Recent content by Mirage

No but some songs like the panzerlied and westerwald were were removed irrc

Her name is Ursula von der Leyen

Seriously, there is another abandoned 1920 Fall of Warsaw tl? I swear that POD is cursed... Anyway I still haven't given up hope that @historyfool might one day return to his fall of Warsaw tl.

Where am I wrong, can you be a bit more specific? Are any of the things I wrote in my post actually wrong or do you just disagree with my interpretation of them? Irrc correctly there was no obligation to pay them as fast as the French did. Of course, they did it to get the Germans out of the...

I don't think your math adds up there. That would put the French acquisition of Alsace around the year 1470. However, the french conquest startet irrc around 1630 and didn't bear much fruit until 1648 (when France gained parts of Alsace), they didn't gain Strassbourg until 1685 (when they...

Truly? I was unaware that the treaty of Frankfurt forced France to deliver half of its remaining coal production to Germany, grant its enemies MFN status, annul all of its patents, give up 90% of its merchant navy, internationalize its waterways, limit its army to 100,000 men or its navy to a...

Actually 8 million according to the 1939 census

Maybe I`m just obtuse, but you are aware that FPTP only determines which person will represent a certain constituency and not the overall composition of the Bundestag, right? That is why the German Bundestag currently has 709 members rather than 598 (with the difference being due to overhang...

I assume this is sarcasm, but if not according to article 11 of the German constitution the German emperor needed the consent of the federal council in order to declare war (unless attacked). https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_German_Empire#IV._OFFICE_OF_PRESIDENT

As far as the Munich Soviet Republic is concerned I could not find anything on its declaration of independence (unfortunately the english wiki does not give a source) on the internet. My impression is that Munich Soviet did not want to be independent from Germany as much as it wanted to turn the...

So, if it was that strong it should be no problem for you to provide a source for the strength of this sentiment. Sorry if I am coming over a bit testy, but it really annoys me in this kind of discussions when German nationalism is treated as if it had a simple on/off switch. I don't mean to...

I do not dispute that there was a sepparatist sentiment, but I strongly doubt that it had anywhere near majority support. As far as the bavarian soviet republic is concerned (or more aptly Munich Soviet Republic), it was limited to little more than the city of Munich and collapsed after less...

I'm not sure whether chicken hawk (literal translation) is a good name to strike fear into your enemies' hearts

Region-by-region may seem like a good approach, but the problem is just like with much of central, eastern and southern europe the region was a patchwork of different ethnicities which were almost impossible to fairly separate into the newly emerging nation states. Additionally, while only 42.5%...