Notable Point · 31:10-31:34

Assigning responsibility for German wartime decisions

A short historiographical aside challenges accounts that distribute credit and blame unevenly.

Notes

A historiographical caution concerns accounts that assign Germany's wartime mistakes entirely to Hitler. The criticism is that other decision-makers can claim credit for successes while transferring responsibility for failures to him. Assessing wartime command requires examining those other contributions to bad decisions as well.