operation barbarossa

POD is Sergei Kirov not being assassinated, I know Stalin still could've purged everyone but just assume he doesn't. The Red Army has officers however it still has some other issues such as outdated equipment. I assume the Red Army would be able to conquer Finland ITTL. Would Hitler still launch...

Adolf Hitler had eight siblings and through them three nephews along with two nieces. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party,becoming the chancellor and then dictator of Germany. Then he started WWII and committed the holocaust. He losing the war and committed suicide as a result. His...

Specifically, what if the only managed to arrive to the outskirts/limits of cities such as Rivne, Vilnius, Minsk, Odessa and others but never conquer them but don't manage to "go beyond them" and take the same territory they managed to do so in our world ? What would be the consequences with the...

Would Became Constitutional Monarchy? Would Became Westernization? Would Russian Empire Won Crimean War and Created Israel? Would Alexander II Never Assassination 1881? Would Russian Empire Won Russo-Japanese Won? Would Russia Won WW1? Would USSR and Cold War Never Happened? Would Operation...

What would be the consequence IF everything that can go wrong GOES wrong for the Germans and their allies in Operation Barbarossa and after? What if they CANNOT even reach cities like Vilnius, Minsk or Khmelnytskyi ?

So the way I understand it, Soviet armed forces were seeing some serious innovation as regards military theory during the 1920s-30s. Not only was the Red Army rapidly modernizing, Soviet commanders were also theorizing how to best make use of it, and they came up with Deep Operation/Deep Battle...

Stalin's initial response to Operation Barbarossa was far from good. At first, he refused to believe an attack was happening. When it became clear that it was, he assumed it was being carried out by rogue Wehrmacht elements against Hitler's orders. Once he could no longer deny that Hitler had...

So, in a scenario inwhich the Italians do not enter WW2 during the fall of France, and thus the African and Balkan campaigns don't happen, how could the Germans fare on their own during and after their invasion of the Soviet Union? As a rule for the thread, Romania and Finland can join the war...

(Got the idea from this thread) When it became clear to Stalin that the Germans were invading the Soviet Union, his response was... less than admirable. He lashed out in anger and fear, then shut himself up in his dacha for three days refusing all outside contact. Once Molotov and some others...

can US UK Nazis after successful Barbarossa : conquest upto AA line bombing all Soviet industry can a later D day still succeed with nukes after a Nazi freed up eastern front ? can Nazis develop Nukes with resources of eastern europe and freed up eastern front but an unwilling heisenberg...

What if UK and France didn't war Nazis Would Barbarossa succeed with resources spent in western front?

On Jun 23, 1941, a day after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa Hitler breaks his neck when he trips and falls down a flight of stairs while Stalin suffers a stroke that takes his life. Who are there likely successors and how does this affect the war?

What it says on the tin. Just try to make the USSR less reliant on the LL, reduced casualties and losses. Time frame: 1st Sept 1939 to 22nd June 1941.

The dictator of the Soviet Union Josef Stalin had few things that he cared about one of those was his daughter Svetlana, this was something that the people of the Soviet Union shared with him. Thus when the recently annexed eastern Polish territories collapsed into riots and unrest following...

Basically, assume that British morale is broken after disaster hits their armies in the opening years of WW2. The BEF’s evacuation from Dunkirk is more of a failure, the Italian invasion of Egypt somehow does not have its momentum broken by Operation Compass, and the Luftwffe manages to incur...

Your challenge, if you accept it, is to create a world in which Nazi Germany wins World War II, but after that is in a Cold War with the other superpower - the Soviet Union.

An Axis powers victory in the Second World War is a scenario which is extremely difficult to do. It stands in contrast to a Central Powers victory in WWI which is very easy to achieve. That being said, try your absolute best to create a plausible scenario in which the Axis Powers win WWII. By...

Hello all, I am currently working on a timeline for a German victory in Europe during the second world war. Now I know that this has been done to death, trust me I know, however, I am more interested in writing short stories for this particular POD in modern times and farther in the future. I...

Preface: I am not talking about exact specifics on how Moscow falls, except that it is not through the old "take Guderian's advice and launch assault on Moscow before Kiev operation". If that were to have happened, many historians (and I) have concluded that Army Group Center would have been...

"......and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might...