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There's a recent book about Canaris which suggests that he was more active in a kind of high-level internal resistance than was previously suspected. The ideas are still controversial, but the suggestion is that he fed Hitler false information at various points to influence decision making, having realised that after 1941 there was nothing more to play for.
I like counterfactual history a lot. Although with a date of 2148 I'd guess the reality is more likely to involve people poking pointy sticks at each other, or some form of ultra-technology that hasn't been invented yet. (And since the last few years seem to have taken place in Bizarro Universe already, possibly both.)
Both German war production and the battlefield machinery itself could have been ran on a higher gear and with more efficiency had there been more fuel awailable, and the latter would also have meant less deaths for the own soldiers - and more damage to the (bombed) British and Soviet production sites. What's more, the blunder of besieging Stalingrad alone cost a fourth of the German WWII losses - going for Baku wouldn't have had that high a toll. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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