Yet another WWII alternate history

POD- Germany doesn’t ally with Japan, focuses more on Italy(it is more prepared), the Panzers push to Dunkirk, trapping the BEF. Holland is not attacked. Germany has better leadership, and puppets Ukraine and the Baltic States.

 

Chapters- 1 (1940-41) European War

2 (1941-43) War of Attrition, End of the USSR

3 (1943-44) Peace for Germany,Count Up in the Pacific

4 (1944-45) The Short Road Ahead

5(1945) The Korean War

 

Chapter 1- 1940-41 European War.

 

27 May 1940- The BEF surrenders. over 500,000 men of 3 different nations lay down their arms as thousands of German soldiers march through Dunkirk, with their captives. German soldier Hans Baumann says “ There was a long line, like a centipede. They just had a look of defeat on their eyes, like how many of our fathers did in November 1918.”   	The British POWs were held until 1942, a 2 year ordeal.

 

30 May 1940-  May 1940, a disastrous blow to the British public. Belgium, France, and 500,000 British men are in the Nazi yoke. Some anti-war protests start, but Winston Churchill says they are allied with the Nazis.

 

5 June 1940- Fall Rot (Case Red) starts, the French armies are doomed to a fate like the BEF. The battle of Abbeville ended the day before, in a German victory.

 

10 June 1940- The French government declares Paris an open city. The German 18th Army starts to attack its defenses. Italy is at war with France and Britain.

 

15 June 1940- The Luftwaffe has complete air superiority, and the city of Paris, is now German. Paul Raynaud resigns, and the Italian troops are doing well, and are in Cannes, watching Fascist films for an “Italian Film Festival”.

Occupation would last until May 8th, 1946, when the Vichy French forces were given control of France.

 

21 June 1940- Hitler arrives at Compiegne, where the armistice will be signed.

 

22 June 1940- An armistice is signed, France is out of the war. French General Hutzinger complained that the armistice terms imposed on France were harder than those imposed on Germany in 1918. They provided for German occupation of Northern and Western France, a small Vichy army, and no ports in any ocean but the Med.

 

24 June 1940- Italian Armistice with France. About 50 ish miles of territory are taken.

 

The Battle of Britain goes in somewhat OTL, but the Luftwaffe keeps attacking the airfields and radar stations. Winston Churchill is assassinated, because the British Union of Fascists gives a hitman $20,000 in pounds to off him during a speech. Britain’s leadership is torn, the RAF is using old Gloster Gladiators and Hawker Furys to stay afloat from the German and Italian barrage of firepower.

 

5 October 1940- The British are transferring tons of supplies and materials to the Greeks. Some even defect to the Greeks to continue the fight. Many were shot down making the runs by the famed Jadgeschwader 52

 

12 October 1940- The United Kingdom lays down its arms. A peace treaty will be signed 11 November 1940 and in 28 June 1941.

 

13 October 1940- Hitler makes a speech saying the war has been won against Britain and France. His generals are putting Operation: Barbarossa on 15 April 1941. Also, they will help out Mussolini in Greece

 

28 October 1940- Mussolini invades Greece, with help of the Luftwaffe. The German army invades from Bulgaria. The Italians make steady progress, while the Germans are on full blitzkrieg stance.

 

30 October 1940- The Alpini division Julia, aided by Luftflotte 1 is smashing the Greek forces in the Pindus.

 

5 November 1940- General Gianni’s 23rd division “Ferrara” is making its way across the Pindus mountains. The Italians are at the city of Ioannia, and Rommel’s Afrika Korps is at Thessaloniki, taking thousands of Greeks as prisoners.

 

10 November 1940- German and Italian armies meet at Karditsa.

 

11 November 1940- The Treaty of Versailles is signed. The Germans get their colonies back. Africa is split up, and the British and French keep some colonies. The Italians get North Afirica, the Germans get the South. The Pacific territories are administered by Australia, and will be occupied until 1949. The Australians immediately plan for defense against the Japanese. Retreat to Singapore. Fight, withdraw. Inflict casualties on the Japanese, who could attack ASAP.

 

Many Greek soldiers surrender. They surrendered to Rommel’s Falschrimjägers on 13 November 1940 in the famed Xánthi pocket. They were sent to POW camps across the Italian peninsula. Greeks would be held prisoner until 1942. Some Greek Fascists joined the Regio Esercito, due to good treatment by the Italians.

 

15 November 1940- The Afrika Korps is at Kamena Vourla, the Italians are at Mesholonghi. The Luftwaffe has total air supermacy. and Greek pilots are afraid to go in the skies.

 

20 November 1940- The “Greek Blitzkrieg” continues. The Italians have taken Patras, and the DAK is on its way to Athens. Masses of Greeks surrender. The Luftwaffe is dropping leaflets telling the Greeks to surrender.

 

25 November 1940- The Greek units on Corinth lay down their arms. Many desert, to be with families during the hard times of Italian occupation. Athens is surrounded by the DAK. An Italian marine division will capture it, with German help.

 

28 November 1940- The Greek government surrenders. Athens has fallen. Italy will occupy most of Greece. The Germans will occupy Athens, and some western regions.

 

30 November 1940- A treaty is negotiated in Crete.

 

5 December 1940- The treaty of Herkalion is signed. Peace is in the air, but only for a short time.

 

15 December 1940- German Abwehr agents infiltrate the Ustaše, and give it old weapons. Yugoslavia will join the Axis or Croatia will rise.

 

25 December 1940- Christmas in Germany. German units toast a year of vengeance, blitzkrieg, and victory. France, Britain, and Greece have surrendered, Germany is on top of the world. There lays 3 opposite powers, America, The USSR, and Japan. Hitler thinks America or Japan would be a good ally. The USSR will die in 1941…

 

1 January 1941- Ante Pavelić and Hitler meet in Germany. The Invasion of Yugoslavia will be made in 15 March, 1 month until Operation Barbarossa.

The Bulgarians will get Macedonia, The Germans north Slovenia, Hungarians the Novi Sad region, the Italians Lubiana, the Croats Croatia, and the Germans will occupy Serbia.

 

15 March 1941- Yugoslavia is invaded. Border resistance is crushed, and as usual, the Luftwaffe has air superiority. The Germans are attacking form Bulgarian, with Bulgarian help. There is a 3-pronged attack on Belgrade. The Hungarians are only attacking land that was theirs before the Treaty of Trianon. The Yugoslavians are attacking Albania and Zara.

 

20 March 1941- The offensives on Zara and Albania are repelled. The German Army has surrounded Belgrade. Ante Pavelić has declared an independent state of Croatia.

 

Yugoslavian infantry surrendering. The Germans took a considerable number of ethnic Germans and Hungarians who had been conscripted into the Yugoslav Army and who were quickly released after screening. The Yugoslavian POWs would be held until 1944, when they were released. to go back home.

 

22 March 1941- Yugoslavia surrenders. The Germans occupy Serbia. The German units will get 2 days of rest, until going to move to the positions for Operation: Barbarossa.

 

Chapter 2- 1941-1941 - Barbarossa

 

25 March 1941-  The Units in Yugoslavia move forward to their destination for Operation: Barbarossa.

 

15 April 1941- Operation Barbarossa. The Axis soldiers, numbering about 5 million, cross the borders of the USSR. They attack the border cities of Brest Litovsk,