Comments by "" (@lyndoncmp5751) on "The Numbers Say it All | The Myth of German Superiority on the WW2 Eastern Front" video.

@dulls8475 "" There is an argument about M Wittman only lasting a few months on the Normandy front because his training was not up to the more sophisticated allies opposite him as compared to the mass produced soviet Army that he had faced in the prior 3 years."" Who on earth argues that? It was Kurt Meyer who ordered the attack, a preemptive strike designed to catch the British/Canadians out and bide the Germans some time to withdraw towards Falaise. Wittmann knew it was a nigh on impossible ask and was apprehensive about it. He wasn't even supposed to go but he felt he was needed to lend some experience. He was concerned about the the flank in case it might conceal anti tank guns, which he hated because you couldn't see them. It had nothing to do with training, and Wittmann's combat experience was far greater than allies he faced. He simply had a supremely difficult task. Meyer asked too much. No allied tank commander in the same situation would have done any better. The next day of course, the remaining Tigers of his battalion annihilated the best part of the 44 Shermans that the Canadian 28th Armoured Regiment (Worthington Force) lost near Estrees la Campagne, for zero Tigers lost.
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