Davies II in The Myth of the Eastern Front (Cambridge University Press, 2008) argue that, after 1945, Halder played a key role in creating a false and mythic view of the Nazi-Soviet war in which the Wehrmacht was largely blameless for both Germany's military defeat and its war crimes. The historians Ronald Smelser and Edward J. Eine Ansprache des Generalstabschefs des Heeres in the journal Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte (July 1997) Christian Hartmann, Halder: Generalstabschef Hitlers: 1939–1942, (1991), and Hitler's Generals, edited by Correlli Barnett. Like General Field Marshal von Manstein, an officer "bound to duty and oath."įor other insights regarding Halder's capabilities, see: Christian Hartmann and Sergei Slutsch, Franz Halder und die Kriegsvorbereitungen im Frühjahr 1939. Flirt as he did, in September, with those opposed to Hitler, he toed the party line when extreme pressure was exerted for the return of the Sudetenland and its German nationals by the Czechs to Germany." Many see Halder as a soldier of the older Prussian school variety. He supported Beck's resistance to Hitler, but when it came to a crunch was no real help. In reviewing Halder's personality, the British author Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote: "Halder is a military snob, believing that no amateur can ever understand the mysteries of war." Author Kenneth Macksey wrote: "Quick, shrewd and witty, he was a brilliant specialist in operational and training matters and the son of a distinguished general. The latter diaries were used, before being published, by American historian William Shirer, as a major primary source for his monumental work The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, along with other confidential documents and manuscripts. An officer on the General Staff during World War I, Halder remained there during the interwar period, rising through the ranks, and achieving a reputation as a skilled military planner, eventually becoming Chief of the Army Staff. Halder wrote Hitler als Feldherr in German (1949) which was translated into English as Hitler as War Lord (1950) and The Halder Diaries (1976). Ngun: Hitler to Halder: No retreat, Biên dch: Trn Mn Linh Vào ngày này nm 1941, trong hành ng u tiên trên cng v tng t lnh mi ca quân i c, Adolf Hitler ã tuyên b vi Tng Franz Halder rng s không có chuyn rút lui khi mt trn Nga gn Moskva: Quyt tâm cm c phi c. Franz Halder (30 June 1884 2 April 1972) was a German General and the chief of the Army General Staff from 1938 until September 1942.
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