A non ASB Hitler's War

I think that Turteldove presents an accurate picture of the war, that is until the big switch. I think the fighting on the German Czech and Soviet Polish borders allows Britian and France time to prepare. They stop the German advance in France and Norway, after the fall of the Benelux and Denmark.
I think a campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare brings the US in or maybe Hitler declares war after Japan attacks the US as he did OTL.
I think, that if Poland didn't attack Czechoslovakia, Stalin will leave it alone (for a while). Also, Japanese beating Soviets is little bit far stretched.
 
And the USSR goes to war with Romania, once the Red Army soldiers take control over the railroads and administration of Bessarabia and declare the "Moldavian Social Soviet Republic".

Aye, there's the rub - the Romanians would have to be very, very sure that they knew what they were getting themselves into (not that the ultimate result would be much different from where they ended up by OTL 1945). Could you maybe get get a situation where people like Antonescu decided enough Soviet cooperation was enough and staged a coup or something to try to bring Romania over to the German side? I'll confess I don't know enough about Romanian internal politics to say whether it would be likely or not.

If the coup against Hitler works...

And that's the other thing - if Oster, Halder and co-conspirators manage to pull it off, this could all be over much more quickly than anybody expects. The only question is, would they? If the OTL plots to assassinate/overthrow Hitler are anything to go by, anything that could go wrong for the would-be putschists usually did go wrong...
 
it dawned on me that Hitler would probably declare war on the US after the Japanese attack as he did OTL. That means that US troops arrive in France in December 1941 and Germany surrenders in mid 1942. e Suffering under the full weight of the US,UK and French military Japan crumbles sooner. t The question is how long if the surrender by early 1944, they take away Roosevelt's excuse for a 4th term.
 
if Germay surrrenders in mid 1942 then there is no holocaust or a very small one. I am assuming the consensus here is there is German Soviet war xo that means no Soviet conquest of Eastern Europe and therefore no cold war.
 
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