History Matters: Hitler’s arrogance seals his fate.

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.

Published June 18, 2019 at 7:35 AM CDT

Generalfeldmarschall Friedrich Paulus (left), with his chief of staff, Generalleutnant Arthur Schmidt (centre) and his aide, Wilhelm Adam (right), after their surrender

Airs Tuesday, June 18, 2017, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Gary Joiner studies a Major Miscalculation Hitler made during WW II which occurred 76 years ago this week, and how Hitler’s arrogance seals his fate.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.

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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.

Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”

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