re: What would the world look like if the Germans knocked Britain out of the war?

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The big thing would have been if Stalingrad fell and the Germans got access to the Russian oil fields. 

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Taking Stalingrad was irrelevant, the Germany Army in the fall of 1942 was a shell of the army of June 1941 and relied heavily on poorly trained and equipped Axis allies to cover their horribly overextended flank.

Even if they reached the oil fields and took Stalingrad they had little ability to ship significant quantities and they simply didn't have the manpower anymore to hold the entire flank. They ended up being fortunate the Soviets didn't cut off the entire Army Group A in the Caucuses before the evacuation.