looks pretty good for Nazi Germany, though i have some questions
1. There were not enough subs. Even if every torpedo fired by U-Boats worked, there still wouldn't be enough of them to make a big enough impact.
2. You mean give Slovakia to Hungary right? They had a pretty short war in March 1939 where Hungary almost crushed Slovakia. If Germany supports Hungary then the Slovaks are screwed.
3. Germany can't really give anything to Finland. They are still under the MR treaty, which gave Germany the raw materials it needed to stay alive. Though covert assistance (the CIA type) is not ruled out though. But overt assistance is definitely a no.
4. I agree. Sweden was playing both sides in WW2. They sold iron ore to Germany and intel to the UK. Typical behavior for a country stuck between a rock and a hard place.
5. I disagree on this point. The Germans could never hope to get to the Caucasus by winter 1941. Moscow is far better, as its a rail hub, transport hub, symbolic city, and home of Josef Stalin. If Stalin stayed and the Germans killed him somehow, then resistance would collapse pretty quickly. The Soviet only fought on in 1941 because they were more scared of Stalin than Hitler.
6. Looks like Heydrich is going have a lot more work to do. The SS would probably get rid of all current assets, and maybe if they looked closely enough they might find files about the Oster conspiracy. But that's a whole new TL in itself.
1. I know. But wars are rarely won just by one arm or one thing. An extra million tons of merchant shipping could be a difference in terms of British willingness to talk peace or fail an operation or two. Even possibly death of Churchill and sinking of Nelson class at the same time.
2. True. But I doubt Nazis really cared for Slovak plight and Hungarians are an actual fighting force that could have eased some of Wehrmacht manpower issues of by nothing else serving as garrison troops. A more trusting Hungary would be willing to do so.
3. Overt is definitely out of question but nothing is forbidding Germany from selling some tanks, aircraft or submarines to Swedes or Norwegians. Not Hitlers problem what they do with it or that Fins get an explanation of such covert aid.
5. Entire Moscow push happened due to Halder. In fact even planing for Fall Blau was subverted by Halder who sent supplies to center hoping to force Hitler into a push on Moscow by presenting him with fait acomply. Instead he got a mess, made Hitler paranoid about micromanaging everything and ensured Fall Blau failed thus losing Germany the war. Russians didn’t surrender when Napoleon took Moscow. They still held Archangels, Murmansk and Vladivostok. Supplies will flow. Without cutting access to Soviet oil Soviets will fight on. It’s a war for survival after all.
6. Yep. But bottom line being that even not having an intelligence agency is better than having a secretly hostile one undermining you.
they had torpedo problems when fired from destroyers also, not to the same extent, but it proved costly, at Narvik for instance.
in addition there was single minded focus on correcting torpedo problems, when they could have been plotting advances?
There wasn’t really that great of an innovation when it came to torpedos. Arguably most were worse than basic oxygen contact torpedo due to having shorter range. Only exception being Zaukonig sound guided torpedo. It could have been a war changer early on. Others were mostly just pattern searching torpedo.
