The Second World War delayed - A Hitler who could wait TL

Looks good

Quite fascinating TL.

Could you just summarize.....Whoa has nukes in this TL....and how many?

In the current political climate, with the Soviets having supported the former common enemy of Japan, is it not possible for the Germans to just focusing on going against the Soviets, but supported by the western allies, who also see the bigger fear?...at least initially.

Off course the problem would be, how to get past Poland, without causing a war with the Western Powers? Germany could make themselves allies with Poland and make them contribute to the attack against the Soviets. Germany take Western Poland, and get territories in the East in stead? Later on Germany can betray Poland, once the Soviets are defeated.
Maybe a little far fetched....but feel free to be inspired, if you feel. ;)
 
Surely the Soviets would have updated their forces by now, even with the lack of a war?

By 1950, without overpressure of war, T-34 or something like it would be a robust and good tank. Especially as large scale tank combat has not yet occurred and the only combat experience Soviet tanks have had has been in Spain and Manchuria.

Now, other factor is that in OTL Stalin poured large amount of resources into an ocean going fleet. ITTL this will continue.

Could you just summarize.....Whoa has nukes in this TL....and how many?

Nobody yet. For Stalin it's dream of scientists, for Western powers just too expensive and for Germany obviously Jewish science. However the USN is making steady but slow progress on developing nuclear reactors in co-operation with Westinghouse. First reactor will go critical soon and fuel some progress together with increasing international tension.
 
6. End of the Great Consensus of Asian War

1945


On January in an effort to gain an edge in a budget war against the US Army and the US Army Air Corps the US Navy publicly announces the start of first nuclear reactor in the world. The test reactor is expected to lead into surface ship power plant within ten years. Westinghouse and General Electric are expected to start their first commercial power plants within same time frame.

The atomic programs in other leading powers gain a new momentum. As nuclear bombs are judged to be extremely large and expensive the focus is on nuclear energy with bomb projects reserving largely theoretical studies as the industrial machinery required to build any bomb is deemed extremely expensive.

On April Hitler holds yet another of his grand speeches in Sportpalats. The recent conflict in the Far East has definitely proven the superiority of White Race over the Asiatics. However, the end result of the war has proven that Jewish threat against Germans, and Whites everywhere, is not over as seen by Soviet action in the Far East. Thus, in order to defend Europe Germany has to start a large scale rearmament program.

In Britain Labour captures the House and new Prime Minister Attlee declares focus on domestic improvements in lieu of of global power. Britain is heavily indebted to United States due to recent, limited war which was mostly funded through domestic and foreign loans under the Tory Cabinet led by Winston Churchill. Privately the Labour efforts to build "New Jerusalem" have support from British leading traditional elites as a new, more cohesive state is believed to be able to contain threat of political extremism whether from Communism or Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Thus the slump following cancellation of defense orders is to be fought with Keynesian mean of funding welfare projects. With what money, many traditionalist ask.

One of the first decisions of Attlee government is to give India a dominion status. Indian leadership itself is divided and it's questionable whether the peninsula can hold itself together.

The Netherlands, minor combatant in recent Pacific War has a world class, albeit small, Navy, an Army with main focus on containing the uprisings in Indonesia and a wretched financial situation. Thus the world class navy is engaged in a seemingly endless and futile effort to control the Indonesian littoral, a conflict in which it's modern combatants, among them four Eendracht class cruisers, German Type IX submarines and two mighty Type 1047 class battlecruisers are of little use.

France is engaged in a bitter insurgency in Indochina. The communist led nationalists, Viet Minh, is proving itself to be a tricky adversary. Viet Minh is not the only threat to French Indochina. Nationalist China with it's strongly anti communist leanings and tendency to look for German models might make an intervention if the French are not able to contain seemingly viral communism on it's southern border. In fact, new French premier Auriol would be more than willing to quit Indochina but for the threat of rising right wing radicalism. Yet again France has won a war but somehow seemingly lost the peace.
 
7. Why Germany chose an expansionist path?

1946


One of the enduring what-if's by historians since 1940's and 1950's has been the question why did Hitler not pursue a logical alliance policy in order to gain long term base for German domination of Europe. The answer is so simple it seems to be wrong. Hitler's National Socialism was built on a world view in which racial politics and value of land area itself was more important than simple military and political calculations.

Thus in 1946, in hindsight, Germany committed itself to a gigantic land grab destined to turn Eastern Europe into a mimic of American Frontier with Slavs replacing the Native Americans. In long term the aim was to achieve German leadership in Europe creating a continental power which could rival Asia and America (counting both North America as well as South America assumed to be under de facto US leadership).

The vision, while consistent and traceable through reading of leading Nazi works, was so alien to mainstream European political thinking of mid-1940's that it was somehow largely ignored before the Second World War.

This long term plan was also behind build-up of SS, which used a major portion of resources available for Heer expansion. The ideal was that the SS forces would constitute the ideological backbone of future Reich with the goal of forming a network of settlements in the depopulated East in which demobilized SS men would form a superior caste, rather like Teutonic Knights of idealized early medieval period.

First expansionist move of Hitler (if one does not count remilitarization of Rhineland which was achieved trough a diplomatic pact with France in 1942) was the Anschluss, accession of Austria into Greater German Reich in 1956. While Austrofascist dictatorship had never been very stable it did not manage to survive after (according to investigative journalism of Völkischer Beobächter) Jewish terrorists murdered entire Austrian cabinet in June 1946. In order to save Austria from Communism German mobile troops poured into Austria for peacekeeping duties. Although this was first declared to be a temporary mission the Führer could not ignore calls of large portion of Austrians who wished to rejoin the Reich. In a referendum in August over 90% of voters wanted to join the Reich.

Historians have questioned whether the actual majority of even German Austrians would have wanted to join Reich if permitted a free vote. While Austrians had been impressed by German economic progress the relative leisure of Austria compared with strict discipline of Nazi Germany was not altogether a negative factor in minds of many citizens. But what could be done, anyway? Austria was a small and poor, mainly agricultural country with relatively open border towards Germany. It's outdated military could offer no resistance and the country had no powerful friends.

While German leadership had counted on Italy to be a friendly neutral or even a possible ally the Austrian adventure caused a long rethink in mind of Mussolini, with dramatic results.
 
7. Why Germany chose an expansionist path?


First expansionist move of Hitler (if one does not count remilitarization of Rhineland which was achieved trough a diplomatic pact with France in 1942) was the Anschluss, accession of Austria into Greater German Reich in 1956. While Austrofascist dictatorship had never been very stable it did not manage to survive after (according to investigative journalism of Völkischer Beobächter) Jewish terrorists murdered entire Austrian cabinet in June 1946. In order to save Austria from Communism German mobile troops poured into Austria for peacekeeping duties. Although this was first declared to be a temporary mission the Führer could not ignore calls of large portion of Austrians who wished to rejoin the Reich. In a referendum in August over 90% of voters wanted to join the Reich.



While German leadership had counted on Italy to be a friendly neutral or even a possible ally the Austrian adventure caused a long rethink in mind of Mussolini, with dramatic results.

BTW.....what has happened to the Jews within Germany int his TL?
Is Mussolini going to war over Austria...? Againsy Germany?....That would be suicidal...!...but interesting!
 
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