Don't think Rosevelt & Stalin would have allowed Nazi Germany to survive
The Russian factories were cranking out trucks, tanks, planes, etc, and they had the personnel numbers, not to mention the "lend lease" supplies the US was providing. Don't think the Germans would have been able to prevent the Russians steamrolling them. The Russians would have lost a lot more lives, but with the Germans having to keep troops in France (to prevent a second D-Day attempt), as well as the US and British forces coming up from Italy...
Nope, the Germans weren't going to win, nor have anything short of a full, unconditional surrender.
But I do agree with Sarah that if Hitler had just stopped after their first few acquisitions (before heading into Poland), they wouldn't have had to worry about the Allies. The US still held an isolationist view of the world, and Stalin would have been perfectly happy to stay within his borders...at least at that time. Russia probably would have moved a significant portion of their forces to their eastern border after Japan invaded Manchuria.
If Hitler hadn't made any further advances, Neville Chamberlain was perfectly happy to appease Hitler's acquisitions.
And we saw how quickly France fell (with Brit troops), they wouldn't have posed a serious threat to the Germans.
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New D-Day movie coming out at the end of May. (Look at you marketing dept!)
-- Coach McGuirk
Feb 20, 2026 at 07:19 AM ET
Coach McGuirk
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02/20/26 07:19 AM ET
Andrew Scott and Damien Lewis....I'm in.**
-- Hokebury
Feb 20, 2026 at 12:52 PM ET
Hokebury
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02/20/26 12:52 PM ET
There were rumors that Ike & his secretary were having an affair. **
-- 7Hokie1
Feb 20, 2026 at 12:29 PM ET
7Hokie1
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02/20/26 12:29 PM ET
I'll watch. The line about losing the war if D-Day failed is a reach.
-- agray123
Feb 20, 2026 at 08:11 AM ET
agray123
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02/20/26 08:11 AM ET
Don't think Rosevelt & Stalin would have allowed Nazi Germany to survive
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-- EDGEMAN
Feb 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM ET
EDGEMAN
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02/20/26 11:00 AM ET
Yea, that is something I always thought about. Hitler should have kept
-- Coach McGuirk
Feb 20, 2026 at 08:27 AM ET
Coach McGuirk
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02/20/26 08:27 AM ET