By which point the allies would have found a way to combat it in some way
Contary to belief sometimes, when you change one sides theories or strategy, we can also assume that the other would adapt also. At most, any changes in the strategy of the Luftwaffe in 1945 would merely result in short delays until ways were found round this. The Allied high command were not entirely stupid. In many ways though we have a discrepancy here, we have claims that the allied bomber offensive could have been halted or delayed a lot. But by often the same people we are told the allied bomber offensive was having virtually no affect on the war and/or German production anyway. Just a thought, after this miraculous defeat of the allied air forces, then what?
D-day is an interesting one, evidence from Lehr armoured division suggests strongly that moving against the beaches during the day was unwise to say the least. That presumably was part of the thinking of the likes of Runstedt when they suggested a mass counter-attack after the allies were established. Further we have to give the allies some credit in this issue, their camoflaging of the attacks played a vital role in preventing the deployment of Panzers. It was not just Hitler who opposed the deployment after all, some prominent Wermacht generals were against it too, a fact that is often forgotten in favour of the usual "Hitler was asleep" we see in movies.
Atom bomb, you answered your own point for me. They did, they might have.
Oh and on the Hitler was asleep theory, I read today something about the battles in africa during October 1942. After Montgomery had finally decimated Rommel's forces through attrition, Rommel sent an urgent despatch to Hitler asking to retreat to Fuka Pass to reform. Unfortunately the signal arrived late in the day in the Fuhrer's headquarters, after Hitler was asleep. Fussmann, the officer to recieve the despatch decided not to wake Hitler.
Unfortunately, the night before Hitler had sent an order to Rommel ordering him to stand and fight where he was. Delays in this recieving this at Rommel's HQ meant that the message arrived the next morning,
after he had sent the above order. Rommel, believing it was a reply to his request had no choice but to obey. When the problem was discovered, Hitler was livid as (for a change) he agreed with Rommel's wish to withdraw. By then though it was too late, and the Afrika Korps was mauled further. Fussmann was promptly court-martialled, reduced in rank to private and posted to a labour battalion for his act.
History books though more often than not record the event as Hitler issuing yet another "fight and die where you stand" order.
