When did German commanders know that Germany could not win WW2?

During the Nuremberg trials, Head of the German military high command Wilhelm Keitel was asked by the Soviet prosecutor Nikitchenko when exactly he knew the war was lost. "Moscow" he replied.

Above, Muscovite civilians dig trenches outside their city while the ‘invincible’ Wehrmacht blitzed through the USSR. When they did finally reach the city, they were exhausted, wounded and far from home.

Chief of the OKW Wilhelm Keitel, signing the surrender to the Soviets. At Nuremberg, he claimed he had known this was coming a whole 3 years prior

Keitel met a grisly end. He had been indicted for War Crimes, Planning and Initiating a War of Aggression, Crimes against peace and Crimes Against Humanity. He was found guilty on all 4 charges and sentenced to death. “Death - by hanging!” he cried after being given the verdict. “That, at least, I thought I would be spared”. His Prussian military pride was more upset over being executed as a civilian than over being executed. When the day finally did come, a malfunction meant that he would be strangled by the noose for some 20 minutes before dying in total agony. The above photo gives us a glimpse into how gruesome the scene must have been. - Tristan Harvu

In fact, all the Nuremberg convicted were tortured while they died.

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