Feaseable Military Strategies for Nazi Germany to wim WW2

No crazy shit, like a Soviet-Nazi union or anything like that.
Must comply with Hitler's beliefs
Must be possible
Should involve a very quick surrender of France
 
Get really lucky and have the WAllies and Soviets get really unlucky for a very long time.

So in other words, no, there isn't a strategy I can think of that meets your criteria which doesn't require ASB levels of luck in both directions.
 
No crazy shit, like a Soviet-Nazi union or anything like that.
Must comply with Hitler's beliefs
Must be possible
Should involve a very quick surrender of France

What if the Germans acted decisively to prevent the evacuation at Dunkirk? And then the Luftwaffe concentrated its attacks on British shipping instead of cities?
Btw was a nazi-Soviet alliance really crazy? They concluded a nonaggression pact in '39, divided Poland and traded. Late in 1940 the nazis sought to get the Soviets to join the Axis. Naturally, given Adolf's beliefs about lebensraum an alliance may not have been lasting, but it may have been possible. While it lasted it might've knocked Britain out of the war before the US entered it.
 
Don't start a war, period! Once the first shot falls, there's no stopping your own generals and you're destined to win yourself to death.
 
I tried in “The Kriegsmarine implements a first strike doctrine”. Not a bad result, but required a log of things to come together.
 
Put off attack on Stalin until UK is beaten
LOTS of effort on U boats

Also put off the mass murder programme - use for real use of work
 
No crazy shit, like a Soviet-Nazi union or anything like that.
Must comply with Hitler's beliefs
Must be possible
Should involve a very quick surrender of France

Ok, I'll bite. It's probably very ASB, but whatever.

Instead of Molotov-Ribbentrop, you have a situation where Russia is embroiled in a brutal Civil War over the purges. Say someone kills Stalin and kills some of the successors. Now Poland's exclusively Germany's dinner and the Baltics and Ukraine are in revolt as well.

Sickle Cut happens as IOTL - it itself is almost an ASB masterstroke. Italy stays out, deciding to wait and see what happens next (this keeps the Mediterranean out of the picture), mostly deciding to get rich building armaments for both sides. The British evacuation is something of a failure, with only about 40-50K troops being evacuated and the rest becoming POWs. Hitler "graciously" offers extremely generous terms to the British that more or less produce a cold war.

While Russia's going to pieces, Germany's a little smarter about how it approaches the Belarusians and Ukrainians, essentially playing Slav off Slav, with Jews, Roma, Poles, Russians, and the rest of the OTL Holocaust victims drawing the short end of the stick and Belarussians, Ukrainians and the Baltic 3 being fully Aryanized. Lest that be seen as ASB, they were perfectly happy to make Croatians and Arabs favored groups.
 
Any response to this would likely need the Nazis to not be Nazis, but in that case, you probably don't get anything resembling WW2 to begin with. Ultimately, the best thing Germany could have done was not have gone to war in the first place, or barring that, lost to the WAllies as quickly as possible.
 
The development of a real Maritime Patrol aircraft during the late 1930s combined with Hitler not shifting the U-Boats from the Atlantic to defend Norway against a suspected invasion. Better yet no plan Z using the resources to build more U-Boats.
Convencing the British can go along with that in the London Naval treaties shouldn't be hard seeing as how the Royal Navy considered submarines obsolete because they had developed Sonar.
Replace the BF 109 with a dedicated air superiority fighter in 1940. The BF 109's range and ammunition load were a serious liability during the Battle of Britain.
The Stuka also needed a replacement badly.
The development of a heavy bomber could have been done on conjunction with a Maritime Patrol aircraft.
That could have forced Britain out of the war, leaving the Soviet Union alone against Germany in 1941. But that's another matter altogether.
 
What if the Germans acted decisively to prevent the evacuation at Dunkirk? And then the Luftwaffe concentrated its attacks on British shipping instead of cities?
Btw was a nazi-Soviet alliance really crazy? They concluded a nonaggression pact in '39, divided Poland and traded. Late in 1940 the nazis sought to get the Soviets to join the Axis. Naturally, given Adolf's beliefs about lebensraum an alliance may not have been lasting, but it may have been possible. While it lasted it might've knocked Britain out of the war before the US entered it.
Personally considering Hitler’s hatred of communism, an Nazi-Soviet Union is near impossible unless a fascist uprising occurs in the US. I personally think Hitler’s biggest mistake was the opening up of two fronts and bombing UK’s RAF bases rather than it’s cities.
 
Personally considering Hitler’s hatred of communism, an Nazi-Soviet Union is near impossible unless a fascist uprising occurs in the US. I personally think Hitler’s biggest mistake was the opening up of two fronts and bombing UK’s RAF bases rather than it’s cities.
Sorry, meant USSR instead of US though that would be an great way for an Axis alliance
 
Don't ally with Japan, don't sink American shipping, when Pearl harbor happens, declare war on Japan in solidarity of this cowardly Asiatic attack and offer the US the assistance of the Kriegsmarine and 50,000 soldiers, offer Britain a white peace with the governments of Belgium and the Netherlands reinstated. Sign a peace treaty with Petain, France declares war on Japan and the French fleet and army will go to fight the Japanese once England makes peace. This might not get Britain to make peace but it will keep the US out of the war and I suspect the US might pressure Britain to take the deal, freedom for Western Europe and help against Japan. Britain is now in this war to help the Poles and some commies, but either way with the US out the Germans have a much better chance of beating the USSR as the USSR will have much less lend lease equipment and food supplies. This is a little ASB ish I know but only a little the Germans were backing China in the early 30s if they stick with that and sour on Japan things are pretty close to this. As for the other stuff if Goering has a little more influence it's possible he was terrified of the US IOTL so if he can convince Hitler that this is to be avoided at all costs a meaningless declaration of war and withdrawing from two minor countries is hardly a heavy price.

To give the start of a timeline lets say Hitler tries to broker an anti communist pact with the Chinese and Japanese, the Japanese end up invading China instead Hitler feels the Japanese are not to be trusted and Germany starts backing China more heavily then IOTL. Other events still unfold but Goering presses Hitler to not use unrestricted submarine warfare so as not to wake the US giant. Tensions still rise as Germany fights Britain but when the US embargoes Japan Hitler praises the move as the Germans are angry with Japan and hope their war can be brought to a close so as to use the Chinese hordes against the Soviet Union. (This last is a flight of fancy but seems like something the Nazis would think) Pearl harbor still happens as per our timeline and Goering persuades Hitler to declare war against Japan. This is an entirely cynical move Germany can't hurt Japan nor can Japan hurt Germany, but with the war going harder then expected in the Soviet Union this could reduce Germany to one front, they propose a "United front" of Holland, France, England and Germany to fight the Japanese. I don't know if Churchill will buy it but the US public should and it should make it near impossible for the US to declare war and with constant peace offers Churchill will be pressured to give in sooner or later.
 
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.... Hitler not shifting the U-Boats from the Atlantic to defend Norway against a suspected invasion.

Early in '42? That would've added to the tonnage sunk off the US coast but I don't think it would've been decisive.

Better yet no plan Z using the resources to build more U-Boats.
Convencing the British can go along with that in the London Naval treaties shouldn't be hard seeing as how the Royal Navy considered submarines obsolete because they had developed Sonar.

That's contrary to what I've heard around here. People have said that emphasizing U-boat construction in the '30s would've indicated to Britain the reich was planing a war against it, thereby hardening the British position and increasing its military outlays. I suggested the reich build u-boats ostensibly for sale to friendly states but even that would've been risky.
 
Stalin deciding to preempt Germany, which Zhukov was BEGGING him to do in April and May of 1941.

The attack would have been frontloaded, and the Germans would have counterattacked and wrecked it. There wouldn't have been much between them and Moscow.
 
Stalin deciding to preempt Germany, which Zhukov was BEGGING him to do in April and May of 1941.

The attack would have been frontloaded, and the Germans would have counterattacked and wrecked it. There wouldn't have been much between them and Moscow.

Would they really?

Back to OP: The nazis decide to allow Russians to fight on their side, as a "crusade against Communism" - even if only with the plan to backstab them as soon as they defeated Communism.
 
No crazy shit, like a Soviet-Nazi union or anything like that.
Must comply with Hitler's beliefs
Must be possible
Should involve a very quick surrender of France
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It's not par say impossible

Have Hitler continue with his earlier dogma that two front war is unwinnable, therefore the UK must be brought to the table.

More sober assessment that Sealion is not worthwhile (the pre conditions somehow being achieved would force the UK to sue for peace anyway)

So have Hitler accept Raeder and Goring's advice after the fall of France, which is Med strategy and demobilizing 30 divisions to conduct economic warfare against the British. Luftwaffe attacks are limited to ports at dawn and dusk; no daylight penetration raids

Deploy larger motorized formations earlier to africa, while the British are numerically weak and focused on home defense; and yield (temporarily of course) to Stalin's demands on Turkey, and jointly attack the Turks with the Russians; so the British middle eastern command can be attacked from the rear in Syria and Iraq

If the British can be brought to the table war against Russia looks entirely different just because of German airpower capability alone
 
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