Hitler played it safe in the USSR (1941-1947)

ATL Europe 1943-44.

Real life boundaries.

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OTL history shows that Germany was suicidal stupid for invading the USSR on mass and so deeply. Germany should have only liberated and held on to the anti-Soviet rebel zones like Galician-Ukraine and Estonia and formed a fortified line on the Dnieper River. it could have been a much better tactical plan.

Germany and the USSR were going to eventually clash any how since Germany’s alliy, Romania, wanted to annex the ethnically Romanian Moldavia-Bessarabia region of the USSR [[1]] and the USSR did not like the Romanian fascist Iron Guard regime!

The German troops that would have gone to OTL Russia spent ATL 1941 crushing more of the French Resistance, Yugoslav Partisan’s and the Polish Resistance. The Atlantic Wall could have been made better with the saved cement and concoreat. So making D-Day even worse for the Anglo-American forces. The Luftwaffe could be repaired and helped to improve [[2]].

OTL Romania was not in a hurry for it and was willing to wait for German help. The USSR was still recovering from its purges, so they were willing to back off for a while. A Romanian /Soviet war in 1942? Germany could have helped defend Romania (after finishing off in Western Europe in 1941) along a shorter frontier in the Ukraine and the Baltics, without going deeply in to the USSR to events like the battle of Stalingrad, killing thousands of Axis forces as it did so.

The ATL German forces would be best stopping Dnieper River and turning it in to a defective barrier. Missions could hit out from there, but only a short way (no Moscow or Stalingrad stuff).