I'm sorry, but I find it hard to disassociate hypothetical outcomes from their most likely consequences - especially when those consequences are deeply interwoven in the whole gestalt of historical events. And I find it troubling at times that a fairly popular motif is trying to figure out how the really evil guys win; as if their evilness wasn't integral to the whole story.
Yes, I know, cognitive dissonance and all that jazz... Ah well.
However, my first comment still is so self-evident - a non-nuclear Nazi Germany is so going to lose in the end - that I am surprised that few, if any, take that into account. It is as if they want to play chess with the other side giving them a Queen and move handicap. Now that is more than fantasy.
Unless they were hydrogen bombs, then you could be right, but early nukes were not powerful at all. Nukes did not break 50 kt of power until 1948.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sandstone
The only reason nukes in this age did so much to Japan was because they were made out of so much wood, making them easily combustible. European cities are traditionally made out of stone, making the damage to the blast even smaller, and thus less likely for casualties. A nuke dropped on a Nazi-occupied Europe would have a hard time breaking 40,000 deaths, unless many people just so happened to be packed together in the area.
Even though Fat Man was 25% more powerful than Little Boy, it only resulted in about 40k deaths, due to the hilly area of Nagasaki.
You are completely full of shit.
In OTL, the Allies didn't put a boot on the ground in Japan, but two nukes got their surrender.
In an ATL 1945, if the Allies are stuck at the Rhine, and - say - Berlin, Munich and Dortmund have disappeared in nuclear fire, then the Nazis still lose.
If this ATL 1945 got the Germans lucky or have the Allies do worse mistakes, but with the Soviets in, I would agree. But a scenario where they have 50 million extra oil barrels, along with Soviet and Ropmanian oil added, that answer isn't as clear as it seems.
He would be wrong then (not the first time for Liddell-Hart).
At peak (which largely wiped out the Czech fields) the Austrian+Czech fields in the Vienna basin produced over 1 million tons of oil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_and_gas_deposits_in_the_Czech_Republic#History
http://viennabasin.spe.org/aboutus/whatisspevbs/oilandgasinaustria
The Vienna Basin included parts of Czech territory as well, so output wasn't purely Austrian.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vienna_Basin_physical.png
We are talking about if they discover the oil fields in the early 1930s and reach production in 1940 from they had gotten in 1955. Which is still at 3.5 million tonnes. Which is what your link says:
After World War II the allies decided that the German property in Austria was to belong to the occupation forces, thus the whole Austrian oil industry came under the control of the USSR. After extensive disassembly of available oil field equipment, SMV (Soviet Mineral Oil Administration in Austria) started production and exploration activities in the Vienna Basin, and in 1949 the largest oil field in Europe was discovered : Matzen.
The development of this discovery brought the oil production in Austria to a record high of 3,6 million tons in 1955.
Discovering Mazten will make them go wild and discover more oil fields soon after. The Romanians had the ability to drill more than 2400 meters in 1932.
Most of Matzen's oil is found between 1300 and 1700 meters.
Not sure how you misread that wiking. You once brought in your link about the discovery of extra oil fields in Hungary before:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...s-discovered-before-ww2.354685/#post-10783802
I didn't include those because Hungary is too industrially poor to find those oil fields, and doesn't have as good connections to oil partners as Germany did such as the lucky Schoonebeek oil fields.
While thank you for the graph, a source would be nice to know for it.
Not trying to be rude, but there others who are interested and would like to know where your spreadsheet came and see what other details are from the sheet(or is that it?)