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The notion that Hitler had Jewish relatives way back was largely discounted over the years, as I recall.  I don't think there is support for it.

As for Monty, the British people had suffered defeat and bad news almost continuously since 1939.  They needed a hero, and Monty was annointed.  He was sacrosanct and he knew it.  There is an old saying that the British lose every battle except the last one, which is hyperbole with a grain of truth in it.

The loss of Singapore in 1942 was a huge hit for British morale along with the BB and BC sent to support it in December 1941.  Only Churchill could have held them together.

The loss of Singapore in 1942 was a huge hit for British morale along with the BB and BC sent to support it in December 1941.  Only Churchill could have held them together.

Churchill was indeed a great statesman but fired much better generals than that little lemur.Singapore was a huge hit.Percival surrender 81,000 men to 34,000 Japanese that were basically out of ammo.But at the time he couldn't know it.The IJF were poised to move on Australia it self until the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway.Naval Intelligence had broke JN 25 - IJN code.The Dunkirk retreat left Britain with nothing but slingshots practically equipmant wise.Fortunately for the Crown the emerging wold power could keep them supplied.Lugging men,material,food,fuel,planes,provisions 4,255 miles to western England

Hitler's views were somewhat clearly spelled out in his book (which I once tried to read, it's not readable).  Anyone who was not "Aryan" was in trouble with Hitler.  It's interesting that he was allied with the Japanese, but I suppose they were "over there" and welcome to it. 

The Nazi's declared the Japanese to be "honorary aryans" as their way to square this circle.  It should also be noted that the Japanese were just as racist as the Nazi's so this issue cut both ways. 

When Japan humiliated the Brits in Singapore the German Foreign Minister wanted to make a big propaganda deal out of it but Hitler wouldn't allow it.  For Hitler it was an embarrassment that the obviously non-aryan Japanese had dispatched the obviously aryan Brits. 

Had Goering kept to taking out military installations instead of responding to Bombers Harris's attacks on population centers who knows what would have happened.That reprieve gave the RAF time to refit,resupply and reinforce.Hitler turning the Heer East was a biggie for the British.The German Hierarchy wasn't as bright as the guys in the field,IMO

The Brits were getting bombed, fairly heavily.  They were fighting in North Africa of course, and in the Far East (Burma in 1942) and the Med (naval).  They also had to deal with submarines and the occasional foray by German naval combatants and the threat from the Tirpitz (later).

They didn't have much in terms of ground forces to do anything 1939-1941 except hold on.  Our shipment of tanks (Grants) to them in Egypt was huge, they had been destined for our armored divisions and we diverted them to Egypt.  

They tried the Dieppe raid with Canadian troops, but that was 1942 I think.

But in terms of any large scale ground battles in 1940 or 1941, the Brits didn't have them.  

As a general response to the initial question and a specific response to the recent post by @CWSooner about the "decisiveness" of D-Day and Midway, I think that ultimately neither were individually "decisive". 

I'll submit the chart near the top of this link:
http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm

Per the link, the total economic power of each country (as a percentage of the global total) as of 1937 was:
 - 41.7% USA
 - 14.4% Germany
 - 14.0% USSR
 - 10.2% UK
 - 4.2% France
 - 3.5% Japan
 - 2.5% Italy
 - 9.5% all other countries in the world combined

Pre-nuclear modern industrial warfare is, IMHO, generally a simple equation:
stuff you have + stuff you can make - stuff your enemy can destroy <=> stuff they have + stuff they can make - stuff of theirs that you can destroy

Meaning that if you can make 41.7% of the world's stuff you are awfully tough to beat.  Note also that the US/UK total is just over 50% meaning that even a global alliance of EVERYONE against the US/UK would be unlikely to win. 

I'll take Midway first (it was only mentioned in passing, but it is a major interest of mine):
We are getting way off topic here but I want to make this point first:  Most everyone with even a passing interest in WWII history is aware that Japanese Admiral Yamamoto was opposed to attacking the US and is credited with the quote about "awakening a sleeping giant" after Pearl Harbor (even though he probably didn't say it).  What a lot of people do NOT know is that Yamamoto was far from alone.  Nearly the entire Japanese naval high command was opposed to war with the US. 

The Japanese Admirals were not idiots.  They were smart enough to know that they simply couldn't sink ships as fast as American shipyards could launch them.  In 1940 Congress passed and FDR signed what is known as The Two-Ocean Navy Act.  The act authorized construction of:
 - 18 Aircraft carriers
 - 2 Iowa Class Battleships
 - 5 Montana Class Battleships
 - 6 Alaska Class cruisers (these were really Battlecruisers or even arguably small battleships)
 - 27 Cruisers
 - 115 Destroyers
 - 43 submarines
 - 15k aircraft
 - and a lot more

In short, the Two Ocean Navy Act authorized the construction of a collection of ships that alone would have been the most powerful navy in the world and arguably more powerful than all other navies (including the UK) combined.  This act was not secret.  It was a publicly debated and approved piece of US Congressional legislation.  The Japanese were aware of it and they KNEW that they couldn't possibly hope to face down this massive armada once it was constructed. 

Even ignoring the Brits, the French, the Dutch, the Chinese, the Australians, and all the other US allies in the Pacific, Japanese production was less than 10% of US production. 

That is why I believe that neither Midway nor any other Pacific Battle can be viewed as a "turning point".  There simply never was any plausible chance that the Japanese could win militarily.  Their only hope was to be part of a broader winning side. 

That brings us back to D-Day and the German war situation in general:
The Germans and the Soviets had roughly equivalent productive capacity.  If you add some of the areas captured by the Germans to their tally (France, Czechoslovakia, etc) then Germany held a slight productive advantage over the USSR.  This, however, was not enough to give the Nazi's an advantage over the USSR and UK combined. 

As a practical matter, if there had been some way to keep the US neutral (actually neutral, not the undeclared enemy that we actually were in 1940 and 1941) then Germany may have been able to hold off a UK/USSR alliance indefinitely due to other advantages like interior lines.  However, once the US entered the war with nearly half of global economic capacity it was not a question of if but rather when the Nazi's would lose. 

The US, UK, and USSR combined controlled around two-thirds of the total productive capacity in the World.  Even if everyone else in the world had rallied to the Nazi side they still would have been facing a 2:1 production disadvantage.  Superior strategy can make up for some deficiencies but not THAT big. 

Problem was MB that the USA's military was 17th in the World right behind Portugal at the beginning of the War *https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2014/jun/13/ken-paxton/us-army-was-smaller-army-portugal-world-war-ii/*Industry had to be completely retooled for production.That was a mad scramble.Yamamoto was phrophetic he said for the 1st 6 months of the war Japan would run all over the Pacific.He was hoping for quick US capitulation or neutrality.He guessed wrong there,but was educated in the USA so was aware of the countries production capabilities and knew Japan would have a problem if hostilities were protracted

Another thing in 1941-'42-'43 it certainly wasn't given that what we were producing would land in our Allies laps.Given the U-Boat Wofpacks ferocious appetite