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       Adamant Hitler and his sensible Generals

     The German dictator Hitler was planning to invade Czechoslavakia. The German Army Chief  Ludwig Beck   was    cautious about the consequences and repercussions of the planned invasion.  He wrote a letter to the Commander-in-Chief  in which he cautioned that as a result of such an invasion,  England, France and Russia will unite against Germany    (  Field  Marshal Caulaincourt had warned napoleon in a similar way )and that USA will become their arsenal ..Germany will never win such a war. The scarcity of raw material for the armed forces will make victory imposible.The military and economic strength of Germany is weaker.

        But C-ib-C  Brauchitsch  was so much mesmerized by Hitler that  he never brought such logistical  problems to the notice of Hitler and he went on toeing whatever line Hitler drew  , blindly.

       As no reply was received from the C-in_C , Army Chief  Beck wrote to him again  , stating, “    In full consciousness of the magnitude of such a step but also                                                         of my respomsibilities , I feel it my duty to urgently ask  that the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces   ( Hitler  )   call off his preparation for war  , and abandon the  intention of solving the Czech question by force  until the military  situation  is fundamentally changed. For the present, I consider  it hopeless  and this view is shared by  all the higher officers of  the General Staff.  “

       Hitler could realize that almost all higher officers were against the intended war.So called a meeting of officers immediately below such officials and harangued them on the necessity of  attacking Czechoslovakia for three hours  !  Even there after one general told, “ If we shift our entire force on Czechoslovakia , then our western border will become undefended and the French Army will easily march into Germany  and our defence wall there will not last more than three weeks. At this point Hitler roared, said what three weeks ? It  is so strong that it will stand there more than three years. And it will thwart the march of the French effectively.

           Hitler was determined to launch attack on Czechoslovakia and  General Beck resigned from his post.

            Germany easily defeated Czechislovakia and in a series of victories  it defeated other small countries , with this his conceit   rose higher and higher and ultimately it attacked France and defeated it. So his conceit saw no bounds and he started dreaming defeating Russia , a colossal country ( see  in the world map, its geographical dimensions )

             But problems of logistics, supplies of woolen  clothings to the soldiers fighting under minus 35 degrees , food supplies at home, went on increasing day by day , as he went on winning more and more territories, the requirements of men , material, food, weapons , spare parts , petrol , communication vehicles, also rose which made it necessary to attack and annex more and more territories. There were less farm labour in Germany so food production had gone down , so granaries of some countries were to be annexed , their   food grains  stocks   consfiscated  and transported to Germany , there were no servants in the house holds of German soldiers and officers, so men and women from the defeated lands  were to be imported into Germany as slaves to  work as servants in the German  house holds, weapons were in constant demand, so ordnance factories were to function round the clock , so jews and other able bodied  men from defeated lands were to be employed there, so more educated men were to be caught and herded as slaves in the ordnance factories, military vehicles were deployed in far flung areas of Europe and Africa  so vehicle factories were to be run non-stop, they run on petrol so petrol fields  of  Rumania  and Russia were to be annexed . This way Hitler got Germany caught in a web of  vicious circle, one action giving rise to another and it in its turn would  create new actions  ! It was like nuclear fission , one atom exploding and giving birth to number of atoms , who exploded and created new atoms only to explode , multiply and on and on !

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    The result of unsatiable hunger for power and territories ?

1. Napoleon was imprisoned on the island of saint Helena, where de died as a prisoner of England

  2. Hitler had no courage to surrender alive, and he had no courage to shoot himself either. After his wife had taken poison, he had to kill himself, but he had no courage to pull the trigger of revolver and had to call a General to shoot himself .

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         Sensible Generals of Hitler.