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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

There’s an old saying something like this: “Most states have an army, Germany is an army that has a state.”


64 posted on 04/13/2012 5:31:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That seems to be an unfair characterization of the German army, which seemed to have been subordinate to civilian leadership. I know Hitler made a show of uniforms, like a lot of dictators, but the Army really did tend to follow the political leaders, not vice versa. Hitler was a lot more eager for war, imho, than the Army.


65 posted on 04/13/2012 6:38:02 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Queeg Olbermann: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them.)
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