Colin’s Comments (group member since Dec 16, 2012)

Colin’s comments from the THE WORLD WAR TWO GROUP group.

I interviewed some participants, including Artur Axmann head of the Hitler Youth and interim gauleieter in Berlin in Feb-Apr 1945.

Wow, Rogge was Hitler's senior admiral, the CNO

I interviewed several foreign volunteers (Freiwilligen) who served in the Waffen SS, I wrote a couple of books with their interviews.

Interesting, does it mention that Admiral Bernhard Rogge was Jewish?

I have over 100 interviews with pilots who flew all variants of the 109, and the F was the overall favorite, even over the later G models.

I ruined Titanic for all my friends (not really) when I said as a historian, "Save your money, the iceberg did it."

the people I knew who knew MacArthur detested him personally, but stated he was competent in the field.

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I knew Gens. Curtis E Lemay and Matthew Ridgeway,
both of whom knew MacArthur well, and they were not fans.

I would love to debate the author on the merits of that claim; if not for US Lend Lease, convoys, and later direct entry, Britain may not have been invaded but the island kingdom would have definitely withered on the vine, lost its colonies much sooner, and barely survived starvation. Let us not forget the fact that 70% of all German forces at one time or another were fighting on the Eastern Front, draining much of the threat away from Britain and North Africa. The Suez would have been lost, U-Boats Luftwaffe air patrols would have strangled Britain, and North Africa would have been a very different story even after El Alamein had the US not invaded North Africa from the west, then Europe proper.

My late friend and former Luftwaffe colonel (Oak Leaves and Swords recipient) Hajo Herrmann was his lawyer for the German part of this saga.

Prof Strachan is now at Oxford, and his work is tedious, but that is usually indicative of a brilliant mind. I referenced his works on WW I in Africa when I wrote Four War Boer.

Have any of you read any of Hew Strachan's works? I worked for him for a semester in Glasgow.

Try my Star of Africa, researched, oral histories, and gripping drama of a larger than life figure for a popular audience.

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I interviewed a few people who worked within the Nazi regime, especially Karl Wolff, who not only confirmed that Canaris was a spy for the Allies, they had the name of his OSS and Swiss contacts.

All of my books come from interviews with participants, and I have been doing oral history for almost 40 years. getting the stories is great, but supportive archive and supplemental documentation makes it credible.

Many Germans were used as double agents, if they had anti-Nazi sentiments, released and let go.

Being a former sniper and machine gunner, I preferred sniping, as I had far more control over my actions and situational awareness.

Being a Jungian, I liked the post

I was on body recovery team, we arrived the next day. I still think about it. I found Capt Ed Manion and my former squad leader, SSG Jerry Malone among others. You would not believe the scene.