Will Normandy's landing still be a success if Germany made peace pact with USSR?

Answer 1

I believe so. Obviously it would have been more difficult, but I would take USA and Britain versus Germany and the Soviets.

Why do I believe it? It is because the Russians were very strong, but that is because we were supplying them with a lot of material. We gave lots of stuff to the Russians and were they an ally of Germany, that spigot would have turned off immediately. So Stalin wouldn't have had as much to work with and certainly wouldn't have helped Hitler in France.

The Normandy landings may have had to wait longer if the Germans had Russian allies, but America's preparation would have changed. In World War II, every landing made by the US troops was successful, whether in the Atlantic or Pacific. Eisenhower knew how to plan.

The Germans knew the US would not invade at Normandy. Why? There were no natural harbors there and no way to make artificial ones. Except for one thing, the US was able to build an artificial one. They were always able to adapt, improvise and overcome.

Answer 2

Highly unlikely. Whatever the Allies did during World War II was relatively minor compared to what's been happening at the Russian front. During Battle of France (1940), Germany deployed 141 divisions (Italy supplied additional 32). Much of this force was subsequently dispatched to the Eastern front, where Germany alone had about 220 divisions. Between the height of Battle of France and the time the Allies landed in Normandy, the German military presence in France has been reduced from four million (which included 700,000 Italian troops) to 380,000.

This said, a peace pact with the USSR was even more unlikely. Germany and the USSR signed such a pact in 1939, and Germany broke it in less than two years. By the time the Allies landed in Normandy, the Red Army has recaptured all Soviet territory and made significant inroads into Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania. The Soviet leadership began to think that winning the war was only a matter of time, while Soviet population (including the armed forces) grew extremely angry as atrocities committed by SS in occupied Soviet territories became known...

Answer 3

It depended upon the peace made as stated above there was a peace made with Molotov and Von Ribbentrop signing a non aggression treaty If concessions were made to the Soviets securing the Baltic and a Polish concession and the Germans had access to the Middle East and thus securing a source of fuel then a DMZ established between the two countries this would have freed the considerable men and materiel tied up on the Eastern front with the Allies pushing up from Italy the Germany forces would be able to secure their southern borders though out the Balkans and into the Persian gulf.The French Coast would have the adequate reserve forces to repel an invasion.The only flaw as in any plane is execution When a madman is making tactical decisions no amount of men and materiel is going to prevail

Answer 4

A peace pact with the USSR would have freed up a great many German troops and aircraft. As it was most of the defenders of the At lactic Wall were 2ed rate troops with 2ed rate equipment. Most were not even German. Allied (American) troops landing on D-Day were surprised when thy captured Hungarian, Romanian,Slav, Ukrainian, and other troops. However, the extra troops would have not changed the basic flaw in the German High Command's thinking: they expected the landings to take place far to the North, not at Normandy. But there would have been a larger better equiped reserve to oppose the Allies after the landings were made. So, I think the landings would have been successful, but the battles across France after the landings would have been much worse for the Allies.

Answer 5

The British Navy and Air Force could eliminate all German opposition in the English Channel much more easily than in the North Sea of Baltic Sea which were farther for Allied fighter aircraft to operate and would only allow a few minutes for combat before running low on fuel . As it was the Allied air forces had total domination of the sky over Normandy and the naval forces defended the invasion force completely. There was also the problem of supplying the invasion force over such a long distance It would have been impossible. The whole idea was to gain a foothold in Western Europe and it succeeded brilliantly and the Battle of Normandy eliminated most of the german armour in France and Belgium. To invade in North germany and Denmark would have been suicidal. Your history teacher is no strategist. Don't forget that Britain was being bombed at the time by the new Nazi V weapons and wanted the war finished as soon as possible.

Answer 6

Yes, there was no stopping the US war machine once it started rolling, if anything more effort would have been put in after the first months when thins started to slow down, in go into a sort of a lull, and perhaps the battle of the bulge would not have achieved so much before being burned out. it was inevitable, Germany knew from day one, that as soon as japan got the US involved, it would be over in a few years, Hitler did not want the ZUs in the war at all, if he had called the war off in early 41, before invading Russia, and then built up strength with his new territories of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia,Austria,Hungary,Romania ,France ,Belgium,Norway etc, in less than 10 years or so he could have waged a pretty good war with both Britain and the US, Jet aircraft would be much more advanced and so would the V rockets, and Britain may have tried to keep pace, but would be licking it's Early war wounds, and its public would not go for massive re-arming, that is to costly. The US was not stirring from it's slumber, until the late spring in aide to Britain, so if right before, the US recovering from a Depression, would have continued to focus on it's internal problems and leave Europe to it's old arguing self, and no amount of words could stir the American public to start a war with Germany if they had stopped the war already. NOw that something to ponder.

Answer 7

It depends on when the pact was made. If it came at the time of D Day, the damage the USSR had already done to Germany was sufficient that the West could have defeated the remaining Germantroops within a few years, but if it came prior to the German invasion of the USSR it might have become impossible for the Allies to prevail.

Answer 8

it is a matter of timing. if that peace could have been done at the landing moments, there wouldn`t be enough time to move all the eastern divisions from where is now ucraine to western france. maybe only the fighter and assault luftwaffe (JG 52, JG 53 , JG 54, NJG 100 ) displaced in ukraine, romania, hungary, poland and baltic countries, where the best pilots were concentrated ( a reserve of about 2000 combat planes ).the luftwaffe could change the odds for a while, until the ground forces would reach the atlantic coast. in a man to man combat, the allies would have been defeated. l`ll say " no success". on the other hand, if the peace would have been done at least one month earlier, ther would be no landing. eisenhower was not that stupid. but anyway, this is pure theory. not only that peace could turnover the landing. good question.

Answer 9

If Germany and the USSR had made peace prior to June 1944, there would never have been any Allied landing in Europe. The war would have ended with a peace treaty between England and the United States with Germany. The US would have compete right of influence in Asia, and the Germans would have kept their influence in Europe. The British Empire would have remained in tact. with the exception of North Africa and Egypt.

Answer 10

Impossible to say, since Stalin and Hitler could never have reached a separate peace, unless Barbarossa had succeeded the first time around.

If Hitler had conquered the entire European continent, it's very difficult to imagine Overlord could have succeeded. The entire strategy of the war would have been altered immeasurably.

What an interesting question!