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Originally Posted by Daniel Jones
Let's say that Germany did knock Russia out of the war early, while Britain, as it has been said, was still in a tenuous position with few planes and what not. Could not the Germans have shifted much of thier production to meet the new strategic reality? For example, manufacture more planes and finish off what was left of the RAF?
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That seems to have been the big picture that Hitler was looking at. With Russia out of the war either Britain would realize they wer doomed and finally come to an arrangement with Germany or Germany could, at its leisure, revamp its military to overwhelm the RAF and continue where they had left off in late 1940. Of course, this ignores the fact that the US would have gotten more and more interested in supporting the British as time wore on. How it ultimately would have ended? Who knows. But I do believe that this is how Hitler saw the future and why he believed that Barbarossa was his best strategic decision.