re: What was Axis end goal in WWII?

It's fast yes. But it cost a lot


Germany:
27,074 dead[e]
111,034 wounded
18,384 missing[4][5][6]
1,129 aircrew killed[7]
(c. 27,000 dead)
1,236 aircraft lost[4][8]
795–822[9] tanks destroyed[f]
157,621 total casualties

And Germany had no way to replace those on a speedy basis.

Of course you'll look on the other side of the equation.

360,000 dead or wounded,
1,900,000 captured
2,233 aircraft lost[14]
1,749 French tanks destroyed[h]
689 British tanks lost[

And go well shite, that doesn't look too bad.

But for conquering France, they lost a quarter of aircraft committed. A third of their tanks. And no way to quickly make those losses good.

Not to mention losing well trained and disciplined men to run machines they could produce.

Then immediately committing to the Battle of Britain.

And while they took a large amount of prisoners, close to 2 million they only killed or wounded 2 allies to every 1ish German. Leaving about 1 million free french to fight another day.

The logistics was never there to win.

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Hitler was a text book case of everything works until it doesn't.

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I like that statement. As things started unraveling between the Russians mounting their offensive driving the Germans out of Russia and putting them on the defensive and the Allies landing in Normandy on D-Day, things were going pretty good for Germany-----------then the shite-storm came their way and they had no answers.

I wonder just how many orders Hitler gave to his Generals to hold positions at all costs. I know from historical records he did this many times in Russia alone. That had to be totally demoralizing to the Generals who watched the troops under their command killed or captured for what amounted to sheer folly.

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Hitler: Insane or evil? You can't pick both. That's too easy.

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Evil can't be denied. He instituted policies that were instrumental in trying to wipe an entire set of people off the face of the Earth in the Jews. Not to mention the gays, physically and mentally challenged people, gypsies, etc.

I don't think for one second he was insane, just one of the biggest megalomaniacs history has ever seen.

Evil and Drug addled.

What was Japan's issue. Also for the record the llies

Germany was in desperate need of Russia's oil. IMO, it wanted England and all of Europe which includes Russia up the Urals.

It could have slowly squeezed the U.S. financially to at least a stalemate then a treaty. Italy would have eventually become a vasal state of Germany.

Japan needed rubber and oil and the US was blocking their expansion outside of China and Manchuria.

See - "Man in the High Castle"

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What was Axis end goal in WWII

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They were desperate in their search of a woman willing to sleep with you... They, like you, failed miserably.

A unified Axis is mostly myth.
It just became shorthand for writing about the wars.

The Pacific War was was already approaching a decade old by the time Germany invaded Poland.

And besides a little back and forth in "intelligence gathering" not much communication happened between them.

Off the top of my head I can recall one German sub operating in the Pacific for a couple months for the Japanese cause.

Hitler's greatest frustration was Japan's refusal to meaningfully cut the Pacific supply route to Russia.