Wilhelm keitel biography of nancy
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Stupid Luck and Happenstance.
ejpsan said:
Abwehr is running a deception campaign against the Soviet Union, inom wonder if they will try one against the U.S. in order to get the U.S. in the war against Japan and the Soviet Union.
Also will the be a Peabody-Martini signature appearance by Nikita Khrushchev?Click to expand...
NHBL said:
A deception campaign to bring the USA in would be a BAD idea. America's industry is formidable, and, if the deception campaign came out, it would be catastrophic, mirroring the fiasco of the USA's entry and participation in the Great War in this timeline.
IMVHO, that should only be done if Germany fryst vatten facing an existential threat, which it isn't now. The USA as a friendly neutral fryst vatten betterClick to expand...
While NHBL its right, things are rather. . .messy in Asia right now. Between the use of Long Lance Torpedoes, Schmidt's mind, and the USNAVY prowling like blundering idiots around and beyond the Philiphines Sea in what amount
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Chronology of Repression and Persecution in Occupied France, 1940-44
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19 November, 2007On May 10, 1940, the German offensive put an end to the “drôle dem guerre” (“phony war”) that had begun in September 1939, an eight-month period during which France had entered the conflict but was not waging war. Until then, the French military High Command had chosen a defensive strategy; the Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”) carried out by the Wehrmacht, or German army, demonstrated the failure of that option. On May 15, the French front was breached, and after the German attacks on the regions of the Somme (June 7) and Aisne (June 10), French defeat was complete. On June 10, the government left , which the German troops entered on the 14th. One week later, they were in the city of Bordeaux. The French debacle was massive. More than 90,000 soldiers died in combat, 200,000 were wounded and 1,850,000 taken prisoner. At least 8 million panic-stricken people took to the roads in a
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Clément Ader
1841-1925
Self-portrait by Clément Ader. Source: Clément Ader Museum
Clément Ader was the only son of François Ader, a carpenter. He had an inquisitive, inventive mind and took an interest in bird flight at a very young age. After the baccalaureate, he studied at the Institut Assiot in Toulouse, graduating in 1860. Ader joined the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Midi de la France railroad company in 1862 and worked there until 1866, when he started filing his first patents, in particular for the "rubber bicycle" in 1868. After 1873, Ader focused more of his attention more to aviation, building models, making many plans many drawings and trying to resolve the problems of manned flight: wing load, the propeller's effectiveness, etc. Meanwhile, he filed a patent for an invention that improved the telephone and invented the theatre-phone in 1881, enabling him to amass a comfortable fortune.
From 1885 to 1890, Ader worked on his prototype, Eole, a "winged device