ABSTRACT
Some possibilities get so ripe and ready they become over-caused or overdetermined. Hitler started World War II looking like a winner. Defeating France and kicking the British off the Continent at Dunkirk seemed like the beginning of the end for his opponents. But when the Brits bounced back, stopping the German air force in the Blitz of summer 1940 (Korda 2009), just weeks after the Dunkirk debacle, the momentum was broken and the handwriting was on the wall. “Hitler will lose,” it said. And by spring of 1945 there were so many forces coming at the Germans they could have been defeated ten times over. Their loss was drastically overdetermined.
