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Originally Posted by Amnorix
Actually, what is sort of amusing here is that you are echoing Hitler's own belief. He was completely convinced, until the bitter end, that something miraculous would happen to turn around Germany's steady losses. They really went nowhere but backwards starting from the losses at Stalingrad (Feb 1943) and North Africa (May 1943).
For two years, Hitler thought that some technological breakthrough or SOMETHING would save Germany. Between those two battles though, the Germans lost well over a million men killed, wounded or captured, and never really recovered. From there, it was nothing but a long, slow, painful series of strategic losses with occasional limited tactical victories.
And no technology the Germans were then working on was going to reverse that trend.
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This. Hitler was an idiot and pretty much ignored any sound military advice given to him by his generals. His forces were spread too thin. If his generals killed him, it may have been a different outcome. My grandfather was a B-24 navigator, and told me some pretty crazy stories. He also said that if Hitler wasnt so tunnel visioned, they probably couldn't have landed on the beaches. He also told me a crazy story that the US was didn't want to really deploy, and that the british ended up sinking some american ships and blamed it on the germans to force us into it. German forces knew they were spread to thin to defend a landing and did NOT want us to deploy. Just food for thought.