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Japan won't attack the western powers in this instance, unless they've truly lost their marbles. They will likely keep grinding away in China.

Do the multiple, additional BEF evacuations from other French ports in the May - June (and unofficially, continuing until August) period still succeed? People always seem to forget those operations - from St Valery, Le Havre, St Nazaire, Nantes, and the French Mediterranean ports - but they got...

Indeed. Significant Polish, Ukrainian, Italian and Greek immigration seems very likely.

I wonder what the fate of German-allied Eastern Europeans would have been? (Slovaks, Croats, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Romanians)

I suspect sufficient British (diplomatic and financial) pressure would be applied to France to ease up.

I believe exceptions do get made on a case-by-case basis for widowed priests with children who wish to remarry (similarly to widowed priests in the Eastern Catholic churches, and widowed permanent deacons in the RCC).

This assassination would be coming right on the heels of the German victory in their spring 1943 counter-offensive, culminating in the Third Battle of Kharkov. If a coherent military government can be put together sufficiently quickly, and puts out peace feelers, is there any possibility that...

To what extent was that accelerated by wartime stress and quack medicine, though? This timeline's Hitler may stay healthier, longer.

I doubt that Hitler would moderate all that much, but if the Weimar Republic has survived until 1946 then its democratic institutions may be deeply enough embedded by that point to resist a complete Nazi takeover of the state, even with Hitler being elected (as either President or Chancellor).

Stepping back a few months: what if the earlier planned March 11, 1944 assassination attempt at the Berghof (by Busch and Breitenbuch, with Tresckow's oversight) had gone ahead and taken out Hitler, followed by a successful implementation of Valkyrie? What would the ensuing military choices, and...

From memory, didn't Allen Dulles of the OSS opine after the war that whilst the post-coup regime would have publicly been offered only unconditional surrender, that wouldn't have necessarily ruled out secret talks with the US and UK, and a degree of informal "shaping" of said surrender?

I've often wondered - grimly - if the Nazi toleration of "acceptable" and nominally pro-Axis Slavic nationalities like Slovaks, Bulgarians, and Croats would have continued after a German WW2 victory, or if they'd also have been thrown into the Generalplan Ost grinder eventually?

Would a wider breakout breakout necessarily be the goal, at least initially? I thought at least some of the OTL 1943 invasion plans had a more limited vision of seizing the Cotentin Peninsula portion of Normandy (and ideally, Brittany as well)?

Japan is screwed in almost any non-ASB timeline, after Pearl. Germany? Strongly likely to be screwed after Barbarossa failed to take Leningrad and Moscow, extremely likely to be screwed after Hitler's DOW on the United States, completely screwed after the losses at Stalingrad and in Tunisia (I...