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  1. WI: Hitler forces Jews out on boats?

    It's one of the difficulties of Holocaust historiography given that many of the terms you mention above overlap and intersect. A coerced deportation of a specific group constitutes ethnic cleansing so that began as early as 1933 however the widespread forced emigrations began in 1938. Coerced...

  2. Why not invade Sicily while containing the bridgehead in Tunisia?

    Husky was an unprecedented operation in its size and scale, it was eclipsed only by Overlord. Going ahead without Tunisian ports and airfields, with the Axis present on both sides of the Sicilian straits would be an unacceptable risk. Another factor was that the air superiority over Sicily...

  3. WI: Hitler forces Jews out on boats?

    It was an evolving policy, at first the Germans actively encouraged and often enforced Jewish emigration though as the internal focus switched to extermination later to extermination now emigration became forbidden. Hitler saying such a thing in the moment would be in character but as the...

  4. The Day of the Lion: An Italian WW2 TL

    It's possible in the long-run but at least for the moment the regime in Rome has survived despite the great stress of the German invasion and so continues on in its much less unreconstructed whilst ex-Fascists court the WAllies from the sidelines. As such there will be a lot more temptation to...

  5. Why is Germany Declaring War on America?

    It goes back to American entry being seen as inevitable at this juncture, which was something Hitler briefly became fatalistic about given the protracted Soviet resistance, allegedly he even considered a peace offer to the UK. The Japanese entry into the war changed the strategic picture in this...

  6. AlternateHistoryHub suggests how Germany could've won WWII

    This was their intention IOTL with a zone interdite marked for settlement where refugees weren't allowed to return and French peoplestill residing in the zone were displaced.

  7. The Joy And The Cruelty - TL

    It's interesting to see two concepts usually mutually exclusive in AH, surviving Vichy and France Fights On, brought together. There needn't be as there are figures as Giraud who attempted to balance their sympathy for Vichy with their refusal to collaborate with Germany although there are a few...

  8. Entente holds in Summer 1940: Impacts on US rearmament, foreign policy, Anglo-French exchanges

    It would probably depend on the state of the front in the Summer, are the Entente on the ropes as per Munich Shuffle or have the Germans been routed like in Blunted Sickle? Even in the latter scenario I'd say it's more likely than not, the international situation certainly helped motivate...

  9. Entente holds in Summer 1940: Impacts on US rearmament, foreign policy, Anglo-French exchanges

    The Fall of France left a pro-Axis Vichy state with bases in the Carribbean and off the coast of Canada and it appeared the UK might soon follow putting the Western Hemisphere at greater risk.

  10. Malta or Egypt in 1942: The right strategy

    The training for the airborne and amphibious operations was not long underway in May and in some cases still being developed.

  11. How many troops would the Axis have needed in Sicily to defeat Operation Husky in 1943?

    I'm not sure if "undefendable" is the right word, if an WAllied landing made it into the interior yes but they did plan on contesting a landing. Ambrosio toured the island and reported on the construction of new defences in May, he predicted the WAllies would have great difficulty in carrying...

  12. Malta or Egypt in 1942: The right strategy

    Egypt. Both options were risky but the Egyptian operation was much more of a known quantity with veteran divisions advancing over terrain they knew with an established command structure. Could Rommel have reached Alexandria? Probably not. Should he have retreated after First El Alamein? Yes but...

  13. How many troops would the Axis have needed in Sicily to defeat Operation Husky in 1943?

    It's not really a question of numbers. On the face of it the Axis had around 300,000 troops on Sicily at the start of Husky, twice what the Allies initially landed with, however only three divisions of that could be considered motorised; 15th Panzergrenadier, Livorno, and Hermann Goering and two...

  14. The Day of the Lion: An Italian WW2 TL
    Threadmarks: Gariboldi rimase in piedi come fulminato

    Gariboldi rimase in piedi come fulminato Having reached the Tyrrhenian Coast the Germans now had a much clearer route towards a drive on Rome. However, despite the boasts of German propaganda the decision had already been made not to cross that particular rubicon. The recent successes in...

  15. The Day of the Lion: An Italian WW2 TL

    Maybe although I'm not sure the Warsaw Uprising would play out the same way ITTL or even necessarily happen. Even IOTL the WAllies didn't exactly cover themselves in glory in regards to Warsaw either so I'm not sure if many would be using it as a bloody shirt. Leftist circles and Soviet...

  16. The Day of the Lion: An Italian WW2 TL

    Thanks! Hope you're enjoying it. Kinda similar in the sense Mussolini's trying to revitalise his regime in part to fight a decisive battle in the form of an Allied landing on home soil with the victory being a precursor for negotiations. Although Mussolini was also keen to see the war through...

  17. What specifically did Italy territorially want in Africa?

    Unlike Nazi Germany there wasn’t necessarily a grand plan more a mantra by 1935/6 that France and the UK were diseased and declining plutocracies and Italy should exploit or hasten their decline for its own benefit. In the case of France this took the form of older irredentist claims in...

  18. Treatment of civilian population of Hawaii under Japanese occupation?

    Logistics could pretty much ensure a widespread famine if I’m not mistaken. The Japanese-American population might get the benefit of being shipped back to Japan for conscription but the remainder of the island would be likely be left to rot regardless of whether the Japanese want to or not...

  19. The Day of the Lion: An Italian WW2 TL
    Threadmarks: Sento però che non ci rivedremo più

    Sento però che non ci rivedremo più While in Milan the PCI Central Committee had focused on building defences for their showdown with the Germans, the sailors and workers committee of La Spezia had become embroiled in the chaos of the German invasion. Barely a week after the sailors of...

  20. Thanks! I've had a few ideas for sequels, one involving Japan in the sixties and another being a...

    Thanks! I've had a few ideas for sequels, one involving Japan in the sixties and another being a sort of "Where are they now?" look from the present day. I have already done a bit of work on the latter but might do both at some point. I can't add threadmarks because the thread is locked, sorry.
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