political effects of failed D-Day

That they already had to do. In May of '44, when the Germans concentrated their fighters down to Romania and tried to seize back the airspace over Besserabia-Moldovia. The Soviets won handily, but throughout the war they still had to deal German air forces trying to contest the skies and deliver strikes against their spearheads. It particularly became an issue when Soviet armor outran their air cover, which tended to happen during the latter half of operations, but the Soviets had means to deal with it (decoys, deception... the whole roster of Maskirovka. And a lot of truck-mounted AAA). By the Spring of '45, the Soviets are even stronger and the Germans are weaker even with reinforcements from the western front, so it's doubtful the results would be any better for the Germans.
Weren't German jets being mass-produced 1944-1945 in the thosands, I know the form agrees that they are not a game changer in a 2 front war but might they make the difference in a 1 front war if allowed to operate only on the sovit's and with additional years if production?
 
Weren't German jets being mass-produced 1944-1945 in the thosands, I know the form agrees that they are not a game changer in a 2 front war but might they make the difference in a 1 front war if allowed to operate only on the sovit's and with additional years if production?

Extra-year? The Soviets may be slowed by the additional resistance in the east, but the measurement will be in additional months... not a year. The German economy was also on track to collapse from overmobilization and resource shortage come mid-1945 irrespective of what was happening on the frontlines in the air, so while the Germans may get some extra-production, their quantities are still going to pale in comparison to what the Red juggernaut can bring to the field. The Germans produced just shy of 1.5 thousand jets, but their manpower and fuel constraints meant they could never operate more then a few hundred of them at any given time. It's really a similar story across the board: overall, German aircraft and tank stocks increased each year. The problem wasn't production, at least not until 1945 when the German economy collapsed in on itself. The problem was sustainability: Germany had neither the trained fuel nor the trained manpower to actually field them, so while the German stockpile of armor and aircraft increased year-by-year, their operational strength continued to dwindle away. Even earlier in the war, 1942-43, the Germans constantly found themselves running fuel shortages of around 30% which wasn't outright crippling, but did impose restrictions of how much they could sustain at any given time. By the Spring of '45, with the loss of the Ploesti oilfields the previous autumn and the synthetic refining plants in Poland during the winter, Germany's last fuel source would be the western synthetic oil plants in the Ruhr. And they just don't have the capacity to pick up the slack. While the Germans may be able to put a few dozen additional jets in the field, against the ten thousand+ late-model piston engine aircraft manned by veteran and ace pilots fielded by the Red Air Force, their a drop in the bucket.
 
Extra-year? The Soviets may be slowed by the additional resistance in the east, but the measurement will be in additional months... not a year. The German economy was also on track to collapse from overmobilization and resource shortage come mid-1945 irrespective of what was happening on the frontlines in the air, so while the Germans may get some extra-production, their quantities are still going to pale in comparison to what the Red juggernaut can bring to the field. The Germans produced just shy of 1.5 thousand jets, but their manpower and fuel constraints meant they could never operate more then a few hundred of them at any given time. It's really a similar story across the board: overall, German aircraft and tank stocks increased each year. The problem wasn't production, at least not until 1945 when the German economy collapsed in on itself. The problem was sustainability: Germany had neither the trained fuel nor the trained manpower to actually field them, so while the German stockpile of armor and aircraft increased year-by-year, their operational strength continued to dwindle away. Even earlier in the war, 1942-43, the Germans constantly found themselves running fuel shortages of around 30% which wasn't outright crippling, but did impose restrictions of how much they could sustain at any given time. By the Spring of '45, with the loss of the Ploesti oilfields the previous autumn and the synthetic refining plants in Poland during the winter, Germany's last fuel source would be the western synthetic oil plants in the Ruhr. And they just don't have the capacity to pick up the slack. While the Germans may be able to put a few dozen additional jets in the field, against the ten thousand+ late-model piston engine aircraft manned by veteran and ace pilots fielded by the Red Air Force, their a drop in the bucket.
The Messerschmitt jets were just shy of 1500 but total jet production of all types collectively exceeded 2000 (... I'm nit picking, I know. But I get your point.)
 
Depends on various factors like how big a loss. In Disaster at D-Day which was a well researched story the British are really in dire straits with an entire Army on the ropes without real hope of evacuation.

After notes get passed between Montgomery, Ike and Rommel they meet and there is an armistice in the West. WAllied troops end up being given a free hand occupying Western Europe sans Germany.

Churchill is outmaneuvered back home and losses his chair, Hitler is eliminated as an impediment to the deal and a military junta takes over Germany for the duration of the war. FDR’s health declines more quickly and his VP takes over and Wallace and Congress end up fighting like cats and dogs.

The Germans and the Soviets spend the next year bleeding each other white.

So d day fails and Hitler is taken out in a putch? He better be killed for it to have any chance. D day was a suscuess and the Hitler managed to stay in power. Any attempt must have him
dead to start. A successful putch only happens if he dead with a successful d day no way a failed one causes him to loose power. He dies with a failed d day and Himmler et al probably survive by rallying support by waving his corpse as a standard to rally and Goebbels saying to every German soldier hey we are getting stabbed in the back again A failed d day puts Hitler in a stronger position at home. He gets some of his Hitler knows what he doing mojo back.
 
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