What if Nazis don't invade Russia

[ryackov]

What if the Nazis don't invade Russia and focus on a west front first strategy?

 

[altamiro]

The whole point of the western front was to keep the flank secured when Nazis invade Russia. Without planning to invade Russia Hitler would not precipitate the whole war. In other words he would not be Hitler that we know.
Unless of course you mean that the invasion of Russia is postponed until the West is secured, which would only work if the war in the West goes significantly worse than OTL.

 

[Paul V McNutt]

The war in Western Europe ends with an atomic bomb attack. tThere is no Soviet occupation anywhere in Europe. Therefore there is no Cold War and no Red Scare.

 

[Shaby]

And what brings this about? Hitler's demise is the only thing that could possibly do the trick.

Germany faced virtual stalemate on the West. There was little they could do against Britain in a reasonably short or medium term. It would mean they satisfy with fighting war on periphery, without the prospect of quick, decisive victory in a short war, a strategy invented and preferred by Germans since XIX century. In order to do this they would have to place full trust in the Soviets and come up with a way of paying for their deliveries of vital war materials for the duration of hostilities in the West. Which in absolutely the best case could take up to two years, but most likely more.

If they pay the Soviets with machine tools and weapons as it was being done, along with looking the other way on occasional territorial grab by Stalin, Germans will not be in position to attack the USSR ever. Most likely Stalin chooses to strangle them eventually and extract more and more favors from Germany. And Nazis will not stand it.

Quite aside, and as others pointed out already, the entire point of the war was to attack the USSR.

 

[altamiro]

Ignore double posting

 

[Zaius]

The war in Western Europe ends with an atomic bomb attack. tThere is no Soviet occupation anywhere in Europe. Therefore there is no Cold War and no Red Scare.

So Bessarabia, eastern Poland and the Baltic States were part of Africa?

More seriously, as the war drags on, the chance that Stalin decides it's time to liberate the rest of Poland (and quite possibly some more) increases. Particularly if the Reich looks as if it's clearly going down.

 

[altamiro]

The whole point of the western front was to keep the flank secured when Nazis invade Russia. Without planning to invade Russia Hitler would not precipitate the whole war. In other words he would not be Hitler that we know.
Unless of course you mean that the invasion of Russia is postponed until the West is secured, which would only work if the war in the West goes significantly worse than OTL.

 

[aktarian]

The war in Western Europe ends with an atomic bomb attack. tThere is no Soviet occupation anywhere in Europe. Therefore there is no Cold War and no Red Scare.

Hardly. That assumes SU sits by and waits, which isn't going to happen. Stalin was bound to jump on Germany sooner or later, I think 1943 sounds about right.