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Old October 15th, 2007, 04:33 AM
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Default Re: What if German generals were switched with their Allied counterparts?

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Originally Posted by Roddoss72 View Post
To Za, i call it as i see it, i still maintain that if Hitler had an hands off approach and allowed his Generals to conduct the war as they saw fit in regards to dictates of what is happening on the battlefield and allowed them the flexibiltiy to decide for themselves and not to run to Papa Hitler for every decision down to Battalion level, they could have defeated the Soviets.
And I will be stubborn and state that Hitler only told his commanders as to what he wanted accomplished, NOT how to accomplish it, was left to his commanders.
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