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I've posed this question on here before but as new members are joining I'll put it forward for new perspectives/comments:

Scene-setting: the British got to the Baltic only four hours in front of the lead Soviet elements on the afternoon of May 2nd 1945. They had indeed been aided by Blumentritt and others who had not strongly opposed British forces when they crossed the Elbe at Lauenburg on the afternoon of April 30th. Indeed, the Germans offered little or no resistance to the British as they pushed on Luebeck.

If, however, more fanatical elements had chosen to oppose the crossing of the Elbe upstream from Hamburg (in OTL, it required US airborne troops and was opposed by the Luftwaffe) it's possible Soviet forces might have broken through to the neck of the Baltic and pushed north into Schleswig-Holstein.

What then ? Would Stalin, by virtue of trrops on the ground, have sought to establish a Communist Denmark and what effect would that have had on the Cold War in Europe ?
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