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Bookmark or Share- Why did the Wehrmacht fight to the bitter end? | History ForumThe odds became impossible. Yet morale remained strong; there was no widespread mutiny, as there had been in 1918. Defeatism could be detected (e.g., Stauffenberg) in some quarters air but the Wehrmacht fought on, often with exemplary esprit de coeur. Fanaticism was certainly a factor but that was mostly confined to the SS and other similar ...
- Historical figures with cool sounding names - History ForumNames with the latin 'ianus', eg Aurelian, Valerian, Vespasian, etc. I like Scottish and German surnames too. And anything Arab
- The Death of Gordian III, AD 244 - History ForumSynopsis Sathas (cf. Stauffenberg 1931, Die römische Kaisergeschichte bei Malalas, griechischer Text der Bücher IX-XII und Untersuchungen, p. 62); Georgius Monachus, Chronicon 32, p. 461 (Teubner); Cedrenus, i, pp. 450-451 (Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae 8); Zonaras 12.17). Malalas specifies that Gordian died on the trip home.
- What if Rommel remained alive until after the warAnd this meant that when the West German Army was formed in 1955, officers from the Wehrmacht would have to prove they were like Stauffenberg. And while Manstien, Guderian, Manteuffel, and others would be consulted on the formation of the West German Army, their ability to prove that they were like Stauffenberg or Tresckow was non-existent.
- Why didn't the top leadership of the Third Reich sign the Instrument of ...The Stauffenberg plot in particular was almost successfull. Why they obeyed Hitler? Basically he had been very popular, he was quite skilled at pitting potential political threats against each other from what I can understand, and then there's also the question of alternatives "Who do we put there instead", "What difference does it make" etc.
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