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the pre-war german army contrary to what people said I mean people like max
hoffman who was usually the brits will tell you the great strategic genius of the
first world war
and regardless of what we think of ludendorf he was a very talented guy these were
not aristocratic prussians ok
and in fact they were their behavior hoffman spent most of his time before the war
drunk
ludendorf was chasing other mens wives they were
but there's also the fact that that having to deal with the kaiser which was
a special issue
it sort of broadened their views of the world and it gave them a sense of
strategy
but this got lost i think it got lost and what you have is a bunch of guys who and
and they're just in awe of hitler I mean it's very strange
what do you think they would have done i mean you you point out that this was so pronounced
that rommel who is regarded as this great genius suggested in forty three that one
way to disarm the world's distaste for hitler's treatment of the jews is put a jew in
high government circles my god they were putting them in concentration camps
this is crazy that's right what difference would it have made if they
had retained a strategic sense
well i think i think if they had retained
that sense to a great extent
uh... they would have
german senior german officers were very good at handling the kaiser
kaiser wilhelm was not as is often said crazy he wasn't in control he had
serious
post birth trauma
a very serious kind and
he he it was like he was
had a serious head injury yeah he was fairly easy to manage
uh... and contrary to what people say the army
took great pains to
could they have controlled hitler yes so I'm saying I think the same thing
could have been
employed okay so maybe not as successfully they might have told hitler don't invade
russia this is a disaster in the making
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