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Originally Posted by perseus 3 Subjugation and terrorisation rather than placation and utilisation of the population of conquered territories in the East who must have surely have more reasons to hate Stalin than Hitler initially. |
I agree that this did not help their cause as it seems that a large number of troops were required to fight partisans and repair resistance damaged infrastructure not to mention that a little bit of common sense would have allowed occupied territories to provide troops and war materials to offset German industrial deficiencies.
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4 Failure to coordinate strategy and amalgamate resources with Japan. Japan's navy together with the German U boats would have been more than enough to eliminate the Royal and Merchant Navy in the Atlantic, bringing a swift close to the Western front and prevention of a US foothold in Europe. Moreover, the mere possibility of a Japanese attack from Manchuria could of avoided the Russian 41 winter offensive that started the rot.
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There were several clashes between Russian and Japanese forces throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s and in every case the Japanese came off the loser I seriously doubt that much in the way of a coordinated ground war could have been achieved and given the geographical separation of the Pacific and Atlantic I am not sure how the Japanese navy could have maintained a presence in the Atlantic, at best German Uboats could have supported the Japanese navy in the Pacific a bit more but I am not sure how this would have helped the German European campaign.