This is incorrect.Germany could not hold north africa because it was conserving forces for invading the soviet union. It also had no ability to conquer the United Kingdom because the Royal Navy could destroy any German invasion attempt .
@張安狄-u1u12 күн бұрын
You’re right, but Italy invade Greece and he can’t defeat on his own made Germany delay Barbarossa, if Germany didn’t be delayed he maybe can take Moscow
@bsaintnyc12 күн бұрын
@@張安狄-u1u taking moscow wont alter the outcome. Napoleon took moscow and it destroyed his army and hitler knows they will be prepared to sacrifice moscow again. Stalin had set up a backup government and said that he would stay in moscow in the event that the city was captured that the would die and the backup government would take over and continue the war. Millions of soldiers were being trained in central and eastern russia to replace the armies that germany destroyed. Also Russia's main armaments factories were intact and out of range of the german airforce because they were located where hitler wanted the campaign to end - the ural mountains which was still far away from german forces. Hitler understood that the only way to defeat the USSR was to completely destroy the red army. Germany did not have the capacity to do this. This is why stalingrad happened. Hitler thought that the soviet union was on the verge of defeat and decided that stalingrad would be where the red army would be finished for good. This was incredibly stupid. The red army could afford to lose millions of soldiers in stalingrad as the USSR had more than double germany's population potential. Germany could not afford to suffer a million casualties. Committing germany to stalingrad lost them the war. They needed to abandon attempts to destroy the city and conserve forces and rebuild replacement armies. But this was unfeasible because unlike the USSR Germany was under threat of invasion from the other side of the empire. Time was running out.