With all due respect,
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Originally Posted by Devilsadvocate
That is not even remotely true.
Hitler did not control the "Wehrmacht" in the "late twenties".
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That was a bad slip. However, my issue is what you have said following that paragraph which completely misses my point.
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Originally Posted by Devilsadvocate
The two American-trained and equipped Chinese divisions, the 22nd. and 38th., which comprised the Chinese Army in India (CAI) performed quite credibly against fierce Japanese resistance in northern Burma in 1944-45.
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The unit I spoke of were
the Chinese 36th, 87th and 88th Divisions which were trained by the Wehrmacht circa 1934, following a pact between Jiang's Nationalist Party and the NSDAP. Those were the elites of the Nationalist Army under Jiang's direct leadership and were largely sacreficed in the early battles with Japan.
When I speak of the Nationalist Army, I am using two terms very loosely: 1. Nationalists as broadly defined as those who are not communists and allied to the nationalist government, or narrowly, those who were Huangpu Military Academy cadets, i.e. the Nationalist Praetorian Guard.
Gen. Sun and his American friends sat badly with Jiang precisely because he was not regarded as "Jiang's own men". He was put under housearrest after the war and the Secret Police recieved orders to execute him on notice if any treachery was suspected.
The same case with General Lao; again, he was not graduated from the Huangpu Academy and therefore did not belong to Jiang's inner circle.
Without doubt those men fought well. But my comments were directed at Jiang's troops and those generals whom he trusted.