Hitler not obsessed with Bastogne during Ardennes campaign 1944

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.

The Allies weren't going to give up after losing one campaign.
 
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.

Not really,as Patton said "Let the bastards drive to Paris then we'll cut them up. There would hardly be any difference in fact the war could be shorter.

Any way Hitler wasnt that obsessed it was military necessity to knock out Bastogne if the plan was to succeed although the plan was so ridiculous it didnt reall matter.
 
The original objective wasn't Bastogne at all, it was Antwerp. When that wasn't going to happen, because the Germans couldn't even get to the Meuse, they tried to salvage something out of the disaster, and decided to at least capture Bastogne. By then, the Screaming Eagles were entrenched in the town, and they were not about to be dislodged. The Germans might as well have not bothered. It was a big difference between taking on a green unit like the 106th Division and an elite, battle tested one like the 101st.
 
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