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Good points from @Napoleon Forever and @Cryhavoc101 thanks!

I read in a recent book that a lot of the postwar industrial strength of the Soviet Union came from the pillaging of Eastern Europe. Not sure how much of it is true, but if it is, these are resources that ITTL Soviets won't get. In that case, a Soviet A-Bomb would not be anywhere near likely.

Given the country-wide – or even continent-wide – lockdown due to the coronavirus epidemic, I have the feeling that most publishers are massively rescheduling their releases.

I can imagine an epilogue, in 1951, when "Herr Schmidt" eventually wakes up. He claims to be the Führer and gets moved from his hospital to a geriatric clinic and diagnosed with severe dementia. A doctor eventually says to a nurse that it's not the first such case in post-war Germany.

Well, you know the trope: if you don't see the body…

Quite possibly, although it has never been strictly mentioned. You never know, the Allies may reach his hospital before "Herr Schmidt" gets Aktion-T4'd. Even though they may be none the wiser.

Hasn't Hess been shot down already?

More broadly, I wonder what will be the future of internationalism. I have the feeling that OTL, the whole UN system, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, stemmed from WWII and from US involvement. Without this, will we see a League of Nations 2.0, a different United Nations...

I expect there were a lot more Parisians who died during the siege.

"La Ballade des Pendus" has been out for a while, but "Le Dieu Vert" is still pending. Probably after "Operation Downfall", which is supposed to be the follow-up to "Sur la route de Los Alamos". I tend to be much more lenient towards this whole series than most of my colleagues here. I find...

Maybe not "often" (or there would be a LOT more brutal dictators), but when given the chance.

I found the story OK – not great, historically deputable, but Jour J is labeled as "B-Series", so I don't have lots of expectations there. I'm with you however with Cleopatra's wardrobe and role in the story, she's pretty much a bimbo, despite Caesar saying that she's very intelligent. In...

My guess is that they try to maintain a fairly regular publication schedule for the whole series (say, a book every 3-4 months), but comic books take about one year of production, gove or take. So they have to space it; they probably don't have tons of backlog. EDIT: Michel Van got there before...

It may have been the original goal, but the fact that it was one-shots was, in my opinion, one of the main issues of the series: there is only so much development you can put into 64 pages of comics that covers the alternate timeline, its POD and an actual story worth reading.

After reading the series of books by Jean-Yves Le Naour on WWI (1914, 1915, etc.) I can safely say that Union sacrée was not a miracle cure for instability.