Actually that series is about as Germanphobic as it can get. So Germany goes off conquering Europe and using slave labor the first time, then ekes out a near-victory only to get smashed to bits in the last phase. That was bad enough, if somewhat interesting. The demented insane maniacs that ran Germany into the ground the second time? I swear that man was trying to shoehorn in his fantasy background. And not even effectively.
Hitler and Stalin sound more like Dark Lords than proper humans, albeit Stalin is kind of like a Peter the Great on steroids. But what the Hell was all that stuff with having Germany engage in a wholesale genocide on the horrifying scales Hitler was intending? Did that guy's dog get run over by a German or something?And again there's the whole "ten million dead Soviets" turns into "Hammer and Sickle over the Reichstag." That is completely impossible, any state that loses that much in that short amount of time would collapse.
Anyone who posted such drivel even in the ASB forum would be quickly laughed out of here. Gimme a break, as if we're supposed believe that a people such as the Germans, with their great contributions in art, culture, music, science and engineering, would elect an uneducated genocidal racist to lead them is unimaginable. Exactly what drugs was Turtledove on when he wrote this garbage?
And the Soviet/Russian part of his story is just as ASB. To believe that a people who took such enormous losses in that brutal war would not only conquer half of Europe but also be the first to put a man in space? And then, we're supposed to believe that such a great power would simply implode and collapse by 1991? Seriously? How is this Turtledove even taken seriously as a writer?