Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Hitler as a military strategist | Jocko Willink and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. Jocko's information about Hitler listening to his generals conflicts with several sources I have listened to. Hitler overrode his generals every step of the way and in some ways it worked out well, like invading France. But in operation Barbarosa for example, the Wehrmacht was 30 kilometers from Moscow and could have seized it easily. Hitler didn't listen to his generals and ordered them to clean up resistence that was behind the German lines. This gave Stalin time to dig in and fortify positions and bring in new troops, equipment and supplies. When the Germans had cleaned up the resistence they found two lines of defense around Moscow and because the Russian winter set in, they were never able to take their prize. Equally, Hitler refused to supply his soldiers with winter clothes--again not listening to his military chiefs--and the German soldiers suffered terribly trying to fight in the bitterly cold Russian winter. I do believe however, if General Paulus had listened to Hitler and not surrendered in Stalingrad, they could have pushed through. Paulus disobeyed direct orders and 100,000 men went off to the gullag. 95,000 troops succombed to the freezing cold weather, disease, lack of food and internment in the work camps. Stallin on the other hand let his generals call the shots all through the war, and they of course were the victors. But the truth is that there are a lot of military analysts and no one really knows all the details.
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