Originally posted by the.raven:
LOLz wtf you know the odds the Germans faced or not? its them against the Allies, the Soviets, and the Americans. they did very well already
Please take not my dear raven yes you are partly right but to think overwhelming odds are the main reason of the defeats for the
battle i listed is just pure folly. Here I am talking about Hitler's personality that pulled the German army down with him not why the German army was defeated
go read the topic "A great general" not "a great defeats"
Read this anyway
"German General Chief of Staff warned hitler that his armies are spread very thinly on the Russian Front."
"The German staff officers wanted to withdraw to a much shorter line....staff officers believed by strongly fortifying this line they will be able to stop the Russian advance indefinitely. Hitler refused to listen, he already dismissed his best commander of the east Marshal Von Manstein making the same suggestion...Hitler insisted that that his armies must hold on to everyinch of Russian territory they occupied....instead of building deep defensive zone his generals suggested, he threw most of the German reserve forces into front lines....Hitler collected a few remaining reserves in southern Poland...because he expected a major Russian atatck between the Pripet Marshes and the Carpathian Mountains.
Instead...the Russian struck north of Pripet Marshes.....in ten days 25 German divisions were overrunned and blasted a hole.....into German lines....worse defeat Germany yet to suffer in the war,
and it was all due to Hitler's stubborn refusal to take advice of his military experts"-From Battlefield Europe 1944-1945 by Major (retired) Nevitt Dupuy
