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5 hours ago, Bellatsonia said:
24 minutes ago, jj3 said:
SI 2018 =
On 05/03/2018 at 8:55 PM, Sunshiine said:
On 05/03/2018 at 9:19 PM, Sunshiine said:
2 minutes ago, jj3 said:
3 minutes ago, jj3 said:
I ran across this passage (written by Chief of Staff (48.Panzer Korps, Lt. General Mellanthin) on the mentality of General von Cholititz (who surrendered Paris in 1944)
QuoteAt this time General von Knobelsdorff was away on leave and General von Choltitz was acting commander of the 48th Panzer Corps. Day after day he spent most of his time in the foremost lines and personally conducted the battle in any sector where the situation was most dangerous. One fateful evening he talked to me about the way things were going, and expressed his anxiety at the terrific pressure on our front. Then he had a vision. He saw how the Soviet masses would close in on us like giant ocean waves. AU the dams built to stem their onrush would be shattered and the Russians would go on and on and eventually submerge Germany. He wanted to go and see Hitler himself and tell him the facts about this unequal struggle and of the untenable situation at the front.
He declared he would resign and by his resignation give the danger signal which would compel Hitler to make new decisions.
I did my best to convince the General by quoting sober figures, to show that even the flood of Russian manpower was bound to run dry. I pointed to the incredibly high losses the Russians had suffered at the hands of his corps, which had fought with unrivalled bravery and courage, and I told him that one day even the Russian attacks would peter out. My arguments made little impression and he remained unmoved in his decision. He did not believe that our front would hold on the following day. He wanted to spare his troops this horrible ordeal; they were growing weaker and weaker and there was no hope of getting replacements or reinforcements. The next morning he drove away from corps headquarters, still determined to put his views before Hitler.
Two days after General von Choltitz had left, the Russian attacks on the front of the 48th Panzer Corps broke down. It seemed that the General had been unduly pessimistic, but during the winter of 1945, when the Soviet hordes broke over my country, I often thought of this memorable conversation.
^ Interesting.
34 minutes ago, jj3 said:
I really love the look of that shoot above! 
^ Me too !
this is the preview of the excellent stalingrad book I talked about long ago- It was out of print and being sold for hundreds of dollars until it got a stackpole contract:
On 17/03/2018 at 4:26 AM, Cult Icon said:this is the preview of the excellent stalingrad book I talked about long ago- It was out of print and being sold for hundreds of dollars until it got a stackpole contract:
Saldly, in a global conflict like that one, and not even, we'll know more battles à la Stalingrad than Koursk ... Koursk will happen once on a front, followed by MANY Stalingrad or Leningrad type of battles ... Thanks to the defensive technology.
Since decades, with the absence of real intensive conflicts, denfensive techs improved way more than offensive ones.
9 minutes ago, jj3 said:
