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Cuban Missile War timeline by Amerigo Vespucci, but writ even larger and involving more nations. I know at the end of his timeline South Africa, China, and Brazil became world powers. If one could somehow get China involved on the nuclear destruction, and then somehow pull India in, you'd get...

Me-163, the Komet. Ugly but quick.

Prussia would need to march in to stem the tide from France. But then a wild Russia would appear and ruin all that. Austria would bring the heat too. As to who would acquire Hannover, it's purely academic with Prussia pressured from the east and south. George III would try to retake it but you...

It's a paradox that I've seen repeated over and over on this forum by different members, and it often seems like the paradox is glossed over because the Nazis are understood by 99.99% of humanity to be awful in every way. Statement A: Nazi Germany was a greater long-term threat to the United...

Jackson would honestly probably not fare too much better. Little Round Top might go differently though.

Absolutely right. The SS would prevent any form of moderation. The average German boy in the Heer is exactly that. The guys in the SS are rotten to the core and utterly unrepentant.

"Moderate Nazi" is a phrase akin to "Moderate Communist." It just doesn't...work. German nationalist? Okay, yeah. A Nazi ceases to be a Nazi when they abandon core tenets of Hitler, in the same way that a Communist ceases to be a Communist when they abandon the core tenets of Marx/Engels...

I think this is a pretty simple answer. Turtledove's primary purpose is what most author's and publisher's primary purpose is. Make money.

Exclaves don't make much sense on a map though, even with Kaliningrad. This would be an exclave awfully far from the USSR mainland too. May as well absorb Poland into the USSR if you're going to control a tiny exclave that you have to go through Poland to get to in the first place.

The USSR would technically be controlling an exclave. Exclaves are weird and don't make sense. Poland would take the lion's share of German soil as revanchism takes hold in the year after the war's close.

Couldn't the Armenian Genocide be exploited in some way here that provokes war between Russians and Turks? Not sure how you'd suck Germany and Britain into that, so it might only be a regional thing.

Had they taken Taiwan, might we see a united Korea today?

Someone should weave this thread in with the "Hilarious Ways For Hitler To Die" thread.

He's a Pretender to the throne at best. At its absolute best in 1933 when Hitler rises to official power, the Third Reich would be a societal outcast in terms of Hitler's potential to marry into Europe's aristocratic structure. It's extremely difficult to even imagine this circumstance.

Didn't Britain back Portugal? That's going to be rather difficult if London is supporting Lisbon.

This all day! Christians and other religious minorities were routinely persecuted.

Okay, so, back to my main original question. I will concede taking Sicily if it means opening up the Med. Also taking Sardinia and Corsica would definitely help things in that regard too. If the western allies go ahead with the invasion of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica, could they then land...

How crucial was that lane to the overall war effort?

Doable, but with only about a 1% chance of success, and something completely beyond the realm of normal would have to happen. I'm not saying ASB, but something pretty close to it.

To compare this, it would be just as plausible to save Berlin from the ravages of the Red Army in 1945 as it was to save France from the French Revolution.