WW2 Strategy...

Hashasheen

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In WW2, the strategy by the Nazi High command was similiar to WW1: Hold in the East and try to knock France out of the war first. what if Hitler kept going into the USSR after taking his share of poland, thinking "better now when they right in front of us." and simply held in the German territory? he had 6 months of the Phony war to accomplish the attack, and the Allies would have kept waiting for a while before realising their objective. Plausible? can the defeat of the Soviet Union be accomplished? and what about the Western Front?
 
It was his original goal to take the USSR, and not France. However, France would have prob been a problem sooner or later. I am not sure how many soldiers would be required to hold the West German line, but it couldn't have been more than those needed to hold the line to prevent English/US invasion in OTL.
 
Since Germany had less than 60 divisions to invade Poland with in 1939 all this does is offer limited gains in the short term followed by a guaranteed alliance between the USSR and Anglo-French in 1940 with absolutely no German forces free to invade France, Belgium, Holland or Norway.

Assuming that the Red Army can't crush a Wehrmacht less experienced, much more poorly equipped and barely a quarter the number involved in Barbarossa in short order.
 
If Hitler could somehow manuver Poland away from British and French protection.

The Soviet army of 1939 had a hard time with Finland. A Blitzrig style attack on Moscow then could have very well been successful.
 
If Hitler could somehow manuver Poland away from British and French protection.

The Soviet army of 1939 had a hard time with Finland. A Blitzrig style attack on Moscow then could have very well been successful.

However the Germans were not in far better shape either.

Their tanks in 1939 were a joke compared to 1941. The Luftwaffe was still not at top strength. And the Germans lacked the experience they gained in OTL in Benelux+France and the Balkans.
 
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