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  1. If the Saarland had agreed to join France after WWII, would they still be talking german today?

    After WWII, the Saarland remained in an uncertain position for several years until it joined the BRD. There were several alternative outcomes, including independence as a new border state like a new Luxembourg, or flat out joining France. If the Saarland had voted to become French - what would...
  2. Weimar as the capital - Do you know AH projects about alternate city development?

    What I specifically wonder is if you know about simulations, especially illustrated, of how cities would look differently in ATLs. One specific example would be Weimar. Now if I understand this correctly it was never actually the capital of germany, even if it was a political center a place of...
  3. Possible impact of ATL surviving American-german on german culture and politics in the early 20th century?

    ... and yet another possible outcome, if we take the communist route, could be a rivalry between a strong german American community supporting democracy and capitalism (an expat West germany if you will) VS a European german communist regime (like a pan-eurogerman DDR). Sortof like expat Cubans...
  4. Possible impact of ATL surviving American-german on german culture and politics in the early 20th century?

    One ironic butterfly could be that without WWI, communism becomes dominant in early 20th century germany rather than fascism (fairly likely, especially paired with a revolutionary anti-imperial push), and german americans get forcefully assimilated as part of anti-communist purges, leading to...
  5. Possible impact of ATL surviving American-german on german culture and politics in the early 20th century?

    What is now the US has seen large german waves of immigration since at least the 17th century, today "german Americans" are estimated at over 40 million people. However, only about 5% of those people today speak german at all: WWI saw massive pressure to anglicise and assimilate, leading to a...
  6. Finland as a Soviet republic: would it accumulate a significant Russian minority?

    I am kinda morbidly curious about the dynamics of settler colonialism. Do people actually reproduce more if there is simply more land given to them? Would, say, a Finnish SSR be that much more attractive to start a family in? Or was it more like, because of economic development, there was...
  7. Finland as a Soviet republic: would it accumulate a significant Russian minority?

    What it says in the title. Would a Finland that is turned into a republic of the USSR see enough Russian settlement to create the kind of entrenched Russian minority we still see in some OTL post-Soviet states?
  8. Latest possible point for a "reconquista" of Anatolia?

    As it says on the tin. What POD would we need for a timeline where Asia Minor would have been dominated by muslim states for many centuries yet the conquest still "reversible" like it was in Iberia?
  9. France by 2022 as much of a "rogue state" in Europe as OTL Putin's Russia

    Point of divergence moments before or right after the end of the second world war. The challenge is to have a plausible chain of events where, roughly speaking, 2022 France is holding bilateral talks with the US over its military posturing towards- and destabilization of other European...
  10. No Redemption, Not Ever: Germany in 2022 as hated and feared in Europe as Russia

    A) No it's not, for crying out loud. The party name is supposed to be a joke, but if you knsist, I change it to some "plausible Alternative". B) He doesn't have to be. This is not OTL Höcke. Does not mean he doesn't gravitate towards the more evil end of the political spectrum. But you know...
  11. No Redemption, Not Ever: Germany in 2022 as hated and feared in Europe as Russia

    To make this interesting, the split from OTL has to be after 1940, with WWII already happened or about to end. I propose this as an open discussion, if you have your own TL ideas, but I can already think of a rough TL, which I'll post below: -------- After the Great Patriotic War was won...
  12. Military technology without gunpowder?

    I just realized I would not be a very good weapons inventor. If I stumbled upon something like this my first reaction would be "Yikes, this could put someone's eye out, better keep a lid on all that"
  13. Istanbul under other powers (Name changes and all that fun stuff)

    Why germans though - the Austro-Hungarians, or some earlier incarnation, are clearly the way to go here. Though for naming it would make no difference Maybe just "Konstantin"
  14. Military technology without gunpowder?

    I dunno, how big is the gap really between a train and some sort of three- or four wheeled all terain vehicle? For military use, it doesn't need to be a practical everyday road vehicle. You could load it on a train, then only use it in battle proper by driving it into the enemy, make a few...
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