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I ve lived in a cold part of Canada all my life. Just as cold as Russia. But I’ve never heard of case of someone’s eyelids falling off due to frostbite or cold. Ears and nose , toes and fingers freeze, but not eyelids… Just doesn’t happen. This makes me question all his other opinions and observations.
Some of the stupid ROEs that where issued including "challenging" the enemy BEFORE executing an ambush made it very difficult. Only two types of people out at 2AM with weapons, Friendlies and Enemies. If you're with the friendlies you don't need to ask if they are enemies.
Evil is difficult to accept on normal people but Hitler was really a madman. Since he ordered the Jew's execution by the millions much before the end of the war, there's no way to excuse his mental illness. There are criminals with high IQs and those with low IQs and both classes are the same. Intentions - hidden or open - is what defines a criminal , not his IQ.
One of the reasons he lost is because they were not ready for the war. His economist and experts in charge of arming the military all told him they needed atleast 2 more years. They had a plan but hitler wanted to speed things up because he was paranoid he had cancer and would die early like his father and mother. He didnt think anyone else could do the job and lead germany to victory so he speed everything up by a few years despite being told they were not ready
Two answers: 1) had Hitler not declared war on the US, it is not clear that US isolationist sentiment would have ever allowed FDR to enter the war. Remember he was very strongly challenged by Wendall Willke, an unknown candidate campaigning on the single issue of keeping the US out of war. And without the Eighth Air Force disruption supplies and taxing morale, the Wehrmacht wouldn't have been turned at Kursk, wouldn't have lost Stalingrad, and would have captured Baku and its oil as well as of course Moscow. At that point, nothing Stalin or Churchill could have done would have defeated Hitler. 2) If the US enters the war, then absolutely nothing done by Hitler or Stalin or anyone else would give Germany a chance to win. As long as the US could launch planes from the UK, the war would have ended in 1945 with the atomic bombing of Germany.
Copperheads wearing pins to show off during the civil war sounds almost as disgusting as the Republican politicians who wore AR15 pins after Uvalde school shooting.
This is a masterstroke of the propaganda plaguing us today. In 2011, when this was delivered? we were running a big war in Afghanistan and Obama was selling us out to 'sequestration.' Those colonels are now generals or retired and in the Senior senior ranks and Obama pals Joe's strings. But how important at that time to talk about world war 2 to a class of young colonels who they are all heading towards the Hindu Kush. Brilliant way to lose.
Excellent talk and delivered with an absolute minimum of notes . The point about ideology trumping sound military strategy is well made and entirely plausible.
The moment Barbarossa commenced, Nazi Germany was going to lose. They did not the economic prowess to engage and sustain a broad front war in the East. Smolensk was a precursor to what was going to happen at Stalingrad.
from his niece Cisco: He was the Joint Chief of Staff so we had a very strong political background. My father was also a Grand Master within the Illuminati. He worked on the west coast during the Vietnam War with his uncle who headed the military, to run drugs into this country to create a drug culture. The purpose of that was to destroy the structure within the family unit. The drug culture was the real purpose behind the Vietnam War. My father was also with the USO shows in the military as he was a musician; he was also involved with the CIA; and he was a 33rd degree Mason. Because of his being a Grand Master within the Illuminati, he was very strongly connected to America's political sturcture. Because of the generational ties within the Illuminati, from the planned time of my conception, I entered into a world that was well structured, and well planned. And as a structured slave within the Illuminati, I too became connected to America's political structure. As a small child I was groomed to sexually service the so-called elite within this political structure.
@OP @furrycow9263, and others: Instead of looking behind, you should be looking ahead. But for the moment you are wise to doubt this speaker’s knowledge set and conclusions. At no point in Hitler’s life prior to or after gaining the chancellorship was he interested in “taking over the world“. There may have been a few Nazis who thought this way and advised him during the war (with ill advice due to ideology); But Hitler himself had no such ideology other than cleansing Germany of its racial impurities. Hitler’s eye was continuously on the ball of simply improving Germany and taking back what Germany lost (ala Versailles) in terms of national strength, size and territory. In fact he believed that most people, leaders, countries around him had no problem with this which is why he invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland and other countries, Austria, etc. Hitler simply wanted to expand Germany to its original extent, which is basically holy Roman empire extent. It is ridiculous to suggest that he wanted Aryan Nazism to take over Russia and Australia and Polynesia and all of Africa. National socialism is/was not “global socialism” for hitler. Just listen to any of his speeches between 1925 and 1935 and then between 1935 and 1940. He was bent on German restoration and expansion but not to a global extent. He had no such intent, he simply wanted Germany to be restored to her former glory. Stupid and ugly idea yes but nonetheless it’s kind of kindergarten for this author and professor to be suggesting that his ideology stopped him from winning the war. Very obvious and irrelevant piece when you consider these ideas. He went on the defensive as soon as everybody started attacking him. And his only goal was for Germany. So to that extent it makes perfect sense why he did the things he did militarily, which are now considered blunders by this historian. Yes he was “racially“ motivated but it was more “German” than anything else. The only reason why he was invading these countries was because those countries were opposing his plan to build up Germany. Including the United States. Now let’s take a side step. What organization on the planet actually is interested in global domination? The answer to that question is potentially twofold but also easy to answer. The holy Roman catholic church is probably the only SOVEREIGN NATION on the planet who desires ideologically to take over the entire world. And it has nothing to do with race nothing to do with politics nothing to do with anything other than the ideology of the Catholic Church being the only true religion. The second part of this question could be the United States, but think for a moment. Would the United States want to “take over the world“ or would the United States with its “separation of church and state“ it’s “freedom for women“, it’s stated limits on state power and it’s freedom for all regardless of religion, gender, race, etc...be interested in either helping the Catholic Church take over the world or stopping them? Think about it. There is no uglier ideology than religious ideology as 1500 years of Catholic brutality and history attests. The Catholic Church has not changed its stripes; it is interested in stopping all progress unless that progress is Catholic. The leader ship of the Catholic Church trusts no country unless that country is already a dictatorship. They trust Autocrats and Authoritarians. In the next 10 years they plan on interfering with human affairs AGAIN by pushing for a third temple in Jerusalem despite the fact that the Catholic Church has always hated the Jews. They intend on co-opting the entire project.
Perhaps another way to say it; I believe that Hitler should have gone off and screwed Eva and let the generals achieve his objectives, get up and then tell them the next objective, before going back to screwing Eva. Then there were all the thousand cuts or failings in code, oil, aircraft, submarines, etc.
Had Hitler stayed out of Afrika. He may have used Rommel's Ghost Division to secure the oil in Crimea. This would have allowed Guderian to continue on to Moscow. Or, assign Rommel on The Atlantic Wall to prepare for invasion in 1941. By helping Benito, Adolf lost time, men and weapons.
AH was delusional, a gangster, a manipulator and in no way a strategist. His only goal should have been the defeat of the ussr. No genocide, no totalitarian state, foster nationalism of ALL Germans, of all ethnicities and develop rapport with the west.
Don't listen to American propaganda. The real reason why Hitler lost was becos he attacked USSR. Even if it is a one-on-one war with Nazi Germany vs USSR alone, Nazi Germany will still lose in a matter of a few years.
I don’t think there were that many strategic mistakes except declaring war on the US. Germany lost because of a lack of stuff. Men, food, steel, aluminum, petroleum and factories left standing. I had a friend in Paris in 1944. He was 14. He watched an American GI cleaning the wheel bearings from his jeep. He removed the bearings, filled his helmet with gasoline, rinsed the crud out of bearing and, to my friend’s amazement he took the helmet full of gas and pitched it on the ground, without a care in the world. At that moment my friend knew the allies would win. The germans were conserving every ounce of gas. It’s used was severely restricted. The allies pretty much had unlimited supplies of everything, relatively speaking. Once german POWs found themselves on ships headed for America they were eating better than they did with the Wehrmacht! It was all about supply. The bombing offensive made it impossible to supply a war on 3 fronts and the uboat menace was over.
