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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5858330" data-attributes="member: 463">The Soviets had vast manufactuting capacity east of the Urals.  Moscow would not win the war for Hitler any more than it did for Napoleon.If Germany can conquer Britain while avoiding war with America, that could secure the Reich's Atlantic flank in the short term.  However unless she can somehow capture the Royal Navy intact (rather than it sail off to New York) the Anglo-Americans would still have naval supremacy and could use it to (re) establish a bridgehead in the British Isles then go from there. In any case the Royal Navy makes a successful German invasion of Britain very difficult, any landing force can easily be cut off.From the moment Germany attacked the USSR, there isn't really a plausible victory scenario for the Third Reich IMO.  After she declares war on the USA it just gets hopeless, in the mid-long term.  To win, Germany needs to play a long game from late 1940, stay allied with the USSR, absorb her conquests in Europe, and build up technologies that can make an invasion of Britain feasible, or at least cut Britain off from her Empire.I think there are scenarios where Nazi Germany emerges victorious, but they're more about *stopping* the Germans from over-extending.Possibly the best thing the aliens could do to help Nazi Germany would be to assassinate Hitler at Christmas 1940.</blockquote>