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[–]TheJamesRocket[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

However the war was lost after Stalingrad but Hitler refused to come to an honorable peace with the USSR, clinging to the delusion that he could ally with Britain and America against Soviet Communism.

Its true. Stalin put out peace feelers, but Hitler rejected them. It was a bizarre decision. A rational observer could clearly see that he had failed in his bid to subdue the Soviet Union, and that continued fighting would only see the war turn against Germany.

Of the 50 million or so Europeans who died in WW2, nearly 40 million or more died after 1942.

Total European deaths from WW2 were around 42 to 44 million. The Soviet Union lost 25 million people. Germany lost 7 million. Poland lost 6 million. The bulk of the casualtys thus came from the Eastern front.

And remember, several million Jews died during the war. The Jews were concentrated in Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine. They aren't even white, so they should be subtracted from the European death toll. That brings it down to maybe 40 million or less.

Treskow planted a bomb in Hitler's plane in early 1943. Had that successfully gone off then, Europe's population today might've been a 100 million greater.

Well, the fighting on the Eastern front had already killed maybe 10 million people by that point. If Germany had made peace with the Soviets in early 1943, then that would probably spare the lives of about 20 million people. There would have been alot more Russians and Germans left alive.

Not to mention that the men killed in the fiercest fighting post-stalingrad were healthy men of strong moral character. What was left were the sickly and the cowardly.

You seem to be suggesting that mass deaths from the war contributed to Europes moral decline. But that doesn't hold water. Eastern Europe suffered far more deaths than Western Europe, and yet they retained their traditional values for much longer. Western Europe suffered relatively little during the war, but they were the ones who experienced a moral decline.

And what for? Hitler himself understood that the war was lost post-Stalingrad. Yet, he continued the fight. And the result? Germany lost all the same, all of Eastern Europe cam under Stalin's occupation and Western Europe became an American colony. And Germans suffered a genocide.

Hitler still held out a faint hope for victory even after the tide of the war had turned against him. He seemed to be under the impression that the British and Americans would come to their senses and abandon their Alliance with the Soviets. Hitler knew that they hated the Communistic USSR, and believed that their fear of a Soviet conquest of Europe would bring them around.