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If Germany had not invaded the USSR, the only nation that would need to worry about defending itself from large-scale strategic bombing would be England. It would not have to worry indefinitely, though, as a war against a German empire throughout Western Europe engaged in a quasi-alliance with...

In real life, the Southern States went from being bloodthirsty killers of "damn Yankees" who tore down the US flag etc., to literally re-enlisting in the US military shortly after the Civil War ended and again fighting for their true country. The US was very kind toward veterans of the Civil...

I read the series of books long ago, and don't remember, but I think it had to do with how "Aryan" a person was considered to be. In addition, remember, being Scandinavian and speaking/writing/reading German and understanding German culture are two different things. Respectfully, to me...

To me, one of the worst tropes of Alternate history is the ludicrous claim that "Germany never could have won WW2." I actually think Germany did win WW2, and then Hitler chose to lose it by invading the USSR and declaring war on the US. If he had just stopped after the Fall of France, as...

There is an excellent Alternate History book called "The Children's War" by J.N. Stroyar that addresses this. It is the first of a short series of books. Unlike some AH, this is a very serious, sober, well-written and plausible set of books. It shows that Nazi Germany absolutely could have...

OK. . .bombing Britain hurt the nation, the Blitz was damaging and unpleasant. The Battle of the Atlantic was also harmful to Great Britain, and had Hitler not invaded the USSR, Germany could have devoted a lot more resources to both the V1 and the V2 program. I think that if Germany were...

Going to war with the USSR made their oil shortage much worse, not better. The USSR was exporting large quantities of oil, along with other important raw materials, to Germany right up until they day after the invasion, literally. Without the threat of massive allied bombing Germany's domestic...

Some say that it was absolutely inevitable that Nazi Germany would attack the Soviet Union. I do not think this is the case, for a variety of reasons, but even if one assumes that sooner or later war with the USSR was coming, there is nothing that says it had to start in the summer of 1941...

Germany made one stupid, obvious, and very easy to avoid mistake that cost them the war, and that was opening up a second front against the USSR before getting England out of the war. Had they not done that, they almost certainly would have won. It took the combined might of the US, the USSR...

Respectfully, Stalin was not tightening the screws and in fact the last shipment of oil and other resources went by rail from the USSR to Germany on the morning that Operation Barberossa kicked off. I fully agree that Germany needed oil, that is why it reached the pact with the USSR whereby the...

OK 1) A Nazi victory in WW2 was absolutely plausible, and 2) Nazi occupied America after such a victory is completely implausible. Germany did, in fact, win WW2 but then chose to lose it. There were two big, obvious points where they could have won the war. The first, easiest to achieve...

At the darkest moments of WW2, when it looked like England might fall to Germany, there was talk of an "Anschluss" between the US and Canada, similar to what occurred between Germany and Austria pre-war. If England had fallen (and yes, I know that is quite unlikely, for a variety of reasons)...

After the successful tests of US atomic bombs it seems like ASB to say that we would not use them. During WW2 the US invested a massive amount of money, time, and manpower into the Manhattan Project while Germany apparently spent even more money/time/manpower on the V2 project. The idea that...

How should LBJ have approached the Vietnam War? Simple. Declare victory and go home. A lot of people favored this approach, actually, but of course the US refused to do this, so the war played out accordingly.

As to the CSA--unlike Germany during WW2, the CSA never had an opportunity to end the war on its own terms and be an independent nation. The CSA fought on the defensive from the first day of the war until the last. It never even existed as an independent nation in any meaningful sense, it was...