re: What was Hitler’s worst blunder?

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Heydrich (by all accounts the worst of the Nazis)

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Heydrich was one scary dude. But he was very capable and Hitler and Himmler needed him, though they were also wary of him.

There was a stong possibility that Heydrich would have eventually succeeded Hitler.

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Russia in the winter, just Like Napoleon

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This is the correct answer.

Given the dismantling and reassembly of Soviet factories, the scorched earth tactics, and the logistical problems (rail travel), I’m not sure how much help Moscow would have done them outside of morale reasons.

There are a lot of them, the overall main one being opening a two-front war.

One more specific one was attacking Stalingrad. The city had no strategic value, just the Stalin name. He gets a huge portion of his army trapped there and it becomes the rallying cry for the Soviet Union and the turning point of the war on the Eastern Front.

not calling himself a progressive

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 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.

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Uh, have you heard of eugenics? Lots of proponents of it in American academia before anyone had heard of Hitler

You can beat each decision to death and when you lose a world war there will be plenty to choose from. He took a relatively small nation into war and then proceeded to fight on multiple fronts as the forces arrayed against him began to muster resistance. Germany, like Japan, has to succeed early in the game or their resources would be overwhelmed. It was inevitable they would lose as the allies strengthened. Not enough men or material to carry the fight to that many different fronts. The fact that America provided the material for many nations uninterrupted and protected by two oceans prior to the advent of technology that would enable the axis to bring force to bear on that manufacturing power house sealed their fate and cemented our power for the past 70 plus years. They simply attempted too much with too little.

His daddy should have pulled out and splattered him on the wall.

Putting a lot of trust and stock into Himmlers opinion didn’t help

Think you answered your own question