It's an interesting thought! If he was captured and placed in Nuremberg would the doctors nurse him back to health. He was a physical and mental wreck by 1945. If he was given medical treatment and weened off the drugs, he may have become more like his 1930ish self. That would have made the...
I think this question totally depends on how Germany handed the Western front in 39 and 40.
If Germany;
Doesn't invade the Netherlands
Conquers France going through Belgium; But then signing a reasonable deal with France and evacuates after the signing.
Pays Belgium reparations for going...
Question: If the Germans and Canadians are interned for the first 3 years of the war, what happens when the US declares war on Germany? Do the Candians then get repatriated back to Canada and the Germans become prisoners of war? Or do they get turned over to another neutral country until the...
I'm thinking specifically of new steel bridges, improved railways and roads. Maybe rebuilt/modernized factories to make ammunition. Stuff like that could make the OE a much stronger force after the war.
If say the OE does come in on the side of the Allies (Entente) and contributes to the War (Sends some divisions to France or Balkans and stays mildly active throughout the course of the war, what might they get when the US comes in? Assume Russia goes the way it did and the Allies want a...
This was what I was thinking when I asked my original question. It wasn't the fact that the deck couldn't support the weight of the gun as much as what repeated firing vibrations/shock did to the ship as a whole.
Based on replies I think that many ships were over engineered with arming being...
Thank you, both RelativeGalaxy7 and YYJ. Your posts were very informative and I really appreciate what you laid out as it made perfect sense in my logical mind.
YYJ, again I really am enjoying this TL as well as learning quite a lot about a great many subjects connected with your story. That...
I have a question for you naval construction experts. Much of this TL has dealt with captured vessels and then arming those captured ships with guns. Can you just bolt a 75mm or 90mm gun to a deck and shoot it? I would think warships would be designed with reinforced bracing that accounts for...
Ok, say they only have half the losses above. Won't the admiralty require replacements? What is the RN's situation when it comes to adequately protecting their globel possesions and shipping lanes? I would assume the request for replacements would start a shit-storm in parliament. Just a...
Had a short discussion in another thread (Rainbow) about the Royal Navy's world responsibilities as far as protecting the dominions. The question came up about the outcome of the Battle of Jutland and what it meant. While the Jutland battle had the two fleets 'touch' each other they basically...
Agreed. If GB has a shell of it's fleet the government goes to the public and says 'We need more' so they can rebuild the fleet I don't think that will go over too well. The London Treaty was GB's political way out of spending the money to upgrade their current fleet which they knew had many...
I've often wondered what would be the outcome of a no retreat Jutland battle where Germany has the mentality of 'use em or lose em' with the High Seas Fleet. I don't want to hijack this thread but wonder how that might have changed the look of the war.
I think the key (for Germany) was to knock the SU out of the war before 1942. Once the US became involved the sheer production volume of GB, SU and the US overwhelmed the Axis so it was critical that Germany rid itself of a two front war. Taking Baku may or may not have changed the timing of...
Unfortunately the path that Germany took I feel was inevitable once the Weimar republic made the decision to devalue the Mark in order to lesson the crushing debt that the TOV established. The democracy started with such a handicap it was doomed to fail.
By devaluing the currency they wiped...