User blog comment:Goldwind1/Timeline Ideas/@comment-4759654-20130714150026/@comment-32656-20130717101422

A "mutant" pathogen would be too far, but more time leading to worse attacks, very possible.

The second of those, Hitler's forces would cause a fair bit of damage in western Germany, but would get the stuffing beat out of them. The advantage that the ASB'ed areas would have in tech would be significant, and the entire area would send troops to Germany. Most of the Nazi military would be gone, as well as their source of supply. The French armistice? Yeah, the French would tear that up right away.