On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:07:36 -0800 (PST), Les
wrote:
>Stalin was primarily concerned about keeping his position secure.
>Consequently, his generals and officer corps were seen as a possible
>threat to his position, and thus were subject to purges, even during
>WW2.
How many officers were sacked during the war? There were a more than
considerable number of pre-war purged officers brought from the camps
to the front in fact in the first 6 months of the German invasion. A
few of these were highly decorated later on.
>For what it is worth, one of Hitler's stated regrets was not purging
>the army of "disloyal" elements before he went to war.
To be fair most of such statements by Hitler were made in the last 12
months of the war when Hitler had quite a lot to regret. A lot of
these comments were recorded in works like the Goebbels diaries and
Speer's books. |
