Luckily he did survive as long as he did. The war would most likely have had a very different result had someone competent been in charge of German military strategy.
The atrocities by the Wagner Group, and general incompetence of the remaining Russian leadership, do have an eerie familarity when viewed against the crimes of the SS troops and general military blunders committed by Hitler (attacking his Russian ally arguably being the biggest of these). Let's hope Putin goes the way of his mentor.