Comments by "Geoff Lepper" (@geofflepper3207) on "Imperial War Museums" channel.

@ThatPianoNoob Better way for you to reduce your embarrassment is to just take down your original post instead of trying to change your story after people explained to you how ridiculous was your post.
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Fighting three national armies? They were fighting against the French, British, Canadian and American armies plus some other armies. I'm not sure why you would say just three national armies.
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@@Brunel1859 Actually most of the German war machine moved using horses (which of course was what Napoleon used). One estimate is that 80% of the German war machine moved using horses. It was also estimated that Germany used 750,000 horses and mules In Operation Barbarossa alone. No attempt to conquer the Soviet Union relying on horse power was going to succeed quickly.
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 @ThatPianoNoob Maybe you should stop posting and embarrassing yourself.
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 @Mad3838 It was predominantly Canadian troops who liberated the Netherlands and freed the Dutch people including the person who wrote the post.
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@@Brunel1859 80% of the German army moved with horse power. The German army used 750,000 horses and mules just in Operation Barbarossa alone. Of course the German army in 1941 was very different than that of Napoleon but trucks and tanks by themselves couldn't defeat the Soviet Union if they charged out far ahead leaving the vast proportion of the German army behind.
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I have read that one reason why Hitler declared war on the Uhited States was that he was getting fed up with American behavior on the North Atlantic with American warships escorting ships over a large stretch of the route to Britain. And certainly after war began between the United States and Germany the German submarines had a very successful campaign of sinking allied ships including along the American coast, especially given the mistakes the Americans made in refusing to listen to the British and Canadians regarding the need for blackouts on the east coast and the need to keep merchant ships in convoys protected by war ships. Sailors in the German U-boat fleet called this the second happy time. Also Hitler may have assumed that it was inevitable that the United States would enter the war and also thought that the United States was to some extent already in the war given the huge amount of supplies being sent from the United States to Britain and given the actions of the American navy and statements and threats by the American government. And given the situation in December 1941 Hitler may have assumed that by the late summer of 1942 he would defeat the Soviet Union and also blockade and starve Britain into signing a peace treaty before the United States military was able to have a significant impact on the war in Europe. I'm not sure of the situation in 1941 but in 1940 the United States had a smaller army than that of the Netherlands so it was going to take significant time for the American military to build up to the point that it could take on the Germans in Europe and of course the Americans also had to worry about the situation in the Pacific.
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@alanmacification Though I would think that the German scientists rounded up by the Americans to be shipped to the United States to do scientific work there probably didn't go home at the end of the war. I believe that was called Operation Paperclip. I'm not sure those German scientists necessarily had a choice about going to the United States. The Soviets as well were rounding up German scientists to send to the Soviet Union.
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 @juliemunoz2762 You're delusional. Nobody is importing people to "destabilize society". Stop spouting idiotic nonsense. Make a basic attempt to learn the facts before posting comments online.
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 @SomeInfamousGuy Except for temporary foreign workers and refugees still applying for refugee status and foreign students and visitors everyone in Canada already is home in Canada.
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@juliemunoz2762 The United States is less free than is any developed country. And the United States is falling further and further behind developed countries in terms of freedom. It's very strange that you would think the opposite.
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 @consmos Napoleon and Hitler were both prima Donnas. Just like Montgomery and Patton they could never work together.
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I worked for a few years with a man who was a child in Mynammar (Burma) during WW2. He once claimed that the British bombers were more careful to be accurate with their bombing whereas the Americans just used vast amounts of bombs hoping that one of them would hit the target (given the immense industrial capacity the Americans had to produce bombs and other military supplies). Though I am dubious of the recollections of someone who was a child or youth at the time and a civilian not involved in fighting the war. Very possibly he was just repeating what he had heard from adults during WW2 and he did grow up under British rule and might have been influenced by that.
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@kingstarscream3807 You would be amazed what crazy things people seriously belief. A lot of people don't think that the Holocaust happened during WW2. A lot of people think that the Earth is flat. A lot of people think that vaccines can make one gay or "woke" and don't protect people from disease and that the best way to protect oneself from disease is to pray. A lot of people are convinced that that they are the reincarnation of Cleopatra or some other famous historical figure (a heck of a lot of Cleopatras walking around today).
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@fromagefrizzbizz9377 Cool. For many decades I knew a man named George Blanchard who was prominent in the Toronto sailing community but it was only after he passed away in 2011 that I found out that he had been a manager on the production line for Mosquito planes during WW2. Not entirely surprising as a number of the sailors at our club were employed at De Havilland though I think that George was the only one old enough to have been at the company during WW2. One story I heard was that George was a real "get things done" sort of guy and if there was a problem with a supplier for the plant not providing supplies on time George would take the bull by the horns and go to the supplier's shop to see what the problem was. Don't know if that is true but it wouldn't surprise me as George was always full of energy and the sort of guy who was not easily deterred and got things done if they needed to be done even into his 90s. And in WW2 when things needed to be done significant delays were simply not acceptable. No allowance for projects being done 5 years overdue as often happens in peace time.
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