Biggest Mistake of WWII

[Audie_Murphy43]

I think the biggest mistake of WWII is that Hitler didn't allow his generals to think on their own. I'm not sayin I wanted Germany to win, but I feel that Germany would've had a better chance if allowed to act on their own.

[colin55]

The biggest mistake hitler and his generals made i think was that he looked at england as a small island on its own and not its commonwealth allies.

[PFC]

Originally Posted by pisis

It has been said here a few times... The biggest mistake of the politics of appeasment, mainly caused by France (Dalladier) and the UK (Chamberlain).

When Hitler occupied Czechoslovakia, he earned thousands of tons of weapons that were meant to fight against him originally. Of course, he used them in poland, France, Russia, some of them even in 1945... Hell, some of these were even used by Israel in 1948!

Underestimating the value of Czechoslovkia in 1938 during the Munich Agreement by France and Britian was the biggest mistake - it lead to a Second World War!

[Hugh MacLean]

Originally Posted by colin55

The biggest mistake hitler and his generals made i think was that he looked at england as a small island on its own and not its commonwealth allies.

Without wanting to digress from the topic could I correct one thing. England is not a small island on its own but Britain is.

I have noted a few times in this thread the use of the word England when the correct term should have been Britain or Great Britain. The use of the word England somehow devalues the enormous sacrafice of those from the other parts that make up the island of Great Britiain. I realise some people and indeed countries generally mean Great Britain when they say England but this is still wrong.

Like I said, I don't want to digress from the topic but, please, if you are refering to the UK then state so correctly.

Regards
Hugh

[sapper]

Same again, there is no doubt, and I speak as one that was around with the atmosphere of the times.
Hitlers failure to invade Great Britain when we had nothing. bar one equipped division, (My Third British Infantry) and they had to scrape around to get that together.
Sapper

[higge]

Hello. I have to say I didn't read all the pages of this topic but I think the biggest mistake in WW2 was that Finnish Marshall Mannerheim refused to attack Leningrad. He had the force, but he said that Finns don't go any further. If he did, Hitler would have a whole Leningrad and from Finland they could have transport clothes, ammuniation and food. and they would have in the city and take advantage all the stuff there was. Now Hitler didn't get there and the way from north was closed. And so were relationship to Finland over too.

I think if Hitler had Leningrad, Moscow couldn't hold either.


Cheers

Higge

[machine shop tom]

I would think that Hitler starting the war several years before he indicated to his generals that he would and forcing them into fighting a tactical war that needed strategic planning that was impossible due to the state of readiness that the Wehrmacht exhibited in 1939 was a huge mistake.

What a run-on sentence!!

tom

[Wise1]

Simply put Hitler on his own played out the biggest set of mistakes leading to the loss of the war.

Still amazes me just how powerful was the perception of him by others that he made so many decisions that were carried out and rarely questioned.

[sapper]

His failure to take the UK lost him the war. Simple as that.
sapper

[stevew]

I haven't read all the pages here..................

How about the bomber that bombed over London, when it should've been boming the airfields. This in turn led to the RAF bombing German cities and resulted in the Luftwaffe boming London thus relieving the airfields when Germans had almost acheived air superiority.........

I suppose this is tied in with Sapper's comment, as the failure to achieve air superiority meant the Germans couldn't invade