People who got shit on by their superiors. > Be commander

>>2423130
Benedict Arnold was basically Captain America but he kept getting fucked over until he switched sides. Imagine fucking up this much.

>>2423130
Stanisław Maczek - commander of 1st Polish armoured division that fought valiantly at Falaise, Breda and Wilhelmshaven. After war he had to work as a barman.

ww2 didn't end well for Polish generals in the west

>>2423174
Yeah. The poles got fucked over after the war. Sosabowski worked in a factory after war.
None of his coworkers knew that he was a highranking officer, until his funeral.

>>2423130
>>2423174
>>2423187
Jesus Christ everyone in the whole world is after the poor Poles. Irrelevant military guys actually had to WORK? The outrage!

>>2423196
the thing is, that the they got thrown away after they had given their lives and blood in the fight for a free poland. They got treated as shit.

>>2423204
Awww. So sad.

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>>2423130

>Reach the outskirts of Moscow
>See the writing on the wall that the Army Group didn't have enough strength in it to attack in the dead of winter.
>Order a withdrawal to fortify their position
>Hitler loses his shit, sacks him
>Rundstedt doesn't give a fuck. He just had a heart attack a few weeks prior and needs time to recuperate.
>Replacement general inspects the situation
>Tells Hitler Rundstedt did the right thing.
>Hitler comes crawling back, Tells him he was right.
>Reinstates him in command of OBW to govern over France and watch out for the Western invaison
>1944 comes, Normandy landings occur
>Hitler asks for advice.
>Rundstedt: "Make Peace you idiots!"
>Hitler sacks him again.
>Ardennes offensive is being planned
>Hitler needs a figurehed to scare the Allies with
>Rundstedt on the cover of Times magazine twice, probably has the most recognition to western audience who isn't Rommel
>Gets reinstated as a puppet for Walter Model
>Offensive gets beaten back
>Hitler blames him for the failure sacks him again
>After the war gets locked up
>Petitions the Brits to get his son sent home. He's dying of oral cancer
>Finally gets some respect.
>After he is dead there is an intense effort by West German historians to muddy up the image of the Wehrmacht general staff
>They have a field day when they find out Hitler paid bonuses to Generals.
>Rundstedt received a bonus of 250,000 reichmarks
>"He's a nazi!"
>Daughter-in-law goes to the conference
>Produces the uncashed check
>Said her father-in-law gave it to her the week he got it and said:"Hold on to this. Don't use it under any circumstances"

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>On 2 February 1943 the remainder of the Sixth Army capitulated. Upon finding out about Paulus's 'surrender', Hitler flew into a rage, and vowed never to appoint another field marshal again. He would, in fact, go on to appoint another seven field marshals during the last two years of the war. Speaking about the surrender of Paulus, Hitler told his staff:

>"In peacetime Germany, about 18,000 or 20,000 people a year chose to commit suicide, even without being in such a position. Here is a man who sees 50,000 or 60,000 of his soldiers die defending themselves bravely to the end. How can he surrender himself to the Bolshevists?!"

>Paulus, a Roman Catholic, was opposed to suicide. During his captivity, according to General Max Pfeffer, Paulus said of Hitler's expectation: "I have no intention of shooting myself for this Bohemian corporal." Another general told the NKVD that Paulus had told him about his promotion to field marshal and said: "It looks like an invitation to commit suicide, but I will not do this favour for him." Paulus also forbade his soldiers from standing on top of their trenches in order to be shot by the enemy.

>Shortly before surrendering, Paulus sent his wedding ring back to his wife on the last plane departing his position. He had not seen her since 1942 and would not see her again, as she died in 1949 while he was still in captivity.

>>2423214
Man, you're a dickhead.

>>2423247

Don't mind him Commieboos hate Poles.

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>"Look, Stalin said he would help you, so that should be good enough. Good luck with your Warsaw... thing."

>>2423254
rightly so, fucking rogue state has no right to exist