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Old February 12th, 2006, 10:08 PM
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Originally posted by Celestial:
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From about '43 it goes backwards for the Germans, but they were very successful in the intial stages.It wasn't Hitler's wisest decision but it was definitely not the dumbest!
See? This is the selective memory style fostered by the conventional view of the war. This reminds me of Guderian's memoirs, all fine and dandy with lots of detail when the going gets good, but then absolute amnesia when the winter of 1942 sets in and afterwards. Same with von Manstein's memoirs.

As the other side's histories were hard to find in the west, and besides they belonged to the ideological enemy, they were discounted and all we were fed were the rosy-tinted views through German lenses.

Read the article I suggested today elsewhere, American Perspectives on Eastern Front Operations in WW II. Oh, just to be sure, this is by an American author, not a Russian.
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