Question
For Military Historians What was Hitlers Biggest Mistake?
First let me say that I am totally antinazi, I believe the holocaust happened and I thank God Hitler lost. I got a violation the last time I asked this question, so if you must, you must. No hard feelings.
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Hitler made many errors, one of which was to think himself a military genius because he was right once.brbrHe stopped at Dunkirk, because he wanted to give the British a chance to sue for peace.brThen he listened to Goering who swore that he could bring the British to the peace table just with his planes instead of invading immediately. The Luftwaffe had lost flight crew during France campaign and needed time before it was ready to attack, time the RAF put to good use. brThen when the British bombed Berlin he sent the bombers against London just when the Luftwaffe was succeeding in its campaign to destroy the RAF. brHe attacked Russia before closing down the western front. brHe got sucked in Africa, and didnt put the effort needed to win and get access to the petrol fields. brHe ignored the naval war. He was an infantry man and never understood the need to have power over the sea, the loss of the Bismark just put a stop to his interest. The Uboots did tremendous damages but couldnt stop the convoys.brHe stopped using paratroopers as air lifted units after Crete because of the tremendous loss those units suffered. The Allied learned the lesson and started using them.brHe stopped the production of the ME the first jet powered plane in to change it to a fighter bomber. That plane would have destroyed the Allied air forces. When it came out in mid it did a lot of damages but the production was slowed to a trickle by the Allied bombing. brbrAnd thats only a few of them... Thanks goodness for all of them.
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