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Inside Hitler S High Command

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Author : Geoffrey P. Megargee
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2000-06-08

Inside Hitler S High Command written by Geoffrey P. Megargee and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-08 with History categories.

Challenging previous accounts, Geoffrey Megargee shatters the myth that German generals would have prevailed in World War II if only Hitler had not meddled in their affairs. Indeed, Megargee argues, the German high command was much more flawed than many have suspected or acknowledged. Inside Hitler's High Command reveals that while Hitler was the central figure in many military decisions, his generals were equal partners in Germany's catastrophic defeat. Megargee exposes the structure, processes, and personalities that governed the Third Reich's military decision making and shows how Germany's presumed battlefield superiority was undermined by poor strategic and operational planning at the highest levels. His study tracks the evolution of German military leadership under the Nazis from 1933 to 1945 and expands our understanding of the balance of power within the high command, the role of personalities in its organizational development, and the influence of German military intellectuals on its structure and function. He also shows how the organization of the high command was plagued by ambition, stubbornness, political intrigue, and overworked staff officers. And his "a week in the life" chapter puts the high command under a magnifying glass to reveal its inner workings during the fierce fighting on the Russian Front in December 1941. Megargee also offers new insights into the high command crises of 1938 and shows how German general staff made fatal mistakes in their planning for Operation Barbarossa in 1941. Their arrogant dismissal of the Soviet military's ability to defend its homeland and virtual disregard for the extensive intelligence and sound logistics that undergird successful large-scale military campaigns ultimately came back to haunt them. In the final assessment, observes Megargee, the generals' strategic ideas were no better than Hitler's and often worse. Heinz Guderian, Franz Halder, and the rest were as guilty of self-deception as their Fuhrer, believing that innate German superiority and strength of will were enough to overcome nearly any obstacle. Inside Hitler's High Command exposes these surprising flaws and illuminates the process of strategy and decision making in the Third Reich.

Inside Hitler S High Command

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Author : Geoffrey P. Megargee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Inside Hitler S High Command written by Geoffrey P. Megargee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Challenging previous accounts, Megargee shatters the myth that German generals would have prevailed in World War II if only Hitler had not meddled in their affairs. Instead, he observes that the military's strategic ideas were no better than Hitler's and often were worse. 20 photos.

Corps Commanders Of The Bulge

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Author : Harold R. Winton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Corps Commanders Of The Bulge written by Harold R. Winton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Study of the Battle of the Bulge.

Death Of The Wehrmacht

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Author : Robert Michael Citino
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Death Of The Wehrmacht written by Robert Michael Citino and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.

A deft, lively, and highly readable history of the demise of the German way of war. As the allies found an antidote to the "shock and awe" approach of the Wehrmacht, the once mighty German army underwent an epic fall from remarkable operational victories to crushing operational defeats, forced to take on a defensive stance in a war it could never win.

Hitler S Japanese Confidant

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Author : Carl Boyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

Hitler S Japanese Confidant written by Carl Boyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.

In 1940, the US Army Signal Intelligence Service broke the Japanese diplomatic code. In 1975 Oshima Hiroshi, Japan's ambassador to Berlin during World War II, died, never knowing that the hundreds of messages he transmitted to Tokyo had been fully decoded by the Americans and whisked off to Washington, providing a major source of information for the Allies on Nazi activities.

Hitler Strikes Poland

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Author : Alexander B. Rossino
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Hitler Strikes Poland written by Alexander B. Rossino and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.

Usually given short shrift in most histories of World War II, Hitler's invasion of Poland was more than a series of opening salvos; it was a testing ground for German brutalities to come. This is a comprehensive study of the campaign, including insights into its ideological underpinnings.

Hitler S Jewish Soldiers

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Author : Bryan Mark Rigg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Hitler S Jewish Soldiers written by Bryan Mark Rigg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

On the murderous road to "racial purity" Hitler encountered unexpected detours, largely due to his own crazed views and inconsistent policies regarding Jewish identity. After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, he discovered that eliminating Jews from the rest of the population was more difficult than he'd anticipated. As Bryan Rigg shows in this provocative new study, nowhere was that heinous process more fraught with contradiction and confusion than in the German military. Contrary to conventional views, Rigg reveals that a startlingly large number of German military men were classified by the Nazis as Jews or "partial-Jews" (Mischlinge), in the wake of racial laws first enacted in the mid-1930s. Rigg demonstrates that the actual number was much higher than previously thought-perhaps as many as 150,000 men, including decorated veterans and high-ranking officers, even generals and admirals. As Rigg fully documents for the first time, a great many of these men did not even consider themselves Jewish and had embraced the military as a way of life and as devoted patriots eager to serve a revived German nation. In turn, they had been embraced by the Wehrmacht, which prior to Hitler had given little thought to the "race" of these men but which was now forced to look deeply into the ancestry of its soldiers. The process of investigation and removal, however, was marred by a highly inconsistent application of Nazi law. Numerous "exemptions" were made in order to allow a soldier to stay within the ranks or to spare a soldier's parent, spouse, or other relative from incarceration or far worse. (Hitler's own signature can be found on many of these "exemption" orders.) But as the war dragged on, Nazi politics came to trump military logic, even in the face of the Wehrmacht's growing manpower needs, closing legal loopholes and making it virtually impossible for these soldiers to escape the fate of millions of other victims of the Third Reich. Based on a deep and wide-ranging research in archival and secondary sources, as well as extensive interviews with more than four hundred Mischlinge and their relatives, Rigg's study breaks truly new ground in a crowded field and shows from yet another angle the extremely flawed, dishonest, demeaning, and tragic essence of Hitler's rule.

Liberty

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944

Liberty written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with categories.

The Battle For Leningrad

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Author : David M. Glantz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

The Battle For Leningrad written by David M. Glantz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

Based on an unparalleled access to Russian archival sources and going far beyond the military aspects of other historical works, Glantz's book is a testament to the nearly two million Russians who lost their lives during the battle for Leningrad. 90 illustrations. 16 maps.

Prelude To The Final Solution

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Author : Phillip T. Rutherford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Prelude To The Final Solution written by Phillip T. Rutherford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.

Follows the Nazis' attempts at a large-scale deportation system after its invasion of Poland in 1939 as it sought to reclaim territory and repatriate that space with an ever-expanding population of ethnic Germans. Standing in the way, however, were millions of ethnic Poles. Rutherford recounts the strenuous efforts and unexpected obstacles to the deportations, which in many ways were a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution.