Actually I donīt understand Hitlerīs way of thinking late 1944 and early 1945 at all. He must have seen things very differently to the real situation.
Maybe one of the things that had an effect was the fact that Hitler forbid removing divisions etc from the map as long as there was even "one man in the division" and as well kept on creating new divisions,as we know.
But how could Hitler think that the Russian attack to begin in early 1945 ( as well told by the German reconnaissance it was about to begin ) was named hoax by Hitler and his staff. I think Himmler was one of those, and he was about to command AG Vistula (?) and stop the Russians.
At the same time Hitler was sending troops to protect Budapest and effectively made it easier for the Russians to make a huge jump at Berlin from Warsaw.So the situation for Berlin very rapidly went chaotic.
From Warsaw Jan 11th to Oder Feb 2nd!
And all of this because Hitler himself moved the last armored troops cabaple of making an attack to Budapest wherabouts...
So actually itīs kinda interesting to think how much more could have been done to stop the Russians in Poland instead of trying to stop them at the gates of Berlin ?!!
