How long could Nazi Germany delay the inevitable?

No later then early August, at that point a certain piece of equipment get redirected from the Pacific Theater and it's a sunny 10,000 degrees in Central Berlin.
 
Possibly Indefinitely.
Step 1: Order SS and other combat trained party loyalists to return to their homes, concealing their weapons in the process.
Step 2: Organize them into cells.
Step 3: Give these cells nerve gas canisters.
Step 4: Have Hitler go on the lam rather than dying in Berlin, thus boosting said cells morale.
Step 5: During allied occupation, have constant terrorist attacks with chemical weapons, aimed as killing allied troops(and "disloyal" german civilians)
Of course, most of the German leadership were either A. too insane to realize they might be beaten militarily or B. were ready to surrender rather than go guerrilla.
 
4. Evacuate the Courland Pocket and redeploy those forces against the Soviets. IOTL, hundreds of thousands of German troops were left uselessly isolated in the Courland Peninsula, seemingly just so Hitler could say that he still occupied some bit of Soviet territory. The Russians basically left a single army there to entertain them and otherwise ignored them. Those troops would have been much better used with Army Group Center.

5. Strip Norway of all troops except those strictly necessary to keep down the civilian population. Far too many troops, from the German perspective, were left in Norway to defend against an invasion the Allies had no intention of mounting.

This would effectively give up on the U-boat war.

They used bases in Norway, and IIRC one of the reasons for holding Courland was protecting U-boat training areas in the Baltic.
 
Robert Conroy wrote a book, Himmler's War, that goes into the idea of a Nazi Germany allowed to fight war properly later in the war. Mind you he was blatantly an America wanker, but it seemed realistic. The war ended in December or so if I remember right. The Nazis stripped Norway, the Courland and the Wehrmacht got direct control of the S.S divisions and such.
 

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This would effectively give up on the U-boat war.

They used bases in Norway, and IIRC one of the reasons for holding Courland was protecting U-boat training areas in the Baltic.

True, but at that point it wouldn't matter, would it?
 
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