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Post by The Herald Erjen on Mar 8, 2019 11:34:00 GMT
OK, he didn't have the rank of General. Neither did Frederick the Great or Gustavus Adolphus. But he was the overall commander and did make all the key decisions. And, the more Hitler had his hands on a military decision, the worse it turned out. Dunkirk, Stalingrad, Kursk , Normandy etc, etc, etc. Nazi Germany did come close, despite Hitler. It had superior armaments, superior men and superior battlefield generals. If Hitler had kept out of major battlefield decisions, the war might have turned out differently. The Nazi came close due to Kesselring, Manstein, Guderian, Model, Rommel. The Panzer IV, V and VI, The 88's. The panzerschreck and panzerfaust. And as far as the bomb, we would have had one too. And Germany could never get one to the US. Moscow and London might have been obliterated, but never NY and Washington. And Germany would have been a parking lot. Dunkirk was a mistake but Hitler had good reasons for it. He assumed that sparing the lives of British soldiers would have helped in a peace treaty between the UK and Germany and there was a chance of a peace treaty if Winston Churchill didn't became Prime minister. Hitler knew there was no real chance of Germany invading the British islands so he wanted to make peace with the UK in order to focus on Russia. The Normandy invasion happened in Germany was already loosing and the defeat was inevitable. They never really had a chance. Even if the Normandy invasion failed, that wasn't going to stop the Russians from reaching Berlin. I never heard that before. What I heard was that Goering convinced Hitler that the lives of German soldiers could be saved on the ground by demolishing the BEF with air attacks. Did not work. And two years later Goering blew it again by convincing Hitler that von Paulus's Sixth Army could be resupplied by air at Stalingrad. That one didn't work either.
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