Due to the invasion of Sweden, Operation Barbarossa gets delayed by three weeks, giving Stalin time to organize a better defense, bringing the German downfall sooner. The Allied invasion of Normandy occurs in the spring of 1944 rather than in June. Hitler commits suicide in December 1944, and World War II ends in Europe on December 28. By then, Sweden has been liberated from the north down as far as Östersund by the British, the Soviets and a British-trained exile army called "The Royal Swedish".