Well, I'll say this: Hitler did not deal with those who disagreed with him the way Trump does. Whatever else you can say about them, Hitler and his National Socialist regime were a tyranny of epic proportions, as were the other Axis powers -- including the Soviet Union, of course, which was a Hitler ally until Hitler stupidly launched Operation Barbarossa.
That's not to say Hitler wasn't fighting the ancient Money Powers and so on; just that none of us here would want to be living in Hitler's Germany (or Japan or Italy etc of the time).
During World War II, Hitler's Germany executed between 15,000 and 77,000 opponents of the regime. The Gestapo arrested and imprisoned up to 800,000 for political reasons. Almost everyone who ended up in its cellars was beaten and tortured.
And two, the General staff planners had calculated they could be fighting a mobile war for 3 months only.
When did the tank battle of Kursk play out? 1943? How many months?
So ... question: how did they do that?
The 1941 Winter indeed brought everything to a halt. It slowed to advance. What would have happened, had Operation Barbarossa commenced 2 months earlier, as had been the plan?
And it, the tank battle at Kursk, was just months after the debacle of Stalingrad in 1942/1943. All they had to do was hold out.
Considering these things, one had to wonder, whether indeed was "stupid" as you claim. The more so, since Joseph Mustache Stalin blurted out to FDR in 44, when the latter claimed Hitler to be stupid: You really think a stupid man can get to a Great Leader like me? I considered becoming a NSDAP gauleiter, because on a personal level: Adolph likes me.
Stalin knew, it was only by the skin of the teeth of the soviet slaves ....
What would have happened, had Operation Barbarossa commenced 2 months earlier, as had been the plan?
No one knows, because that's not when the invasion was launched. Two months earlier certainly would have given the Germans more time before the notorious Russian winter got into full swing. But that's not when Hitler chose to go.
And of course the invasion turned a friend and ally into an enemy: the country with the largest land mass of any on Earth and with a huge population was now an implacable enemy with an endless supply of soldiers. As Stalin once pointed out, in reference to the relatively low-quality of most Soviet weapons compared to the finely machined guns (early in the war, at least) of the Germans: "Quantity has a quality all its own."
I don't see any reason to change my opinion of Hitler.
friend? wow .... temporary local common interest. The scourge of commie propaganda and terrorism was rampant.
And besides, as for choice, The commitment of troops and material was jinxed by Italian fuck ups in Greece and the Balkan. To secure the flank, something had to be done.
As far as your opinion is concerned, you are under no obligation to change that.
stupid: mentally slow, lacking ordinary activity of mind, dull, inane,
The scourge of commie propaganda and terrorism was rampant.
That's always the way with Communists. Pretty much the same with the Nazis, of course. R.J. Rummel spent his career researching Death by Government (the title of his book, first published in the 1980s). He found the Nazis were #3 on the mass-murder list of the 20th century, behind the Soviets and the Communist Chinese (the Chinese Nationalists weren't exactly choir boys either).
61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State
35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State
10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime
(etc)
As for Hitler's stupidity: I repeat that launching Barbarossa when he did (or at all, frankly) was probably stupid, even if "something had to be done" at that point in time. For that matter, starting World War II wasn't such a great idea either. If not stupid, then certainly psychopathic; something like 70 million people died and many more than that were injured, orphaned, traumatized, made homeless, or harmed in some other way. And there's no denying that things did NOT go the way Hitler planned or hoped: so probably not a smart choice.
Hitler's "stupidity" wasn't a lack of brain power; it was the kind of stupid that has its roots in emotional damage. Bad choices, warped views, too much action based on old feelings being expressed towards things in the present, and so on. Just my opinion, of course.
Well, I'll say this: Hitler did not deal with those who disagreed with him the way Trump does. Whatever else you can say about them, Hitler and his National Socialist regime were a tyranny of epic proportions, as were the other Axis powers -- including the Soviet Union, of course, which was a Hitler ally until Hitler stupidly launched Operation Barbarossa.
That's not to say Hitler wasn't fighting the ancient Money Powers and so on; just that none of us here would want to be living in Hitler's Germany (or Japan or Italy etc of the time).
https://theins.ru/en/history/259425
Also:
https://yandex.com/search/?text=The+White+Rose+resistance
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Soviet+Union+allied+with+Hitler+early+on
What if there was no other option?
And two, the General staff planners had calculated they could be fighting a mobile war for 3 months only.
When did the tank battle of Kursk play out? 1943? How many months?
So ... question: how did they do that?
The 1941 Winter indeed brought everything to a halt. It slowed to advance. What would have happened, had Operation Barbarossa commenced 2 months earlier, as had been the plan?
And it, the tank battle at Kursk, was just months after the debacle of Stalingrad in 1942/1943. All they had to do was hold out.
Considering these things, one had to wonder, whether indeed was "stupid" as you claim. The more so, since Joseph Mustache Stalin blurted out to FDR in 44, when the latter claimed Hitler to be stupid: You really think a stupid man can get to a Great Leader like me? I considered becoming a NSDAP gauleiter, because on a personal level: Adolph likes me.
Stalin knew, it was only by the skin of the teeth of the soviet slaves ....
No one knows, because that's not when the invasion was launched. Two months earlier certainly would have given the Germans more time before the notorious Russian winter got into full swing. But that's not when Hitler chose to go.
And of course the invasion turned a friend and ally into an enemy: the country with the largest land mass of any on Earth and with a huge population was now an implacable enemy with an endless supply of soldiers. As Stalin once pointed out, in reference to the relatively low-quality of most Soviet weapons compared to the finely machined guns (early in the war, at least) of the Germans: "Quantity has a quality all its own."
I don't see any reason to change my opinion of Hitler.
friend? wow .... temporary local common interest. The scourge of commie propaganda and terrorism was rampant.
And besides, as for choice, The commitment of troops and material was jinxed by Italian fuck ups in Greece and the Balkan. To secure the flank, something had to be done.
As far as your opinion is concerned, you are under no obligation to change that.
stupid: mentally slow, lacking ordinary activity of mind, dull, inane,
That's always the way with Communists. Pretty much the same with the Nazis, of course. R.J. Rummel spent his career researching Death by Government (the title of his book, first published in the 1980s). He found the Nazis were #3 on the mass-murder list of the 20th century, behind the Soviets and the Communist Chinese (the Chinese Nationalists weren't exactly choir boys either).
(etc)
As for Hitler's stupidity: I repeat that launching Barbarossa when he did (or at all, frankly) was probably stupid, even if "something had to be done" at that point in time. For that matter, starting World War II wasn't such a great idea either. If not stupid, then certainly psychopathic; something like 70 million people died and many more than that were injured, orphaned, traumatized, made homeless, or harmed in some other way. And there's no denying that things did NOT go the way Hitler planned or hoped: so probably not a smart choice.
Hitler's "stupidity" wasn't a lack of brain power; it was the kind of stupid that has its roots in emotional damage. Bad choices, warped views, too much action based on old feelings being expressed towards things in the present, and so on. Just my opinion, of course.
...compelling addendum...