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    Proof that Adolf Hitler was a double agent.

    Proof that Adolf Hitler was a double agent.

    by preearth » Wed May 17, 2017 1:29 am
    This is an article from the thread "Hitler had Jewish roots, DNA tests show." It is worth a thread of its own.

    Recently, this site (preearth.net) was taken "off-air" by an .htaccess file that "accidently materialized" in the main directory of preearth.net. On complaining, the site was restored, all except two threads on this forum. This thread, and the thread "WOW; Barack Obama is a Jew." After more complaining, these two threads were also restored. So it appears that the whole site was shut down just to censor these two threads.

    Given that someone went to a lot of trouble to have, in particular, this thread censored, I assumed that the information in it, was very likely correct. So, I took the idea of Hitler being a Jew, seriously, and searched the net for "Hitler was a Jew" and other such combinations. I came up with an amazing amount of evidence for this idea, and I have to say, it is convincing.

    Below is a photo of a German nerve gas storage area discovered by the allies in 1945; A larger photo is here.



    After a bit of searching I came across these pages, which I recommend:

    http://hitler-the-jew-and-the-faked-wwi ... itler.html

    http://newsfromatlantis.freeforums.org/ ... -t388.html

    These present facts from the second world war which show that Hitler was consciously working against the Nazis throughout the entire war. They suggest that many of the high-ranking Nazis were Jews.

    In one of these pages it is stated that many of the ideas presented were from a separate source. I managed to track down what appears to be the separate source. It can be found at:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20140807043 ... Hitler.htm

    It presents a picture of Hitler, and other Jews within the Nazis, deliberately making multiple "mistakes" with the intention of sabotaging the German war effort and causing the defeat of the Germans:

    Hitler was a Jew, working for the Jews.

    In April, 1939, Ambassador William C. Bullitt, called me to the American Embassy in Paris. The American Ambassador told me that war had been decided upon. He did not say, nor did I ask, by whom. He let me infer it... When I said that in the end Germany would be driven into the arms of Soviet Russia and Bolshevism, the Ambassador replied: "What of it? There will not be enough Germans left when the war is over to be worth bolshevising." Karl von Wiegand; reported in the Chicago Herald American, April 23, 1944.

    Having the Jew Hitler run Nazi Germany had many advantages:

    When Germany attacked France, Heinz Guderian made blitzkrieg come true. By constantly disobeying orders and relentlessly driving his men and tanks as far as they could go, he wrecked havoc, far beyond the expected front line. His disregard for orders amid the fog of war, meant that the Jews in the Nazi high command were not immediately able to intervene, to prevent, Guderian's quick and stunning victory.

    Guderian advanced an astonishing 250 miles across enemy terrain in only eleven days. Then, on May 24, with his Panzer forces at Gravelines, only ten miles from Dunkirk, Hitler himself, ordered that the tanks were to halt. Guderian's forces were within hours of capturing more than 300,000 of the best-trained professional soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, along with some 100,000 of France's best-trained and equipped men. Guderian read the order with disbelief. His commander, General von Kleist, stated that on receiving the order, "I decided to ignore it, and to push on across the canal. But then came a more emphatic order that I was to withdraw behind the canal. My tanks were kept halted there for three days."

    By having Hitler order Guderian's tank divisions to sit on their hands while Dunkirk was evacuated, the Jews were able to prevent the complete and utter destruction of the French and British armies, thus keeping alive the possibility of a two-front war. However, although the Jew Hitler was able to rescue some 335,000 men, all their tanks and equipment were lost.

    When outraged German generals demanded to know why they were being prevented from forcing the complete surrender of the defeated armies, the Jew Hitler prattled on about his admiration for the British Empire and its importance as an essential element of world stability. Hitler did not explain why it was so important to let the hundreds of thousands of troops escape immediately, rather than say, to capture them, and later release them after having extracting various concessions. Indeed, how could he? This incident alone, should have given Hitler away as the enemy, however, the Germans, naive to such monumental deception, kept obeying orders, and in the end, it was only thought that Hitler was insane.

    German aircraft had hit Allied air bases in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands, destroying large numbers of planes on the ground, and crippling air defenses. Although large numbers of planes had been lost, the evacuation at Dunkirk enabled most of the British pilots, who had been based in France, to escape and fight another day. In fact, the number of planes lost, turned out to be much less important than the number of pilots, and potential pilots, that Hitler had rescued.

    Although, Britain was now open and defenseless, the Jew Hitler refused to attack.

    The Jew Hitler refused to even feign an attack on Britain, in order to draw the British navy to the channel, where it could be obliterated by aircraft.

    So, after refusing to take out Jew controlled Britain, the Jew Hitler attacks the Soviet Union, deliberately setting up the dreaded two-front war.

    Yes, to reduce the pressure for an attack on England, the Jew Hitler attacked Germany's major ally, the Soviet Union. Why attack your ally, rather than the helpless Britain? The answer is obvious.

    The German attack overwhelmed the Soviets. Army Group Center achieved a stunning victory against the forces opposing it, and was positioned to strike at Moscow in the immediate future. Now that it looked like Moscow was sure to fall, the Jew Hitler single-handedly saved the city, by ordering Army Group Center to stop its advance and turn south (a decision opposed by all his generals). The Jews were willing to accept any loss, to save Moscow. Once Moscow fell, the war in the East was over.

    The war had gone exceedingly badly for the Soviets and there was a fear that Japan would attack from the East, at this time when the Soviet Union had no way of defending itself. It has been speculated that (the Jew) Roosevelt deliberately goaded the Japanese into war with the United States, in order to prevent this outcome.

    Also, a Japanese-American war could be usefully used by the Jew Hitler as a pretext for a declaration of war against the United States and thus allow the United States to participate directly in the European theater. But how could Roosevelt be sure that Hitler would declare war?

    On December 11, 1941, the Jew Hitler declared war on the United States, using the pretext of the Tripartite Pact, even though he was no more obliged to declare war on the United States than Japan was obliged to declare war on the Soviet Union, which Germany had been fighting since June 1941. Japan never declared war on the Soviet Union.

    The Jew Hitler refused total mobilization of the German people, even though the munitions factories cried out for manpower and all his enemies had long since recruited woman into the work force. The Jew Hitler never bothered to use half the potential German labor force. Even though Goebbels called for total mobilization early in the war, Hitler was able to prevent this until it was too late.

    On November 19, 1942, when the Soviet 5th Tank and 21st Armies launched their counter-offensive northwest of Stalingrad, the Fourth Panzer and 6th Armies were in grave danger of encirclement, unless they broke out immediately.

    To ensure the 6th Army would be trapped, the Jew Hitler ordered that it should not attempt to break-out, but should hold their ground and fight to the last man. The more dead or captured Germans, the better.

    The 6th Army's senior officers complained that unless they broke out immediately, their army would have to be supplied by air for weeks, if not months, which appeared to be an impossible task.

    However, the Jew Hitler insisted that the Luftwaffe could sustain the Sixth Army from the air. The Luftwaffe commanders in the field, were unanimous in their belief that this was not possible. Only the Luftwaffe's commander in chief, Göring (another Jew), similarly stated that it would be possible.

    When Zeitzler challenged Göring as to whether he even knew what tonnage needed to be flown in every day, Göring spat back, "I don't, but my staff officers do." Zeitzler summarized what would be necessary and Göring retorted, "I can do that." Zeitzler told him he was a liar. With this, Hitler replied "The Reichsmarschall (Göring) has made his report to me, which I have no choice but to believe."

    Thus, the Jew Hitler closed the trap on the 6th Army.

    To ensure the 6th Army was doomed, the Jew Hitler arranged that 250 of the vitally important Ju 52s be used to transport 81,000 German troops to Tunisia. The Tunisia campaign had little strategic value and no chance of success. But, more importantly, it ensured that the 6th Army could not be supplied by air and would thus provide the Soviets with a great victory.

    Von Richthofen reported: "Of yesterday's 47 Ju 52s, 22 made sorties (into the Stalingrad pocket); of today's 30, 9 made sorties. We flew in 75 tons today, instead of the 300 tons ordered by the High Command, which is not possible with the few Ju 52s available."

    More than 150,000 Axis soldiers, most of them German, were killed or wounded at Stalingrad and another 108,000 were captured.

    This apparent madness, caused significant opposition to Hitler. Ulrich von Hassel held secret meetings with British and American officials, and hoped that a successful coup would translate into an honorable peace treaty. This, however, was not part of the plan, so the Jews had Roosevelt declare that only an unconditional surrender would be acceptable (January 1943). Thus, they saved their man from any coup, and he was free to continue his destruction of the German people.

    The Jew Hitler tells the Soviets an attack will occur at Kursk. The Jew Hitler delays the attack for more than four months, until the Soviets had built defensive lines, eight deep. The Soviets concentrate 1,300,000 soldiers with 3,600 tanks, 20,000 artillery pieces, including 6,000 76mm anti-tank guns, and 2,800 aircraft in and around Kursk. An attack anywhere other than Kursk would be fatal for the Soviets, but the Soviets seem to know that the attack will come only at Kursk.

    To incur the maximum possible number of German casualties, the Jew Hitler orders German troops to attack, as promised, at Kursk; to attack the most heavily defended lines ever constructed.

    The Jew Hitler is amazed by the supermen of the elite SS Panzer Korps Liebstandarte, who, in the south, break through all eight defensive lines and take on the reserve Soviet tank battalions.

    Less than two weeks into the offensive, worried that the Liebstandarte might win the battle for the Germans, the Jew Hitler strips this elite group of their tanks and sends them to Northern Italy, where they sit on their hands for some months before returning to the eastern front. The pretext of the Sicily invasion, was used.

    Before the Normandy invasion, Rommel stated the obvious; that the western tank divisions must be based close to the Atlantic coast. These tanks were necessary to stop the invasion force once it had penetrated the beach defenses. If the tank divisions were based too far from the coast, Allied air power would prevent them from reaching the critical areas, or delay them until it was too late.

    Understanding this, the Jew Hitler based many of the tank divisions, half way to Paris.

    In an attempt to justify this stupidity, the Jew Hitler stated that one of his commanders, Gerd von Rundstedt, was of the opinion that the panzers should be formed into large units near Paris, where they would wait, allowing the Allies to extend into France, before cutting them off, and that Rundstedt's (crazy) opinion must not be ignored. Of course, Rundstedt was another covert Jew.

    Not wanting to leave anything to chance, the Jew Hitler formed a strategic armor reserve, which could only be released for action by his authority. Early in the Normandy invasion, the Jew Hitler refused to commit any of the forces from the reserve, using the pretext that his staff were afraid to wake him. Later, he used the pretext that the real attack was not to be at Normandy, where the bombs were dropping and the troops landing, but would come in the Pas de Calais area.

    Before the war, German scientists discovered the nerve gases Tabun (1936) and Sarin (1938). To manufacture Tabun, a large industrial complex was built at Dyhernfurth an der Oder, with some 30,000 tons of Tabun eventually being produced. It was weaponized and stored at various locations in Germany and Poland, with a major storage area at Krappitz, some 80 kilometers from Auschwitz. Of course, the Nazis never used the nerve gas, Tabun, to mass-murder Jews at Auschwitz, simply because, the Nazis never mass-murdered any group at Auschwitz.

    Even though the use of these thousands of tons of weaponized nerve gas would have won the war for Germany, the Jew Hitler refused to give the order to use it, and it remained in its storage areas untill captured by the Allies.

    The Germans had been the first to discover nuclear fission (which is the basis of uranium and plutonium atomic weapons) and before the war, were undisputed leaders in this area. By directing nuclear scientists to research nuclear reactors, rather than nuclear weapons, the Jews in the Nazi high-command were able to minimize the chance that Germany ever developed atomic weapons. However, since research into nuclear reactors naturally leads to nuclear weapons, funding in this area was limited to three million Deutschmarks per annum, and, in 1942, the number of scientists involved in nuclear research was cut from 70 to 44. As far as it is known, Germany had no scientists working on nuclear weapons, at any time during the war.

    The Jew Hitler personally sabotaged German jet fighter development, by insisting that a bomber version of the fighter be developed and manufactured. When it tuned out that without bombs, the bomber version, was still a very impressive interceptor, Hitler demanded that they be flown by bomber pilots. Since the bomber pilots did not have the necessary fighter pilot training to perform and survive this type of mission, this proved a total disaster, as desired.

    The British double agent, Eddie Chapman (Agent Zigzag), had the opportunity to kill Hitler in a suicide bombing at a Nazi rally. This he offered to do, however, the Jew Churchill (British prime minister) who had kept a personal interest in the Zigzag case, made sure that this opportunity to kill Hitler was rejected. Neither the British, nor the Americans, made any attempt on Hitler's life.

    Hitler, Goering and Himmler, have close relatives currently living in Israel (Matthias Goering, the great-nephew of Hermann Goering, Katrin Himmler, the great-niece of Heinreich Himmler and Hitler's nephew's grandson).

    "We are not denying and are not afraid to confess that this war is our war and that it is waged for the liberation of Jewry... Stronger than all fronts together is our front, that of Jewry. We are not only giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based, we are not only providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going. The guarantee of victory is predominantly based on weakening the enemy forces, on destroying them in their own country, within the resistance. And we are the Trojan horses in the enemy's fortress. Thousands of Jews living in Europe constitute the principal factor in the destruction of our enemy. There, our front is a fact and the most valuable aid for victory (Weizmann is alluding to Hitler and other Jew Nazis)." Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Jewish Congress, Head of the Jewish Agency and later President of Israel.

    I also came across this:

    Jews, Nazis, Ukraine and Hitler.

    So, how is it that the Jews, Oleksander Turchinov, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Vitali Klitschko, etc, have teamed up with the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis to conduct a coup in the Ukraine. Why is the coup always called a Neo-Nazi coup but never a Jew coup (look it even rhymes). The Ukrainian coup was organized by Jews; they got the most important positions of power. So it was obviously a Jew coup. Then why the Neo-Nazis? Simply so the lying press could say "It was a Neo-Nazi coup." I think these Ukrainian Neo-Nazis are actually a "false flag" group of Jews.

    Hitler was the same. Hitler was actually a Jew.

    I have gathered yet more evidence from various web-sites and people, and it gets better & better. It is very interesting;

    1) Hitler ordered the tanks to stop for 3 days near Dunkirk when only a short distance away. This allowed the entire British army and part of the French army to escape to Britain.

    2) Hitler refused to take Gibraltar and turn the Mediterranean into a "German lake". There was nothing to stop the Germans from driving through Spain (their ally) and doing the job.

    3) Hitler declared war on the United States.

    4) Hitler refused to allow the tens of thousands of tons of weaponized nerve gas that the Germans had produced (at Dyhernfurth an der Oder) to be used. Over 500,000 artillery shells and about 100,000 bombs filled with nerve gas were found in their storage areas (mainly at Krappitz = Krapowice) at the end of the war.

    5) Hitler refused to conquer Britain. After Dunkirk, Britain was totally defenseless.

    6) Hitler refused to authorise the production of jet fighters. The Heinkel He 178 had its first successful flight in 1939, but the Jews Milch/Goering/Hitler showed no interest in it. The fighter version, the Heinkel He 280, was successfully demonstrated on April 5, 1941, but the Jews Milch/Goering/Hitler refused to put it into production. Hitler wasn't interested in a plane that could travel a couple of hundred miles per hour faster than the others. Same story with the Messerschmidt jets.

    7) Jewish financiers gave billions to finance Hitler's rise to power.

    8) Only the Nazi's attempted to kill Hitler. The Americans, British and Soviets made no attempt to kill Hitler. It is known that the British refused to allow a number of feasible assassination plans to proceed.

    9) An article from "The Jewish World" tells us that Hitler, Goering and Himmler, all have close relatives living as religious Jews in Israel today. Namely,
    Hitler's nephew's grandson,
    Matthias Goering – great-nephew of Hermann Goering, and
    Katrin Himmler – the great-niece of Heinreich Himmler.
    See: http://ou.org.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/ja/5 ... /11_17.pdf

    10) In 1932 the Jewish genealogist Karl Friedrich von Frank published Hitler's family tree. It was pointed out (June 16, 1932, in the newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung) that the name Salomon, which came up repeatedly in Hitler's maternal line, was unlikely to be Aryan. On July 14, 1933, the newspaper Osterreichisches Abendblatt published photographs of graves of various Hitlers from Jewish cemeteries and mentioned a cookbook written in Hebrew by Rosalie Hitler. Also, a number of Jewish families, surnamed Hitler, officially applied to have their names changed due to Hitler's (supposed) antisemitism. [Hitler's Vienna by Brigitte Hamann]

    Learn from the past to prevent war in the future.

    https://thesaker.is/request-for-comment ... nt-page-2/

    Checking some points.

    I have checked a few points mentioned above.

    The Karl von Wiegand quote above can be found in "Witness to History" by Michael McLaughlin (born 1940, also known as Michael Walsh). I found a copy of the book here.

    The statement by von Kleist was easily located. It appears to come from "The Other Side Of The Hill." (1948) by B. H. Liddell Hart. If not for Hitler, The British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.) would have been completely surrounded by German forces while still deep in the interior of Flanders. They would have been completely cut off from the sea, their only means of escape. There was nothing to stop this encirclement, except Hitler. He was their last hope. So Hitler risked exposure as an enemy agent in order to save them.

    Here are some quotes from the book:

    Page 112: The escape of the British Army from France has often been called "the miracle of Dunkirk". For the German armoured forces had reached the Channel coast behind the back of the British Army while this was still deep in the interior of Flanders cut off from its own bases, and from the bulk of the French Army, it seemed likely also to be cut off from the sea. Those who got away have often wondered how they managed to do so. The answer is that Hitler's intervention saved them—when nothing else could have. A sudden order from him over the telephone stopped the armoured forces just as they were in sight of Dunkirk, and held them back until the retreating British had reached the port and slipped out of their clutches.

    Page 112: But although the British Army thus escaped from the trap in France, it was in no state to defend England. It had left most of its weapons behind, and the stores at home were almost empty. In the following months Britain's small and scantily-armed forces faced the magnificently equipped army that had conquered France—with only a strip of water between them. Yet the invasion never came. At the time we believed that the repulse of the Luftwaffe in the "Battle over Britain" had saved her. That is only part of the explanation. The last part of it. The original cause, which goes deeper, is that Hitler did not want to conquer England. He took little interest in the invasion preparations, did nothing to spur them on, and cancelled at the first plausible excuse.

    Page 139: On the 22nd, Boulogne was isolated by Guderian's advance, and next day Calais. That same day Reinhardt reached the Aire-St. Omer Canal, less than twenty miles from Dunkirk—the only escape port left to the British Expeditionary Force. The German armoured forces were much nearer to it than the bulk of the British Expeditionary Force. "At that moment," Rundstedt told me, "a sudden telephone call came from Colonel von Grieffenberg at O.K.H. [Oberkommando das Heeres; Army High Command], saying that Kleist's forces were to halt on the line of the canal. It was the Fuhrer's direct order—and contrary to General Halder's view. I questioned it in a message of protest, but received a curt telegram in reply, saying: 'The armoured divisions are to remain at medium artillery range from Dunkirk' (a distance of eight or nine miles). 'Permission is only granted for reconnaissance and protective movements'." Kleist said that when he got the order it seemed to make no sense to him. "I decided to ignore it, and to push on across the Canal. My armoured cars actually entered Hazebrouck, and cut across the British lines of retreat. I heard later that the British Commander-in-Chief, Lord Gort, had been in Hazebrouck at the time. But then came a more emphatic order that I was to withdraw behind the canal. My tanks were kept halted there for three days." Thoma, who was chief of the tank side of the General Staff, told me that he was right up forward with the leading tanks, near Bergues, where he could look into the town of Dunkirk itself. He sent back wireless messages direct to O.K.H., begging for permission to let the tanks push on. But his appeal had no effect. Referring to Hitler's attitude, he bitingly remarked: "You can never talk to a fool. Hitler spoilt the chance of victory."

    Meanwhile the British forces streamed back towards Dunkirk, and cemented a defensive position to cover their re-embarkation. The German tank commanders had to sit and watch the British slipping away under their very noses. "After three days the ban was lifted," Kleist said, "and the advance was resumed—against stiffening opposition. It had just begun to make headway when it was interrupted by a fresh order from Hitler—that my forces were to be withdrawn, and sent southward for the attack on the line that the remainder of the French Army had improvised along the Somme. It was left to the infantry forces which had come down from, Belgium to complete the occupation of Dunkirk—after the British had gone."

    Liddell Hart released a second edition of the book a few years later. He added a fresh chapter on Guderian; "the subordinate commander who was insubordinately responsible for producing the staggering German victory in 1940." Here are a couple of quotes from the chapter:

    Page 53: In conference on the plan of the offensive they insisted that Guderian's spearhead of armoured divisions, after driving through the Ardennes, must wait on the Meuse for the arrival of the infantry mass. They held that a crossing of the river would not be possible until the ninth or tenth day from the start. In that case the French High Command would have had time, ample time, to reshuffle their dispositions, and bring their reserves to the spot to block the passage. But Guderian [contrary to the plan; i.e., he disregarded the order to wait for the infantry] forced a crossing on the day of his arrival on the Meuse—the fourth day from the start of the offensive. Then, despite the continued trepidation of the Higher Command, he drove on 160 miles through the back areas of the Allied armies, to cut their lines of supply. On the eleventh day of the offensive he reached the Channel coast, cutting off the left wing of the Allied armies. That lightning stroke virtually decided the issue of the campaign.... If Hitler had not ordered a halt, Guderian would have cut off the escape of the British Army from Dunkirk.


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    Re: Proof that Adolf Hitler was a double agent.

    Some information in the article "Hitler was a Jew, working for the Jews." has been hard to find. And it is often difficult to sort out what actually happened (for example, what exactly did happen at Kurst). As to Kurst, the 2012 book "Decision in the Ukraine." by George Nipe, seems the best (of the few that I've skimmed). I came across this summary paragraph of the outcome of the battle around Prochorovka:

    When the fighting wound down in the blasted fields surrounding Prochorovka, Armee-Abteilung Kempf's tanks were also at a standstill, with 6. and 7. Panzer-Divisions still some ten to twelve kilometers to the south, fighting to break out of the Donets bridgehead. The sacrificial efforts of Rotmistrov's 5th Guards Tank Army and the armor and infantry of Zhadov's 5th Guards Army and the attached reinforcements had halted the Germans by sheer weight of numbers and determination. According to Soviet accounts, the 29th Tank Corps lost 60 percent of its armor, approximately 125 tanks. The 18th Tank Corps reported the destruction of over 30 percent of its armor. Several Soviet tank brigades were essentially destroyed, notably the 181st Tank Brigade, whose mix of T-34s and T-70s ran into the Leibstandarte's Tiger tanks and were annihilated by the 88mm guns of the heavy panzers. Taken as a whole, the 5th Guards Tank Army suffered the destruction of a major portion of its tanks, having only 150 to 200 operational vehicles left [out of about 850 tanks] after its collision with the SS panzer divisions. This figure is supported by Rotmistrov's own account of the battle in his 1984 book, Stal'naya gvardiya, in which he states that by 13 July, he had 400 tanks out of action with battle damage that could be repaired, not counting those that were total losses or unrecoverable at that time. The SS panzer divisions met most of a full-strength, reinforced Soviet tank army and elements of an infantry army in battle and had held their ground, while sustaining only moderate losses of their own armor. The three SS panzer divisions still had a total of 163 operational tanks on the following day, 13 July, having destroyed several times their number of Soviet tanks. The XXXXVIII. Panzerkorps, on the left of Hausser's corps, had a few more tanks, listing 173 operational panzers on the same date. Thus, Hoth's 4. Panzerarmee still had 336 operational tanks, and III. Panzerkorps still had an additional 83 tanks. The Germans tanks thus outnumbered the remnants of 5th Guards Tank Army by approximately two to one after the fighting halted for the day. Hoth and Kempf planned to resume the attack on the following day, reporting to the OKH that massive Soviet forces had been committed against them. The HQ of 4. Panzerarmee commented in the daily combat report that it had been counterattacked along its whole front during the course of the day. The army stated that it had been attacked near Prochorovka by two tank corps, in the north by several rifle divisons supported by armor from two tank corps and on its western flank by two armored corps and a mechanized corps. The successful capture of the hill to the northwest of Michailovka (by the panzer group in the Totenkopf bridgehead) was mentioned. The divisions of both German armies prepared for another hard day of fighting, unaware that while they planned for 13 July, Manstein would be in a meeting with Adolf Hitler and Kluge on that day. During that conference, decisions were made, in the opinion of Manstein, that "threw away a victory."[Manstein is a Jewish name; could it be? He looks Jewish.]

    Since one SS division destroyed two tank corps in the early fighting on 12 July, it is likely that two entire SS divisions could have annihilated Rotmistrov's two remaining brigades and retained sufficient strength to advance on the town itself. This would have essentially meant the destruction of the 5th Guards Tank Army and probably would have resulted in the capture of Prochorovka. Had Hoth taken the town, the consequences for the Soviets in the Psel area could have been catastrophic, given the losses inflicted on 5th Guards Tank Army.

    In Manstein's opinion, the decisive moment had only then arrived, and he argued that to disengage now while he had uncommitted panzer reserves (XXIV. Panzerkorps) would be a disastrous mistake. The Soviet armored operational reserve in the south, the 1st Tank Army, had already suffered tank losses of catastrophic proportions.

    Manstein's further comments regarding his reaction to Hitler's decisions are given in Lost Victories: "Speaking for my own army group, I pointed out that the battle was now at its culminating point, and that to break it off at this moment would be tantamount to throwing a victory away. On no account should we let go of the enemy until the mobile reserves he had committed were completely beaten."

    Operation Felix.

    Hitler refused to take Gibraltar and turn the Mediterranean into a "German lake". There was nothing to stop the Germans from driving through Spain (their ally) and doing the job.

    Spain was ostensibly neutral, but Franco and his crowd owed the Nazi's for winning support in the Spanish civil war. It was extremely unlikely that Franco would have opposed the Nazis sending an army through Spain to take Gibraltar. This should have been as easy as the Japanese taking of Singapore. Just like the big guns in Singapore pointed towards the ocean and couldn't be turned around the big guns in Gibraltar pointed towards the straits and couldn't be turned around. Without Hitler, I doubt the Germans would have had much trouble taking Gibraltar.

    A plan, called Operation Felix, and dated November 12, 1940, stated: 1. Relations with France: The aim of my policy toward France is to cooperate with this country in the most effective way for the future prosecution of the war against England. For the time being France will have the role of a "non-belligerent power" which will have to tolerate German military measures on her territory,... 2. Spain and Portugal: Political measures to induce the prompt entry of Spain into the war have been initiated. The aim of German intervention in the Iberian Peninsula (code name Felix) will be to drive the English out of the Western Mediterranean. For this purpose: a) Gibraltar should be taken and the Straits closed; The English should be prevented from gaining a foothold at another point of the Iberian Peninsula or of the Atlantic islands. From "Hitler's Plan To Capture Gibraltar" (1985) by Joe Garcia.

    Operation Felix may have been a fake plan concocted after the war. But, if not, then (a faction among) the Germans had the intention to take Gibraltar. That Hitler was able to prevent this happening, without giving himself away, shows the truly amazing con-man, he was.

    The Production of Nerve Gas.

    Tabun was the first nerve agent (nerve gas) known. It was discovered in January 1936 by the German researcher Gerhard Schrader.

    Tabun was made on an industrial scale by Germany during World War II, based on a process developed by Gerhard Schrader. In a large production facility at Dyhernfurth an der Oder, at least 12,000 metric tons of this agent were manufactured between 1942 and 1945.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabun_(nerve_agent)

    I have not been able to verify the claims regarding the quantity of artillery shells and bombs filled with nerve gas.

    The nerve gas Sarin was discovered in 1938.... by Gerhard Schrader, Ambros, Ritter, and von der Linde.

    In mid-1939, the formula for the Sarin was passed to the chemical warfare section of the German Army Weapons Office,... Pilot plants were built, and a high-production facility was under construction (but was not finished) by the end of World War II. Estimates for total sarin production by Nazi Germany range from 500 kg to 10 tons.

    Sarin, tabun and soman were incorporated into artillery shells, [but not used] against Allied targets.

    A person's clothing can release sarin for about 30 minutes after it has come in contact with sarin gas, which can lead to exposure of other people. [this is of interest because of the various false-flag sarin events in Syria]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin

    Here are some quotes from "Hitlers Secret Weapons 1933-1945: the essential facts and figures for Germany's secret weapons program" by David Porter. You can download the book from here.

    During the 1930s, German researchers investigated the potential use of organo-phosphate compounds as commercial insecticides. While many were highly effective in agriculture, a few were found to be deadly nerve agents.

    In 1939, trials to confirm the practicality of large scale Tabun manufacture were successfully carried out at an experimental plant at Munsterlager on Luneberg Heath. In January 1940, work began on the full-scale production facility, code named Hochwerk, at Dyernfurth-am-Oder (now Brzeg Dolny in Poland). The factory complex was run by an I.G. Farbenindustrie subsidiary, Anorgana GmbH, and was completely self-contained, synthesizing all intermediates as well as Tabun itself. The facility had an underground plant for filling munitions, which were then stored at Krappitz (now Krapowice) in Upper Silesia.

    Although 500,000 artillery shells and 100,000 bombs filled with Tabun had been stockpiled by the end of the war, none were ever used...

    Page 166 shows a photo of Tabun-filled nerve gas artillery shells in a storage area.

    Nuclear Weapons.

    Concerning nuclear weapons the book states:

    The generally accepted history of German nuclear research indicates that from 1942 onwards, little practical progress was made towards a viable weapon - Speer attempted to get Professor Werner Heisenberg, one of the principal experts in the field, to give him some straight answers about the feasibility of producing an atomic weapon in a reasonable time-scale. Heisenberg supposedly told him that even with generous funding, it would take at least three or four years, at which point Speer recalled that, 'we scuttled the project to develop an atomic bomb'. Thereafter, research efforts were largely concentrated on building practical nuclear reactors. This seems incredible unless Speer was yet another Jew.

    The accepted history paints a picture of sustained German incompetence [or sustained Jewish sabotage] in the field of nuclear research that is in marked contrast to their achievements in other areas of military technology. This account begins to look increasingly improbable as closer examination of the period throws up a number of inconsistencies.

    It is certainly possible [but very unlikely] that the fragmentation of the German nuclear research programme in 1942 was a security measure.

    Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker, one of the members of the second Uranverein, filed a draft patent application indicating that the production of plutonium and its military potential were well understood. The application includes the following summary: The production of element 94 [plutonium] in practically useful amounts is best done with the 'uranium machine' [nuclear reactor]. It is especially advantageous - and this is the main benefit of the invention - that the element 94 thereby produced can easily be separated from uranium chemically. The document also specifically goes on to note the use of plutonium to produce an exceptionally powerful bomb: "With regard to energy per unit weight, this explosive would be around 10 million times greater than any other [existing explosive] and comparable only to pure uranium 235." [Was this patent then registered in London and Washington?]

    The potential use of nuclear fission to produce a bomb of unprecedented power was investigated by German scientists from 1939 onwards, but they were crucially just behind the US and UK in developing an operational weapon. [The book presents no evidence for the claim that Germany was just behind the US in nuclear weapon development.]

    Sabotage of Aircraft Production.

    I checked "Jane's Fighting Aircraft Of World War II." and it says "The Heinkel He 178, was test-flown on August 27, 1939, was the first jet propelled aircraft to fly. It was a shoulder-wing monoplane and was fitted with a large-diameter He S-3 turbojet unit which developed a thrust of about 1,000 lbs."

    "The Heinkel He 280 was a single-seat jet-propelled fighter which was originally under development in the Summer of 1939. It had a typical Heinkel fighter fuselage.... and was eventually abandoned in late 1944."

    "Aircraft of the Luftwaffe, 1935-1945: An Illustrated Guide" by Jean-Denis Lepage, says:

    Heinkel He 178

    A private venture of the Ernst Heinkel AG Company, the He 178 claims the fame of being the first jet-powered aircraft ever. The small experimental fighter He 178, designed by engineer Hans-Joachim Pabst von Ohain, was successfully tested in August 1939. The He 178 was a shoulder-wing monoplane with the cockpit well forward of the wing leading edge. It had a He S 3 B turbojet engine, a retractable landing gear, a speed of 700 km/h (435 mph), a wingspan of 7.20 m (23 ft 3 in), and a length of 7.48 m (24 ft 6 in). Udet and Milch attended a test flight at the Marienehe base on November 1, 1939, but—in spite of its tremendous potential—the futuristic He 178 did not generate much interest from the RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium = Ministry of Aviation = Air ministry). Just like the later Heinkel He 280, a remarkable twin-jet-engine combat fighter from 1940, the He 178 appeared at a time when the RLM showed no interest in [the] new development....

    Goering and Milch were number one and two at the Air ministry. If Milch, Goering (and Hitler) were Jews as claimed then it is no surprise that Air ministry found no interest in these remarkable jet-aircraft.

    Louis Snyder, in his Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, states that Milch's mother was Jewish.

    There was a complicating factor: Milch's mother was Jewish, ordinarily an impossible situation for an official of the Nazi regime. Goering solved the problem by having Milch's mother sign a legal affidavit stating that Erhard Milch was a bastard son of his father and not a child of her marriage. Milch did not object to this process of Aryanization. This was a standard procedure for Goering, who never took anti-Semitism as seriously as did the Fuehrer. Goering habitually drew non-Aryan officers (Jews) to the Luftwaffe.... [which helps explain why the Luftwaffe failed so spectacularly].

    Heinkel He 280

    The single-seat, two-jet-engine fighter Heinkel He 280 was a remarkable achievement designed by engineer Max Müller from the Jumo Company. The second Heinkel jet aircraft had a span of 12 m (39 ft 5 in), a length of 10.20 m (33 ft 5.5 in), a height of 3.19 m (10 ft 6 in) and an empty weight of 3,350 kg (7,386 lbs). It had twin fins and retractable tricycle landing gear, and was powered by two Junkers Jumo 004A turbojets mounted under the wings which gave a maximum speed of 817 km/h (508 mph) and a range of 615 km (382 miles). Intended armament was three 20-mm MG 151 cannons, and a bomb load of 500 kg (1,102 lbs) for the envisioned He 280B fighter/bomber version. The prototype He 280 V1 made its first flight in April 1941, and proved its excellent maneuverability and tremendous potential during a mock dogfight with a Focke-Wulf 190 in early 1942 which the He 280 easily won. Yet this attractive and advanced craft appeared at a time when the German leadership showed no interest in jet aircraft....

    Hitler's Vienna.

    The claims made from the book "Hitler's Vienna" seem to be correct. From page 45 & 46 we have:

    Hitler retained (the Viennese genealogist Karl Friedrich von) Frank's services on February 29. The genealogist mailed his report as early as April 8, 1932, on the same day on which the headlines of late newspaper editions announced in huge block letters: "Hitler's Name Is Schucklgruber." In the article the young reporter Hans Bekessi, who later went by the name of Hans Habe, revealed the heretofore unknown history of Hitler's father's late change of name—a revelation that had a spectacular impact. Tens of thousands of copies of the newspaper were hauled into Germany to affect the election campaign....

    Yet in the summer of 1932 there was an even far greater uproar in the press. First, on June 16, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung published a letter to the editor regarding the topic of "Hitler's Ancestors": the sender questioned Frank's opinion that "with the exception of the name Wallj [the family chart contained] only German names," and offered that "the family name Salomon, which comes up repeatedly," surely couldn't be "accepted without qualms as a German name.... At least, Adolf Hitler and his followers are not in the habit of simply accepting that name as a German name." In the family tree that Frank published, there appears as a great-great-great-grandmother, as number forty-five, a Catholic Katharina Salomon from Nieder-Plottbach, parish of Dollersheim, daughter of the Catholic farmer Johann Salomon in Nieder-Plottbach. It was the appearance of this Jewish-sounding name that started speculations about Hitler's alleged Jewish background.

    In the meantime Bekessi had become an editor for the Osterreichisches Abendblatt and published new revelations starting on July 12; for example, on July 14, 1933: "Awesome Traces of the Hitler Jews in Vienna," with photographs from Hitler graves in the Jewish section of Vienna's Central Cemetery and a cookbook by one Rosalie Hitler, written in Hebrew.

    One should mention that Frank claimed that his original genealogy was incorrect and later in the following year, 1933, presented an extended family tree of Hitler with the name Salomon removed. However, this was generally viewed as a cover-up.

    The Jewish World.

    The article from "The Jewish World" does indeed claim that Hitler Goering and Himmler all have close relatives living in Israel as Jews. Some quotes:

    "Hitler's nephew's grandson—right here in Israel—and a Jew!"

    "Recent newspaper articles published in both Europe and Canada have detailed the extraordinary metamorphoses of people like Matthias Goering, great-nephew of the notorious Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goering, who keeps kosher, celebrates Shabbat and wears a yarmulka; Katrin Himmler, great-niece of SS Commander Heinreich Himmler, who married an Israeli and Oskar Eder, a former member of the Luftwaffe who changed his name to Asher,..."

    Did Jewish financiers give billions to finance Hitler's rise to power? I don't know, but apparently the book "Wall Street and the rise of Hitler"by Antony C. Sutton deals with this topic.

    In my web-wanderings I also found this:

    Hitler was a British Agent.

    "Hitler was a British Agent", by Greg Hallett. I haven't been able to find a copy of this book, but it sounds interesting. I have been told that Hallett is a Jew and wrote "Hitler was a British Agent." to prevent people writing a book called "Hitler was a Jewish Agent." I guess there is some logic to that. I know next to nothing about Hallett, let alone about his motives for writing the book.

    Hitler's Genealogy.

    An interesting article concerning Hitler's genealogy is:

    http://mileswmathis.com/hiller.pdf

    This is definitely worth a look. Miles Mathis looks at the genealogies of some of the important Nazi's (including Hitler) and pronounces them Jews. He finds that many are related to each other (and to US President Donald Trump)! I have no idea how correct his findings are. Here is a quote:

    "Olga Obrist marries an Edward Hedinger. I suspect these are all variants of the same name, but even if they aren't, we have just linked the Henningers and Hettingers through the Obersts. They are from the same town in the same years, and are linked to all these obviously Jewish families. To salt that in, we also get the Görings and Brauns and Hoffmanns. Also the Schicks. Hitler's grandmother was a Schicklgruber, remember? So not only have we just linked (US President Donald) Trump and Heinz to Himmler, we have linked Himmler to Göring, Braun, and Hitler. It looks like they were all cousins."

    And to top it off, it appears that;

    Hitler's wife was a Jew.

    Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's long-term lover who married the Nazi leader hours before their joint suicide in his Berlin bunker, may have had Jewish ancestry, ground-breaking DNA testing has found. DNA analysis of hair samples from a hairbrush claimed to belong to Braun suggests that the fascist dictator may have unwittingly married a woman of semitic descent, in one of his final acts as the Third Reich crumbled. The revelation appears in a Channel 4 documentary, Dead Famous DNA, broadcast next week, in which leading scientists attempt to extract DNA from relics and analyse their genome to solve mysteries associated with them. Forensic scientists sequenced the hypervariable region of the mitochondrial DNA from a sample of hairs extracted from a monogrammed hairbrush found at the end of the Second World War in Braun's apartment at Hitler's Alpine residence, the Berghof in Bavaria, by an American army intelligence officer. They found a specific sequence within the mitochondrial DNA, a small genome within the mitochondria of the cell that is passed down the maternal line from mother to daughter unchanged over the generations, belonging to haplogroup N1b1, which is associated with Ashkenazi Jews. A haplogroup is a particular sequence of mitochondrial DNA which is passed down the maternal line and according to traditional Jewish law, Judaism is passed down through matrilineal descent....

    For the complete story from the Independent (British newspaper), click here.

    Like I said there is a heap of stuff to look at. However, I've spent much more time investigating this than I planned and I find the whole subject rather disturbing, quite scary, in fact. So, I'm headed back to my usual work.

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    I have been and remain in the camp that believe Hitler was an agent of the Rothchilds. There is credible evidence that he lived on after the war, in South America. If he was allowed to live, this is proof positive that he was in their pocket. I believe he committed suicide with Eva Braun about as much as I believe Ossama Bin Laden was dumped at sea and Saddam Hussein was found hiding in a hole in the ground.

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    Is it a coincidence that WW2 was the best thing that ever happened to Khazars? It is well established that their modus operandi is to place Marranos in all the key positions before pulling off major stunts. Why would WW2 have been any different?

    The end result reveals the original intention.

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    Is it a coincidence that WW2 was the best thing that ever happened to Khazars? It is well established that their modus operandi is to place Marranos in all the key positions before pulling off major stunts. Why would WW2 have been any different?

    The end result reveals the original intention.
    The British (Bankster Empire) were responsible for WW1 and 11. They have been after the German's since their unification in 1871 - an economic power much greater than the British, and could only be defeated by the Capitalist and Communist (jews) dropping their faux opposition.

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    The British (Bankster Empire) were responsible for WW1 and 11. They have been after the German's since their unification in 1871 - an economic power much greater than the British, and could only be defeated by the Capitalist and Communist (jews) dropping their faux opposition.
    It wasn't about nationality nor ideology, it as about Jews vs, Goyim.

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    The British (Bankster Empire) were responsible for WW1 and 11. They have been after the German's since their unification in 1871 - an economic power much greater than the British, and could only be defeated by the Capitalist and Communist (jews) dropping their faux opposition.
    The "british banksters" in this case are all Jews.

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    The entire war Strategy is crystal clear to me that Hitler were working for his enemy handlers in London.

    After a couple centuries of subjugating Indians, they came out smellin like fresh cooked chips.

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    Lacey says these are Hitler's blunders, I say they are his strategy to annihilate Germans, in preference of his own Jewish background.


    Declares War on the United States

    On December 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt went before Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Japan. Germany was never mentioned. There was little popular support to expand the war; unless Hitler made some gesture of monumental stupidity, the United States at the time had no official reason to declare war on Germany. British and American strategists were frustrated. They had always presumed that once the United States entered the war, defeating Germany would take priority over Japan. But now it appeared America would take on Japan first while Great Britain fought alone against Germany.

    Fortunately for them, four days after Pearl Harbor, Hitler committed one of the most monumental blunders in history. While President Roosevelt needed 517 words to declare war and doom Japan, when Hitler went before the Reichstag he required just 334 to seal the fate of the Third Reich.

    In the final month of 1941, a perceptive observer may have noticed the first glimmers of hope for the Allied cause, as German prospects took a turn for the worse. Britain was not only unbowed, it was actively counterattacking wherever possible. More worrying for the Germans was the Soviet counterattack in front of Moscow, where fresh Siberian divisions were tearing at the Wehrmacht's Army Group Center.

    Despite these rapidly darkening skies, Hitler, upon hearing news of Pearl Harbor, left his Prussian headquarters—where he had gone to personally deal with the Russian winter offensive—and rushed to Berlin. On December 11, he went before the Reichstag to declare war on the United States. It was an act of suicidal hubris. Although Germany was already locked in a war against Great Britain and the Soviet Union, Hitler, when presented with the opportunity to declare war against a nation capable of producing as many munitions in one year as Germany could in five, did not hesitate or flinch. It was not his first serious blunder, nor his last. It was, however, his most colossal.

    Why did he do it? This question has long puzzled historians. Hitler was certainly aware of America's production potential, for he had written about it in Mein Kampf. The simplest answer is that despite this knowledge, he remained unimpressed with American military potential. In 1940, he had told Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov that the United States would not be a threat to Germany for decades—"1970 or 1980 at the earliest." Moreover, Hitler had always believed that war with the United States was inevitable. For him, it was better to have that war at a time of his choosing, and when he could count on Japan siphoning off significant amounts of American power. So Germany, for the second time in a generation, found itself in a two-front war against the combined might of the world's greatest economic powers.


    Issues Halt Order at Dunkirk

    Still, there was one brief moment when Hitler had it within his power to win the war on one front and remove both France and Britain from his list of antagonists. It had come more than a year and a half earlier, on the coast of northern France. On May 10, 1940, German spearheads brushed aside light resistance in the Ardennes Forest before smashing through the French defensive line at Sedan. Slashing across France, General Heinz Guderian's panzers entered Abbeville, 20 miles from the English Channel, a mere 10 days later. The French army, cut in half and thrown off balance, never recovered its equilibrium.

    But even as the Wehrmacht was finishing off France, Hitler's next actions guaranteed the survival of another of his foes, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), thereby presenting his most committed opponent, Winston Churchill, with a gift of inestimable value: an army with which to continue the struggle.

    On May 23, the leading panzer units were only 18 miles from the port at Dunkirk, closer to it than most British units. Although the German troops were exhausted from two weeks of continuous marching and fighting, local commanders judged that they could easily capture the port, and thereby trap the British Army in France. Sensing that a crushing victory was near, Wehrmacht commander in chief Walter von Brauchitsch ordered the city taken. But just before the tanks went forward, Hitler issued his infamous "halt order," stopping them outside Dunkirk.

    He never mentioned his rationale for the order; guesses include Hermann Göring's assurance that the Luftwaffe could complete the destruction of the BEF, and Hitler's reluctance to risk his valuable panzers in the unfriendly marsh terrain of neighboring Flanders. Whatever the reason, the halt gave the British two precious days to solidify their defenses around Dunkirk, permitting them to carry out the most famous sealift of modern history. In that end, the Royal Navy, assisted by some French warships and a flotilla of 800 private vessels, pulled 338,226 troops off the beaches at Dunkirk, including 118,000 French, Belgian, and Dutch soldiers. These rescued men provided a veteran core around which Britain rebuilt its army.


    Overlooks U-boats' Potential

    With the Royal Navy protecting the English Channel and the Royal Air Force denying air dominance to the Luftwaffe, England was safe from invasion. Still, Hitler had one weapon that could take Britain out of the war: the U-boat. In 1917, U-boats came close to bringing Britain to its knees. Despite this, Hitler was slow to see their value. If, during the second half of the 1930s, he had taken the resources wasted on the construction of an almost useless surface fleet and instead applied them to the construction of U-boats, Germany could have started the war with hundreds of these silent killers, rather than 57.

    Even with their paucity of numbers, the U-boats came within a hair's breadth of knocking Britain out of the war. By the middle of 1940, Germany had only 25 U-boats left in service. Still, they managed to sink close to 700,000 tons of Allied shipping by the end of the year, or over 225 merchant ships. Despite that success, it was not until February 1941 that Hitler issued Führer Directive 23, ordering a crash program of U-boat production.

    Germany went on to build more than 1,100 U-boats during the war, with over 450 still in service in 1945. By early 1943, the U-boats had Britain in desperate straits, and winning the Battle of the Atlantic became the Allies' top priority. Then, in March 1943—almost imperceptibly at first—the tide started to turn. A combination of better tactics, new antisubmarine technology, and a broken German naval code turned the North Atlantic into a submarine graveyard.

    U-boats continued sinking Allied ships until the end of the war, but their own losses were unacceptably high. In the end, Germany lost almost 800 U-boats and some 30,000 crewmen. Although they sank close to 14 million tons of Allied shipping, that impressive total was overwhelmed by the nearly 40 million tons of additional shipping the United States alone built during the war. Considering that the entire British merchant fleet in 1940 was less than 18 million tons, it is clear that if Germany had started the war with as many U-boats as it ended with, Britain could not have survived long.


    Opens Vast Second Front

    But Britain did survive, and was still defiant when Hitler made a blunder second only in folly to his gratuitous declaration of war against the United States: the launch of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.

    Slightly more than two decades had passed since Germany had last launched a two-front war—and suffered devastating consequences. It therefore took a stunning level of strategic incompetence on Hitler's part to initiate a war in the East when the outcome in the West was still at issue. Tenacity, coupled with flashes of tactical and operational brilliance, kept the German army in the field for four bloody years. And once again, the German military almost made good on Hitler's gamble. But such martial attributes were insufficient to overcome the fundamental strategic mistake that placed them deep into Russia to begin with. It took a number of additional blunders on Hitler's part to crush German hopes of a Drang Nach Osten—"Drive to the East."


    Fails to Take Moscow


    The first of those blunders came soon after Operation Barbarossa was launched. From the outset, Hitler's military leaders knew that speed was of the essence: they were after a quick contest, not a protracted war. And their initial prospects of winning that race against time were promising: after smashing through the Soviet forward divisions, Army Group Center won a hard-fought battle at Smolensk. At its conclusion, more than 200,000 Soviet prisoners were marched into already overcrowded holding pens, and the road to Moscow was laid bare. Now was the time for a strong, direct thrust at the Soviet capital.

    More than just a political objective, Moscow was the nerve center for the Communist Party, a major industrial center, and, most important, the nexus for almost every major rail line in the Soviet Union; if Moscow fell, lateral movement of Soviet forces would become impossible. Moreover, the defeat of Moscow would help cut western Russia off from the eastern armies, which were already beginning their move to the city's aid. In 1812, Russia could give up Moscow to Napoleon and suffer few military consequences. Losing Moscow in 1940 would have been catastrophic to the Soviet cause.

    But then Hitler shifted Germany's strategic emphasis: rather than send his forces on to Moscow, at the end of August Hitler ordered General Heinz Guderian to take his Second Panzer Army south to assist the slow-moving Army Group South. By way of explanation, he pointed to the natural resources of the Ukraine and the oil in the Caucasus, both of which he saw as vital to the German war effort. When his generals persisted in protesting this shift in strategy, Hitler exclaimed, "My generals know nothing of economics!" Reluctantly, Guderian took his panzers south, netting another 600,000 prisoners in the Kiev pocket. It was the greatest tactical victory of war, but it was not without cost.

    When the advance on Moscow—Operation Typhoon—was renewed on October 2, a precious month had been lost. A combination of stubborn Russian resistance, German overextension, and abysmal weather soon stalled the German offensive just short of its ultimate objective. In late November, when Typhoon was called off, lead German elements were less than 20 miles from Moscow. Only two weeks later, the Russians launched a crippling winter counteroffensive. Unlike Napoleon's Grande Armée, which was shredded after its victory by both the Russians and the winter, Army Group Center did not disintegrate. It did, however, suffer horrific losses and was never again in a position to threaten Moscow. Hitler's chance for a quick and decisive outcome in the East dissolved.


    Overvalues Stalingrad as a Target

    All hope for victory was not lost, however. In the spring and summer of 1942, a restored Wehrmacht launched a new offensive to secure the Caucasus oil fields. It was at this point that Hitler made a series of misjudgments that doomed a German field army and had dire effects on the overall war effort.

    After chastising his generals about Moscow being a mere political target of little military consequence, Hitler, remarkably, allowed himself to be drawn into a battle of prestige for control of Stalingrad. Instead of focusing on the oil fields, he divided his force, sending one to head south toward Baku, the other to take Stalingrad. It was a battle he waged ferociously, long after the city had lost any military utility. Division after division was fed into the Stalingrad maelstrom, where whole battalions were virtually obliterated 24 hours after their commitment. For almost three months, the German Sixth Army pounded at the city until only a small sliver remained in Soviet hands.

    Myopically focused on capturing the city named for his mortal enemy, Hitler took no notice of the buildup of Soviet reserves on Sixth Army's weakly held flanks. When the Soviets launched an attack to encircle Sixth Army—Operation Uranus—in mid-November, they quickly shattered first the Romanian and later the Italian and Hungarian armies flanking the city. Two days later, Soviet pincers met at the nearby town of Kalach, entrapping the Sixth Army. For several months the doomed army slowly starved, before finally surrendering on February 2, 1943.

    Hitler's maniacal insistence on seizing and holding Stalingrad had cost over 750,000 causalities, and the loss of an irreplaceable field army. It was, up to that point, the greatest single disaster the German army endured.


    Gambles All at Kursk

    Eventually, the Soviet Stalingrad offensive petered out, and the Germans were given breathing space to consolidate a new defensive line and restore their depleted forces. If they were to have any chance of negotiating a favorable peace, now was the time to fortify in depth, build mobile strike forces for counterattacks—such as Erich von Manstein's successful counteroffensive at Kharkov in February–March 1943—and husband their strength to meet the next Soviet offensive.

    Instead, Hitler became fixated on a massive summer offensive aimed at an enormous bulge in the Soviet line around the city of Kursk. Ordering simultaneous thrusts from the north and south, he hoped to trap the Soviet forces within the bulge, or salient, and to tear a gap in their line, allowing the offensive to continue to the east.

    If it was the Battle of Stalingrad that decided Hitler would not win the war, it was the Battle of Kursk that decided he would lose it. Aware of the massive preparations the Russians were making around Kursk, many German generals were reluctant to attack; even Hitler had doubts, admitting that the thought of the attack made him feel ill. Despite his foreboding, Hitler eventually ordered it to go forward.
    It is a testament to German tactical ability that for 10 days the Wehrmacht pushed doggedly ahead. And for one brief moment, it even seemed as if the horrific losses inflicted upon them would not be in vain. The final defensive belt was breached and the armor of the Fourth Panzer Army massed for the final push. It was at this moment that the Russian commander, General Georgi Zhukov, unveiled his final surprise. The Soviet reserve, comprising the 5th Guards Tank Army, was ordered forward to seal the breech. Near the village of Prokhorovka, the Soviet tanks collided headlong with the onrushing Germans. In what became known as the "Death Ride of the Fourth Panzer Army," both sides fought a close-quarters knife fight with tanks. When it was over, German offensive power in the east was extinguished. The panzer divisions, reconstituted at great cost in the first half of 1943, were shattered. With them went Hitler's hopes of victory.


    Reinforces Afrika Korps Too Late

    Even as the Germans plodded forward at Kursk, Allied forces were landing at Sicily. That they were able to make relatively short work of the island's defenses and follow up with a rapid invasion of the Italian mainland can be attributed to another of Hitler's blunders. Since early 1941, Hitler had allowed the commander of German forces in North Africa, Erwin Rommel, to conduct an economy-of-force operation there. For two years, Hitler's reluctance to commit more than a trifling amount of troops to the North African sideshow forced Rommel to make his reputation by fighting and generally winning despite being heavily outnumbered.

    It was only after the Battle of El Alamein was finally lost, and in the wake of the successful Allied landing in western North Africa—both in early November 1942—that Hitler suddenly decided to massively reinforce Rommel's army. Tens of thousands of German troops were flown and shipped into Tunisia in a forlorn attempt to keep a toehold in North Africa. Hitler's decision came long after all hope of victory had vanished, and had predictable results. Approximately 230,000 Axis troops surrendered at Tunis in May 1943, including most of Rommel's legendary Afrika Korps. These veterans were desperately needed and sorely missed in the contest for Northern Europe.


    Hesitates at Normandy

    By early 1944, it was apparent to the German general staff and even Hitler that the final contest for control of Northern Europe was not going to be delayed much longer, and that the Allies would soon attempt a Channel crossing. In one of his flashes of intuition, Hitler predicted that the invasion would come at Normandy. Unfortunately for German military planners, he did not have the courage of his convictions. When the Allies actually landed at Normandy, Hitler suspected it was a deception and that their real target was northeast of there, in the Pas-de-Calais region. The upshot for the Allies was that 19 nearby German divisions, including six powerful panzer divisions, spent D-Day idle. Their early commitment to Normandy would have made the Allied beaches a living hell, and might even have thrown the invasion back into the sea. Over the succeeding weeks, Hitler became ever more convinced that the Normandy invasion was a ruse, and it was not until the end of July that he finally approved the movement of a single division from Fifteenth Army, which was guarding the coast near Pas-de-Calais. Once again, it was too late. By the time reinforcing divisions arrived, the German line was hanging by a thread.

    In a further blunder on Hitler's part, he had ordered the Normandy front held at all cost. This ensured that when his forces inevitably did give way, the surviving skeleton formations would be incapable of conducting mobile operations or making a stand much short of the defensive fortifications along Germany's western prewar borders.


    Issues Prophetic 'Stand and Die' Order

    But Hitler's "stand and die" orders had more fateful consequences on the Eastern Front.

    Timed to closely coincide with the Allied invasion of Normandy, Stalin had ordered Operation Bagration—the destruction of Germany's Army Group Center—to commence on June 22, 1944, the anniversary of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Prior to the Soviet attack, Hitler's generals advised him to pull back the army—then trying to hold the city of Minsk—to shorter and more defensible positions, so as to let the offensive hit empty space. Failing to persuade him of the necessity of moving out of the way of the Soviet juggernaut, they begged for permission to establish a defense in depth.

    Instead, Hitler ordered most of his forces to hold in their forward positions and countenanced no requests for withdrawal, no matter how desperate the situation. The result was calamitous. In one month's fighting the Soviets obliterated Army Group Center, annihilating 20 divisions in the opening weeks of the offensive—almost as many as the Allies were fighting in Normandy. Only exhaustion brought the Soviet horde to a halt on the Vistula River, across from Warsaw. There they restored their strength and prepared their next big move, into the Reich itself.


    Loses Second Gamble at the Ardennes

    There was, however, a decent probability that Hitler could have spared East Germany almost two generations of Soviet occupation, if not for his next major misstep. By the end of 1944, Allied armies were poised to enter Germany from both the east and west. Through a maximum effort, the Wehrmacht managed to refit several of its panzer divisions and build a mobile reserve with which to meet the onslaught. The refitted armored formations fell far short of what Germany required to turn the tide of the war. But if these divisions had been deployed to the Eastern Front, they could have held off the Russians just long enough for the Western Allies to advance and occupy most of Germany.

    Of course, such thinking never concerned Hitler. Instead, he launched his armor that December at a weak sector of the American front—in the Ardennes Forest—in what has become famous as the Battle of the Bulge. Attacking through the Ardennes was a forlorn hope and doomed from the start. It might delay the Allies, but it had no real chance of reenacting the glorious advance of 1940, which had driven over the same ground. All Hitler gained was a foothold in Belgium that could not be sustained. For that he squandered the bulk of his mobile forces and, with them, Germany's last hope of salvaging something from the disaster about to envelop it.

    In the end, it's striking that despite blunder after blunder, Germany resisted the combined might of the world's greatest powers for almost half a decade. This is a testament to the operational capabilities of the German army, which demonstrated remarkable recuperative powers throughout the war. Even as late as 1945, the battered Wehrmacht proved capable of lashing out viciously at its tormentors, inflicting more than two battle losses for every one sustained in the war's final months. But it was all in vain. Prowess on the battlefield could not overcome incompetence at the top. Nor could it erase the fact that the Wehrmacht's vaunted fighting capabilities were harnessed to a vile cause. Humanity should remain forever thankful that that cause was led by one of history's greatest military blunderers.

    Jim Lacey is the Professor of War, Policy, and Strategy at the Marine War College. A former U.S. Army infantry officer, he is the author of several books on military history, including the forthcoming First Clash on the Battle of Marathon and Keep From All Thoughtful Men on World War II strategy.

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