72 countries

[Kassz007]

Quote from bearice:

I know how many countries will be involved in World War 3.

How many, great prophet?

 

[Kassz007]

Quote from LORD KAL-EL:

In a sense it was, WWI started with the assisination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

WWII was a direct result of and a continuation of WWI.

This is true.

 

[Ricter]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

this always makes me laugh: What if World War II was an Online Multiplayer Game:

*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*MacRthr has joined the game. *
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*

Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0JO: lol
Roosevelt: o this fuckin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever
Stalin: cool
...

Rofl, great

 

[bearice]

Quote from Kassz007:

How many, great prophet?

How many countries are there in this world? The world is a global village.

 

[jficquette]

Quote from bearice:

Somebody said to me "World War 2 was started by a single bullet".

Somebody shot somebody and the World War 2 was started.

That was WW1

 

[trefoil]

Quote from Wallet:

The only thing that kept Russia from being overrun by the Germans was the harsh winter, German ground mechanical units froze ...

Napoleon said something similar. Like Mark Twain said, history may not repeat, but it rhymes.

 

[Swan Noir]

Harsh winters are part of the risk you take if you invade Russia. I'm sure both the Germans and the French had a sense of that.

Quote from Wallet:

The only thing that kept Russia from being overrun by the Germans was the harsh winter

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[Wallet]

Quote from Swan Noir:

Harsh winters are part of the risk you take if you invade Russia. I'm sure both the Germans and the French had a sense of that.

Hitler's operation Barbarosa, launched in Late Spring was planned to last approximately 5-6 weeks, The goal breaking Russian defenses, ability to rebuild and take Moscow.

While the Germans took vast areas of land the main goals were unsuccessful in their timing, while the Germans did have some equipment able to operate in -20F degree or colder climates the vast amount of German mech units actually froze (grease), unable to move, in addition the German soldiers were inadequately equipped for the extreme cold. Unable to resupply both sides ended in a frozen stalemate, while huge casualties mounted on both sides. I don't believe that they will ever be able to put an exact number, or close approximation, to the death toll incurred on the Russian front.

Over the centuries many conquests of Russia failed in the winter, Hitler's was no exception.

 

[Ricter]

"General Winter", iirc.

 

[d08]

Quote from bearice:

9 countries were fighting with the Axis country (Germany, Italy, Japan). So if 72 countries were involved in World War 2 that means 63 countries were fighting for Allied countries (Britain, France, USA).

But only Russia could stop Germany and Hitler otherwise Hitler would be ruling this world now.

Russia alone couldn't have done anything. They didn't have guns, ammo, transportation or even enough food - that was all supplied mostly by the US and partly by UK.
Just look what an ass whooping they took from Finland even when they had all the numbers on their side.
Anyway, the Jews have brainwashed the rest of the world to thinking Hitler and Hitler's Germany had almost supernatural powers (which it didn't).