If Hitler had taken this advice, it is likely North Africa / El Alamein would have not happened the way they did. Patton and Monty would have been in N. Africa a long time.
This also guarantees that D Day would not have happened. Assuming some of the Russian front resources were deployed on the coast of France, the entire invasion would have been infinitely more difficult.
Then again, Rommel would have probably still been in North Africa, so someone else would have been in charge of setting up the coast of France defenses. Like I said, it would have changed every thing!! And certainly lengthened the war, if not changed the ulitmate outcome. And who knows what Stalin would have done to take advantage of it? We benefitted from Hitler and Stalin beating each others brains out for 2-3 years before we landed in France - how would Stalin have used Hitler and the Americans beating each others brains out first?
“If Hitler had taken this advice, it is likely North Africa / El Alamein would have not happened the way they did. Patton and Monty would have been in N. Africa a long time.”
Africa would have likely fallen anyway, given that Italy/Germany didn’t have the resources to keep it properly supplied. Once the Allies started concentrating on the African supply routes, the fate of Africa to the Axis was sealed.
Very astute question. Given Stalin's maniacal tendencies, the "what ifs" seem boundless.