This is puzzling me.
2007-02-04 05:39:18 · 19 answers · asked by Ejsenstejn 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Americans and Germans were trained diffrently and came from diffrent goverments. Think about hou Nazi Germany was Compared to deomcratic America. Also American units had less training than their German enemies.The Germans were preparing fpr war the U.S wasnt anticipting war.
2007-02-04 05:45:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The others are generally right. The German and Italian soldiers suffered from shell shock just like we did. (That's called "post-traumatic stress disorder" now) What would be interesting is if the Japanese soldiers did not because of their belief the emperor was a god. I wonder if the Japanese were different. I sure don't know, but the German soldiers were just as bad off as the allied and even worse if they fought on the Russian front.
2007-02-04 06:07:48 · answer #2 · answered by David M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WW ONE they called it "shell shock" because they thought it was caused by shells going off around them.
WW TWO they called it "battle fatigue" because they thought it was caused by being overly tired from fighting too much.
George Patton called it "cowardice" and was relived of command for slapping a solder suffering from it.
Now we call it Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
If you think Germans did not get it, take a look at the faces of Germans on the Eastern Front in WW TWO.....
2007-02-05 11:33:35 · answer #3 · answered by forgivebutdonotforget911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said the Krauts didn't suffer from shell-shock? Did you see "Band of Brothers", especially the episode where the war had just ended and all the disarmed Nazi's were marching back to Germany down the center of the Autobahn? Looked like a HELL of a lot of shell-shocked bastardos to ME! And I'm sure they looked a LOT sorrier in real life than they did in the movie series!
2007-02-04 05:49:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The medical care for American military is more extensive and we care about our people. The German did have cases of people who suffered shellshock, however, it was not reported that way.
2007-02-04 05:46:33 · answer #5 · answered by MACDADDY4U 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ah, don't know where your getting your info from.... But yes the german's who fought in the war 1 & 2 did suffer from shell shock!
2007-02-04 05:55:45 · answer #6 · answered by twofingerwonder_2000 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course the Germans did. You can't be in a combat situation and not feel the effects.
2007-02-04 05:47:03 · answer #7 · answered by Tish 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Can you provide proof that the Germans did not suffer from shell-shock?
2007-02-04 05:49:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the German army was very good.We were too but Germany might of won the war if it wasn't for Hitler being so stupid.He was the one who destroyed the German army by telling them not to fall back but to fight to the death...
2007-02-04 05:49:58 · answer #9 · answered by quiz buckler scoop 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
germans did
2007-02-04 05:45:45 · answer #10 · answered by SJohnson 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋