| I tend to agree with PershingOfLSU on this even with the bulk of the German army in the east released to assist in the west it simply could not have operated or deployed effectively without air superiority.
Regardless of the fate of the 6th army at Stalingrad the Germans would have continued to suffer casualties to its units throughout 1943-44 in Russia and I have no doubt that any attempt to move large volumes of troops to the west would have been difficult given the state of the western european transport systems and the damage the Russians would have done internally before giving up, this combined with allied air superiority almost from Romainia back to Britain troop redeployment would have been a nightmare.
I think the best the Germans could hope for was to have delayed the allied advance through Europe long enough to reorganise and then stop them I dont think once the allies were established in France they could have driven them out.
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