So anyway I have an idea for a timeline where the whole community works together to come up with a plausible way for the axis to win AND a plausible way that the Axis's plans could have worked.
If you know anything about one of those plans post it here.
& GBA-
Operation Dragoon.
Allied Spring Offensive April 1945: Note that 21 ID NZ is actually New Zealand 2nd Infantry Division. As Allied forces pushed across the Po, on the left flank the Brazilian, 34th Infantry and 1st Armored Divisions of IV Corps were pushed west and northwest along the line of Highway 9 towards Piacenza and across the Po to seal possible escape routes into Austria and Switzerland via Lake Garda.
Possibly the assassinating either Ike, George S. Patton, Monty or General De Galle helps Germany.
If Spain, Peronist Argentina and the IRA enters the war on the Nazi's side. Sweden could also join the Nazis if they are doing well. A Nazi coup meant Swiss Germans could join Hitler's forces to and Mousselinie conquers the rest.
To be fair Portugal also join the Alies and helps them to.
To win the war on the Eastern Front the Germans should have eased their racist anti-Slav policies. If they had backed the national committees that were established by different ethnic groups (Russian National Committee, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Georgian, etc.) then they could have had a potential source of millions of Soviets fighting on their side. The total number of collaborators with Nazi Germany from the Soviet Union is estimated to be more than one million at the very least, with the highest estimate being around 2.5 million.
Because of Nazi racial policies, the Hiwis (short for Hilfswilliger, German for "willing to help") and other volunteers, like Andrey Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army, were hindered and were rarely used in combat (the Battle of Stalingrad was one exception, where as much as one quarter of the German 6th Army's strength was estimated to be Soviet citizens). Although a lot of German commanders praised Soviet volunteers for being reliable and good fighters, they were ignored by the Nazis. General Field Marshal Fedor von Bock requested to Hitler that they put together a Russian Liberation Army of, initially, 200,000 men. However, the head of the OKW General Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel told him to stay out of politics and did not forward his request to Hitler.
On the few occasions that Soviet citizens were used in combat they proved to be very effective. The ROA (the Russian acronym for Russian Liberation Army) fought against the Red Army in early 1945. They fought well and were praised by Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels for their vigor and ferocity. The ROA was better known for later defeating the Germans, ironically, at the Prague uprising. They managed to defeat the Heer and Waffen-SS divisions and drove them out of the city, saving the Czech partisans, who were on the verge of defeat before ROA's intervention.
The point is that they could have most likely toppled Stalin's regime if they had a policy of treating the natives better and actually used the Soviet volunteers in combat more often and effectively (many of them were sent to the Western Front instead). If they had, then the majority of the Red Army would most likely refuse to fight and defect in mass numbers. Even when the Germans were losing the war, they were still getting Red Army defectors. But this would have been probably impossible or highly unlikely at the very least due to the Nazi policies.
The only way I could see this possibly occuring is if high ranking Germans like von Bock and other generals, or perhaps Himmler (who backed the ROA and convinced Hitler to form ten Russian divisions in 1944, but it was far too late by then) went behind Hitler's back and allowed the formation and training of groups like the ROA and the national committees earlier on in the war; and also gave orders for better treatment of Soviet citizens. But that would have been highly unlikely to happen.
The only chance for the Axis to win the war, would be if they had the Soviet Union on their side. Even then, with total co-operation with the Soviets, and without a single drop of Uranium or Plutonium on the planet, it would be a close call. I am guessing that the Germans using Mother Russia's natural ressources would still not have the industrial capacity of the United States of America. It would take an incredible amount of co-operation between the Soviets and other Axis to win the war. Definitely not possible with Hitler as the head of Nazism!
I say that two things are needed above all else.
1: Hitler isn't in charge of Germany. He should just have stayed a spokeman.
2:The Axis is more like the BRICS nations. BRICS has both India and China, two nations that have competing claims in Kashmir, and we all know how India feels about that. Thus, if the Axis is more of a way to say, drive back imperialist aggressors, then we could see the entrance of a different Soviet UNion. one headed by Trotsky or something.
I have some knowledge. A good comparison for Lebransum is what happened to the native Americans, but much worse.
Hitler also had plans to eventually invade America. (Duh)
He also wanted to destroy Switzerland. He called them the Swiss the mortal enemies of the new Germany.
Didn't Japan invade the rest of Asia to gain access to raw materials not found in the Japanese archipelago (since it needed lots of it to support its new industrial base), and also to create buffer zones with Western powers? I also read somewhere that Japan only did Pearl Harbour because it interfered with its access to raw materials (didn't the United States put sanctions on oil prior to the attack?).
largely, that is accurate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXfT9hzC-jI
This seems like a plausible explaination of an axis victory in Brittan and the world.
