An Alternate World War for The Netherlands.

Part VI: The Scandinavian Front.

“That fool is going to lose us the war if he continues on like this.”
Marshal Montgomery

At the outbreak of war, the Dutch navy outnumbered all the Axis navies put together. What evened the playing field was that at the outbreak of hostilities the vast majority of the Axis fleets were in Europe, while the Royal Navy was stretched across multiple theaters. Further reducing the odds was that the French and British fleets had scrapped many of their older ships after being forced to comply with tonnage limitations, while the Royal Navy’s more generous terms had allowed them to keep many older ships still in service. This meant that the Dutch fleet was de facto split into a pre-dreadnought and an after-dreadnought generation, all with various levels of modernisations.
So not only did the Axis possess an almost equal number of ships as the Allies, they were also on average more modern.
This difference was made evident in the opening months of the war, where the Royal Navy lost dozens of ships to the Axis while only inflicting negligible casualties in return.
A Dutch offensive in the Mediterranean to take Malta as a forward base was only successful in the loosest sense of the word, with marines being able to capture it but the navy quickly being driven from the area, losing three cruisers in the process.
It was thus an optimistic Mosley who ordered the start of Operation Viking, the invasion of Scandinavia and Iceland. He believed that after destroying the vast majority of Dutch and German military on the continent, taking the peninsula would be a simple matter of marching in and shooting some peasants. The only possible obstacle he considered was the Royal Navy, but it would only be a matter of time before they were broken as a fighting force.
As history would go on to prove, he had vastly underestimated his enemies.
Mosley got the chance to put his theory to the test in 1941, when the Axis launched a campaign of submarine warfare to weaken the Allied position, followed by a massive air and naval campaign to finally break it. The Swedish Baltic fleet was virtually destroyed in two separate battles, thus opening Gotland up for invasion. The island fell after a week of heavy fighting, and with the road to Scandinavia open, the Axis landed in the Swedish heartland shortly afterwards. As had become standard by this point, the Swedish military failed to dislodge their beachhead despite throwing thousands of troops at them.
But the British had been too hasty.
Scandinavia is an region that heavily favours the defender, being dominated by mountains, forests, rivers and almost no roads. With an area where a destroyed bridge could delay any advance by days, the Axis were only able to take Stockholm, Christiania and Gothenburg three months behind schedule. This gave the Royal Army precious time to prepare for a final battle at Bergen.
Being both an important population centre and housing one of the few large industrial bases the Dutch had left in Europe, this city was a target the British would not be to resist.
Taking Bergen was another story entirely though, with the city being surrounded by mountains and having an extensive network of defenses prepared to hold of any assault.
The Axis would get to experience this first hand when they attacked the city and were met by the fire from machine guns, AT guns, tanks, artillery and the main batteries of the heavy cruiser Hr. Ms. Purmerend.
With the initial storming having failed, the Red Army began to infest the town instead. But as days turned into weeks and casualties continued to rise without visible gain, even the most optimistic soldier started to lose hope of victory, especially with winter on the horizon.
The prospect of fighting meters of snow and ice besides Allied troops made Montgomery repeatedly recommend to Mosley to just leave a token force to bottle up the defenders while his army continued north, but the dictator would not be moved. Bergen would fall, no matter how long it took.
He would not tolerate that the Red Army looked weak while France was booking successes in the Middle East.
As the situation got more desperate, so did the Axis attempts to salvage it. The pride of the British navy, the super-battleship Arthur Pendragon sailed out to the North Sea and fought the Royal Navy for a week before being sunk by the light carrier Hr. Ms. Fokker’s biplanes.
A campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare caused a spike in lost cargo ships that was offset by Axis submarine losses. At the most intense superior German ASW technology sank a submarine every second day
In September Montgomery made the decision to unofficially halt the assault on Bergen and resumed his march on Tromsø, hoping for one last chance at a decisive victory. The battle of Hamar was a tactical victory with him routing a Swedish army, but a strategic defeat. Winter had arrived, and the meters of snow prevented any further advance until spring.
The Allies did not let the snow stop them, instead using camouflaged ski troops for recon, assassination and to generally sow chaos among the Axis soldiers. Their greatest success was the battle of Lofdalen, where the elite Gloriana division was isolated and lost fourty perchent of their manpower before managing to fight their way out. Major Sarah Greengras was later awarded the Hero of the Workers Union medal for her leadership during this Battle.
Encouraged by their advantage and with the Swedes drawing the Axis attention towards Poland-Lithuania, the Allies launched operation Typhoon. Suprising the British With their overwhelming suprise attack, they managed to seemingly overnight break the siege of Bergen and defeat a hastily assembled counterattack.
A panicked Mosley ordered a retreat back to more fortified positions, despite Montgomery’s insistence that it was all a ruse and the Allies had more from as many troops as they made it seem. He begged for one last counterattack, pointing out that recon flights had revealed that Dutch and German lines were far thinner than they appeared.
Instead of granting marshal Montgomery's request, Mosley blamed him for causing this situation in the first place and had him removed from command. Monty was given one last chance to redeem himself: by liberating Yugoslavia from the capitalists influence.
Premier Ivan Milhailou officially supported the BWR, but Mosley had doubts of his allegiance. With the Dutch and the VOC having sponsored and helped organise the country when it declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire, it does not take an expert to predict where those doubts came from.
Operation Crusader was one of the European Axis last big successes outside of Central Sweden. Within ten days Yugoslavia fell to the British, French, Italian and Hungarian troops and was swiftly parceled off to the various victors. With Italy having secured their war aims for the time being, they sought to make a separate peace with the allies. It is often speculated what would have happened had Doriot not found and pressured them to stay in the war until the Middle East theatre was won.
At the time it seemed like they were just a few weeks away from Cairo and closing down the Suez channel.

The Royal Navy is the Royal Dutch Navy.

Yes, and the Imperial Brazilian Navy is based on the US Navy and the ITTL US Navy is based on OTL Dutch Navy (albeit one more willing to buy foreign ships).

That doesn't say very much when the rest of the continent consists of two Dutch allies, a German colony and a British colony.

And it would relieve pressure on the Royal Navy by not having them do everything.

Part VII: Last month of British Argentina.

“The revolution is dead, long live the revolution!”
Radio Free Argentina after the final surrender of general Percival.

In a year of defeats and costly victories, the liberation of British Argentina stands out as the Allies only resounding military success. While the Royal Army and Wehrmacht were fighting tooth and nails to defend their countries, marshall Bouwmeester ordered the start of Operation Tango, the invasion of British Argentine.
One week later, the Brazilian army stormed across the Argentine border.
Rather than the heavy fighting they had expected, they were met with mass surrenders.
Only a handful of Argentinian divisions fought with any degree of enthusiasm, and that usually only lasted until the local commissaris had been killed (sometimes by his own troops).
Within a week even the most faithful soldier began to realise the he was fighting for a lost cause and hid in the mountains to continue fighting for the revolution from there. Most of them were quickly ratted out by the locals to the foreign liberators. There was little love for London in Argentina, and much more willingness to join the Dutch or German empires in order to restore the good old ways.
Truth was that the Axis never intended to hold Argentine, to them the colonials were merely secondary citizens whose only use was tieing up Brazilian resources for as long as possible. In that aspect their plan was a success, the Imperial Brazilian Army was unable to bring to bear its 3rd army in time to assist in Operation Biefstuk.
Where the plan failed was when it came to the Kaiserliche Marine. The plan had been for the fleet stationed at the Falklands to sink the German task force operating out of River Platte and then escape back to England before the Brazilian navy had the chance to show up.
As the Battle of Montevideo proved, the British had severely underestimated their enemies. During the battle almost the entire fleet of thirty ships would be wiped out, with only the Hood, Wales, Ajax and five destroyers escaping. With the original plan abandoned and Falkland under siege, first priority quickly changed to trying to escape back to England. This was easier said than done, for the area was crawling with Brazilian squadrons searching for them.
They spotted already after two days by a flying boat following the Ajax’s oil leak and just a few hours later the Bismarck herself and her escort showed up. In a two hour battle the remains of the British Southern fleet were wiped out, with the crew of the Wales scuttling the ship after the damage had become too great.
After their victory the German River Platte squadron was transferred to North America as part of Force ABCD and according to captain Lindemann, “fight another worthy opponent”. In London however the regime claimed that the Hood had been sunk preventing a Brazilian invasion of the Falklands, taking two battleships with her in the process, while the Wales managed to evade all patrols and had managed to escape to Louisiana.
So pervasive was this lie that nobody in England knew the truth until after the war had ended.

It is a toss-up between being its own indpendent country or becoming part of German Argentina.