>>507114410
I read a 1,000 page PhD dissertation on Albert Kesselring by an ameeixan doctorate of history. the Führers lion (i think was one of his many names like Smiley Albert) turns out he wasn't a genius leader, some magical julius or anything. he was extremely competent managing what little he had in Italy. constantly undersupplied and under preasure

the problem was the allies were so fucjing incompetent that it was like watching a cat try to bury a shit on a kitchen floor. they rotated command between nations (amis, nz, canuck, so on) who would change the whole mission and also stop everything change the entire overarching mission

put that against operation avalanche and husky where the Reich always had the high ground (as that's the geography of italia, going north). Churchill was a fucking idiot. the "soft underbelly of Europe" operation was meant to appease him too

they bombed the shit out of Monte Cassino to the point allies couldnt use their tanks, ans the fallschrimjäger were gurilla fighting through rubble and scoring mass ally kills everywhere trying to dislodge them

if you read this as a burger you genuinely start to hate and think what the fuck is wrong with you to our leaders