ljadw wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 09:16
jesk wrote: ↑19 Apr 2019, 22:50
When you reach my level of spiritual development, it will be easier for you to understand the scale of the personality of Hitler. One man defeated Germany. He wanted to lose the war in order to create a modern European Union.
So far, another link about the won battle for Britain.
https://unitedcats.wordpress.com/2009/0 ... -mistakes/
In any event though, it is astonishing some of the blunders Hitler made. No wonder the Allied High command sometimes joked that Hitler was their greatest ally:
1. Battle of Britain. When Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to “take out” the Brits, the Luftwaffe sensibly enough began their campaign by trying to destroy the RAF. By the RAF’s admission, they nearly succeeded, in fact they were about two weeks away from pretty much shutting down the RAF and controlling the skies of Britain. Then Hitler got involved and ordered the Luftwaffe to attack the British cities instead, especially London. Which did nothing but piss the British off and freed to RAF to concentrate on regaining control of the skies over Britain. London burned, but German casualties mounted to the point where they had to call off the campaign, and that was that.
Nonsense : the attacks on British cities started already before September : there were air attacks on Birmingham and Liverpool already in August and on Plymouth in July .
And you are linking to a blog ful of nonsense .
This has already been discussed. On September 7, hundreds of planes appeared in the sky over London. Earlier dozens. Hitler focused entirely on civilian goals.
https://ria.ru/20140908/1023224869.html
Седьмого сентября 1940 года вой сирен и гул немецких самолетов оглушил жителей Лондона. 550 бомбардировщиков Люфтваффе сбросили на британскую столицу в течение нескольких часов более 100 тысяч зажигательных и сотни обычных бомб. Ни один город мира до сих пор не был целью столь яростных бомбардировок.
Впервые немецкие войска применили тактику авиационного террора — начали бомбить мирных жителей, говорит кандидат исторических наук, доцент кафедры истории РГГУ Александр Медведь:
"Если сначала они уничтожали английские радиолокационные станции, бомбили аэродромы, то потом они перешли на бомбардировки по городам, считая, что таким образом они смогут нанести морально-психологический ущерб, то есть снизить волю к сопротивлению. Первые бомбардировки на города были недостаточно массовые. Там участвовали десятки самолетов. Поэтому сами англичане начали даже посмеиваться над сообщениями немецкого радио: вот разбомбили, Лондон горит. Тогда было решено нанести действительно мощный удар по Лондону с участием порядка 600 бомбардировщиков и примерно такого же количества истребителей".
On September 7, 1940, the howling of sirens and the roar of German aircraft stunned the people of London. 550 Luftwaffe bombers dropped over 100,000 incendiary and hundreds of conventional bombs to the British capital in a matter of hours. No other city in the world has ever been the target of such violent bombardments.
For the first time, German troops used aviation terror tactics — they began bombing civilians, says Alexander Medved, Ph.D., associate professor of history at the RSUH:
“If at first they destroyed the British radar stations, bombed airfields, then they switched to bombing the cities, believing that in this way they could cause moral and psychological damage, that is, reduce the will to resist. The first bombing of the cities was not massive enough. Dozens of airplanes took part. Therefore, the British themselves even began to laugh at the reports of German radio: bombed, London was burning. Then it was decided to deliver a really powerful blow to London with the participation of about 600 ships. airborne troops and about the same number of fighters. "