What could of Hitler done differently?

Answer 1

SIMPLE: IF HE HAD TAKEN OUT BRITAIN FIRST JUST AS DR. CARL HOUSEHOFFER (HITLERS MERLIN) TOLD HIM TO DO, CONSOLIDATED HIS FORCES AND THEN TOOK ON RUSSIA......

HITLER WOULD HAVE OWNED ALL EUROPE AND RUSSIA. THE USA WOULD NOT HAVE CARED BUT HITLER WOULD NOT HAVE TO DECLARE WAR ON THE USA, GOING BACK ON HIS PROMISE TO JAPAN, BUT THAT'S OK, HITLER WAS GOOD AT GOING BACK ON PROMISES...

HITLER WOULD HAVE WON EUROPE AND TAKEN POSSESSION OF THE REMAINING BRITISH EMPIRE.........JAPAN WOULD BE ALONE AGAINST THE USA and China...

UNLESS HITLER DECIDED TO ATTACK THE USA...

HITLER COULD NOT HAVE DEFEATED THE ATOMIC BOMB AND IT IS CLEAR NOW THAT GERMANY WAS GOING THE WRONG WAY IN DEVELOPING THE BOMB AND WAS EASILY TEN YEARS BEHIND THE MANHATTEN PROJECT.

The simplest answer to your question is "Finish off Britain first, before attacking Russia"...

That's a tough one. Outnumbered population-wise, and with few allies (Japan/Italy), it may have been a physical impossibility. However, he made several strategic errors. My thoughts: (1) After capturing most of Europe, he allowed the bulk of the combined British/French army to escape at Dunkirk. "If" Germany had killed or captured the allied army at Dunkirk, he may have been able to invade England immediately; England was in disarray; he may have had a small window of opportunity, but he waited several weeks to begin the Battle of Britain. Half-way through the Battle of Britain, he turned his attacks from airfields to the terror attack of cities. When that didn't work, he turned his attention to the east, towards Russia. By leaving Britain uncaptured, he was comitting himself to a 2-front war. In 1944, Britain was the launching point for D-Day, the invasion of Europe. What if, despite all odds, he had captured Great Britain? Could you imagine launch an attack on Europe from the USA? The distances would have been enormous. (2) The war in Africa was a side-show, necessitated by the failure of the Italians. It diverted needless resources that could have been used elsewhere. Every man, tank or plane lost in Africa could have been used in the invasion of Russia. (3) In Russia, he changed his mind about his objectives several times. Convinced he was a genius, he stopped listening to his generals and started making poor decisions. His failure to capture Moscow. His decision to not allow a retreat at Stalingrad; a huge disaster, and the turning point of the war. His decision to attack at Kursk was also wrong; the Russians knew exactly where he was going to attack, and they had months to prepare their defenses. Germany lost a year's worth of tank production at Kursk, never to recover. (4) Poor decision making; the German's had one of the first operational jets, but didn't decide to use them until the last months of the war; they had the best tanks, but never built enough of them; they had superior submarines, but could never stop the supply lines to Britain; they also had some of the first war-time rockets (V1 and V2) but they were limited to terror attacks (I shudder to think what would happen if Hitler had managed to put an early a-bomb into the nose cone of a V2 and launch it at London). (5) Any possible chance of a political end to the war was prevented when it was discovered that Hitler and the Nazis had been murdering Jews by the millions. From then on, it became "Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany". Even if the bomb attack on Hitler's life had been successful in 1944, invasion of Germany would have been necessary to root out the rest of the Nazi party.

German success in the first few years of the war? After the slaughter of WW1, very few countries had the stomach for fighting another major war in Europe. Once the allies woke up to the fact that Hitler had to be stopped, it was only a matter of time before their combined industrial capacity overwhelmed the Germans (and Japanese).

Victory for the Allies may have been inevitable; if Hitler had done everything right, he may have lasted longer, but I don't think he could have "won".

AnswerIf the German Army at Stalingrad had crushed the resistance and got to the oilfields in late '42 and quickly, Hitler would have had unending oil supplies for his war machine.

The Soviet counter attack in February '43 would not have encircled the Germans at Stalingrad thus, as the Germans would have sped on for the oil fields, the Soviets in pursuit.

It's hard to guess what would have been the result.

in '41, if Hitler had invaded earlier by two months, the better weather may have meant they were fighting in Moscow before the onset of the bitter winter.

If Moscow had been taken, I am not convinced that would have been the end of the fighting.

But instead of Moscow, if the Germans had gone straight to the big oilfields, they may have strangled and crushed the Red Army as an armoured fighting force by depriving them of fuel for their tanks (including the awesome T-34) and thus had unending oil supplies, to then go to Moscow.

With the oil supplies, the loss of N Africa would not have been as hard hitting to the Germans in terms of oil supply as it was.

Losing the Soviet Union as a powerful ally by the end of '41 would have meant for Britain possibly the resumption of the Battle of Britain and later, invasion.

However, the Soviet Union would still need German troops to occupy for it to be conquered.

By '44, if the Germany had not by now invaded Britain, German troops would be put into place from the Soviet Union to France as well as the ones already there, and D-Day and The Battle of Normandy would have been a whole lot tougher.

If not launched from Britain because of German occupation, would it (D-Day) have been launched from America, onto Britain as a stepping stone, then to France?

The War may have gone on and on until '47?

Maybe it would not have happened at all.

Germany's oil supplies and building supplies for Tanks in the conquered Soviet Union would have been endless. The war would have gone on and on and on.

Atomic bomb on Germany? Maybe, depends where allied troops were.

Another factor is that Hitler declared war on America in late '41. If he had not done so, it may have just have been Britain and the commonwealth and Free nation forces fighting the Germans.

No US Army on D-Day, if it would happen at all.

It is all a question of what if, maybe and if only. Who knows.

I suggest reading 'FatherLand' by Robert Harris, which is about a world where Germany were successful on the Eastern Front amongst other factors leading to a Cold war between America and Nazi Germany in the 1960's.

Answeras it has been said hitlers big mistake was the invasion of russia however had he invaded as a liberator he would have been welcomed by most of the Russians or certainly enough to make a huge difference in germanys favor. instead the extermination squads followed his troops thus ralleying the people to fight against a greater evil than Stalin(not much). in short i think had he done it right russia would have been Germany's easy,including the wealth of raw materials and soldiers that probably would have fought in his name. also in short(again)i think it very likely we would be speaking German or Russian.

nah im kidding, ask jeeves because i don't know

Exactly like I said, but without any mistakes by Hitler which would have been trivial...With Britain and her colonial allies out of the war, the East was where the prize was as Hitler had written years before in Mine Kampf. It may have been hard and costly, but by that stage even a military idiot like Hitler could do it (!!!)

One part, i feel Hitler rightly assumed that Stalingrad was a direct threat to his army's marching towards the Caucus oil fields, not that they could just cut the pipeline but would be in a position to encircle these armies once in the Caucus's and anielate them.

Dr Carl Househoffer was right....He had discussed this question with Winston Churchill in 1909 on a train travelling in Europe. Both men agreed that any war between their two countries would destroy their empires and make the USA the supreme world power...

They were both right..It was only taken 3 world wars so far for this to happen,

One of them cold...

PS..Yes Jews are far more highly valued as humans than asiatics, 2 million gypsies and more than 12 million Russian soldiers were exterminated in the concentration camps...

But this is never commemerated or mentioned or tourist attraction, only rarely, due to Zionistic propaganda (!!!)

Some very good answers to a question that can't ever really be answered. But allow me push the bounries for a moment, if you please. Lets just say (for arguements sake) that the Germans went ahead with operation sealion and succeeded, although this was unlikely due to a complete lack of air and naval superiority (especially landing crafts), they then would have had control over the british empire. If they played it right it could have been a war winner. With Italy crying out for territory the Germans could have given them control of British colonies in Africa, whilst keeping the middle east oilfields for themselves and handing over British colonies in asia to the Japanese (in return for a delay in German declaration of war with USA until after they had dealt with USSR).They could offer the west Indies to the USA as a gesture of good faith, maybe?

With Western Europe under control (and Nazi youth indoctrination in place to try to create a long term loyal Nazi europe in the future) Hitler could then concentrate all his, now vast, resources on the USSR (whilst keeping his nose out of the operation himself) and been vicorious.

As for the USA, it could have been possible to invade but it would have depended on Canada (and great deal of other ifs and buts). You see at that time their were a lot of commonwealth nations fighting with Britain that were Dominions rather than colonies and as such would not have came under German rule after Britains capitulation. Most of these would have just sued for peace relying on basic geography to save them from the German reach. However at the time Newfoundland was under british governance and as such may have been ceded to the Germans at the time of surrender (i'm not entirely sure this would happen but let's just say it does).

This would put Canada in an almost impossible position as they wouldn't want to allow the Germans a foothold in North America but also be in no position to continue the war at that time. If they chose to occupy Newfoundland they would have to do just that and risk the Germans, using newly acquired British, French and Russian naval forces (no doubt with help from the Italians), ravaging their east coast in a seris of blockading actions and probably even coastal bombardments. Or accept the seemingly generous peace offers (inculding the possibilty of trade agreements). Either way I believe that they would, one way or another, have gained control of Newfoundland.

Now they could use the 'phoney peace' to build up their forces on Newfoundland whilst the Canadians fearfully fortify their border and the USA tussle with the Japanese in the pacific,bearing in mind that a monsterous German navy in the Atlantic would mean they could not focus all their naval forces in the pacific, thus making the war with Japan much more difficult. They could bide their time while war makes the US weaker (Japan's ability to divert troops from south east Asia to protect their Pacific conquests would have meant a much higher casualty rate for the US troops) and continue to build ther own numbers using indoctrinated youths from all over europe, building ships at British shipyards and using Russian industrial might to build tanks and planes the idea of a north American invasion could have been a possibilty.

I know it is a little far fetched, but just food for thought :)

Answer 2

listen to his military staff with regard to war tactics.................

Ans 2.

Hitler could have listened to his generals, but we should all thank God that he didn't.

A better alternative would have been to pursue a career as an architect. His wacky ideas ( "a piano in every lebensraum !" ) were not exactly world-beaters, but world-beating was exactly what none of us wanted from him.