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Question: Had Hitler not attacked Poland but allowed his scientists and economy to grow what would have happened!?
I will add more later depending on what the answers are as this What-If opens so many possibilities and I cannot possibly debate them all!. But this question primarily deals with what would happen if Hitler let the allies make the next move after the reunification of a lot of German lands into a Greater Germany!. An d Germany grew more powerful in its economy, science and technology as well as some military build up!. What would Stalin have done and what would the reaction of the western allies have been to any of his moves is another idea you may want to consider when answering!. I would hope their will be no cop outs saying this would never happen (it might never have but what if it did)!!!!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Wow! Good question!.

Stalin was as eager to add land to the Soviet empire as Hitler was!. I don't know if Stalin had the cahunas to invade Finland if it wasn't for the world's attention being focused on Nazi Germany!. But if Hitler was to hold back on attacking Poland or any other offensives, I think eventually the differences between the USSR and the west would reach a melting point!. But on the other hand, if Germany was not being a threat to Europe then England and the other European nations with interests in the Pacific could have put more resources towards the war against Japan and the attack on Pearl Harbor would never have happened!.

Then I imagine, in theory, that Germany could have entered the war between the USSR and the west and eventually wound up in the same position that the US are in now by using the same tactic in both world wars!. Maybe we wouldn't all be speaking German, but Hitler would have had alot more time and resources to achieve his 'final solution' and there would deffinately not be a nation of Israel in the Middle-East!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Nothing, he ran out of manpower to maintain his resource and combat load!.


If he had more people he would have been more successful, Germany is simply too small of a country to fight the world!.


And besides Russia would have eventually beat them on their own, you cant invade Russia because they just stall until the winter kills you!.


Russia is pretty much impossible to invade, and they have a huge number of people, eventually they would have crushed Germany in sheer numbers, but the death toll would have been horrific!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The reason France and the UK tolerated Germany was because they viewed it as a barrier against a soviet invasion!.

I am sure they would of left Germany alone, but it would of given the allies time to revamp and update there own military technology!.

And it would of given Germany time to develop an atomic weapon!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Germany could have become one of the great European powers!. While Hitler was in power, Germany was prospering and advancing!. If Hitler had waited another ten or fifteen years before attacking Poland, he probably would have won the war!. He would have had a much larger and advanced army and more than enough money to fund the war!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The problem with building an army is you have to use it!. At a certain point you reach peak efficiency in an army!. If you don't use them at that point, morale declines and they start to turn into dissatisfied men instead of soldiers!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

If your economy is based on military spending, sooner or later you have to go to war to get a good return on your expenditure!. The Nazi Germany was no different!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hitler was a very intelligent man!. Yes, he happened to also be evil!. I believe if he did as you said, we all might be speaking German (Deutsch)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The German economy was on a build up to war!. If it kept going up like that with no release, it would have gone back the way it came!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

hitler would make germany prosper he brought it out of the rubble it was in ww1!. although he was crazy he could have been better!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

There wouldn't be so many "pole-lock" jokes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I guess the World War II would have started a little later!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Probably we would all speak German!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Had Hitler bid his time until the 1950's, the allies would not have had a chance!. His biggest blunder, was attacking Russia too late, right when winter was about to start!. The best time to attack Russia, is right as winter is ending, and spring is begining, that way the country is conquered by the middle of summer, and your troops can settle in for the Russian winter!. Hitler underestimated the grip and fear Stalin had on the Russians, and it ended up costing him the eastern front!. Well that and sniper Vasily Saitzev pretty much single handedly demoralized the Germany army!. The real story is actually better than the movie; Saitzev very nearly worked alone, as the majority of his fellow Russian snipers were all caught and killed!. Only Saitzev went the distance!. In the movie, some of the snipers are still alive by the end however in real life, Saitzev was left all alone out there!. He caused the German army no end of grief, and from among the catholics in those ranks, they thought the Devil himself was hunting them down for their crimes!. No devil; but a Russian peasant boy from the Urals!.

Had Hitler bid his time, the demoralizing fear Stalin put the Russians through, and the crippling poverty affecting the U!.S!., would have meant all powers famous for winning WWII would have been too weak and technologically backward to put up much of a resistance!. Not to mention the fact that Europe, North America and Russia, had no shortage of racists!. The Nazis were well aware of the fact that some Russians were of scandinavian origin, descendants of the Rus Viking tribe that historians think may have given Russia its name!. Part of the reason Hitler ordered the invasion of Russia, was both the natural and human resources, namely the "Aryans" there!. Nazi anthropologists, suggested to Hitler, he should kill off Russia's slavs, while keeping alive its people of scandinavian origin, which in Russia outnumbered the ones in Germany and the Scandinavian circle put together!. The majority of Russians are slavic ethnically speaking, and only a minority are of scandinavian origin, thing is, Russia's population was huge!.

As to what Stalin would have done, or the west would have done, it ultimately doesn't matter because Nazi technology was decades ahead of the allie's just in the mid 1940's!. Had Hitler been more patient, and bid his time and waited until the 1950's, we would have seen jet propeled bombers with nuclear tiped bombs in their cargo holds flying over Russia and the U!.S!. Forget video games, and forget books; we are talking a hellish scenario straight out of your worts nightmares!. also, all "not white enough" peoples of Europe, would have been put in interment camps, and executed via nuke!. That is they would have been marched to a field somewhere, or even to the desert of North Africa, and while there, the axis powers would have simply dropped a nuke on them, saving them the trouble of having to have camps!.

In other words, the complete and total extinction of ashkenazi Jewry!. There are Misrahim in Israel who don't see that as a bad thing!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.

As to other populations of the world likely they would have been enslaved; had Germany succeeded, in taking Britain and France, they would have in effect taken over the administration of both those country's overseas colonies!. Had they taken Russia, they would have in effect taken most of Asia!. The Nazi war machine would likely, had it been victorious, taken over the whole of the western hemisphere, and the whole of Africa, but they would have been stopped in their tracks in the east by the Chinese, the country most likely to hold out pockets of resistance although ultimately broken by German nuke planes!.

And, yeah, Japan would have still ended up being nuked anyway, as the digging up of Nazi documents during the nuremberg trials revealed Nazi Germany was planning, indeed, all along, to betray Japan!. The Japanese, Hitler was just using as cannon fodder!. See though, the military government in Japan got wind of this; to check the Germans, that is part of the reason Japan wanted the western portion of the U!.S!. With California in their hands Germany would not have total control of the western hemisphere, and they could keep an eye on them if they tried anything!.

No arguing the fact that the world would be very different!. The world of white people, would probably have had computer technology, like the kind we have now, in the 1960's!. The world of nonwhite people on the other hand, their life would be a throwback to the 17th and 18th centuries, the likely living conditions the Nazis would have placed them under!.

Its a good thing I built that time machine, secretly murdered Hitler in 1939, and then deliberately ran the war incompetently eh!?

NAH just kidding!.!.!.!.

*that's all I told him master! please don't kill me!*

Pardon me, Napoleon Bonaparte is calling my cell because I'm just sick and psychotic you know!.


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Hitler and Stalin had a deal to split Poland!. Poland didn't stand a chance between two superpowers!. Hitler also believed his country was in its prime and didn't need the further aid in economy and science it would have gained by your theory!. Germany prepared for the war at least 10 years before firing the first shot building up supplies and positioning their troops!. Hitler had Stalin so snowed that the troop buildup at Russia's border was ONLY for Poland!.!.!. imagine his surprise when Germany attacked Russia!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No one would have done anything!. Stalin was an ally when Poland actually had been invaded!. Britain was happy to appease with a little land, France was not going to go to war with Germany, and the U!.S!. was fine staying out of it until Pearl Harbor!.

I guess the main difference in Europe is that several million Polish Jews would have lived and thrived and Poland would still be the center of Jewish civilization!. I'm not clear from your scenario whether "his scientists" would include Jewish scientists or if the German Jews would still be murdered!. Maybe without a militaristic regime and a world war, there would have been no development of nuclear weapons!.

It really is not a cop-out to say there's no analyzing this, because Hitler had a couple of agendas that are inconsistent with your scenario - to exterminate all Jews and to take over Europe and more!. A hypothetical like this might be simpler if you hypothetically had a different German government who pursued aggressive expansionist policies that stopped short of invading Poland, after Hitler died in a freak bestiality accident in 1929 or something!.

The question is frankly a bit offensive in imagining a non-offensive Nazi Germany!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Difficult question!. It's possible Hitler would not yet have attacked Poland in 1939!. He would have attacked someone somewhere on the way anyway!. Read Mein Kampf!. The whole book is full about the need of Lebensraum!.

Okay, let's assume peace would last for a while!. It wouldn't have changed a lot!. Germany was building a massive war industry, which in 1939 was a known fact to even the sleepiest of European governments!. Every body was building like mad to be able to withstand what was coming!.

Of course Germany would have had a much bigger navy, for example (Plan Z)!. But Britain was gearing up for war as well!. By the time Plan Z would have been finished, the Royal Navy would have been expanded more than enough to cope with it!.

All the smaller nations that Germany conquered so easily during the Blitzkrieg would have had the time to buy more modern weaponry, and be able to defend themselves a good deal better!. They probably would have lost anyway, but it wouldn't be the walk over as happened in real life!.

What if Hitler was put on a Valium drip and never went on the war path!? In that case, I think, we can safely assume Germany would have been bankrupt somewhere around 1942 or 1943!. Dr!. Hjalmar Schacht performed financial miracles that kept Germany going, until they could rob the bank!. The European national banks, that is!.

All those jobs created, industry build and roads constructed had to be paid by someone, eventually!.
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