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Maybe... The victorious Union wants to both punish Texas for joining the confederacy and also reward Texas Germans for their near total loyalty to the union during the civil war. Time to redraw some maps: A new state is created. The new state includes loyalist German counties in the hill...

I am guessing it would just be very heavy bombing of as another member put it, anything remotely military. This would include a lot of civilian infrastructure. I wonder what the Soviets would do in if the US launched a ground invasion? In OTL, the USSR invaded Afghanistan, perhaps with an eye...

Objectively, I think you are 100% right. The victory (even if substantial numbers of Germans are successfully evacuated at night by destroyers and fishing boats) is propaganda. British propaganda could hype the tactical victory as a strategic indicator. Make it into a Gettysburg: The...

And another argument can be made that the Battle of the Atlantic was won in the fall of 1941. This was the first time period that German U boats losses against properly (key term) escorted convoys in the north Atlantic became unsustainable given the number of allied ships sunk. The good news...

I think the overwhelming majority would still get out. In OTL, the Germans, however, quickly rescued Mussollini and set up an alternative fascist government. Italian garrisons in Greece remained under arms until the end of the war. Being under arms did not necessarily mean willing to resist...

I agree with you, the tide could have been changed easily, though I think it would have needed a few more British category "A" batalions maybe from India? With the notable exception of the Anzac batalions, many of the British combat units on Crete were recently converted to combat arms from...

I think you are right. In the end, general confessions were rare nationally. Rather, the main effort, as you indicated, was just to de-emphasize confessions of any format. One way to do this was to simply make them less available. Though I do agree with you that one can be fully Catholic and...

There might be some wiggle room. In the technical sense, breaks with Rome are absolute. In the practical sense, they don't need to be. Consider the following scenarios: Bishops in country "X" deeply oppose the direction a current Pope. A showdown of Papal authority occurs over an issue...

I agree with the other poster. The U.S. desire for revenge would have been quenched with battlefield victories over the Japanese military and the knowledge that the U.S. military won the war- and could drive all the way to Japan if it really wanted to. With Germany defeated and conscript...

Yes, I think so. I don't think the German economic miracle was not dependent on any one person, but rather on policies created by groups of experts. These experts included industrialists willing to work with any center right leader over a socialist leader. Thus, I think a capable new Kaiser...

I think most Germans wanted stability / law and order in the streets. Though the center left may show concerns about a new monarch, I think these concerns could be mitigated by emphasizing that: - the new monarch is a constitutional monarchy and he appears to be simply center right. - He has...

I think any viable monarch was going to be at least center right by inherent disposition. As for moving towards fascism or the far right, I think there could be several circumstances that could pull him in that direction. Perhaps one or more of the following: - A continuing small scale war...

I think a non Holhenzollern would be acceptable. The focus would be on the qualifications of personal charisma and political moderation. Other qualifications would include being "noble /royal" enough to be legitimate and also being un-questionably German. As a result, I think bloodline...

Though the details of the political spectrum would change with out Hitler, I don't think the core spectrum would change that much: factional right vs factional left. The monarchy could be seen as a stabilizing middle. I think there is a way to make this happen: - Prolong and intensify the...

I cant read Russian, but I remember that the Soviet armies based in East Germany tended to have WWII honorific titles. These titles were usually like: XX Guards Tank Army, XX Guards Army or XX Shock Army. The titles may well have been combined in one or two cases: XX Guards Tank Shock Army...

Strong social prohibitions in any society against anything routinely get bent or broken once an influential groups decides that it is in their interest to do so. In the case in question, the social prohibition against inter racial relations could be easily circumvented by the planters reminding...

Though the southern land owners would prefer to copy the Russian serf system with children of serfs being bound from birth, I don't think this would be sustainable with the more egalitarian national government in the USA. Children of serfs would be unbound at adulthood providing that..... there...

I agree, enslaving white Christians was not feasible. But..... we are not talking about slavery. Rather, we are talking about the importation of uhmm...."indentured long term contract laborers". Likewise, such humans would never be bought at auctions. Rather, "transfers of contracts" were...

Maybe the transatlantic slave trade gets interrupted earlier? Meanwhile, the plantation owners still need labor of the forced or coerced kind. So, they go looking for other "workers". One such source, as another poster mentioned, was expanding the indentured servitude concept to the point...

The P-47 Thunderbolt "Jug".... Combined the abilities of a first line fighter with those of a capable light bomber. Francis Gabreski, a leading US ace flew one against the best planes Germany had to offer. The Jug "A fat man light on his feet" was one of the best all around designs of WWII...