Why was Hitler a better military strategist than all his top generals?
>>2200566
in what way?
>Lose Battle of Britain
>"Oh well"
>Sucker punch USSR
>Troops retreating from Moscow in disgrace
>"Oh well"
>Declare war on US
>"What could possibly go wrong?!"
What did he mean by this?
>>2200566
because baiting in a troll thread
>>2200566
The German General Staff never thought about politics so HItler had to interfere. In fact i was very smart of him to do so where the Kaiser and Bethmann-Helwig failed to intervene.
Which was proof of his leadership and political skill.
>>2200566
He wasn't, it was him taking control from his generals that costs us the utopia.
>>2200566
Because they were fighting the last war.
>On 10 October 1939, Britain refused Hitler's offer of peace and on 12 October, France did the same. Colonel-General Franz Halder (Chief of the General Staff of OKH), presented the first plan for Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) on 19 October. This was the pre-war codename of plans for a campaign in the Low Countries: the Aufmarschanweisung N°1, Fall Gelb (Deployment Instruction No. 1, Case Yellow). Halder's plan has been compared to the Schlieffen Plan, the name given to the German strategy of 1914 in the First World War.[25] It was similar in that both plans entailed an advance through the middle of Belgium. Aufmarschanweisung N°1 envisioned a frontal attack, sacrificing a projected half million German soldiers to attain the limited goal of throwing the Allies back to the River Somme. Germany's strength for 1940 would then be spent; only in 1942 could the main attack against France begin.[26] When Hitler raised objections to the plan and instead advocated for a decisive armoured breakthrough as had happened in the Invasion of Poland, both Halder and Army Commander-in-Chief General Walther von Brauchitsch attempted to dissuade him, arguing that while the fast-moving mechanised tactics were all well and good against a "shoddy" Eastern European army, they would not work against a first-rate military like the French.[27]