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Deathfrombelow23 · 04-17-07, 07:23 PM

I like many of your viewpoints. I think the better question is... what would you do if you were Hitler? Doenitz wanted 300 U-boats. He said if he had 300 submarines he could defeat England. Hitler got him his 300... but not until the "happy times" were well over. If Germany could have some how had 300 or more submarines available at the outset of the war.... if the Kriegsmarine could have some how developed the type XXI and XXIII a little sooner... perhaps if Hitler hadn't started the war in 1939, but instead waited until 1942, 44 or 46 when Germany's Z-plan would've been further along and the Kriegsmarine could've benefitted from the addition of the Graf Zepplin class CV's and Hindenburg BB's... they may have won. It's tough to say... but Germany DEFINITELY COULD'VE won the Battle of the Atlantic, in my opinion. This, ofcourse, depends on things being done differently, which they weren't. And like my esteemed historian colleague above said, hindsight is always 20/20.

04-17-07, 07:23 PM	#2
Deathfrombelow23 Electrician's Mate Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 134 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	I like many of your viewpoints. I think the better question is... what would you do if you were Hitler? Doenitz wanted 300 U-boats. He said if he had 300 submarines he could defeat England. Hitler got him his 300... but not until the "happy times" were well over. If Germany could have some how had 300 or more submarines available at the outset of the war.... if the Kriegsmarine could have some how developed the type XXI and XXIII a little sooner... perhaps if Hitler hadn't started the war in 1939, but instead waited until 1942, 44 or 46 when Germany's Z-plan would've been further along and the Kriegsmarine could've benefitted from the addition of the Graf Zepplin class CV's and Hindenburg BB's... they may have won. It's tough to say... but Germany DEFINITELY COULD'VE won the Battle of the Atlantic, in my opinion. This, ofcourse, depends on things being done differently, which they weren't. And like my esteemed historian colleague above said, hindsight is always 20/20.