DBWI Challenge: Make Nazi Germans more successful during WW2

With PoD after 1933 (before that date everything should be just like OTL) make Germans annex Austria in 1938, Poland in 1939, France in 1940 and attack Soviet Union on 1941. Bonus if these wars will include US Army.
 
Secure sources of petroleum and metal ores before the war.
Perhaps convince Italians to drill for oil in Libya.
Next question is whether to build oil refineries in Libya or Italy????
 
With PoD after 1933 (before that date everything should be just like OTL) make Germans annex Austria in 1938, Poland in 1939, France in 1940 and attack Soviet Union on 1941. Bonus if these wars will include US Army.
You want me to give them rockets too?
 
Sure, why not. Wernher von Braun died during battle of Mazurian Lakes when his office was bombed by Soviet aircrafts in 1940. I don't think that successful rockets are possible during World War 2 but if we create Axis-wank this should be possible.

I rather would place PoD on 1938 when French Army entered Rheinland and successfully blockaded all German hopes for reunification with Austria. Then Hitler was assasinated and Goring took his place and started war against Czechoslovakians and Poles on 1940.
 
With that loony Hitler in charge?! Madness. Maybe one of his calmer colleagues could build the necessary military strength in a more covert fashion.
 
Oh, come on, Hendry! The Germans burned themselves out on the way to Prague and Warsaw. You really think rockets will help them do any better?

FFS, they invade FRANCE? And WIN? You're reading too much Ravenhare.
 
You remember when Spanish Civil War erupted and French government actively supported Republicans against Franco supported by Hitler. Nationalist regime tanks were formed by German instructors into Blitzkrieg formations but failed in combat and war ended two yers later. What if Guderian made Spanish tank tactics more efficent and this would be enacted for Wehrmacht?
 
I think if the British had abandoned Combined arms experimentation in the early 30s then they and the French armies might not have been able to blunt then defeat the Heer in 1940

Perhaps the depression in the early 30s is larger/longer and the British Treasury cuts of the funding? To be honest I cannot think of a single logical reason why this would happen!

Then - You could even have a POD where the Germans pick up where the Brits stopped and have them become the champions of Combined arms warfare?

Have the Germans then apply this in Spain (more successfully than the tank charges they did do) - tidy it up a bit and then use it themselves?
 
One idea floated around is a russian german alliance against poland which is simply...not ever going to happen. Seriously hitler was hitler and Stalin was paranoid.
 
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