"Tearing The Guts out of the Wermacht ..." Topic

…A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE RUSSO-GERMAN WAR

Of possible interest?

Free to read

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Armand

Interesting – as an observation, though, quantity has a quality all its own

What I get out of this dissertation (not yet approved apparently) is that the author's premise is that most prior scholarship on the war is pro German and cannot be trusted. I found the style to be sloppy – "The ink had barely dried on the Treaty of Versailles" before Hitler and the Nazi's started rearmament in 1934. He missed a whole decade. The Wehrmacht cowed France into submission? What?

The idea for this paper seems to have come from seeing the prevalence of German armor and figures at an MFCA show. He also criticized Osprey for glorifying German armor. While there is some truth to that the way he has written the paper one must think no one realized that the Russians had superior tanks or that fact was covered up. It is a bit over the top.

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Armand

I do think de Ruyter is to be congratulated for actually reading and evaluating the study. I do hope that something submitted in 2018 did get approved, but there is definite ground to challenge the content.

German tanks were rubbish pre war and the Wehrmacht was so lucky to get the Czech AFVs. Soviet (not Russian) tanks could be superior but KVs and T34s were a minority early in Barbarossa. But why are folk not commenting? I am profoundly ignorant on anything after 18th June 1815, but try to contribute.

Folks commenting?… what was that?….

Armand

The loss of Sergeants during the first winter was a blow the infantry never recovered from.

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Armand