There's a reason people bash all over France in regards to WWII: their army, while great on paper, was poorly trained, badly equipped, and ill-led. When they actually DID (finally) mobilize IOTL, the resulting logistical clusterfuck made it all but impossible to even get troops where they were...
Assuming no Allied backstab, Operation Barbarossa has a high chance of success. Two or three years later, the U.S.S.R. is mostly under Nazi control, and Hitler now commands the massive resources and production capability of the Soviet Union. Imagine what Rommel could do with 10,000 Panzer IV's.
Agree. Hitler was extremely nationalistic, and would have held the communists in contempt as being far too Soviet-influenced instead of purely Marxist. Also, Hitler was fairly conservative to start out with, and his experiences in WWI, only made him more Right-wing.
I wasn't referring to the V-2, but the V-1, in response to the following:
V-1s were fairly effective, especially from a morale standpoint. They were designed to help break England's will to fight.
Dunno, maybe he gets put in the PI in place of a certain general with a soft spot for Dugouts...:D
Interesting thought. Apart from a bit of OSS cloak-and-dagger, black ops weren't all that common, but maybe they'd make an exception for the Desert Fox...
But that's because they WERE very effective, and actually had a chance to change the course of the war. By the time the Japanese firebombs were being used, the war was basically won. The only reason I can see for covering up the deaths would be to then release that the bombs had done nothing...
Probably not much, apart from a slight drop in productivity if it hits a city. And the fact that it'd only serve to piss the US of A off MORE then we were IOTL. The nukes still fall, but Japan gets harsh(er) terms at Hirohito's eventual surrender.
1) You mean even less than the (relatively) drawn out, thoroughly humiliating, pyrrhic "victory" they achieved IOTL did? The one that got them thrown out of the League of Nations?
2)...OR the USSR just continues on and rolls right over them too, thus cutting off the Nazis' iron supply...
3)...
There's no way they'd risk it. To do that would critically weaken their defenses across the board.
Of course, if they did do that, it'd force the US Navy to bring in most of its heavy units as well...wait, wasn't that what the Japanese wanted throughout most of the first half of the war...
Well, instead of the Battle of the Bulge turning into a complete cluster-frack, the Waffen SS might have actually succeeded in their mission, which would have dragged the war out another several months at least while the Allies recovered.
Earlier on, Germany would NOT have invaded the USSR in...