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Johann VII killed himself in 1592. But if he kills himself in 1587, it happens before his kids was born and his estate goes to his uncle Ulrich. Ulrich in OTL had only one daugther who married the king of Denmark, his position as Lutheran Administrator of Schwerin was inherited by his...

Yes and no. No they won't be content with German Posen and West Prussia, but they will recognise that there's not much they can do about it, and the longer time there goes, the more they will just accept status quo. They aren't idiots which will declare war on Germany, which protect them for...

A interesting aspect is population replacement, in OTL in Latvia and Estonia the locals converted rather fast and as result we saw a small German nobility, clergy and burgher class rule over a native peasantry. The Romanians seemed much more stubborn in their faith, so we will likely see...

I agree at most they will include Lviv, while Vilnius and western Belarussia will go to Lithuantia. There's a few reason to stop at Curzon 1: It keep USSR a viable threat 2: It keep Poland from becoming a threat 3: It make it harder for Poland to export without crossing German territories...

Let's look at all this through realpolitik, so why the 1914 border in the east? 1: large German minority 2: Upper Silesia was a area where the SPD was quite strong, and Polish ownership of it, make the rest Silesia easier to invade. 3: The corridor was necessary for access to East Prussia...

Norway would be the easiest to keep Catholic, find a way to make Christian II keep Norway after he's overthrown in Denmark and we would have a Catholic Norway, of course the problem is to keep the Danes or Swedes from conquering it.

Being predominantly agrarian isn't a problem, so was Brandenburg on its way to power. PLC problem was that the weak central power didn't implemented mercantile policies and only focused on the sale of cash crops (wheat). While mercantilism is rightly seen as fundamental wrong today, the truth...

Yes but predominated Polish was a split 70/30 for Posen, and yes around 10% of the population had if I remember correctly had already left semi-voluntary* Posen by 1920 mostly German officials (bureaucrats, police, teachers) and their families. *it was strongly suggested that they should...

Superheroes is almost a singular American phenomena, European comics have always been dominated by SF, fantasy, history and detective stories. The closest Europe come to a large scale superhero, is the Italian made disney comics, where Donald Duck have a alter ego "duck avenger", who is a kind...

The problem are that Germany have lost those area less than two year earlier. If USA lost the South West would you think two years would be enough to accept the loss? In fact France kept whining about Elsass for decades, even through its "Frenchness" was quite limited, why should Germany be...

That's a rather good question, form 1904 to 1914, White settlement in German South West Africa increased from a little over 1000 to over 10 000, while a similar propotional increase is unlikely over the next decade, I could see a rather large increase again to 35-45 000. It's unlikely to make a...

Because in a earlier post it was said immigration of religious minorities was encouraged.

It's nice with a so realistic timeline about a successful PLC. But I think you would risk Polish overreach if they expand much more. I think Poland should consolidate it gain. For the religious situation I saw this map on wikipedia. I see no reason for it to be wrong. Protestant...

A interesting aspect is the effect on the wider world. Sweden now is no bigger than Denmark-Norway, and a Russian vassal are just on the other side of the Gulf of Bothnia from Stockholm. This will likely create some panic in Sweden, I expect that we will see a increased investment in the army...

Yes, in fact Ottoman military technology seem to large degree to have been "imported" from Europe. To degree European immigrants was among the major source of development of Ottoman technology, we rarely saw the move the other way. Of course the Ottoman strenght in the 16th century didn't build...

It would be interesting, Finland at this point was dominated by a Swedish speaking elite and a quarter of the population spoke Swedish. Peter himself also spoke Swedish having learned it when he was a candidate for the Swedish throne, interesting he never learned Russian. Beside that Peter was a...

One thing Russian behaviour in Danzig, even with Stalin leading them, I expect the Red Army to be on its best behaviour. Yes there some atrocities may happen, but it will likely be limited, and much of it may be collatoral damage from when workers in Danzig plunder the shops and homes of their...

For Poland, if Germany is allowed to regain its 1914 border in the east, a free Poland is a benefit for Germany whether it's a puppet or really free. One it would serve as a buffer to USSR, two most Polish export would go through German territories, three it would make USSR weaker. I can see the...

I was seeing a program about zeppelins a few days back, a interesting aspect was that the Zeppelin company began building zeppelins for civilian use right after the war, but they was confiscated by the British in 1921 and was forbidden to be build new ones(because the British wished to take over...

Interesting idea, but it wouldn't be nationalised slaves, it would just be a mix of apartheit and socialism.