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Originally posted by yogibear
From Canuck>
Like it or not, Hitler was a strategic genius. He made alot of mistakes near the end which led to his downfall, but the blame must also go to his Commanders and Generals
I have to disagree with this one. His chances of winning the
2nd world war would have been greater had he listened to
and allowed his generals to fight the war their way.
His biggest mistake was invading Russia while still fighting
the British in the west.
His generals actually had little regard for his strategic abilities. Remember he came out of the Army as a corporal
not an officer.
When the war was going badly for the Germans, some of the generals(Rommel included) actually conspired to assassinate him.
The truth is that it's not his generals who were to blame solely,but Hitler himself who shares the bigger blame for his defeat.
Originally posted by DeusEx
Hitler was dangerously removed from reality, period. These kinds of neruosies and psychosis aren't really surprisng, considering his person history. It's a fixation upon religion caused by extreme trauma in addition to chemical imbalances, in my opinion. I don't condone any of his actions- I just don't think there is a chance in hell that a sane perosn would have done half of what he did.
DE
Originally posted by infinite
Hitler just used peoples fear to gain control. Hitler was filled with hate towards the jews, he was far from crazy. He must be smart if he can get a whole nation to embrace him and accept his racist views.
Originally posted by uberarcanist
reply to post by Steff
He was a good political leader but a rotten military leader (who didn't know he was a rotten military leader).
Originally posted by uberarcanist
reply to post by Steff
Oh, his scientists were brilliant, no doubt about that. And he had some damn good generals, too. Problem was, he routinely ignored the advice of his generals.
Originally posted by Steff
True that....His BIG mistake was trying to take Stalingrad (strategically).....His line of thinkin was basically.......I must take the city that bears the bolsjeviks name....Beginning of the end.
Originally posted by GODFLESH
I understand Hitler was very interested in the occult, and sent expeditions to find artifacts which would make him invincible.
Originally posted by uberarcanist
Not that I'm disputing the (highly likely) accuracy of reports about leaks in the German command structure to the Russians, but I've never read this before. Can you provide me some external sources, either internet or print, where I can read more about this?