Throughout the second half of the 20th century, the realities of WW II in Europe have been ignored in history.
Simply put, the war was over in January 1943. Germany and its allies lost nearly 900K troops to death and surrender at Stalingrad. No country that size can take that loss and have any further chance.
It renders D-Day somewhat unimportant and all the Allied troop advances the same. The war was already over, won by the Soviets at the chokepoint for their oil supply.
Over a 10 year period about 18 million men served in the German war machine. And over that 10 year period about 11 million died. 10% of that number was in a couple of weeks period in late 1942 early 1943 at Stalingrad.
It’s just too large a loss for anything after to matter.
Yup, the Germans eventually got chewed up in the USSR, after some significant gains that they were not able to exploit (mainly because Hitler, the corporal with the ego, decided HE was a better general than all of the German Generals and Fieldmarshals put together).
Churchill was once asked why Britain didn’t arrange for Hitler’s assassination, and Churchill quipped: “Why would we want to do that? Hitler is the best general we have!” Or words to that effect.
The German Red Cross reported in 2005 that the records of the military search service WAS list total Wehrmacht losses at 4.3 million men (3.1 million dead and 1.2 million missing) in World War II. Their figures include Austria and conscripted ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe.