How could Germany win WWII?

Hitler's kicked the bucket after the invasion of Poland, and you're the Fuhrer now. How do you go about winning WWII?
Your objective is to win back the losses of WWI and cripple or conquer France and Russia while maintaining the hegemony of a Fascist power in Germany.

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>to win back the losses of WWI and cripple or conquer France and Russia
Ain't gonna happen. USA is gonna be provoked or convinced to join eventually, them the whole jig is up.

>Replace the Enigma system
>Dont declare war on America
>Make Speers in charge of war production in 1939
>Dont bother bombing london
>Dont bother with battleships, shift production away from panthers and tigers and more towards panzer 4s / Stugs
>Treat the people of the baltics, ukraine and belurussia with respect and not with utter contempt

That should buy you 2-4 years.

However in reality, so long as the UK never surrenders and you get yourself into trouble with two great powers, the war is highly likely to be unwinnable.

Germany had a much more realistic chance to win WW1, they had no realistic chance to win WW2 past 1941.

>Download relevant Wikipedia articles before I go back in time, develop nukes
>Stop with the Nazi bullshit, treat the occupied peoples decently
>Conduct the invasion of France like IRL
>Drop a nuke on Dunkirk
>Threaten to do the same with London, force the Brits to surrender
>Invade the USSR and drop a nuke on some military facility to avoid too much dead civilians, threaten to nuke Moscow, accept the USSR's surrender
>Install democracies in all occupied territories, go back to Germany, leave all non-German lands, have a nice, comfy, powerful Germany

>do Unternehmen Weserübung and Fall Gelb mostly the same as it happened in the OTL
>don't stop my armies at Dunkirk, instead try to take as many Brits prisoner as possible
>treat these prisoners humanely and see to their (relative) wellbeing, use them as a token in peace negotiatiion with the UK
>drop the whole Battle of Britain idea, instead focus on keeping air superiority over the channel and North Sea
>try to force a peace with honours in the west as soon as possible
>drop everything related to the lolocaust, dial down the persecution to negligible levels
>placate the US as much as possible
>listen to my general staff when it comes to military decisions in Russia
>don't waste ressources on Wunderwaffen and other meme projects

Oh, and what said about not going full genocidal maniac on the non-russian eastern euros

These threads are fucking horrible

Excuse them as a guilty pleasure

>Install democracies
Hahahaha

Hearts of Iron 2: Darkest Hour isn't as fun when you have the "insta research" cheat,tho

>conduct elections
>democracy installed
I don't get what's funny about this

The only way to do that is to stop the war right away. Poland was a mistake. Germany in 1939, before war broke out, held more European territory than the German Empire in 1914, not to mention economic influence in central and southern Europe.

The war is unpopular in the west. Maybe due to the fact I'm not Hitler an agreement to end the war could take place. Dunno how the fuck am I going to get half of Poland back from the Soviets to reform an independent Polish state though. Not that it's politically feasible anyway, Hitler would be a legend for his master strokes up to that point and going back and reverting his achievements would be political suicide anyway.

Do you believe in democracy, son?

>The war is unpopular in the west
It was also unpopular with most Germans except for the time of the defeat of France until Stalingrad
>half of Poland back from the Soviets
Most of that land wasn't Polish anyway
I guess it's one of the better systems to govern a country...

>It was also unpopular with most Germans
Not nearly on the same level as in France.

>Most of that land wasn't Polish anyway
The Poles were a majority (or a plurality if you prefer), especially in urban areas, despite the significant Belorussian and Ukrainian minorities. That's not the point though. You can't have a peace with honor where the western allies essentially concede to all of your pre-war demands and then some.

>Most of that land wasn't Polish anyway
Not really

...

Just let the generals do their thing

No, it isnt

>claims most of the land was non-Polish
>Provides evidence of most of the land being Polish
gg, especially because Polish areas had larger and more urban populations.

>Polish areas had larger and more urban populations.
Exactly.
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> become Communist
> form the Berlin-Moscow Axis

it worked on my last Iron Man play-through

In short. Hitler could've (and should've) won against the Soviet Union but had no hope of defeating the United States. Japan was doomed from the very beginning.

Honestly the only way is if instead of invading Russia, he planned for a massive invasion of Britain in 1942.

If he can score a few major victories, he could probably secure a deal with Halifax and boot Churchill out of power, and secure a peace deal.

>Listen to your generals
>Prepare your troops for winter
>Forget all wunderwaffe except turbojet fighters and nuclear research
>Don't be an asshole towards the occupied Slavs
>Capture Moscow in 1942, Stalingrad in 1943, Baku in 1944
>Soviets surrender in 1945
>The US nukes Berlin and the Saarland in 1946 anyway
>Kill yourself

>all these people ITT arguing that he should have treated traitourous eastern euros with respect and decency instead of utilising them for free slave labour

The Soviet Union tried for half a century to give them the carrot instead of the stick and look where it got them.

You can't fucking trust eastern euros. Ever. Especially Poles. No matter what you give them or do for them, they will chimp out and betray you. Just look how Poland is now shitting on the EU after taking billions and billions more from them than any country.

How are they going to invade Britain when they had no control of the Atlantic nor of the air above it?

Can't be done with a point-of-divergence after 1939.

But they could defend an invasion

Immediately sue for peace.

by massively ramping up bomber production and blitzing the shit out of the royal airforce instead of focusing on london

> Just look how Poland is now shitting on the EU after taking billions and billions more from them than any country.
Sorry, we just weren't aware that the precondition for the EU and economic assistance was importing millions of shitskins. Maybe you should have told us instead of pretending that you own us because you gave us 1 or 2 % of our GDP in economic aid while buying up every company you can and utilizing the cheap labor and flooding the free market without tariffs with your products.

Do you know the details of the system of grant system in EU and how countries pay for being part of the institution?

>Millions of Poles emigrate West thanks to EU freedom of movement laws while their country receives billions in EU gibs
>Asshurt that some "shitskins" slipped East thanks to those same laws
Can't have it both ways hypocrite. The laws that allow Poles to flood Western Europe are the same you are compaining about.

Why don't you leave the EU then instead of whining?

That's a deal you agreed to when you let is in the EU, that's your problem. We're not bound to let in the 3rd world too, just cause you want, only other EU citizens. Agree to disagree.

Interesting digits
Wasn't the UK only a few weeks away from capitulation before Germany sperged out and started bombing London? A crippled RAF and Getmany would have the UK by the short hairs.