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Doenitz\' succes
Posted by: Dietzsch ()
Date: August 13, 2001 07:46AM

<HTML>Bit of an odd question, really. Most succesful \'chief\'?

Hard to compare the different commanders/generals, even in the same army. Rommel was a very succesful and cunning field leader and who knows, if he\'d had the same resources as the allies, he might have even won the Africa campaign.

In the east, the Germans made incredible progress towards Moscow and would likely have effectively beat the USSR by the end of 1943, if it weren\'t for bad weather gear and an army unprepared for the circumstances. Von Paulus was destined to lose, but who knows how someone else would have done in his place?

Dönitz was really the only Groß Admiral. Who can we compare him to? How do we define success? He never achieved his own desired goals (tonnage sunk), but seems to have done a hell of a job with the limited resources he had.</HTML>

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Subject Written By Posted
ABOUT DOENITZ serdar 08/12/2001 01:07PM
RE: ABOUT DOENITZ MPC 08/12/2001 06:21PM
RE: ABOUT DOENITZ George Roumbos 08/12/2001 08:25PM
RE: ABOUT DOENITZ Terry Andrews 08/13/2001 04:12AM
RE Bound to happen again! Joe Brennan 08/13/2001 05:03AM
RE: RE Bound to happen again! Torlef 08/13/2001 06:16AM
Doenitz\' succes Dietzsch 08/13/2001 07:46AM
Doenitz again SuperKraut 08/14/2001 08:50AM
German leaders in WWII Craig McLean 08/15/2001 02:37AM
Paulus SuperKraut 08/15/2001 07:55AM
RE: Paulus walter M 08/15/2001 06:16PM
RE: Doenitz again Kris 08/16/2001 01:04PM


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