I really can't comprehend armies fleeing. Ultimate cowardice.

[StevieM]

80. That's an interesting point. A good argument can be made that he should have first finished off

Great Britain before turning his attention to Russia. Many generals wanted to do that as well.

Still, I think the war against the Soviet Union could have been won early on had it not been for the incompetent strategy that Hitler insisted upon.

If he had taken Russia out early then it is interesting to think about what might have happened. What if Hitler could have effectively ended the American embargo against Japan? Might they have refrained from attacking us, at least at the point when they did? What if Hitler had finished off Russia and then taken out Britain over the Summer of 1942? What if war with Japan and Germany had come in December 1942 instead of December 1941, with Britain and the Soviet Union already defeated? What if they had the ability to attack Alaska from Siberia?

Could they have then defeated the United States? Could they have won the war before the U.S. got the bomb? Would America have taken longer to develop the bomb if our entry into the War had also been delayed?