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This map shows how the post-war borders of Europe would have looked if Germany and the entire Axis alliance had won World War II.

In this alternative history, Hitler's geopolitical strategy was based on the fact that it was necessary to first defeat the West, namely the French Republic and the British Empire, and then the East in the form of the Soviet Union, and not, as in reality, on two fronts.

A key step in 1940-1941 was to make it impossible for the British to dominate the Mediterranean by taking away their naval bases in Gibraltar, Malta, Crete and Cyprus, which destroyed the British logistics route for the delivery of oil and rubber from Africa, India and the Levant . This is facilitated by the involvement of Spain and Turkey in the war on the side of the Axis. With the permission of Franco's Spanish leadership, the Germans were allowed to move through Spanish territory and accordingly invade Gibraltar. A similar situation occurred with Turkey, which allowed its territory to be used as a convenient springboard for the German invasion of the Levant and the Italian landing on Cyprus. From the Levant, the Germans had an open road to the Sinai, where there was the Suez Canal, which, along with Gibraltar, was strategically important for British logistics - it was blown up along with the chance of British victory in this war. With the mastery of the Levant, the German war machine actually provided itself with a significant supply of fuel. In the future, the Italo-German troops continued their expansion into Africa and Iran. The anti-Nazi democratic resistance was a fiasco.

The Western governments of the countries officially preferred to continue fighting the victorious Nazi Germany, but most were outside their own homelands and could not really do anything. Puppet regimes were established in countries such as France, Wallonia (Belgium), Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Greece, which came under the actual control of the Nazis. Although Britain was not occupied, it found itself in a political and economic blockade and remained one of the outposts of democracy in Europe.

Having secured itself from the west, Great Germany began to prepare the "Barbarossa" plan - the invasion of the territory of the USSR and, accordingly, the destruction of this state entity. Contrary to reality, the German-Soviet confrontation begins around the winter of 1941-1942, and not by Germany, but by the Soviet Union, which, having crossed the Western Bug River, invades the territory of Greater Germany, but in response, a large-scale counteroffensive by the forces of the Wehrmacht and the SS, which with the help of of the armed forces of Finland, Romania and Turkey exactly one year later forces the Red Army to be surrounded near Moscow or to confront near Izhevsk. In the spring of 1944, the last remnants of the Bolshevik resistance emigrated to the Ural Mountains. In the European part of the USSR, Greater Germany was able to form four Reichskommissariats (Ukraine, Ostland, Caucasus, Muscovy).

As of 1960, Great Germany is the hegemon in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, similar to the Japanese Empire in East Asia and the Pacific Ocean. The central border of the Eurasian continent (Siberia, Turkestan, Afghanistan, etc.) became a gray buffer between German-European and Japanese-Asian civilizations.
Note: most of the toponyms in Eastern Europe, which the reader may notice, are invented personally by the author, the names of which are mostly based on real, ancient, names related to local nature or related to ideology, which were written in the Germanic manner.

Description

This map shows how the post-war borders of Europe would have looked if Germany and the entire Axis alliance had won World War II.

In this alternative history, Hitler's geopolitical strategy was based on the fact that it was necessary to first defeat the West, namely the French Republic and the British Empire, and then the East in the form of the Soviet Union, and not, as in reality, on two fronts.

A key step in 1940-1941 was to make it impossible for the British to dominate the Mediterranean by taking away their naval bases in Gibraltar, Malta, Crete and Cyprus, which destroyed the British logistics route for the delivery of oil and rubber from Africa, India and the Levant . This is facilitated by the involvement of Spain and Turkey in the war on the side of the Axis. With the permission of Franco's Spanish leadership, the Germans were allowed to move through Spanish territory and accordingly invade Gibraltar. A similar situation occurred with Turkey, which allowed its territory to be used as a convenient springboard for the German invasion of the Levant and the Italian landing on Cyprus. From the Levant, the Germans had an open road to the Sinai, where there was the Suez Canal, which, along with Gibraltar, was strategically important for British logistics - it was blown up along with the chance of British victory in this war. With the mastery of the Levant, the German war machine actually provided itself with a significant supply of fuel. In the future, the Italo-German troops continued their expansion into Africa and Iran. The anti-Nazi democratic resistance was a fiasco.

The Western governments of the countries officially preferred to continue fighting the victorious Nazi Germany, but most were outside their own homelands and could not really do anything. Puppet regimes were established in countries such as France, Wallonia (Belgium), Holland, Denmark, Norway, and Greece, which came under the actual control of the Nazis. Although Britain was not occupied, it found itself in a political and economic blockade and remained one of the outposts of democracy in Europe.

Having secured itself from the west, Great Germany began to prepare the "Barbarossa" plan - the invasion of the territory of the USSR and, accordingly, the destruction of this state entity. Contrary to reality, the German-Soviet confrontation begins around the winter of 1941-1942, and not by Germany, but by the Soviet Union, which, having crossed the Western Bug River, invades the territory of Greater Germany, but in response, a large-scale counteroffensive by the forces of the Wehrmacht and the SS, which with the help of of the armed forces of Finland, Romania and Turkey exactly one year later forces the Red Army to be surrounded near Moscow or to confront near Izhevsk. In the spring of 1944, the last remnants of the Bolshevik resistance emigrated to the Ural Mountains. In the European part of the USSR, Greater Germany was able to form four Reichskommissariats (Ukraine, Ostland, Caucasus, Muscovy).

As of 1960, Great Germany is the hegemon in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, similar to the Japanese Empire in East Asia and the Pacific Ocean. The central border of the Eurasian continent (Siberia, Turkestan, Afghanistan, etc.) became a gray buffer between German-European and Japanese-Asian civilizations.
Note: most of the toponyms in Eastern Europe, which the reader may notice, are invented personally by the author, the names of which are mostly based on real, ancient, names related to local nature or related to ideology, which were written in the Germanic manner.