How late can a European war plausibly be delayed?

How late can the European theater of World War II be delayed?

The estimate puts the practical limit around 1942, already a considerable stretch for the German economy.

A delay to 1942 is treated as the outer edge of this scenario. Germany's financial and resource pressures make an indefinite postponement difficult to sustain. The answer offers a judgment about the counterfactual's limits, without fixing an unavoidable date for war.