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originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: crazyewok
Not getting shot in the face during World War I.
originally posted by: TobyFlenderson
a reply to: crazyewok
I'm curious as to your reasoning to seemingly down play anything about the Third Reich the last two days. Is there an agenda here? Do I smell a holocaust denial in the offing?
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: crazyewok
Apprently a Brit saw a wounded hitler and took pity on him and let him live.
Opps our bad
Please tell me that's not a real story.
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: crazyewok
I'm currently into reading Oman's history of the Peninsular War. That's why I'm more conscious at the moment of the similar list of Napoleon's mistakes (e.g. trying to micromanage everything from Paris, when the guerillas were capturing all his messengers).
originally posted by: Deny Arrogance
[SNIPPED]Buying into socialism.
Railing against the free market.
Pushing his leftist socialist agenda.
originally posted by: crazyewok
Hitler made many many mistakes so I thought we could compile a list of them. Here are the ones I can think of off the top of my head:
Not wiping out the British army at Dunkirk
Attacking UK city's instead of RAF airfields and crippling the RAF
Invading Russia when the war in the west was unfinished.
Not giving German troops the equipment for a winter campaign in 1941
Failing to take into account supply's and logics in invasions.
Interfering with Generals who knew better.
Insisting on taking Stalingrad.
Dismissing Nuclear research as "Jewish" Research.
Declaring war on the USA.
The Holocaust.
Initially dismissing Jet Research ( Yes that happened, the ME262 could have been ready in 1942 if he had not obstructed it).
Demanding the ME262 be a bomber initially wasted time and it tactically.
Wasting time and resources on the pointless V-1 and V-2 Programs.
Cancelling a project for guided surface to air missiles in favour of the V program.
Keeping Herman Goerring in a position of responsibility even though he was corrupt and useless drug addict.
Refusing to use the Luftwaffe in defence of the German home land and instead sending it off to be destroyed piecemeal.
Who has more to add to the list?
The Maus Tank Program.
The Ratte Tank programs
originally posted by: abeverage
originally posted by: Deny Arrogance
[SNIPPED]Buying into socialism.
Railing against the free market.
Pushing his leftist socialist agenda.
What leftist socialist agenda did he push? Just curious where you learned that and would like to educate myself on how Fascism is leftist or socialistic.