Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7559950-20130911012534/@comment-5122856-20140628153328

An idea- OTL history shows that Germany was suicidal stupid for invading the USSR on mass and so deeply. Germany should have only liberated and held on to the anti-Soviet rebel zones like Galician-Ukraine and Estonia, and then formed a fortified line on the Dnieper River. it could have been a much better tactical plan.

Germany and the USSR were going to eventually clash any how since Germany’s alley, Romania, wanted to annex the ethnically Romanian Moldavia-Bessarabia region of the USSR and the USSR did not like the Romanian fascist Iron Guard regime! In the long turm. both Germant and the USSR wanted all of Poland and Lithuania for them selves!

The German troops that would have gone to OTL, but not ATL Russia, could have spent ATL duty time 1941 crushing more of the French Resistance, Yugoslav Partisan’s and the Polish Resistance. The Atlantic Wall could have been made better with the saved guns, cement, enginears and concorette; so making D-Day even worse for the Anglo-American forces. The Luftwaffe could be repaired and helped to improve with out the waste in the Soviet Union..

OTL Romania was not in a hurry for war and was willing to wait for German help befor acting over Moldavia. The USSR was still recovering from its purges, so they were willing to back off for a while to buy time. A Romanian /Soviet war in 1942? Germany could have helped defend Romania (after finishing off in Western Europe in 1941) along a shorter long turm defecive frontier in the Ukraine, along the Dnieper and the Baltics, without going deeply in to the USSR to events like the Battle of Stalingrad, thus avoiding killing tens of thousands of Axis forces and destroying both hundreds of Axis tanks, equipment and aircraft as it did so.

The ATL German forces thus had thought it was would be best stopping Dnieper River and turning it's banks in to a fortified, tank filled and/or heavily mined defective barrier. Missions could hit out from there, but only a short way (not the distant Moscow or Stalingrad stuff) until late 1943.

Germany could hold out until the final surrender to the Anglo-American/Free French/Soviet forces after the Battle of Berlin in the March of 1947 (not 1945 as in OTL). Germany could never win, but the war could last longer and cause more damage.