Superb reference mm. Let me clarify, for those who didn’t understand the core meaning of my first post in this thread. I was strictly referring to that one crucial psychological issue of the leading National Socialists. Not non sequiturs like economics, cowboys and Indians, cartoons, or what light machine gun might be in an inventory.
Both Speer and Van Manstein wrote of Hitler’s strong romanticism. If anyone gets a chance, look up Hitler’s infatuation with the medieval crackpot conspiracy he swallowed from the notorious forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Goering I have discussed. Himmler was easily the biggest romantic fool of them all. He injected a kind of medieval mysticism into the SS, reportedly believed in sorcery, and it’s true that he built a kind of King Arthurish round table in one of his castles. (What’s your explanation for this Norm?) Hess lived in a romantic fantasy world that is best not discussed. If anything, Germany ushered the world into the modern age despite all these people. There is one account were Hitler once wanted to cancel the V-2 program simply because he had had a bad dream the previous night.
To the moderators, I apologize for injecting this overall OT topic, but this psychological issue had a very strong effect on the German small arms of WW2. (Including the 1941 and 42 Lugers.) If it had been up to Hitler, every typical German soldier also would have been issued a rifle till the end of the War; they literally had to sneak the MP44 by him. He also initially sneered at the Scheisser. Both these issues are facts, not something from the Cartoon Network.
By the way, Goering wasn’t addicted to coke (it was morphine), that observation by Speer on Hitler’s strong romantic pinings was an early war one (not late), and the Wolfschanze was nicknamed the “Wolf’s Lair”. Who needs to realize they missed sometime in their history lessons?
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