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Q & A - Ask me Anything - I will answer to the best of my ability (Patreon)

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2019-12-27 18:07:20
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Please post your questions below for an upcoming Q & A video.

Note although you can ask anything, I might not be able to answer everything. Since, sometimes questions can be answered right of the bat, others take a quick look in a book, whereas others sometimes require reading a phd thesis and in some cases those have not even been written.


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RikoAzusa

Due to the recent Coronavirus, I'd like to ask how some plagues impact wars such as WWI and WWII

Richard Stokes

I am very interested in the WW2 North African campaigns - and you have examined several areas - eg Afrika Korps; Alamein; Rommel's reputation etc. One question I would like to ask is about Land Mines. Who built these mines? Who planted and activated them? How dangerous are landmines in transit?How is that so many mines could be distributed before the main Battle of Alamein? A figure often quoted is half a million mines. Rommel was short of fuel, but he never appeared to be short of mines. Can you explain this paradox? Apparently, the majority of mines planted to protect the Africa Korps had been plundered from the British side. Perhaps these were acquired when Tobruk suddenly fell? How did the German know how to make use of them? And why did the British let such huge quantities fall into enemy hands? Why didn't they blow the spare mines up or hide them in underground depots? Thx. I've also read that at Alamein the British mine detectors were not very effective and they had to rely on basic techniques , scraping away the sand with bayonets.

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>>37529224

I haven't look into the bigger picture of mines yet, although I know Rommel Töppel that the Soviet reused German mines and I think Rommel and also the British did the same thing. I know that all countries had manuals on various enemy weapons. From what I have seen mines are rather simplistic and since you need to know how to disarm them, arming them should be no issue at all. how they lost so many I don't know. Sorry, but this question thread is mostly closed, I will keep your question in mind and if I come across answers, I will add the answer here or do it in a video.