Posted on 05/30/2014 4:12:35 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The caption of the first photo more or less says its a conference in Rome between Neville Chamberlain and his Foreign Minister and the Duce and Count Ciano to discuss Mediterranean issues.
The second photos says : “A private visit from the Fuhrer to Field Marshal Goering.” Just politicking as usual for Hitler. Kissing hands and shaking babies.
I certainly agree with that.
But at least we weren't as criminally unprepared as the admed forces of the USSR on June 22, 1941.
Imagine their state of unpreparedness if they hadn't undertaken that adventure in Finland.
The third photo states that the Fuhrer is recieving a report from soldiers about combat and their wounds at a military hospital/rehabilitation center.
I’m having some trouble with the 4th photo, but the gist of it is that the soldiers did not suffer a loss of morale during the battle. They had a great deal of success and enjoyment in seizing enemy equipment, for example this former French ammunition carrier and wagon.
This must have been after the fall of France.
I was wondering what that thing was and was about to make a sneering comment on the German love of narrow tracks.
Cool - bookmarking that!
The 8th photo is also a follow up to the Battle of Britain. It more or less states that in the battle, there were many successes, particularly by Maj. Molders (left) and Maj. Galland (right). Goering is receiving combat reports from both of these highly accomplished fighter pilots. (And they both were.)
The 7th photo states: “England was the target of ceaseless attacks by the German Luftwaffe. Armed reconaissance identified English targets such as harbors, airfields, and munitions factories, and they were attacked by long range bombing DO 215s.”
The 5th photo is from winter maneuvers in occupied Poland. It states: “Combat troops in bitter cold in upper Gydnia. The cold did not prevent the occupation troops in the Govournment General from conducting maneuvers. Here they are bringing an infantry cannon into position.”
They will do less well when it’s for real next winter.
I’m going to speculate that the French, expecting a redux of trench warfare on a churned up battlefield, believed an armored tracked vehicle was necessary to bring up supplies to the forward positions.
I think he should have lost his command, as he did, but I think the demonetization of him after the fact was over the top and detracted from the responsibility that should have been spread throughout the entire chain of command.
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