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A bit unwieldy, I´d say. That could work. Either Puma or just Fuchs (fox). Also Berglöwen (mountain lions) for a particularly distinguished force, and/or Bergziegen (mountain goats) for a force that manages to cross terrain no such force was thought to be capable of crossing.

Doesn´t sound like a clever commander, though, the way "Desert Fox"/"Wüstenfuchs" does. "Die Berglöwen"/"The Mountain Lions" would work very well for a division or other force that distinguished itself in the fighting there, though - analogous to the Desert Rats.

Wasn´t the worst already over for Malta by this time, August 42?

Well, somebody is in for a disappointment...

They should be able to able to get the Spanish Inquisition and its abuses, especially the policies on Jews and Muslims, banned from mainland South America. It could turn the place into a haven of religious tolerance. Imagine Jews flocking to the Four Corners to escape persecution in Europe...

I thought the Britannia in question was the royal yacht - a vessel only marginally less suited for 1920s naval battles than a pre-dreadnaught.

Or maybe a coup to either force or prevent mobilization in support of the Russians?

Given how much damage the IJN has taken right at the start of the war, the whole "the Japanese are running wild in the Pacific and nothing can stop them" mood that contributed to such a wild idea as the Doolittle Raid being tried isn´t there ITTL.

Considering the number of nuclear strikes we´ve seen, all within what... half a year? Quite a few of them were also ground burst, which means they threw up more ash than an air burst. A year or two with cool summer and very harsh winter sounds plausible.

Yeah, I figure that, with the Reich´s legacy that much more sinister, it would take correspondingly less stellar behavior to be seen as a shining paragon by comparison. So maybe less of a Righteous Among Gentiles and more of an "Okay, that guy wasn´t really a monster, unlike the others".

So then there might even be a few Heer officers who are remembered as something akin to ATL Oskar Schindlers, in that they protected their serfs and most likely saved the lives of most of them?

100% of the Aryan population of the right age groups, if I understand the timeline correctly.

What about the retired Heer veterans settled in the East? What happened to them post-war? I´m assuming they get punished in some way for their role in the first phase of the war - but at the same time, they did treat their Slav workers about as well as they could get away with.

CalBear´s numbers above suggest something like 98% fatalities. Which would still leave a division´s worth or two of prisoners.

Them and as many of their immediate family as could be located, I´d guess. The Nazi didn´t go half-assed.

Pity about Shigure, though. I have a soft spot for her ever since reading Japanese Destroyer Captain.

More natural than a bullet or noose, in any case.

Even if you did post it before, it´s worth saying that again. This is one of the best works on AH.com, if not *the* best.

Come to think of it, any Heer general officers who were put out to pasture after ´43, then ended up fighting the Allies as reserve/militia in the last months of the war and surrendering to Allied troops in the field *should* have gotten off relatively lightly - especially since they were...

In this timeline, this almost counts as a happy end. Did any other Nazi bigwig manage to die of natural causes, other than Rommel and Hitler?