| haxxiy said: Germany would probably still lose against the UK and the USA in the end, but probably they could have settled for 1943 borders if someone other than Hitler was to be on command. I tend to think Hitler would have been killed by his own high-rank officials once they figured out that even after the soviets losing there would still be a limit to what they could accomplish considering the US had the bomb as lebensraum/generalplan öst was always a bust (heck by 43 they still hadn't figured out what to do with the poles living in the reich) and their fuhrer and a few of his madmen toe only ones not able to see it. The URSS would probably broke up 45 years earlier in the end though, and instead of a cold war we'd have... Something else. US dominance with Japan and Germany as secondary powers. |
Considering there were numerous attempts on Hitler's life then it would probably be safe to assume there would possibly be more (even with a Soviet defeat). Hitler also wasn't in very good health since he either had late stages of syphilis, Parkinson's disease, or both. Hitler was able to work wonders with his army (while very advanced techniques at the time, Germany's army wasn't entirely mobile/high tech (lots of horse drawn units, etc... in the beginning). However, it was the Soviet campaign that later showed Germany was beatable (Stalingrad and all the later battles to come). I like the idea of perhaps settling with 43 borders but that would leave Germany with most of Europe still. Not sure if the Allies could accept those terms unless it was deemed impossible to defeat Germany without the help of the Soviets (since they were defeated in my hypothetical question).
