How close was Germany to winning WW2?

Question

I always read stories and watch documentaries on how Hitler was close to winning the war but my question is, Where did he Fail? Or better, Where did the Germans Fail?

Answer 1

Germany would have won if Hitler had sent his soldiers straight for Stalingrad instead of Moscow.....



Stalingrad has Oil fields and other good resources, and Stalingrad was an easy access to the Caucasus and other Oil fields like Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia.....



It's pretty amazing how far the Germans stretched from Berlin to almost reaching Georgia and Azerbaijan.





@ Jimmy, Yep, agree..

Answer 2

Peter Gore Seer,

Don't Be Silly, I Have Seen SKULL 322 Evidence Germany Never Meant To Win The War, But They Were Promise That They Would Really Be Top World Rules, Along, With Italy, Japan, And The USA.

Answer 3

Hitler would NOT let his generals do their job. Unlike Stalin, who learnt from his mistakes.

Hitler was successful in the early stages of the war. But he over reached himself.



Hitler's biggest mistake attacking Russia. Russia is the graveyard of ambitious men. Before Hitler, Napoleon.



Hitler's priorities were skewed. He wasted the resources he had at hand - he exterminated his enemies instead of employing them to fight! The time, effort wasted! Just to satisfy Nazi misplaced ideology.



The German scientists were exceptional in their developments, that's why the allies went out of their way to sabotage them to prevent them getting the upper hand.

Answer 4

At the beginning of the War, in 1939-1941, Germany was doing well. Then Pearl Harbour was attacked in the USA, which prompted USA's involved in the War. From then on, it was a downhill to the Nazi's as their machinery and weapons couldn't compete with USA's.

Answer 5

the only time Hitler was close to winning the war was right at the beginning when the German arm rampaged through France . Defeating the British and French armies en-route to the English channel. If Hitler has invaded Britain he would have won the war, but he chose to stop and not invade, at this point he turned his army east to attack the Russians.. which was the beginning of the end for the Germans.

Answer 6

He lost the war because he got cocky. He thought that he was so great that he could beat anyone. Even Russia who he was allied with. His army had said that the fight was too much for them but Hitler wouldn't believe that his men were loosing so he ordered them to stay and continue fighting. He lost a lot of men and that's when things went downhill for him.

Answer 7

They did almost win. The Germans had conquered all of Europe, then Hitler declared war on the United States. So we finally joined, and along with the revival of our allies we began to win very quickly

Answer 8

Not sure, but Germany's big strategic mistake was trying to go through Stalingrad, instead of bypassing it for the oilfields in Crimea. Germany's desperate shortage throughout the war was oil. If they had been able to seize the oilfields it might, might have knocked out Russia and enhanced their ability to fight back against the Allies. But the raw manpower the Russians were able to field and the productive capacity of the US, likely would have succeeded in defeating the Germans. But a winning scenario would have been to get Russia to collapse without the oilfields, and holding off the US long enough that the economic costs would have been too great to continue the war effort. But even then it seems unlikely.

Answer 9

I always read stories and watch documentaries

Answer 10

If you understand WHY Hitler started his war in the first place, you'll understand that he was NEVER close to winning. Sure, he overran Western Europe and Poland, but those were just preparation for his #1 goal--Russia, and its vast lands for expansion and population for subjugation, slavery and/or extermination. He ignored the #1 war lesson of European history-if you try to invade Russia, she will swallow you up. Hitler ignored that common sense dictum, in favor of his stupid notions of Aryan racial superiority. Stalin's USSR refused to play by Hitler's script, and so he got bogged down and overextended in Russia's endless steppes. He also failed to neutralize England to prevent it being used as a springboard against his rear, and once he declared war on the U.S., it was only a matter of time before Germany was going to be squeezed from two sides



As strong as Germany seemed at the start (and even that was only in comparison to opponents who were not well prepared), she STILL didn't have the resources or population to fight a protracted war against determined enemies. Hitler had one chance to win--and he had to do it fast, before his enemies could recover and effectively fight back--because his armed forces and economy had a strong outer shell, but had insufficient depth to support a long war. Unneccessary to go into the details about specific errors made, what's important is that he had his chance but did not succeed, and so Germany was forced to fight a war of attrition, one that deep down, Hitler knew he couldn't win, but having already stepped over that line, he refused to quit and descended into deadly delusion.



Like all megalomaniacs, Hitler thought he had it all figured out. His delusion of superiority over his oppponents doomed him, the soldiers who pledged themselves to him, and all of Germany to oblivion.

Answer 11

The minute Japan bombed Pearl Harbor AND Hitler declared war on the USA - it was essentially over. No way can Germany defeat the USSR and the USA at the same time. D-Day did not win the war in Europe. D-Day prevented the USSR from sweeping over Germany, into France and Italy and on into Denmark and Holland. Germany lost by a wide margin. It wasn't that close.



You hear this same argument from people discussing the US Civil War. The South never had a chance as long as the North had the will to continue the fight. Both the South and Germany just too stupid to realize the war was lost 2 years before it actually ended.

Answer 12

Till the cancelation of Sea Lion and starting Barbarossa very close. At the time it was take Britain , you own Europe, 5 years of peace and the western world would fall but not without one hell of a battle. Germany had the technology to bomb the USA even in 1944 but not the ability to produce the weapons. Basically Hitler's obsession with taking out the communists was his major downfall. Britain was the major obstacle on the western front and he turned his back on it as he did on North Africa. That is he allowed Western Power beach heads to exist while throwing his might against a foe that could retreat for 3000 miles and still be viable.

Answer 13

He was never close, dot, because he never had the resources to carry out his plan to completion. We stretched all he had to the limits, without anticipation of the US of A joining the fight. There is a famous story of a captured German officer, during the last days of the war, watching from the side of the highway as US trucks and soldiers rolled into Berlin. As he so aptly noted: "They keep coming and coming and coming." Clearly, Hitler did not plan well.

Answer 14

You mean how close was Hitler to winning WW2?

He was just as close to winning as the Allies were. And contemplating the final end, did the allies win?



They didn't reach their goal of bring freedom to Europa or peace to the world. And that was their very objective for starting WW2.

Answer 15

You all are trying to rewrite history. Germany lost WW1and Germany lost WW2. However many ways they could have won, they did not.

Answer 16

Germany achived his winning if hitlar want. but actually seem germany was winning ww2

Answer 17

Not very because of that attack on D day

Answer 18

If they had managed to take Moscow and Leningrad in 1941 as planned, they might have knocked the Soviet Union out of the war and pretty much guaranteed German hegemony in Europe. That was as close as they came - once they failed to defeat the Soviet Union quickly they were doomed.

Answer 19

They made a number of fatal errors. One was to not grab sources of oil and aluminum first Then he started killing off the Jewish population who were the scientists who could have given him nukes. Then he failed to neutralize the British army at Dunkirk. Then he started a second front without proper preparation. Read Len Deighton's book "Blood Tears and Folly".

Answer 20

no

Answer 21

Never close.

Answer 22

Hitler failed by not having good military appreciation of the various situations into which he sent his armies.



Germany was bound to fail once sufficient force (first Russians, later Americans) had been forced into joining the British effort in the war by the foolish actions of Hitler.

Answer 23

Or to continue your gradual step up 'Where did the Axis powers fail? Hope this helps.

Answer 24

Hitler made the same mistake as Napoleon by invading the USSR.

Answer 25

I think 80 % close !

Answer 26

If Hitler had stopped at taking Western Europe, Italy, North Africa and the Balkans, he may have succeeded. He overstretched himself by invading Russia. Never fight a two-front war.

Answer 27

The first problem was after the German bomber accidentally dropped it's bombs on the outskirts of London having flown off course and Hitler didn't find out about it. The next night the RAF bombed Berlin, Hitler went off and started bombing London enmass. Great point by Jimmy about the radar stations also. If the Luftwaffe would have stuck to bombing RAF Fighter Command Airfields the match with England would have been over. Second, Army Group South got bogged down invading the USSR and part of the Central Group under General Guderian went down to help out. By the time they got back the rain came then the mud then the winter's bitter cold. Thirdly they should have never attacked Stalingrad on their way to the much needed oil fields in the south, their was nothing there of importance but it's name which is why I think he did it but again he split his forces. Also Italy did Germany no favors by going into North Africa and getting smoked by the British. Hum, think Herr Rommel and his troops would not have been useful in Russia instead of being sucked into Africa not to mention the drain on the Luftwaffe.



Not saying Germany would have won but where would have the RAF and 8th Air Force flown from to attack Germany if England would have fallen and where would have the Allied Forces jumped off from to invade Europe.

Answer 28

Dunkirk should have been taken without the the evacuation.

Hitler should have committed Operation Barbarossa in April as planned and not saved Mussolini and Italy in the Balkans.

Most importantly Hitler should not have declared war against the USA when it was unnecessary and made FDR make that choice after Pearl Harbor.

Answer 29

Germany would have won if the Allies hadn't ganged up on Hitler like a band of bullies beating up on a weaker kid.



Hitler didn't lose because he was poorly equipped with limited resources, and he didn't lose because he was an inept leader with traitors as military leaders. He lost for the same reason every other war is lost - he was overwhelmed.



When Hitler took control of Germany in 1933 he only wanted one thing - to be left alone so he could fix the devastation caused by the Zionist Jews over the previous 14 years after they took control following the severe reparations by the Treaty of Versailles which left Germany weak and helpless.



It was this revocation of power from the Jews that infuriated them into declaring war on Germany, which included an extensive hate campaign of epic proportions. It was through this hate campaign that the accusations of extermination originated. The Zionists had always used sympathy to gain support, and they did the same thing in a worldwide media campaign that went on between 1915 and 1939 where they used the same "6 million Jews being threatened with extermination" theme.



As you can see, this "6 million" claim falls dead-center in the midst of the growing war and the hate campaign against Hitler, and to ignore the connection is ludicrous. If Hitler was guilty of murdering 6 million Jews in the 1940s then he was guilty of murdering these same Jews in 1915, because both are one in the same claim - which is physically impossible. Yet, the world is expected to ignore the earlier media campaign as if it never happened - because while it supports the facts, it doesn't support the agenda.



The many member countries that made up the Allies did so for one reason only - they were supporting the Zionists. If Hitler never committed genocide as he is accused of, then the other countries had no reason to make it their war - unless they had a political presence pushing them for their support.



And everyone feels sorry for the poor kids who are always picked on - even when they bring it on themselves.

Answer 30

3 key failures: 1> not giving von Paulus permission to withdraw and regroup at Stalingrad, 2> diverting the troops so close to Moscow south to gain control of the Baku oil fields, and 3> failure to continue to destroy the radar stations on British south and east coasts, thus not providing for success of Operation Sealion (invasion of Britain). If he had done these things, he would have defeated the USSR, and quite probably UK..

Answer 31

In reality, they were never close. The Atomic bomb timeline was already under way in USA. Look it up. Although if USA didn't get involved cuz of Japan, he woulda conquered all of Europe practically without USA supplying English, Russians, etc. with weapons and food. The only difference is that Atomic Bombs woulda went off in Berlin or something instead of them surrendering before it was ready. And it's untrue that Nazi's were on their way to getting the Atomic Bomb. Analysis revealed they didn't actually know what they were doing cuz they already scared most of their brainpower away (most were actually Jewish like Einstein, Shilard, Oppenheimer). You needed really smart ppl to lead really smart ppl, not just throw money at a project, to invent something like an atomic bomb...which might not even work. If you were smart enough back then, you'd have to connections and resources to know what Hitler was up to an you would run the hell outta there...like what happened. Anyway's that's one possible alternate reality, but it sums up how "close" he was to winning WW2! ;)

Answer 32

extremely close



he failed cos he repeatedly failed to complete one action before starting the next



I would not say the "germany failed" rather "hitler failed" cos the army/navy/airforce had to do what he told them to do



(couple of things to add to "tham153"



after dunkirk - failing to keep attacking airfields and get air supremacy over the channel and SE england , but instead switched to attacking london

(RAF fighter command came within 2 weeks of collapse according to dowding in charge of fighter command

If it had collapsed with total air supremacy there was nothing to stop him invading england)



With england out of the war there is no way the US could have entered a war against germany



2) not applying ALL his forces to capturing the oil fields in Russia before splitting them and sending a large chunk to attack the far less important target of stalingrad-

The BIGGEST problem germany had during the war was fuel supplies - Those oil fields would have given him as much fuel as he wanted.

(it was lack of fuel that cost him the "battle of the bulge")



3) declaring war on the US

If he hadnt there is a VERY good chance the US would not have declared war on germany and would not have fought in europe



Even 4 days AFTER pearl harbour and the US had declared war on japan- it STILL hadnt declared war of germany a strong ally of japan even though roosevelt had supported the UK against germany going FAR beyond the accepted borders of neutrality

Answer 33

Germany WAS close to winning World War II. Hitler made several crucial mistakes.



1) After over-running western Europe, he had no capability for launching an invasion of Great Britain. He didn't need a fleet comparable to the British Royal Navy because he had control of the skies over the channel and the UK. He just needed the ability to transport an invading army. With that, he could have put the UK out of the war. With the UK out of the war, it is doubtful the U.S. would have ever tried to intervene in Europe because without the UK there, it would have been almost impossible to launch an invasion of the continent.



2) Attacking Russia before the UK was out of action. Germany was not capable of waging a 2-front war of attrition. IF Germany could have brought it's full might to bear on one front though, it might have been capable of pushing the Russian government and armies east of the Urals. That would have effectively ended the war for Russia.



3) Failed to coordinate with Japan. If Japan had left the U.S. alone and instead devoted itself to attacking the U.S.S.R. from the east, the war would have ended quite differently. The U.S.S.R. was not any more capable than Germany was when it came to fighting a two-front war.



4) Declaring war on the U.S. FDR was spoiling for a fight with Germany, but even after Pearl Harbor FDR needed some excuse to wage war in Europe. Hitler conveniently provided it for him.



5) Not waiting just a little bit longer. Germany was probably 5 years behind the U.S. in developing the A-bomb, but it was well ahead of the U.S. in developing intercontinental ballistic missiles. Had Hitler bided his time, developed the A-bomb and say, the V-3 or V-4 rocket capable of carrying it across the Atlantic, he quite literally could have ruled the world. No one else would have been working on anything comparable. No "mutually assured destruction." Just Germany nuking Washington D.C. and New York and Philadelphia and Chicago and...

Answer 34

One of the biggest mistakes Germany made was taking in Siberia without the proper supplies, even though the German soldiers were dying from the extreme conditions they were still pushed to go on. After that it was easy for the folks in Siberia to pick them off. If they had the supplies most of Europe would be Germany. And they would win the war

Answer 35

Not close at all

Answer 36

They were extremely close and, had Japan not launched the surprise offensive in the Pacific, they would have won. Whether others like it or not, the U.S. joining the Allies was the best thing to happen to the Allies.



The U.K. wasn't in the position to push into Europe, the Germans and Italians were winning in the African theater and the Russians were suffering casualties of two men for every dead nazi. Germany made a lot of mess ups in the war but had it not been for Japan's paranoia, they would of succeeded in their goals.

Answer 37

As usual, "armouror", who is too gutless to allow direct rebuttal to his nonsense, gets it WRONG again.





1. There was NEVER any serious effort by Germany to invade the U.K. Even had total air supremacy been achieved, there's no way it would succeed in the face of the overwhelming R.N. naval superiority. In 1943, the Allies had difficulty landing at Salerno with air superiority & naval supremacy. In 1944, the same was true at Normandy.



2. In 1940, Germany had but one air landing division & one parachute division. No "boat" could have landed more than a battalion of troops. A force this size might capture London, but couldn't be supplied thereafter. The U.K. gov't would have moved elsewhere. Paris fell on 14 June, but France kept on until 25 June, although most of the country had been overrun.





3. In 1917, the Central Powers defeated the Russian Empire without even entering Russia. Give the disorder of the Red Army after Stalin's 1937-8 purges, shown by its poor performance against Finland in the 1939-40 "Winter War", it was reasonable to expect that the U.S.S.R. (NOT merely "Russia") could be taken by a blitzkrieg campaign. As it was, the Soviets still agreed to some peace talks in early 1943 because, even with vast supplying by the West, they were in serious trouble. Only Roosevelt's 12 Feb. '43 "unconditional surrender" declaration convinced Stalin that the West was sincere.





4. That the U.K. could fly 1000 heavies (strategic bombers) only showed that the R.A.F. build scheme favoured heavies over fighters &, with Canada, etc., had a greater production capacity. It had nothing to do with fuel supplies. Die Luftwaffe was designed as a tactical air force, meant to support army operations. It only ever built one heavy bomber, the Heinkel 177, which didn't appear until mid 1942, & only about 1000 were built.

Answer 38

Hot close he made too many mistakes.

Answer 39

"I always read stories and watch documentaries on how Hitler was close to winning the war"



And do none of these stories and documentaries discuss "Where did he Fail"?



If not they probably are not worth watching, if they do, what conclusions do they come to? You would probably glean more valid discussions than you will find from asking random strangers.

Answer 40

If Hitler had been a bit smarter there is a fair chance he could have won the war. Had they not allied with Japan likely the US would have just concentrated their war on Japan and stayed out of Europe. If Hitler has not persecuted the Jews until after the war likely he would have had another million soldiers and several more top Jewish scientist to make some of his more advanced weapons. Hitler held Germany's war effort back as he stopped seeing the long term goals and diverted troops and resources from important objectives into revenge and weapons which were actually did not achieve anything as far as winning the war went. Germany had Britain on its knees and largely beaten when after bombing attacks on Berlin changed from the objective of wiping out Britain's Air Force and started to bomb London. This gave Britain time to regroup and strengthen their Air Force to the point they were able to force the German Air Force to give up as they were losing too many planes. The next blunder was when having given up on invading Britain for the time being they decided to invade Russia at such a late time of summer where the Russians were able to hold them back until the severe Russian winter caused massive problems for the Germans with their soldiers still caught in summer uniforms with no warm clothing to freeze and struggle for food leaving many to die.

Had Hitler left the war planning to his military leaders things may have been different. His hatred if Jews and other minorities and his wasting of resources on revenge especially on Britain after he failed to invade them caused him problems that he could have used to his advantage to give him more soldiers and more resources he could have used to win the war.

Answer 41

There was no way Nazi Germany had enough resources to defeat the US. I'm not American but I know as soon as the US joined the war, Hitler's days were numbered.

Answer 42

Oh, He might have won it all in early 1940, if he had ordered the luftwaffe to focus entirely on wiping out the RAF, rather than diverting resources to bombing London. They were awfully close to breaking Fighter Command, and had they managed, they would have wiped out the Royal Navy and been able to invade Britain. Britain could not reasonably have hoped to win against the vastly outnumbering veteran German divisions. Without Britain as an "unsinkable aircraft carrier," attempting to bring force against the European continent from America would have been very, very difficult.



Hitler made lots of other really stupid mistakes, including pushing his forces East of the Volga in the first year of the invasion of the Soviet Union, and diverting forces to Stalingrad, and declaring war on the US, and of course, in not allowing his armies to retreat to and maintain the ability to maneuver. His stand fast orders are glaring, because they ensured the loss of millions of trained soldiers and valuable equipment in a show of temper. In the end, though, it is his mistake in not finishing England off before turning on the Soviets which doomed Germany and Hitler himself

Answer 43

Nazi Germany was done once they invaded the USSR late and the Russian winter stopped them from advancing on Moscow. The Soviets got a lot of help from the US and the UK with war materiel (and from the US entering the war). but even in the absence of that, Germany would have been done.

Answer 44

His main mistake was to believe he could eventually make USSR capitulate, and failing to understand that they would move their industry and fight until the very end.

A second mistake was to believe he could sign a peace with UK before USA get involved, so that he could have focused on USSR only.

Those are diplomatic/political mistakes, which are certainly much more important than all the small military mistakes he made (and he made many).

Answer 45

Germany didn't have the proverbial snowball's chance. Three things - attacking the Soviet Union, drawing the U.S. into the war, and lacking the industrial capacity to carry on a long war of attrition doomed them. So much the better.

Answer 46

I grew up during the ww2 & I really don't care how or why they lost the wear I am just glad they did'nt win it because German is a rediculous language to learn. (tongue in cheek) I have trouble as it is trying to understand all the multible langusges on the street during the day. Besides I hate sauerkraut. mo

Answer 47

"Dave" you say:

"Germany would have won if the Allies hadn't ganged up on Hitler like a band of bullies beating up on a weaker kid."

This is not what happened. Hitler was the aggressor. He annexed Czechoslovakia, invaded Poland in pursuit of his 'Eastern Plan' which included the mass murder. enslavement and deportation of the population of Eastern Europe in order to replace them with Germans. He invaded France, blitzed Britain, attacked most of the rest of Europe, meanwhile conducting a campaign of genocide against the Jews, the Roma and the sick and disabled amongst his own people.

To portray him as 'a little kid' bullied by bigger ones is a grotesque distortion of the facts - as is your refusal to admit the existence of the persecution of the Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe and your pretence that this was only 'Zionist propaganda'.

Answer 48

How close....75%-80% there in 1940 and 1941. In those 2 years they had 2 chances to probably win....1940 after the collapse/ fall of France, entry of Italy and German rule of all Europe, (except Britain and Russia). They could have held tight to that and by 1943/44 German science, technology, and the industry of all Europe would have made their position as dominant power unchangeable.

Their other chance was fall/winter 1941 if they had not delayed and screwed up and taken Moscow, knocking Soviet Russia out, they again would have come out on top.

These were their only 2 chances, they never had another real chance, but it did not seem that way at the time as they had so much fight left in them, and up to 1944 they still had some chance.

Answer 49

After the defeat at Moscow it was basically impossible for them to win.



The Soviet Union was not defeated before winter 41 as Hitler predicted and were putting up much fiercer resistance then was anticipated. Rommel and the Italians could not secure a definitive advantage over the British in North Africa. The U-boats, despite early success could not sink enough shipping to starve out Britain, and any prospects of an invasion of Britain were out of the question. And USA was about to finally enter the war.



Further more, the German war machine was starting to stall, as it began running out of fuel and ammunition. While the Soviet industry was just starting to churn out massive amounts of materiel to replace the losses suffered during Barbarossa, and reinforcements started to be brought in from the Soviet Eastern territories. The Germans were about to get bogged down and overwhelmed by a flood of Soviet reinforcements, they just did not realize it.



In short, by winter 1941 it was already practically impossible for Germany to win the war, the rest was simply delaying the inevitable.

Answer 50

So you've learned nothing, then? Gosh!

Answer 51

What happened the scientist who got out of germany before the war started made great advances for USA/SOVIET UNION, this did affect the balance.

Answer 52

Nazi Germany was never close to winning WW2. Because nobody can take on the World and survive, let alone win.

One look at the sheer number of Allied Powers that Germany faced in WW2 is clear proof how delusional the Nazis truly were:



Dates on which states joined the Allies:



Following the German invasion of Poland:



Poland: September 1, 1939

United Kingdom: September 3, 1939

France: September 3, 1939

Australia: September 3, 1939

New Zealand: September 3, 1939

Nepal: September 4, 1939

Newfoundland: September 4, 1939

Tonga: September 4, 1939

South Africa: September 6, 1939

Canada: September 10, 1939



After the end of the Phony War:



Denmark: April 9, 1940

Norway: April 9, 1940

Belgium: May 10, 1940

Luxembourg: May 10, 1940

Netherlands: May 10, 1940

Malta: June 10, 1940

Free France: June 18, 1940

Greece: October 28, 1940

Kingdom of Yugoslavia: April 6, 1941

Soviet Union: June 22, 1941

Tannu Tuva: June 25, 1941



After the attack on Pearl Harbor:



Panama: December 7, 1941

Philippines: December 7, 1941

Costa Rica: December 8, 1941

Dominican Republic: December 8, 1941

El Salvador: December 8, 1941

Haiti: December 8, 1941

Honduras: December 8, 1941

Nicaragua: December 8, 1941

United States: December 8, 1941

Republic of China: December 9, 1941

Guatemala: December 9, 1941

Cuba: December 9, 1941

Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (government in exile): December 9, 1941

Czechoslovakia (government in exile): December 16, 1941

Mexico: May 22, 1942

Brazil: August 22, 1942

Ethiopia: December 14, 1942

Iraq: January 17, 1943

Bolivia: April 7, 1943

Iran: September 9, 1943

Italy: October 13, 1943 (formerly a member of the Axis)

Colombia: November 26, 1943

Liberia: January 27, 1944



After D-Day:



Romania: August 25, 1944, (formerly a member of the Axis)

Bulgaria: September 8, 1944, (formerly a member of the Axis)

San Marino: September 21, 1944

Albania: October 26, 1944

Hungary: January 20, 1945, (formerly a member of the Axis)

Bahawalpur: February 2, 1945

Ecuador: February 2, 1945

Paraguay: February 7, 1945

Peru: February 12, 1945

Uruguay: February 15, 1945

Venezuela: February 15, 1945

Turkey: February 23, 1945

Lebanon: February 27, 1945

Saudi Arabia: March 1945

Argentina: March 27, 1945

Chile: April 11, 1945

People's Republic of Mongolia: August 9, 1945



Link - http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Allied_Powers_(World_War_II)



Germany was never close to defeating all of those Allied Powers to win the war.

Which just goes to show how truly damn stupid the Nazis were for believing their own propaganda & thinking they ever could.

Answer 53

Invading USSR caused their downfall.

Answer 54

Germany lost the war because Hitler thought he knew better than his generals. He had good and experienced generals but there are many examples of him overruling them with his own and usually wrong ideas.

Probably the best example is the Battle of Britain. If the Luftwaffe had carried on attacking fighter bases for a few more weeks the RAF would have been broken, but Hitler diverted the bombers to attack London, alowing the RAF to regroup and the rest is history.

Answer 55

He spread himself too thin for one. He didn’t allow for Russian winters for another. He used slave labor in his factories, so his equipment wasn’t up to par.



He also undermined his own generals rather than taking their advice.

Answer 56

A very simple answer to that is:



1. He failed at conquering the skies of the United Kingdom, costing him time and resources.

2. He failed to take Moscow due to winter. It was too late due to the German blunder at the UK.

3. With his Ally Hirohito adding up another major enemy to the World War which is the United States, this forced him to declare war likewise.

4. Germany fought a 2 front war, nobody wins that kind of war.

Answer 57

I would go with very close.

Answer 58

You need to deeply study WWII on this; earlier submarine deployment, not diverting troops to Stalingrad, late introduction of "wonder weapons", Invading the east without defeating Brittan first; permitting Japan to attack Pearl Harbor when they did were all marked failures that greatly impacted the results

Answer 59

The simple answer is, not very close. The firs specific failure was the Battle for Britain. Failing to take Britain left a toe hold for the United States in Europe. In June of 1941 Germany declared was on the Soviet Union. That gave the Germans a two-front war. In December of that same year, Germany declared war on the United States. All the players knew that the US possessed massive industrial might, and if that might was brought to bear, it would be the deciding factor in the war .. and it was. At the beginning of the war, the Germans had the best soldiers, best tanks, best planes, superior firearms, etc. Thus they had reason to believe they could win. What they lacked was the industrial resources needed to sustain the win. And finally, Hitler was a 1st Class nut case that did not understand his countries limitations, nor the lack of morality in the Nazi regime.