Search results for query: *

I was talking OTL because ATP was making statements about the OTL situation which don't fit the actual facts. Think I did suggest in an earlier post that TTL he might be less inclined to think continued Soviet support to be worth the costs and hence the idea of trying to force Germany to...

Truman was in no position to change the already agreed partitions at Yalta. Especially since with OTL it being unclear when nukes could be available and how effective they would actually be getting Stalin's support against Japan was seen as important.

Doubt that would work. Apart from anything else the people in power would know and with the fuhrer dead a lot of them would want the top job themselves so no way they could keep that secret. Attempting to do such a thing would further discredit them. Another factor is that the oath of...

That is a big issue in terms of getting a nuke safely to Germany, even by night if they tried that. I have read the suggestion that flying high the B-29 could be largely above most of the German air defences but that could faulty. I think that trying to kill Hitler would be the most...

I think, if you manage to decapitate the regime by killing Hitler it could make a change, even after the Stauffenberg plot failed. For one thing the rats will be fighting over the top post so there would be a lot of chaos and for another a nuke on a German city would concentrate minds a lot...

Sorry missed that. There's going to be confusion on both sides as those territories have magically changed hands as far as the people in 1944 are aware and it also means that Japan will immediately lose all their forces on those territories [other than the post-invasion hold-outs]. However US...

Well a lot of the people from 45 will be disheartened at having to fight those battles again in both Europe and the Far East and be aware of the colleagues lost or maimed in the lost year. However their also got a lot of people doubled as many of those already in action in both theatres in 44...