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Steeltrap · 08-18-06, 02:15 AM

In answer to the original post, it's for me a case of this being largely a TECHNICAL question - how well does the German technology (U-boat and various systems) perform against the allies' technology (escorts and systems, aircraft etc)? So it's NOT personal. Politics does not enter into it. There were 'atrocities' committed on all sides (consider, for example, that the USA conducted unrestricted sub warfare against Japan from 7th Dec 1941 while Germany did not initially do so in the Atlantic, yet Doenitz was tried as a war criminal for doing something which the USA did, and did better.....). Also, WWII is an era where personal skill is seen as being more important to the results, as technology had not developed to the level of 'point and shoot' as it has today. Thus your own actions and choices are seen as being crucial to the result as THEY have as much (or more) to do with the result than the technology (hard to sneak up on an enemy with GSR, remote 'snooper' drones, AWACS etc....).

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Steeltrap Grey Wolf Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 818 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	In answer to the original post, it's for me a case of this being largely a TECHNICAL question - how well does the German technology (U-boat and various systems) perform against the allies' technology (escorts and systems, aircraft etc)? So it's NOT personal. Politics does not enter into it. There were 'atrocities' committed on all sides (consider, for example, that the USA conducted unrestricted sub warfare against Japan from 7th Dec 1941 while Germany did not initially do so in the Atlantic, yet Doenitz was tried as a war criminal for doing something which the USA did, and did better.....). Also, WWII is an era where personal skill is seen as being more important to the results, as technology had not developed to the level of 'point and shoot' as it has today. Thus your own actions and choices are seen as being crucial to the result as THEY have as much (or more) to do with the result than the technology (hard to sneak up on an enemy with GSR, remote 'snooper' drones, AWACS etc....). Last edited by Gizzmoe; 08-18-06 at 09:02 AM.