About book Hitler's Commanders: Officers Of The Wehrmacht, The Luftwaffe, The Kriegsmarine & The Waffen-SS (2000)
A good overview of Germany's WW2 military leaders - covers all branches of Wehrmacht and also Waffen-SS. The text focuses more on personality, career progression and the relationship with the Nazi regime, rather than on the characters' battlefield performance. Commanders were chosen so as to illustrate a particular personality type - eg. Friedrich Fromm as an example of an opportunistic, unscrupulous criminal, Heinz Guderian was picked for his professional brilliance, and Bernhard Lossberg for his independent thinking.The eclectic mix of officers adds interest and a touching feel to the book, while the reader follows the fates of very different characters ranging from OKH senior staff down to individual panzer commanders. On the other hand, it also makes the coverage rather patchy, especially as many commanders one would expect to find in the book are not covered at all - namely, most of the field marshals are completely ignored (the authors have written another text focusing on them).With that said, this is still a first-rate resource, especially for readers not conversant in the German language - and as long as a comprehensive coverage of all high-ranking officers is not expected, the text will surely not disappoint.
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