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Originally Posted by Doppleganger Without Lend-Lease it is my belief that the Soviet Union would not have the necessary logistical infrastructure in place to repel the Germans. In short, it proved instrumental in their eventual victory. Large scale operations such as the counter-attack at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and Operation Bagration to name some would have been impossible to mount otherwise. |
As the main supply route into the Soviet Union was via the Arctic ports, this raises a number of important issues.
Could Germany have won the war if:
a) the West had been isolated as discussed in another thread.
b) If the transport infrastructure inside or leading from the Russian Arctic ports had been destroyed, overun or blockaded.
c) If the entire Kriegsmarine, supported by air cover from Norway, had focused on the Arctic rather than the Atlantic
If b) perhaps the most sensible policy should have been to concentrate the Blitzkrieg or bombing in the North, not to the oilfields or main cities.