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The best way I think you could keep East Prussia would be to have the WAllies get a lot further, and the Soviets doing worse. So, perhaps just have a couple of campaigns go a little worse for the USSR and better for the WAllies. IOTL western troops were along the Elbe River, and Stalin forced...

That doesn't sound incredibly pretentious,please oh great and glorious one, tell us feeble, uneducated louts your other pearls of self-righteous, smug satisfaction.

That's true enough, which is why in the original post I did say Czech deaths of between 2 and 3 million which is about 30% of the total population.

That's true, but it wasn't necessarily the kind of systematic killing seen during the Holocaust, as I said in my previous post, they hoped to Germanise a lot of the population. If the Nazi mindset is, instead, 'these Czech's are as bad as the Jews', then obviously the slaughter would be off the...

Probably, though to my knowledge the Czechs got off fairly lightly under the Nazis - that is, compared to Poland and the USSR. One of the big reasons was because the Germans hoped to Germanise half the Czech population, however in a TL where the Germans simply view Czechs as being less than...

Hey Guys, Let's say the Germans treat the Czech people as badly as they treat the Jews - sending them off to death camps and only allowing them less than 200 calories a day. This means that, post-war, the Czech population has been reduced by some 2-3 million people, leaving around 5 million...

True, but Louis might be willing to compromise and 'only' take Baden, perhaps with future plans to attack the Palatinate still.

Have Louis XIV be far more successful in his wars, so that he begins to annex deeper into the HRE? Very difficult, as there'd be so many coalitions against him, but not entirely impossible.

Around the time of Christianisation, I think they asked Byzantine scholars to write a bible, as they had no written language.

I can imagine it would have some marginal success, probably with parents hoping it'd educate their children. That'd get pretty stale though, and with many in the top brass of the BBC requesting there be "no bug-eyed monsters" I doubt the show would last for more than a few years. If they did...

Hey Guys, IOTL the African slaves in the Americas had a degree of immunity to malaria, which is one of the reasons as to why in the Caribbean the black population rapidly overtook the white population, as white Europeans didn't have the same immunity levels, therefore had much higher death...

Hey Guys, Let's say that Gaddafi wins the Libyan Civil War, without western intervention and nasty reprisals in Benghazi. Whilst there may be sporadic fighting continuing into 2012, the rebellion generally dies off and Gaddafi has secured his position. So, how would Gaddafi's success...

Hey Guys, Let's say that Elizabeth I of England, who IOTL died in 1603 and succeeded by James VI of Scotland, lives on another 25 years. I know that this is highly implausible, she was 69 when she died and so ITTL she would be 94 years old when death finally takes her. Obviously this doesn't...

Good point, I forgot about the Austrian history in Lorraine. I think, were a Prussian Prince who's Catholic to take over Alsace, then they'd be forced to recognise some kind of religious freedom for the Protestants, or they'd be made to convert.

I doubt the major powers would be willing to give Alsace or Lorraine to another nation, but I suspect we could see them creating a Duchy of Lorraine and Duchy of Alsace. This raises the question of whom the Dukes of these Duchies would be. Perhaps the two Duchies could be governed by leaders...

True, but what would happen with the Prince of Orange succession, whih I believe is seperate from the Statholders? And would whoever takes over as the Prince allow the Statholders to take over so much, or could we see another attempt by the Orange group to take more power as William II tried?

In 1660 Mary, Princess of Orange, mother of William III, Prince of Orange (future King of England), died of smallpox. William obviously didn't die and became a central figure in European politics. However what if William had been with his mother in London where she contracted the illness, or...

I think it's difficult, despite Charles II being recalled as the Merry Monarch, his rule really wasn't, in fact there were one or times during his reign when only the memory of the bloody civil war kept another one from happening. I feel that, maybe if James II was as smart as his grandfather...

I don't think anyone's claiming OTL's invasion of Poland was Poland's fault. However Poland had been pushing its luck prior to the war anyway, so it's not hard to envisage a less Nazi-like Germany being able to go to war with Poland without massive fear of a western intervention if it was over...

A TL in which, whilst a Children in Need Doctor Who comedy special is being considered for 1999, the BBC agrees to create a whole new series instead. Rowan Atkinson, a lifelong fan of Doctor Who whom was considered for the Children in Need special, is chosen to be the 9th Doctor during a lull in...