Operational Command Is Something That Anyone Can Do-- an in-depth study of The Mask of Command PART 5: Hitler * * * "I have ordered to the East my Death's Head units with the order to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children...There is no time to lose. War must come in my lifetime." -Hitler * * * Hitler was the self-proclaimed Supreme Commander of the entire Third Reich armies in the field by December 1941, and by that …showed first 75 words of 1072 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1072 total…eath' as he held over fifty million non-German lives hostage. Hitler was no saint, but contrary to Keegan's claims, he was a leader, and up until the moment he committed suicide and the Russians stormed Berlin, he was a hero, in every sense of the word, to the German people. Keegan, Mask of Command, page 252 Keegan, Mask of Command, page 281 Clark, Barbarossa, page 71 Keegan, Mask of Command, page 285 Clark, Barbarossa, page 16 Clark, Barbarossa, page 16