The Anglo/American - Nazi War
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That actually raises an interesting point. My understanding is that the Battle of the Barents Sea was butterflied by the earlier defeat of the USSR because Lend Lease stopped.
What would have happened if the same basic thing had happened earlier. Hitler orders a sortie by the surface Kriegsmarine against a PQ, maybe in response to the allies surging aid as the USSR collapses, and they get ROFLstomped so he loses faith in the surface force.
What, in your estimation as author, would have happened if all those resources had gone into producing u-boats and going all-out in trying to strangle Britain?
It would have failed.
By the time of the POD the WAllies had broken Enigma, with Bell Labs having built on the efforts of Betchley Park to the point that by mid 1943, a three rotor message could be broken in around ten minutes i.e. "real-time" (four rotor took considerable more time, but were still producing readily actionable decrypts). ATL these sort of efforts continued in both the U.S. and UK, both as a combined effort and independently. The "bombes" that resulted were, as IOTL, the first true electronic computers and they proved to be easier to modify when the KM added rotors or made other changes than the Enigma machines themselves. I chose to keep the KM's blissful ignorance regarding Enigma intact, mostly because OTL post war interrogations of numerous KM cryptologists made it clear that, while they understood that the machine could be defeated in theory, they also believed that, as a practical matter no opponent would devote the enormous resources necessary to complete the task.
nbcman
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I believe he is working on a prequel for the Warm War period:
EDIT: He also did this ISOT of the AANW universe to the 'present time' in this thread:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/an-anglo-american-nazi-war-isot.354596/
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Any chance the Kriegsmarine would have figured out their mail was being read if the WAllies had that much success against the u-boats?
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Sulemain
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Which is a concept which I think illustrates just why Germany lost the war; they severely over-estimated how little of war is decided on the battlefield.
Lost Freeway
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But keeping Germany divided would be much easier if the Germans thought of themselves as Saxon, Bavarian, Plattdüütsch, etc. instead of Germans.
The power disparity between the A4 and the German states is so massive that it probably isn't worth the effort to culturally fragment them.
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As was the case with the overwhelming majority of Heer high ranked officers, he was "honorably retired" as the Waffen SS assumed control of what had been the Heer. Since he was not seen as being particularly devote to the National Socialist cause, he was given a large land grant in the East. His was in what had once been the Western Ukraine, and, like a number of senior Heer officers was seen as being too soft on his Slav serfs. He died in a RAF airstrike on one of the "reserve army" formations that were activated in an attempt to check the WAllied advance in the East.
If the A4 somehow developed the technology to travel to parallel Earths, what would they use it for? Would they use it to invade and conquer as many Germany-wank worlds?
RamscoopRaider
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Realistically the same as an other industrialized states would, find Virgin Earth's, or those inhabited by say Neolithic era humans or earlier and get at all those untapped resources
But we can agree that the A4's SOP when dealing with worlds which contain superpower!Germany (or at least great power!Germany) would be to invade such a world due to their world view?
I'm starting to think we should have a sticky thread in the ASB section for all these ASB ideas that are popping up with Calbear's AANW verse.
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