What German city gets nuked?

Mannheim

PRO 1: Germany's major inland harbor city and infrastructral hub of the Rhine-Neckar region. Many people, not much culture.

PRO 2: German Wikipedia noted on Mannheim that Mannheim was indeed a potential target to drop the nuke in Germany.

CON: Heidelberg is just next to Mannheim. Wasn't airraided IOTL for the same reasons Kyoto wasn't. Too much culture, too well known of among Americans.
It would be like dropping a nuke on Prague. Or should I say Francfort, the medieval paradise transformed into the post-war monster we know today?
 
Or to liberate the country and help end the war in Europe quicker by making Hitler move more troops from the Eastern Front to France. Stalin himself was a major advocat for an invasion of France to relieve some pressure from his troops.
The only problem is that by the time the Allies invaded France, the Germans were already on the run. Army Group Center had been annihilated a couple of months ago.
I still see the Soviets winning and taking all of Germany+Denmark+Benelux+France if the Allies don't land in France. It will take more time and blood, but it will still happen.
 
If Germany has survived longer on the western front (My POD is a more concentrated german attack on Bastogne during the Ardennes Offensive) which city would the U.S. have decided to nuke, or would they simply say screw it and not use the bomb.
dresden or Minich, but if Germany has survived longer on WF, German Democratic Respublic would be bigger:D
 
It wouldn't be a major German city or at least not Berlin (the US did not nuke Tokyo). It would just be a small demonstration of power.
 
I think they would've chosen a city not too far from the frontlines. Because if the plane with the bomb had to fly some hundred miles over German-controlled territory, the risk that it's shot down increases. I don't think they'd want to risk that. (In Japan it's easier because most important cities are on its east coast anyway.)

Then, as was said, they'd want to test it on an undamaged city. No idea which cities were like that in 1945 left.

Berlin is improbable, the Allies didn't nuke Tokyo either.

In my Hitler's Mediterranean Strategy TL, I had Oldenburg and Graz nuked.
 
Leipzig or Chemnitz could also be choices, like Niigata being the second target of the Enola Gay should they not be able to drop the bomb on Hiroshima.
 
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