From Mockery to Respect: How the First Clashes in North Africa Changed German Opinion of Americans скачать в хорошем качестве

From Mockery to Respect: How the First Clashes in North Africa Changed German Opinion of Americans

February 1943. German tankers laugh as they look at the burned American tanks at Kasserine Pass — "they're sending us children with toys." In three days, the Yanks lose 183 tanks, 6,500 soldiers, and Rommel calls it "child's play." Berlin radio mocks the "cowboys on tractors." But eight months later, those same Germans write home: "The Americans aren't the same anymore — they've become a machine." What happened between February and November 1943? How did a laughingstock army transform into a force that the legendary Afrika Korps began to fear? The story of America's most humiliating defeat that became the beginning of the German nightmare — from mockery to capitulation, from 183 burned tanks to 250,000 German prisoners, from "children with toys" to soldiers who forced the Wehrmacht to admit: "If they land in France — the war will be over in a year." Composition Dark Times (artist: Kevin MacLeod) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com