Comments on: Hitler’s biggest mistake?

By: David Williams

David Williams — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:08:40 +0000

@Paul: I would agree that had he kept up against the airfields/radar, history might have gone very differently. Though I don’t think that the war with Russia was inevitably doomed either way. Consider: Germany knocked Russia out of WWI, there was no reason to think the same wouldn’t be possible this time around too.

@ Seguleh: Good point: Stalin wasn’t about to attack, but he was certainly biding his time to do so when the moment arose. His forces were caught on June 22nd neither fully deployed in offensive nor defensive formations. Pleshakov’s STALIN’s FOLLY is worth reading in this regard.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:59:23 +0000

His biggest mistake was turning on London during the Battle of Britain. Having then knocked out Britain from the war, there wouldn’t have been an African campaign or such a need to fortify much of the Adriatic countries. America’s entry into the war would have been incredibly difficult with no where to land in Europe and a long distance land invasion is basically impossible. With Europe pretty much knocked out, Hitler would have had one distinct advantage – a war on one front where he could concentrate his entire mlitary force.

The war with Russia would have been very different with much higher Russian losses considering a much more powerful German force. Even if Hitler had invaded Moscow and other important points, Hitler would have eventually lost because with the size of Russia, it’s impossible to conquer so i believe that regardless of what mistake Hitler made, Russia would have still won eventually but at a much higher cost.

By: Seguleh

Seguleh — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:42:50 +0000

Well, there’s another point of view… Hitler had to attack Russia as Stalin was massing supplies etc on the borders :))