DBWI stop the Nazis

Granted, the thousand year reich has not reached its century mark yet, but with "Nazi" Germany the strongest power in the world, it is still going strong. What is the consensus on the most likely PODs to prevent this?
 
Have Lord Halifax not become British Prime Minister? That and the catastrophe at Dunkirk were the reasons Britain sued for peace on a largely white peace. However, that arguably laid the groundwork for the Silent War between the American-led Oceanic Pact and the German-led New Order which lasts to this day.
 
Its a sad, sad truth that there are so many different answers to this, because the Nazi victory and all the horrors it entailed was so unlikely. There were myriad opportunities for France, Britain and the Soviets to crush Germany at every turn, and yet by poor luck and unfortunate happenstance none of those opportunities came to pass. I'd say the German invasion of Britain was where it truly went wrong. By all measures, that should have gone disastrously wrong or just not happened at all. Of course, the Germans don't reveal their secrets but even across the Atlantic in the civilised world we know that what happened to the Royal Navy in September 1940 was not the result of any normal engagement, and many listen to eyewitness accounts of "great unearthly beasts in the sky" that tore Britain's pride and joy into the heavens and allowed the Wehrmacht to leisurely sail into Dover. Sea-lion was the most unlucky of lucky flukes since it destroyed the last bastion of democracy in Europe and made it impossible to force the Germans into a 2-front war when fighting the USSR, while also giving them access to all the British Empire's resources after the Waterloo Station Armistice of 1941. Stop Sea-Lion, and Germany cannot stay at the top, since they will have to actively contend with a fully mobilised America and Britain to the West, and the Soviets to the East. Hopefully they'd be swept into the history books by 1960.
 
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There's a few ways.

The simplest is to have Nazi Germany fall before the war starts. Maybe one of the assassination attempts on Hitler gets lucky, maybe Hitler dies from whatever malady. Without Hitler the Germans lose so much and probably don't repeat their winning ways.

Various revisionist Free French intellectuals have advanced the idea of France holding back Germany in 1940. I think this one is pretty unlikely - 1940 wasn't 1914 and France had deep, systematic flaws as well as cultural wounds from WW1. Stranger things have happened in history so I suppose it's possible, but I wouldn't put it forth in any serious history without a lot of other changes before it. If France can somehow check Germany in Belgium, then perhaps enough time can pass for the Germans to be checked or even overthrown. I sincerely doubt the French can take the war to German soil, but if the Soviets decide to take a swing at them, the Germans may well collapse before the weaknesses of both France and the Soviet Union lead to their defeat.

Better British preparation for a land battle in the UK might do it as well. Even with the miraculous victory of Sealion, they still had to take and pacify the British Isles. That's not an easy task, and if the Brits hadn't fumbled and panicked, the Germans may well have been pushed back to the sea. This feels like the biggest and most plausible way for the Germans to be stopped. It doesn't get them out of France and the Soviets are still screwed, but the UK stays free and may one day liberate the continent. Really, British mishaps in the war paved the way to Germany winning. Take those away and it's a whole new war.

The last opportunity is for the Soviets to somehow stop the Germans, but uuuuh how? They collapsed in the greatest military catastrophe of the 20th century. The entire structure was rotted, a simple poke cause the Soviet Union to collapse. The only thing that slowed the German advance in the Soviet Union down was logistics, the Red Army never seriously competed with the Germans. The studies of the Red Army in the aftermath and beyond have been universally negative towards both the Red Army of 1941, the Soviet structure and Stalin himself. It would take massive changes to make the Red Army capable of stopping the Germans. It was so bad that the Japanese were able to claim huge swaths of Siberia simply because the Soviets were so maimed by 1942, the same Japanese with a tiny fraction of the Soviet Union's economy and production.

German victory in the war comes down to the Germans being ready, innovative and hungry, while their enemies were a unique blend of weak, inept and unlucky. It was a perfect storm brewing, but one that's hard to stop without stopping Hitler before the war. It was a tragedy, no two ways about it. Sometimes the bad guys win, something proven by the Nazi victory.
 
Have the British avoid the disasters of Calabria and Mers-el-Kebir. Either defeat alone would have been okay, it was the combination of major warships lost and damaged in both battles that hurt.

Seelowe, so much to say, and so much has been said. I don't buy the alien intervention theories. Please, folks, get a grip on reality. I know, I'll face the fury of the ASB believers here. One factor in the improbable victory was that the Germans and Italians had invested a great deal in aerial anti-ship warfare. The presence of Japanese naval aviator advisors also helped.

The American intervention came too late. FDR wanted the fleet to cross the Atlantic earlier. The USN and USMC prepared to sail, some ships did sortie, but FDR didn't give the order till weeks later. We still don't know - was it domestic opposition, the British government refusing the help, concern over the outcome, some combination of those reasons? Of course, the US contribution on land and in the air would have been slight. But the extra naval strength could have tipped the balance. Part of the intervention was also to transport Commonwealth soldiers from Canada and the Carribbean to Britain aboard US-flagged ships.
 
Have the British avoid the disasters of Calabria and Mers-el-Kebir. Either defeat alone would have been okay, it was the combination of major warships lost and damaged in both battles that hurt.

Seelowe, so much to say, and so much has been said. I don't buy the alien intervention theories. Please, folks, get a grip on reality. I know, I'll face the fury of the ASB believers here. One factor in the improbable victory was that the Germans and Italians had invested a great deal in aerial anti-ship warfare. The presence of Japanese naval aviator advisors also helped.

The American intervention came too late. FDR wanted the fleet to cross the Atlantic earlier. The USN and USMC prepared to sail, some ships did sortie, but FDR didn't give the order till weeks later. We still don't know - was it domestic opposition, the British government refusing the help, concern over the outcome, some combination of those reasons? Of course, the US contribution on land and in the air would have been slight. But the extra naval strength could have tipped the balance. Part of the intervention was also to transport Commonwealth soldiers from Canada and the Carribbean to Britain aboard US-flagged ships.

I'm personally a subscriber to the theory that the Nazis were able to convince enough of the American industrial, military, and Southern leadership with connections to the Democratic Party structure and state level levers of power (and thus political machines) via their sympathizers in exchange for their willingness to concede the Pacific to "Anglo-American" policing: similar to how they kept their "Frankish" and "Anglo-Saxon" racial brothers in charge of large chunks of their pre-war Empires as part of their policy of global White domination. The withdrawal of Nazi classification as honorary Aryans in 42' after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and resulting neutrality in the Pacific War was key in establishing the tense-but-tolerable relationship between Germany and America that lead to key military-economic cooperation imitative between the 5 Western Empires who've controlled over 80% of both the global population and landmass ever since.

Now, I can't prove it, since the documents are all classified, but it would make sense given Roosevelt's chances at a third term without Southern support was slim at best. Given how strongly he felt about completing his New Deal programs, cumilating in the third wave which finally brought the nation out of the Tepid Thirties Depression and fully restarted American industry, you'd need a Fake-DR (OOC: similar to the phrase not-zi) to turn down the deal even if he could win an unpresidented third term in the face of a Republican challenger stealing the Solid South out from under him and a highly vocal and voting America Firster movement
 
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