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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid anyone tell Trump that Hitler's generals LOST WWII?
So why would he want generals that were losers?
SocialDemocrat61
(2,600 posts)Mainly because he didnt listen to his generals.
lapfog_1
(29,905 posts)only thing that might have turned the war was the invasion of Russia... if the Germans didn't do it... and kept more of their Jewish scientists... they might well have stayed in the war in Europe long enough to develop the atomic bomb before we did and they were were well on their way for long range ballistic missiles, and with a enough jet fighters to stop the bombing campaign on the Ruhr valley industrial plants.
But Hitler made the decision to invade Russia... and Japan tipped his hand on declaring war with the USA... and the scientists ( except for a few ) left Germany when they could...
and that doomed Germany.
Didn't help that the Generals were infighting with each other for influence with Hitler... or that Hitler thought he was smarter than his generals because of his near bloodless take over of Austria and the Sudetenland.
SocialDemocrat61
(2,600 posts)And once operation Barbarossa began, Hitler kept on interfering and refused to follow the advice of the Generals.
wnylib
(24,017 posts)demands were bad strategy. Nobody wanted to get on Hitler's bad side, so they went along with some of his idiotic strategies. Those who did object, for instance, to his invasion of Russia, opening up a second front, were demoted and replaced.
Sounds like just the way Trump would act if the nation was at war. He would insist on telling the generals what to do and fire those who objected.
SocialDemocrat61
(2,600 posts)Also, by the end of the Hitler either fired or executed most Generals.
canetoad
(18,007 posts)But instead was generous enough to allow him to commit suicide.
bdamomma
(65,685 posts)that Hitler's generals attempted to take Hitler's life.
Prairie Gates
(2,547 posts)Not all. Some continued executing Hitler's idiotic orders even as the Red Army closed on the bunker.
Silent Type
(6,038 posts)UTUSN
(72,175 posts)verargert
(50 posts)Prairie Gates
(2,547 posts)They knew that Hitler was giving them idiotic orders and they followed them anyway. That's what Trump wants? Jeez, it's funny if your kids aren't just about draft aged.
jfz9580m
(14,897 posts)I had forgotten OReilly exists. . A bit of comic relief on a dark topic.
tetedur
(1,013 posts)We all remember the Malmedy smear, for which O'Reilly has never either apologized or corrected the record:
In Malmedy, as you know, U.S. forces captured S.S. forces who had their hands in the air and were unarmed and they shot them dead, you know that. That's on the record. And documented."
O'Reilly in fact had it completely reversed: At Malmedy, it was American troops who were massacred by SS guards, not the other way around.
Not only did O'Reilly never correct the insulting gaffe, a year later he repeated it:
In Malmedy, as you know, U.S. forces captured SS forces who had their hands in the air, and they were unarmed, and they shot them down. You know that. Thats on the record, been documented. In Iwo Jima, the same thing occurred. Japanese attempted to surrender, and they were burned in their caves.
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/david-neiwert-famed-wwii-historian-bill-oreilly-sm
Context? :
Bill O'Reilly has been so desperate to prove that the Bush administration's use of extreme tactics in the"war on terror" -- including torturing detainees and killing civilians -- that he's even been willing to smear the memories of American veterans of World War II to make that point.
jfz9580m
(14,897 posts)Was not aware of this one. Though I knew of his Peabody award .
But yeah that is awful
orthoclad
(4,469 posts)Von Stauffenberg's almost worked. Table leg deflected the blast.