Who would win between just Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union

[sturm]

Originally Posted by Heidi XX

Germany would win for sure!
Russia won in the first place cause Germany had tooo many countries aginst them.
Germany forces was already in the middle of russia when the bad winter hit! If there was no bad winter and no America and Briton,Germany would just powered through to all the Russian capital cities.
Germany had alot of grat tanks,Russia only had one great tank,may I add.

Germany had all troops on the eastern front, and just a few on the western besides which country did Germany fought against?
1940 they beaten up the french, and it was an air war against UK.
Well the war in the east was pretty much ended, 1941 it was time for the east, so nazis used milions of troops to attack Russia, and the war until 1944 was mostly against Soviet Union.

[Celticguy]

"Germany had all troops on the eastern front, and just a few on the western besides which country did Germany fought against?
1940 they beaten up the french, and it was an air war against UK.
Well the war in the east was pretty much ended, 1941 it was time for the east, so nazis used milions of troops to attack Russia, and the war until 1944 was mostly against Soviet Union." -sturm-



Sturm, they had troops diverted to fight wars in the Balkans and greece as well as north africa in 1941. This is what delayed the attack on the Soviet Union as well as divert hundreds of tanks, guns and aircraft along with around 3 or 4 hundred thousand troops. They had about 800 aircraft ( 300 directly, 500 more in meditterrain theatre) to assist Rommel in north africa alone along with about 400 tanks.

They also had to maintain high troop levels in France and other areas to guard against any possible British assault.

With both Britain and France out of the war, in a senario with just a straight up war between the Soviet Union and Germany, the Germans would have had a massive amount of extra resources available to them.

By 1943 the Germans had troops diverted all over europe in occupying france and elseware which were becoming more hostile. They had 3 to 4 hundred thousand troops in Italy battling the Americans and Brits. They also had a huge level of troops in France preparing for a possible invasion. By 1944 the Germans had about 1.5 million troops engaged against the western allies against about 3 million on the Russian front. If you take Yugoslavia alone, look at the amount of troops , tanks and planes they needed there gainst Tito's partizans ( about 150-200k).

So, even in 1944 if the western powers withdrew from the war the germans would have been able to send another 1 and a half million soldiers into russia to support operations.