Hitler’s Military Assessments: Far superior to Mussolini: The War Hitler HATED … Albania and Greece

I must say I really value Field Marshal Keitel’s memoirs. That man was treated so badly. He was horribly disfigured when the filthy Jewish executioner hanged him after the Nuremberg trials. I have a real soft spot for Keitel. He was a truly fine man, and a truly GOOD MAN, who ensured that in the last weeks of his life as he quickly penned his memoirs even though he knew he was going to be killed, that he cleared some people’s names and set some things straight. He comes across as a genuinely NICE MAN. I feel very strongly at how he was terribly wronged. But the Nuremberg Trials were a Jewish/American Kangaroo court.

There might be things from his memoirs that I might want to revisit in videos later.

There is the important military topic of the southern part of Europe and the strategic and military problems there.

Hitler looked up to Mussolini. He treated him well. But Mussolini did some truly stupid things. His sudden, idiotic plan to invade Albania was a bad idea, and he did not even tell it to Hitler. Hitler went to meet him and Hitler looked over the facts that Mussolini presented to him, and Hitler was HORRIFIED. Mussolini was very happy about the units he had sent into Albania, but Hitler looked it all over and was aghast! He later told Keitel that this was going to be a TOTAL DISASTER and he cited the reasons why this would fail. A few weeks later, as per Hitler’s prediction, the Italian Army ground to a halt in Albania. Then Mussolini now needed German help – YET AGAIN. The Germans were already helping the war in North Africa, but now, the British and Greeks were putting up a hell of a fight, and the Italians had now bogged down.

The German campaign that was to come would result in the Germans having to seize Yugoslavia and Greece. But EVERYTHING about the campaign war horrible. Hitler and the German Generals spent months looking at all the very complex, very nasty diplomatic problems and nasty military problems that they would have to solve.

Hitler HATED everything about this war that would have to be waged in Eastern Europe in order to get the Italians out of this nonsense that Mussolini had got himself into.

In the end, the German Army pulled off an amazing feat and sliced through each country like a hot knife through butter. But the fact was that there were all kinds of horrific complications and NEW DIPLOMATIC PROBLEMS and hassles that had come from Mussolini’s utterly stupid plan.

The whole thing angered Hitler tremendously and he was infuriated by Mussolini’s military stupidity. Hitler did not blame the Italian Army, I must tell you. He blamed the high level strategy of Mussolini. For example, Mussolini sent in far too few men to do the fighting. So all the problems were high level problems where Mussolini stuffed it up.

This is probably one of the best examples where you can see that Hitler generally had an excellent assessment of most military things, and he was FAR SUPERIOR in brain power to Mussolini and also Churchill. Churchill was quite an idiot actually. I will return to Churchill later.

Keitel tells how Hitler was almost beside himself with anger at the needless stupidity of this entire war aimed at the Albanians and the Greeks. It was so pointless and so counter productive, not only for Italy, but it created huge problems for Germany as Germany now tried to save their ally.

If Mussolini had a better grasp of military matters then he could still have pulled it off without it being a total flop.

Leon Degrelle is very critical of Mussolini’s stupid Military moves. In many respects he is right.

The southern flank of Europe is a very fascinating topic and I’ve seen that both Goering and Keitel talk a lot about it as does General Guderian. It is a truly fascinating area. Hitler and the Germans actually tried a number of ideas to strengthen Europe’s southern flank and even to help Italy. But sadly, they ran into all kinds of strange diplomatic problems, which I will discuss another day.

The southern flank is a fascinating topic, and it is the one area where the British came out the best and it created huge problems later in the war.

North Africa, I must tell you, should be White. Even now. This is a related topic. I’ll return to this.