Post-war blues

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Post-war Blues
''Nazi Germany rules Europe in 1945. By 1985 you could not be so sure.''

The point of departure comes shortly after the fall of France. Germany wins the Battle of Britain, but considers a seaborne invasion too logistically challenging. An honourable peace is negotiated on Christmas Eve 1940, and is welcomed by an exhausted British public. The real celebrations take place in Berlin.

Germany occupies Poland, Denmark, Norway, the low countries and coastal France, and is allied with Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. Everybody else begins to learn how to fit in with the new order.

1941-1945

Germany mobilises eastwards. It only now requires to deploy a small concentration of forces in Western Europe. There is no Atlantic Wall, no significant U-boat production program. An increasingly nervous USSR

In Britain, life slowly returns to normal. Rationing is eased. Churchill laments with masterful rhetoric Britain's failure to come to the aid of its European allies, and he is eventually considered irrelevant enough to be tossed out in the 1942 general elections. At least the Empire is kept intact, protected under the terms of the Quadrapartite Pact which Britain reluctantly joins in 1944, partially out of concern of Japanese agitation in Asia.