[Krononauts] new timeline help wanted.

[lev at rpgreview.net]

> Hi all,
> I think I need to scrap the comment about the company being about 5x
> bigger. Also don't forget to send in anything useful or ideas for the
> new timeline:
> Fearing an Allied super-weapon after 500 top scientists witnessed a 7.1
> kiloton explosion inexplicably in the middle of a top secret Nazi base
> (1942) the Nazi generals assasinate Hitler and surrender to preserve the
> Fatherland (1943). An early end to WWII in Europe and North Africa. The
> trick is the allies do not yet have such a weapon, it was sent by time
> travellers.
>

In chronological order. In early 1943 the Soviets broke the siege of
Leningrad, won the battle of Stalingrad and captured the German 6th Army.
At the same time the Poles began the Warsaw ghetto uprising.

Also early in the year The White Rose non-violent/propaganda resistance
group are captured in Germany and executed. It would make an interesting
plot line to assume that they were incredibly successful instead. If you
want to get you could somehow mix that in with Abbie Hoffman's synthesis
of LSD at roughly the same time and end up with flower power defeating the
Nazis.... OK, maybe not :)

Shortly after this Afrika Korp surrended to the allies.

So it would be in those circumstances that you could end up with a
conservative, but not belligerent, fascist alliance in Germany, Vichy and
Gaullist France, Salazar's Portugal, Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Italy
etc. with Eastern Europe having strongly independent communist regimes in
Poland, Czechoslavakia, Greece, etc probably as allies of Yugoslavia's
Tito.

So the Cold War doesn't quite happen as expected. The Soviet Union remains
constrained by a group of very independent allies to their west, and
beyond that conservative regimes, which would last at least until the
1970s.