Nazi Germany and the one front war How to do it?

To be sure, but if we take the 1939 Wehrmacht against the 1939 Red Army, the USSR still wins. Whether "win" means "take over half of Europe" is a completely different question.

I doubt the British and French would be too keen on the Soviets going much further than the Vistula, my guess would be that they'd push for peace terms once the Wehrmacht has been decisively pushed out of Poland, probably ones favourable to the Soviets but that keep Germany intact and independent. If the Germans don't accept then the British and French will abandon them to their fate, Hitler might want to keep on fighting but at this point militarily sane minds like Halder would most likely replace him. If Hitler remains in power and the Soviets continue to advance into Germany I can see the French moving in to occupy as much German territory as possible after Berlin falls.
 
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Cook

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How do we arraigne it so that the war against the Soviet Union is Nazi Germany's ONLY war. No other conflicts on going?
Have Britain accept peace sometime in 1940; say the withdrawal from Dunkirk and the battle for the Atlantic go worse, resulting in more determined machinations by the ‘doves’ against Churchill. Perhaps Winston successfully convincing Lloyd-George to join the cabinet without Chamberlain walking out of it, resulting in Churchill being outnumbered by those willing to accept a cease-fire, giving Hitler a free hand on the continent and no need to rush his preparations against the Soviet Union. Europe will be at peace throughout 1941 and Germany and the Soviet Union battle it out in 1942.
 
get the UK to agree to a truce/armistice early on in the war, and that removes the USA from the equation too. Granted, that's a tough order to fill...

Or Hitler could just say Screw 'em: Let them sit on their island and rot. Don't fight the Battle of the Atlantic, have the Battle of Britain fought defensively over northern France. The US has to look a lot harder for a causus belli.
 
I doubt the British and French would be too keen on the Soviets going much further than the Vistula, my guess would be that they'd push for peace terms once the Wehrmacht has been decisively pushed out of Poland, probably ones favourable to the Soviets but that keep Germany intact and independent. If the Germans don't accept then the British and French will abandon them to their fate, Hitler might want to keep on fighting but at this point militarily sane minds like Halder would most likely replace him. If Hitler remains in the power and the Soviets continue to advance into Germany I can see the French moving in to occupy as much Germany territory as possible after Berlin falls.

I agree. The one thing about the Curzon Line border is that Churchill actually supported it as the Polish-Soviet border, so the Soviets may get their 1921 borders here, but aside from that.......

The Soviet Union was too cautious to risk a general war it could not win, especially if it gets recognition as a state with a recognized sphere of influence out of something like this.
 
Or Hitler could just say Screw 'em: Let them sit on their island and rot. Don't fight the Battle of the Atlantic, have the Battle of Britain fought defensively over northern France. The US has to look a lot harder for a causus belli.
I think a great way to do it would be to get Machiavellian on the SOviets, do the Von Ribbentropp-Molotiv pact, then arrainge for a joint Soviet German invasion on such and such a date, and when the SOviets invade Eastern Poland, you DON'T! instead you tell the poles, "See we told you them reds were dangerous and if you lets us we'll help you fight them.
 

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How about something completely outside the box such as the war starting not in Europe at all? For example: The communist party in Persia becomes better organized in the inter war era and stage a succssful coup against the Shah, leading to the new government pleading to the USSR for aid, which Stalin grants. But rather than watching idly, the UK decides to act and the "Persian War of resistance" starts, with the British supporting Persia. Hitler jumps on the opportunity, reaches to London promising aid in the war on one condition - he must get a continental war, not just send ships and troops to the middle east. The UK agree and immense pressure is put on Poland and the Baltic states by the UK, Germany, France (supporting the UK) and Italy (supporting Germany). Poland folds to those pressures, accepting this second Grandee Armee on its soil, the USSR starts a preventive war against Poland and the Red Alert War is on.

I think the easiest way to fulfill the OP is not so much about the UK and France accepting Germany to be master of eastern Europe (that won't happen), but to find a reason for which it would be the UK and France willing to go to war with the USSR, and asking for German assistance. The obvious choice would be "USSR invades western colonies", but that might be difficult with Stalin in charge (he is to cautious). So invading Persia or Afghanistan (nominally not colonies) seems more likely to happen, and get a western reaction.
 
How about something completely outside the box such as the war starting not in Europe at all? For example: The communist party in Persia becomes better organized in the inter war era and stage a succssful coup against the Shah, leading to the new government pleading to the USSR for aid, which Stalin grants. But rather than watching idly, the UK decides to act and the "Persian War of resistance" starts, with the British supporting Persia. Hitler jumps on the opportunity, reaches to London promising aid in the war on one condition - he must get a continental war, not just send ships and troops to the middle east. The UK agree and immense pressure is put on Poland and the Baltic states by the UK, Germany, France (supporting the UK) and Italy (supporting Germany). Poland folds to those pressures, accepting this second Grandee Armee on its soil, the USSR starts a preventive war against Poland and the Red Alert War is on.

I think the easiest way to fulfill the OP is not so much about the UK and France accepting Germany to be master of eastern Europe (that won't happen), but to find a reason for which it would be the UK and France willing to go to war with the USSR, and asking for German assistance. The obvious choice would be "USSR invades western colonies", but that might be difficult with Stalin in charge (he is to cautious). So invading Persia or Afghanistan (nominally not colonies) seems more likely to happen, and get a western reaction.

That is NOT bad, that is not bad at all. nice work, my friend, truly nice work.
 
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