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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Oh, to be clear, I'm not trying to imply that an interest in history is a red flag. I'm just poking at the specific people who claim to be interested, but their interest mysteriously doesn't extend past the Wehrmacht.

They'll be quick to tell you that a specific Tiger crew killed so-and-so many T-34s at Kursk, but you ask them why the German tactical and strategic goals went unfulfilled at Kursk and they clam up.

To be fair here though I would like to point out that there are far more sources and books from the German perspective which is why people's views get skewed in this direction. There are several reasons for this, not the least of which is the Allies perpetuation of the clean Wehrmacht myth after the war.
There is also the fact that Russian isn't an easy language to translate, the books that did get translated saw smaller print runs and are thus harder to find, and the cold war left people in the west with little interest in the trials and tribulations of the people who were now their enemy.

This is a problem in most military history really. There are so many interesting conflicts in Africa and Asia that people never get to learn about because none of the primary sources ever get translated and thus very few books ever get translated.