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Old December 4th 03, 03:09 AM
phil hunt
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 05:33:25 -0500, Cub Driver wrote:

What you say above is in contradiction to this. He should have left
Africa completely. But hey, that's not what an alliance is about. If
you want to keep it, that is.


The Axis nations seemed not to grasp the notion of alliances. Germany
had a perfectly good ally on its northern flank in the war against
Russia, but instead of supplying materiel to Finland, it *sold* the
stuff. Not only did it sell the Bf-109s--it even charged the Finns for
the aircraft it captured in France and sent north to the FAF, which
was already equipped with numerous foreign aircraft as a result of the
Winter War of 1939-1940.


Not only that, they wouldn't let Hungary -- which had a large arms
industry -- copy German weapons.

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