Selasa, 18 Juli 2017

Hitler Takes Command!

The Nazi dictator’s victory over the German General Staff led to battlefield defeat. Shortly after the end of World War II, Lieutenant General Hasso von Manteuffel, one of Germany’s most skilled field commanders, was asked for his assessment of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s military competence. According to Donald Grey Brownlow’s biography Panzer Baron, Manteuffel revealed: …

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