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Hitler had no business directing the German war: an enormous memory for units on a map is not the training a commander needs, and he had never been to staff college.

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  1. James Holland

    British historian and writer specialising in the Second World War

    He might have amazing attention to detail, he might be able to understand, have an enormous capacity to remember units and where they are on a map, but he was only a half corporal in the First World war. He’s never been to staff college.

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