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The Demise of Germany (from Almin von Roon's "Holocaust") Translator's Note: Long sees the D-Day landings and the Soviet offensive in June as a joint military operation.This is true in its broadest sense.In Tehran, the Grand Coalition had indeed endorsed a simultaneous attack on Germany from east and west.But the Russians were not informed of our battle plan, and we were not informed of theirs.Once we landed, it was very uncertain for a fortnight whether Stalin would keep his promise to attack. This chapter combines Long's strategy essay with chapters from the final part of Hitler's Memoirs.

In June 1944, the steel jaws of the vise forged in Tehran began to close.According to the two-pronged attack planned by plutocratic imperialism and Slavic communism for a long time, the German nation, the last bastion of Christian culture and etiquette in Central Europe, was attacked from both the east and the west. In Western writings, the D-Day landings and the Russian attack are still regarded as great achievements of "humanity".But serious historians have begun to see through the smokescreen of wartime propaganda.In Tehran, Franklin.Germany.Roosevelt brought Eastern Europe under the clutches of the Red Devil.What is his motive?Want to destroy Germany, the most powerful enemy of American monopoly capital in the world.Britain, to use Hitler's vivid language, had been skinned like a rabbit by the strain and effort of the war, and by Roosevelt's cunning opposition to colonialism.Brave Japan is in the same Feng.Nimitz's ever-expanding fleet was running low in an outnumbered battle.Only Germany still stands in the way of the gold dollar world hegemony.

Some people think that Roosevelt was later "deceived" at the Yalta Conference and made too many concessions to Stalin, which is a superficial platitude.In fact, he gave it all up in Tehran.When he promised an attack on France, he made it inevitable that the red Asians would drive straight into the heart of Europe.To ensure this, he also sent to the Soviet Union a large number of loan-lease materials, which are still unimaginable: about 400,000 motor vehicles, 2,000 locomotives, 11,000 railway carriages, 7,000 tanks, 6 More than a thousand self-propelled guns and half-track vehicles and 2.7 million tons of oil and other products needed to mobilize a primitive Slav army, not to mention 15,000 aircraft, millions of tons of food, and countless Raw materials, factories, munitions and technical equipment.

The image of Roosevelt as a down-to-earth, duped humanist confronting Stalin was his greatest propaganda hoax.These two hard-hearted butchers knew each other well; they only pretended to be different for the sake of their own people, for the sake of history.Among the two, Roosevelt always had the upper hand, because half of Soviet Russia was destroyed and was in danger of survival, while the United States was rich and strong, safe and sound.Stalin had no choice but to sacrifice millions of Russian lives to clear the way for American monopoly capitalists to rule the world.He did test the possibility of a peace with us on reasonable terms, through top-secret negotiations of which we at Headquarters knew nothing at the time, but at this point we were thwarted by Rofus's "generous" Lend-Lease .Naturally, Hitler was not prepared to give up all of our gains.After Stalin got all those supplies, he decided that it would be more beneficial to fight on and sacrifice a lot of German and Russian blood.

The barren and squabbling countries of Eastern Europe were the lure Roosevelt offered to Stalin to demand terrible sacrifices from his country.Roosevelt's policy was to let them fall into Russian hands.Of course, the capricious Balkans are suspect victims.The Soviets were already belching with indigestion after devouring the uncompromising peoples.The strategic importance of that turbulent peninsula is not what it was in past centuries, or even what it was to us in 1944, as a conduit for Turkish chromium.But despite this, it was a heinous crime to invite Slavic communism to march on the Elbe and Danube.Churchill's eagerness to carry out the main Allied offensive into the Balkan states showed at least some political sensitivity and a sense of responsibility for Central European and Christian civilization.His blood was not as cold as Roosevelt's.Roosevelt cared nothing for the Balkans or Poland, though in one moment of uncanny candor he told Stalin in Tehran that he would have to bother about Poland's future because of the large Polish-American vote he faced in elections.

Warlords Clash Franklin.Roosevelt took a big risk when he landed in Normandy.This is not well known.When we weigh the strength of the confrontation, the elements of time and space, and the problem of sea-land transfer, we see that Churchill's delay in taking action was justified.The landing is dangerous and the result could be a catastrophe.Odd luck on our part and one mistake after another allowed Roosevelt to succeed in a daring military operation. Eisenhower himself knew the dangers of Operation Overlord.Even as his five thousand ships approached the coast of Normandy that stormy night, he drew up a proclamation announcing the failure of the campaign, the manuscript of which has survived: "We are at Cherbourg-Havel The landings in the area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold, and I have withdrawn my troops. I am attacking here and now, and my decision has been made on the basis of the best intelligence available. Troops, Air Forces, and Navy are all fighting valiantly , to do my best. If there is any negligence and inappropriateness in this operation, I will be solely responsible for it.”

This document did not become an official Allied communiqué due to several factors, chiefly: 1. Our hateful intelligence agency, 2. Our confused, slow response to this attack in the first decisive moments Response, 3. Adolf.Hitler's incredibly clumsy decision, 4. The Luftwaffe failed to cope with Allied air superiority. The assembly of the invasion fleet was indeed a remarkable technical achievement, as was the production of a large air force fleet and the manning of those personnel on board.General Marshall's recruitment, equipment, and training of the ground troops pouring into Normandy revealed him to be an American Scharnhorst.The American infantry, though requiring extravagant logistical support, fought tenaciously in France;The British GIs under Montgomery displayed bulldog valor, though progress was slow as usual.But what happened in Normandy was, in essence, Franklin.Roosevelt defeated Adolph as surely as Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.hitler.In Normandy, the two men finally met in frontal armed conflict.The mistakes Hitler made allowed Roosevelt to win.Just as in the Battle of Waterloo, it is better to say that Napoleon was defeated than Wellington.

Franklin.The essence of Roosevelt's vicious military genius lay in these simple rules; choose his generals carefully; Dismiss military leaders with honorable setbacks; give full credit to leaders who win victories.After Roosevelt's death, the Supreme Command on the battlefield was actually the same as before.This stability yields benefits.The reorganization of the military command will cause a lot of losses in momentum, energy and combat effectiveness.Our disaster is that Hitler keeps changing generals. The head of state took the supreme combat command into his own hands without authorization.We are suffering a serious setback.He must never admit that he was responsible for any setback.As a result, military leaders had to change frequently.Ambitious rising generals abound, eager to thrive while their predecessors are being dismissed for Hitler's incompetence.I watched the Führer's fleeting favorite generals come and go, took over with enthusiasm, only to be exhausted by Hitler's interference, finally dismissed for his egregious actions, and perhaps commit suicide or Died of a heart attack.This is a sad thing and an absurd method of warfare.

D-Day Three events governed the question of the invasion upon which the fate of our country depended: 1. Where would they land? 2. When will they land? 3. Where do we fight them? According to all military logic, the place where the British and Americans landed should be the Strait of Calais opposite Dover.This provides the shortest route to the Ruhr, the industrial heart of our country.The strait is narrowest there.Troops are helpless on water, and common sense dictates that they be brought ashore by the quickest means.The turnaround time for ships and air support is also the shortest on the Dover-Calais axis.The coast of Normandy, from which the enemy attacked, would have been farther away by air and sea.

As we were preoccupied with intercepting the invading force in the vicinity of the Pas-de-Calais, we concentrated our attention on one position and gave the enemy an opportunity for a sudden surprise attack.Hitler somehow guessed that the location might be Normandy.At one of his staff meetings he did point a finger at the map and say, with that undeniable military eye we usually call his, "They'll land here." But he did a lot of this in the war. Speculation is often extremely absurd.Of course, he only remembers the ones that turned out to be correct, and brags about them.Rommel, who was ordered to repel the invasion, was also concerned about Normandy.So at a very late stage, we strengthened the defenses on those beaches and increased the armed forces deployed there.In spite of the surprise of the invasion, we could have broken the landing had it not been for the terrible style of command which completely delayed the first day.

General Morgan, the main planner of the British landing, once wrote: "We hope and plan to fight as far as possible from the beach and go deep inland, because if the offensive battle is fought on the beach, then we have already lost the battle." I admit that the staff of our Supreme Command made mistakes on this point.We agree with Lunstead that the Mobile Reserve should be on standby far inland to avoid naval and close air attacks; and when Eisenhower makes a major inland invasion after his landing, we will launch an attack to wipe out the entire invading force, As we have repeatedly wiped out the Russian army.This is an "Eastern Front" mentality.Rommel knew better.Facing an enemy with air supremacy in North Africa, he had tried to fight a campaign of movement.then.We are in a dilemma.The only time to stop the invasion of Normandy is when the enemy staggers onto the beach under the fire of our artillery.Rommel strengthened the so-called Atlantic barrier and worked out all his plans in accordance with this principle.Had we followed his plan when the invasion began, we might have won and turned the tide of battle. Translator's note: Long did not praise the excellent deception tactics employed mainly by the British.This tactic fueled the Germans' wishful thinking about where we would land.Great efforts were made: the air raids and naval bombardments of the Pas de Calais far exceeded those of Normandy, the air bombing of the railways and roads leading to the Pas de Calais, the formation of false landing craft and The hypocrisy of the Army makeshift barracks, and all the still-secret intelligence tricks.Germans are not imaginative.They took in all these hints of their wise judgment that we were about to plunge towards the Pas de Calais. What went wrong - preparations We German generals are often blamed for losing wars we should have won by blaming the dead politician Hitler.The defeat in France, however, was Hitler's fault.He missed a tiny chance we had.This fact cannot be denied in a purely military analysis. His base estimate isn't too bad.As early as November of the previous year, he issued the famous Instruction No. 51, transferring troops to the Western Front.He aptly points out that we in the East "can trade space for time, and the enemy's gaining a foothold in France will have immediate and overwhelming" implications; into the range of the enemy's attack.The injunction is correct and its outline is realistic.If only he could stick to it!From January to June, however, he panicked and babbled, effectively spending all of his troops on the Western Front on three other fronts: the occupation of Hungary, the Eastern Front, and the Allied front south of Rome.In addition, he froze large numbers of troops in Norway, the Balkans, Denmark, and southern France against possible landings, instead of massing all of them along the Channel coast. Admittedly, he was under a lot of pressure.The three thousand miles of European coastline were completely exposed to the attack of the enemy.In the east, the Russians, like "animals in the swamp," in Hitler's words, are continuing to fight; threaten.Guerrilla activity destabilized all of Europe.Politicians in the satellite states are all vacillating.In Italy, the enemy kept pushing up this boot.The savage bombing by the Allies continued unabated in both scale and accuracy.Despite Goering's boasting, his battered air force is pinned down over the East and our factory cities.Like Britain in 1940, our troops, arms and resources are dwindling and our overstretched fronts are becoming too thin.The situation has changed.Overseas, there are no unharmed allies to save us from the fire. At such times, a great leader should provide a stabilizing effect.If Instruction No. 51 is correct, then Hitler's policy is clear: 1. Stabilize political indecision by victory, not occupation by wasteful armed forces, as in Hungary and Italy. 2. In Italy, retreat to the line of the Alps and Apennines, which are easy to defend, and transfer the redundant divisions to France. 3. Replacing rigid, costly reputational resistance with flexible stalking tactics to delay the advance of the enemy to the east. 4. In areas where the enemy is unlikely to invade, leave some basic troops and concentrate all forces in the straits. This is Feng.How Nimitz and Spruance won the Battle of Midway despite being outnumbered.They took great risks and concentrated their forces on decisive strongholds.This principle of warfare remains unchanged.But Hitler's nervousness prevents us from sticking to our principles.Although he is stubborn, he is not firm. His much-vaunted "Atlantic Wall" along the strait is clumsy.In his own cleverness, he concluded that the invading force would attack a major port.So the main French harbors were surrounded by bunkers and artillery emplacements, designed by himself, a man of supreme genius: 1,500,000 tons of concrete and countless man-hours had been spent on them.Rommel was farsighted and ordered to fortify the open beach as well: deploy several mine belts on the land under the sea, set up underwater obstacles that can pierce and blow up approaching ships, and in the area behind the beach Pickets were installed to destroy the gliding troops, and numerous bunkers and artillery positions were added along the coast. But a lack of manpower hampered this new effort, as many had to dig "magnificent" bomb shelters for aircraft factories and repair bomb damage in our cities.How important are these things compared to an invasion?However, Hitler did not support Rommel's supplementary order for the Atlantic Wall, so the "Barrier" remained largely a propaganda illusion.One example will suffice to illustrate.Rommel ordered the laying of 50 million mines behind the beaches where the glider troops could land.Had he been followed, the airborne landing would have failed, but their invasion had succeeded without even laying ten percent of the mines. Nominally we have about sixty divisions for the defense of France, but the fixed divisions along the coast are largely put together from the best of our ability.Composed of troops below normal standards.Some infantry divisions are scattered, but our hope lies in the ten motorized armored divisions.There are five divisions stationed not far from the coast of the Channel, which can attack both the Pass of Calais and Normandy.Rommel intended to wipe out the first enemies arriving by landing craft on the beach.In fact, it was later proved that there were only five teachers in total.He therefore demanded operational command of these armored divisions. It is futile.The Supreme Commander-in-Chief on the Western Front, Lunstead, advocated waiting for the invading forces to stand still before attacking them.Hitler vacillated between these two tactical concepts, blaming neither.He issued orders to assign the armored divisions to three different headquarters, while he himself remained at Berchtesgaden, six hundred miles away, but retained operations against the four armored divisions stationed nearest the beaches of Normandy. Command.It's a harrowing decision.The decision tied Rommel's hands when everything depended on a quick, bold blow.But the invasion found the German headquarters in such a state of disarray that it is difficult to say what negligence, what mistake, what folly contributed to the downfall of Germany.The day the invasion began, there was a torrent of oversights, mistakes, and follies on our part. Where did it go wrong—the decisive failure on the first day of the invasion was the mistake made on the Pas de Calais.We lack secret agents.One failed to uncover a "secret" involving two million men in England, deceitful measures deceived us, and our reconnaissance failed to identify an attack organized in a place where it could be clearly seen dozens of miles away The painful and unbelievable place is here! We failed to perceive that they would land at low tide.Our guns were all aimed at the high-tide line; why would they choose to wade the extra eight hundred yards of soft sand under fire, we thought?They did.When Eisenhower's commando arrived, our significant underwater obstacles were exposed and could be quickly removed by engineers, and his troops were just across the beach. We were also woefully wrong on the "when?" question.When the enemy fleet crossed the strait, Erwin.Rommel is coming back to Germany to visit his wife!On 5 June, a rather strong wind developed and was expected to last for three days.This bad weather reassured Rommel and everyone else.Eisenhower obtained a weather forecast that indicated the possibility of better weather.He took a risk and approved the dispatch.The sporadic airdrops at one or two o'clock in the morning did not alarm us much.Until our ten soldiers in the Normandy bunkers saw with their naked eyes the gigantic apparition of the Overlord—thousands of ships in smoke'.approaching in the dawn of the day—afterwards we prepare for battle. In fact, we have a neglected intelligence breach.Our informants in the French Resistance picked up a BBC signal calling for sabotage on D-day.All combatant commands were alerted.At High Command, the report was sent to Yoddle, who took it lightly.Later, I heard that Runstad laughed off the panic, saying, "It's as if Eisenhower would announce the invasion on BBC radio!" Such was the general attitude. My Journey to the Front (Excerpt from "Military Leader Hitler") ...it seemed that Hitler couldn't wake up that morning.I called Yoddle repeatedly to wake him up, because Rundstad demanded that the Armored Division be called out.Obviously, the attack on Normandy is serious!Jodl ignored Rundsted's request, a decision that historians have condemned to this day.But when Hitler had a leisurely breakfast alone and received Jodl around ten o'clock, he fully agreed to reject Rundstedt's crazy request. The command situation in Berchtesgaden was ridiculous.Hitler was in his lair on the hill, Jodl was in the "Little Chancellery," and the operational headquarters was in a barracks across the city.We never left the phone.Rommel lost contact and was rushing back to the front; Rundstedt was in Paris, Rommel's chief of staff, Speidel, was on the coast, and Gail, the general of the armored division, was all in a hurry to communicate with Beirut by telephone and teletype. Hittersgaden Contact.In honor of certain Hungarian state guests, a noon debriefing is scheduled to take place at Kleissheim Palace.It's a scenic location about an hour's drive out of the city.It never occurred to Hitler to cancel the meeting.No, the staff had to go there by car and meet him in a small map room, where he would practice the "drama" of the debriefing for his guests.Then we had to stand aside and wait for the report of the battle, while our troops were dying under Allied bombs and naval bombardment, and the enemy's occupation was expanding. Today, I can still see the Führer jumping into that map room around noon, smiling all over his swollen, blue face, greeting his staff and saying, "We're at it, aren't we? Now, We beat 'em where we can! They've been safe in England,' and things like that.He showed no concern at reports of the seriousness of the situation.This landing was a complete hoax which we had already expected.We were not heard!We stand ready in the Pas de Calais.The feint would turn into another bloody Dieppe rout for them.great! He spoke the same way in the big debriefing room with its plush armchairs and imposing battle maps.He went on problem after problem to the Hungarians, boasting disgustingly about our "strength in France", how well equipped we are, the miraculous "new weapon" we are about to launch soon, the inexperience of the US Army , blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Whores, etc., all handed over to the Americans to feed. No one can tell what the Hungarians think about all this. It seems to me that Hitler was just talking loudly about his fantasy, trying to convince himself ...and as soon as this obvious sham was over, I immediately asked permission to go to Normandy. The inscrutable Führer not only agreed, but also waived the rule against the air travel of senior officers. I can fly Go as far as Paris to find out what's going on. Hours later, as my plane circled the swastika flag flying over the Eiffel Tower, I couldn't help but wonder, how long will this flag be flying here?In Lunsted's environment room, everything is in disarray.At this time, Hitler had transferred an armored division, and the staff officers were having a heated debate about where this division should be used.Junior officers ran to and fro amidst the din of teletypes and shouts.Small signs representing ships and airborne dot the battle map.The red tags, representing the infantry, showed a fifty-mile front that had penetrated astonishingly deep, and the only place we had left Americans on the beach was in one place. Runsted looked calm and neat as usual, but tired, thin, and pessimistic.His behavior is not at all like the commander in chief of the Western Front, but like a sad and powerless old man.He argued vigorously that I shouldn't risk being captured by paratroopers, but he was also half-hearted about it.He still believed it was a massive feint.But sending the invading army to sea will lift up the spirit of the motherland and keep the enemy from advancing, so this battle must be fought. The next morning, the colorful French scenery, as well as the fat cows and hard-working farmers, seemed strangely quiet.The young aide-de-camp of Lunstadt, who was with me in the car, had to order the driver to go around the bombed bridge, and made several detours.The damage caused by weeks of organized Allied air raids was everywhere: destroyed train yards, collapsed viaducts, burned trains and terminals, overturned locomotives, exactly what Churchill called "Railway Desert".From a tactical point of view, the ground became a patchwork of small islands rather than an area suitable for supply by land.This should not be surprising; on the day of the invasion alone, the enemy carried out fifteen thousand air raids with virtually no resistance!Postwar records show that this was indeed the case. Passing Saint-Lô, I passed the military vehicle carrying our paratroopers to Carentan.I got the major into my car.French saboteurs cut his phone line, he said, so he lost contact on the day of the invasion, but was connected to his commanding officer late at night.Now, his task was to counterattack the weak beachhead of the American troops east of Valleville. The strangely idyllic stillness continued as we approached the coast.The major and I climbed up the steeple of a country church to look around.A startling sight came before our eyes: the strait was dotted with enemy ships from horizon to horizon, and small boats swarmed like a million water gnats between the shore and the ships.Visible through the glass was a vast and very calm movement on the beach, the landing craft lining up hull by hull as far as the eye could see, unloading soldiers, munitions, and equipment.Wicker baskets, ammunition boxes, leather bags covered the dark miles of the beach.Motor vehicles and soldiers being loaded and unloaded, and a long line of squirming trucks headed inland. The "Battle of France" has indeed begun!These troops are preparing to smash Germany; they look like people out on a picnic.I heard no gunfire, only sporadic shots.How different was the Führer's sensational boast at the Kleissheim Palace: "to crush the invading army on the sands," "to meet them with a bolt of steel and fire," and what a contrast! As we drove east, small artillery battles rumbled incessantly; villages burned in that constant silence.I asked the officers as far as I could, and learned the origin of this strange tranquility.A broad air and sea attack at dawn unleashed a barrage of bombs and shells on our defenses.I talked to the wounded soldiers, and their faces were full of panic.A sergeant with a broken arm told me that he had fought at Verdun but had never seen anything like it.Everywhere I went, I encountered fatalistic rhetoric, apathy, disconnects, broken teams, and chaos caused by orders.The huge sea fleet, the roaring air force fleet overhead, and the overwhelming bombardment have already spread a sense of defeat. I no longer doubt that a potentially devastating crisis is at hand.So I hurried back to Paris and told Jodl on the phone that this was the main attack, and we had to concentrate our forces to fight, march at night to avoid air interception, and effectively repair the transportation line on an emergency basis.Jodl's answer was: "Okay, come back here quickly, but I advise you to be very careful about what you say." This is superfluous advice.I never got the chance to be interviewed, and I was not called to participate in the next few battle report meetings.Hitler visibly averted my gaze.The situation in Normandy deteriorated rapidly; my information soon became obsolete. On that beautiful June day when our German world was falling apart, while Hitler was drinking tea, eating cake, and socializing in Berchtesgaden, I had two impressions.On the nineteenth of June a swift and violent storm arose off the coast of Normandy, and lasted for four days.It retarded the advance of the invading force far more effectively than our forces.It blew up the man-made harbor and nearly scraped a thousand ships onto the beach.The reconnaissance photos showed a catastrophe, so I had my last hope.Hitler was in high spirits and spouted frivolous remarks about the Spanish Armada.After the weather cleared, the enemy resumed their land, sea, and air attacks, as if a summer rainstorm had passed.It is astonishing that their material resources come from the rich horns that cannot be attacked by the United States.We don't hear about the Spanish Armada anymore. Still deep in my memory is a debriefing meeting held just before the fall of Cherbourg.Standing in front of a map with thick spectacles, compass and ruler in hand, Hitler excitedly showed us how small a part of France the invading enemy occupied compared to what we still occupied.He told this to his senior generals, who knew and had been warning him for weeks that after the outer defenses along the coast had been destroyed and a major harbor had fallen, the rest of France was a plain. , for the enemy to gallop, the German side has no defensible positions except the western defense line on the border and the Rhine.What a sad moment it was; suddenly my eyes saw clearly, and I understood at once that the triumphant Führer had degenerated into a sickly monster, trembling for his life behind a mask of bravado. Normandy: A Summary (from The Holocaust of the Worlds) ... Had Hitler accepted Rommel and Rundstedt's proposal in late June to end the war, we would only have to submit to a harsh peace treaty.We may or may not end up as divided as we are now, but our people can certainly escape a year of brutal bombing, including the horrific horrors in Dresden and Eisenhower's bombing of the Elbe. disastrous advance.In the East we escaped the horrors of the Bolsheviks' total rape and plunder, which the world watched with a smile on their face, while millions of our civilians had to leave their homes and flee westward, never to return. In 1918, when we were occupying foreign lands, Ludendorff and Hindenburg also advocated surrender before others could inflict the devastation of war on German soil.But in 1918 there was a political power and a military branch; through the abdication of the Kaiser, the statesmen could surrender to the enemy in time.Now, there is no political power, no military branch; everything is concentrated in Hitler alone.How could he surrender, politically speaking, and put his neck out to the hangman?He had to fight on. Great, so what about his strategy for fighting it out: good or bad?His strategy was rigid, complacent, and clumsy.He lost Normandy.There are only five divisions in the landing force!If the armored divisions were called out and concentrated, then despite all the disadvantages - the lack of intelligence, the enemy's air superiority, the naval bombardment, etc. - Rommel's able chief of staff, Speidel, would have put the armored divisions Sent into battle against struggling American and British soldiers.The result would be a bloodbath of historic proportions.On Omaha Beach, where the 352nd Infantry Division happened to be fighting, they almost drove the Americans overboard by themselves.What could not have been accomplished in those first moments by a planned and concentrated counter-offensive? If we defeat those members of the Fifth Division, it will most likely be a turning point.The Anglo-Americans are not Russians; politically and militarily they cannot afford such bloodshed.If all those whimsical preparations, all those massive concentrations of technology and wealth hadn't prevented their landing force from being slain on that fateful first day, I'm sure Eisenhower, Roosevelt and Churchill would have cringed and declared a parole The "withdrawal" of face.政治方面的结果将会是惊人的：丘吉尔就会垮台，罗斯福在大选中就会失败，斯大林就会指控他们背信弃义；甚至会在东方单独缔结某种可以持久的和约，谁知道呢？但是阿道夫。希特勒偏要从贝希特斯加登指挥那几个装甲师。 在毁灭迫近时，希特勒紧紧抱着，而且煤蝶不休地讲着，三种自我安慰的幻想：1.分裂反对我们的联盟。 2.用奇迹般的新武器使战局改观。 3.从洞穴中的工厂里突然生产出大量新型的喷气式飞机，把敌人从天空一扫而光。 在生死攸关的七星期中，他坚持让驻扎在加来海峡地区等待“主要入侵”的第十五兵团按兵不动，因为他的宝贵的V —l 及V —2 火箭发射台在那儿。可是最后，当火箭发射出去时，它们只是次要的恐怖武器，在伦敦胡乱地造成了一些死亡和破坏，并没军事价值。那种战斗机直到一九四五年才从洞穴中的工厂里慢慢制造出来，但是为时已经太晚了。至于唯一关系重大的武器原子弹，希特勒未能支持这项计划，从而白白浪费了我们在分裂原子方面所取得的科学上领先的地位，而且他还把后来为我们敌人生产原子弹的那些犹太科学家驱逐出境。 诚然，分裂敌人的联盟是我们唯一的逃生之门，但是弗兰克林。罗斯福在德黑兰的高明的政治手腕，把这道门砰地一下关上，封闭起来了。因此，六月二十二日，恰好在我们进攻苏联三年以后的那天，迄今为止最严重的惨败，德黑兰计划中指派给斯大林的任务，即白俄罗斯战役，突然从东方降临到了我们头上。 我现在就掉过笔去，叙述一下这一冷酷无情的事件。 英译者按：在这篇多所删节的隆的观点的汇编中，我尽力想突出德国人对诺曼底登陆的看法，略去人们从普通的史书和影片中熟悉的许多军事行动细节。斯大林致丘吉尔的那份电报，至今仍然是对霸王战役的丰功伟绩最恰当的概略之一：“从宏伟的规模、恢廓的概念以及熟练的用兵等等看来，战争史上决没有其他类似的功业。” 对希特勒的责备可能过火了一些。即便把装甲师调出来拨给隆美尔，我们的部队大概也会料到的。我们的情报——来自空中侦察、法国抵抗运动以及密码的破译等——是异常出色的。我们可能会在那些装甲师投入战斗以前，就从空中把他们歼灭了。这并不是说，这次登陆不是一发千钧。它是一场计算极其周密、冒着巨大危险的行动。结果它成功了。 至于说希特勒“堕落”成一个病态的怪物，他始终就不是一个别样的人，虽然他在最初那股土匪般的横行霸道中曾经大肆表演了一番。他的煽动性的鬼话，何以竟会促使德国人走向战争和犯罪行为，这依旧是一个令人百思不得其解的问题。 隆的眼睛并没有突然看清楚。那些视障得由人家来为他割去。