Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "The 5 Secrets of Heinz Guderian | The Unknown Side of General Panzer" video.

  1. Other officers -- well, most anybody -- didn't trust Guderian. He was brilliant, but self-involved. Think of Patton on steroids. Of course, Patton was honorable as well as beloved. Guderian was NOT an honorable general -- which is why Adolf never gave him a baton. Of course, Guderian felt slighted. Even Adolf didn't trust him. And yes, Guderian did have advance knowledge of the assassination plot. Which is why he famously was in the woods all during the magic hours, getting in touch with nature -- and out of touch with everyone else. Brilliant! George C. Marshall pulled the same trick, 12-7-1941. Amazing! At least he could point to 'Sunday afternoon.'
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  2. The Soviets killed him in 1953 once Stalin realized that Guderian was still alive. Of course, this assassination was done on the down low. For the Soviets, Guderian was undoubtedly a Nazi war criminal -- starving hundreds of thousands by food confiscation (1941, Typhoon) with countless deaths.
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  3.  @eshelly4205  The Bolsheviks are on record blaming Guderian for 400,000 deaths during 1941. He was never tried for his involvement in Barbarossa, as you must know. His version of history was published ~ 1953. Then, like magic, he's dead. He'd come back up on the Soviet (GRU/KGB) radar. During the course of the Cold War, 'Central' assassinated quite a few enemies of the state -- right under the noses of the West. Many of these were only revealed after the war was over... much to the embarrassment of the West. And the Kremlin is still at it, as Brits could tell you. It's a VERY good bet that the Kremlin assassinated Obama's mother. She was the chief operating officer of the CIA during the Soviet-Afghan war operating in Pakistan. She was the gal handing out the money. Like Guderian, she also died of 'semi-natural causes.' As IF. The Kremlin obviously blamed her for their fiasco in Afghanistan. Her mother, Barrak's grandmother, performed the exact same function a generation earlier from Honolulu. Her 'cover' was as the chief teller for First Hawaiian Bank, IIRC. (She lived in my building all those years ago. So, yeah, I did meet Barry and grandmother/tutu in 1983. ) [ Their CIA employment is why they ever had any connection to Kenya -- but that's a whole 'nother story.] Both his mother and grandmother ran the CIA's books for the Indo-Pacific. His mother also spoke fluent Russian -- strange for a Honolulu girl... unless you work for the CIA.
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  4. It's shocking how FEW friends Guderian had among the generals. He had a TON of rivals/ opponents. Kluge comes right to the top of the list. Adolf deliberately placed Guderian underneath Kluge during Barbarossa -- standard practice for that dictator. You'll see such pairings, by Adolf, just all over. When generals really got along -- Adolf would send them different ways. (Rundstedt & Manstein)
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