In 1942 when the Nazis were rampaging across the Soviet Union and Marshal Stalin was clamoring for an invasion of France by the Western Allies to relieve the hard pressed Red Army Prime Minister Churchill placated him by saying that a second front had already been opened in the West by the RAF and USAAF air offensive.
I wonder if that statement encouraged the USSR to fight on as it had been feared that they might make a separate peace due to the rapid advance of the Wehrmacht.
Today if you drive from Moscow/DOM airport into the city centre you will pass a line of huge red steel tank traps in the middle of the highway and they mark the high water mark of the Wehrmachts advance.
Caspian, you are absolutely correct in your recollections of Speers comments.
Last edited by DC10RealMan; 20th Feb 2013 at 23:28.