Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "German Thoughts on the Churchill Tank" video.

  1. Commonwealth troops were valued and usually lead by their own officers and with regard to the political sensibilities of their states, Canadian troops were considered elite and thus often relied upon in a way that only elite units were, as it ended up they weren't as good as they were in the first world war but they were still excellent, Australians were hard fighters but an absolute pain behind the lines, with constant indiscipline, rowdyness, drunkenness and very often criminal behaviour against civilians, as a result it was seen as to everyone's benefit to keep them as close to action as possible and not give them enough relaxation time to do anymore than recover, this was the case in both world wars but the Australians earned a much worse reputation in the second due to the treatment of civilian women in occupied Japan (it should be noted that the Americans were guilty of the same and a good deal of the personal accounts come from horrified Australian officers). Churchill was a pretty appalling leader and a very incompetent one, who was incredibly gung-ho, thought he had military expertise above his generals and believed casualty figures to be an indication of how well fought an action was. Basic every plan he put his hands on was turned into a mess so it wouldn't at all be surprising if this was another example. He was a brilliant self-promoter, a likely narcissist and lies came easily to him so he made a fairly decent stab at distorting his biography, I think the man is summed up the experience my family had with him, which was they thought he was the bees knees and hero worshipped him but didn't like they he lied about everything they personally knew (in this case having been the brick layer on some walls he said he built, in actual fact they knew the guy he hired to actually make the things!), unsurprisingly historians have become more and more cynical about the man with every generation.
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