German Victory in the Battle of Kursk?

Yeah, by '43 they are effectively doomed either way you put it. About the only thing Germany can influence is whether WAllies or Soviets control West Europe.
 
Yep, the Germans were out of good options by mid-1943. Even if a dedicated team of Neo-Nazi's were sent back to 1943 from 2010 AND Hitler listened to them, it is hard to see a good outcome for the Nazi's. It is too late for a serious atomic program, even if the Nazi have blueprints for bombs and nuclear reactors. It is probably too late to bring in jet fighters in quantity before March 1944, when the USA broke the back of the Luftwaffe. If Germany fortifies Normandy heavily, the Allies are likely to just adjust the invasion plans to elsewhere. If the Germans adopt the "optimal" tactics on the Eastern front, they merely delay the Russian advance. And even if i am wrong, and Nazi do stalemate the Eastern Front and successfully drive the UK/USA attack into the sea, by 1946, the USA is using nuclear weapons on the Germans on a regular basis.

Well, the only way the Nazis could have done it is if Zhukov's mistakes at Seelow Heights had happened every single time the Soviets attacked. For that to happen the Soviets would never have had Lend-Lease and that would still leave the Germans the overall losers and the Soviet Union clear of German soldiers, which would qualify as a stalemate only in that the USSR never quite gets to Germany from the logistical inability due to losses sustained to get there.

If the USSR has a shitload of US trucks and jeeps and the wherewithal thus to use their superior mobility in addition to their home-brewed overwhelming firepower, the Germans have no hope whatsoever to stop them, particularly as their mostly-1918 army is increasingly the only army they have left. They can exploit Soviet logistical overextension but then it's Soviet weakness ably exploited, not the Germans making their own victories.

Yeah, by '43 they are effectively doomed either way you put it. About the only thing Germany can influence is whether WAllies or Soviets control West Europe.

There's no realistic means for the Soviets to control Western Europe so long as the UK's in the war. The democracies *will* be able to land there, and any greater successes of Soviet arms on a Bagration scale earlier just make the landing easier as the Germans will have no choice but to strip the West to shore up the collapse in the East.
 
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