Hitler's Baffling Decision

Bazile | 20:36 Wed 09th Oct 2024 | History

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Hitler had the British forces trapped and surrounded at Dunkirk .

Yet he didn't, (to the fury of his generals )give the order to ' take them out ' ( thank god )

This decision has baffled historians ever since , who consider that his decision caused him to lose WW2

One theory is that the British upper class was sympathetic with the nazi ideology and Hitler was keen to broker a deal to leave Britain alone - hence Rudolph Hess trip to Scotland .

What sort of world would we be living in now , if he had made the alternative decision

With The Current Middle East Situation.......

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sandyRoe

Whatever happened at Dunkirk the Americans would have got involved eventually.

They couldn't have afforded to let the Nazis build an empire stretching half way across the world.

Buenchico

A far more baffling decision, in my opinion, was for Germany to declare war on the USA.

Roosevelt was desperate to keep the USA out of the war in Europe, which was clearly greatly to Germany's advantage. When the USA declared war on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, things would appear to have been going even more in favour of Hitler because, with their forces already involved in a different war, the USA would be even less likely to want to join the conflict in Europe. So Hitler's decision to declare war on the USA, dragging US forces into fighting against his own troops, seemed to be totally illogical.

(Yes, I know that Germany had a pact with Japan but Hitler was perfectly happy to ignore international treaties elsewhere in the world).

>>> "What sort of world would we be living in now , if he had made the alternative decision "

I have little doubt that Europe would be a much better place now if Germany had won WWII.