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With a POD of June 22 1940 (French defeat). Hitler decides to start preparing Barabrossa now with a target start date of 1941 as soon as the weather clears. It seems to him like an easy operation based off of Germany's WW1 experience in the east and the Soviets futility against the Finns and their own recent sucess against the French. But since the conquest of the east is basically the whole point of the Nazi program, Hitler wants nothing left to chance for his crowning achievement. What can be done differently to prepare better to try to make the invasion a success?????

Some ideas:
1) Scrap any thought of a Battle of Britain, save fuel and planes and pilots for the eastern campaign. Also no accumulation of shipping for Sealion doesn't disrupt the German economy as in OTL.
2) Increase production of JU52s for air supply (assuming you have more pilots and a more intact training organization without BOB)
3) Increase production of tracked and otherwise off road capable vehicles.
4) Tell the Italians what you are doing so they can plan accordingly (and maybe not invade Greece or Egypt (and they understand why you are moving into Rommania).
5) Tell the Japanese what you are going to do so they can plan accordingly (or at least don't provoke the USA until this is done).

possible positive consequences:
Not provoking Britain will delay the start its bombing offensive and if you can convince the Italians to stay put and not attack Greece and not take Sidi Barrani they might be better off or the British may not try an attack themselves. This is probably better for the Axis regrdless of Barbarossa.

possible negative consequences:
Of course the big concern is the Russians will figure this out and react accordingly (on full alert and worst case for Germany, pulling her armies back into the interior before Germany strikes). I am guessing that even if the Soviets are concerned they would still guard the frontier as OTL and would still be trading with Germany even if their army is more full alert than in OTL.

So could anything the German do in this 1 year time period actually make Barbarossa at least a partial success????
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