Germany had already lost the war by the beginning of December 1941, once one enemy had become three in six months.

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• Operation Barbarossa should never have come close to being a victory; the Germans got as far as they did because of Red Army and Soviet incompetence, not German prowess. JHJames Holland24 May 2025
• Generalship and bravery can move the Second World War by months, but it was a war of numbers, and past a certain point its outcome was already inevitable. JHJames Holland24 May 2025
• From the moment Hitler took power in 1933 a war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union was inevitable; only which of them would fire first was undecided. JHJames Holland24 May 2025
• It was not the street fighting in Stalingrad that destroyed the German Sixth Army, it was the encirclement that followed. JHJames Holland24 May 2025
• The familiar narrative of the war — useless Britain, the world's best German army beaten only because Hitler was mad — is an artefact of how the world looked in the 1970s and 1980s, not of how it looked in 1939. JHJames Holland24 May 2025

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