By B. H. Liddell Hart
The vintage account of Germany's generals, their upward push and fall and their very own bills of army occasions from 1939-45. From Guderian's masterly sweep into Poland to the sour and bloody battles of Rommel within the Western wilderness and von Paulus within the Russian snow - this is international conflict II because it was once visible via the boys who commanded the Panzer Divisions and the may possibly of the Wehrmacht. This publication offers a background of the area warfare II, a lot of it compiled from Liddell Hart's personal interrogations of the captives at Nuremburg, giving an account of Hitler's battle from the point of view of Germany's excessive Command.
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Became a handicap in such circumstances of dependence. This combination went far to account for the nickname of the "Rubber Lion" that was bestowed on him by other soldiers. For Werner von Blomberg was of a different type from the violent and unscrupulous leaders of the new regime. If he was more in sympathy with the Nazis than other generals, it was partly because he was more idealistic-while his romantic enthusiasm easily blinded him to aspects he did not care to see. The Nazi movement for a time attracted quite a number of such idealists, though most of them were much younger than Blomberg.
But under the new rule the Chief of the General Staff himself could no longer voice an independent opinion, and became strictly subordinate to whoever was Commander-in-Chief of the Army. The change diminished his influence and that of all other 40 general staff officers. CHAPTER IV The Brauchitsch-lIaldcl' Era At First sight it may seem curious that such a man as Walter von Brauchitsch was appointed to replace Fritsch. and that he accepted the appointment. For he had shown himself conspicuously loyal to the former republican regime.
Thus the net effect of the sweeping disarmament of Germany after the First World War was to clear the path for the more e {ficient modernization of her forces when 11 political opportunity for re-armament developed. Limitations in the degree of modernization were due more to internal conservatism and conflicting interests than to the external restrictions that had been placed upon her. Fritsch Blomberg's position as War Minister enabled him to foster the growth of the new tactics he favoured, and to overcome the resistance which the more orthodox generals had shownas in other countries, especially France.