A German Mediterranean option would have been very different than invading the Soviet Union. Instead of a huge Axis land army of 3 million men, the Mediterranean would have been a contest of ships and aircraft, supporting relatively small numbers of ground troops through the vast distances of the Middle East.
As it was, German spearheads may have reached as close as ten miles to the Soviet capital, perhaps even glimpsing the spires of the Kremlin. Seizing Moscow may or may not have won World War II for Nazi Germany, but it certainly would have made the Third Reich's defeat more difficult.
Would Germany have won WW2 if the US didn't enter? No but it depended on Germany securing oil supplies and this it failed to do. It may have prolonged it by a few years but eventually the loss of manpower and supplies and facing the huge Soviet forces in the East would mean an eventual collapse or surrender.
The victory of Axis powers in Stalingrad would have prompted Turkey, according to the agreements, to enter the war with the USSR. In 1942, mobilization was carried out in Turkey, its armed forces reached a population of 1 million people.
The majority of historians believe Stalin sought to avoid war in 1941 because he believed his military was not prepared to fight German forces, though historians disagree on why Stalin persisted with his appeasement strategy of Nazi Germany despite mounting evidence of an impending German invasion.
At that point, Europe – and Germany in particular – turned to Russia, whose natural gas reserves were vast and whose supply was cheap. Over the past 30 years, Europe's use of natural gas has steadily increased, in part as a result of cutting out coal, the chart below shows.
WebAnd without U.S. supplies, the Soviet war effort would have been massively diminished. The entry of the United States was the turning point of the war, because it made the eventual defeat of Germany possible. But it would The allies won WW2 and the allies won the cold war.
Originally Answered: In ww2 could Russia defeat Germany alone, without outside help? Very unlikely. The USSR came very close to losing as it was. Without aid sent from the US and Britain, the USSR's ability to replace the crippling losses they suffered in material in 1941 and 1942 would have been greatly reduced.
Only 90,000 German soldiers were still alive, and of these only 5,000 troops would survive the Soviet prisoner-of-war camps and make it back to Germany. The Battle of Stalingrad turned the tide in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union.
When studying the battle for Kursk, one of the climactic engagements in the German-Soviet war (1941–1945), many authors have maintained that the Germans would have won the battle had they not delayed their attack from May until early July 1943.
Germany started and lost two world wars in the 20th century, and many Germans feel the military should never again be involved in ventures beyond Germany's borders.
At the most extreme, no attack on Pearl Harbor could have meant no US entering the war, no ships of soldiers pouring over the Atlantic, and no D-Day, all putting 'victory in Europe' in doubt. On the other side of the world, it could have meant no Pacific Theatre and no use of the atomic bomb.
Barbarossa was the largest military ground invasion in history, with some 3.8 million troops, thousands of tanks and aircraft, and more than half a million horses advancing across the entirety of Eastern Europe, from the Gulf of Finland to the Black Sea.
In the winter of 1942/43, Hitler sacrificed twenty-two divisions through his command to hold out at Stalingrad. More than 100,000 German soldiers fell, froze, or starved to death even before the surrender of the Sixth Army. Over 90,000 men ended up in Soviet prisoner-of-war camps—only around 6,000 of them survived.
The Soviet Union is estimated to have suffered the highest number of WWII casualties.
The Battle of Stalingrad was the deadliest battle to take place during the Second World War.
The POWs were employed as forced labor in the Soviet wartime economy and post-war reconstruction. By 1950 almost all surviving POWs had been released, with the last prisoner returning from the USSR in 1956.
Many were sent to logging camps in Siberia or mining in the Ural Mountains. Imprisonment was generally harsh. A young POW recalled being subjected to “brutal assaults on a daily basis, hunger, disease, and the cold.” Only by 1948 did their situation improve.
Soviet authorities deported German civilians from Germany and Eastern Europe to the USSR after World War II as forced laborers, while ethnic Germans living in the USSR were deported during World War II and conscripted for forced labor.
While most see the United States as having played the crucial role in vanquishing Adolf Hitler, the British, according to polling data released this week, see themselves as having played the biggest part in the war effort — although they acknowledge that the Nazis would not have been overcome without the Soviet Union ...
After Germany's surrender in May 1945, millions of German soldiers remained prisoners of war. In France, their internment lasted a particularly long time. But, for some former soldiers, it was a path to rehabilitation.
If there had been no lend-lease, then the UK would have lost the war. In 1941-2 we started to lose shipping to U boats faster than we could build them so we would eventually have brought to starvation without the US Liberty ships. Our tank production was lower than Germany's and the quality was appalling.
It would have been a negotiated armistice or a German victory. The Allies alone could not possibly have defeated Germany. Without U.S. entry, there would have no Versailles Treaty, termed a “diktat” by Hitler, who used it to arouse Germany against the Weimar Republic and Wilson's League of Nations.