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I'm not sure. The PoD is pretty early here, so German colonization of Africa could potentially be much different. I leave it to the OP to decide.

In what way is it an analog to the Second Boer War? In that one, Britain had problems fighting a small force of men who had switched to a bloody insurgency, true, but unlike the CSA, Britain was this massive Great Power that was somehow getting bloodied in what was supposed to be a small police...

Oddly enough, the first OTL concentration camps were the Boer ones (as in the ones the British used to intern Boer families in), and while those succeeded in their task of breaking Boer resistance, they generated a lot of outrage in Europe over the treatment of "fellow White men" to the degree...

Oh. Right. Forgot the Nazis sucked big time at economics and believed in plundering other nations.

That... actually depends. Their invasion of Norway was motivated by the fact that the Norwegians were not going to do anything about British convoy raiders attacking German commerce in the Baltics - almost all of Germany's steel comes from Sweden, and cutting that would wreck Germany's economy...

I know that, it's just I was showing how utterly few options France had to un-f**k its situation. The Americans had tried helping Europe in WW1, but that turned out to be a bust (German atrocities were vastly exaggerated to the American public, and the Entente promptly wasted its hard-earned...

Well, this is a fine mess France finds itself in. Can't jump in bed with the Soviets, can't count on Britain's help, can't trust Hitler, and the Yankees are just sitting on their side of the pond, content to do nothing.

Not like the Soviets didn't do that IOTL. They kept showing America as a place where exploitation and racism are commonplace, and how people are oppressed their for petty reasons - unlike the free and heroic USSR. "And in America, they lynch black people" was a common Soviet retort to any...

My bad, thanks for correcting me on those. This is what I meant, though.

Which would require you transfer troops to Lithuania. Poland's going to start asking questions about why the Germans are moving troops to a foreign country, and why would Lithuania allow German troops in for an assault on Poland again? Germany managed to invade Poland from one side decently...

Well, it would... except by shooting the Little Rock Nine right in front of the 101st Airborne, they've defied Presidential authority too. The only way Eisenhower would not lose face is by going full force and trying to crush the KKK and its powerbase once and for all. There's escalation, and...

Still not going to benefit them much. Lithuania has nothing to offer Hitler, and throwing it against the Soviets is like tossing a Cabbage Patch Kid at a bullet train. Lithuania's population in 1939 (following the loss of Vilnius and other territory to the Poles) was 3.9 millions. Their industry...

This attempted "Race war" ends exactly one way. The Civil Rights movement is sped up in response, and the National Guard and US Army begin a nation-wide manhunt for the KKK. Anyone supporting them loses face and support pretty quickly. You do not lynch people even in the 1950s and get away with...

You mean a Franco-Lithuanian Alliance? There is literally nothing Lithuania contributes to this alliance in, it'll be the recipient of a defense treaty, needing the protection of a sugar daddy. That's it. Plus, France would have to defend Lithuania against either Germany or the USSR, and if...

It's not like the Germans were completely bereft of technical and combat skill, mind you. The Spanish Civil War provided the Germans valuable combat experience through the Condor Legion and other assorted 'volunteers', allowing them to form the basis of their "maneuver warfare" strategy...

That's a valid question. We have the benefit of hindsight and history, and we know the Nazis aren't going to settle for anything less than a glorious Third Reich spreading from the Atlantic to the Urals. But the French don't know that, so that might be a valid position for many Frenchmen to take...

It would raise the question, however, of whether the French would really be caught supporting Communism. At the moment, it's kind of a Catch-22; support the Germans to fight the Communists but get a strong Germany on their borders, or support the Soviets and possibly end up with a stronger...

And here I thought we were in the "After 1900" forum :P I joke, I joke. I understand the idea behind this. But bear in mind Das Kapital was published in 1867, two years after the American Civil War. By then, the worst of the Irish Potato Blight would be gone - over two decades gone, to be...

Very few people speak Gaelic anymore in Ireland; most of the population speaks English thanks to centuries of Anglo rule and cultural oppression.

One big issue with a Communist Ireland - especially in the early 20th century - is how would the Catholic Church support it? If anything, the Roman Catholic Church was a unifying factor for the "Green" Irish, the downtrodden masses under "Orange" (Protestant) Irish and the British government...