How Nazi Germany Could Have Won the Second World War

This is a five-part series that outlines how the outcome of World War Two might have been very different had murderous Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler not made a number of critical, foolish mistakes.

World War Two cost the lives of an estimated fifty to seventy million people and was the most terrible war in world history. We all know how the war turned out—with an overwhelming Soviet-Western Allied victory over Nazi Germany ending with the destruction and dismemberment of Germany herself and the death by starvation of millions of her citizens. Given the way the events of the war played out, there was no other foreseeable outcome other than her defeat. But as most historians are aware, German defeat in the war would have been far from inevitable had Nazi leader Adolf Hitler refrained from making certain critical mistakes. This series of articles summarizes the top mistakes and omissions which Germany made that cost them victory in this greatest and most terrible of all wars in human history.

How Germany Might Have Won World War II without Having to Fight the Western Allies (Part 1)

Of course, the best way for Germany to have won World War Two was for them to have avoided fighting Britain, France, and the United States of America altogether. Germany had the military potential to defeat France and likely force Britain to make peace if Hitler had made wiser decisions, but with a Navy less than one-sixth the size of Britain’s, it had no means to even attack U.S. territory, let alone defeat the United States of America. Here are some actions that Germany might have taken to achieve their territorial objectives without having to fight the Western Powers of Britain, France and the United States of America.

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How Germany Could Have Won if Hitler Had Waited to Risk War with the Allies Until the German Army was Ready to Fight and German Military Industries Had Overcome the Limitations of the Versailles Treaty (Part 2)

In our last article, we examined some of the actions that Germany might have taken to achieve its territorial objectives without having to fight the Western Powers of Britain, France and the United States of America in World War Two. Some of the most important ways for Germany to have won the war would have been to have waited until German industries had recovered from the limitations imposed by the Versailles Treaty to maximize Germany’s military potential. It would have entailed a more prudent utilization of Germany’s limited military-industrial resources, better organization and increased mobility of her army. Here are some examples:

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How Hitler Might Have Forced Churchill to Accept Peace with Germany (Part 3)

In the last installment, we examined how Germany might have won the war if Hitler had been patient enough to wait on risking war until the German army was ready to fight. In this article, we will consider some ways the Germans might have goaded the British into accepting a negotiated peace before the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 while keeping the United States officially neutral in the conflict.

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How Germany Could Have Defeated the Soviet Union (Part 4)

In our last article, we discussed how Germany could have forced Britain to accept one of his peace offers and keep the United States out of the war. In this article, we shall examine how Germany might have not only avoided total defeat at the hands of the Red Army, but even might have achieved a measure of victory against her much larger and more powerful Soviet adversary, which was over forty times larger than Germany at its greatest extent.

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How Germany Might Have Won if Hitler Had been Overthrown Early in the War or if He Had Allowed the German General Staff to Make All of Their Military Decisions (Part 5)

In our last installment, we discussed the ways how Germany might have defeated the Soviet Union. In this article, we will discuss why Adolf Hitler was Germany’s greatest obstacle to winning World War II and how the war might have been won without if German generals could have prevented him from interfering in military operations. Hitler has been considered a political genius by some and a mad man bent on world conquest by others, but the truth is that he was neither. Rather, he was a virulent anti-Semite who believed his life’s mission was to reunite Germany and lead an international crusade against Soviet Communism. He was also responsible for committing a series of strategic blunders and military miscalculations, some small and some great, that ended up ensuring Germany’s defeat. But what if German military leaders had been given the freedom to prosecute the war more wisely, resulting in a stalemate or even something resembling a Nazi German victory? Here are some things that Germany could have done differently to win the war: 

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David T. Pyne, Esq. is a former U.S. Army combat arms and H.Q. staff officer with an M.A. in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. He currently serves as a Vice President of the Association of the United States Army’s Utah Chapter and is a regular contributor to The National Interest. He can be reached at emptaskforce.ut@gmail.com