Saturday, March 13, 2004

What would the fallout be if Ken Salazar didn't become the Democratic Party nominee for Senate in '04?

I finished "Guderian: Panzer General" by K. MacKsey, I would highly recommend to any military history buff specializing in WWII to read it. There is new information in the book which lays out Guderian's shadowy support in the plot to kill Hitler and shows his role in saving the lives of the families Wehrmacht officers killed after the failure of Von Stauffenberg.

What I found of interest to the Bush/Hitler debate is that Guderian opposed Hilter's suggestion that Germany withdraw from the Geneva Convention for military prisoners. This was during the last days of the Third Reich and Hitler was in the Fuhrer bunker in Berlin.
Again, I find the utilization and abuse of international law by both men. Von Ribbentrop, Hitler's foreign minister, once boasted that the Third Reich had broken every treaty it had signed. The level of distain in the Bush administration is on the same level because of the "unsigning" by Bush of the International Criminal Court, and Mr. Bush's intransigence and overt efforts to destroy treaties that have been in the works for years like the treaty to ban chemical and biological weapons or the current prohibition to weaponize outer space.

(BTW- I feel that Guderian ranks with the great WWII generals of the likes of Patton, MacArthur, Rommel, Montgomery and Zhukov. A couple of good books for Panzer actions is "Panzer Battles" and "Panzer Leader". Other books on the subject of tank warfare would be "Patton: Ordeal and Triumph", "The Patton Papers", and "Trial of the Fox" that I've read over the years.)

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