World War Two: Western Axis

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This article describes an alternative reality where the western Allies of World War Two sided with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, rather than with the latter against the former, as in our reality. In the 1930s, as Germany begins re-armament  and expands, the west, chiefly Great Britain and France, rather than maintain their commitments to defend democracy and contain German expansion, choose to side with the Germans, become their allies and consequently do not declare war on Germany following their invasion of Poland in 1939, but side with Germany in their war against the Soviet Union and gradually begin to accept German hegenomy in Europe. In this reality, Britain and France see the Soviet Union as a greater threat than Nazi Germany due to the apparent rise of socialism due to the Great Depression and consequently grow closer to Germany for their military protection. This gives rise to a sort of 'Western Axis' where the western democracies and the Axis powers unite, creating a German-centric European allliance of nations against the Soviet Union and their allies. As a result of the alliance, and growing fears of Communist revolution in their own countries, democratic governments begin to lean right ideologically, slowly abandonning democracy in favour of the authoritarian systems seen in Germany and Italy.