Hitler's big mistakes: 1st- let the british go home with their army almost unscathed at Dunkirk. 2nd - Hitler declares war on the Usa. 3rd - after the declaration of war on the Usa,the outcome of the war was sealed,was just a question of time.
I think a lot of this has at least been called into question, if not disproven, by more recent historians. This is the 1945-1990 textbook history, heavily reliant on German memoirs and eyewitnesses. It's still useful historical content, but a lot of doubt has been cast on it
Any leadership role requires a healthy self esteem. Even an RN shift supervisor in a local nursing home. Nobody wants to work for a constantly negative person. However you cannot succeed in an arena where you have no qualifications simply on the force of your own personality. Taken to the extreme you have nutty stuff like the nazi triumph of the will. Old Adolf was so convinced of his own genius that he took the most educated Christian nation in the world and burned down all of Europe. Today we have out of control CEOs ruling their private fiefdoms and putting ordinary people at risk with irresponsible pipe dreams like Theranos and oceangate. Human nature hasn’t changed
The German people were told that Hess had gone mad. This led to a scurrilous cartoon in which Hess was shown being interviewed by Churchill, who asked 'So you're the madman then?', to which Hess replies 'No, he's still in Berlin'.
Hitler was no Strategist He had Good generals who knew how to win Manstein, guderian, rommel, Manteuffell, over time he choose not to listen to their Strategis and performed the biggest blunder he took control of the Army and stopped listening to his Generals, at Staligrad He threw away the lives of 250,000 men when they could have made a tactical Retreat.
It's a little surprising to hear that Goering was ever a 'capable commander'. He messed up the Battle of Britain where he was generally outwitted by Dowding. His other campaigns were against airforces that were small and which had obsolescent aircraft.
Well, Hitler always put his comrades from the old days of the putsch first. He liked having Goering around due to his status as a bonofide war hero. He saw him as a loyal nazi.
These guys were all so arrogant narcissistic lunatics they lied to themselves and to the German people that the War was going well when it wasn’t. They told themselves that they were the best. I’m just glad that Himmler or Reinhardt hydric was not in charge. They’re probably might be a different outcome of this war or General Rommel Luckily, the corporal made all the decisions and what fine decisions they were. I am really happy that this war did not end in a different way we could have been speaking in German. It would be definitely disastrous for the jews, gypsies, homosexuals communists. anything that was a threat to the socialist party?
I agree. The biggest blunder of Göring and his staff was they tried to get air superiority over Britain in general and it was obviously next to impossible. They should concentrate on gaining air superiority over the Channel (and more specifically over a rather small area of the Channel) to make it safe for landing forces. And for that they had to force the RAF out beyond the Thames River. I e. Do everything possible to destroy RAF air bases this side of the Thames. That was the real goal - not senseless in the long run terroristic bombings of the cities or even port facilities and whatever. As soon as the Luftwaffe switched from the task of destroying RAF air bases (and radar equipment, for that matter) this side of the Thames near the Channel, the Battle of Britain was essentially won. Maybe if instead of Göring the Luftwaffe were headed by a man like Dönitz who was way much more integral person and purposeful commander, the things would be much more difficult for Britain. But it was Göring - flamboyant, cunning and absolutely corrupt person. The thing that characterizes him the most was that in the crucial days when the fate of Paulus's army was decided he was busy in Paris buying arts objects for his collection. So when people say that it was Göring who promised Hitler that Luftwaffe could successfully supply the 6th Army they are wrong. Actually, this was General Hans Jeschonnek who told this being at hand. Göring later had nothing to do but to confirm the promise for not to lose face.
It’s strange that we hear here that Goring was such an effective leader. I’ve got several books that say that he was NEVER capable. That he should never have commanded anything. Yes, later he did depend on morphine and likely other drugs. But his corruption was so profound that it led to better fighters from coming into being. The ME 109 was an excellent plane at the beginning of the war, but by 1942, it met its match. By 1943 it was easily surpassed. But a better plane never came into being as it was from a rival manufacturer. This is just a little part of it.
Borman stole Hess's position as Beruos manager of AdolfHitler , and Hess hadn't special attacker organizations to serve Hitlers project.....its a 2nd time I saw this magnificent documentary
Germany had men in Russia after WW1. They worked with the Russians testing weapons, etc. Why is it tt the German General Staff never did a detailed analysis of the conditions of the European Russian infrastructure?
Hitler's biggest mistake is this one thing. He did not let the professional generals run Operation Barbarossa. Bcz all the mistakes tt were made, would not hv led 2 Germany's defeat, if Hitler had not interferred with military operations in Russia. In his memoirs, Albert Speer stated this in his book, "Inside the Reich." This was made into a TV movie starring Rutger Hauer as Speer, and Derek Jacobi as Hitler. It is FM the 1980s. Pretty good movie, IMO.😊
Batter sentence while telling red army resistance and fight should be .. ": in November red army started intense resistance in the command of their new general " Marshall Winter " ..
Not completely- France was considered to be a bigger military threat to Germany than either Russia or the US, and the Nazis beat them easily. Russia had just had been embarrassed by tiny Finland, and the US was a long way away and not ready for war. At the time, Hitler’s decision did not seem crazy.
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Hitler's big mistakes:
1st- let the british go home with their army almost unscathed at Dunkirk.
2nd - Hitler declares war on the Usa.
3rd - after the declaration of war on the Usa,the outcome of the war was sealed,was just a question of time.
4th - Hitler invades the USSR.
I think a lot of this has at least been called into question, if not disproven, by more recent historians. This is the 1945-1990 textbook history, heavily reliant on German memoirs and eyewitnesses. It's still useful historical content, but a lot of doubt has been cast on it
Any leadership role requires a healthy self esteem. Even an RN shift supervisor in a local nursing home. Nobody wants to work for a constantly negative person. However you cannot succeed in an arena where you have no qualifications simply on the force of your own personality. Taken to the extreme you have nutty stuff like the nazi triumph of the will. Old Adolf was so convinced of his own genius that he took the most educated Christian nation in the world and burned down all of Europe. Today we have out of control CEOs ruling their private fiefdoms and putting ordinary people at risk with irresponsible pipe dreams like Theranos and oceangate. Human nature hasn’t changed
The German people were told that Hess had gone mad. This led to a scurrilous cartoon in which Hess was shown being interviewed by Churchill, who asked 'So you're the madman then?', to which Hess replies 'No, he's still in Berlin'.
Hitler was no Strategist He had Good generals who knew how to win Manstein, guderian, rommel, Manteuffell, over time he choose not to listen to their Strategis and performed the biggest blunder he took control of the Army and stopped listening to his Generals, at Staligrad He threw away the lives of 250,000 men when they could have made a tactical Retreat.
It's a little surprising to hear that Goering was ever a 'capable commander'. He messed up the Battle of Britain where he was generally outwitted by Dowding. His other campaigns were against airforces that were small and which had obsolescent aircraft.
Well, Hitler always put his comrades from the old days of the putsch first. He liked having Goering around due to his status as a bonofide war hero. He saw him as a loyal nazi.
They were close to victory if it wasnt for hitler
These guys were all so arrogant narcissistic lunatics they lied to themselves and to the German people that the War was going well when it wasn’t.
They told themselves that they were the best. I’m just glad that Himmler or Reinhardt hydric was not in charge. They’re probably might be a different outcome of this war or General Rommel
Luckily, the corporal made all the decisions and what fine decisions they were. I am really happy that this war did not end in a different way we could have been speaking in German. It would be definitely disastrous for the jews, gypsies, homosexuals communists. anything that was a threat to the socialist party?
I agree. The biggest blunder of Göring and his staff was they tried to get air superiority over Britain in general and it was obviously next to impossible. They should concentrate on gaining air superiority over the Channel (and more specifically over a rather small area of the Channel) to make it safe for landing forces. And for that they had to force the RAF out beyond the Thames River. I e. Do everything possible to destroy RAF air bases this side of the Thames. That was the real goal - not senseless in the long run terroristic bombings of the cities or even port facilities and whatever. As soon as the Luftwaffe switched from the task of destroying RAF air bases (and radar equipment, for that matter) this side of the Thames near the Channel, the Battle of Britain was essentially won. Maybe if instead of Göring the Luftwaffe were headed by a man like Dönitz who was way much more integral person and purposeful commander, the things would be much more difficult for Britain. But it was Göring - flamboyant, cunning and absolutely corrupt person. The thing that characterizes him the most was that in the crucial days when the fate of Paulus's army was decided he was busy in Paris buying arts objects for his collection. So when people say that it was Göring who promised Hitler that Luftwaffe could successfully supply the 6th Army they are wrong. Actually, this was General Hans Jeschonnek who told this being at hand. Göring later had nothing to do but to confirm the promise for not to lose face.
It’s strange that we hear here that Goring was such an effective leader. I’ve got several books that say that he was NEVER capable. That he should never have commanded anything. Yes, later he did depend on morphine and likely other drugs. But his corruption was so profound that it led to better fighters from coming into being. The ME 109 was an excellent plane at the beginning of the war, but by 1942, it met its match. By 1943 it was easily surpassed. But a better plane never came into being as it was from a rival manufacturer. This is just a little part of it.
Borman stole Hess's position as Beruos manager of AdolfHitler , and Hess hadn't special attacker organizations to serve Hitlers project.....its a 2nd time I saw this magnificent documentary
Germany had men in Russia after WW1. They worked with the Russians testing weapons, etc.
Why is it tt the German General Staff never did a detailed analysis of the conditions of the European Russian infrastructure?
Hitler's biggest mistake is this one thing. He did not let the professional generals run Operation Barbarossa.
Bcz all the mistakes tt were made, would not hv led 2 Germany's defeat, if Hitler had not interferred with military operations in Russia.
In his memoirs, Albert Speer stated this in his book, "Inside the Reich." This was made into a TV movie starring Rutger Hauer as Speer, and Derek Jacobi as Hitler. It is FM the 1980s. Pretty good movie, IMO.😊
Batter sentence while telling red army resistance and fight should be .. ": in November red army started intense resistance in the command of their new general " Marshall Winter " ..
Was this showen to the public
What a lunatic Hitler was taking on Russia and united states' lol
Not completely- France was considered to be a bigger military threat to Germany than either Russia or the US, and the Nazis beat them easily. Russia had just had been embarrassed by tiny Finland, and the US was a long way away and not ready for war. At the time, Hitler’s decision did not seem crazy.
perhaps if hess would have trimmed his eyebrows...he may have been successful in england
Propaganda !
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Fascinating, just wondering how your comments fit in for this documentary, though, your highness.
who cares
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