Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
No question! The German's never really learned that their heavy-handed occupation strategy could never do more than incite the civilian populations to revolt.

Let's chalk that up to the Nazis and not the Germans per se.

The Wehrmacht loyaly carried out policy, even those they clearly (from contemporary writings and memoirs) didn't agree with...

Now if you meant the SS (commanders and troops...) they were malignant zealots imo.