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To: RinaseaofDs
However, if Patton doesn’t relieve Bastogne on Christmas in 1944, could the war have dragged on another couple of years, or was Hitler losing it too badly by then?

The western allies could have never fired another shot after December of 1944 and the Germans still would have lost. All that would have happened is that the Russians would have taken more of Germany before linking up with the Americans and British.

While we mythologize the Western Front, at the end of the day it was almost a sideshow as far as the war went. Three quarters of the German Army was fighting on the Eastern Front, and that's where the war was decided.

64 posted on 10/17/2018 1:45:58 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Thanks for that. I’ll be reading up on it.


67 posted on 10/17/2018 1:49:28 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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