Dilandu wrote:A really good English-language book about the (unfortunately, popular) myth of "clean, honorable Wehrmacht":
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217 ... tern_Front
This myth - on which, unfortunately, "The Gordian Protocol" relied upon quite a bit - is basically a post-war construct, created with the one simple goal: to make re-militarization of West Germany less appalling to Europeans. So, the myth was created that "it was those bad SS who done all crimes and massacres, and Wehrmacht was not involved on any significant level". Being Russian (whom ancestors happens to be under German occupation on Ukraine) I knew rather perfectly, that it is a lie.
So, I rather recommend this book to Western readers. It shows rather perfectly, that it is not enough to "just remove Nazi party from power" to create "good, noble German Army against those evil Russians"; to do that, you basically need to filter the whole Wehrmacht, completely removing all Nazi sympathizers (i.e. more that a half of total number of officers, especially on the top).
Wow, you just don't get it, do you?
1: The Holodomor was the deliberate murder of Ukrainians by the Soviet Gov't. That is documented in nauseating detail
2: What the Gordian Protocol relies on is that the Ukrainians wanted to ally with the invading Germans against Stalin, but the Nazi commanded invading Germans were murderous bastards. This is, again, well documented in history.
3: Invading Germans NOT commanded by insane Nazi bastards do not need to replicated the murderous idiocies of the Nazi commanded Germans. What part of that can you not grasp?
4: In our Nazi v. Commie timeline, everyone committed atrocities on the Eastern Front. I'm aware of that, David's aware of that, and I'm pretty sure his co-author is aware of that. Extrapolating from that to "any Germans, no matter what their leadership, would initiate the commission of atrocities on the Eastern Front" is a jump you're going to have to justify with more than "the, the Wehrmacht under the Nazis did it."