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The only way Hitler would have won is if America stayed out
80% of nazis died on the eastern front. The US helped sure but it could have been won without them
Nikita Khrushchev, in his own memoir, stating clearly that the USSR could not have won the war on its own:
-Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich; Khrushchev, Serge (2004). Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar, 1918–1945. Penn State Press. pp. 638–639.
Interesting, I did not know about this. I'm hesitant to believe it bc its Kruschev but I will look into it further
I really have no basis for evaluating the matter at hand one way or the other, but I would like to point out that Khrushchev is not a great source, especially when he's saying "Here's something Stalin said all the time in private that he never said publicly".
Don't get me wrong, you may very well be right, but I find it less convincing when paired with this evidence than if the claim is simply made with no evidence at all.
You're not wrong but a lot of those eastern front deaths came from the final days of the war as the allies marched on Germany's own land and as well as many battles fought by the Allies across both fronts. The US was instrumental to the pacific front. You'd also have a hard time convincing me France could have been liberated without the US's D Day Operations.
They fought with American weapons and American funding
Which was a very easy way for americans to fight the nazis at the expense of soviet lives. Not that their contribution wasn't valuable of course. It's just worth noting the full intentions of the united states.
Step 1: don't invade poland.
Step 2: stop being Nazis
There, that's how Hitler could have won.
Being Nazis wasn't a deal breaker for America. Nazis were filling out the Madison square garden at the time.
We still have monuments donated by Fascist Italy standing in Chicago.
Fucking hell, didn't know about that. Someone should drag that fucking piece of shit into Lake Michigan.
At least there's the Haymarket Memorial out in Forest Park.
Most of the "what if" scenarios that I've come across focus on what if the Nazis hadn't attacked the USSR when they did. If Germany was fighting on one front at a time, the question becomes does Germany take the UK, and if so, does the US directly enter the war at all?