Ceasing to be Nazi Germany is unironically the best choice for Nazi Germany in 1940.
How would WW2 be different if the Nazis scraped operation Barbarossa for Sea Lion?
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The US was in a shooting war with the krauts by early to mid 1941. They knew the bongs were going to fold without their support.
Not from their point of view.
Yes, from their point of view, considering they avoid hanging.
Ok, so let's imagine G*rmany pretends to be retarded as Stalin rearms and expands the red army for an invasion in 1943
Even so, g*rmans can't really land more than 20k fallschirmjagers by paradrop and glider and maybe 30k more infantry by boats without heavy equipment. Even with a shift of the operation to 1941, the Kriegsmarine wouldn't have more than 1 battleship (0 in 1940), 2 battlecruisers (0 in 1940) and 2 heavy cruisers as capital ships, which would be swept away as soon as the home fleet arrives from scapa flow (a week or two). Without heavy support and blocked from resupplying by sea (inb4 air supply, we saw how that worked out in Stalingrad), the 50k g*rmans will be pushed into the sea by the sheer amount of manpower and resources of the home islands.
They didn't think they were going to lose, and even then, they saw death preferable to surrender.
>they saw death preferable to surrender.
Who are "they"? Hitler and Goering? The German people? Where are you getting this retarded idea?
Most German military figures did not prefer death, and Hitler shot himself only because he knew surrendering was just a worse way to die.
The myriad politicians and generals that committed suicide in the last months of the war.
Better idea-build massive U-Boat fleet. Also, order the Luftwaffe to cooperate with air-sea blockade.