5 Reasons Nazi Germany Could Never Have Won World War II

It might seem a little redundant to include the Soviet Union on a list of reasons why Nazi Germany couldn't win WW2. I mean, it is clear that the sacrifices of the communist superpower were instrumental in halting German dominance in continental Europe, but it has to be noted that even if events hadn't unfolded exactly as they did, Stalin and co would have always fought to the bitter end.

That brings us to one of the most compelling arguments as to how Germany could have won the war and that is by never launching Operation Barbarossa.

The issue with this idea is that to believe it requires a complete misunderstanding of the ideological motivations for much of Hitler's decision making to assume that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 would prevent war between the two powers from taking place.

Hitler saw the concepts of Judaism and Bolshevism as inseparable, and maintained a deep hatred for both, meaning that the conflict with the USSR was the one that took ideological precedence in the eyes of the German leader. While war with the Allied powers in the west was necessary as they opposed Hitler's territorial ambitions, invading the Soviet Union was the Nazi leader's ultimate aim.

So with the regime's oil supplies already insufficient to support the bulging Reich as previously discussed, the decision to invade was not as much of a strategic misstep as it was ultimately an inevitability right from the outset of the war.

Some Russian scholarship even goes as far as suggesting that Hitler wasn't the only party interested in breaking the nonaggression pact, and that Stalin was actually planning on invading Germany in the summer of 1941, making the decision the invade the USSR a preemptive strike from the Nazi regime. If true, this means that one way or another, a communist versus fascist showdown in Eastern Europe was bound to take place.