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The Russians fully backed Germany until Operation Barbarossa in 1941 when Hitler decided he would concentrate on the East front rather than on the West front. Amazing how close and easily the Germans could have defeated Britain but the armies were told to stop, curtail, or divert their forces elsewhere when within another week they could have claimed complete victory.

Similarly, the Russians escaped German annihilation when Barbarossa was postponed by a few weeks which pushed forward the German invasion into the winter months which had defeated other like Napoleon before. This fortuitous postponement was courtesy of the Yugoslavs or Serbs who said up yours to Hitler and got rid of quislings when told to capitulate which enraged Hitler and made him decide to go after the Serbs first - a significant blunder.

The Americans came late into the war but without that support and entry by the USA and then the Russians to back Britain, the Germans could have eventually won and made the world a rotten place to live in. It took four years for the rest of the world or Allies to defeat the Germans and then stop Japan courtesy of nukes. One has to look with respect at the fighting spirit and organization of the Krauts and the Japs which required the rest of the world four years to defeat these two enemy countries. But without the U.S., the remaining Allies would have been toast in WW-2.

Hitler is stated to have observed that FDR was a National Socialist like the Nazis but despite having come to power at around the same time as Hitler, FDR did not accomplish what Hitler had accomplished. Hitler felt FDR was jealous!! Of course Hitler used his Secret Army (formed and led by a bunch of blatant homosexuals and perverts who were its generals and officers), then the Secret Service and the Gestapo to achieve his aims by force. Interesting to see that Hitler acknowledges that the U.S. Democrats subscribe to Nazism.

The only rotten thing in the Allied victory was that Stalin was the only other powerful dictator with Hitler gone. We know what a mess the commies inflicted later on world peace for the next fifty years. Should have gone after Stalin too in 1945.

>>Amazing how close and easily the Germans could have defeated Britain but the armies were told to stop, curtail, or divert their forces elsewhere when within another week they could have claimed complete victory.

Not hardly. Three little problems: RAF, Royal Navy and the English Channel. Hitler was unable to gain air superiority over Britain. Without it any attempt to cross the Channel would have resulted in a massive slaughter by the RN and RAF.

Now he could have put his massive new resources from France, Belgium, Poland, Netherlands, etc. into production of planes and ships and within a year or two have had enough to overwhelm the Brits. To that extent I agree with you. But any attempt to cross the Channel or launch an airborne invasion in 1940 would have resulted in a catastrophic German defeat.

Perhaps, however, you were talking about the German failure to destroy the British Army at Dunkirk, which they could easily have done. Hitler didn't do this primarily because he assumed the British would reach an accomodation with him as the French were in the process of doing. He didn't really hate the British in the same way he hated the French, in fact he admired them immensely.