What if Nazi Germany never fought Britain, never sent Rommel to Africa, and never declared war on America? What if Hitler focused everything—every soldier, every tank, every aircraft—on a single objective: defeating the Soviet Union?
Could Germany have won?
By the end, you’ll understand why World War II wasn’t decided by battlefield genius—it was decided by factories, trucks, and tonnage.
🎯 TIMESTAMPS:
01:38 RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
03:08 THE FORCES FREED UP
06:14 THE INITIAL VICTORIES: MOSCOW, LENINGRAD, BAKU
10:11 THE PROBLEM
13:16 THE MISSING PIECE
18:48 THE VERDICT: TWO POSSIBLE OUTCOMES
📖 SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
Battle of Britain:
Bungay, Stephen. “The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain.” Aurum Press, 2000.
Overy, Richard. “The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality.” W.W. Norton, 2001.
German Military Operations:
Glantz, David M. and House, Jonathan. “When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler.” University Press of Kansas, 2015.
Stahel, David. “Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East.” Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Soviet Industrial Evacuation:
Harrison, Mark. “Soviet Planning in Peace and War 1938–1945.” Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Sanborn, Joshua A. “Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II.” Basic Books, 2021.
Lend-Lease to USSR:
Herring, George C. “Aid to Russia 1941-1946: Strategy, Diplomacy, the Origins of the Cold War.” Columbia University Press, 1973.
Jones, Robert Huhn. “The Roads to Russia: United States Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union.” University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
Beaumont, Joan. “Comrades in Arms: British Aid to Russia 1941-1945.” Davis-Poynter, 1980.
Soviet Production Statistics:
Harrison, Mark, ed. “The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison.” Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Zaloga, Steven J. “T-34-85 Medium Tank 1944–94.” Osprey Publishing, 1996.
German Production & Economics:
Overy, Richard. “War and Economy in the Third Reich.” Oxford University Press, 1994.
Tooze, Adam. “The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy.” Penguin Books, 2006.
Baku Oil & Caucasus Campaign:
Glantz, David M. “The Battle for the Ukraine: The Red Army’s Korsun’-Shevchenkovskii Offensive, 1944.” Military History, Vol. 15, 2003.
Mawdsley, Evan. “Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945.” Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Logistics & Infrastructure:
Van Creveld, Martin. “Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton.” Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Kirchubel, Robert. “Operation Barbarossa 1941: Army Group South.” Osprey Publishing, 2003.
Soviet Military Leadership:
Roberts, Geoffrey. “Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov.” Random House, 2012.
Taubman, William. “Khrushchev: The Man and His Era.” W.W. Norton, 2003.
Comparative Military Analysis:
Citino, Robert M. “The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945.” University Press of Kansas, 2017.
Dupuy, Trevor N. “A Genius for War: The German Army and General Staff, 1807-1945.” Military Book Club, 2002.
All statistics cited in this video are cross-referenced against multiple academic sources and primary documents.
Credit to : The Dictator Lab