nausea said:
do you believe germany could have won in the east?
Yes. The overall strategic plan as directed by Hitler was stupid.
No consideration of logistics.
Moscow and Leningrad were a worthless objective.
They were all for maneuver warfare until it came to capturing cities and then they weren't.
Declaring war on the United states.
Not coordinating with Japan or promising soviet territory in the far east to keep the Siberian red army divisions tied up.
Hitler ordering combat capable and mobile units to "fight to the death" instead of breaking out of encirclement.
German equipment wasn't best suited to the weather.
The overall plan of the 6th army was to capture the Soviet Unions oil reserves centered around the Caspian sea and the port of Baku in what is now Azerbaijan. That was a very solid plan. Given the vast land area of the Soviet Union and all the factories and mines it had out of bombing range of the Luftwaffe seizing its oil reserves was probably the only way the Germans had to take them out of the war, the Germans were also critically lacking in oil reserves, some of the only ones they had were in Romania. The Germans were a little late to realising this. They then engaged in a blood letting exercise fighting for Stalingrad instead of bypassing it. Hitler and the retards at OKW sat round with their thumbs up their arses while the Soviets launched a counter attack and encirclement of the 6th army and lost 300,000 of their best troops for no gain. He also believed that useless morphine addict Guhring and his promises of air supply even though this retard had already been humiliated by defeat during the battle of Britain.
Then shortened the war even more by attacking an obvious trap even though they had a great deal of success at the tail end of Soviets operation Uranus when Von Manstein was finally allowed to act and was able to stablise the front by launching small counter attack and encirclement operations and blunting the Soviet offensives. They cost valuable time to stablise their logistical situation by attacking the Kursk salient so soon. They might have gained months to build up their own defensive posture waiting for the Soviets to actually attack and sent some of their best troops to the Italian front even though the collapse of the Italian 8th army got them surrounded in the first place.
In short. Victory was achievable but they went about it in the worst way possible.