Ah Bobert the truest, and most prophetic, words spoken during the course of the Second World War were spoken by Sir Winston Churchill in the summer of 1940:

"Hitler knows he must defeat us on this island or lose the war"

Fact was Bobert he didn't manage to defeat Britain, fact was Bobert he did lose the war. The Axis powers lost the war because of an allied effort, they were not defeated by any one nation, although Holywood and recent American TV Series might seem to suggest so. To do so is wrong, although IMO if any country has any right to claim that they defeated Nazi Germany it would be the USSR.