re: #244 Joel

Britain while not surrendered, was no longer a threat to Nazi Germany in June 1941,. He attacked the USSR for a variety of reasons primarily as it was the one power on the continent that could still challenge him.

Britain was like a huge aircraft carrier, allowing the basing of US forces. Hitler should have occupied and secured Britain and Ireland before any move against the Soviets. But of course, he moved against the Soviets in 1939, two years befiore the US entered the war; I guess he thought that the America Firsters would be able to keep us out of it.

Pearl Harbor put an end to that.