D-day fails, what does the post world look like?

If they actually drop out completely, and what this 'completely' actually means. They still have troops in Italy (the advance is a mere crawl still they advance) and those assembled for Operation Dragoon are also around.
Anything short of an armistice with the Western Allies (which even with a failed D-Day is close to ASB) won't free up enough ressources to throw into the eastern meatgrinder.

I agree.
A few posters had mentioned earlier that the W. Allies might drop out if D-Day failed or that Stalin would declare war against the W. Allies for invading the Balkins. In my first post I said I disagreed them.
In the post your quoting I was simply commenting that the Soviets couldn't take out Germany on its own. Nearly defeat them yes, but they couldn't go all the way to Berlin by themselves.
 
Without D-day, the Russians keep pressing forward, perhaps to the Rhein, their advance slowing as they run out of manpower. In late 1945 Japan and Germany are defeated (if what remains of the 3rd Reich hasn't capitulated already) as the USA attacks them with atomic bombs, forcing their surrender.
 
I think LeoX raises the obvious point. The atomic bomb will be used against Germany. Would it be possible that we might even see the B-29 campaign in the Pacific diminished with the planes and resources going to Europe?
Without D-day, the Russians keep pressing forward, perhaps to the Rhein, their advance slowing as they run out of manpower. In late 1945 Japan and Germany are defeated (if what remains of the 3rd Reich hasn't capitulated already) as the USA attacks them with atomic bombs, forcing their surrender.
 
Any idea of a failed D-Day leading to the Soviets or western allies dropping out of the war is practically ASB, remember, by '44 the war was more or less over. The Stalingrad pocket had long since fallen, Kursk was a memory, the preparations for an invasion of Southern France had already been in the works.

This might give the Soviets more territory post war, but it will not save the Reich at this point. Nobody was going to make a deal with Germany while the Austrian Corporal was in charge, and even if he wasn't I doubt that anybody trusted any of his toadies in the slightest either.

At most you get to extend the war long enough to see Munich or Nuremberg get nuked, but that's about it.

The biggest difference is largely dependent upon how negotiations go at TTL's analogue of Yalta, which I imagine would result in larger agreed upon territory for the Soviets.
 
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