Captain Stalker
I have an idea buzzing through my head that I’d like some help fleshing out.
The POD is 1940, during the American Presidential Election. Wendell Willkie beats FDR, leaving America isolationist and unwilling to help either Britain or the USSR in any significant way, let alone put pressure on the Japanese. Accordingly, Britain’s ability to wage war is seriously hampered and Hitler is able to attack Russia earlier than OTL. The US does not provide any support – and the Japanese, who aren’t hit with any embargos in this timeline, launch an invasion of the Russian Far East as the German armies close in on Moscow. The Japanese get roughly handled, but this doesn't save Moscow – or Stalin’s government. By 1942, the Germans have occupied most of European Russia and have reached down through Stalingrad to Baku and Iran. This sends off political shockwaves running through what remains of the British Empire. Both Iraq and Iran go over to the Nazis – along with Egypt when Italian forces threaten it from the west.
The British, bankrupt, concede defeat by 1943. They keep India (but maybe not for long), Australia and Canada. The Japanese keep on trying to defeat the Chinese, drawing them into a quagmire. The US’s next government finally realises that there is a problem – and so we get a Cold War, of sorts, between Nazi Germany and the USA.
My question is this; how does Germany evolve in the wake of victory? What happens to the German Government when Hitler dies? (He wasn't supposed to live much longer than 1945 in any case.) What happens in the east? Forced resettlement, enslavement of Slavs and Jews – forced labour used to build railways and motorways into the Russian interior?
What do you think?
CS
The POD is 1940, during the American Presidential Election. Wendell Willkie beats FDR, leaving America isolationist and unwilling to help either Britain or the USSR in any significant way, let alone put pressure on the Japanese. Accordingly, Britain’s ability to wage war is seriously hampered and Hitler is able to attack Russia earlier than OTL. The US does not provide any support – and the Japanese, who aren’t hit with any embargos in this timeline, launch an invasion of the Russian Far East as the German armies close in on Moscow. The Japanese get roughly handled, but this doesn't save Moscow – or Stalin’s government. By 1942, the Germans have occupied most of European Russia and have reached down through Stalingrad to Baku and Iran. This sends off political shockwaves running through what remains of the British Empire. Both Iraq and Iran go over to the Nazis – along with Egypt when Italian forces threaten it from the west.
The British, bankrupt, concede defeat by 1943. They keep India (but maybe not for long), Australia and Canada. The Japanese keep on trying to defeat the Chinese, drawing them into a quagmire. The US’s next government finally realises that there is a problem – and so we get a Cold War, of sorts, between Nazi Germany and the USA.
My question is this; how does Germany evolve in the wake of victory? What happens to the German Government when Hitler dies? (He wasn't supposed to live much longer than 1945 in any case.) What happens in the east? Forced resettlement, enslavement of Slavs and Jews – forced labour used to build railways and motorways into the Russian interior?
What do you think?
CS