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Have Rome discover silver in Bohemia, colonize it, and move from there, down Elbe, Odra and Vistula. Putting limes on Carpathians and Vistula-Narew-Bug gives them half of Europe.

Forested and swampy and defended by locals hiding in fortresses surrounded by forests, swamps and lakes

Plus the front in Poland would be like 500 kilometers long

It's more like 3000 Poles dyng a day.

WI due to luck, German mistakes, less Allied mistakes, better planning, better weather, communication working and whatnot, Operation Market-Garden goes like a charm (or as close to it as physically possible), and the XXX Corps crosses the Rhine more or less as planned?

Limiting that footprint to couple thousand people whom comrade Stalin could send pater for state-funded holidays in Kolyma where through the noble combination of working much and eating little they would be purged of any foreign influences would not be that different.

Obviously USA would support uprisings in the Soviet zone and vice versa, while supporting dictators in their own spheres of interests.

Right, I forgot about that and other schemes of, uh, "buying out" Jews.

And after the parachutes appear and germans order inmates into the barracks and start machine gunning people remaining on the streets, they still have no weapons... The only non asb way of saving any substantial number of the inmates would be somehow scaring Germans into treating them better.

... And we (broadly speaking) finished it.

Auschwitz is a symbol, but Nazis could also very quicky kill people in small extermination camps like Treblinka, or starve them to death in ghettos

Which would not have worked too. Dropping weapons at Auschwitz at the very best case would have given the prisoners the chance of dying on their own terms

Have the Allies give Poland all of Upper Silesia, (Gdańsk) Pomerania, basically the red line in this map in the West, North and South. Relations with Germany are lost cause anyway and no matter what Germany is going to be enemy...

Yeah, we too have collectors of unexploded ordnance

As long as the fish isnt particularly burned or otherwise malformed Anyway, you never know what's underground or uderwater where the front passed. It might be some 1.5 tonne 600 mm siege mortar round under a city square, it might be Tallboy bomb in the middle of a water way, or a couple of more...

Somewhat shallower 🙂 . Baltic is a glorified lake with barely and exchange of water with the ocean. Those chemicals (inc chemicals found in Germany after WW2) and even oil from sunken ships are a ticking time bombs.

If Prussia was given Saxony, then Wettins could be given rump Poland (they rather would have to be given something)

Probably depends on the intensity of bombings

Words are wind, especially in the mouth of a politician.

Americans and British fought as hard as they could because they were attacked, for mostly geopolitical reasons. That doesn't mean they weren't aware of German and other atrocities, they had pretty good idea of what was happening in the occupied countries (although some were in denial), although...