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Originally posted by General der Infanterie Friedrich H:
Not at all…
Patton runs towards Soviet lines and his Army ceases to exist in less than a week… then the Red Army rolls over Ike's 95 divisions and the rest of the pathetic German war machine.
-------With the delay the Russians suffered when crossing the Oder as well as the Heights before Berlin (Not to mention the 400,000 lost in Berlin itself)any move by Patton's 3rd Army in Austria would have to be very costly to overextended and exhausted Russian troops. How would it become automatically vaporized?
A few months later, however, the Red Army is exhausted and the American juggernaut has just came into action, and even may have vaporised Moscow (along with the Politbureau and Uncle Joe) with a 'Little Boy'.
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-----------If the strategic objective was to push the Russians out of Europe than this might have been achieved by the fall with or without an A bomb, keeping in mind that Uncle Joe moved many Siberian units East to grab up as much of Asia as he could get from the retreating Japanese.
The Blue Max