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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (21588)	10/14/1998 12:47:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

No I did not know that info. I knew Rommel's niece (great) though. Nice girl but a bit bitchy. Knew several Stuka pilots, some prison camp guards, AA gunners in Denmark and some people who served aboard the Tirpitz. I also knew some people who survived the Warsaw Ghetto, one who was in the Dirty Dozen saboteur squad in Italy, one who was in the Great Escape, some radar operators on the English coast, some who landed in North Africa and lots who flew Lancs and some who flew Hurricanes in the BoB. Grandad was at Ypres and Dad at the Siegfried Line and Casino too. All in all I think the Germans had one impressive army. They made many mistakes, military and humanitarian. But say what you will, the chain of command was brutal and men feared their commanders more than having to carry out distasteful orders. Many blame them out of hand but I cannot picture ourselves being able to resist being caught up in that system any less than we are caught up in our own. I personally have no solution to the paradigm that one one had an army has to have obedience without question or it cannot function but on the other hand there have to be limits. I leave it to wiser than I to decide. Hitler may have been a paranoid schizophrenic. Certainly he was delusional. He was a master of military strategy but made fundamental mistakes from lack of basic military experience. It is fine to plan grand but some things an army cannot do. The German army on the face of it was no crueler than the Russian. Soldiers from the eastern front have told me that the Russians used to appal them. In every battle with the Russians they proved the equal of the German in equipment and arms. Both sides lost near equal men and equipment in every battle except Stalingrad. Warm countries should not invade cold ones. From this I can surmise that a western army would be no match for the Russians. We fought the Germans with an enormous intelligence advantage and superior equipment. Without it we were no match for them or their equipment, except in the air and that by a hair and only in implementation. Our pilots were by a large inferior. Only the Canadians and sometimes the British were ever able to break a well defended German line. The U.S. portable radar fired artillery encirclements where an enormous advantage at Remagen though. The Russians had only the T34 and the Yak to brag about and refused to use the intelligence advantage. They fought the Germans outnumbered two to one on the eastern front and beat them. I credit the T34 for 50% of that. It had the best range speed, armor and fire power of any tank save the Matilda. How about that gold price! EC<:-}