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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Won the war? Nah. Been much more of a pain in the ass for the allies to win? Probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Alternatively, those generals saw how badly things were going by late 1943/early 1944 and would push for a negotiated surrender. While those generals definitely did put all the blame on Hitler in their post-war memoirs to cover their own failures, Hitler was certainly to blame for continuing to fight until the Reds were almost literally knocking on his bunker door.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Also very possible. At the end of the day it’s all speculation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

U don’t think that the US would have been willing to settle for peace if the germans literally won every single battlefield faster? They could have by giving [author of the book] all the resources and by giving none to the competing gens