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The first major now classic history of ww2 in europe a veritable must for all serious military scholars...
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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I read that book as a teenager in the 1970s Capt Daniel Goodman. I had read over a hundred books about WWII before I read it which helped provide a general understanding of the geopolitical state in the 1920s through 1940s which helped usher in the Nazi state of Germany.
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LOL! My German teacher Lt. Walter Stein was was mentioned in it for interrogating Air Marshal Erhard Milch (30 March 1892 – 25 January 1972) head of Luftwaffee Fighter production the story he told is that his sergeant looked at Air Marshal Milch and asked him "Frankly you don't like the Aryan prototype?" Air Marshal Milch just laughed and replied "Frankly I am Jewish, Fatso just made me a retroactive bastard instead of a natural born one like he was." By the way "Fatso" was Reich Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring (12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946)
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Capt Daniel Goodman
That is interesting...my uncle was an NOC, one of Gen Eisenhower's radio operators in the 3118th Signal Service Battalion/Group, that got a presidential unit citation...he saw Gen Eisenhower many times at HQ SHAEF, at Southwick House in the UK before D-Day, as well as Churchill, Gem Broadly, Gen Patton, Ge
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Capt Daniel Goodman
Sorry, I hit energy, and Field Marshal Montgomery among others, he knew Sgt Migkey McKeogh and Capt Kay Summers by, who'd been the aide and driver to Gen Eisenhower...he was at the little red schoolhouse in Reims, Germany, saw Joel and the other Germans drive in for the surrender...he helped send the Telex of the surrender to Gen Marshall, and actappy swiped a flimsy copy of it my cousins, his sons, still have in a safe deposit box, after displaying is in a library by is every Memo Day, 4th of July, and Veterans Day for years...when he graduated Columba Univ on the GI Bill, Gen Eisenhower was president there before he got elected...my uncle got his diploma from the General on the steps of the main Columbia Univ library with all the other grade, most of whom were also GI Bill...the Gen actually remembered my uncle briefly who comedically spoke with him though no other vet there did as all were too terrified...my uncle had been known as his unit comedian, which I'd seen mentioned in copies of his unit newspaper a unit survivor once sent us...the aide was confused and aghast helping with the diplomas as the General said, "Oh, yeah, you are that funny little SSgt in the dommo trailer meat to mine, oh, here's tour diploma, have a nice day"... I always love telling tat story....
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Excellent read. It is a must read like the "Holy Bible", "Patton Papers", "Lee's Lieutenants" and many others. There are numerous lessons to be gleamed from this historical account both in the terms of societal change and total war. At no other time in history did the world came this close to loosing its heart and soul. The irony was that Hitler could have been stopped so many times BUT for the fact good men remained silent. The PC liberal crowd were very much in evidence with Novel Chamberlin and others.
NOW, are we going to repeat history?
NOW, are we going to repeat history?
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Capt Daniel Goodman
I understand much appreciated I'd also listed the John Toland 2-vol bio on the central monster of that drama which I found as good philosophically though also considerably more detailed about the history of the monster and complementing well tthe shirer text.
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