Not that Gille’s IV SS Panzer Corps would have made that much of a difference in Poland this January. However, if Hitler had kept IV SS Panzer Corps there, and added 6 Panzer Army and some of the tanks allocated to 5th Panzer Army, and called von Manstein out of retirement and allowed him to conduct a mobile defense, and used all of his Me262s as air support, and told Heisenberg that graphite would be an effective reactor moderator if he removed all the Boron from it.....
Oh hell...off my meds again.
Excellent points, however. Hitler and his inner circle should have been much more worried about their possible treatment by the Russians, who are closer to Berlin, than the Americans. The objective of Wacht am Rhine was always fantasy. We didn't put four field armies in France just to say aw shucks we didn't really mean it if the Germans put up a fight. And they didn't have enough gas to make the Meuse, much less Antwerp.