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Let's assume that ITTL Vichy France joins the Axis after Mers-el-Kabir, and there is no Free France, because De Gaulle dies during the German invasion of France. The Allies come to regard and treat Vichy France just like Fascist Italy.

Of course, this means no French UNSC permaseat or occupation zone in Germany, with Canada taking the place of France in both.

As for WWII butterflies, I'd tentatively propose for the sake of the scenario that this ultimately turns out in Allied armies still somewhere in Poland and France in August '45, and Germany being forced into surrender by 2-3 nukes.

Main consequences, no Soviet occupation zone in Austria, Soviet occupation zone in Germany made up by Pomerania and Silesia, Poland only getting East Prussia with Soviet basing rights, Iron Curtain on the Oder-Neisse, Austria and Czechia staying in the Western bloc, Slovakia an independent Soviet satellite. A communist Korea, perhaps a communist Hokkaido.

What consequences the different stance of France would have on the Cold War, especially as it concerns:

NATO (no French nuclear deterrent, no French partial withdrawal) ?

European Integration (would it be fostered or hindered, with France in the same boat with *West Germany and Italy) ?

The French colonial empire (I assume it would be quickly dismantled, like the Italian one; this creates serious butterflies about Indochina) ?

I assume France would most likely stay a parliamentary republic.
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