Comments by "Pyromania101" (@pyromania1018) on "Erich von Manstein: Hitler's Best General" video.

  1. ​ @jamesfracasse8178 Konstantin Rokkosovsky, one of the Soviet Union's best commanders. Sadly, he doesn't get much attention. He made this famous remark: "The German Army is a machine, and machines can be broken."
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  2. Also Guderian.
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  3. Best, huh? Rokkosovskiy played him like a fiddle.
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  4.  @erikk4555  Stalin himself was not a good military commander, but he eventually understood this and backed off. He was excellent at logistics, though.
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  5. @Ar_cticus  He was arrested and tortured, but refused to crack. Upon being released, the NKVD gave him some dentures. Regarding fame, he tends to get sidelined by Zhukov and Koniev (both excellent commanders themselves).
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  6.  @markgarrett3647  I think Model and Runstedt were a bit better.
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  7.  @Intreductor  Vatutin is another underrated general. I'm talking about later, during Bagration, I think. Rokkosovskiy made it look like he was massing his forces in one area, and Manstein fell for it, weakening his forces in another area to defend it... whereupon Rokkosovskiy sprung his trap and attacked the weaker area.
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  8. ​ @erikk4555 Rommel was a bull.
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  9. ​ @Intreductor Model was better at defensive warfare, but Hitler didn't like that.
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  10. @madgavin7568  Not really. More like one of the most arrogant. He was like Sheldon Cooper in a sense: very smart, but refusing to accept that he's not the only intelligent person in existence.
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  11. ​ @madgavin7568 Hardly. His plan to take France worked, but after that, everything went downhill.
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  12. Take it with a bowl of salt, though. Guy didn't like to acknowledge his mistakes, or that the Soviets used more than just sheer numbers and the winter.
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  13. Yeah, he gained Hitler's favor by being a total butt-kisser and fanatical Nazi ideologue.
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  14. @mathiasmueller9693  Rommel was a terrible tactician, always running too far ahead of his supply lines and considering logistics to be unimportant. And Manstein's strategies only worked on specific targets, thus he ended up failing more often than he succeeded in the Eastern Front.
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  15. @owenparris7490  Which they felt was threatened after their preferred candidate lost an election they shamelessly tried to rig--and the winning candidate refused to sign an agreement that would have made the USA a pro-slavery nation. It's shocking how so many people still ignore that.
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  16. @theshackledgamer799  It's called "A Bunch of Wangers".
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  17. Yeah, no. Bagration makes Case Yellow look like a joke.
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