somehow, bait the ussr into declaring war on poland/being the international badboy
somehow, bait the ussr into declaring war on poland/being the international badboy
Germany talked about post-war France with a BurgundyI've got it - Germany wins WWI leading to the SPD to split into two branches - hawks and doves. The hawks, being fiercely nationalist, are known as the "Nationalist Socialists" and are very nationalist and relatively socialist. Appealing to the veterans of the war, they rise to political dominance during the interwar years. Eventually Germany is dragged into a Second Great War through some European dispute. With sane policy and sane leaders they sucessfully protect the European bloc they've managed to establish following their victory in WWI.
As for Leningrad, Wiking in a thread of his covered how Leningrad could be starved out by January of 1942."By 15 October, 1st Panzer Division was approaching towards Torshok- i.e. moving away from Moscow! The forces dispatched to Kalinin were insufficient to achieve to achieve a decisive victory on their own, but the diversion seriously weakened the main push on Moscow and forced the Third Panzer Army to devote significant resources to a protracted attritional fight around Kalinin. If XLI Panzer Corps had pushed east towards Volokolamsk, the Germans might have been able to prevent Zhukov from establishing a new line east of Moscow."
As for Leningrad, Wiking in a thread of his covered how Leningrad could be starved out by January of 1942.
With this accomplished, the end of the resource and manpower drain that is the Eastern Front would be over in 1942 due to the collapse of the USSR
It's always cute seeing the thinking that led to Army Group Steiner first hand.
They can supply the USSR's oil to Japan if they win, this isn't rocket science. The USSR has the infrastructure to transport goods to Manchuria.There is some Hitler-style thinking there.
Germany doesn't have any oil. What oil it needs in 1939 it imports from the USA, Hungary and Rumania.
It has no way of getting oil to Japan.
This offer will - rightfully - be laughed at.
read Wolves without Teeth https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1599&context=etd about German torpedo crisis, correct their problems would be war changing.
read that torpedo crisis book, it makes the point about limited time for the uboat war to succeed.But the biggest problem and an insurmountable one IMO is geography
Germany is surrounded by enemies (Russia, France, UK and by extension the USA) all of which have far greater Geographical freedom in both the ability to move around the world and make use of its resources.
If it has not won by end of 42 - forget it.
There were two real candidates for a universal truck, Opel Blitz and Ford V3000, both based on earlier US designs.A Truck version of the Volkswagen, that the Heer says 'This. This is the one standard truck you will all build for us. If it is not this truck, the Army will not pay for it'.
Why would Stalin undertake an unilateral invasion of Poland?Hitler could have not invaded Poland, with Stalin's unilateral invasion of Poland and the Baltics freaking the world out and allowing Hitler to rally everyone against him.
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Because he and Hitler agreed to invade it together, but then Hitler doesn't keep his end of the deal and instead condemns Stalin for invading Poland, making Stalin look like the sole aggressor. Remember, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was 100% private and was not released to the general public until 1946, after Germany surrendered and the Nuremberg Trials were ongoing. I doubt that any nation would have given Stalin the benefit of the doubt.
Hitler could have not invaded Poland, with Stalin's unilateral invasion of Poland and the Baltics freaking the world out and allowing Hitler to rally everyone against him. Also, the United States would never have declared war on Germany without an extreme provocation like Pearl Harbor. Before Pearl Harbor, less than 1/5 of the United States supported entering World War 2. After Pearl Harbor, support for entering World War 2 jumped to 70-80%. As long as the Axis Powers tiptoe around the United States NO MATTER WHAT, they can keep them out of the war. And as long as the United States stays out of the actual fighting, Hitler's chances of victory remain pretty good. The technical and strategic issues that the Germans suffered (which were mentioned earlier in this thread) also need to be fixed to assure a German victory in World War 2.
@Resurgam I broke it up into paragraphs. Please read it and let me know what you think of it ASAP.