Could the Axis have won?

[ReluctantSamurai]

No documentation per se, (there probably is somewhere but this is my research/conclusion based on censuses and population growth estimates), it is more of a common sense based on demographics of Imperial Russia and USSR. This is a post I made about it in a different thread some time ago

Thanks for making the effort. However, I'm not sure one can use simple extrapolation using data covering other countries. I'm not a statistician, so my opinion may be incorrect. But....the point I was trying to make concerning the Ukraine and its view towards the ruling Communist Party remains. Ukrainians harbored a deep resentment towards the Bolsheviks both for the forced collectivization of farms, the withholding of food during the Great Famine, and for religious persecution. Without knowing the true nature of Nazism, I believe they would have given a great deal of support to the Germans if it hadn't been for the Einsatzgruppen.

I think SF makes some excellent points, especially concerning the use of U-boats, and a better effort to bring Franco into the war on the side of the Axis.

I also feel that too much is being made of the halting of Guderian before Dunkirk. That it was a mistake is obvious (to me, at least), but the Axis still had chances to win the war despite this.