It certainly would have mattered if the Republicans won. Once France fell, a Communist run Spain certainly would have been on Hitler's invasion list. The map of the European Theatre of operations would have been markedly different. I could not imagine Hitler taking on the Soviet Union with a idealogically hostile Spain at his back. The Pyrennees are not easily crossed by mechanized forces. So Mediterranean amphibious forces would have also had to have been utilized to secure an overland supply route to France once Spain were attacked. So either the invasion of the Soviet Union would have been put off by a year due to the shortened campaigning season, or the Afrika Korps would have never been sent to bail out the Italians. The Balkan invasions would have probably been on a different timeline also. BT Tracy Johnson MSI Schaevitz Sensors > -----Original Message----- > From: Brice Yokem [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 11:02 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Weapons of mass hysteria (weekend reading) > > > The poet W.H. Auden described it as the bad fighting the worse. The > war ended in 1938 and given what was going to happen next in the > world, I don't think it would have mattered who won. > > Pjk > > ------------------------ > > Well, Peter, I think it would have mattered who won, it > probably would not > have been decisive, but if the Soviets would have won, it would have > made a difference. > > Thankd for the info on EH... > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * > * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *