5 Reasons Nazi Germany Could Never Have Won World War II

If you try to condense WW2 down as an analogous bar fight, it's probably fair to say that Nazi Germany was not very well supported by its friends in the grand scheme of things.

With the Nazis already finding themselves taking on a good portion of the patrons inside, their troubles would only be compounded when Imperial Japan decided to throw a sucker punch at the biggest dude in the bar with Pearl Harbour, and Fascist Italy struggling to hold their own in the scrap.

Pearl Harbour alone is a huge reason the Nazi regime was always going to struggle to come out of WW2 intact. As we've already discussed, Hitler was mainly concerned with expanding Lebensraum and eliminating the communist ideology to the east, and would've even probably have preferred to avoid, or at least delay, war with Britain and the US if possible, but Uncle Sam's involvement became inevitable after the Japanese bombing.

Suddenly, Nazi Germany was not only facing the prospect of trying to be the first civilisation to conquer Russia since the Mongols, but now also had to try to fight a war on two fronts without significant assistance from their allies.

Hitler tried to get the Japanese to invade the Soviet Union to force the USSR to also have to deal with the prospect of a war on two fronts, but they refused, leaving the Axis powers isolated in their own conflicts.

In a war spanning the entire world, Germany found itself at war against empires and superpowers that stretched onto every major inhabited continent, and the strain of war on multiple fronts without significant assistance from their allies was always going to be too much for the fascist regime.