German Planning
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Quote:Hitler never plan anything on the western front, they never even think French and England will have the balls to declar war on germany for invasion of Poland,
Correct, or rather, it was Hitler himself who gambled that the allies wouldn't risk a war over Poland. However, Hitler was only the commander in chief, thus when he made directions about strategy his senior staff did a great deal of planning. They had to. You cannot send millions of men into action on a large scale offensive without some sort of operational plan.

Quote:Fall gelb (case yellow ) was in fact a operational OKW exercise plan made before war even apen,
Quite possibly. But you might like to know that Hitler submitted his own plan for Barbarossa when he didn't like the scheme suggested by his generals, which does indicate planning going on.

Quote:Germany don t even have annoff troops to protect is western border during poland invasion ....
I notice that didn't stop him. He was gambling.

Quote:Hitler want to expand in the east long time ago ....Never in the west
His ambition for lebensraum in the east was well known (he loathed bolshevism), but then why did the bltizkrieg happen? He got the taste for conquest after his first nervous attempts. In any case, he had every intention of creating German dominance in western europe.

Quote:On the French invasion they don t even espect get on the channel that fast and so easy ,and don t have anymore plans all ready made for this yet....
No... Whilst the speed of the advance was indeed a suprise, it wasn't random. Plans were being made and updated very quickly. Operational planning isn't just one man pointing at a map - its a whole pyramid of decision makers taking care of ever finer details on the plan from above.

Quote:That s why he was trying hard to bluff England to stop war on this front after French capitulation....
Given Britains relatively poor performance against modern mechanised forces in the Fall of France, I doubt Hitler was bluffing about attacking Britain. I seem to remember something about Spitfires and Hurricanes round about then Big Grin

Quote:The real truth it when USA get involve in WW2 , Hitler all ready got hard time fighting Russia and England on 3 front getting is ask butt near moscow
and sending everything he can find on the eastern front , I don t think they have spend any soldiers evalable for training on a incredible hypotetic invasion of USA in 1942 and later, then he drain all other fronts to sent them trying to stop russia in the east and spend the last one in the Ardenne...
But the American support for the allies was real and a worry to German planners. The Germans mounted a U-Boat offensive off the coast of America for that very reason, and despite the technological and economic difficulties, they did plan to build a force of bombers with enough range to bomb New York.

Don't forget, the British planned to attack Russia in after the end of the war (operation Unthinkable) and that was no less impossible.

I agree that attacking the US was a low priority, but so what? Plans were still made nonetheless. Remember that by declaring war on the US, it was helping their allies, the Japanese, who knew before Pearl Harbour that a war against America was a dangerous course. That's why Pearl Harbour happened. The Japanese wanted America hamstrung and unable to mount any effective resistance to imperial expansion in the Pacific. With American eyes on Europe, not all of their strength can be brought to bear.
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