Comments by "Hermit Oldguy" (@hermitoldguy6312) on ""Blitzkrieg" is the wrong term (and more) | TIK Q&A 24" video.

  1. Speaking with zero authority, I think "Blitzkrieg" was a term made up by the UK press to describe to the British public a new tactic the Germans were using in the opening days of the war.
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  2. The Germans did go East - to Poland (1sep39), and France declared war (3sep39), attacked Germany (9sep39), withdrew (16sep39). What's notable is that Russia did not assist her long-time ally, France, but either seized the opportunity to profit, or prepared for German attack, by invading Poland (17sep39), Estonia (after 28sep39), Latvia (after 5oct39), & Lithuania (after 10oct39). So the question of "what if Germany hadn't attacked France" is moot: France attacked Germany. The interesting "what if" is "what if France hadn't declared war on Germany?" They had several good reasons not to; the terrible losses from WWI, the lack of preparation for another war, the Maginot line, the incompleteness of the Maginot line, the West Wall, ...
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  3. Yes, Britain and France were not ready. That's a good point about the USSR. Makes me wonder about how it became decided that they and we were allies. We certainly didn't support their attacks on Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania & Finland.
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  4. He inherited the Baronetcy in 1928. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley
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  5. He's talking to English-speakers who would struggle to recognize "Shpayer".
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  6. Me too.
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  7. Long war? Short war? A"war" is when two armies are fighting, so you can see right there ... The Nazis did not plan for war, they planned for victory! Who could stand before them? Whoever tried would be crushed! Quartermaster: But ... They could not and would not contemplate anything else. Quartermaster: what about ... Anyone who did was a defeatist and an enemy of the State. Quartermaster: supply lines? They planned a lake where Moscow stood, Quartermaster: It's a long way to Moscow. a hunting forest in N. Poland with giant wild cattle (aurochs), Quartermaster; Winter uniforms? Berlin would be completely remodelled as a cathedral to (Hitler) the mighty German people. Quartermaster: Ok then.
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  8. ... and over-estimated themselves.
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  9. a) yes, b) prolly not, c) I didn't say that.
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  10. I would say it was the German attack on Russia that made Germany the common enemy of us all, and hence we were de facto allies.
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  11. He is getting right - for English speakers - the same as we say Germany, not Deutchland (I can't even spell it) which is how the Deutchlanders (or whatever they are) say it in Deutchlandensprachen.
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