Yes it was pretty darn sad Bill the reality was in those dying days the drugged deluded you know who was plucking battalions out of thin air, but before that they grabbed any one old, young who could hold a Panzerfaust or rifle in a last ditch effort.
If Herr H had not been such a ditherer interfering with projects like his revenge weapons the ME-262 this aircraft could have gotten into the skies a year earlier then operation point blank may have had a different outcome; if Herr H waited until Doenitz had the required number of U-boats before they started the stoush then Britainicon may well have been blockaded and starved of materials which the brit's did to Germanyicon with the Grand Fleet in WWI possibly forcing Churchills hand the USAicon may have possibly came in earlier than Dec '41 to aid Britain apart from lend lease.
All the above is pretty speculative but one thing is for certain thank goodness he was a ditherer as was his off-sider Herr Goering consider this; what if Rommel or Gudarian had the control of the land forces and Galland or Nowotny in charge of the Luftwaffe given their battle field tactics developed at the pointy end and not in a bunker underground by a Corporal no less!