![]() Germany has already decided the Western campaign in its favor before the Poles can even fully mobilize.Īs in OTL, Britain decides to fight on even without France as an ally. At some point after his absorption of the Czech part of Czechoslovakia, he mounts an "out of the blue" attack against France and the Low Countries, that is as fast and successful as Hitler's attack in the West was in OTL. He tries to keep good relations with Poland, even though the Poles naturally distrust a German militaristic dictator. Let's imagine a German dictator who is not obsessed with attacking the USSR, but with attacking France. ![]() The Soviet radio station in Minsk is said to have been used as a navigation aid by German bombers attacking Poland.Ī USSR having an even closer de facto alliance with Germany, Japan and Italy, in a war that in many respects resembles WW II, is also thinkable. Soviet ice-breakers escorted German auxiliary cruisers alongside the Northern coast of the USSR into the Pacific, so that they could attack British shipping there. Germany delivered machine tools and modern weapons to the USSR, including the then top-notch Messerschmitt 109 fighter, in exchange for raw materials and grain. That did not keep Soviets and Germans from co-operating quite intensively while their alliance lasted. Of course, subjugating and exploiting Russia and the Ukraine was part of Hitler's agenda from the start. The USSR on the Axis side is altogether a different story. To have the US actively fighting alongside an Axis Germany you need a POD dating back, at the very least, to the War of Secession. If I remember correctly, in this novel the US recognizes Europe as a German sphere of influence, but even here it does not actively fight on the German side. Philip Roths The Plot against America is an interesting novel about an alternate America in which Anti-Semitism is widespread and which has Charles Lindbergh as a Republican president. I could certainly see the USSR under attack by the Allies joining the Axis, though I expect that within a year of the fall of the Allies there would be at the absolute minimum be a very nasty cold war between the Nazis and USSR, with a full-scale war between the two over the spoils of Britain being extremely likely.Īs for the US, the only way to get them in the Axis is to have major political disruption compared to OTL, like a Fascist/Communist revolution prompted by a worse Great Depression.Īs several others have pointed out, the United States in the Axis is ASB. The M-R pact certainly shows that, if nothing else, the Soviets and Nazis were willing to put aside their utter hatred for each other for long enough to pursue some mutual goals like the destruction of Poland. ![]() the Allies via support of Finland and/or an attack an Baku, both of which were planned OTL. Now, others have outlined scenarios that could force the Nazis and Soviets into an alliance of convenience vs. First off, if the US and USSR are in the Axis there is no "might" about the Allies losing the war it's only a question of how the spoils of the British Empire are going to be divided.
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