I think Heathrow Harry (#19) has the right of it.
There was no "silver bullet". The Third Reich collapsed under the combined weight of all the force which the Allies had brought to bear over the years.
As I've said somewhere: "if our generation did nothing else, it put that monster down under the crossroads with a stake through its heart".
There was nothing special about us, we were just the ones on duty when the job came up. You, our grandchildren, would do just as well if something like it came along again (and yet might)......God forbid !
Danny.
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