Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7559950-20130911012534/@comment-4621372-20130914130356

35 MILLION? THATS THE 3/4 OF THE MALE POPULATION OF RUSSIA (at the time)! Theres no WAY they could put that many people in the field, local.

And Nk, we established that the Russians would win a defensive war; but they would lose an offensive one if unsupported by the Americans and Brits. The Germans OTL wasted their troops in a futile attack into Russia. If Hitler died in 1940, then the Wehrmacht High Command could have negotiated a settlement with the Brits and French, and when the Russians came acalling, they would have hit them for six.

See, I'm assuming that the Germans are sane here, and that needs to involve Hitler's death.