Recent content by Mutzi

Wouldn't the polish speaking areas be silesian (slansk, add accents) speaking? My family is from Silesia and apparently my very limited polish is actually silesian. Mutually understandablee, but still quite a difference.

Would it be possible to argue, that France was already too strong for the balance of power before the revolution? That could be a way to argue for pre-Louis XIV borders.

Sorry, but PTSD has not much to do with being sensitive. And many people diagnosed with PTSD come from rich western countries, but that doesn't mean, that it doesn't exist elsewhere. I've read reports of research into an african country torn by civil war. Noone was somehow desensitized, they...

Aren't Washingtons political qualities more important for the ARW than his military qualities? He got some funds to the army and was able to work with most politicians, being one himself. And Arnold shows, that this wasn't that easy.

I was (and still am) interested in a Hansa tl. The problem is, that the Hansa and it politics was just such a mess. My POD would have been Margarete dieing while still in Norway and the Cologne federation (?) staying in control of some fortresses in Denmark and in the end bringing the cities of...

It is more efficient to just work/starve them to death. Which they did with many of them and most political/racial(?)/... prisoners too.

That is probably the most important point. Ideology can only accomplish so much in a big population. But directly correlating are womens education/ participation in the workforce and the amount of children they have. Only few populations have many children despite a high education for women and...

I would expect Gorbachev to publicly distance himself from Honecker and his friends and to try to threaten them to step back. A German Tianamen could be a huge problem for his reform policies and he would want to either stop it or at least to be seen as an opponent of these acts. Something like...

One option is of course Neu-(some duchy, or other area): Neusachsen (New Saxony), Neuholstein, Neupommern, Neubraunschweig (New Brunswick)... Another option would be (Name of king or queen)-land: Willhelmsland, Friedrichsland, .... Some of those may sound a bit weird. Or you could use...

"Der Bayrische Aufstieg" probably fits better.

Isn't Low German already considered a language, rather than a dialect by quite many? Most speakers certainly think so. So a relatively small POD is probably enough. More written Low German would be a possible POD, or maybe simply a different language policy in the Netherlands and Germany in...

Great! That is basically the area where I am from! Ok I lived a bit more to the south of Bremerhaven nearer to Bremen itself, but that is still really close, especially for a tl that started so far away. And not everyday you can read about a Kohlfahrt on this site. And I am really interested...

If you would actually take a close look on the November revolution, you can see, that even guard regiments declined to shoot on revolutionary soldiers. Yes at that time the war was already lost, but if you have a stalemate, the ordinary soldier will already thinkt the war to be lost. The...

Don't misunderstand me, I am all for selfdetermination of the Alsatians and so on. But there are some mis understandings here. First of all it is quite normal for a german speaker, that dialects have an altered grammar. Most dialects have some of those and if high german wasn' taught in school...

The result of the battle of Jena could be better for the Prussians if either the French don't get their artillery on the hills surrounding the city, or the Prussians prepare for the French doing so and either occupy those hills themselves, or prepare themselfes to be attacked. I am living in...