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I think you're underestimating the severity of the German reaction to having a city burned in a single night even by 1,000 bombers...

Assertions should be backed up with facts. More fuel doesn't equal enough fuel. Germany had 2 million tons in reserve in December 1940...

On a related note, after digging through a few books on the decision making process for Barbarossa I think it's actually questionable...

I think the core problem with a Mediterranean strategy, which Axis planners recognized IOTL, is that while it improves Germany's...

Germany would have fuel shortages even without a war with the USSR. I’d suggest reading the many numbers cited on fuel in this thread -...

On the topic of nuclear weapons specifically, I think you're underestimating the severity of the German reaction to having a city burned...

A good point, which I think does help Germany improve aircraft production by 1942-1943 compared to OTL. However, here we run into the...

No number are being put on the table to back up that disagreement. Carl Krauch, Goering's Plenipotentiary for Chemical Issues, estimated...

I don't think we're in disagreement, then! Germany will be better off by 1944, but it won't have enough fuel or productive capacity to...

You can see my other posts on the fuel situation - while the Germans will be better off than OTL, because invading the USSR was a...

Even without Barbarossa and substantial cutbacks to military operations, Germany's oil industry planners expected its fuel reserves - as...

I’d suggest looking at the other posts on fuel in this thread. The Germans estimated that, even with no major military operations in...

I don’t think Roosevelt wanting to oppose “Team Eurasian Conquest and Genocide” is imperialist. Especially when the Nazis were pretty...

German pilots were getting half the training time of US/British pilots by 1943-1944 because of fuel shortages, just an hour a week in...

The US and UK were actively planning for a joint war against Germany as early as January 1941 with staff conferences. The “US will...