>>507865652
Quite to the contrary. Generals should have listened to him. But as he was just a lowly 'gefreiter' in WW1 (because he could not get a higher rank as an Asutrian lowbob), they all looked down upon him and thought they knew better. In fact, as many have testified, he knew more about the military than all of them taken together. Half of them were traitorous fucks anyway, either from the beginning or after shit started to hit the fan, as seen in 1944. Stalingrad was lost because Manstein fucked up, against his explicit orders. He lied about that later in his book.