Has anyone looked into what would have happened if the Germans armed forces in WWII had decided that the end was near after Cherbourg was captured or the Avranches breakout and decided to help as much as possible the Western powers in holding back Russia? We are talking all German forces pulled from the Western and Italian fronts and sent to the Eastern one in an semi-orderly fashion. This would imply Hitler being killed and his cronies out of commission or something similar.
The only western Allied casulties would be airmen strafing german troops firing in self-defense during the transfer. The american and brits would be suspicious at first and advance slowly but reports would be coming in from all over that all german troops are fighting russian ones in eastern Poland. We can imagine the western front troops controlling all of Germany and western Poland by late fall 1944 and the italian front ones in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and the Czech republic at the same time. Russia would only occupy the rest of Poland, Slovakia and Romania. Greece was liberated all by itself.
Stalin would be furious and call it a western backstabbing imagining that the Nazis had done some last minute bargaining but the Americans and British repeat that no such deal was made. How would that affect the Potsdam conference and the rest of History?
The only western Allied casulties would be airmen strafing german troops firing in self-defense during the transfer. The american and brits would be suspicious at first and advance slowly but reports would be coming in from all over that all german troops are fighting russian ones in eastern Poland. We can imagine the western front troops controlling all of Germany and western Poland by late fall 1944 and the italian front ones in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and the Czech republic at the same time. Russia would only occupy the rest of Poland, Slovakia and Romania. Greece was liberated all by itself.
Stalin would be furious and call it a western backstabbing imagining that the Nazis had done some last minute bargaining but the Americans and British repeat that no such deal was made. How would that affect the Potsdam conference and the rest of History?