Assassination

[Damato, Anthony A]

If you look back at July-August 1941, you will find that the leading
military strategists in Great Britain and the United States were agreed
that Russia would fall within a matter of months.  It is true that American
intelligence (for whatever reason--maybe just good snooping by Harry
Hopkins) was closer to estimating Stalin's military strength than Germany's
estimate was; Germany vastly underestimated Soviet tanks and planes.  I
don't know about British estimates of Soviet military strength (does
anyone?)  But I do know that Stalin's constant whining about not having
enough materiel made more of an impression on Churchill than upon
FDR.  This could either mean that Churchill was more gullible than FDR (he
probably was), or that British assessments of Soviet strength erred on the
low side.

Tony D'Amato
http://anthonydamato.law.northwestern.edu/




At 05:13 AM 3/28/2004, you wrote:
>It is my understanding that, from the British perspective at least,
>Operation Barbaroosa spelled doom for the Third Reich.
>
>According to one person present in the room when Anthony Eden, Churchill's
>Foreign Secretary and later Prime Minister, was informed that Russia had
>unleashed Operation Barborossa, Eden slapped his knees in utter joy and
>excitedly exclaimed "we've won the war, we've won the war."
>
>David Guyatt
>

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