samcster94
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I doubt it. Hitler is likely to be succeeded by someone crueler and eviler than him who is less paranoid.Goring is still a fanatic and a nazi. Though it is possible he is kept restrained by his brother.
I doubt it. Hitler is likely to be succeeded by someone crueler and eviler than him who is less paranoid.Goring is still a fanatic and a nazi. Though it is possible he is kept restrained by his brother.
No. Hitler would still need large forces in in the East to occupy the land and keep eye on Soviets. Stalin OTOH has time to rebuilt his forces and train new recruits properly. IOTL Soviet Union had army of greenhorns every year due to need to compensate heavy loses in hurry with masses of untrained, raw recruits.
Germany/USSR
1943:
Tanks and SP guns: 12,063 / 24,092
Armored cars: 806 / 1,820
Half-tracks: 16,964 / 0
Trucks: 109,483 / 45,545
Cars: 34,478 / 2,546
Locomotives: 5,243 / 43
Train cars: 66,263 / 108
The second report from Tschadenko submitted on 14 February 1943, situation as of 1.1.43:
In Army, Navy, NKVD troops - 10 947 000 (*) men plus 851 000 in hospitals
class of 1925 in process of call-up - 817 000
recruits transferred to industry work - 2 541 000
discharged or on leave for medical reasons - 982 000
nationalities exempt from military service - 250 000
irrevocable causalities - 5 950 000
lost on occupied territory - 5 631 000 + 965 000 (classes of 1924-1925)
A remainder (not called up yet) - 3 724 576 (of them about 2.5 million reserved in economy)
GULAG, NKPS troops and other minor military seem to be forgotten
(*) Breakdown of military:
On the front - 6 191 350 men
Far East - 1 131 696
internal military districts - 1 932 995 (including 1 422 659 in replacement, training units, and military schools)
others - 744 901 (reserves, units in transfer, airborne forces, separate air force and air defense elements)
Total Red Army - 10 000 942
About 946 000 in Navy and NKVD (calculated from the difference)
Those data were not necessary accurate and must contain some guesstimates and double counting, still they provide the general idea.
I doubt it. Hitler is likely to be succeeded by someone crueler and eviler than him who is less paranoid.
Well, I can easily imagine some other group of Nazis try to overthrow him(they hated each other) even if they fail.No, he won't, Goring was Hitler's legal successor. And it was not only done in some secret document that Goring's opponents could "lose" or make sore its never read. This was flatout said by Hitler in his very public declaration of war against Poland, there is no way for Goring to not succeed Hitler.
WW1 Germany by a ton --- it would be better with a win in 16 but in 18 i think they would be in a very strong position :
1. Russia a disaster - revolution but will have lost its bread basket, much of its industry, and a lot of its people ---
2. So Germany is much more secure in the east with captive markets, allies which would tie closely to Germany (Poland, Baltic states, Ukraine, Georgia), and bases to attack critical USSR or Russian key areas (Leningrad, Oil fields, transportation networks).
3.
Thing is, WW2 Germany had a screwed-up scientific community. Japan was probably closer to getting the bomb than them because they at least hadn't already decided it was impossible.If the WW2 Germany got nuclear weapons and the US also had nukes like in our timeline, you would see a Cold War between America and the Reich which would probably ensure the Reich's survival unless it crumbled from within like the USSR did.
I think they had their post office trying to develop nukes IIRC among multiple other programs. Their V2 rockets were notorious for missing as well.Thing is, WW2 Germany had a screwed-up scientific community. Japan was probably closer to getting the bomb than them because they at least hadn't already decided it was impossible.
WW1 Germany by leaps and bounds.
Goering was by no stretch of the imagination a nice man and was happy to benefit from the expropriation of Jewish property but he never displayed any great personal hatred of Jews or desire to exterminate them. He is on record as having intervened several times to save prominent Jews and get them out of the country -his Munich art and antique dealer and a leading orchestral conductor. Can't see him looking for a Wannsee conference or an extermination programme. Probably wouldn't reverse expulsion of Jews but I don't see him attempting extermination. No benefit to him and costly and demands a lot of resources.Goering (as far as I understand) was still a fanatic, a rational one, but still a fanatic. Though it is possible that his brother, whom he loved, might be able to keep Goering restrained enough to pull back actions like the Holocaust and the violent antisemitism which made Germany an outcast in the international community
Well, I can easily imagine some other group of Nazis try to overthrow him(they hated each other) even if they fail.