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What in 1945 if Germany was defeated (mostly) by the Western Allies taking Berlin April 30th 1945 (Hitler shooting himself as OTL). Residual German leadership surrenders on May 8th.

In this TL: Germany does better executing Barbarossa, Typhoon succeeds, Moscow falls in November 1941, Soviet Union lingers on, but performs less well than OTL and when war ends, Soviet forces are still along the Dnieper. Leningrad and Moscow were both taken by the Germans, Soviet WW2 civilian casualties and devastation is higher than OTL.

(even though logically the German should have pulled forces back from the east to the west to help defend the Ruhr and Berlin, Hitler wanted to protect resource centers like the Nikopol mines, Estonian shale oil, protect from a distance Romanian oil, so kept way too many forces east, even as Germany crumbled, without the threat from the east, the German armies just sort of stopped fighting the Allies by March/April 1945)

The war ends with German axis armies like Romania and Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland still intact in their countries, the Polish home army rises and the Polish parachute brigade is flown in along with the Polish government. A large German army is still present in the Soviet Union when the war ends, trying to get back to Germany somehow.

What happens to the various east European countries in such a scenario???
With more Soviet devastation and perhaps not a cold war threat is Germany treated more harshly???
Could a scenario occur where the Soviets receive American aid into the 1950s???
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