German mess

Blogger and publicist Vasily Topolev writes about chaos and the contradictions of the Third Reich:

“In the mass consciousness, a myth is sitting about a perfectly working Nazi state, in which everything worked like a clock, <...> orders instantly descended along the command ladder and were carried out strictly, and at the head of all there were lively embodiment of evil - blond beasts with overhole. And their Russian dare, cowboy coolness, British icy resistance and something else from this series won. <...>

So: the main feature of the Reich was a pitch, continuous mess at the highest level. <...>

Who generally controlled the Reich "in the field"? All at once. There was an endless war between party officials (lauteers) and state (landrants). The country was divided into party GAU, the boundaries of which did not coincide with the boundaries of the land <...>. Pieces of several lands could include one GAU - and vice versa.

GAU, party officials - Gauliiters - could be simultaneously staglings, imperial ministers and at all anyone. At the same time, the Gaulyaers were directly submitted to the Fuhrer and no one else. They fought among themselves. <...>

<...> Between Himmler and party officials, there was an ongoing gear. Gaulyiter Danziga Fermostra said that he had the appearance of Himmler, he would never dare to talk about the purity of the race. Himmler did not remain in debt and said that the order in Germany would appear only when the Gauliers would hang on poles (which, in general, turned out to be true).

Hitler, like a Reichscanzler and a Reichsprez, was the commander of the Wehrmacht (armed forces). And Hitler appointed himself the commander of the ground forces - Hyeir. Roosevelt had MacArthur, Stalin had Zhukov, and Hitler had Hitler

Only this Hitler was not enough, he also appointed himself the commander of the Army Group “A” during the battle for the Caucasus. In 1938 <...> Hitler liquidated the military ministry and instead created the supreme command of the Wehrmacht (OKW), led by himself. <...>

In theory, the headquarters of the Luftwaffe was to obey the headquarters of OKW. Yes, here's the bad luck: the Luftwaffe commanded the official heir to Hitler, the second person in the Reich <...> German Goering. <...> Kriegsmarine also fought his own war, and the opinion of the land marshal was completely not interested in them. ”