If hitler had captured moscow before winter 1941, what next?

Question

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Would britian surrender?
Would he allow some eastern European countries to become independent?
Would he invade china ?

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Answer 1

Russia was and still is impossible to capture and rule

Britain would have fought to the last man

remember Churchills we shall fight them on the Beaches and in the hills speech?

The only "independent" country he allowed was Switzerland, a country totally willing to do his bidding anyway

China would have been left for Japan, the resources for such a task would have been impossible anyway

Answer 2

By the time of the advance the wermacht supply lines were so stretched it would have been impossible to expand the Reich any farther without solving this first. The Russians deployed the "scorched earth" policy. This called for the destrcution of any resource which could be used be the advancing Wermacht.
Britain had dealt a severe blow the the Luftwaffe during the battle of Britain, all plans for invasion of Britain (operation sea lion) were suspended indefinitely . At the time British forces were fighting the Wermacht in north africa where the war could neither be won nor lost so I do not believe Britain would have surrendered.
Hitler would not have allowed some eastern European countries to become independent because the natural resources in these countries were crucial the Wermacht. EG The oil fields of Ploesti. Such resources were vital to all aspects of the German war machine and therefore would be held at all costs.
Hitler had little or no interest in China. China had been allocated to the Japanese for their expansion policy. Also there were no Jews or Bolsheviks.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Hitler's degree of advance before the onset of the Russian winter would have been largely irrelevant. The Russians tried and true strategy of burn and retreat was insurmountable. If the Germans had advanced 150 miles further before the onset of winter, the Russians would have burned Stalingrad as well and the decisive battle would have taken place somewhere else. But make no mistake, the Germans' strategy was doomed to failure, just as a similar strategy failed Napoleon 200 years earlier. Western generals had a hard time understanding a civilian population that was willing to (forced to?) sacrifice everything in order to avoid defeat.

Answer 5

The over stretched supply lines of the German 6th Army were at breaking point when the German army got to within 6 miles of Moscow,,,,The Russian government would have pulled back to a safe city well out of range of German guns,,The Russian army had lost over 1,500,000 captured by then and lost hundreds of thousands of men but the Russian army at that time was also like a coiled spring,,it could unleash itself from friendly soil and backed by a close at hand manufacturing base,,the Germans were supplying from over 1,000 miles away....The capture of Moscow would have been more of a political victory than a strategic one,,,the war would have dragged on for a month or two as the final Russian offensives of 1944/5 would have been delayed by the re-capturing of Moscow

Answer 6

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Answer 7

From the start Moscow factories were stripped down and moved beyond the Urals well away from Nazi bombers.

I feel the Russians would have burnt Moscow themselves to deny it to Hitler (they did just that against Napoleon Bonapart, hundreds of years before).

Russia was just to big for the Germans to get a handle on.

Answer 8

Hitler wanted Russia for its natural resources, gas, oil, etc etc, so he would have offered an armistice which would have ceded control of Russia or more pertinantly the Soviet Union to a puppet Nazi governement as they did in Vichy France.

That would also have allowed the Germans to link up with their allies the Japanese by invading Manchuria.

If the Japanese had then managed to defeat the British in India, they could have linked up again in Afghanistan which borders the Soviet Union in the north and India (prior to Pakistan) in the south.

That would have given the Axis such control over the worlds natural resources as to make them unbeatable.

Answer 9

There's an ongoing question I've just given an answer to on this topic. Look for "Did WW2 defeat Nazism or Communism in western Europe?" by bh.

Answer 10

Honestly... Hitler when attacking Russia and to stop to make it to England, this survived.

Tactically, Hitler made the same errors that Napoleon Bonaparte.