PlasticPole: He would have ran into just as much trouble focusing all his attention on Russia.
You even say "he could have", we call it speculation. The facts presented above (the extremely fast progress of the German army) show different scenario.
PlasticPole: would have eventually exhausted the wehrmacht, leaving Britain, France and America opportunity to sweep in and get him from the west. He just didn't have enough people in his army to be that powerful and others were not fighting for him. He was isolated. He would have burned himself out, eventually, no matter what.
Accordingly to the fast progress of the Germans in the SU, I don't believe that the Soviets would beat the Germans without the western and the African front. I totally disagree with your "no matter what". I observed on this forum that many Poles still have a lot of sympathy for the Soviets even the ones who live in the US like you. I mean, you guys were practically occupied by them for so long. You are defending your enemy. Strange.
Chicago Pollock: True but one battle doesn't make a war. The Soviet Army defeated Hitler's German war machine. They were defeated by the time of the 1944 Normandy invasion (yes, the weather helped).
Isn't it what I've been saying repeatedly so many times tonight that the Germans lost because Hitler made them fight on so many different fronts?
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