Re: Make Hitler Lose Worse, Was "Assume You Are Hitler" (whatif?)

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Re: Make Hitler Lose Worse, Was "Assume You Are Hitler"

Posted on: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 10:49:15 +0000 (UTC)

On Mar 6, 3:17=A0am, Rich Rostrom wrote:
> On Feb 28, 9:58=A0am, rays...@webtv.net (Raymond Speer) wrote:
>
> > Do what you want to do, but the purpose of your scenarios is to bring
> > down the Nazis earliier than =A01945.,
>
> The Allied rebreak into Enigma comes a month earlier.
>
> Enigma decrypts alert the Allies to the German invasion
> of Norway.
>
> Allied forces intercept and destroy most of the German
> invasion groups.
>
> Norwegian reserves and Allied reinforcements defeat the
> remaining German invaders.
>
> This setback causes the invasion of Western Europe
> (Case YELLOW) to be put back six weeks.
>
> Meanwhile, the Allies having won a big victory through
> Enigma SIGINT, greatly expand their SIGINT operations
> and the HQs pay very close attention to it hereafter.
>
> Thus, by the late June start of Case YELLOW the Allies
> have learned enough to expect a major German thrust in
> the Ardennes. French 2nd Army gets reinforced with
> three first-class divisions and a motorized brigade.
>
> When Case YELLOW starts, the French send 2nd Army into
> the Ardennes to block the German advance in the woods.
> The German _schwerpunkt_ stalls in the woods, strafed
> by some of the hundreds of additional aircraft the
> Allies have added in the last six weeks. The attack
> further north conquers the Netherlands and makes some
> progress against the Allies, but stalls short of
> Brussels and Antwerp.
>
> Hoth's panzer corps breaks through south of Namur,
> but is neutralized by counterattacks from both flanks
> and strafing by Allied fighters. Hoth falls back to
> the Meuse.
>
> By mid-July it appears that the great German gamble
> in the West has failed. Hitler has the Luftwaffe
> bomb Antwerp and Brussels, trying to force a Belgian
> surrender. In response, British bombers from Norway
> attack Berlin, spreading panic throughout Germany.
>
> General Halder of the General Staff had concluded
> after the successes in the Rhineland and Austria
> and at Munich that Hitler was politically untouchable
> until there was major "setback". That now had
> happened, and most of the Army high command agreed
> that the time had come to act.
>
> On July 20, an explosion demolished Hitler's western
> HQ, the Felsennest at Bad M=FCnstereifel. The explosion
> was triggered during an Allied air raid on supply
> dumps around Euskirchen, 12 km north, and was portrayed
> as the effect of a stray Allied bomb. In fact it was a
> truck bomb. (Three other explosions were set off nearby
> to reinforce the idea of a stray bomber dropping its
> load.) Hitler was killed with his entire personal staff.
>
> Within a few hours, Army units arrested Goering, Hess,
> Himmler, Goebbels, Heydrich, Kaltenbrunner, and Muller:
> the core of Nazi political power. Various excuses were
> given for the arrests. Goering was "hospitalized" for
> drug addiction; Himmler was arrested for allegedly
> plotting against Goering; and so on.
>
> Schacht, the former Minister of Economics, became
> Reichschancellor. (Hitler had fired him in 1939.)
> Germany immediately ceased all attacks, and offered
> to make peace on the 1939 borders.
>
> There would be no reparations (except to Belgium,
> Netherlands, and Poland), nor war crimes trials.
> Germany would join France and Britain in demanding
> that the USSR withdraw from Poland.
>
> The Allies accepted.

Poland?, Czechoslovakia?

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