Recent content by nils

Thanks, guys. About the name: If I am not grossly mistaken, most Pan Am planes had names following the "Clipper Something" convention. On the term Clipper, Wikipedia says: Of course airships are terribly slow compared to jet aircraft, but they're still incredibly fast compared to other modes of...

Bill, that's great info there. I hardly know anything about the Pacific situation (well, besides the high level stuff of course). It's a very intriguing scenario. What prompted the Japanese militarism? Besides their general mentality, I mean. Was there actually anybody or any faction that might...

I looked into this for a timeline I am building. Basically, the Mexican military did examine this option, even with the telegram intercepted. The conculsion was that Germany couldn't give enough support for Mexico to win, and that Mexico would have a huge problem pacifying the English-speaking...

Everybody likes zeppelins. I somehow ended up creating this today: I know it's far from perfect, but, hey, there you go anyway. Was certainly good Inkscape practice.

Well the way I view it, Hitler's rise to power was mostly due to the financial troubles of Germany. Take away the reparations and the "shameful" defeat in WW1 and he doesn't have enough of a platform to build popular support on. In this TL, Hitler could still be a minor annoyance - there's no...

Mh? Didn't you set the thread's title as "DBWI: what if Hitler didn't invade Russia?" or was that edited by someone?

Yeah, OK, I guess my choice of terms was not very good. The fate of most nations is a little up in the air. It's just as reasonable to assume that the monarchies survive as it is to assume that the people rise up in anger and kick them out. In our timeline, iirc, the "government" was always...

Hi Folks, I'm working on a scenario / TL where the League of Nations was actually effective - and I'd appreciate feedback from you guys, both on the "realism" of the TL and whether there is anything "cooler" to throw in. Here's a rough rundown of what I am thinking of: - POD: Britain fails to...

Doubt it... Hitler, as a WW1 veteran, actually feared using Chemical weapons - they were kind of the nukes of the WW2, and interestingly it is one line Hitler did not cross even in desperate times. I guess it goes to show that everybody has their own demons.

It is a valid argument in my opinion. Not because "the soviets did it, we must do it too". Instead there was a lot of fear that "the people" would see communism / socialism as advantageous and revolt. So the western powers followed a two-pronged approach, the classic carrot and stick. Give the...

They chickened out and didn't turn god into a small cloud of logic (or whatever that was). :(

Interesting idea for a time line, actually. I agree with others that WW2 would grind to a standstill, the question is who would take how much advantage of it? Doubtless the USA will be history at this point. The German war for "Lebensraum" may become justified after all if the surviving...