Well, there were negotiations in 1940 for a German-Soviet alliance (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_Axis_talks), so we can suppose those negotiations succeeded and the Soviet Union has become a German ally.
Just as it says in the title: ¿What would have been the consequences for the Pacific war if Germany had not invaded the Soviet Union in 1941? Would Japan have had more advantages in this scenario, and if so, what would they have been?
Germany can offer many things the Soviet Union won't be able to take by force if the Western Allies make peace with a new German government, as Stalin seems to have believed they would do.
Will the Soviets demand reparations? I think they won't. If they make peace with Germany, it is in their...
What do you think of these peace terms? I was wondering if the Soviets would have been ready to concede even the 1914 borders with Poland, if Stalin thinks he has to hice generous terms to the Germans yo convince them to make peace with him instead of the Western Allies.
Many in the upper echelons of the Army (Kluge, Rundstedt, Manstein) were aware that there was a conspiracy and had done nothing to report it. One cannot but think that either they didn't mind or they hoped the coup would succeed but without getting involved.
That is one of the reasons why the...
I presume you are thinking of Valkyrie, which is also the one I am thinking of (or better, the plan which involved using the Valkyrie plan from the Replacement Army to take power). But I don't see how it involved "hopeful assumptions about surviving, just enough damascene conversions in the...
They were not only a few officers killing Hitler, the anti-Nazi conspirators had a complete plan to take power after Hitler was successfully assassinated. They would not show their true colors until that have eliminated all resistance and are firmly in power.
Moreover, as Ian Kershaw has shown...
But if the coup takes place early enough (I only specified "after Tehran"), the Soviets would still be months away from Berlín, still fighting on Soviet territory. The Western Allies have plenty of time for making a separate peace before Stalin is able to remover that option from reality.
I don't think it is fantasy if the Soviets, and particularly Stalin, believe the Western Allies are going to make a separate peace with the new government leaving them alone in the fight. In such a case, I think it makes perfect sense for the Soviets to try to make peace with the new German...
What are your requirements for a new German government to be genuinely anti-Nazi? Is it not enough to overthrow Hitler and the Nazi Party, purge the upper levels of the administration, return to the rule of law, repeal all Nazi racial laws, stop the Holocaust and free the surviving jews, and...
Not necessarily. For example, the Finnish-Soviet negotiations for the 1940 treaty of Moscow took from February 29 to March 13. But even if they take months, the absence of (public, for they do not know if there are secret ones) negotiations between the Germans and the Western Allies could be...
Even if you are right, that's not what one would expect a self-serving careerist to do. And all indicates that the crimes of the Nazi regime after he resigned were one of the reasons which moved him to plot against Hitler. The opposition to those crimes was common to allí the members of the...