5 Reasons Nazi Germany Could Never Have Won World War II

One of the most compelling arguments as to why Germany was never going to win World War II is simply that of a shortage of manpower. By the time the Axis power found itself in a war on two fronts, attrition had been revealed as the name of the game and much like the issue discussed earlier with oil shortages, Germany also only had a finite number of soldiers, and costly campaigns in the east had led to a massive scarcity of soldiers towards the latter years of the conflict.

In many ways, the initial portion of the German offensive into the Soviet Union was a great success in how it had claimed so much territory and dealt the Soviets such large losses in both troops and armour in a relatively short time.

However, even if Hitler had been successful in pushing through the Soviet lines at Stalingrad, the sheer number of soldiers that would be required to both continue the invasion, and maintain control over the occupied territories would've stretched the German army far too thin, especially while still fighting on other fronts.

What was initially unlikely became practically impossible after the US joined the war. Though Hitler had stated that he believed war with the superpower was an inevitable eventually, the conflict opening on another front was disastrous for a military that was already caught up in a brutal battle of attrition in the east. This is why during the final months of the war, and particularly in the Battle of Berlin, the remaining German forces consisted of both the young and elderly who had been forced to join the fight due to the death, capture, or dismemberment of the vast majority of fighting age Nazis.