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Originally posted by Dadams1: quote: Not evil? Evil doesn't exist? Pssht, that is moral equivalism, which I do not subscribe to in the least. Hitler and many, many people were EVIL! They kill, murder, and rape.

This is relative.

So, if killing is evil, why was it okay for us to kill them for their actions, but not okay for them to kill us for our actions? You basically just told me I was wrong because you believe I'm wrong. Good job.

Hitler did try to take the Suez Canal and the Middle East. That was the purpose of the Afrika Korps.

The purpose of the Afrika Corps was to hold a defensive line in northern Africa, according to Hitler. Rommel had his own ideas, since he wanted Egypt. But the Afrika Corps never had Saudi Arabia as a target.

was that his savage treatment of the Russian people roused them into frenzied resistance and astonishing feats like moving their factories deep into Russia where the Luftwaffe couldn't get to them.

Actually, Russian underground military resistance movements were what pissed him off, so he just went around destroying villages and killing people. There really wasn't much of a civilian resistance.

And Russia didn't move their factories... They were already out of the range of the Luftwaffe bombers at the start of Barbarossa.

He also made the stupid blunder of declaring war on us after Pearl Harbor, freeing Roosevelt's hands to start open convoying and active U-boat hunting.

Heh... First off, he had too, because Japan and Germany were allies. Secondly, Roosevelt's "U-boat hunting" is not a good example of a bad result of the decision. How about, "America got involved in the war and helped invade Normandy"? That might work better.

Thirdly, after Hitler declared war on us, that was when he started sending vast numbers of U-boats to sink our ships. And he succeeded; we sustained more losses than the Germans. [/QUOTE]I do not know where you get your informantion. There are so amny errors here that I hardly know where to begin. Yeah, the U-Boats of Paukenschrift had a few successes in the Carribean but that was because the escorts and planes were drawn back to cover the vital New York and Halfax-based convoys, and they failed abysmally to interrupt that pipeline. Over 95% of all merchants on those routes arrived safe, see Clay Blair's massive, two-volume Hitler's U-Boat War. Doenitz wanted to fight a tonnage war, where as he should have sent his U-Boats against those vital convoys. The losses in the Carribean and along the East Coast hurt, sure, but were nowhere near fatal. When we started convoying and using aircraft in the Caribbean, the U-Boats had a less 'Happy Time.' The factories that were moved were well within Wehrmacht, let alone Luftwafe range, see Richard J. Overy's Why the Allies Won. The 'civilian resistance' that counted was in those factories.