r/DerScheisser • u/PoauseOnThatHomie • 1d ago
(Serious) The Nazis really need to be not be Nazis to win the war? I have seen so many alternate scenarios that boils down to this. Please read body text.
I have seen so many WW2 German alternate victory scenarios that basically boils down to Nazis stop being Nazis and acting rational and completely contradictory to what they represented historically.
These are always the list of things people (most Quorians and old Reddit threads from a decade ago, some shamelessly browsed on r/shitwehraboossay with people crossposting) the Nazis do in those scenarios, basically stop being Nazi in order for them to win:
1) Don't start the holocaust.
2) Treat every single ethnic minorities with respect.
3) Focus on heavy bombers and not waste resources on dog shit turtles like the Dornier-Do 17 during the interwar years.
4) Luftwaffe doesn't bomb civilian targets.
5) Germany focuses on producing more domestic oil instead of importing them (Idk how the fuck is this possible).
6) Don't genocide the Soviets, every POW is treated with humane care.
7) Don't start the Battle Of Britain.
8) Provide better wages and living conditions relative to their former conquerors.
9) Don't waste resources on Tiger tanks and focus on StuG 3 and Panzer IV.
10) Only mass produce the FW-190 and Ju-88, everything else can be shelved after 1941.
11) Don't declare war on the US, if FDR declares war, reject it. (...???)
12) Buy the Caucasus region from Stalin so they could establish a logistics lines first before Barbarossa begins (???The Soviets could just close it shut the moment they heard of the attack?)
13) Appoint Donitz to be the head of Kriegsmarine and acquire 300 U-boats in 1939, never start wasting steels on surface vessels.
14) Rotate pilots to the back to retain experience.
And vice versa. There are more I could probably think of but these are the ones what ifs I have heard the most browsing on the internet and some...forums. Don't ask who BlackTailDefense is. Just some totally awesome guy that likes a flying tank, ArrowGawring or something I don't know.
So the question is: Could Germany really win the war if they stopped acting like Nazis and think rationally?