Had the Western allies viewed the Soviets as particularly belligerent, they might be more optimistic about having someone like Rommel "elected" to lead an anti-Soviet Germany. Maybe Operation Downfall follows through, Soviets take a surprising amount of Japan to occupy. Greece goes red and Yugoslavia allows itself to be closer aligned with Moscow.
As a result, de-Nazification is relaxed to an extent, mostly to former military men who were more than glad to blame Hitler for everything. Light rightist elements take hold and a "neutral" figure, Rommel, is chosen to be the face of a pro-West nationalist Germany. Of course, his death must be avoided, which could be rather simple to achieve.