Yes Skipper67, I am going to agree. By this time the Soviet war machine was unstoppable. With an extra 6 months of fighting on the eastern front by 1944 could easily have amounted to an extra million Germans casualties that would have been desperately needed for the West. So yes this is an important question.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler