Twilight 1946+. What if WWII didn't end. Hitler was assassinated and the German General staff sued for peace. The US and allies agreed but the Russians, well they wanted payback or more specifically Stalin did. It was an uneasy year from late 44 to late 45 and then the Russians started advancing again.
During that year the SS was purged and all guilty parties for the atrocities were put into prison for the crimes of genocide in the concentration camps and such.
As the Russians advanced some of them were given the oportunity to join Redemption Battalions to throw up against the Russians, some took it and fought for Germany (nationalism runs very high with the Germans at this time). They were mostly the young officers and enlisted. The senior officers and enlisted that were directly and actually guilty of crimes in the camps were not given this opportunity.
The rest of the German Soldiers and allot of British and American Troops, maneuvered to stop the advance.
The War Continues on. (have not decided about the atomic bombs). This is a bit of a chance to play around with those weapons that were not realy used much if any at the end. Also to have a bit of fun playing around of what would of been developed.
I think the people may have been re-energized with a bit of indignation and nationalism once again that the war was almost over with Germany and that Japan may have been rethinking since there only ally had dropped out of the war. At least until Russia had betrayed the rest of the allies and killed US and British troops (think of something like Malmedy massacre). A bunch of overrun troops early in the Russian advance surrendered in the confusion, but Stalin being mad had given the orders of no quarter to any SS, unfortunately for these troops there had been some SS prisoners with them and the Russian soldiers misunderstood or just didn't care and killed them all type of an incident.
I'm still working on a bunch of scribbled notes on paper with a bunch of stuff such as weapons and Vehicle development. As far as various advances and strategies, the only thing I have come up with is that Stalin has a good amount of his armies advancing to secure things like the oil fields of Ploiesti and such for his new war effort, possibly convincing china to join him in exchange for better equipment then the allies have given them to fight the Japanese and that the Japanese are in talks with US.
Its a crazy mixed up world that almost anything is possible. As far as Atomic bombs. Right now I am thinking that the powers to be are still sitting on them, not knowing just what to do with them right now that things have changed. Or weather that Russia has the capability to develop them or not at this time. Perhaps Stalin has his boys working on them at a faster pace.
Ideas are welcome.
War. War never changes
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