[BNM] Death to s/facebook/fedbook and the great CIA social data mining exercise

[Joe Aliferis]

Rommel was attempting to capture Egypt, access to Suez and the oil 
fields of the mid east.

El Alamein was a major turning point in the war

Defeat for Rommel and Germany meant that the Axis had to make do with 
the oil they had from Eastern Europe and, at the same time, that the 
Allies got the much needed oil supplies they required

Barbarosa might have succeeded if El Alamein had gone the other way

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_El_Alamein

Joe




Chris Billett wrote:
> Yuh. Never came up in the two year depth study of Nazi Germany when I was
> studying history, I have to confess.
>
> I think it was around twenty million Russians that died in WWII, and I know
> that fewer Germans and Brits combined died than Russians did just in the
> siege of Stalingrad. According to a discussion I had with a friend last
> week, ³... in Leningrad, they had no heat or light during the seige in a
> winter of -50 degrees, they ate bread made from wallpaper paste - just 4 oz
> a day, too  - and something like 2,000 were dying every day.²
>
> Something tells me it wasn¹t for want of petrol that Hitler tripped up.
> Maybe he was just too concerned that someone would one day make a film
> starring Tom Cruise as an inept would be assassin making an attempt on his
> life. :)
>
> On 7/1/08 22:02, "Alex Beston" <alex.beston at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>>> is not the case that the Nazis failed to reach Moscow because Rommel  [ran
>>>>         
>>> out of oil]
>>>       
>> really? where did you hear that one?
>>
>> perhaps an ickle citation would be handy
>>     
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