This thread's inspired bya GENERALS AT WAR doco I saw last wk on the Battle of the Bulge- so WI Hitler hadn't been so obsessed with attempting to take Bastogne, & instead reinforced Peiper's KAMFGRUPPE to secure the bridge at Trois-Points ?
Even with a complete and decisive German victory during the battle of the Bulge, all this does is make the war last a bit longer. Perhaps even long enough to warrant a nuclear bomb on Germany.