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In this TL. The Soviet Union suffered worse defeats in World War 2 than OTL. The war ends with the Allies taking Berlin in late July 1945 with Hitler committing suicide on July 28th, as in OTL Doenitz is in charge, Goebbels dead, Goering and Himmler discredited by Hitler. On this July 28th date: The Soviet army is still back along the Dnieper. The Polish home army rises at news of Hitler's death. Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Finland, Bulgaria, Croatia are still technically German allied with intact armies in their home countries. The Balkans, Norway, Fortress Holland, North Italy, Bohemia is still German occupied.

The Americans A-bomb Japan just the same, but the Soviet Union was not declared war by the time the Japanese surrender as OTL.

1) Can Poland remain independent and western leaning??
2) What happens to the Axis satellites like Romania (the Soviets are coming and there won't be much Allied sympathy, political support unlike Poland?
3) What happens to Czechoslovakia? (the Allies will occupy Prague first certainly)
4) What happens in the Pacific (do the Soviets just take the Kuriles just the same). What happens to the largely intact Japanese army in Manchuria?
5) Is Germany dealt with more harshly than in in OTL without a powerful Soviet threat?
6) What does the Doenitz government do?? (I assume shut down the war, but in this TL there are lots of intact divisions on the eastern front.

Scenario Details: A combination of one or more things happen.
a) General Wever Lives, Ju88, HE177 not built with dive bombing capability, No ME210 screw up etc.
b) Germans adopt different tactics in Battle of Britain (a Battle of Britain light scenario, i.e. less losses)
c) Different German strategy in Crete, focuses on least defended airfield, less Ju52 losses)
d) Instead of crazy construction projects, Germans build a rail bridge or two over the Vistula river in Winter of 40-41, helping logistical bottlenecks in Barbarossa the next year.

With the extra air power and slightly improved logistics the Germans take Moscow in late 41, Leningrad falls to a Winter siege, Germans take Tupase, Grozny and Stalingrad in 1942, cut the Murmansk railway, even take a small port on the Caspian sea to put some small torpedo boats on the Caspian. However the attack stalls out here. The Soviets really don't have the strength to counter attack to retake the lost lands. However the Germans have to keep all their OTL forces in the east to hold what they have taken. Hitler refuses to give up the eastern gains until very late, he overvalues the resources gained, has concerns about the political effects on Turkey and German satellites and above all its the whole reason for his Nazi program. Hitler only starts to pull forces back after the Allied breakout from Normandy in August 1944, and even then is slow about it. The Soviets find them selves along the Dnieper in July 1945 with the Germans still trying to hold the OTL Panther line. The war along the Siegfried line is an absolute grinder but the Allies win just the same ,but take longer (but with larger casualties vs OTL.)
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