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That quote "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" makes me wonder what other high ranking Axis commanders recognised early in WW2 that they were going to lose. Is any one aware of evidence that others did indeed see that they were going to lose - say a German commander prior to 1941, Japanese prior to 1943 or Italian prior to 1941