@xris,
xris wrote:The point is you dont know?....if the war had been extended by two months the germans could have obtained the atom bomb the jet fighter...
Hitler had abandoned his nuclear ambitions very early in the war -- he had almost no research into an atomic bomb. Soviet intelligence actually uncovered that before Berlin fell and before the general armistice (read the tremendously researched
The Fall of Berlin by Antony Beevor for more info about that). Germany DID have a jet fighter, but they funnelled resources into making V2 rockets instead, which had no strategic or tactical value at all.
Even if Germany developed a nuclear bomb in, say, March or April of 1945, they still would have lost the war. Soviet and Allied troops were already inside Germany by that point. I mean how many bombs could they drop when the allies had 100% complete air superiority by that point?
Quote:if you had managed to kill hitler a year before hand and his generals carried out a more successful war...what could have happened??If i was a believer ide say you cant play god..
I doubt it. The outcome of the war in Europe was a foregone conclusion as of the spring of 1943. After losing both Stalingrad and Kursk, the war was
over for Nazi Germany. Even if D-day had never happened, there was not a prayer that Germany could win the war. What they had was thousands of kilometers of occupied eastern Europe and USSR -- so they traded territory for time. By the time of Kursk, the best German troops were long dead and the Red Army had come into its own. Hitler spent the rest of the war sending out 16 year old Hitler Youth, old men, and easily-defecting Czech and Romanian and Hungarian draftees to fight for him. Hitler knew from the very beginning that he could not win a war of attrition, which was the whole rationale behind blitzkrieg -- knock out the opposition quickly. But when they got stuck in the mud near Moscow in 1941, the war of attrition had begun. And Russia bled Germany dry.