What people fail to remember is that Germany was actually fighting two separate wars, one with the Allies and the other against the Soviets who were co-combatants but NOT actually "allied."
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At that time the Russians were still being held far to the east, until the Vistula-Oder offensive starting January 1945 and not getting to Berlin until April 1945.
Chances are that the national boundary lines would have been significantly different, with democratic "West" Germany having more of the original territory than was decided at the end of the war current timeline.
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What people fail to remember is that Germany was actually fighting two separate wars, one with the Allies and the other against the Soviets who were co-combatants but NOT actually "allied."
In addition to fighting 2 separate wars, Germany was fighting on 3 different Fronts: N. Africa/Italy, the West & the East. The German High Command considered their alliance with Italy more of a hinderance than an asset.
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IMO had the assassination (July 20, 1944) worked, then the replacement government would have allowed the allies to rush in unopposed to occupy as much of Germany as they could
As I noted in a separate thread, as early as May, 1941, Hitler was eager to make peace with his British "cousins" and withdraw from recently conquered territories in the North. West, & south for a wohlwollende Neutralität “well wishing neutrality”, between Britain and Germany and a free hand to fight the Soviets in the East.(1)
Hitler was so fond of the British that in sparing them at Dunkirk he said:
""The blood of every single Englishman is too valuable to shed," Hitler said. "Our two people belong together racially and traditionally. That is and always has been my aim, even if our generals can't grasp it." (Kilzer, p.213)*
Therefore, Churchill could have made extensive demands for almost anything In addition to what Hitler was already offering.
Still another historian asserts that Germany's attack on the USSR was pre-emptive as Stalin had amassed the "... most powerful military force in the world — actually the world’s first superpower — for his planned conquest of Europe."(2)
Regrettably, Churchill was more interested in luring America more deeply into WW2, preserving the British Empire, destroying Germany & sacrificing millions of lives than either making Peace via the Hitler-Hess Peace proposal or aiding the German High Command in assassinating Hitler (Operation Foxley). It was crucial that Hitler be killed because that would release rank & file German officers from the oath they swore to him.
(1) "Hess, Hitler & Churchill"
https://www.amazon.com/Hess-Hitler-Churchill-Turning-History/dp/184831602X
EXCERPT "Peter Padfield presents striking new evidence that demands the wholesale reappraisal of the episode. For, allied to a powerful argument that Hess must have had both Hitler's backing and considerable encouragement from Britain, Padfield demonstrates that he also brought with him a draft peace treaty committing Hitler to the evacuation of occupied European countries. Made public, this would have destroyed Churchill's campaign to bring the United States into the war."CONTINUED
(2) "Exposing Stalin’s Plan to Conquer Europe:…"
https://www.counter-currents.com/201...onquer-europe/
https://www.counter-currents.com/2011/04/exposing-stalins-plan-to-conquer-europe/
EXCERPT "In Icebreaker, Suvorov details the deployment of Soviet forces in June 1941, describing just how Stalin amassed vast numbers of troops and stores of weapons along the European frontier, not to defend the Soviet homeland but in preparation for a westward attack and decisive battles on enemy territory.
Thus, when German forces struck, the bulk of Red ground and air forces were concentrated along the Soviet western borders facing contiguous European countries, especially the German Reich and Romania, in final readiness for an assault on Europe.
In his second book on the origins of the war, “M Day” (for “Mobilization Day”), Suvorov details how, between late 1939 and the summer of 1941, Stalin methodically and systematically built up the best armed, most powerful military force in the world — actually the world’s first superpower — for his planned conquest of Europe. Suvorov explains how Stalin’s drastic conversion of the country’s economy for war actually made war inevitable.
Stalin instead wanted the Soviet regime to take advantage of occasional “armistices” in the global struggle to consolidate Red military strength for the right moment when larger and better armed Soviet forces would strike into central and western Europe, adding new Soviet republics as this overwhelming force rolled across the continent."CONTINUED