3 ways Germany could have won WWII

A few hypotheticals on how WWII could have turned out differently

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[slayer]

“Don’t declare war on the US” Japan : “This looks like a job for me “

[jaybee]

The British rejected the idea of a negotiated peace after Dunkirk.

[souperdooper]

"1:Stop at Dunkirk."- They tried, multiple peace offers were sent to the British, who refused to come to the negotiating table
"2:Don't invade the USSR"- This only works in hindsight. While I do find it unlikely that the Soviets would have invaded in 41 or 42, if a settlement could not be reached with Britain or if a landing similar to D-Day occured while there was a massive Russian buildup on the Polish border, we'd be saying 'Well he obviously should have attacked Russia when he had the chance.'
"3: Don't declare war on the USA"- The USA was essentially fighting an undeclared war against Germany by protecting British shipping and mixing US ships in with British convoys to try and goad Germany into attacking them. By declaring war on the US, this allowed Germany to start unrestricted submarine warfare which was their only chance at slowing an Allied buildup of troops and equipment in Britain. The US was going to declare war on Germany at some point anyways. Germany would rather hostilities begin when America was in the process of shipping war materials to Britain rather than wait for America to declare war once their buildup was complete.

[starborn]

True historians know the Germany tried all of this...

[yoinkyyoink]

Japan was that one teammate that awaken the sleeping boss while Germany was farming

[Dickiemiller]

I always love these... "Germany could have won the war if they'd have done literally everything differently" opinions.

[TotallyNotALolicon]

“We shall fight them on the beaches we shall fight them on the landing grounds we shall never surrender”
I don’t think negotiations after Dunkirk was possible.

[warrior]

Hitler : Hi Churchill i offer you 2 peace deals .
Churchill : no peace

[toddharig]

1. As others have mentioned the British rejected peace talks.

2. Operation Barbarossa was considered to be a pre-emptive strike. A war between Germany and the USSR was at that point seen as inevitable. Germany wanted to win a quick lightning war against the USSR as they did France while they still had the upper hand in industry and military. That and they need to secure oil for the war machine.

3. The US was likely to join in at some point or another either way.

[CoolBluBoi]

"Negotiate a deal on your terms"
GB: "Nuh uh"

Edit: ww2 in reply section 😅😅

[ytsn_THE_OG]

Soviet Union was what Hitler wanted the whole time lol That was unavoidable. That was Hitler's true goal

[ПростоДен]

1: UK rejected the idea of surrendering after Dunkirk.
2: Germans didn't have enough oil to maintain their army, they declared war on USSR to get to the Baku's oil fields
3: He's right, Germans lucky they didn't get 50 megatonns of freedom

[HoucKSF]

1. Don't go to war with Russia.
2. Don't go to war with Russia.
3. Don't go to war with Russia.

[armins.]

I swear that's the main mistake all invaders make.
Pause, regroup, rebuilt, continue

[anon_ymous]

They did try to seek terms with the UK. We declined 👍

[redmono]

Imagine Germany invents a Time machine in WW2, sees this video, goes back and change the timeline 💀☠️

[tyguy]

"operation: completely stack the odds against us" didn't really roll off the tongue, so they just went with "Barbarossa"

[philipboardman]

Germany tried the first one. It was the UK who refused to negotiate

[lmao.]

"we shall never surrender" springs to mind

[basvanleeuwen]

The biggest strategic mistake Hitler made was to attack the Soviet Union. During the battle of Stalingrad alone Hitler lost almost 1 million soldiers.