Platapus,
good points. It seems that many of the nations that lost ww2 (including Finland) were able to emerge quite well after the war whereas the winners stagnated a bit. Maybe the sanctions etc. served as a thing that spurred on the economies of the vanquished nations.
And if the Axis had won? It depends what kind of victory it would have been. I think they would've faced a pretty tough insurgency of a kind.
