While it certainly would have prolonged the war, Germany was starving for oil/fuel with their heavily mechanized force. In other words, they HAD to invade russia.... but perhaps forming some form of trade alliance first would have been a smarter option in hindsight. They also made some other horrible decisions like resizing the width of every train and track in Europe in the middle of the war, when things like steel are at a premium.
One could argue however that they were pretty close to developing the atom bomb as well, so who knows really. There were some crazy clandestine allied raids on the heavy water facilities in scandinavia that allowed us to slow down said development of the weapon, but the fact stands that they were pretty fucking close to it.
Perhaps the added manpower on the atlantic wall may have prevented allied landfall, perhaps not. As it stands it was a 5 to 1 outnumbering for the 4 beach heads in favor of the allies. The troops there were typically conscripts that gave up pretty quickly. If they were reinforced with some hardened SS units and the beach heads failed, the world would have been a different place today.
While it certainly would have prolonged the war, Germany was starving for oil/fuel with their heavily mechanized force. In other word, they HAD to invade russia.... but perhaps forming some form of trade alliance first would have been a smarter option in hindsight. They also made some other horrible decisions like resizing the width of every train and track in Europe in the middle of the war, when things like steel are at a premium.
One could argue however that they were pretty close to developing the atom bomb as well, so who knows really. There were some crazy clandestine allied raids on the heavy water facilities in scandinavia that allowed us to slow down said development of the weapon, but the fact stands that they were pretty fucking close to it.
Perhaps the added manpower on the atlantic wall may have prevented allied landfall, perhaps not. As it stands it was a 5 to 1 outnumbering for the 4 beach heads in favor of the allies. The troops there were typically conscripts that gave up pretty quickly. If they were reinforced with some hardened SS units and the beach heads failed, the world would have been a different place today.
While it certainly would have prolonged the war, Germany was starving for oil/fuel with their heavily mechanized force. They also made some other horrible decisions like resizing the width of every train and track in Europe in the middle of the war, when things like steel are at a premium.
One could argue however that they were pretty close to developing the atom bomb as well, so who knows really. There were some crazy clandestine allied raids on the heavy water facilities in scandinavia that allowed us to slow down said development of the weapon, but the fact stands that they were pretty fucking close to it.
Perhaps the added manpower on the atlantic wall may have prevented allied landfall, perhaps not. As it stands it was a 5 to 1 outnumbering for the 4 beach heads in favor of the allies. The troops there were typically conscripts that gave up pretty quickly. If they were reinforced with some hardened SS units and the beach heads failed, the world would have been a different place today.
While it certainly would have prolonged the war, Germany was starving for oil/fuel with their heavily mechanized force. They also made some other horrible decisions like resizing the width of every train and track in Europe in the middle of the war, when things like steel are at a premium.
One could argue however that they were pretty close to developing the atom bomb as well, so who knows really. There were some crazy clandestine allied raids on the heavy water facilities in scandinavia that allowed us to slow down said development of the weapon, but the fact stands that they were pretty fucking close to it.
Perhaps the added manpower on the atlantic wall may have prevented allied landfall, perhaps not. As it stands it was a 5 to 1 outnumbering for the 4 beach heads. The troops there were typically conscripts that gave up pretty quickly. If they wre reinforced with some hardened SS units and the beach heads failed, the world would have been a different place today.