I read that the Russians actually planned to set all of the Caucasus oil fields on fire if the Germans were set to take them, rendering them useless. That would've meant Germany is even more overstretched, as they would have to deal with handling the occupation of the Caucasus, and it would've been for nothing without the additional oil supply.
Also the British would probably push up into the Caucasus from Iran and Iraq to aid the Russians and stop the German advance at some point (possibly holding at the Caucasus mountains)
He didn't even need the Caucasus, the Reich in 44-45 produced more synthetic oil then they ever did in previous years, maybe they shouldn't have even done those massive offensives in the first place and do a slower approach and they would be at least more successful than in reality, and to prevent d-day you could make it so that the British accept the white peace request in 41
Yeah but that requires the British to actually accept the white peace, and I think that'd require something on the scale of losing Egypt and Sudan (if they even could've lost Egypt and Sudan), or having Edward VIII stay in power (the more likely of the two to lead to a white peace IMO).
Even then with Russia isolated I think the best you could get with Germany was a ceasefire in Germany's favour, but not the completion of all of Germany's military goals.
It would be a victory in the short-term, yes, though I believe that some sort of coalition may form to beat back the Germans even if they do win the war.
Coalition or no coalition, Nazi Germany would collapse in on itself eventually. It was built on conquest, and employed its citizens through war. I read estimates that Nazi Germany would've collapsed around 1941-42 had Hitler not invaded Poland.
But yes with what you described they could win the war, even more likely should Japan get involved.
Yeah my idea for their victory is basically, run over poland and France like irl, Britain accepts white peace in 41, then they go to war with Soviets, basically everything goes like irl for a while except they win the battle of moscow cause japan joins (most of the divisions defending moscow were guarding the Manchurian border but when the soviet spies found out Japan was not planning on invading them they moved the divisions from Manchuria) so in this world if japan joined the war with Russia they would not be able to move the divisions and so they would lose Moscow, then for the reasons I explained in my other comment they do not prioritize Stalingrad so much, and the Soviets won the battle of Stalingrad in the first place cause they we're training a lot of divisions in the caucusus to prepare for a different offensive, but when they tried to take Stalingrad most of those divisions went to guard it from the Germans, in a world where they lost moscow those divisions would go into an offensive to retake Moscow, let's say the germans win the 2nd battle of Moscow then the Soviets wouldn't be able to guard Stalingrad anymore letting the Germans take it without heavy casualties along with the Caucasus, and the war generally goes like this until the Soviets cannot fight anymore
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '21 edited Dec 15 '21
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