What would be, if Lithuania has entered the union with Germany after rout of Poland? There were variants of the contractLithuania would become protectorate of Germany. Probably pact Molotov-Ribbentrop will not be changed?
What would be, if Lithuania has entered the union with Germany after rout of Poland? There were variants of the contractLithuania would become protectorate of Germany. Probably pact Molotov-Ribbentrop will not be changed?
But USSR could have Central Poland-it is an old pact!When Barbarossa starts, Germany has a shorter way to go to Leningrad, which may mean that the city is captured. How that would affect things on the grand scale, I don't now. Maybe Hitler would focus more on the northern front than IOTL, leading to Moscow falling and no Stalingrad. Lithuania may, depending on Hitler's mood, gain some territories off of Latvira (Kurland) and Belarus (the aforementioned Vilnius region plus a bit more - the Slavs were considered more "untermensch" than the Balts), it may even become the administrative and political core of the Ostland, which would be a protectorate rather than a military district.
Galicia(West Ukraine, Lwov) is a part of German too-but In Poland USSR had the same territioies as Russian Empire. And Moscow is farther in this scenario. And Groups of armies "North"I had forgotten about that. And it seems (according to Molobedia at least) that the initial pact had Vilnius region as a German sphere of influence. This means that it is even more likely that Hitler would consider a northern strategy - Leningrad and Moscow are comparably closer, while Kiev and Baku are comparably farther away in this scenario.