What if WW2 ended earlier?
Imagine. The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact is discovered by Brittish Inteligence. Neville Chamberlain is replaced by Churchill. When Hittler invades Poland, France and England declare war on Germany and attack Germany's western border. With a war carried on two fronts as early as 1939 might Hittler's Germany have collapsed earlier. What might the political map look today with Germany defeated in 1940?
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Re: What if WW2 ended earlier?
If the French and British would have attacked right after they declared war on Germany. Germany would have most likely collapsed under there combined attacks. I pretty sure of this.
Originally Posted by Sooh
Re: What if WW2 ended earlier?
The Allies did know about the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact just not the very sneaky secret details. But they did know it was a non-aggression pact and so it would be the West the Germans took on first.
The Problem with your theory of two front was that France's military was simply not ready. They hadn't even been fully mobilised by the time Poland was annexed and as for Britain, they had so small an army that it hardly mattered to Germany what they did with it.
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Re: What if WW2 ended earlier?
In 1939 Britain was by no means ready for a war.
she was still trying to put off the rebuilding of the army etc after the first world war. In Hilter had of invaded Britain after France Fell Britain would also have fallen.
Therefore twelve months earlier would have been totally out of the question. My grandad often told me stories that it was a couple of years into the war before they were actually issued with real weapons, uptil then they might have had two or three between the whole unit.
Weapons had to be built as very few were actually around.
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Re: What if WW2 ended earlier?
The Germans wouldn't be able to hold up a defensive position in my opinion. The tactics the Germans used were based on the Blitzkrieg, which was a very offensive strategy (from what I know). And that was one of the reason they were so effective.
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Eeerm, not exactly.
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Re: What if WW2 ended earlier?
I don't know but many pps would live.
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