How Germany could've won?

To put it otherwise :the German imports were in 1938 some 5.7 billion RM

Were lost at the outbreak of the war:
those from Latin America:906 million (16.8 %)
those from the US:404 million (7.4 %)
those from the UK:282 million (5.5 %)

How could the SU which exported in 1938 to Germany 53 million RM,less than 1 %,the 1.6 billion of RM(30 % of the German imports,which were lost -.

 

if the food was not important why was Germany starving so many people to death. What would have been the economic situation for Germany if they did not have the extra food and resources. As I stated with the start of war Germany ceased all building of warships, why would they do that if not for the effects of the blockade. Your stats are great for what Germany was building prewar, but in order to take on the US and the Soviets, Germany needed vast ammounts. Like I said in 1940 Britain out produced Germany in tanks, if germany was so self suffecient in steel and materials how could they lag so far behind.

 

About the British tank production:from

British War Production:chapter IV:from Dunkirk to Pearl Harbour P 185

British tank production in 1940:1399

The German tank production in 1940 was :2799

 

Well, that's another story: the Hunger strategy, which was the Nazi official policy at the East. Depriving "superfluous eaters" from food was consciously implemented policy of extermination. Pure barbarizm.

 

No one said that food was not important for the Germans :that's a strawman .
The question is :what's the importance of the 1940 Soviet grain deliveries,which were 5 % of the German grain production of that year .I have seen no argument from those who are claiming that it was essential .
The same for the deliveries of raw materials .

BTW:to put everything in his context,between july 1941 and july 1943,the Germans were able to send some 1.2 million ton of grain from the occupied Soviet territories to Germany :ONLY 1.2 million ton= yearly 600000 ton,which is insignifiant compared to the German production.

And,the total grain imports for this period were some 8 million ton,of which only 1 million (=12.5 %) came from the SU.

 

That however doesn't explain why the calorie alotment for Germans in Germany was also so low.

 

Buckskinz, are you talking of the amphibious operation on Crete or the overall invasion. As the Amphibious operation was not a good example of How to do an amphibious operation. Crete of course for invasion purposes was not Britain. Or are we to go around the sealion route. Its been done here many times..Again..the search button will take you there.

 

Indeed both Germany and Japan lacked a means of forcing a decision on at least one of their key enemies when they went to war. Both seemed to assume that if they did well enough initially their opponent would simply give up. Germany had no way to force a conclusion on Britain and I don't see anything that Hitler could have done to do so. Thus if Germany wants to win they need to avoid going to war with Britain. If they manage that they can still loose depending on when and who they go to war with although avoiding war all together might be considered a win not sure the Nazi's would survive that though.

As for Crete, as an amphibious operation it was a complete disaster for the Germans. As an airborn operation it was a very costly victory and a close one at that. There was no chance of them pulling it off vs Great Britain.

 

Had Goering and Hitler kept up the attack on RAF assets, instead of switching to bombing London and civilian targets, the RAF would have been out of it. The RAF was in deep trouble until Hitler and his idiot sidekick started playing General.

 

I would recommend you take a closer look at the Crete operation. While the troops individually were as good as any Commonwealth troops, they as organized units were not in very great shape. A significantly larger than normal proportion of CW troops were support units rather than combat battalions. Communications were poor to non-existent for these troops, the Royal Navy could not intervene and Germany had control of the air.

Germany never had control of the air over southern England and the RN was very much still in the picture.

 

sorry buck, the RAF was not in trouble. Germany was losing too many bombers and even if things got bad for the RAF they could have withdrawn out of range temporarily and recooped.

 

That wasn't my intention at all! I just wanted to explain why the calorie alotment of the Soviet POWs in Nazi custody was ZERO.

 

This is an Indian tale,spreaded by the H CH :Hitler did not intervene in the BoB,the Bombings of "London " started much earlier,there were also not such things as civilian targets.
And,most important of all :the RAF NEVER was in trouble .

 

That's maybe an exaggeration :some 40% of the Soviet POW survived the German custody.