What If Germany Fought ONLY the Soviet Union in WWII?

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What if Nazi Germany never fought Britain, never sent Rommel to Africa, and never declared war on America? What if Hitler focused everything—every soldier, every tank, every aircraft—on a single objective: defeating the Soviet Union? Could Germany have won? By the end, you'll understand why World War II wasn't decided by battlefield genius—it was decided by factories, trucks, and tonnage. 🎯 TIMESTAMPS: 01:38 RULES OF ENGAGEMENT 03:08 THE FORCES FREED UP 06:14 THE INITIAL VICTORIES: MOSCOW, LENINGRAD, BAKU 10:11 THE PROBLEM 13:16 THE MISSING PIECE 18:48 THE VERDICT: TWO POSSIBLE OUTCOMES 📖 SOURCES & FURTHER READING: Battle of Britain: Bungay, Stephen. "The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain." Aurum Press, 2000. Overy, Richard. "The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality." W.W. Norton, 2001. German Military Operations: Glantz, David M. and House, Jonathan. "When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler." University Press of Kansas, 2015. Stahel, David. "Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East." Cambridge University Press, 2009. Soviet Industrial Evacuation: Harrison, Mark. "Soviet Planning in Peace and War 1938–1945." Cambridge University Press, 1985. Sanborn, Joshua A. "Stalin's War: A New History of World War II." Basic Books, 2021. Lend-Lease to USSR: Herring, George C. "Aid to Russia 1941-1946: Strategy, Diplomacy, the Origins of the Cold War." Columbia University Press, 1973. Jones, Robert Huhn. "The Roads to Russia: United States Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union." University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. Beaumont, Joan. "Comrades in Arms: British Aid to Russia 1941-1945." Davis-Poynter, 1980. Soviet Production Statistics: Harrison, Mark, ed. "The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison." Cambridge University Press, 1998. Zaloga, Steven J. "T-34-85 Medium Tank 1944–94." Osprey Publishing, 1996. German Production & Economics: Overy, Richard. "War and Economy in the Third Reich." Oxford University Press, 1994. Tooze, Adam. "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy." Penguin Books, 2006. Baku Oil & Caucasus Campaign: Glantz, David M. "The Battle for the Ukraine: The Red Army's Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii Offensive, 1944." Military History, Vol. 15, 2003. Mawdsley, Evan. "Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945." Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Logistics & Infrastructure: Van Creveld, Martin. "Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton." Cambridge University Press, 2004. Kirchubel, Robert. "Operation Barbarossa 1941: Army Group South." Osprey Publishing, 2003. Soviet Military Leadership: Roberts, Geoffrey. "Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov." Random House, 2012. Taubman, William. "Khrushchev: The Man and His Era." W.W. Norton, 2003. Comparative Military Analysis: Citino, Robert M. "The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945." University Press of Kansas, 2017. Dupuy, Trevor N. "A Genius for War: The German Army and General Staff, 1807-1945." Military Book Club, 2002. All statistics cited in this video are cross-referenced against multiple academic sources and primary documents.