[Poll]The Biggest Mistake of World War II

[Happy lil Elf]

Thank you, Ghost. Thought I remembered that coming up recently.

[Sputty]

So many dumbs things happened. Allies should've reinforced more of Belguim and the Ardennes, Hitler screwed up the Battle of Britain(another thing that made his victory over Europe impossible) invading Russia was stupid, Japan shouldn't have attack the US, Italy shouldnt have allowed their flanks to be bypassed in Africa, Hitler should've used Rommel's armor to attack normany when the allies invaded.
Then again, the game's easy to win when it's already been played

[Setari]

As a precursor, the Allies beached a landing craft with a corpse and fake documents describing a fake landing at Sicily. These were thought to be real by Hitler thus giving the Allies the advantage they planned on.

Now, the Allies did the exact same thing for the Normandy Invasion. However for Normandy the Allies used real documents that almost entirely detailed the invasion as it was to happen. But, in all his wisdom, Hitler dismissed these documents as fakes and persisted with the idea that we would attack the Pas de Calais.

[I Hate Pants]

The attack on indo-china from the Japanese wasn't a mistake. When the Japanese went to Pearl Harbour to deal with the Americans. They were hoping to destroy thier 2 aircraft carriers. But unfortunately for the Japanese the aircraft carriers were not at Hawaii during the time of the attack.

If the aircraft carriers were at Pearl Harbour it could of been more successful for the Japanese. The Americans push into the pacific would have been delayed much longer as they would have been busy scrambling to either repair or build their aircraft carriers. Giving the Japanese the time they needed to further dig into the pacific and build the proper forces to defend.

In other words. Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Battle of Britain was nearly over and stabbing Joseph Stalin in the back.

[arctik]

wars take years so even if they went to russia durring the summer it would eventually get coled. The mistake was fighting Russia, America and Britan all at once.

[Lexington_Steele]

#1 Biggest mistake of WWII was the Allied fire bombing of Dresden.

[WritheNC]

I think one of Hitlers biggest mistakes was restricting the use of Germany's panzer tank divisions to his order. This was bad, because when the allies invaded Normandy, Hitler was asleep, which meant that the panzer tanks didn't get to the beaches while the allies were invading. Also Hitler should have listened to Erwin Rommell when Erwin told Hitler to stop the war and make peace with the United States and Great Britain, and keep what the Germans had already. Instead Hitler decided he wanted the whole world, and kept the war up.

Yup. If the Panzer divisions were allowed to act without authorization from higher command, they would have pushed the entire Normandy invasion back into the sea.

[worldvengence]

I think one of Hitlers biggest mistakes was restricting the use of Germany's panzer tank divisions to his order. This was bad, because when the allies invaded Normandy, Hitler was asleep, which meant that the panzer tanks didn't get to the beaches while the allies were invading. Also Hitler should have listened to Erwin Rommell when Erwin told Hitler to stop the war and make peace with the United States and Great Britain, and keep what the Germans had already. Instead Hitler decided he wanted the whole world, and kept the war up.

But by the time that that was suggested, the british already had spies with knolege of the camps...that would be unexusable, too much public outcry, they couldnt have made peice, the panzer thing is true tho

oh, and the biggest mistake of WW2 was the invasion of north africa, it just gave the allies ideas on where to hit the italians

[AztecWarrior]

Italy invaded North Africa because they were bored. Seriously. Mussolini had nothing to his name, while Hitler had conquered nearly all of Europe. He should have helped along with the Eastern front instead.

[Manitou]

Hitler's inattention to newer technologies. He was infatuated with the tank, when, in my opinion, he should have been spending more money on new technologies. By that I mean the jet engine, atomic research, etc. Now this technically ties in with the invasion of Russia, but I still think he may have been able to extend or change the course of the war with technology.

[martyr]

1. this thread RULES.

2. the nuclear programs.
if adolf & co had been nicer people they woulda kept their physicists, and the manhattan project would never have happened without all those german scientists.

[TheN00b]

Bah, Hitler fucked himself royally when he attacked Russia. Period. I mean, for God's sake, man, read history!!! Look at Napoleon: One of the greatest commanders ever , and the Russains fucked him so hard he lost his fucking manhood!!! Jesus...

[I Hate Pants]

Originally Posted by Manitou

Hitler's inattention to newer technologies. He was infatuated with the tank, when, in my opinion, he should have been spending more money on new technologies. By that I mean the jet engine, atomic research, etc. Now this technically ties in with the invasion of Russia, but I still think he may have been able to extend or change the course of the war with technology.

Errrr... well.... Germany was the only one using long range ballistic missiles, and they did have the only functional fighter jets in the war. No other country had fighter jets or V1 rockets.

Not to mention. Once the Allies had invaded Berlin ,they found numerous documents on Nuclear Weapons. Also it was Einstien who notifyed the Allies that Hitler was making a devastating weapon. Hence the Americans created the nuclear bomb. Or something like that. Not completely sure.

[BUGGER]

Jappan and Pearl Harbor. Well at the time to attack us would be best done at Hawaii, but right after that, they should have moved to the west coast if they planned to get us scared.... Thankgod they were really stupid and we had nukes.

[1024]

worst part of WW2?

no rock music.