Topic: Question on great Generals of WW II

MontyB · April 23rd, 2007

I can't disagree with you but I do believe commanders like Heinrici, Hoth and Hauser have been largely forgotten due to the likes of Rommel who managed to get a lot of media coverage without the same level of achievement. Lets face it ask anyone today who Erwin Rommel was and they will give you his life story ask the same of Gotthard Heinrici and most of them will tell you he wrote the theme to the pink panther movie.

I personally would rate Heinrici as one of the best (if not the best) defensive generals of the war his actions around Moscow, the retreat from Smolensk and the Seelow heights at the end of the war were masterfully conducted against almost impossible odds.

April 23rd, 2007
MontyB Tribunus Laticlavius	I can't disagree with you but I do believe commanders like Heinrici, Hoth and Hauser have been largely forgotten due to the likes of Rommel who managed to get a lot of media coverage without the same level of achievement. Lets face it ask anyone today who Erwin Rommel was and they will give you his life story ask the same of Gotthard Heinrici and most of them will tell you he wrote the theme to the pink panther movie. I personally would rate Heinrici as one of the best (if not the best) defensive generals of the war his actions around Moscow, the retreat from Smolensk and the Seelow heights at the end of the war were masterfully conducted against almost impossible odds. __________________ Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. - Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992 Last edited by MontyB; April 24th, 2007 at 01:57.