Removing Hitler

Counterfactual history can be great fun if not taken too seriously and I was enjoying the recent debate on the 1944 ‘July Plot’ ( Should We Be Glad the Plot to Kill Hitler Failed?, January) until Roger Moorhouse suggested that a German surrender would have meant the Red Army marching unopposed into France and then taking on the “puny” US forces. True, US ground forces might be no match for the Red Army but, with overwhelming air superiority and vastly greater industrial capacity, the Americans would have sent the Red Army packing, and Stalin knew it.

Has Moorhouse not considered the havoc American bombers would have wreaked on the Red Army supply chain – one that was, in any case, heavily dependent on American trucks? Ian Kemp, West Yorkshire