Trump ‘to demand generals swear total loyalty just like Hitler’ claims historian | Books | Entertainment
President Donald Trump has denied that he ever said he needed “the kind of generals that Hitler had”, as reported by The Atlantic before the 2024 election.
Now the Commander in Chief is set to attend a last-minute meeting tomorrow at Quantico, a Marine Corps base just 30 miles south of the Pentagon.
The newly redubbed War Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of senior military leaders stationed around the world to be present.
And now a former general and a military historian are predicting that POTUS will demand total allegiance to him, just as Adolf Hitler did prior to World War 2.
Philip Kay-Bujack, the author of the newly published Hermann Balck: Hitler’s Forgotten General, exclusively told Daily Express: “On November 5th 1937, Adolf Hitler summoned all of his senior generals and commanders to Berlin to hear a confidential speech about the plans of the German dictator. We know this thanks to the private notes taken by Colonel Hossbach in what has become known in history as the Hossbach Memorandum. On Wednesday of this week, Donald Trump is doing exactly the same thing and senior commanders at the rank of one-star Brigadier General and above are being recalled to Washington from around the world to hear Trump’s vision for the future.”
The military historian added: “This is no coincidence. Hitler gave his officers a glimpse at the future but also their own. And for those that would not swear total loyalty to him, then retirement was an option. Trump will do the same…”
Retired US Army Commanding General Ben Hodges tweeted similarly: “July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.”
War Secretary Hegseth sarcastically responded to the X post: “Cool story, general.”
Hermann Balck: Hitler’s Forgotten General by Philip Kay-Bujak is out now.
