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JBaLLEN66 posted...

Just because they were his advisors does not mean they were hundred percent correct.

I didn't say they were. I said Hitler never bothered to listen to them, even when they were.

JBaLLEN66 posted...

Again, Germany was fighting a losing war due to manpower/resource shortages and its alliances were not as cohesive and efficient as the Allies.

Because Hitler fucked up in the first place. They were the aggressor on every front. He chose to launch a losing war. How is that not on him?

JBaLLEN66 posted...

And the Russian invasion is my favorite one. Lets put yourself in Germsnys Shoes for a moment? You see war with the USSR as an unavoidable conflict, you have just steam rolled Europe with your blirzkrieg tactics, you beat the **** our of the Russian empire in WW1, Stalin just purged his military staff and was rebuilding his country for a war aimed towards you, and the USSR fought a sloppy war against Finland. Last, the USSR has oil and large amounts of arable land for food which the Germans were severely lacking. Giving these thought points, do you really blame them?

Oh, I'm not saying it was impossible, I'm saying the way he did it was stupid. He barely did any recon, to the point he didn't know the Russians had tanks. Then, he had a solid plan, but abandoned it the minute that Stalingrad became a quagmire, he redirected all resources to the city, basically abandoning the oil rich caucuses, to focus on a city largely due to his pride. He also outright attacked the peasants, who would have been handy allies right off the bat, because they weren't Aryan enough for him. He also chose to do this when the US was joining the war in Europe and after Africa was already a losing front. Even if Russia was a juicy, weak target, so was Germany and sacrificing your well being on a chance to take out an enemy is a suicide run, and the last desperate tactic of someone who has already made a shit-ton of bad decisions.