Given a chance would you kill baby Hitler?

[Thumpalumpacus]

He thought he was fighting an old style 19th Century war instead of a 20th Century war.

I don't agree, Wyrd.  The German Army prepared to fight the next war rather than the Allies who prepared to fight the last war all over again.  Germany was outnumbered by the British and French who had more and better tanks.  It was German tactics of blitzkrieg warfare which overwhelmed the Allies in 1940.

They concentrated what, seven armored divisions into the Ardennes to burst upon the crossing at Sedan? The Brits and French had at least three or four hundred more tanks, and in the S-35 a better tank than anything the Wehrmacht fielded -- but they split them up into brigade and regimental assignments. So the Germans hit with a solid armored spearhead, while the Allies defended with a soft, uncoordinated design.

Guderian and Rommel both wrote great books outlining the tactics they intended to (and did) use, in the upcoming war. Didn't Mellenthin, too? Can't remember.