Kind of like what Stalin said when he heard Hitler was really dead:
“So, that’s end of the bastard.”
I think of playing sports, in a game where you start to get momentum on the other team and are getting a lead. When you watch the other team start carping and pointing fingers at each other, you know you’ve won. It becomes a run out the clock situation. That’s probably how the allies feel about the Germans right now.
That's the sense I got when I was gathering news for August and early September. "Never mind home for Christmas, we could have this this thing wrapped up by Halloween."
It’s interesting to see Guderian taking the lead in the damage control efforts of the German Army.
Given the British slang I’ve heard he probably said “bugger” or “bastard.”