When the Nazis lost the air—they lost the war. Should have invested in more Me 262s. But, after D-Day the war was lost for them. Should have given up—Generals should have assassinated Hitler and given in. The real war was with Russia—and it was a bloodbath—Lord, let us never face a WW III.
“..hould have invested in more Me 262s. ...”
Once again, the hand of the Mad Bavarian Corporal intervened; I remember an interview with Adolph Galland; he was an ME-262 jockey and said Hitler had ordered them turned into “fighter-bombers” which of course slowed them down considerably.
Hell, that thing was the first jet air superiority fighter... and they had the Arado 234 “Blitz Bomber” already, so that was a stupid move.
Interesting side note: Galland was, later on, head of the Argentinian Air Force, equipped with Gloster Meteors (British jet fighter, came in late at the end of the war). having flown both of those first generation jets, the interviewer asked him what he thought would have been the result had they met up.
He said: “Our ME-262 would have wiped up the sky with them...”
Which goes back to what DesertRhino said earlier, up-thread:
“Germans are something else. They either do things perfectly, or they use their intelligence to screw it up in a manner that leaves everyone in wonder....”