Because Germany is a landpower and landpower can not be defeated in the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean nor in any other ocean. Neither can a land power be defeated in the air. A land power can only be defeated in a huge scale land war. That is what matters and that is either the Brits and the Americans were afraid of.

@@kodor1146 The Germans and Italians were in a land war in the west from 1940, as well as a sea and air war. It's not as if there was no land war against Germany in the west until 1944. 2/3 of Germanys wartime expenditure and material resources went on their air and sea forces, and these were largely destroyed in the west. Most German land units were non mechanised, second rate, poorly equipped horse drawn rabble, due to the resources Germany needed to put into their air and sea forces. This was of enormous benefit to the USSR. Already by the end of 1942, some 60% of German fighters were in Germany defending against the allied strategic bombing campaign. The allied strategic bombing campaign in Germany also took up 1/3 of all German artillery, 1/2 of German electro-technical and 1/3 of all German optical equipment. There was most definitely a second front all through WW2, and as I already said the west was the ONLY front for the first two years. The British and Americans were afraid? The British were fighting all the way through the war. Unlike the Soviets who didn't lift a finger to help until Germany invaded them in June 1941.

@@lyndoncmp5751 That is why I said "huge scale lnd war". Again a land power can only defeat on land. How much money is put in airplanes and ships doesn´t matter. For defeating a land power you need somebody who is doing the actual fighting on land which is ugly because land war is always ugly due to the losses. The Western Powers got 2 problems: 1st) The German army from 1870 to 1945 was by far the best fighting force in the world. They were tactically superior to all of the opponents they faced. Making things worse they were highly modern equipped and fought fanatically. They were a highly dangerous foe and none of the Germans opponents could measure up to them on the battlefield. Just think about North Africa where the Brits received a sound threasing by the Germans although for them it was just a sideshow. 2nd) The Western powers were democracies and there is nothing else in the world democracies are more afraid of than death. They panically fear. There is nothing democracies fear more than to die which is why they need somebody doing the real war, the big scale ground war, for them. And these were the Soviets. There is a reason why the Western Allies had no conficence in themselves when it came to ground warfare and why they only had one aim: bring the boys home. The motto of democracy always is, let others die, let others sacrifice their youth. Just look at the pacific. The Americans did their island hopping, fought from island to island right through the pacific but finally they stood at the gate of the Japanse mainland. Entering the Japanese isles the Americans expected losses between 70,000 and 200,000. So the Americans faced the landings in Japan with very mingled feelings. With even more mingled feelings they faced the fact to fight against Jaoan not just on the Japanese mainland but also in China where 2 million Japanese were deployed along the coast, more than 3,700 miles. Now we do not land on an atoll but on the mainland with a 2 million men strong army in fortified positions. And as with the Germans they had no guts for this kind of an operation and so they approached the ones which died non stop since 1941: the Soviets. And they did it. Within 14 days. The Americans hair stood on end. The reason for the dropping of the nuclear bombs was mainly to keep the Soviets at bay, to convience them that the bombs really work. Again Germany is a land power and you can only defeat a land power on land and therefore you need somebody doing the dirty work, the big scale land war. Losses in the dimension of big scale land war can only be borne by dictaturships never by democracies. Americans and Brits as democracies were scared sh...tless to do a big scale land war. They wouldn´t have been able to launch this kind of war. Both, as classical democracies panically were afraid to die.

​​@@kodor1146 The USSR did NOTHING against Nazi Germany until it was FORCED to fight after Nazi Germany invaded in June 1941. Where was the bravery of the Soviets to fight before this? The USSR had NO OPTION but to fight for ITSELF. It was not bravery, it was not sacrificing for the sake of others. It was self serving self preservation. No more. The USSR did precisely NOTHING to help when the Luftwaffe was dropping bombs and killing tens of thousands of civilians in my city in 1940 during the Blitz. Instead the USSR was sharing vodka with the Nazis.

​@@lyndoncmp5751 Doesn´t change the fact that a land power can only be defeated on land and that this role (wrestling down the German war machine) had been played by the Soviets. The British mind was highly informed by WW1. In the British mind when WW2 starts out there is one thing you don´t want to do, one thing you want to avoid at any cost and that is having a million, havint two million soldiers fighting the German Army. There is never been anything like it. The German Army back than was the most capable, most effective, most competent and most murderous force in the world. None Western Power was able to launch a land war against them. Take the Americans, their economy is way bigger than the German one and heir human potential that can be mobilized is way bigger than the German one. But nevertheless in a war fought one on one (GER vs USA) they would not have been able to defeat the Germans because of their terrible fear of dying. Their losses would have been gone into the millions and this is too much for a democracy. As a girl is afraid of a mouse democracies (US / GB) are afraid of death. The SU on the other hand could die. It could die superbly even. Already in the first months of war against the German war machine they suffered losses of two million men killed in action, 3 million captured by the Germans but nevertheless they continued fighting. Even a fraction of this losses would have been enough for the Brits or the Americans to quit the war and go home. Land war against the Germans was way beyond what the Brits and the Americans were able to do. Land war is different. It is dirty, it is loss making. Nothing glossy about it. It´s killing. Brutal! Victory by destruction. In this field neither the British nor the americans had any business.