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Which pale beside his achievements. Montogomery like Patton
was a prima-donna, a pain in the arse and an excellent
field commander. Like all generals he made mistakes but
got things more right than wrong.

Keith

And Rommel was better than both of them combined. If only he had the
resources in men and material that the US/Britain possessed... or at
least the Heer's PROMISED material from Berlin and not had to babysit
the Italians!
One might also wonder what would have happened if Hitler had listened
to Guderian as well???

The repetitive "If"...the continuing mantra of those who cannot accept the
fact that Germany screwed the pooch in WWII and lost.

Or better those morons like you that cannot accept the fact that
Germany is the size of just 1 US state and took on the world and was
winning half the time. Then after defeat, your VICTORIOUS and SUPERIOR
armies raped the entire German nation for all of its technology
ensuring postwar victories without any real effort on your part to
develop them yourself... in areas so unimportant as say... aviation
and space technology... just to name two!


Oh, of course, we forgot about the evil Yankees and the vicious
Engländer stripping the resources of the innocent German people, whose
glorious achievements in conquering the lesser nations of the world were
such an example to us all. Fe

What's size got to do with it? US states didn't pursue an aggressive
foreign policy of conquest or a domestic policy of terror.

Face facts, you blinkered apologist. Hitler's military and scientific
"achievements" were mostly short-term and impractical, and were paid for
in terms of blood and suffering. Few areas of research were not being
pursued in Allied countries as well.


As much as I respect
Rommel, wasn't he the guy who commanded the losing side at Normandy, having
taken a quick getaway trip back to see his family when the invasion began
because he thought there was no *way* the allies would attack in that kind
of weather...?

Read a f**king history book Brooks. It was Rommel who inspected the
Atlantic Wall and criticized its lack of any strategic depth. He made
a short but futile attempt to rectify parts of the wall realizing that
the armored reserves would be needed in the first 48 hrs to throw the
invaders back from Normandy. Hitler refused to allow Rommel to move
them closer to the coast.
And criticizing a man of such dignity that he chose to take poison to
save his family and not dishonor his nation (Germany, not Hitler nor
the Nazi Party) is
repugnant even for a ******* like you. Rommel wanted the war to end
and Hitler dead as Hitler was to him a greater threat to Germany than
the Allies. WTF more do you want from the guy? He is a true hero for
mankind, a man of honor respected by friend and foe alike.
You Brooks, OTOH, are a jackass.


If he was such an honourable man, what was he doing serving Hitler in
the first place?

The Allies were only a threat to Germany, as you put it, because Germany
was such a threat to the rest of the world. France and the UK declared
war on Germany, but only because Germany invaded Poland.

Rob

p.s. Can't wait for the two pinheads to chime in too- Keith Willshaw
and Al Minyard.


Is it any wonder that many people regard the Germans as arrogant?

Brooks


Rob

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