Tl, dr: "We have used the Panther longer than any German formation did. It sucks and we hate it. It is not a strategic tank."
> Great Battles of the Waffen SS by Peter Darman
> Das Reich by James Lucas
I'm all for reading, but... aren't these book written from the German side of the perspective?
The side that perpetuated the Asiatic hordes myth?
I find this editorial review for "Das Reich" quite damning.
> Lucas, a prolific British writer of popular military history, proposes to tell the story of the Reich's 2nd SS Panzer Division by relying heavily on personal accounts and an unofficial divisional archive. The book substantiates the familiar datum that the elite division of the Waffen SS were both skilled soldiers and formidable warriors. But Lucas fails to develop the forces behind this behavior. He eschews serious discussion of recruitment, training and, above all, ideology. He attempts to justify this by stressing the division's military role, but the Waffen-SS were not "soldiers like all the rest." They were instead shock troops of an ideological war. By ignoring this dimension of his subject, Lucas gives us Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. A history of this kind need not focus entirely on the atrocities committed by the Waffen-SS. But a courageous, fair-minded treatment of the role of Nazi ideology in shaping the 2nd SS Panzer Division as a military instrument would have done much to make the book something other than a one-sided, misleading apologia for its subject.
I don't think your books are giving military history a fair evaluation on both sides regarding tactics and strategy. I suggest looking up David Glantz and Robert Forczyk for a more thorough look in the warfare of the Eastern front.
Buy Christopher Browning's "Ordinary Men" and loan it to him . It's not a difficult read, well the topic is, but the language is not.
You see that paperbacks are pretty cheap.
<em>Stalingrad - The city that defeated the Third Reich</em> by Jochen Hellbeck
Shitty English title that obscures why it's fantastic IMO. The German title literally translates to "The Stalingrad Protocols". The book is based off of documents from an enormous Soviet project to "capture" the battle through the participants, and contains lots of amazing interviews conducted with soldiers and officers and civilians just days after Paulus' surrender.
The project was shut down by the Soviet regime who wasn't very interested in "social realism" anymore but craved more idealistic propaganda. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the documents were re-discovered of sorts, because they were archived and transcribed even if they never were published in any way.
When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
You can find it on Amazon here, or, if you're a university student like me, you might be able to download a free e-book using online library resources.
> We once made a low-level attack near Eastbourne,' recalled a pilot called von Greim. 'When we got there, we saw a large mansion where they seemed to be having a ball or something; in any case we saw a lot of women in fancy-dress, and an orchestra. We turned round and flew towards it. The first time, we flew past, and then we approached again and machine-gunned them. It was great fun!'
This is one of thousands of German transcripts recorded during "Operation Eavesdrop" by the British.
A German man spent a decade compiling them and wrote a book:
<em>Soldaten</em> by Sönke Neitzel
He is legitimately the original guy to claim "the majority of the Wehrmacht was not honorable" and he made that judgement based off of the hundred thousand transcripts from German POWs he read through.
I've read it. It's fucked up. Very candid. Not exactly the best translated book so some things are lost to that. Otherwise, I recommend anyone read it who has a genuine interest. No, the book isn't full of Germans gleefully talking about murder like the aforementioned transcript.....but a majority were complicit or had no issues with what was going on around them.
Best book for these people to read is <em>Soldaten</em>. Because it shows the frank conversations the German POWs had when they thought no one was listening.
I have a pretty great book about (mostly) German wonder weapons of WWII. The book goes out of its way to explain why most of them were stupid or impractical.
Nicholas Moran does a summary with excerpts that hits the high points.. You'd have to go digging to find the original, if your grasp of the french language is up to it.
I don't. "A guy who thinks 'Mein Kampf is Satire' is a defensible position because something-something-vulgar-Barthes and a guy who thinks Mein Kampf is a good primary source because 'Why would Hitler lie in a book in which he outlines his ideology' walk into a bar..." is the setup to a joke I quite honestly can do without.
Far from the image of an apolitical, “clean” Wehrmacht that persists in popular memory, German soldiers regularly cooperated with organizations like the SS in the abuse and murder of countless individuals during the Second World War. This in-depth study demonstrates that a key factor in the criminalization of the Wehrmacht was the intense political indoctrination imposed on its members. At the instigation of senior leadership, many ordinary German soldiers and officers became ideological warriors who viewed their enemies in racial and political terms―a project that was but one piece of the broader effort to socialize young men during the Nazi era.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1789201497/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This was pretty funny, right up to the point where it denies that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked.
Like, I am firmly under the belief that using the atomic weapons on Japan was justified, but still, what the people in those cities experienced was very real, very terrifying, and very sad. It couldn't possibly have been firebombing like this article claims, based on the medical records of the survivors and those who died in the immediate aftermath. In Hiroshima Diary, Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, who was in Hiroshima when the bomb fell and was himself seriously injured from it, worked at one of the only surviving hospitals within the city in the immediate aftermath. While it's not immediate evident to him at the time, the symptoms he describes in people a few days after the bomb dropped is radiation poisoning. Fun fact of the day, thousands of people don't just get radiation poisoning and die from World War Two-era fire bombing.
Any witness testimony would disprove this bogus theory as well, as pretty much any one of them I have ever heard specifically emphasizes the fact that it was one big boom and flash, not many.
It's been a few years since I've read it, but I seem to recall that Japan 1941 by Eri Hotta discusses the IJN/IJA rivalries in a bit of detail, including how it led to the decision to attack Pearl Harbor.
Wehraboo false equivalency versus Malkinesque apologism for the Japanese Internment Camps. No winners there, nuke from orbit.
Well I turned 20 on Monday. Saw Dunkirk with some friends and family, and nearly cheered at the sight of every downed bomber. I shot a gun for the very first time using a Ruger 10/22 .22 caliber semi automatic rifle and a .38 Special Model 10-7 S&W (Oh and I didn't muzzle sweep anyone, so go me!). I saw the Hans Zimmer concert in Cincinnati. I got some new books: Change Agent, Ghost in the Shell, The Art of War and other works of Eastern thought (a Barnes and Noble collectible hard back edition), Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human Processor Error, Cryptonomicon (little worried it might be slightly Wehrb given the genre and setting, but I'll let it pass under suspension of disbelief), Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface, and Kill Decision.
By the way would anyone recommend some games on Steam that center on WWII air combat, are relatively cheap to buy (around $10-15) with a shit ton of planes, and Xbox 360 controller compatibly?
[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/attempted-homicide-richard-spencer-speech-gainesville-florida_n_59ea766ae4b0958c468228ff](Three Richard Spencer fans got arrested for attempted homicide )
> Basically, I’m just fed up with the fact that I’m cis-gendered, I’m a white male, and I lean right, towards the Republican side,” said Fears, 28, wearing a pin of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. “And I get demonized if I don’t accept certain things.
Yeah.
It's the Youngbloodz modern interpretation of the Bomber Harris quote about reaping the whirlwind.
In my mind anyway.
Man, you say stuff like "no one would want that" but maybe because I like weird obscure war games, but I would totally love a game with a dishonest briefing "narrator."
Think just Goering and his force of 1000 109s or focke wulfs that will save Germany in '45.
There is a war game that I still need to futz with that puts you on the Eastern front and basically forces you to deal with Hitler waking up and telling you to attack someplace completely pointless, and your fellow commanders not giving a shit about your offensives and so not giving you proper supplies, etc. Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa for those curious.
Try to get him interested in a history book or a YouTube channel that is anti Wehraboo and also interesting for him, maybe that would change his mind?
For example; The German Way of War by Robert Citino and Military History Visualized on YouTube.
Both appeal to the Wehraboo fans, but then proceed to tear apart their views.
If all fails, you could make him this cake for his birthday or buy this for his Christmas present.
Smoke grenades worked on the Panther
>> A smoke grenade thrown onto the rear deck or the vent openings of the engine will start a fire.
> The hull of the Panther was designed to be water-tight, to allow for deep-fording. This had the unfortunate side-affect of encouraging gasoline and oil to accumulate in the engine compartment. German reports often decry the Panther’s tendency towards engine fires. The French observed the same.
On another note, when I had the opportunity to drive on a VT-55 I had a good view (and better acoustics) of the engine deck and air intake. It did have heavy covers that could be closed, but at the very least a molotov cocktail will starve the engine of oxygen.
Yeah, a single map that illustrates that the Red Army was a huge distance away from Warsaw at the time of the uprising with powerful German units in between them and the city. You have yet to address these complication, you can only repeat endlessly that the Red Army was evil and therefore must do evil deeds.
> people who publish books and shit under their own names
Wow, guess what https://www.amazon.com/Designing-T-34-2019-Genesis-Revolutionary/dp/1911658301
That sure is neat, and so is this http://tankarchives.blogspot.com/2017/12/tank-archives-in-print.html
I have absolutely no problem publishing things under my own name outside of my dull website. It might have to do something with not flipping out the moment that somebody brings out a map.
> I wonder how much the Germans insistence on the cutting edge cost them in that regard.
The war. (To the extent that they had any hope of winning it to begin with.)
>Did Hitler Youth ever actually see battle?
Yes. Children indoctrinated in the 1930s became teenagers in time to die for the ambitions of the Nazis.
But as for child soldiers, there does appear to be evidence that they were marched off after a few hours training to die against the soviets. This book raised a lot of hackles in Clean Wermacht circles. I'm not sure of its veracity but from what we know, they did actually send in child soldiers.
Not usually as entire units, but they were sent in as reinforcements to replace the fallen.
>The German V-weapons (V-1 and V-2) cost the equivalent of around USD $40 billion (2015 dollars), which was 50 percent more than the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb.[12]:178
Source 12: https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Team-Apogee-Books-Space/dp/1894959825
BTW the B-29 program was more expensive than the Manhattan Project by 1 to 1.7 billion dollars.
Funny enough I was actually considering posting this thread somewhere, but for this comment:
>I love how all discussion on this thread completely ignores the factual reality of FDR's heavily fascist policies and open admiration of fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
>Exact quote:
>"There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy."
>>Comment in early 1933 about Benito Mussolini to US Ambassador to Italy Breckinridge Long, as quoted in Three New Deals : Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939 (2006) by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, p. 31.
>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
>The amount of hero worship in this thread is disgusting. The fascists didn't want to overthrow FDR, because FDR WAS ALREADY A FASCIST. I mean that literally not as a pejorative; his policies lined up neatly with the fascist policies popular at the time. Those bankers may have wanted their own people in charge, but FDR did a lot of choosing favorites, and anybody who made efforts to depose that would be Japanese-encamping tyrant was a hero, not someone to be slagged by a bunch of clueless, king-worshiping leftists.
>And I'm sure here come the downvotes. This thread is already so heavily brigaded and maniuplated, it's no surprise.
Nothing says fascism like being democratically elected 3 times. Of course the person is from angsty teen central (/r/Shitstatistssay)
> Go look up who owns the major banks in the US. I'm obviously not referring to the bank teller that works at your local Wells Fargo. I'm talking about the banking executives that direct the way this country goes.
TIL bank executives own the banks that pay them a salary. For giggles, I looked up who actually owns the bank, and its Berkshire plus a bunch of publicly traded brokerages.
So I just found out that Call of Duty 2 apparently has a German Campaign mod where you play as the Waffen-SS.
One of the missions -of all things- is Operation Sealion.
I just can't even really.
I'm confused. Selassie was in power until the 70's. And folks defintely starved under him (see the '73 famine that led to his overthrow)
Good book about the end of his reign...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B3M3T6Q
Book made me thank God I don't live under an absolute monarchy. Just complete dysfunction
Not really. We know so little about Procopius' life that it is hard to discern the reasons for the Secret History. Aspects of it, such as Theodora originally being a prostitute, can be independently confirmed but for much of Justinian's reign, Procopius is all we have. His background as an upper class provincial land owner would have meant, perhaps, little love for Justinian because this class was bled dry through taxation.
It is also problematic more generally that parts of the Secret History, such as the attacks on sexual behaviour, adhere to the standards of polemic and so may be literary convention rather than literal truth.
I'd recommend Procopius and the Sixth Century by Averil Cameron as a starting point for the current standard theory of Procopius' motivations. There is more recent scholarship that offers differing analysis. Rather than go through that, I would refer you to a useful summary here, noting particularly Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity by Anthony Kaldellis.
Except those fragments were still comically large, (Particularly considering that the Seleucids eventually absorbed the Antigonids), and ushered in an era of Hellenism in which one could, with a brief boat trip across the straits of Gibraltar, walk from modern-day Madrid to modern-day Madras entirely through Hellenistic kingdoms. Alexander was a pretty big deal, basically.
I would actually count Caliphate as being out there with Watch on the Rhine on its premise alone. From the Amazon page:
> Demography is destiny. In the 22nd century European deathbed demographics have turned the continent over to the more fertile Moslems. Atheism in Europe has been exterminated. Homosexuals are hanged, stoned or crucified. Such Christians as remain are relegated to dhimmitude, a form of second class citizenship. They are denied arms, denied civil rights, denied a voice, and specially taxed via the Koranic yizya. Their sons are taken as conscripted soldiers while their daughters are subject to the depredations of the continent’s new masters.
In that world, Petra, a German girl sold into prostitution as a slave at the age of nine to pay her family’s yizya, dreams of escape. Unlike most girls of the day, Petra can read. And in her only real possession, her grandmother’s diary, a diary detailing the fall of European civilization, Petra has learned of a magic place across the sea: America. But it will take more than magic to free Petra and Europe from their bonds; it will take guns, superior technology, and a reborn spirit of freedom.
I think I'm going to have to read that book next, though it's also in a dead heat with the slightly more ridiculous Victoria.
> These trials were Britsh.
You really think we would trust the Perfidious Albion to efficiently test our tanks?
Jokes apart, there were both French and English trials of the Panther.
According to a comment on r/Warthunder, it is The Tiger Files. ~~Produced by... the Bovington Tank Museum~~.
Hmm, It just so happens to be on Prime. I might watch it and give my opinions on a separate post.
Also apparently "Bovington Tiger I" is billed as an actor on Amazon rather than a prop. :P
Edit: Not produced by Bovington Tank Museum at all (at least thats what the credit says), they just helped. Actually a pretty decent documentary.
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World.
by Pat Buchanan.
It's very bad.
Presidential election in 5 months. Half a year ago on the Russian internets there were theories that Poroshenko will heat up conflict before elections and under guise of emergency state will delay them them. Ukraine declared wartime state for 60 days.
https://www.rbc.ru/politics/26/11/2018/5bfb284b9a7947574390008c - Russian business channel
https://meduza.io/news/2018/11/26/poroshenko-podderzhal-predlozhenie-vvesti-na-ukraine-voennoe-polozhenie - one of Russias opposition medias .
Edit : In english it is called Martial law.
He went in during the Iraq invasion, had an insurgent round go into one of his vision blocks while he was unbuttoned, 3 inches away from his face.
He has a really insightful article about the mindset of tankers in combat which helps dispel some of the silliness surrounding the tank-wanking.
No, but this is the book where I got it from. The title and summary may sound Wehraboo-y but it's not. The author is an accredited historian and he devotes entire chapters to discussing the war crimes of the Waffen-SS and the clean Wehrmacht and HIAG propaganda.
Bob Carruthers would be the author. I'd give the book a 3/5 - it isn't bad, just your average WWII book.
https://www.amazon.com/German-Tanks-War-Bob-Carruthers/dp/0304353949
Get it from the Amazon used section for cheap if you're interested.
This video is a very good summarised version of David Stahel's book Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East first chapters.
> So why are you writing about it?
Because Warthunder and World of Tanks use such scenarios. Computer games that don't have infantry, at-guns, work in a closed arena, without crew morale and no mechanical breakdowns from wear, tear and catching fire starting your engines.
German Infantryman vs Soviet Rifleman: Barbarossa 1941 (Combat)
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They're so cartoonishly evil-dressing.
I mean, skull ornamentation and black clothing? You might as well just write "Ve are ze baddies," on your shirt.
Also, even though they're not exclusively German or Nazi, I love peaked caps.
P.S. The Iron Cross is the coolest-looking medal that I know of.
There's always a lot of wankery around "This thing has -x- frontal armour and a -x- gun"
In combat, that's not what matters. The number one decider in tank battles during WW2 was very simple, the tank who fired first almost always won.
I maintain the 75mm Sherman was the best tank in WW2. Near 100mm frontal effective armour (close to the armour of the Tiger 1) and a gun that was more than effective enough to destroy infantry, emplacements and enemy tanks.
Edit to add: For anyone wondering what I mean by "effective armour", sloped armour like the frontal armour of the Sherman means any penetrator coming in at a 90 degree angle is going to have a lot more armour in front of it than a flat plate (such as those on the Tiger 1).
Here's a diagram https://worldoftanks.com/dcont/fb/imagesforarticles/chieftains_hatch/stratguide/armorangles.jpg
As far as I understand the law, yes.
It was quite a shock to have read a defense of the law by chancellor Adenauer, where he used literal Nazi-language.
>Concerning male homosexuality, the legal system must, more than in other areas, erect a bulwark against the spreading of this vice, which otherwise would represent a serious danger for a healthy and natural life of the people.
While this sounds bad enough, it can only fully be appreciated in its German original, regarding the Nazi-esque language:
> Ausgeprägter als in anderen Bereichen hat die Rechtsordnung gegenüber der männlichen Homosexualität die Aufgabe, durch die sittenbildende Kraft des Strafgesetzes einen Damm gegen die Ausbreitung eines lasterhaften Treibens zu errichten, das, wenn es um sich griffe, eine schwere Gefahr für eine gesunde und natürliche Lebensordnung im Volke bedeuten würde.“
I did speak out against that myself before, on this sub.
Asians will defend it as "we were far away from Hitler's atrocities so he doesn't have the same impact for us as he does for Europeans." And they use that as a defense, not just an explanation. That reasoning irritates me because ignorance is no excuse, they should learn history instead.
With that said, even in South Korea a K-Pop group caused controversy by wearing uniforms that resembled Nazi ones, and I wouldn't be surprised if a Nazi café or something existed in China too. And no doubt if asked, they would offer the same defense as for it as Indians and Thais do - "Hitler doesn't have the same significance for us Asians." So they display the exact same moral myopia when they recognize Imperial Japan was bad but fail to recognize that Japan's ally, Nazi Germany, was the same.
It's Chieftain so you'll have to take his word on it, since he never freaking sources because he just pulls documents out of archives willy-nilly but
https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/T28_in_Korea/
Ironically despite the greater amount of space in the T23 turret, it couldn't fit either the 17pdr or 75mm M3 with any degree of comfort.
https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/chieftain-turretsize/
> Generally "not wanting to follow an order" and "refusing to fight" are not the same thing.
Didn't read the article, huh? Yeah, I get it sweaty. If you do change your mind, try out Wehrkraftzersetzung and maybe Defying Hitler
> Children weren't service members.
I believe you have missed the point.
Have any of you read The Last Panther or similar books? On amazon it's highly rated, and the majority of the reviews appear to take it as fact. What do you think?
Also I can reccommend you watch the whole video.
> You would clear malfunctions by turning the mortar over so the primed and ready round fell into your hand.
This is standard mortar drill, though. It sucks, but what the hell else can you do?
If you really want to lose faith in humanity (I mean, more so), read this thread about it at BoardGame Geek.
OP gets ripped a new one for saying:
>I think this game is intentionally designed to appeal to, among the others, Nazi-chic fans, a subculture that is in turn tied closely enough to the neo-Nazism that I find this game distaseful and objectionable. I further think this game is a part of a larger trend in Japanese culture, in which World War II is being portrayed not as something that the Japanese should feel sorry about, but as a minor event that is trivialized through cute-fied media like this one
and threatening to report potential flames to the mods.
I have no idea; I was really heavy into that game when it was first out, but I haven't looked at it in seven or eight years, probably.
Edit: upon further inspection, it seems there are quite a few servers still up, but few players.
https://www.gametracker.com/search/uo/US/?sort=3&order=DESC
its in this peer reviewed academic book
Berghahn Books is a publisher of scholarly books and academic journals in the humanities and social sciences, with a special focus on social & cultural anthropology, European history, politics, and film & media studies
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1789201497/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Here's two links about it I found here (I think).
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/17/johnezard
According to these links, it wasn't a secret.
I always recommend this article from World of Tanks. It has a nice little collection of primary sources in it and gives a nice reading. It is about the Panther, but I suppose there is something to be learned about how the different sides felt about their counterparts.
It's long but easily one of the most interesting and best written books I've read on the war. He writes the Pacific campaign from the Japanese perspective beginning right before the Marco Polo Bridge incident.
I also couldn't find the book in my university library, but the Amazon link allows some view into the book, most notably it's conclusion and the notes for the quoted pages. The notes at least mention a case of a reserve lieutenant Bruno Kleinmischel, who was court-martialed by a tenth army war court for killing twenty-two Jews in Konskie.
The rest you can see for yourself, just wanted to mention at least one case for people to lazy to read the text on Amazon. But I at least from the few you can read on Amazon got the impression that the author doesn't really fall to any kind of "Clean Wehrmacht" or other Wehraboosisms, but I also only got a short look into the book.
It's World Conqueror 3. It's not the most complicated game in the world, and there's a lot of really weird stuff (like how you unlock starting scenarios.) But I think it's pretty fun for what it is; a free tablet portable Strategic Command/Commander: Europe at War clone.
To clarify on the starting scenarios thing, it seems like there's an in-game clock that counts fake in-game days, weeks, months, and years, and you gotta wait for it to tick over to the year you want to start at? For instance, I started with the 1939 scenario, and I've played long enough for the game to have counted up to 1943 by its little system, and now I can play the 1943 scenario. There's also a persistent generals system, meaning I can take my Australian ~~wolfpack~~ dingopack commander and put him in my next campaign to accrue even more experience and skills.
also the tutorial has you nuking nazis as the soviet union. it's beautiful.
This book by probably the foremost expert on the question is what you need:
I found Sparky's slideshare account
Nicholas Stargardt's The German War is about the war from the perspective of the average German, on the front and at home. It spends a lot of time talking about the relative popularity of the war and the Nazi regime.
It's been a while, but I seem to remember the book mentioning that the regime, Hitler in particular, was pretty popular until very late in the war.
https://www.amazon.com/German-War-Nation-Under-1939-1945/dp/0465094899
One of the summary I found from Chieftain
Can't really make a TL;DR but at best it is a good tank if you see it's armour and gun but there's more to this tank than meets the eye unfortunately that's more than enough for the French to have a mixed feeling for this tank.
The troops in Italy were rather asking for the 76mm guns. Just the word didn't seem to reach the UK.
https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/chieftain/The_Chieftains_Hatch_Undergunned_Italy/
It's generally alright, however, they will occasionally make changes for the sake of gameplay rather than historical accuracy. The M1 cannon received many of these changes, mainly because the M18, when introduced, was really fucking good and German players were complaining. They have rather weak penetration (though not too far from real life) and low after pen damage, even with their APHE shells.
However, the dev team has its good moments. This was the most recent moment where they really shined.
Very very low-hanging fruit, but this one is a treat : Nazi alt-his wank levels to the max.
(For the record, nationstates is a political simulator that is mostly made of nice people, but due to a policy that basically ampunts to "as long as you don't harass people it's okay" there are some...questionable virtual nations).
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>That you somehow came away from the campaigns in france and Germany thinking that the antiquated McNair doctrine was not only correct for the Americans, but that the Germans should have also adopted it is breathtaking. The somersaults needed to arrive there would be a wonder to behold.
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The Chieftan argues that US TD doctrine was cribbed directly from German TD doctrine.
I'd argue that the mental image of these two sentences have a lot to do with a lot of people reading and linking this entry to the "chieftain's hatch"...
The British did a post-war test with several mint-condition Panthers, yet failed to acquire any meaningful information from them due to experiencing extreme unreliability with them. Aside from the transmission, they criticised the steering system and propensities for engine compartment fires. Also, one tank was taken out of commission when it mounted a tree stump.
As for the French, who used the Panther for longer than the Germans did, according to the Chieftain, they concluded that it was "in no way a strategic tank". They also pointed out a phenomenon of cracking welds which was substantiated by Soviet testing; German tank armour ended up becoming very brittle by the end of the war.
Here's Nicholas "Chieftain" Moran's summary from which I see that I misremembered, it was two regiments of French Panthers.
Picking out a few highlights for tl, dr purposes:
> oh no freedom of navigation and not imposing custom duties! That's not what you said and no part of it even implies that. You're intellectually dishonest and throwing around absolute bullshit.
I study business law, are you seriously arguing you can interpret it better than me?
Both Josef Wulf and Jörn Leonhardt interpreted it the same way and even Keynes already criticised it in "The Economic Consequences of the Peace".
If you think you are above historians and economists, you are making a mockery of your self.
Define "ship". Doing a little searching, I found a book that apparently claims the author's tank unit sunk several riverboats and sampans used as supply ships in Vietnam. I would also assume at least some landing vehicles were destroyed by tanks in the various waterway crossings in Belgium, the Netherlands, and western Germany during WW2, as well as at Anzio.
Ah in that case you could try this:
https://www.amazon.com/STALINS-AGAINST-DOCTORS-SOLUTION-thoughts/dp/0029258219
Although some say there's no direct evidence for the plan: https://ukrainianjewishencounter.org/en/dr-diana-dumitru-no-direct-evidence-yet-of-stalins-planned-deportation-of-the-jews/
I've read a lot on Soviet history but never focused much on this specific topic.
Sidenote : For everyone who's looking to buy history books from Amazon, you better take that ratings with grain of salt for example the book that op posted has the same 3 and a half star rating as a completely bonkers conspiracy book like this
>Approximately 3 million German POWs were captured by the USSR, with between 350,000 to 1 million dying while in custody; most historians agree more with the 350,000 number. German death rates are therefore between approximately 11% - 30%. 90% is absolutely laughable and in no way supported by historical documents or reputable historians.
I wrote about a 90% death rate among German captives in Soviet hands in the year of 1941, entirely plausible, considering the desperate soviet economy and regular Soviet acts of vengeance back then. It is ridiculous to burden the Germans of the admittedly high numbers of dead Red Army PoWs in 1941, while at the same time brushing over the arguably similarly or even worse chances of survival suffered by German POWs in 1941. Source for the number of well above 90% of killed German POWs are from this highly regarded book on the nature of Soviet warfare, that many fail to understand in the West (author German military historian and high ranking military analyst)
https://www.amazon.de/Verbrannte-Erde-Wehrmacht-Sowjetarmee-Russlandkrieg/dp/3902475986
Hans Coppi Jr.; 'Der vergessene Widerstand der Arbeiter: Gewerkschafter, Kommunisten, Sozialdemokraten, Trotzkisten, Anarchisten und Zwangsarbeiter'; p. 154 - 157
Hey guys, sorry for the self-promotion, but I've recently put out an ebook that might be of interest to some folks here, and thought I'd show off to y'all:
https://www.amazon.com/Unnecessary-Science-Critical-Analysis-Natural-ebook/dp/B08M68LP8F/
"The Unnecessary Science: A Critical Analysis of Natural Law Theory" is an extremely in-depth, extended takedown of a certain brand of conservative moral, political, and even metaphysical philosophers favored by a lot of right-wingers (Catholic and not) particularly in America (exemplified by Bill Barr and Clarence Thomas). The book concentrates particularly on the work of Edward Feser, who is the most popular contemporary academic proponent of this sort of thinking. Of particular interest to SWS is chapters 3 and 4--I examine how Plato, who Feser holds as one of the significant figures of the "natural law tradition," was actually popular with the Nazis as well, and how his ideas (as interpreted in the writing of "race scientists" like Hans Guenther) were used to justify some ugly Nazi policy that actually ran contrary to Catholic doctrine and supposedly conservative ideals, like the Aktion T4 program. I hope you'll give it a look, though the book is quite hefty (over 100,000 words!) it's written in a lively and entertaining style that's readily understandable to just about any educated reader, even one unfamiliar with philosophy.
Yeah, I prefer Michael Mann's view as he actually discussed fascist movements, examined the sociological elements of who did and didn't believe in them, and connected the party structures to the paramilitary gangs like the SA and the Blackshirts that built the movements in the first place.
Mann actually discusses the IRL fascist movements, not some loose set of concepts that have no historical grounding. He's also a historian, not a novelist.
What'd I'd really like to ah, "review" one day is Tom Kratman's Watch on the Rhine, an entry in the Posleen series made more famous by the equally ~~questionable~~ upstanding John Ringo. To best describe the book, I'll simply cite the book's Amazon description:
>In the dark days after the initial Posleen attack, but before the primary invasion, the Chancellor of Germany faces a critical decision. Over the years, with military cutbacks, the store of experienced German military personnel had simply dwindled. After the destruction of Northern Virginia, he realized that it was necessary to tap the one group he had sworn never, ever, to recall: the few remaining survivors of the Waffen SS. Has he made a devil's bargain, or is this a chance for the reviled SS at last to fight the good fight?
I'm told that it only gets worse from thereon in. Kratman is rather well known for being ~~human garbage~~ aggressive in defending his works, and he's particularly infamous for inserting actual persons in his book and ~~childishly humiliating and/or killing them off~~ cleverly mocking them.
> [...]Fifty-four medium tanks, model M4 Sherman; 6 assault guns, model M4 mounting 105mm howitzers; 17 light tanks, usually model M5 Stuart; 750 officers and men.[...]
743d Independent Tank Battalion, attached to 1st Infantry Division.
These tables from Werner Gruhl's Imperial Japan in World War II.
The crucial numbers are 101,871 Allied civilian deaths and 18,154 Japanese civilian death per week (not including the nukes) in 1945, up until mid-August, when Japan announced its intention to surrender.
Just got my copy of https://www.amazon.ca/Demolishing-Myth-Prokhorovka-Operational-Narrative/dp/1906033897 to find it had a number of blank pages. at least they were in the last 3rd of the book so I can still read most of it while the replacement comes.
Memoirs of Pylcyn, a penal battalion commander. His life could be used to make a great war movie. Also, explains in details how did penal battalions work in the Red Army.
From the charred, sunken hull of the Merrimack, yes.
I don't agree that riverboats and green-water ships should not be considered the product of shipbuilding (by the by, CSS Virginia was unsuited for blue water sailing). For one thing, the Confederacy lacked a serious need for blue water vessels outside of commerce raiding, which British-built cruisers proved perfectly adept at, but had a pressing need for armored ships to defend its rivers and harbors and challenge the close blockade. There were twelve armored ships under construction in early 1862, some quite substantial but all of them meant for the rivers and harbors.
I would refer you to this book, which concludes that the southern states, broadly defined, had somewhere between 36 and 145 shipyards of all types, and of 8,000 vessels built in the United States between 1849 and 1858, 1,600 of them were built in future Confederate States. There were also some 100 shops which had built or repaired steam engines. Unfortunately for the Confederacy, the best of these facilities were mostly located in Norfolk, New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile, and Savannah, which with the exception of Mobile were quickly either captured or bottled up; the loss of Norfolk and New Orleans being particularly disastrous. This, along with the preferential treatment given the army and the subsequent chronic shortages of manpower, resources, etc, accounts for the Confederacy's lack of shipbuilding more than any complete absence of naval facilities.
David Stahel: Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East is a great study that shows the failure of Operation Barbarossa and how it doomed Germany.