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Yes it is ASB, and not based on the actual politics of 1989/90 (I know that, because I was there :biggrin:) There is a huge leap from 'being against reunification' (which many were back then) and 'going to invade' (both France and the UK had already lots of forces in Germany anyway). If you want...

IIRC, the submarine was to be destroyed after carefully taking it apart and studying it.

Maybe combine it with Firefox - which IIRC takes place in the early 80s too. For realism, not the unrealistic beast of the novel/movie, but a very advanced prototype in a TL were the US missed stealth. In any case, if the whole thing is confirmed post 2000, I wonder how Putins Russia would take...

Sure, they became allied/NATO forces after Paris. But they were still called occupation forces in daily life (across the politcal spectrum), but not necessarily regarded as such.

DKP was absolute fringe in the 70s and 80s. Also, it doesn't matter what the DKP thinks - it is the SPD who even a bit more left would not form a coalition. That was an absolute no-go, any attempt and the SPD would loose its moderate and centrist voters (the bulk). It was a different world and...

If DKP manages to establish itself, this would be at the cost of the Green party. You don't just get additional 5% or so on the outer left without something else happening. If the DKP stays a dogmatic communist party, no chance of a coalition with the SPD, its as nowball in hell thing in the 70s...

During the 70s and 80s Germany, while not under occupation status anymore, it was not a fully independent nation either. See Pariser Verträge, 1954. And yes, there was a huge military presence of Allied forces until the 90s.

That's about it - the first series was definitely superior and the way to go. There was potential there, and the atmosphere fits perfectly to the mid/late 70s. Also, sets, models and effects were quite good. The Eagles are still my favorite spacecrafts. It should be mentioned that S1999 was...

Could be the Merchant Princess series by Charlie Stross. The final installment of the first series has a cross-time nuclear strike (essentially carpet nuking the eastern seaboard with a 'big one' to make sure nobody survives). I'm not sure about the hellenic part - IIRC, the ATL had a late roman...

If it is 'only' a formal thing and everything else being essentially the same, I don't see any serious attempts from FRG side to change borders. There might be voices on the right pushing in that direction, but by then they were much too weak. You would need a POD with at least more influence...

My impression from 6 years living in the UK is that people don't love the Tories that much, it's more that they just don't really trust Labour as such.

Romanian what?

No, people didn't trust the Greens because of the oh so evul Bild-Zeitung (softcore Daily Mail), but simply because they were a bunch of mostly hard-lefties with relatively few moderates ('Realos') as public face in those days. They simply were fringe by 1980s standards, and people knew it. I...

I think you vastly overestimate the impact of British politics on 80s FRG. Thatcherism did not influence German politic much in the first place (we were quite happy with the way things worked back then), the main impetus for the 'roll back' and neoliberalism came from the US. We talk about the...

I expected the cold war situation to last forever (at least for my whole life). I remember as a 17 ys old back 1987 or so, when I discussed things with my best pal, we came to the conclusion that the current situation was extremely stable and nothing, not even Gorbachev would change anything...

Super. Really liked it.

Football was already a major sport back then. But most non-Germans under German rule would have other problems than following sports (basically, survive). Immigration in the modern sense would only be possible for people fullfilling the racial 'ideal' of Nazi-Germany. Everybody else would be...

Based on living 6 years in Britian, I would confirm this. Britian is special, and quite a bit different from the continent (usually in a positive way). But I never ever felt being outside of Europe during that time. The US, OTOH, always feels fundamentally different from Europe (IMHO).

Times were changing even with a CDU/CSU majority. I guess especially when the conservatives were trying to push trough distinctively conservative politics well below 50% of the votes - this just would not look that good. And I don't think the SPD would falter after that - I see a stronger...

Since he was starring in a whole Henson movie not much later in '85 (Labyrinth), I guess that is one of the high probability TL. Peter Gabriel or Kate Bush would also fit nicely, but were probably too British (Bowie was already very popular in the US). Gary Numan? (of course not)