Quote Originally Posted by Oleander Ardens View Post
The only way the western allies could have possibly hold their own in Europe in 1945 would have been the use of the defeated German army. Given the hatred for and fear of the "Jewish-Bolshevist" Sovietunion almost all soldiers would have fought against it. As a matter of fact many Germans fought that eventually the Allies would fight with them against the Soviets for the "defense" of Europe. With the massive amount of material and ressources at the disposal of the West and the experienced manpower of the German forces even the migthy Red army could have been overcome...
The German military was fairly spent at that point, but certainly many within the captured leadership would have been pressed into advisory positions - as they were during the Cold War.