Posted on 06/11/2007 12:17:14 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Rommel was not responsible for what you suggest here. The man who conceived of the blitzkreig tactic was Heinz Wilhelm Guderian. Probably the least well known, but certainly still highly studied military tactitians of all time. His strategies were developed before the war and were directly responsible for the length of it.
I think hitler had actually tasked him to come up with a strategy to defeat the trench warfare defense. Lookup “Achtung Panzer” for more information. Note, his works also included air support along with the armor and combined arms.
And if I was in his shoes, coming off the Eastern front I'd have probably swam the Channel at the first chance considering Hitler's leadership and what he had done to Germany. In June '44 Severloh knew Stalin had over 1,200 divisions crossing into Poland versus the few dozen (actual) German divisions. The only thing slowing the Red Army down was the supply lines.
The Normandy Wehrmacht divisions had many E front re-assignees like Severloh so it was well known there was no way in Hell the Red Army could be stopped. They were not patriots they were ideologues who were committed to fascism and so they fought on. Imo they should all have died with Hitler, particularly the 'patriotic' zealots. The POW camps in France did a good job of it after the war where over a million German POWs met their end in a similar fashion to what Germany did to millions of Russian POWs 4 years earlier.
...and Monty was the delightful soul behind the frolick known as Operation Market Garden that killed far too many allied troops, instead of giving Patton what he needed. Funny how things never change. In the vein of political correctness they deferred to Monty, had they supported Patton instead, the war would gave been over much sooner, and we never would have had the cold war nighmare of a divided Germany.
Well, we saw how successful the airborne portion of D-Day went...unlikely it would have been any better if there had been more airborne and lesst beach landings
Your heart is full of rancor. I pity you.
I know about the failed bomb plots and the one that almost killed Hilter. I was thinking more like a division or so just wipe out him and his headquarters to be assured of success. It’s easy for me to write that...Hitler had so many under his hypnotic anger filled spell.
Because it sank, some general made the decision to launch the tanks way out and they went under in strong swells and on top of that rocket fire from ships which was supposed to land on the beachs and create craters for the men to hide in fell short into the sea
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