The point of departure comes shortly after the fall of France. Germany wins the Battle of Britain, but considers a seaborne invasion too logistically challenging. An honourable peace is negotiated on Christmas Eve 1940, and is welcomed by an exhausted British public. The real celebrations take place in Berlin. Germany occupies Poland, Denmark, Norway, the low countries and coastal France, and is allied with Italy, Finland, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. Everybody else begins to learn how to fit in with the new order.