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re: What was Hitler’s worst blunder?
Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:48 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:48 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
The three big ones I can think of were the Russian invasion, declaring war on the US, and his decision to take a sleeping pill on D Day with orders not to be disturbed.
Russian and Germany were going to collide at some point but opening another front was a bad idea.
Declaring war on the US after they declared war on Japan was a bad idea because it took the US from being an ally supplying munitions and trucks to supporting the British military in North Africa and Europe.
His sleeping pill on June 6 1944 kept the German High Command from releasing the reserves held back for the expected invasion at Calais. If those reserves pulled in quick enough, it could have possibly turned the tide at Omaha Beach and severely hindered Allied operations until Normandy could be secured.
Russian and Germany were going to collide at some point but opening another front was a bad idea.
Declaring war on the US after they declared war on Japan was a bad idea because it took the US from being an ally supplying munitions and trucks to supporting the British military in North Africa and Europe.
His sleeping pill on June 6 1944 kept the German High Command from releasing the reserves held back for the expected invasion at Calais. If those reserves pulled in quick enough, it could have possibly turned the tide at Omaha Beach and severely hindered Allied operations until Normandy could be secured.
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Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:49 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
Should have invaded and knocked out GB
Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:49 pm to GetCocky11
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Surviving WWI.
Got an upvote for that from me. Who knows how this world would be if he didn't survive WWI or was stopped prior to becoming the war monger we know and hate today.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:50 pm to Deep Purple Haze
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chalking a swastika on the playground
The Nazis using the Swastika in the wrong direction when they designed their flag in 1920. They were doomed from the beginning.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:52 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
Letting the British escape Dunkirk
Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:54 pm to gumbo2176
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Who knows how this world would be if he didn't survive WWI or was stopped prior to becoming the war monger we know and hate today.
I think regardless someone like Hitler would have risen. Keep in mind that Hitler himself didn’t come up with these ideas. He fed off the anger of the populace and fed off what his audience wanted. Someone else would have figured that out, and that person may have been more patient and strategic than Hitler.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:54 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
Failing to get the atomic bomb.
If the Nazi nuclear program would've succeeded, a strike on London takes Britain out of the war. Without Britain, the US doesn't have a launching pad for the D-Day invasion force. The western front is essentially secured for the Germans. They can focus all their attention on the USSR and likely force a surrender under threat of atomic attack.
ETA: Without having Britain as a jumping off point for invading Europe, the US fights the war in the Pacific and eventually drops the bombs on Japan to make them surrender. We end up with Germany instead of Soviet Union as our rival nuclear armed superpower for the rest of the 20th century
If the Nazi nuclear program would've succeeded, a strike on London takes Britain out of the war. Without Britain, the US doesn't have a launching pad for the D-Day invasion force. The western front is essentially secured for the Germans. They can focus all their attention on the USSR and likely force a surrender under threat of atomic attack.
ETA: Without having Britain as a jumping off point for invading Europe, the US fights the war in the Pacific and eventually drops the bombs on Japan to make them surrender. We end up with Germany instead of Soviet Union as our rival nuclear armed superpower for the rest of the 20th century
This post was edited on 3/8/19 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 3/8/19 at 12:56 pm to Strannix
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Should have invaded and knocked out GB
He didn't have a big enough Navy to accomplish that. The Brits had one of the largest Naval Fleets known to man during that time.
They damn sure weren't going to parachute enough troops to accomplish anything either.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:03 pm to OMLandshark
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I think regardless someone like Hitler would have risen.
I find it hard to believe that there would be 2 people at any point in that time in history with the insanity that was going on in Hitler's head.
He rounded up people with mental issues, birth defects, homosexuals, Jews, etc. and had them exterminated by the millions simply because they didn't fit the prototype of the "Aryan Race" he was trying to achieve.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:05 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
Having a blanket “no retreat” policy that precluded their armies from regrouping and resupplying.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:06 pm to Strannix
Should have invaded and knocked out GB
---he tried. That's what the Battle of Britain was about. Blitzkreig to soften up resistance before the invasion. It failed.
Plus, Hitler knew Britain had an enormous naval advantage and he didn't have the ships to defeat the Royal Navy in the English Channel.
---he tried. That's what the Battle of Britain was about. Blitzkreig to soften up resistance before the invasion. It failed.
Plus, Hitler knew Britain had an enormous naval advantage and he didn't have the ships to defeat the Royal Navy in the English Channel.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:07 pm to gumbo2176
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I find it hard to believe that there would be 2 people at any point in that time in history with the insanity that was going on in Hitler's head.
I assure you that there are at least 2 people with the insanity in Hitler’s head because he surrounded himself with them.
Also you didn’t fight and lose in WWI. It was a pretty traumatic experience.
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He rounded up people with mental issues, birth defects, homosexuals, Jews, etc. and had them exterminated by the millions simply because they didn't fit the prototype of the "Aryan Race" he was trying to achieve.
And there were hundreds of thousands that more than gleefully did this for him. Hitler didn’t come up with these ideas on his own; he was fed them by a society that was already poisoned in which Hitler thrived.
This post was edited on 3/8/19 at 1:10 pm
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:09 pm to Tiger Prawn
It wasn't Hitler's blunder that the Germans didn't develop the atomic bomb before the Allies. His scientists couldn't get it done for many reasons.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:10 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
probably the meth
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:14 pm to OMLandshark
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Hitler didn’t come up with these ideas on his own; he was fed them by a society that was already poisoned in which Hitler thrived.
Oh I'm sure he had help in the insanity that evolved during his time as Fuhrer, but NOTHING was done without his OK, and he was the one that OK'd those atrocities to happen. Therefore, in my eyes, no matter who devised the plans, it was ultimately Hitler that initiated them and the blame lies squarely on his shoulders----NOT Hans or Mikel who came up with the idea in the first place.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:19 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Not liquidating all the generals, like Stalin!
Ima go with this.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:19 pm to OMLandshark
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I find it hard to believe that there would be 2 people at any point in that time in history with the insanity that was going on in Hitler's head.
How shocked would this moron be to learn that much of it started in California with Margaret Sanger?
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:21 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
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Was it Dunkirk? Antwerp?
Declaring war on the USA
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:21 pm to gumbo2176
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Oh I'm sure he had help in the insanity that evolved during his time as Fuhrer, but NOTHING was done without his OK, and he was the one that OK'd those atrocities to happen. Therefore, in my eyes, no matter who devised the plans, it was ultimately Hitler that initiated them and the blame lies squarely on his shoulders----NOT Hans or Mikel who came up with the idea in the first place.
Dude, Hitler didn’t give a frick what the SA, SS, or Gestapo did. Heydrich (by all accounts the worst of the Nazis) could do whatever the frick he wanted because his endgoal was the same as Hitler’s. Hitler made it legal to be a brutal thug so long as you were an Aryan persecuting non-Aryans/Communists.
And shite look at the Eastern Front. He didn’t give a frick what they did to the Slavs.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 1:26 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
Giving up on his art career
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