November 1941 the Wehrmacht conquers Moscow.
In the chaotic evacuation Stalins car had been hit by a 500 Kilogram bomb from Hans Ulrich Rudels Stuka thus killing the despot.
There was only so much the Soviet Union could take.
For 5 long months, from late June to late November the Soviets had to surrender their territories one by one from the seemingly unstoppable onslaught of the Wehrmacht.
Some 1,5 Million square kilometers - an area twice the size of Texas - had been lost.
More than 70 Million people - over a third of the USSRs population was now under German rule.
Some 20 000 aircraft and tanks had been lost and more than 6 Million Red Army soldiers were either dead or in German captivity.
And now Moscow had been taken and the leader of the USSR was dead.
What little troops the USSR had left were destroyed in an internal power struggle between Beria, the communist party and the Red Army led by Zhukov.
On January 1st 1942 the treaty of Nizhny Novgorod was signed.
Germany had won the war in the East.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union Japan decided to turn north to the resource rich territories of Siberia thus avoiding a confrontation with the USA.
Hitler now sure that no one could beat him declared war on the USA on the 11th January of 1942 so German U-Boats could target the US shippments to GB without having to worry about diplomatic nonsence.
In GB Winston Churchill was determined to fight on.
" A lion may be the most powerfull of all animals. Not even a bear, a wolf or a tiger can take him down. But if a little mosquito should sting the lion and sting and sting and sting even the great lion will eventually collapse.
We Britons are that mosquito and we will not stop to sting until the Nazi beast has collapsed!"
In Germany the Nazis knew the war was as good as over. Even together the USA and Britain posed no serious threat to Germany. Not when a hundred battle hardened divisions from the East could be transferred to Western Europe and North Africa.
The U-Boat production would be the absolute priority now.
Hundreds upon hundreds of German fighters and 8.8 Flak cannons would be transferred to Germany from the east.
Allied losses in bombers and ships climbed higher each month.
Rommel had conquered Alexandria and was approaching Cairo.
The first nuclear bomb was more than 3 years from its completion.
Would the western Allies keep fighting allthough they had no chance or would the cold war start in 1942?
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