AHC: Make Germany not go to war with the USSR after 1950.

Seraphiel

Banned
Is it possible to make Nazi Germany not invade the Soviet Union after the surrender of France? Would the death of Hitler work?
 
If Germany doesn't invade USSR, USSR invades Germany. They're going to war no matter what, but getting rid of Hitler does give Germany a better chance of winning at least.
 
If Germany doesn't invade USSR, USSR invades Germany. They're going to war no matter what, but getting rid of Hitler does give Germany a better chance of winning at least.

Note Stalin was unlikely to attack before 1942 at the earliest: he'd be looking for the moment of maximum advantage, and the Soviet military modernization, restructuring of the army, etc. was still under way in OTL when Germany attacked. As long as Hitler didn't go to full mobilization of resources (which he didn't do OTL until 1942, when it became clear the war in the east wasn't going to end quickly) time is on Stalin's side.

Bruce
 
Which pretty much proves my point. Stalin would get stronger over time and the Nazis relatively weaker. They had their best chances earlier and those were unlikely to start with. The longer, the better for the USSR, but it's happening either way.
 
Note Stalin was unlikely to attack before 1942 at the earliest: he'd be looking for the moment of maximum advantage, and the Soviet military modernization, restructuring of the army, etc. was still under way in OTL when Germany attacked. As long as Hitler didn't go to full mobilization of resources (which he didn't do OTL until 1942, when it became clear the war in the east wasn't going to end quickly) time is on Stalin's side.

Bruce

As far as I understand, this is mostly a myth - the Reich did have full war economy going from the start, but they twice changed their priorities, which caused the spike in produciton numbers to be delayed to 1944.

First time was after the fall of France, when priorites changed from land forces to prioritize aircraft, submarines and other assets useful for fighting Britain, and then again at some point during the war in the east (early 1942?) back again to tanks and guns. The "Totaler Krieg" thingey after Stalingrad was mostly propaganda.

Source is Tozee's "The wages of destruction"
 

Cook

Banned
As far as I understand, this is mostly a myth - the Reich did have full war economy going from the start...
It isn’t and they didn’t; in 1940 Germany allocated 40% of steel production to civilian needs, and that excludes steel used in construction and exports. Britain at the same time was collecting people’s steel picket fences for the war effort.
 
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