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   From: rrostrom@comcast.net   
      
   Phil McGregor  wrote:   
      
   > ... so he eventually seems to have convinced himself   
   > that leaving an unconquered UK in his rear was no   
   > biggie ... an unfortunate delusion.   
      
   Part of Hitler's thinking was the idea that Britain   
   was hoping for a powerful continental ally to do the   
   heavy lifting. By conquering the USSR, he could close   
   off that hope, and _then_ Britain would see reason   
   and make peace.   
      
   BTW - in early 1941, Molotov visited Berlin. Ribbentrop   
   told him that Britain was completely defeated. "Then   
   whose bombers are we hiding from?" (THey were in the   
   shelter under the Foreign Ministry during an air raid.)   
   --   
   Nous sommes dans une pot de chambre, et nous y serons emmerdés.   
   --- General Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot at Sedan, 1870.   
      
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