What if, when the Nazis surrendered in Tunisia and the like in 1943, more German generals escape being captured? Where there any good ones among them that would have made a difference in further fighting in Europe both against the Wallies and the Soviet Union?
The Wehrmacht started to lose a lot of officers during this stage of the war, the massive surrender in North Africa was a big blow in the good officers pool i would think.
Amongst those generals that were captured were:
General Wilhelm Ritter Von Thoma, was captured in Africa in 1942 and accidentally confirmed the existence of the V-1 and V-2 rockets.
Lieutenant General Georg Neuffer, captured May 1943
Major General Gerhard Bassenge, captured May 1943
Lieutenant General Friedrich von Broich, captured May 1943
General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim, captured May 1943
Some other generals were captured most likely but i don't exactly have a list, these were the only ones i could find so quickly.
Anyway, some escaped OTL, like Walther Nehring and at least he wasn't ordered shot or discharged by Hitler for disobedience or incomptence so could these generals have any influence upon the coming battlefields or were they not good enough to do anything productive for the german cause? Or would they be shot or discharged?
any other generals that were captured or died even earlier? Like Curt Haase or Werner von Fritsch?
I'm not talking about later, like 1944 like Erwin Rommel and von Kluge. Their contributions came as far they could get.
Another ineresting thing is questioning whether any of them would join on the July 20 plot or some other conspiracy to kill Hitler? Would they help make it succeed? Not a bastard like von Reichenau obviously, but the more sane ones.
The Wehrmacht started to lose a lot of officers during this stage of the war, the massive surrender in North Africa was a big blow in the good officers pool i would think.
Amongst those generals that were captured were:
General Wilhelm Ritter Von Thoma, was captured in Africa in 1942 and accidentally confirmed the existence of the V-1 and V-2 rockets.
Lieutenant General Georg Neuffer, captured May 1943
Major General Gerhard Bassenge, captured May 1943
Lieutenant General Friedrich von Broich, captured May 1943
General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim, captured May 1943
Some other generals were captured most likely but i don't exactly have a list, these were the only ones i could find so quickly.
Anyway, some escaped OTL, like Walther Nehring and at least he wasn't ordered shot or discharged by Hitler for disobedience or incomptence so could these generals have any influence upon the coming battlefields or were they not good enough to do anything productive for the german cause? Or would they be shot or discharged?
any other generals that were captured or died even earlier? Like Curt Haase or Werner von Fritsch?
I'm not talking about later, like 1944 like Erwin Rommel and von Kluge. Their contributions came as far they could get.
Another ineresting thing is questioning whether any of them would join on the July 20 plot or some other conspiracy to kill Hitler? Would they help make it succeed? Not a bastard like von Reichenau obviously, but the more sane ones.