DBWI: What if No Separate Peace in WWII

OOC: I got this idea reading Leopold Trepper's book where a few Gestapo guys talk about negotiating a separate peace with the Soviet union. Since I haven't read the whole book, it strikes me that it's just a trick to make the guy talk. However, it makes sence to sign a peace treaty with Soviet since they are the biggest treat, Hitler wouldn't go for it so he must be removed so we need some plotter. Security and intel guys might be good plotters.

IC: What if elements within German intelligence and security forces didn't manage to dispose of Hitler (*) and sign a separate peace with the Soviet Union in 1943?

OOC: (*) Body never found
 
Then Germany would not have been destroyed in an Atomic Bombing campaign in 1947, and Europe might have been in much better shape instead of a smoldering ruin.

The United States is not going to give up on the war, and neither is the UK. Stalin might sell out a few Ukrainians and Belorussians but Germany had no cards left after the SS Coup and the nuclear campaign against Germany. Just be grateful that the United States didn't use their Hydrogen bomb against Germany, as they developed in 1949...
 
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