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Would they flee, though? I'm not saying that it would not be in their best interests to do so, but one of the reasons that so many tried in our timeline was they were receiving word from the German diplomatic corps in neutral countries that the Allies - especially the Soviets - were out for...

I wonder at Hitler's state of mind. This TL has more or less reached the point of Operation Bagration IOTL, with the Vistula being the Rhine. Hitler was increasingly beginning to lose it by then, but here he has had 2 fewer years of Dr. Morel and a hell of a lot less cumulative stress. It would...

What are the French up to? It's a bit curious that their offensive in the south is delayed, considering they've been in the same position all the time and the British have shifted more or less their whole army into the Netherlands, I would have thought Blanchard would be itching get started...

Interesting. Trust me, in a disciplined organisation even the slightest instability on the part of authority has trickle down effects. Additionally, Hitler was internally delusional and from 1942 in more or less a state of perpetual denial about his chances of victory. I am reminded, though, if...

I realise that this thread is Anglocentric, and for very good reasons, it's much easier to tweak that aspect of the timeline because one only has to change from what actually happened; by this stage OTL, the French are gone, so one is starting almost from scratch. I assume, though, the French...

A lot of that was actually the wrong lessons learned, though. The first generation fission weapons weren't very powerful - far more damage was done to Tokyo in conventional raids than were suffered by Nagasaki or Hiroshima. The dropping of the bombs was more or less the straw that broke the...

Another group of people who will come out much better in this timeline, then, are the U-Boat crews. If I remember correctly, they suffered the highest casualties proportionately of all the Wehrmacht, in truly horrific conditions

I wonder how the OTL U-Boat Aces like Gunther Prien and Joachim Schepke are doing in this timeline. They won't have their 'Happy Time' off the US coast, and the extended travel time without the pens in northern France I would imagine their kills are severely limited by comparison

How would the Somua S.40 stack up against the Black Prince? Or the G1?

Heydrich survives. Where is Karl Wolff? He was as close if not closer to Himmler

Just want to get some general opinions. Anyone else find the Man in the High Castle, as good a show as it is in terms of characters and development, an absolutely ludicrous Nazi wank? The possibility of them being in a position to basically conquer the entire world by 1962, the technology level...

Post all the links you want, that is fascinating. I did my undergraduate dissertation on Franco-British diplomacy between 1797 and 1802, but I'm actually most familiar with Classical history over all other periods, and I never came across that stuff before

I've often wondered about this, whether or not it is a modern phenomenon. Certainly, the ancient sources - Pliny, Tacitus etc. - never mention guilt at killing up close and very personal or the symptoms of PTSD when they wrote about the Legions

Possibly, but surely they don't need to break out over the whole front? The current fighting front is narrow, and the Germans aren't in any condition to assault the Maginot Line. With four British armies in the north and five (if I remember correctly) French armies to the south above the...

So the Heer have lost, what, about half a million surrendered at this point? That will (or at least should) massively increase the pressure on High Command and Hitler. That points to unrealistic planning and piss awful logistics, which are planning, not combat, failures. They also can't keep...

Would conscription in Quebec be as much of an issue with France still in the war?

Very true. But the French armies still have to blow through the Rhine defences head on, and there is no way in hell that they will allow the British armies to reach Berlin first

Does Trump still get elected in this TL? Too soon?

One wonders at the level of Anglo-French cooperation after the war. Their general staffs will more or less have to be intertwined, their foreign policies would necessitate support each other, even their economic cooperation is likely to be profound. Not so far from the Franco British Union that...

That was my initial point - postwar ITTL is a very different place. Multipolar, with the Franco-British Alliance (backed by German money, most likely) is merely one Great Power. The USSR is another. NATO doesn't exist, so the USSR as the largest military power without the spectre of US response...