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Folks,

MG:

Yes, Adolph might have slept better in April 1945 had he first gone all out for the Caucasus oil fields instead of following the example of that 'other' corporal and advancing on unfriendly Moscow. After being led into that deadly fiasco by his Luftwaffe Commander I wonder what the Fuhrer was calling Hermann? Whatever it may have been, it was probably much less flattering than his later sobriquet of Meyer.

Now if you and I wish to wind the hindsight meter all the way past lucky guess to clairvoyant, and if we want to really wish to tighten the screws on faulty Axis strategy, they desperately needed a long range bomber when Barbarossa began. The so-called New York Bomber was no where near getting it's first spit shine at that time and I don't believe more than one was ever built. Had Germany developed a four engined, long range bomber the Luftwaffe could have followed Stalin's industry when the lights were turned out in Moscow and the lot was dragged out and across the mountains where it continued to produce unhindered for the rest of the war.