V-2 and "gusts of emotion," again

[Mark Kohut]

That's "stupidly-phrased".....
I was not referring to Monte's substantive historian at the time he wrote *The
Mare's Nest*.

Irving may have gone later to 'the dark side' but that is not relevant
here.

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Monte has brought to my attention offlist--by taking the post
> seriously---how I MISLED
> with my studily-phrased post....
>
> The line about NO ONE believing him is meant to follow the link, and means
> NO ONE
> BELIEVES THE OLD PENSIONER HISTORIAN cited in the article.....
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just about NO ONE believes him though, which is why I did not send around
>> earlier.
>> Now, just to add to the "gusts'.
>>
>>
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/18/german-pensioner-claims-he-has-found-nazi-nuclear-bombs/
>>
>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Weisenburger and others make an unassailable case for P's familiarity
>>> with David Irving's *The Mare's Nest*, a 1964 account of the V-weapons,
>>> what UK intelligence knew about them, and UK/US military efforts to combat
>>> them. What Irving captured best is London's confusion as late as mid-1944
>>> among "flying bombs," large rockets, and the ultra-long-range artillery in
>>> northern France that could have hit London (but was overrun after D-Day
>>> well before it was ready).
>>>
>>> Those around Churchill who doubted a large rocket began by arguing "it
>>> can't be done," and as evidence accumulated shifted to "maybe it could be
>>> done, but it doesn't make sense." I.e., it  would cost so much more (about
>>> fifty times as much as a V-1, as it proved) to deliver about the same
>>> weight of explosive, and demanded much more in specialized high
>>> technologies that were desperately needed in other areas of the war.
>>>
>>> In an August 1944 report summarized by Irving, scientific advisor R.V.
>>> Jones realized how he and his peers had been led astray by such practical
>>> considerations:
>>>
>>> "...he recalled how Intelligence had been forced to enter a fantasy
>>> world where
>>> romance had replaced economy. Why had the Germans expended years of
>>> intensive research, an elaborate radio control, and tons of costly fuel to
>>> throw at London a warhead not much larger than that already carried far
>>> more cheaply by the flying bomb? To him, the answer seemed obvious: no
>>> other weapon had produced a comparable “romantic appeal.” Here was a 13-ton
>>> missile which traced out a flaming ascent to heights hitherto beyond the
>>> reach of man, and hurled itself 200 miles at unparalleled speeds across the
>>> stratosphere, to descend upon its defenceless target.
>>>
>>> "What did it matter that the German Air Force [which ran the V-1
>>> program] was doing the same damage much more cheaply? The Army’s rocket was
>>> a fantastic technical achievement which had captured the imagination of the
>>> Nazis. There was surely no deeper policy behind the rocket."
>>>
>>> You can't run a war on gusts of emotion, Adolf.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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