WW2: Canadians badly led.

[Paul White]

Major General of the Waffen SS Kurt Meyer who describes the battles he participated in during World War II. He commanded a motorcycle company, a reconnaissance battalion, a Grenadier regiment and an SS panzer division. The combat units of the PanzerMeyer, as he was nicknamed in the troops, were participants in hot battles: the invasion of Poland, France, the occupation of the Balkans and Greece, participants in fierce battles on the Eastern Front and the Normandy campaign, where the division was almost destroyed.

In the first half of this audiobook Meyer tells of his battles on the Eastern front. In the second half he talks about the Western front in which he battled against the invading Canadians. He is highly critical of the Canadian tactics and regards them as badly led and unable to exploit obvious weakness in the German positions. "In none of the Canadian manoeuvres could you see the talent of a great commander...".

 

[odanny]

This was shown in August of 1942 in the disastrous Dieppe raid.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Meyer was vermin. He was in charge of the Ardenne Abbey Massacre. He was later sentenced sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials.

He was so incompetent he couldn't do a short road march to Normandy before running out of gas, and his division was utterly smashed by those incompetent Canadians.

 

[Paul White]

Lol, his point is that they could have done so with less loses and in less time long before they did.

I don't believe the propaganda that the Germans were all guilty of atrocities and the Allies were saints.
It's bullsh1t.

 

[Paul White]

Also interesting is that Meyer claims atrocities were carried out by the Soviets and French and Belgian partisans against his men.

No doubt if the Germans had won the war they would have had war crimes tribunals for these claimed crimes.

 

[Paul White]

"Former SS Private Alfred Helzel was the prosecution’s first major witness. While in prison in Quebec, Helzel revealed that in June 1944 Meyer had directed his troops to take no prisoners. On the stand, however, Helzel denied that Meyer made such a declaration. Macdonald eventually managed to have Helzel verify his original statement, thus helping to establish Meyer’s guilt."

So they forced this clown Helzel to lie about Meyer, he couldn't go through with it on the stand but was prevailed upon (by what method I wonder, pistol in the mouth, pliers v finger nails?) to 'remember' the right way.

 

[Paul White]

"Meyer was found guilty of inciting his troops to commit murder and of being responsible as a commander for the killings at the Abbaye; he was acquitted on the second and third charges. Sentenced to death on 28 December 1945, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on 14 January 1946. After serving nearly nine years in prison, Meyer was released on 7 September 1954."

We're to believe that s/one accused of such atrocious crimes had the sentence reduced and was released early? Nah, I'm not buying that crummy bridge.

 

[odanny]

"Meyer was found guilty of inciting his troops to commit murder and of being responsible as a commander for the killings at the Abbaye; he was acquitted on the second and third charges. Sentenced to death on 28 December 1945, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on 14 January 1946. After serving nearly nine years in prison, Meyer was released on 7 September 1954."

We're to believe that s/one accused of such atrocious crimes had the sentence reduced and was released early? Nah, I'm not buying that crummy bridge.

Believe it, all sorts of high ranking SS commanders served sentences and were released from prison, many with worse reputations than Meyer.

How about Himmler's adjutant, the leader of the "blowtorch battalion" and the commander of troops who committed atrocities and war crimes all across Russia and France, including machine gunning American POW's at Malmedy?

He was released in 1956, after being sentenced to hang.

Joachim Peiper - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[whitehall]

The Canadian input in WW2 was always under the leadership of Allied commanders. This Mayer Nazi guy couldn't have been a big deal if he had a detachment of motorcycles.

 

[luiza]

Is this about Blocked Ghanian ,our headaches and depression Drama Queen ? Where is our big baby -- I am ignored because he cried every time for an hour when he was asked to be alive .