Norman Ohler: belief

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……the whole point was they can move really fast. They, and they, not just fast, but they can move on all terrain, so they can go around. You know, if wars were fought on normal roads, you’re supposed to travel a certain kind of way. If you go fast and around, not on paths that are usually taken, attack from all kinds of sides, that’s why you can conquer as much as Genghis Khan was able to conquer. And the same thing with the Nazi forces, this is their biggest advantage. And not using that is essentially the end of its effectiveness. I think that’s also why the tank troops were such a good weapon, because they can go off-road while military vehicles, cars, cannot do it. Like a tank can even go through a forest and just, you know, kill small trees and just run over it. So that was those are kind of the five horses that was the idea that they had at this working breakfast. That’s what they presented to Hitler. “We’re going to use the tank force in a very different way, and that’s going to enable us to win the lightning war of campaigns.” Was it one of the first times he tried an opiate like that? An intense one?…

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