General Discussion

Calista241

I know - Hitler did to many critical errors under the war to really count - but the decision about bombing british city's is up there at one of the worst blunders Hitler did made - in fact the bombing of London and all the other british city's happened by accident - and Hitler was so impressed by the result - that he deiced that Luftwaffe was to use its power not to hunt down RAF - but to bomb the Britt's into submission by destroying their city's - after all the Terror bombing of Warsaw Rotterdam and countless other terror bombings of other european city's had worked well for the germans before in the war.... The respite the RAF got when Hitler deiced to bomb the city's instead of the airfield, bases and airplanes of the Royal Air Force in 1940-41 was one of the main cases why RAF was able to build up its strength - and to continue the war - even german generals have told so - after the war was over... Even if it was horrible for the people of UK, and most of them had to be rebuild after the war - and good know how many who died in the terror bombing - the british was kind of as they always are when devastating happening on their Iceland's - more stubborn than ever - and even a bombed out shop - just made the owner a way to use the british form of understatement to say his shop was more open than usual - against that form of understatement - even Prussian Germany could never won the war I guess....

The delaying of the invasion of Russia in 1941, who should have started in April I believe - and who started in June 1941 was one that should hunt Germany, the generals and Hitler for as long as the war was - specially as the italian dictator Mussolini had messed up his war plot in Yugoslavia and Greece - and in fact was on its way to be defeated by greece forces who was doing its best to beat the crap out of the italian counterpart - Hitler was afraid - and understood the necessarily of making sure Balkan was silent - and put a large bulk of his forces into that front - devastated Yugoslavia and Greece - but had to put a lot of its forces on the ground - to make sure it was not to end up in enemy hands again - and he lost his "golden lock" when it came to war against Russia... Even if Werhmact - Waffen SS and Luftwaffe was to almost win the war by August 1941 - as Stalins commands about total control over the armies was more devastating than the war against the germans itself - it was not until Stalin at least deiced he better trust his generals who had shown some initiative - defending against the germans to do their job - without him interfering - and also to make sure NKVDs armies of "political advisor's" to the armies was ordered to help the generals rather han mess up their policies - that Russia had any chance to do anything against the invading Germany - who was close to beat Stalin on his own turf - if the generals had been able to do their things instead of Hitler messing up always - it might have ended a whole different way all togheter...


Not to say Normandy - who was a challenge to say it least - and it could have ended a whole different way from the allied forces that day - if Rommel had getting his ways with the reserves - who was strong enough to keep its own - when first inland from the beaches of Normandie... Hitler believed - in his ways he was the smartest generals alive - that it would be madness to concentrate it on Normandy - all the time they had no harbors - no availability to keep the military forces coming ashore - The inventions of floating harbors kind of was floating away from Hitler all together - and he was not able to grasp that the war of 1944 was a whole different war than it was in 1914 - when trench warfare was the best to offer... And he was not able to grasp that war was something different in 1944 than in the last word war.. And he could work himself up to a frenzy talking about what he had experienced in World War one - even long until the early evening on the morning - the poor generals had to listen to him, even if they was dead tired and just wanted to get to bed - but no one dared telling Hitler that it was late - and they had some important things to do later on that day...

Diclotican