Do you think the british and american forces could have beat germany without russia in WWII?

GunnyC

Not without nuclear weapons being used in Europe against the Germans. Even the bombing of Germany would have been hampered with the Luftwaffe units depolyed to the Eastern front available and if Russia was defeated or stayed neutral it would have given Germany access to oil which was their main shortage. The bombing aginst industrial targets was actually over rated it was discovered after the war as much manufacturing had been moved underground or farmed out to smaller industries (the FW-190 was built in bicycle shops and small workshops then assembled and flown off); the Germans best manufaturing year for tanks and aircraft was 1944-1945 but they did not have the fuel to use them. Ground forces were about 80% on the Eastern Front and 90% of elite Waffen SS units were on the Eastern front so the allied ground forces would have had a very very difficult time. If the US had developed nuclear weapons and used then against Germany then it could have been an allied victory but without that I do not think it would be realistic to say they would have.

TyranusXX

Probably but it would have taken much much longer , it would have been about resources. The US had PLENTY and Germany would have eventually run out.

The real question would have been would we have even entered the war if Russia was not fighting Germany?

jennafernandes

not a chance. the russians just threw thousands of bodies at them. germany would have been much too strong if they hadn't had to deal with the eastern front.

militismagnae

USSR was what beat the Germans in WWII. The Germans were well beaten already by the time Normandy Landings took place.

No country even came close to the losses suffered by Russia.

jcsperson

D-day wouldn't have happened anytime close to June 6th, 1944 and we'd still have been planning it well into 1945. By then, however, we would have had nuclear weapons and the war would have been over by the fall of 1945 with or without the Soviet Union.

68w

honestly it would have taken much longer and meant more casualties for both. the russians lost 20 million lives. the battle at stalingrad was a critical earmark moment in the war.

look at these factors:

- bad interferring decisions made by egomaniac hitler.
- expensive high-maintenance tanks
- russian winter
- russian resiliency.

you count those out, and the war is different all of a sudden. england was bending but not breaking.

we the americans made cheaper, faster tanks but nowhere near as good as germans.

the germans were pretty damn good, you have to give it to them. a few bad decisions hitler made cost them the war and they were fighting against the world.

B.Kevorkian

Definitely, though it'd've taken longer and nukes would likely have been involved.

dude.

No, without a war against Russia Germany would have defeated Britain before America got involved. Germany defeated Britain in almost every encounter in the early stages of the war, there's no reason to believe they would not have continued to do so if Hitler had not decided to invade Russia.

oldmarine08

Yes

Amanda

Absolutely

RayNhere

how did the Russians get to the front .....On American trains trucks a fuel and all shipped to them at great cost and risk They and 34 other nation have not paid us back

joeypgbc

no because the rusians broke the german might. The Germans had equipment that was so advance that armies where still using them up to the early 1980s. The Germans had tanks that one on one where better than any in the world; they had rifles that almost equiled to the ak47s; they had the first combat tested jet fighters; battle ship that equiled to the u.s. Battle ships; subs that where deadly even though they equaled most but not all (thanks to the British and u.s. ); and they where building their own nuke program. And this is just a short list. If the german military took out Hitler and some of they high command who knows what damage the germans would have done

panzer103

No Way. Never.
80% of Germanys resources went to the Eastern Front.
What was left went to other fronts. The Western Allies had a huge problem of getting control of the situation the way it was. Just imagine the Full Mighty brunt of the Wehrmacht unleashed on the West. I would assume that Britain would of been taken care of earlier If Russia was never in the picture. So that would of made things very difficult for the Allies.

Bobo - What? Bobo IS smiling.

Bobo say yes, but it would take longer.

'Taker

Yeah. But it would have taken much longer, and cost many more lives. Eventually, the first nuke would possibly have dropped on Berlin instead of Hiroshima.

Havoc

yes, obviously

Dangeresque

It would have taken alot longer but yes germany didnt have the resources to wage the war any longer

gunsrfunmg

ya but u can add an extra 5 years to the length of the war and probly a couple more million ppl dead and once the atomic bomb was invented and dropped about 10 of them the germans would have surrendered

nipsey russell is dead

doubt it--if the german army hadn't been depleted on the eastern front we'd be speaking german today.

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