Recent content by Wolf1965

A great tale, a good example of what alternate history can be. Not only well researched, but well written, a piece that could be enjoyed even without the AH-context. My hat is off to you.

In the absence of Hitler I would see the DNVP German National People's Party as a possible replacement as it was fishing in the same voter's pool. From 1928 they were supported by Hugenberg, the Murdoch of his time in Germany. And while it was nationalist and "völkisch" i.e racist it would...

Konrad Adenauer was 73 when he became German Chancellor in 1949 and remained in that post for 14 years. He could have governed for a bit longer but not by much, he died in 1967.

A fascist US would require a rather huge POD, depending on how you define Fascism. If that means a society that keeps the formalities of democracy, but the elections are rigged and human rights are not really existent, that I could see as an outcome of the Great Depression. The Ku-Klux-Khan was...

I am not able to access by books at present, IIRC Mitchel stated that he put everything together that needed to be in the plane and then drew the smallest possible outline around it. True or not, the thin wings of the Spitfire allowed for its high performance, but also were already pretty much...

Given the roomy fuselage and thick wing profile of the Hurricane, adding tanks or enlarging the existing ones should not be too difficult. This is not the Spitfire with its minimal dimensions.

One of the questions is how many parts can Brazil import and still call it a home-built warship. From memory: both the foundries for armor and the workshops that make gun barrels and reduction gears are very capital- and labor-intensive institutions. Building these without a need to make a...

Given that the Hurricane made its first flight in 1935 I do not see a place for a single-engined Fulmar, provided that a single-seat fighter is acceptable. It would be just one more plane for the same job.

The very first FW190 flew with a BMW 139, a twin-row 132. It gave terrible overheating problems, which is why FW changed to the BMW 801, an engine that was also simpler to make as it had two valves per cylinder instead of four.

Depending on how or why the Treaty fails, or the process is never started, it might influence the Japanese attitude towards "the west" as they were extremely miffed at being relegated to the second rank powers. Whether they have the finds to finish the 8/8 program is a very different issue. It...

That is a view that is probably held by very few. It would leave France a lot better off than before it started the wars that tore through the continent for nearly 20 years and the conquests were very few. If public votes on whom these countries wanted these people belong to were a thing in...

Interesting, you are right. I mixed this up with the First treaty of Paris in 1814, which was far nicer.

There is always discussion at what point a conquest is seen as legitimate, but this would be the shortest time I have ever heard of. It is also a problem from a moral point of view: It would leave France with territories conquered in the wars by the same guy the 7th coalition was to end...

Such an alliance would be very, very bad for the world at large. Two of the largest armies in the world, with access to nearly any raw material they might need to conduct a war. Also, large parts of such an alliance would be far from any large-scale bombing by allied forces. A nightmare if...

Sorry, but when did France "own" the Rhineland so that they could lose it? Before 1794 there was a wild mixture of small states, none of them French. French was not the principal language, they were part of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation. Similarly Savoy was part of the Kingdom of...