"Misplaced Optimism – Hitler’s Directive 32, 11 June 1941" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Jul 2020 10:17 p.m. PST |
"At the beginning of the war, Hitler directed the war by general instructions (Weisungen in German), which compelled armed forces commanders to act in a certain way. The implementation and planning was then left to staffs. The Directives were consecutively numbered (e.g. the Directive for the invasion of the Soviet Union was No. 21), and there were 2 or so per month in 1941. The Directives were prepared by the staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – OKW), so they were already supposed to be militarily sound, and based on proper planning and strategic analysis. Hitler himself was the Commander of the Armed Forces, so the OKW worked towards him…"
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