[Marxism] Socialist Policy in World War Two

[John]

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 21:30 -0400, Thomas F Barton wrote:
> 12/16/1941
> 
> Rommel's Afrika Korps forced to retreat in North Africa
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>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: S. Artesian 
>   To: Thomas F Barton 
>   Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:19 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Marxism] Socialist Policy in World War Two
> 
> 
>   Nazi armies on retreat in Dec 41 where?  

North Africa was a sideshow. The German army only committed about 3
divisions there. The bulk of the fascist forces in North Africa were the
8 Italian divisions. I doubt the Japanese war effort made much
difference to the fighting in North Africa.

As I said before, the bit of the war in the Asia/Pacific theatre that is
ignored in most mainstream histories is the , largely communist,
insurgencies that fought the Japanese army and caused a huge drain on
Japanese military resources. They are a significant reason that the
defeat of Japan was so total, as well as the fact that its expansion was
less than it might otherwise have been.

Korea had been colonised since 1910, Manchuria soon after, the rest of
China from the mid 30s. For North Asians, WWII was a very long affair
and it was about real imperialist expansion.
Cheers,
John