              Originally posted by Jog On View Post
              ATW your knowledge is wonderous -

              well done
              Yes history was one of my favourite subjects, a bit crap that later I learnt that a lot of WW2 history in Soviet Russia was falsified

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                #27
                Can't

                Made it up and Googled it afterwards

                Had the desired effect though

                Sorry AtW, I was bored
                Confusion is a natural state of being

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                  #28
                  Well, you really should be more careful when talking about history, especially WW2, subject that I studied very extensively in Military Academy in Kiev

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                    #29
                    B0llocks!

                    You were a cossack goatherd
                    Confusion is a natural state of being

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                      #30
                      I'm not going to say anything - apart from nothing.

                      .... Oh yeah - I know more now than I did earlier
                      "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

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