Point well taken, Imperious, but neither were the Soviets during the Afghanistan invasion. It would be extremely difficult to represent on a boardgame, but I could forsee a scenario where in the late 40’s/early 50’s, an occupied France becomes a hotbed of resistance to the Germans, with the resistance supplied by either the Western or Communist Allies. The Germans would not want to slaughter the French population wholesale, as 1: they needed the manpower to operate French industries and 2: wiping out an entire indigenous population is much, much harder to do than ostracize a minor ethnic group, especially when the French were well aware of the disappearance and highly suspicious of the fate of the Jewish population. Were the Germans to attempt to wipe out the French altogether, it would prove likely to be their undoing. Even if it took half a century. I can just imagine Reagan making a proclamation on the cliffs of Dover, “Mister Kohl, tear down this (Atlantic) Wall.”
I have a sudden desire to go re-read Newt Gingrich’s alternate history novel.