Irony in War - How Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan Enhanced Their Inevitable Defeats

As you know, when I write about War, it is almost always about the countless ironies that emerge from this man-made cataclysm; for example:
As I think about the present economic malaise that our culture is undergoing, my thoughts move back to the Great Depression.
One should be reminded that almost a decade after the Great Depression began, this event continued to persist. In 1938, it was called by detractors "Roosevelt's Depression", as unemployment was still a major issue.
Well, in one day, Imperial Japan solved that problem for us by its attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Gone was the Depression, as America shifted to a war footing, which ultimately insured Japan's defeat.
As for the European conflict; in the fall of 1940, the Luftwaffe attacks on the air fields and radar stations in Southeast England were inflicting such damage that it was thought by many in Parliament that the defeat of England was only weeks away, which could very well have altered the course of history, as we know it today.
In late August of 1940, when England was tottering on the brink, a German bomber accidentally dropped some bombs on a London suburb, which prompted Prime Minister Churchill to order a retaliation by bombing Berlin for the first time.
That bombing of Berlin, which inflicted minor damage, threw Hitler into a rage, whereupon he ordered his air force to cease its attacks on the English air fields and exact revenge upon London, therefore launching what is known as the Blitz.
Night after night, destruction rained down upon London, ultimately killing thousands of civilians.
In the meantime, the Fighter Command, having received respite from the German fighters and bombers, quickly recovered and not long after, exacted terrible damage on Hitler's Luftwaffe, forcing the dictator to postpone his planned invasion of England, as he no longer had air supremacy over that island. And so, because of a temper tantrum, Hitler certified his coming defeat by turning to Russia in 1941 without having vanquished England and insuring his having to fight a two-front war.
Also, one can never ignore the alliance formed by England and America at that point in time, which later gave us Operation Overlord, the invasion of and inevitable liberation of Western Europe.

Irony in War - Another Example

Now that Hollywood has released the movie "Valkyrie" , which depicts the final attempt on the life of Hitler on July 20, 1944, I thought of the dimensional power of meaning that the opponents underwent concerning the outcome of history's greatest war.
Rather recently released information tells us that Eisenhower, then Montgomery, had gotten to know the exact location of Hitler in his so - called "Wolf's Lair" in East Prussia in 1944.
The brother of John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower's Secretary of State, Allen Dulles, was Director of Central Intelligence, and was in Switzerland compiling intelligence about the location and daily scheduling of meetings that Hitler held with his generals in this place.
Evidently Dulles had refined the intelligence information enough to convey this data to Eisenhower. It appears, therefore, that Eisenhower considered it a distinct possibility that Hitler could be assassinated, and Montgomery concurred.
Therein lies a great and defining irony:
Eisenhower decided NOT to attempt to kill Hitler, as he considered Hitler to be more valuable alive then dead, as (rightly so) he thought that Hitler's radicalism would drag the German nation down in flames with him more efficiently.
On the other hand, the high-ranking Germans who concocted the plot to kill Hitler in July of 1944 thought it imperative that Hitler be killed in order to save the German nation from the utter destruction it was sure to undergo as long as Hitler was alive.
So the Great Irony was that the Allies wanted Hitler to remain alive, and the German patriots
wanted Hitler dead, and for the very same reason.
Another example of the results of the human condition, and what can be formed from it.