Feaseable Military Strategies for Nazi Germany to wim WW2

Wait another 10-15 years until Germany has a more advanced nuclear program and France and Britain are bogged down in a colonial counter-insurgency or otherwise distracted by the Empire unraveling. Send some "advisors" and discount-rate German weapons to an ideologically sympathetic Iran, Iraq, or Saudi Arabia to secure a reliable oil supply. Make sure Mussolini knows his place as second fiddle in the Axis and avoid pointless distractions like the wars in Greece or Yugoslavia.

Do whatever you can to keep America out of the war, a public diplomatic break/denunciation of Japan and symbolic support for the Chinese wouldn't affect events in Europe all that much.
 
Germany need to stop acting like a carton bad guy from central casting.
The art of Fighting without fighting.
Germany withdraws for the occupied countries in the west in turn for a trade deal on very favorable terms to them. Now more offense action against the British.
Hard to sell a war to the British and American public when they are not under attack.
Mean while Germany can work on rebuild the army and air force.
No more alliance with Japan.
Ties with china renewed.
Germany declares war on Japan after pearl harbor and offers America help( info on torpedoes that do not work German torpedoes had similar problems to American ones)
any Intel they have on Japan.
No invasion of Soviet Union let Stalin attack Germany and German now has short logistic and can counter attack.
All this could be done ,but I cannot see the National Socialists doing it.
 
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Tucknak

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I dont know that much about the Second World War but from what I understand the US was very important. So prevent a war with the US. What if after the fall of France the Germans return to the Phony war in the West? No attacks against Great Britain, no attempt of invasion, perhaps even no war at sea? Could this lead GB to accept a compromise? Could this lead to lesser support from the US and therefore less dragging in into the war?
 
IMHO;

1. Field a cheap, reliable MBT. 76.2 mm gun. Don’t German it up (DGIU). No overlapping wheels. 3 man turret and sloped armor.

2. Get rid of Me-109 ASAP. 10% were lost in accidents due to narrow undercarriage. 12.7-14 ish mm guns. 20 mm if can work. 3 per side, 2 per if 20 mm. Cheap, reliable. DGIU. Drop tanks. Look at the Davis wing for longer range.

3. Rotate pilots out to train newbies.

4. A crap ton more pilots.

5. Cheap, reliable 4 engine bomber and LR Patrol plane. DGIU.

6. Have a cheap, reliable chassis for StuG III type and SP arty. DGIU.

7. Halftrack like the US. Banded track.

8. More trucks.

9. More arty of all types.

10. Some type of early RPG or better man portable AT.

11. Electronics of all types. Radar, prox fuse, radar detector, cavity magnetron.

12. Integrated Day and night air defense system.

13. Realize what you have in the jet engine.

Ramp up economy to true wartime one. 24/6. Women in workplace. Women pilots. Daycare at work.

Get rid of all the different fiefdoms. Consolidate to a few headed by the right people.

Shoot Goring.

Real assembly line manufacturing. Find the right type of each weapon and make the crap out of it. 40s version of Lean manufacturing.

Find some way to not fight a multi front war.

Like the above, see if you can make peace with GB and never fight the US.

Realize that the USSR will probably attack you one day. Stay allied as long as possible.

Don’t make the 3rd big blunder (Behind never get involved in a land war in Asia and going against a Sicilian when death is on the line) by trying to actually invade the USSR. Ask Napoleon how that works out.

Reliable oil supply.

Find some way to not be one of the most evil, twisted regimes in history and don’t systematically murder millions of people.

Like the War Games post. Don’t fight in the first place.
 
people are awfully quick about throwing around the word "impossible" in regards to a war which even in OTL involved an upjumped middle-power ruling europe for half a decade and taking most of the world to beat down. keep the insane luck coming,avoid several blunders and have the allies,mostly trhe soviets,do reasonably worse and you could very well end up with a germany controlling the continent,while the wallies control the rest of the world,and both being incapable of really engaging each other,which is as close as you are gonna get to an german victory.
 
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.

not sure how they would have begun the war without Soviet trade? they probably could have struck a better deal had it been pursued earlier.
 
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