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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Then they also would have lost, because the longer the war takes, the more men and materiel the Soviets get to the front. There was no winning strategy for Germany.

yes, the only hope they had was to decapitate the leadership early on which was impossible for a couple of reasons. some of the russians in occupied territory at the beginning of barbarossa could have potentially been sympathetic to the germans and switched sides had the germans not been intent on going full genocide on all slavic people. many of the people in the western soviet union hated the soviet leadership but weren't offered any alternative to stand and fight when they realized the germans were committing wholesale genocide. also hitlers fascination with stalingrad was dumb and he isolated entire armies that were trying to capture oil fields the germans desperately needed.

hitler taking personal command while being an awful military commander doomed the nazis even further but realistically germany never had a chance due to the way they chose the fight the war and the fact america was supplying the soviets with huge amounts of armaments and supplies.