Comments by "John Brereton" (@johnbrereton5229) on "TIKhistory" channel.

@goranjosic The irony is that many of the Palestinians are the original Jews. Many changed their religion to Islam after the invasion, to avoid higher taxes. While many of the modern Jews who now live their are European Ashkanazi converts like the former Priminister Benjamin Natanyahu. Which is not his real name, his family name was Meilikowski from Poland. Therefore, it's far more complicated than how you have described it.
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Patton was only a minor General who couldn't see the bigger picture, he was no 'military giant'. His fame is from Hollywood fiction rather than the battlefield fact. Montgomery was in a completely different league and in the future history will judge him far better than it does now.
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@KotleKettle After reading your comment I agree only with one of your last sentences, 'You don't know what you are talking about'.
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@bigwoody4704 I find it very interesting that when Rommel had superior equipment and could knock out British tanks from out of their range, he was a brilliant General and tactician. But when the roles were reversed and Monty had the superior fire power he only won because of it, yeah right ! 😊
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@bigwoody4704 Montgomery was in command of all ground troops, so couldn't be everywhere.
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@bigwoody4704 What nonsense ! Montgomery planned and defeated Rommel at Al Alemein and kicked the Axis out of North Africa completely in May 1943 taking a record 530,000 prisoners on par with Stalingrad. He then helped plan operation Husky the largest amphibious landing in history and drive out the Axis forces in record time from Sicily. This defeat led to Mussolini being deposed and the Nazis main allies changing side. Monty then was the first to land on Mainland italy, opening up Europe's second front. He was later recalled from Italy to plan the DDay landing which he led. Caen was a strategically important hub for the Axis forces and all their top troops were diverted there to defend it, allowing US troops the opportunity to break out from their bridge head further south. Montgomery then led his forces up into Holland and Market Garden was the result of compromise. Montgomery had always wanted to mount a strong concentrated attack, but Eisenhower the overall commander wantted a wider attack. After the war, German General Blumentritt admitted that : if Montys 21st Army group had been unleashed earlier in the concentrated narrow fron as Monty wished he would have ended the war in the winter of 1944. However, this was not to be, yet he still ended up taken the German unconditional surrender at Lunberg Heath on the 4th May 1945. That's a pretty impressive record by anyones standard, though no doubt other less successful Generals will find fault.
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@frankmueller2781 'Rommels victory in France' ??????? What are you on about? Rommel was only a Panzer tank commander in France in 1940. Gerd Von Rundstedt was the Army Commander who ordered the break through at the Ardennes . Rommel was under his command , but disobeyed orders and out ran his lines and backup. This made him very vulnerable and he nearly got caught by the British at Arras when they attacked and broke through his formations and almost caught him. but they didnt even know who he was and didnt have enough tanks to finish them off. Thats because the Brits were not as well supplied as you claim, in fact the Army had been so underfunded many of their vehicles were commandeered civilian vehicles. Also, if Rommel was such a great General how come Montgomery beat him every time they met ? The first time was at Alam el Halfa when Rommel had 6 division to Montgomery 4 but Montgomery still beat him and Rommel was beaten every single time they met afterwards. Also the British attack at Arras in France 1940 is why the Nazis stopped their advance to the coast, because after Arras they realised being too far ahead of their infantry and supply lines made them vulnerable. It was Von Rundstedt who ordered the halt order and that is what allowed the British to evacuate their troops from Dunkirk. Also in 1940 It was actually the French who were well supplied, but they had been infiltrated and betrayed. Many French believed in Nazism and collaborated with them. In fact, right at the end of the war it was French SS soldiers who were fighting to protect Hitler in the Reichstag. This was just before the Nazis unconditional surrender to Montgomery at Lünburg Heath in 1945. So no, Montgomery couldn't walk on water no one can, that's a Myth. However, he was one of the finest Commander in WW2 as his many triumphs and victories testify.
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@johnburns4017 Exactly , yet Rommel is praised as a military genius while Montgomery, who beat him every single time they met is criticised. However, Monty's day will come, "In time all things are revealed, time is the father of truth"
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@bigwoody4704 As I said, Rommel often had more than equal supplies when he triumphed, and when he did he was the master tactician. But when the roles were reversed, Monty was accused of only winning due to oversupply. Both opinions are obviously bollocks !
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@NathanAurelianus Yes indeed , Patton might have been killed due to his anti semetic views as well as for war crimes committed both in Sicily as well as in Germany. Let alone his views on the Soviets. The slapping incident was minor in comparison. His death was at least very convenient and stopped him being put on trial at the same Nuremberg court as the Nazi's. This would have been very embarrassing for the USA.
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@NathanAurelianus The murder of POWs in both Sicily and in Germany in contradiction of the Nurenberg Charter agreed in London. This charter held individuals responsible rather than states and was the basis for the later Geneva Convention. Axis officers found guilty of similar offences to Patton were executed.
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@NathanAurelianus According the London Accord agreed by all the allies. No officer could claim they were only following orders. The blame went all the way back to their CO and many Germans were convicted and executed on these terms.
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@NathanAurelianus Patton told the soldiers under his command that he wanted them to be an army of killers and they mustn't take any prisoners. In Sicily they obeyed him and committed the Bascari Massacre, though Patton some how got out of that. However, at Chenogne in Belgium he was accused of murdering German soldiers in a field and his diary entries for that date are strangely missing from his memoirs. Later there are other allegations in Germany itself when he was in charge. These alone would be enough to convict him, and that's why his sudden death was certainly very convenient .
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What an interesting and enlightening topic, I've never known much about Mosely and now realise he wasn't quite the bogey man we are led to believe. In fact, he was trying to solve the same problems we are still suffering from, two political parties who are far too similar to offer voters any real choice. This is what UKIP tried to do more recently, and I recognise the violent racism of Labour supports that Mosely also suffered from.
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@bigwoody4704 Patton was well overrated and would have been convicted of war crimes if he hadn't conveniently been killed. Also, the ex Nazi Generals were always praising the Americans after the war, it paid off well.
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@bigwoody4704 Bullshit ! Montys first encounter with Rommell was at Alam Halfa when Rommell had already been resupplied and Monty hadn't. Therefore, Rommell attacked with 6 divisions to Montys 4 but it didnt make any difference because Monty still won and the Americans were thousands of miles away in Morrocco. Yet Monty won every other battle for thousands of miles across North Africa until the whole Afrika Corp surrendered after the battle of Tunis where the Americans were.Though they hadn't exactly covered themselves in glory after Kasserine. It interesting that its claimed that Monty only won because of Ultra, yet when Rommell was winning it was because he was a brilliant General. Yet nothing is said about the leaked British reports he was recieving from 'the most vilolent anglophobe' the American attaché in Egypt, Bonner Feller, or 'little Feller' as Rommell affectionately called him.
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@bigwoody4704 You obviously have a built in hatred for Montgomery and nothing I will say will change that. But my own father fought alongside him in Belgium and France and was one of those lucky enough to escape at Dunkirk aged 20. He then served with him in North Africa, Sicily and then into Italy, he had nothing but praise for him as did the majority of those who actual served with him. And let not forget, he was the one chosen to led the Allies in all these campaigns including DDay so he couldn't had been as bad as you like to claim. However, I dare say you are an American, and not many Americans have a good word to say about him, perhaps it's just jealousy, but then you think Patton was a good General, enough said.
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@johnburns4017 Yes, and here is a list of Rommels victories over Monntgomery : Errr ........ 0........ 👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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There were many different personalities involved in the failure, and Browning was not the main one as Tik reveals in a following video.
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@JosiahJS976 Didn't the British also send their experienced troops from Egypt to help the Greeks and just at the time the Nazi's were sending troops to Egypt to reinforce the defeated Italians. This had two affects, 1st it weakened the British forces just when they were being attacked by a larger more experienced force. 2nd it led to the Nazis having to send reinforcements to Greece to help the Italians there too. Hitler later remarked that sending these troops stopped him taking Stlingrad before the winter, and lost him the war.
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@goranjosic Don't you mean an 'Indisputably right to the Palestinians land' ?
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What over the top of her bushy moustache ??? 🤣🤣🤣
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@NathanAurelianus It would have been far too embarrassing for the US to have one of their own Generals on trial at Nuremberg, they were supposed to be the good guys. Far better to quietly bump him off and make him into a hero instead.
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@NathanAurelianus Surely there weren't any others ?
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@bigwoody4704 You've been watching too many Hollywood films Woody ! That's where the Patton myth was made, not on the battlefield, where the reality was far different. Palermo was of no strategic importance at all and Patton was supposed to be protecting Montys Left flank. But instead he was off on a romp to Palermo and when Monty saw an opportunity for Patton to trap the retreating Germans he was fighting, Patton ignored the message and went in the opposite direction instead, setting him self up in the Norman palace in Palermo and the opportunity was lost. As to Messina Patton forces were on the east coast where the only open road to Messina ran. While Monty was on the opposite coast fighting the crack German troops who were destroying the Bridges and roads as they retreated. So again, Monty told Patton to take the clear road and get to Messina quickly which the Americans did, but Patton halted them outside the town and told them not to enter untill he got there, he then arrived and made his triumphant entry and proclaimed he had had 'won the race to Messina'. However, there was no race, Monty had told him to take it, because he had the only clear road with no opposition and yet despite that he only entered Messina 20mins before the Brits who had fought a hard fight all up the coast against the crack German troops. Pattons fame is built on a myth that doesn't fit the actualy facts, Truscott was a far better American General, but then no one made a Hollywood film about him. At the end of the Sicily campaign Eisenhower awarded Montgomery the highest American military award that can be stowed upon a foreign soldier, while Patton was relieved of duty and sent back behind the lines in disgrace. Therefore, the actual facts paint a far different story than Hollywood. George. C. Scott was a far better actor than Patton was a General.
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@bigwoody4704 Instead of disputing any of my valid points Woody, you just attack the British. However, Dunkirk was a successful withdrawal after the Dutch, Belgiums and French were all beaten. In 1943 the Germans were not so lucky in Tunisia where 275,000 couldn't escape and so were forced to surrendered to the British. Thats more than the 90,000 who surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad. Or the 1million who were forced to surrender to Alexander in Italy. Yet in Italy they were on land, which makes the retreat from Dunkirk across the 20miles of English channel all the more remarkable. If the British had not been successful they could not have gone on to beat the Luftwaffe at the Battle of Britain and then stand alone against the Nazis for 3 years. Instead, if they had been invaded in 1940, the Nazis could have easily won WW2 because there would have been no one to stop them. There were far better American generals like Bradley and Truscott, however Patton was not one of them and I notice you have given up trying to defend him, because the facts speak for themselves.
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@bigwoody4704 Rommel, Hitlers favourite Nazi General didn't need to blow his own trumpet. Oh no, he had the whole of Goebbels very efficient propaganda department blowing it for him. They would arrive in the desert and take specially posed photos of a determined Rommel looking like a movie star staring out across the vast desert with a determined look on his face while mounted heroically in a tank. These photos would then appear together in the press with overblown articles describing Rommels military brilliance. And this propaganda was so impressive that even now in the 21st century there are still people around who continue to be fooled by it.
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Do you think that Chamberlain's appeasement was motivated by allowing Britain time to re-arm ?
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