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Imagine a world where Nazi Germany never fights the West—only the Soviet Union.
This alternate WW2 timeline explores strategy, numbers, and the brutal outcome of a one-on-one clash.
What if every German tank, every plane, every drop of fuel was poured into one goal: crushing the Soviet Union?

In this video, we explore a brutal, alternate timeline where Germany focuses entirely on the Eastern Front—no Battle of Britain, no Atlantic War, no Africa Corps. Just a single, all-out collision between the Reich and the Red Giant.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 – Berlin Map Room
1:00 – The Big What-If
2:15 – Barbarossa & Weakness
3:30 – Moscow Approach
5:00 – Logistics & Factories
7:00 – Could Hitler Win?

📖 SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

Operation Barbarossa & the Eastern Front:
Glantz, David M. and House, Jonathan. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. University Press of Kansas, 2015.
Stahel, David. Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad. Viking Press, 1998.
Mawdsley, Evan. Thunder in the East: The Nazi–Soviet War 1941–1945. Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

German Strategy, Leadership & Economics:
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: A Biography. W.W. Norton, 2008.
Tooze, Adam. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. Penguin Books, 2006.
Overy, Richard. War and Economy in the Third Reich. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Soviet Strategy, State & Leadership:
Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953. Yale University Press, 2006.
Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov. Random House, 2012.
Taubman, William. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. W.W. Norton, 2003.

Soviet Industrial Evacuation & War Economy:
Harrison, Mark. Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938–1945. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Harrison, Mark, ed. The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Sanborn, Joshua A. Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II. Basic Books, 2021.

Lend-Lease to the USSR:
Herring, George C. Aid to Russia 1941–1946: Strategy, Diplomacy, the Origins of the Cold War. Columbia University Press, 1973.
Jones, Robert Huhn. The Roads to Russia: United States Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union. University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
Beaumont, Joan. Comrades in Arms: British Aid to Russia 1941–1945. Davis-Poynter, 1980.

German & Soviet Production, Tanks & Equipment:
Zaloga, Steven J. T-34-85 Medium Tank 1944–94. Osprey Publishing, 1996.
Kirchubel, Robert. Operation Barbarossa 1941: Army Group South. Osprey Publishing, 2003.

Logistics, Infrastructure & Operational Limits:
Van Creveld, Martin. Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Citino, Robert M. The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944–1945. University Press of Kansas, 2017.

Comparative Military Analysis & German General Staff:
Dupuy, Trevor N. A Genius for War: The German Army and General Staff, 1807–1945. Military Book Club, 2002.

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