Given a chance would you kill baby Hitler?

[abaris]

You know the saying, "no plan of battle survives contact with the enemy."  I have to go look this stuff up.  It's been too long since I read Collapse of the Third Republic.

The so called "Sichelschnitt" certainly sruvived contact. It worked even better than Manstein had expected. Actually, it worked so well that Hitler, for some reason, stopped the advance to the coast. It's still up for debate why he did it, but it was his first direct involvement in military decisions and the first big tactical mistake. Dunkirchen wouldn't have been possible if the military had had their way.