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Gallipoli
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Topic: Best General Of WW2 Posted: 31-Aug-2004 at 07:33 |
Who was the best? I go for Rommel, as usual.
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Posted: 31-Aug-2004 at 10:08 |
Zhukov
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Posted: 31-Aug-2004 at 11:46 |
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Posted: 01-Sep-2004 at 09:12 |
Oh shoot I forgot to put Zhukov, sorry warhead
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Posted: 01-Sep-2004 at 09:18 |
not important General monty better than him
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Posted: 01-Sep-2004 at 12:59 |
where is manstein? i think that germans had best commanders....
I vote for rommel...but Manstein is better....rommel was just a big showman...
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Posted: 01-Sep-2004 at 13:33 |
Yep ,exactly the as Mulder said..Manstein was absolutely the best..as for Zhukov I would remmomend to read following articles:
http://www.larkfarm.com/books/zhukov.htm
http://www.onwar.com/articles/f9905.htm
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Posted: 01-Sep-2004 at 13:49 |
But wasn't Rommel defeated several times?
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Posted: 02-Sep-2004 at 03:25 |
Montgomery was also defeated, his worst military blunder being Operation Market Garden. Remember we watched a movie called "A Bridge Too Far" Ihsan?
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Posted: 02-Sep-2004 at 06:49 |
rommel was defeated at normandy...and El Alamein...but
Battle of Alamein-rommel was on sick leave he was nowhere near battlefield.
Normandy- rommel wanted to put all forces on wheels to counterattack allieds after landings "Field Marshal Rundstedt remained above Rommel as Supreme Commander West in command of all of occupied France. This would later become a problem because even though Rommel commanded Army Group B, he needed permission to move units between his different Armies within the Army Group. This actually meant that Rundstedt would then need to send the request to Hitler."
Dont balme rommel he was a good commander, but it wasnt enough
(On March 11th of 1943, Erwin Rommel was awarded by Hitler, the Knights Cross with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds. At the time, Erwin Rommel was physically and morally shaken and was a shadow of his past glory.)
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Posted: 02-Sep-2004 at 08:27 |
Beeh all of us and these generals are humanbeings we can make some mistakes of we can be defeated
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Posted: 02-Sep-2004 at 08:54 |
Ney? (What) Human beings? Generals consider themselves violant warlords, not human beings. If you are a human being and a general at the same time you screw up,thinking about every single soldier in your army...
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Posted: 07-Sep-2004 at 06:20 |
Of course Dwight Eisenhower.Think operation Overlord
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Posted: 08-Sep-2004 at 08:16 |
Yayy Rommel wins
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Posted: 08-Sep-2004 at 10:31 |
.... Wha? No Albert Speer? Sure, he wasn't a General, but in his own words "I damn myself for keeping the Nazi war machine running longer than Hitler ever could have done it, and damn myself for not seeing the truth in the error of my path."
Inside the Third Reich, by Albert Speer.
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Posted: 15-Sep-2004 at 02:58 |
Fritz erich von manstein how bout that guys?...and heinz guderian....they both are as brilliant as rommell
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Posted: 19-Sep-2004 at 04:32 |
The most successful?.......Zhukov
Best of the well known German Generals?.......Rommel
Best of the least known German Generals?......Heinrici
Finest American General?......................Bradley
Finest British General?............Air Marshal Dowding
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Posted: 19-Sep-2004 at 04:47 |
where's Guderian? he was pretty damn innovative
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