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Hitler plays it safe- Europe 1943.

ATL Europe 1942-43.

Europe under Nazi domination

Real life boundaries.

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 alley, 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 guns, cement and concordat; 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, along the Dnieper and the Baltics, without going deeply in to the USSR to events like the battle of Stalingrad, thus avoiding killing tens of thousands of Axis forces and destroying both hundreds of Axis tanks and aircraft as it did so.

The ATL German forces thought it was would be best stopping Dnieper River and turning it in to a fortified or heavily mined defective barrier. Missions could hit out from there, but only a short way (not the distant Moscow or Stalingrad stuff).

When Hitler played it safe in the USSR it let him hold out until the German's final surrender to the Anglo-American/Free French/Soviet forces after the Battle of Berlin in the March of 1947. Germany could never win, but the war could last longer and cause more damage.

Also see

  1. October-December 1940
  2. Year 1941
  3. Year 1942
  4. Year 1943
  5. Year 1944
  6. Year 1945
  7. Year 1946
  8. January-March 1947
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