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WWII; Армия;
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Просьба к сообществу к более точному переводу
Здравствуйте!
Дэвид Ирвинг вылоложил в свободное чтение "Hitler's War", которую в свое время как источник использовал Проэктор, интересует хороший перевод - особенно после слов про главную ошибку 1942 года?
Hitler had no reserves left. Since early August fierce Russian attacks had gnawed at the marrow of Army Group Centre. He had ordered Field Marshal von Kluge to erase a Russian salient at Sukhinichi – one hundred and fifty miles south-west of Moscow – left over from the winter crisis; this attack, «Whirlwind» would create the platform for a possible later attack on Moscow itself. Russian spoiling attacks on General Walther Model’s Ninth Army at Rzhev and Subtsoff left Hitler unconcerned. Perhaps he hoped to repeat his Kharkov victory. When Kluge appealed for permission to cancel «Whirlwind» and use the five hundred tanks to save the Ninth Army instead, Hitler would not hear of it. Kluge stomped out of Werewolf saying, «Then you, mein Führer, must take the responsibility!» The attack began on August 11, in difficult terrain – heavily fortified, marshy forests alternating with treacherous minefields. The attack failed. Again summoned to Werewolf on August 22, Kluge was rebuked and instructed to recast «Whirlwind» as a holding operation. Four months later he complained, «Our worst mistake this year was that attack on Sukhinichi. It was a copybook example of how not to stage an attack. They attacked in just about every direction that they could, instead of holding it tightly and narrowly together and thrusting rapidly through with the five armoured divisions.» Model’s Ninth Army at Rzhev began bleeding to death. On August 24, Halder demanded permission for Model to retreat. One regiment had lost eight commanders in a week. Hitler’s hatred of the General Staff boiled over. «You always seem to make the same suggestion – retreat!» he rebuked Halder. «I must demand the same toughness from my commanders as from my troops.» For the first time, Halder lost his temper. «Out there our fine riflemen and lieutenants are dying by the thousand just because their commanders are denied the only possible decision». Hitler interrupted him with a calculated injury: «What, Herr Halder, do you think you can teach me about the troops! You were as chair bound in the Great War as in this. You haven’t even got a wound stripe on your uniform!».
page 513 I base my account of «Operation Whirlwind» on Greiner’s original draft OKW war diary (of which I have deposited a complete correct transcript with the IfZ) and on Halder’s diary. In his post-war diary, Mar 27, 1946, General von Salmuth (Fourth Army) suggested that «Whirlwind» was one instance of Hitler’s military inability. «It had been worked out as a double pincer from north and south. The Russian offensive at Rzhev burst right in the middle, which meant the loss of the pincer’s
main arm. Kluge asked the Führer more than once to call off what would now be a one-armed “Whirlwind”. . . Adolf Hitler just retorted – when Kluge reproached him that he would be sacrificing thirty or forty thousand men for nothing – “Just watch, the offensive will cut through them like butter!”’
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