Hitler’s Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt, and Schmidt unguarded

REVIEW BY CALUM HENDERSON ‘The longer the war lasts the lesser my opinion of the generals.’ These were the words in April 1943 of Ulrich von Hassell, a German diplomat who was executed for his role in the 20 July plot to kill Hitler the following year. He went on to add that, although ‘they have undoubted technical ability and physical courage’, the generals had ‘little moral courage, absolutely no broad world vision, no inner spiritual independence, or that strength of resistance which rests on a genuine cultural basis.’ Such an indictment could hardly be better put, especially with regards to the four generals profiled in this new book by David Stahel, author of several e