That's General Patton commanding his Sherman tank, about to take Berlin. Picture probably taken around 1943-44 since it is color.
Title: Re: Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII
Post by: Masherbrum on May 30, 2016, 08:38:53 PM
Germany was done the moment they switched from attacking the RAF Aerodromes and trying to save the moustached one's ego and bombing London. If they would have stuck to the original plan, things would have been a little different, if not much more different. But he lost so.....
Title: Re: Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII
Post by: DREDIOCK on May 30, 2016, 09:07:21 PM
Germany was done the moment they switched from attacking the RAF Aerodromes and trying to save the moustached one's ego and bombing London. If they would have stuck to the original plan, things would have been a little different, if not much more different. But he lost so.....
And that and why he did that is actually covered in the video. Point is the reasons he did that were the same reasons he kept making that same mistake over and over.
Again. Covered in the video
Title: Re: Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII
Post by: Brooke on May 30, 2016, 10:10:01 PM
The RAF was never nearly defeated at any point in the BOB. And lined up behind them was a navy that had to be dealt with somehow after the Germans had thrown away their own small surface forces in Norway. When you take the numbers presented in Brute Force, and the intelligence advantages the allies east and west had and throw in that he Germans demonstrated very clearly what would happen to anyone they defeated. All that was needed was the willingness to fight them. The allies had dozens and dozens of painful but certain ways to beat the Germans, the Germans had only the hope that they would not be fully opposed. And their own actions ensured they would be fully opposed. The rest is just romanticism.
Title: Re: Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII
Post by: Masherbrum on May 31, 2016, 02:09:38 PM
Excellent post and Ellis is one of my favorite authors. Good to see the name Pongo again.
Title: Re: Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII
Post by: caldera on May 31, 2016, 04:24:45 PM
Their biggest mistake was bombing Pearl Harbor.
Title: Re: Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII
Post by: ghi on May 31, 2016, 06:35:43 PM
Hitler made no mistakes, WW1,2,3 were preplanned and are following the blueprint, unfortunately we can't talk about this here.
Title: Re: Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII
Post by: zack1234 on June 01, 2016, 02:06:11 AM
After the Romans, the Franks (a group of German tribes) took over a land thereafter called "France", and two German tribes, the Angles and the Saxons, took over a land thereafter called "Angleland".
Title: Re: Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII
Post by: Ripsnort on June 01, 2016, 09:38:48 AM
The RAF was never nearly defeated at any point in the BOB. And lined up behind them was a navy that had to be dealt with somehow after the Germans had thrown away their own small surface forces in Norway. When you take the numbers presented in Brute Force, and the intelligence advantages the allies east and west had and throw in that he Germans demonstrated very clearly what would happen to anyone they defeated. All that was needed was the willingness to fight them. The allies had dozens and dozens of painful but certain ways to beat the Germans, the Germans had only the hope that they would not be fully opposed. And their own actions ensured they would be fully opposed. The rest is just romanticism.
Geez, what is this Old AH Guy Day? Hiya Pongo. :)
Title: Re: Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII
Post by: zack1234 on June 01, 2016, 12:10:33 PM
After the Romans, the Franks (a group of German tribes) took over a land thereafter called "France", and two German tribes, the Angles and the Saxons, took over a land thereafter called "Angleland".
Dolby is Welsh?
Title: Re: Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII
Post by: FLOOB on June 01, 2016, 12:12:48 PM
God you guys are square.
Title: Re: Why Hitler Lost the War: German Strategic Mistakes in WWII
Post by: Brooke on June 01, 2016, 12:36:08 PM