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IMHO, a lot would depend on where she would settle down when having grown up. We also need to remember that by the time she would have been either liberated from the camp (or Amsterdam was liberated so that they could live "Het Achterhuis") she was still only 16 so yet a minor. She identified...

When inspiration strikes... generally, contributing to the Catherverse eats up my AH-ressources pretty much. EDIT: thank you for encouraging me! Just give me a few days.

Wait....wait....this one has been done by now! "Downsizing"

SOZIALDEMOKRATEN WÄHLEN IHREN CHEF. Frankfurt. The highest-ranking caucus of Federal Germany‘s leading party, the SPD, has announced that all members will have a vote on who will lead „the old aunt“ into next year‘s Federal election. This rarely taken step became necessary after none of the...

WELL-EARNED RETIREMENT. Frankfurt/Main. After sixteen years from 1979 to 1995 and then again during the last three years, Johannes Rau will leave the Bundeskanzleramt for good. The record-setting head of government announced today that "he will not see 2018 sitting in the chair he has gotten...

I agree, though I'd expect tacit approval for the Italians coming from most of Germany's neighbours. By 1934, appeasement was not yet the standard mode of operation when dealing with Hitler, but rather a "wait and see"-approach in which a destabilization of National Socialist rules wouldn't be...

Note: at the time of the National-Socialist putsch in Austria, Hindenburg was still alive (he died August 2nd) and Hitler was technically NOT head of state yet. This also means that the German soldiers had not yet taken the infamous oath on Adolf Hitler. Thus, a military coup could still occur...

I agree that the humiliation of a defeat suffered at the hands of Austrians (!!!) and Italians (!!!!!) would discredit Nazism as we know it. Something we haven't thought of: the Reichswehr leadership was not yet neutered as it was by late 1939. Seeing their instrument slaughtered might also lead...

I don't see the CSR join unless France does.

One thing puzzles me - what would the war aims of Italy apart from securing their Austrian ally? That would probably be easy....although costly, especially if the Nazis are going berserk and simply would not stop fighting. Restoring the Weimar Republic or the monarchy don't seem like something...

It would be a dirty affair with internal turmoil in Austria, the Austrian army battling the Germans along the Danube until the Italians can bolster their forces (Italian Air Force would dominate over the Germans who haven't gone far into building a Luftwaffe yet), and mountain warfare around...

I agree. Economic thinking wasn't the German military's strong point anyways. What Schlieffen wrote down before leaving office was not a fully worked out operational plan, but a "Denkschrift", a memorandum. Schlieffen repeatedly admitted in the Denkschrift that the army would need massive...

Here are the final results, the winners of loser of the Austrian election. The spectacular yet unsurprising occured. Austria has gone a good deal away from the left wing. And Sebastian Kurz will most probably be new Reichskanzler, although the conservative ÖVP only gained moderately, they are...

1. Yes, that was a description of the main campaing ad by the SdP. The "Sudetendeutsche Partei" is usually not know for being anything but......boring. Every election, they win 40-50% of the votes in the Sudeten, so they send 20-30 Abgeordnete to Vienna where they spend their time funneling...

That is of course full of hindsight. On the issue of German war planning, I highly recommend Stig Försters works on 1914. He concludes that in the German high command, the following assumptions were widespread : a- there was a very slim chance only that the war could be won in the course of...

"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess, called Sudetia, born to King Wenceslas and his bride Germania. [We see a girl in a black-red-black dress, dancing in a medieval castle] But a terrible witch cursed the kingdom [a figure in a cloak gestures against the backdrop of an altar and a...

The Balts would POTENTIALLY have been allies, but the Germans screwed the opportunity by insisting to bolster the power of the German-speaking minority into continued political dominance.

Wilson....a visionary. OK, I take it as I know what you mean. The problem is, even the most skillful German leader will find it hard to sell a vision in the WW1-situation. He would have to be a ruthless pragmatist. But, alas, you don't get a Bismarck every 50 years. (Or one can put it more...

However, the idea of putting earlier emphasis on an offensive in the East is not the question here- but the recruitment of Eastern Europeans. And here once again I would like to point to the general impediment that the 1910s central powers-leadership were horrible in recognizing what Bismarck...

....but an greater respect for the Russian geography.