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Using the HBO version as canon, what is the German standard of living and real German military strength?

In the movie, German peace is secured by repulsing D-Day and threatening to use atomic weaponry on London.

The only way this can even work without ASBs is that the Germans get super-lucky and a storm screws up D-Day and they capture an intact nuclear weapon in 1945.

At this point, USSR forces have overrun all of Germany up to Berlin. Without fighting the Wallies and perhaps exacting the end of lend lease as part of the peace, the Germans push the Russians back slowly but man-power losses are so extreme, Germany occupies a good deal of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic states but no farther.

According to the movie, Germany still loses 100,000 men a year dead/captured, and twice that wounded.

So, fast forward to 1962. In the movie, Berlin seems pretty futuristic, standard of living is good of you work for the Nazi state.

However, for this scenario to work, germany had to lose a ton of men and their industrial capacity in the war. I presume that both Germany and Russia have nuclear weapons, and they let the war get warm but not hot.

So, what is the real state of Germany that they need an alliance with the USA. Are they nearing economic collapse? Do Germans outside of Berlin live like crap? Are schools and the Hitler Youth glorified basic training as the war in the East has proved to be endless? Is Italy a Finlandized, pro Western Allied country at this point? Is the German military becoming pretty pathetic (i.e. a bunch of old late 40s weaponry and periodic manpower shortages)?

Perhaps this thread should be in Shared Worlds, but I was interested in speculation.
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