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the full up solution , the 80 cm cannon was not ready in 1940 . Though the contribution of the line to the German artillery arm was quite profound . Despite all the established narrative about Rommel suddenly discovering the benefits in use of the Acht Komma Acht in a ground combat in Arras , the 88 was meant to be multimission from its service entry in 1936 , especially against fortifications .
and those worthless Nazis knew they were , how to put it , worthy of being targeted . There is a reason for the existence of SS which was groomed to become larger as the war went on ; they could even take on the Wehrmacht if it came to the shove and Nazis used the interlude the SS provided to indoctrinate the rest of country . Wasn't plain sailing ; ı hear in 1944 one in a thousand Germans were punished for their political views . Impressive in a police state with the actual Gestapo ...
my wall to wall thread and this ı have written a lot for the day by my standarts , will add a few more things if ı can .
although touched upon in a detailed post the number of divisions were 10 and they reached 21 by the time of Barbarossa . Though this doesn't imply a doubling of the combat power of the German tank park . On a formation basis the divisions were divided into two , the norm was to a have a single tank battalion instead of the two provided in the previous scheme . Why Barbarossa happened is some great mystery considering the Germans had more tanks and planes when invading Poland .from 1933 to 1939 the german army went from minor defense force to the worlds most powerfull fighting force in only six years, 30 Panzer Divisions
the Maginot line did what it was supposed to do ; it stopped a general German attack through the area it defended . There was never any intention of making the line unpenetrable . And it wasn't exactly a line anyhow . Rather it was a group of observation posts acting as tripwires for a limited amount of firebases . Their intention was to delay and attrite and the few cases they were in combat showed the troops in them were hardly cowards . There is one case the exchange ratio of casualties was in favour of the French , at an impressive 40 to 1 . There is an article somewhere that an US author nearly brags how they were destroying the fortifications with ease in 1944 . With Germans in them and the Wehrmacht had famously resorted to flanking the line . Germans in 1940 did engage the line after it was outflanked , to gain its surrender .Maginot
the full up solution , the 80 cm cannon was not ready in 1940 . Though the contribution of the line to the German artillery arm was quite profound . Despite all the established narrative about Rommel suddenly discovering the benefits in use of the Acht Komma Acht in a ground combat in Arras , the 88 was meant to be multimission from its service entry in 1936 , especially against fortifications .
am firmly of the opinion that he was highly ambitious and a major player in the French decision making , first as a mouthpiece of Petain , then as a confidant of the French PM .De Gaulle was the only [decent general capable of thinking on his feet] the French had
there is this talk of repeated reminders to a group of German high rankers about the benefit of RAF raids to Berlin , where "a fluke hit" could be produced by certain German co-operation , early 1941 would have been excellent . In any case by Wannsee the window of opportunity was largely gone , the conduct of Germans of all stripes against the Bolshevik untermensch eroded even those Red Stripers' own perception of themselves as honourable warriors . Of course the commitment of Germany to total war at last neatly matches with the Junker understanding that there wasn't much chance anymore of convincing people out of their borders about their nobility . Before that the stupid , straight out of city sewers type criminals also known as Nazis were treating the German population with velvet gloves , hurting the German war effort kinda immensely .I think the last chance for the German High Command to oust Hitler was March 1939
and those worthless Nazis knew they were , how to put it , worthy of being targeted . There is a reason for the existence of SS which was groomed to become larger as the war went on ; they could even take on the Wehrmacht if it came to the shove and Nazis used the interlude the SS provided to indoctrinate the rest of country . Wasn't plain sailing ; ı hear in 1944 one in a thousand Germans were punished for their political views . Impressive in a police state with the actual Gestapo ...
this delayed timeframe is the first that ı have seen but it might well be exactly so , Russians did not underestimate Germans in the same scale as the Western Allies , though one might probably argue that it was also coloured by the May-June 1940 fighting .The Soviet plans for a war with Germany listed 1944 as the year to attack.
my wall to wall thread and this ı have written a lot for the day by my standarts , will add a few more things if ı can .