"Stuart Wilkes' mom" wrote in message et...
I always said Stuey would never amount to anything.

Add another one to the list of Mark's spiteful lies. Really, Mark,
you should know by now that there's no real satisfaction in that.

Stuart Wilkes

"Drazen Kramaric" wrote in message
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On 23 Oct 2003 03:20:56 -0700, (Stuart Wilkes)
wrote:


What were the numbers of soldiers involved in the two campaigns that
you are comparing. i.e:

Suprisingly equal, Rostyk. I'm suprised you didn't know that.

Post the numbers, then.

Size of armies in the west and the casualties?

Well, the French Army alone suffered 1.9 million KIA and prisoners in
the campaign in the West, while the combined
Franco-Anglo-Belgian-Dutch armies inflicted ~27,000 KIA on the
Germans.

Your numbers are correct, but do not tell the whole story. France
surrendered because it had no more manpower nor space to continue the
war so all their remaining soldiers went to POW camps. Had you
included only POWs captured prior to cease fire the numbers would be
more correct, but would represent argument against your thesis, that
Red Army represented the most efficient enemy realistically possible.


In this case, the Germans faced unprepared unalerted, peacetime-strength
Rifle Divisions (~6000 men) far from their assigned battle positions,
which is one of the
advantages you get when you do a sneak attack.

You are representing this as 3,000,000 German soldiers appeared out of
nowehere next to the Soviet border. The primary person responsible for
Red Army been caught napping is the man you feel was justified in
invading Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland under the
pretext of "security in case of German attack".

Why don't you address that fact for a change?


Drax