Given a chance would you kill baby Hitler?

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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.

not entirely true.  It was by pure chance that the Germany army did not oblige the French and British by fighting precisely the last war for which the French and the British were prepared.

A German major with plans for fighting precisely the Von schliffen plan again crash landed and was captured in Belgium.  That was the plan German army would have gone with.   In pure panick that the plan is compromised, the German army at the 11th hour adapted Von Manstein's plan to cut through Ardennes.  Had the major not taken a wrong turn, German army would have slammed through northern Belgium just as it did in auagust 1941, and would have been stopped dead in its tracks by the French and British armies in Belgium, and there would have followed a confined and very concentrated war of attrition on the ground similar to 1915-1918, for which Nazi Germany in 1940 was much less materially well prepared than kaiser's Germany had been in 1914.

If there was one thing the German army really was much better than everyone else during WWII, it wasn't farsightedness regarding future tactics and needs, it wasn't logistics, it wasn't training of the fighting men, and it wasn't equipment overall, it was the skill of its officer Corp to Improvise, roll with the punches, and rapidly adapt to emergencies.