(November 12, 2015 at 7:18 pm)abaris Wrote:Hitler lost the war when his troops fired the first shots. He thought he was fighting an old style 19th Century war instead of a 20th Century war. He was a good public speaker and he had a lot of charisma but he was an idiot when it came to warfare. He had no real allies. His base of operations was too small and he couldn't defend it. He didn't have a navy or an air force. He didn't have any useful weapon systems and he couldn't support his troops in the field. He couldn't even invade England. Plus his agenda of conquering the(November 12, 2015 at 6:29 pm)Aractus Wrote: Exactly, killing Hitler would make no difference. Japan are the ones who started the war anyway, not the Germans.
But it was Hitler burning the last bridges by declaring war on the USA. On december 11th 1941. The only war he ever declared instead of simply attacking.
world and killing "undesirables" eliminated him from getting any allies. That's not a very good and appealing political agenda. And he had no fifth columnists in other countries to create havoc. It's also why Japan and Italy were so easily defeated although Japan did have a navy.
It's interesting that before the war the US knew as early as the 1920s it would fight Japan. And England thought that its war time enemy would be the US instead of Germany.
