No Operation Barbarossa, Can Germany defend Europe from the western allies

Without the resources that the Eastern Front took up. Can Germany successful defend Europe from any Allied invasions.
 
Without the resources that the Eastern Front took up. Can Germany successful defend Europe from any Allied invasions.

My vague memory is the Eastern Front 1944-45 was 80% of the manpower but 20% of the industrial output. Dont know 1941 to 43 what the split was. A lot of manpower would be tied up in the east no matter what just to watch the Soviets.

The big problem is the material wave of USA industry with tens of thousands of aircraft, fighters and bombers. If Soviets totally sit on the fence can the Luftwaffe prevent the collapse of German industry from the day light bomber campaign? Can they prevent Western Allies from taking control of the sky?

Otherwise 1945 onward we would get to find out of you can slowly nuke a nation into submission. I tend to think not but others I know think otherwise.

Michael
 
Depends on how well WAllied political will holds out, which frankly is something of an unknown.

My vague memory is the Eastern Front 1944-45 was 80% of the manpower but 20% of the industrial output.

That’s total nonsense. 40-50% of German industrial war output went into the ground war, of which some 70% went to the Eastern Front and another 30-40% went into the air war of which an average of around half went into the Eastern Front (something like 70-80% in 1941-42, 40-45% in 1943-45). This ignoring that manpower is a major element to both industrial output and military power (factories and weapons don’t mean jack without people to operate them). So the idea that the USSR accounted for only 20% of the German war economic effort really isn’t supportable.
 
Probably not. German industry did not collapse from the allied air effort, which would be hindered by increased German investment. Plus, amphibious assaults are much more resource heavy than standard-defense. Nevertheless, a token force would always be in the east to keep Russia at bay and eventually the bomb is made.
 
Depends on how serious the Western Allies are. A ground invasion of France is unlikely, but at some point Allied electronics and aircraft will be so far ahead that the air war will be a near walkover and nukes are littered across Germany.
 
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