Trump versus Clinton?

[Pat Mustard]

Does anyone think that killing Hitler and his top generals would have had a major effect on the outcome of the war?

         Not as much as impact as you think, there was a lot of smart German commanders. If Hitler would of died in the early days of war it would made a impact and Germany could of possibly won the war. The person who would of took over would of probably worked with Japan and stalled out the attack on America. Germany would of also probably not started the final solution as soon as they did and it would of been pushed back. Germany still had England and Russia to deal with and a smart commander does not expose himself on two fronts. If the Germans did not start the camps in the 1941 they would of had far more resources to work with and would of been able to do more damage. I have a question for you then IATIA, if Pearl Harbor had been pushed back, would the U.S of entered the war anyways as soon as England was defeated?

There was nobody in a position to actually rescue the German position on 1st September 1939. By that stage the German economy was too fucked up to actually sustain the army to eventual victory, the Germans only managed to get so far due to a series of million to one chances going their way (and even given that, in the east all that lead to was a stalemate between Dec 1941 and 1943 which massively drained materiel and men from Germany, making them weaker long term) and the US and UK willing to wait until 1944 before hitting Germany through France (well willing to wait isn't the right word, it was more a case of Churchill's listening to Monty's* obsession with going through Italy, and FDR unwilling to push to hard to scotch that route). The plain unvarnished fact is that Germany effectively lost the second world war on 30-01-1933.

*Bernard Law Montgomery was the Lord Ronnie Rust of British generalling, a man whose reputation and arrogance was far in excess of his actual ability.