Operation European Freedom

This ATL comes about as a result of Hitler deciding to invade Britain. One scenario of Unternehmen Seelöwe, 1941

1940

 * Operation Sealion commences with Britain falling by 13 december 1940. However, a massive insurgency wreaks havoc on the German forces.

1941

 * June 22: after a series of car bombs which killed Reinhard Heydrich, Albert Speer, Oswald Mosley in London, Hitler calls a meeting of his general staff in the Braunau Am inn.


 * June 24: Hitler agrees with a presentation made by Erich Von Manstein, which says that Hitler can expect a similar insurgency in Russia if Barbarossa goes ahead. Hitler decides to re-evaluate the operation and says to the meeting that a decision shall be made in 1 day.


 * June 25: Hitler announces that Barbarossa shall NOT go ahead. Instead, they will solidify their position in the face of an inevitable assault by the USA (Churchill is touring America, from Seattle to Miami, urging a war against Germany by now.)


 * December 7: Japan attacks pearl harbour. Germany does not declare war on the USA


 * December 8: the Telemark plant is blown up by Norwegian partisans

1942
March 5: The USA/Commonwealth have won at midway (with Britain seen as a lost cause, The Commonwealth try to dig in in Africa and the middle East, while they throw everything they have in the pacific against Japan.

1943

 * German Troops under Rommel capture Palestine. SS General Stroop created the Jerusalem Ghetto

1946

 * March 7: Japan surrenders after the crown prince is killed out in Saipan. FDR sends military advisors into china and India to train up their forces for the inevitable assault against Germany


 * April 20: Hitler unleashes Operation Gotterdammerung, the invasion of the United States. General Otto Skorzeny is to lead the assault.


 * April 21: the US/commonwealth navies defeat the Kriegsmarine at Bermuda. Otto is killed in the battle as well.


 * April 22: in retaliation, 60 US B-29s and B-32s fly over Norway and destroy the Telemark heavy water facility.


 * April 24: German troops seize Long Island and parts of Maryland, and begin to drive inland.


 * May 1st: The Battle of Long Island Sound. the Kriegsmarine gets revenge for the defeat at Bermuda.


 * May 27th: a German A9-10 rocket filled with nerve gas hits Washington. President Roosevelt is among those killed, and Harry Truman is sworn in.


 * July: Manhattan is successful, and the USA seek revenge for the nerve gas attack.

1947

 * April 14: The last German forces are forced off the USA. In the meantime, the CIA (Which was formed earlier ATL) has been wreaking havoc on the Nazi nuclear weapons programme for years right under the SD's nose.


 * the German Resistance is formed. underground bunkers are secretly built all over germany to house weapons, and youths are taught basic military tactics, to deal with the expected US occupation

1948

 * June 1: The USA begin "Operation European Freedom", starting with the US liberation of Britain. Since Gotterdammerung failed, the German myth of invincibility is shattered and US morale increases as a result.  US B-36 bombers begin bombing runs over Britain using napalm and cluster bombs, setting up beachheads in Donegal and Galway.


 * December 1: Belfast has fallen to US soldiers.