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Hitler could have won WW II easily, says former Nazi general and strategist

EUGENE, Ore. – A recent report out of Germany and a new book about Hitler’s master strategist, Erich von Manstein, sheds new light on how the Nazi’s could have won World War II; while, at the same time, students here at the University of Oregon in Eugene and elsewhere ask why it’s taken so long to expose yet more secret files from van Manstein that reveal a “dark cause” that’s sweeping the world today.

New documents released by the German government reveal it was not Adolph Hitler, but German’s top General Erich von Manstein who devised the plan to conquer France and most of Europe now more than 70 years ago. More alarming is the fact that von Manstein’s secrets “have been kept under wraps for so long,” writes author Benoit Lemay in the newly published book “Erich von Manstein: Hitler’s Master Strategist.” Lemay is an expert on Hitler’s “military elite,” as well as war crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in Europe during World War II. Lemay’s book is chilling in its accounts of what Hitler’s master planner had in mind for total world domination under something dubbed the “dark cause.”

The general who’s called more powerful than Hitler

Field Marshal Erich von Manstein is viewed by many students who prize themselves in being experts in World War II lore as more brilliant than Hitler, Patton, Rommel, MacArthur and Montgomery. “What’s so crazy is nobody seems to know too much about von Manstein. And, it’s now revealed – decades and decades after the war – that he was the top dog for Hitler. He was Hitler’s brain, his strategist,” says Eugene student Mark Klein whose studies German military history....
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