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Originally posted by General der Infanterie Friedrich H:
Hitler may not have been replaceable at all, but German and Japanese megalomania remained there to provoke and miserably lose a war, as did the United States' might.
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The militaristic and nationalistic fervor of the Japanese and German peoples would still have been there regardless of Hitler or Pearl Harbor. That is true. I do tend to believe that had different leaders planned and executed some of the big picture items of the war in either theater, that things could have been vastly different. A better diplomat may have kept the United States out of the war in Europe, so our might would have been a moot point. If the Japanese had continued to wage their war on the Chinese mainland we would have continued to meddle diplomatically, but would any of the Allied nations really have gone to war in China if the Japanese would have left the British colonies and American assets alone? If the German government would have started the war after having the economy on a wartime footing for a few years(full 24 hour production, massisve employment of women) would they have miserably lost? Most of those decisions in Germany belonged to one man. Get rid of him and someone with a more level head may have continued to pursue the same course in a more effective manner.