Tell it to the DP slider!
To further shatter the mystique I've built up, there's no way Hitler would obsessively finish encircling Warsaw while Eisenhower marched to the Saar, there's no way Japan would sit quietly while a hundred American warships rebased in Hong Kong, and there's no way France would blithely allow the Americans to assume full control of their army and guard half the offensive line in return for a slice of Baden after the war.
Luckily, this is a HOI2 AAR and not a "I traveled back in time and actually directed World War 2" AAR. If you have any other quibbles, I suggest you relate them to my large Austrian friend, whose office is located at the end of that dark alley over there.
EDIT: Immediately after sending this, I thought this was too confrontational. I'm leaving it up as an object lesson to the kids- it's very easy to try and score points. It's much harder to be nice, but it's definitely worth the effort. Here's my new response-
Oskar, I played this game with the express intent of pushing the US into the war as quickly as possible. I have reinterpreted FDR in that light, and tried very hard to find reasons for my moves away from isolationism. I'd argue that FDR actually was eager to intervene- but obviously not to the extent that he is in this AAR. Of course, events carry their own momentum. Maybe if he'd pushed harder in 1936, the effects of that action would have carried the US into war sooner.
Still doesn't explain why the Germans left everything west of Dresden unguarded, but it's a start.