Thanks, everyone!
I forgot to put in one annotation, but then again, it's rather silly:
Mere hours after the codeword “Mjölnir” was given on the 16th...
STOPP! HAMMERZEIT!
Right, that's entirely too silly. On to the comments.
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Great update Tom Colton.
Thank you!
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Great update Tom, it was interesting to see Weber have a little moment of *Hitlerness by delaying the assault on Moscow here, but ironically enough, the move to delay the assault by Army Group Center on Moscow may ultimately work in the Germans favor in the end; rather then against them as per OTL.
The dynamic between the Reich and the recently declared independent states in the Baltic and Ukraine should be quite interesting as well, it seems Weber is quite content to leave the Baltics with at least nominal independence as long as they stay along Berlin's desired line, but Ukraine.... it seems the Veterinarian wants his office space.
Well, when it comes down to it, Weber really isn't a democratically elected leader, and is fairly used to getting his way. Friction between him and the generals was bound to happen eventually.
Office Space, you say? I can't but imagine Weber, Goering, and company just wailing on a Soviet piece of equipment in
this scene now.
Interesting update.
So, Weber doesn't always agree with his general's ideas.
Weber seems to be willing to let the Baltic countries have some form of indipendence as long as they tow his line.
Well, for the time being anyway. Once the guns go silent Weber's line might just take a radical shift.
Even
Mitteleuropa didn't pretend to be anything but continental colonisation, after all.
If there ever was/could be a country more screwed than Poland that would be it.
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Great update.
I highly suspect what Antonescu did is going to bite him in the behind pretty badly. Weber's bound to play his cards with the man pretty carefully after a stunt like that.
Thank you!
Re: Transnistra and Odessa,
"You earned it, you keep it, 'old buddy'." Antonescu can probably kiss Transylvania goodbye as a result, assuming Hungary-Romania politics don't change over time.
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If the GGR and friends fall early enough, imagine what the USSR is going to do to Ukraine... Russian SSR annexes up to the right bank of the Dnieper, Poland gets some land, Hungary and Romania keep some land... rump Western Ukraine SSR that includes Kiev and Odessa, and probably not much else...
I would think Russia would annex Kiev and Odessa and abolish Ukraine.
It depends on who is doing it, I'd suppose; I'd still bet on there being a rump Western Ukraine for all the ex-Catholics who are now good Soviet atheists, and other less-Russian-than-other-Ukrainians people.
Well, that depends wholly on how quickly Russia bounces back and whether they can take Germany down like they did in OTL. Given that this is only the first of the Nazi-Soviet wars, it's pretty much guaranteed it's going to be a slow and painful slog. If Stalin pops his clogs, a savvier Secretary-General might realise that Soviet repression kind of created the OUN in the first place and might take a different tack. Or not.
