AHC: End WW2 with both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union dissolving

Stalin flees during the Moscow Panic of October 1941, which becomes general. The autumn rains hold off just long enough for the Germans to capture Moscow. The Germans have a month to recover, regroup, and dig in before the Soviets counterattack in December. The counterattack fails and Stalin purges most of the remaining generals of the Red Army.

Meanwhile - Rommel's command wagon gets strafed at the height of Operation CRUSADER. Rommel is seriously wounded and evacuated to Germany. The Panzer Armee Afrika falls apart and is mostly destroyed during the retreat across eastern Libya. There is no Axis counterattack. In June 1942, the Allies press on to Tripoli, ending the North African campaign. With general Allied success in the theater, French North Africa joins the Allies in September.

Meanwhile - the Germans launch a 1942 summer offensive from Moscow to the Volga. They are greatly assisted by Stalin's repeated "stand-fast" orders, insistence on ill-advised counterattacks, and purges of non-compliant and defeated generals (two categories which between them include nearly all remaining Red Army senior commanders). With morale collapsing, a group of junior officers launch a coup d'état which overthrows Stalin in October. Soviet President Kalinin takes power and surrenders to Germany on Vichy-like terms. Allied troops from Iran occupy Azerbaijan; Soviet forces in the area become the Free Russian Army.

Also in October - The Allies invade Sicily, conquering it by the end of 1942. In February 1943, a cabal led by the King of Italy tries to overthrow Mussolini and surrender to the Allies, but are thwarted by German intervention. The King escapes to Sicily, and calls on all Italian forces to join the Allies. The Allies gain control of Rhodes, Corfu, Cephalonia, Taranto, and parts of Sardinia and Corsica.

From these beachheads, the Allies conquer southern Europe. In 1944, a cross-Channel invasion of France. Nazi Germany falls in 1945.
 
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Stalin flees during the Moscow Panic of October 1941, which becomes general. The autumn rains hold off just long enough for the Germans to capture Moscow. The Germans have a month to recover, regroup, and dig in before the Soviets counterattack in December. The counterattack fails and Stalin purges most of the remaining generals of the Red Army.

Meanwhile - Rommel's command wagon gets strafed at the height of Operation CRUSADER. Rommel is seriously wounded and evacuated to Germany. The Panzer Armee Afrika falls apart and is mostly destroyed during the retreat across eastern Libya. There is no Axis counterattack. In June 1942, the Allies press on to Tripoli, ending the North African campaign. With general Allied success in the theater, French North Africa joins the Allies in September.

Meanwhile - the Germans launch a 1942 summer offensive from Moscow to the Volga. They are greatly assisted by Stalin's repeated "stand-fast" orders, insistence on ill-advised counterattacks, and purges of non-compliant and defeated generals (two categories which between them include nearly all remaining Red Army senior commanders). With morale collapsing, a group of junior officers launch a coup d'état which overthrows Stalin in October. Soviet President Kalinin takes power and surrenders to Germany on Vichy-like terms. Allied troops from Iran occupy Azerbaijan; Soviet forces in the area become the Free Russian Army.

Also in October - The Allies invade Sicily, conquering it by the end of 1942. In February 1943, a cabal led by the King of Italy tries to overthrow Mussolini and surrender to the Allies, but area thwarted by German intervention. The King escapes to Sicily, and calls on all Italian forces to join the Allies. The Allies gain control of Rhodes, Corfu, Cephalonia, Taranto, and parts of Sardinia and Corsica.

From these beachheads, the Allies conquer southern Europe. In 1944, a cross-Channel invasion of France. Nazi Germany falls in 1945.

Can the Allies defeat Germany by 45 with Russia defeated?

Maybe with the A bomb...but i think it takes longer
 
Can the Allies defeat Germany by 45 with Russia defeated?

Maybe with the A bomb...but i think it takes longer

Germans would still be enforced to guerilla war in Western Russia and other Soviet Republics speciality Belarus and Ukraine. And Germans leadership was very incapable so it is going make some mistake. Americans would nuke few German cities and this causes military coup and junta sues peace or even surrends unconditionally. This is anyway going longer than in OTL perhaps to 1946 or even 1947.
 
IMHO yes. The US and Britain have overwhelming resources - population, industry, and natural resources. And Germans would be less inclined to fight in the last ditch when not opposing the USSR.

How long does D DAY get delayed? A year at least? Just the fight in France would take much longer too...

How much blood are allies willing to spend?
 
Hitler doesn't declare on the USA after the attack on Pearl Harbour. The Pacific War is then the USA's first priority although still shipping some supplies to the British and their Commonwealth/European allies but not the USSR. Without these supplies Russia can't stop the German forces taking Moscow and Soviet republic start to break away. Without the America forces in the European war the D-Day invasion is delayed for a couple of years but with the bulk of the German army deep in former Soviet territory. The USA having ended the Pacific War has surplus military to sell to the allies and many battle trained men from the US army/navy/airforce switch to the Australia, British and Canadian armed forces for the invasion. The European war finally ends in late 1948 with the liberation of Poland, the fall of Berlin and just like 30 years the Russian empire collapsing.
 
It's never a good sign when the OP gets kicked.
But here's my best as to how it could happen. The fighting on the Eastern front is far enough stir than it was in our timeline
(let's not try to imagine that) when's far more casualties on both sides and the Germans reaching the Urals. The Soviet Union collapses into chaos when Stalin is overthrown.
Due the extreme casualties and the German Army overextending itself, they are not able stop the Wallie invasion of Europe but they do slow it down. Allied bombing would have devastated the German transportation Network in the entire Nazi high command is in Berlin when a silverplate B-29 comes to deliver instant sunshine. Devoid of all the high-ranking leadership and with a shot of transportation at work the Third Reich collapses.
 
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