Quote (bogie160 @ Jul 30 2011 02:19pm)
Yes, racist and eugenic tendencies which were greatly exacerbated and driven by occultist myths about the Aryan people. As for my actual comment, Hitler was, with exception to his genocidal hatred of the Jews and occultist beliefs concerning his people, a more stable personal leader than Stalin. Stalin was a paranoid, murderous brute who killed innumerable sums of his own citizens not because of some terribly mistaken idea about race, which as atrocious as it is, is at least understandable, but because he was, at heart, a murderous paranoid soul.
From what I've read that is not the case. Guderian was commanded to halt by superiors, who, together with Hitler, were nervous about over-extension. Guderian himself would have preferred to continue and advance, and while the loss of hundreds of thousands of men would not defeated Britain in the air, it would have left Britain with next to no standing army.
This is the kind of scene that I think Dante would write about if he were alive today:
Demon1: Hitler is far worse than Stalin.
Demon2: No, no-Stalin all the way.
1: But Hitler killed all the Jews.
2: Yeah, well--you know what we think of Jews around here. And Stalin was a communist.
1: Compared to a Nazi?
2: You know how Americans feels about communists.
1: Since when do they get to judge?
2: Just ask them.
1: True enough.
2: Communist, case closed.
1: But 6 million Jews....10-12 million overall.
2: Communist.
1: Sigh...
2: You know I'm right.
1: OK--but how many Stalins can dance on the head if a pin?
As for the Guderian business, here's one book that refutes what Guderian said in Panzer Leader pretty convincingly:
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p375_Lutton.html