[Tax-chick]

Runstedt and Guderian wanted to pull back in the east, too.

It’s a good thing Hitler was so incompetent, or the war might have lasted a lot longer.

[colorado tanker]

Yes. As I recall, there was a high level debate among the British as to whether they should kill Hitler if they ever had a chance and the case for no was his blunders were shortening the war.

It reminds me of a line in Casablanca where Captain Renault is commenting on Rick sending a girl packing who really, really wanted to party with him. To paraphrase:

How extravagant you are, throwing away soldiers like that. Someday they may be scarce.