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Old July 29th, 2002, 05:00 PM
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The outcome would have been the same, at least in the Eastern front, the most important theatre of the war. Because we perfectly know that the Wehrmacht lost the war in Russia in 1941. The general strategy and horrendous losses gave the Wehrmacht a hit of which it never recovered.

At the Western front, there would not have been a D-day and Great Britain would have been defeated, because of the new technologies and air power. Rommel would have not been expelled from North Africa and if he was, as das Reich said, Keßelring would havenot permitted the Allies to land in Italy. The German industry would have been able to produce much more weaponry to counter attack and hold the Soviets and make Great Britain surrender. Imagine that the new submarine types would have been ready in 1943, along with the wolves-packs... Of course that the D-day would have been absolutely impossible. No Western front, no German industry damaged, no German cities destroyed, no German people killed.

But there was no chance of winning where was important after 1941. We perfectly know that at the Eastern front the technology and superior tactics were not the tactics to win. Once the strategy failed, no tactics would fix the things.
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