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Say Stalin decided that it is better to give DDR the majority of Silesia rather than to Poland. (The rest goes as OTL) Would DDR be able to develop such heavy industrial region into something that could sustain the economy of DDR or match the Ruhrgebiet at some level? As a compensation to the...

How far could the captured French Navy makes a difference assuming the majority of them were able to be captured by the Germans? Most of the French battleships are old but the Kriegsmarine might make a good use out of them as raiders? Deterrent to divert British resources? +As a complement let...

I'm wondering into the unknown here but let's just open a discussion about the possibility for Germany to have stronger ties with South American nations even leading to the point of a long-term alliance? Which of the nations there is known to have good relation with Germany? (I'm thinking of...

I just want to gather information about good and reasonable World War I books. It would even be better if the book describes the military operation in the war in various front comprehensively. I hear John Keegan book is quite good, is it true? Thank You.

Hitler's Maskirovka (Naming inspired by Life in Black :D) The plan is: I was thinking what happen if Hitler know that Sea Mammal is a failure but still proceed in executing the operation in smaller scale not to actually invade Britain but to create the impression that the German Army is not...

Most of the thread I've seen here about Nazi Germany and U.S Cold War scenarios only mainly focuses about the political and military aspect of it. I wonder if we can tackle on the subject of culture ordinary lives in both nation. Will German citizen lives under a similar condition to the Soviet...

Most of the time the majority of the TL here shows Germany and Poland as an arch-enemy to each other, culminating in the German Invasion of Poland and Germany annexing it. But what if both Germany and Poland had better relationship? I understand the majority of the Poles at that time were also...

OTL to compete with the US manned Moon Program and its Saturn V rocket the Soviet came up with N1 Rocket as a launch platform for their orbital spacecraft and lander. But as it progressed the N1 rocket was unable to achieve the desired result, three test rockets were destroyed due to technical...

The death of Tsarina Elisabeth in the Third Silesian War was regarded as the first miracle for House of Hohenzollern and Brandenburg-Prussia, it allowed the ascend of Peter II - a Prussian admirer - to the throne of Russia and thus breaking the Austro-Russian alliance. Could with some possible...

Inspired by discussion started by me last year on conserving Austria-Hungary, Imperial Germany and Russia in this thread until the present time, I will try this time to assemble a hopefully convincing timeline to establish the idea. I'll try to avoid World War or conflict with such scale unless...

I just want to know as already described in the title, how far can the Western Civilization technology advances before the 1900? And what happen if by any means, decisive discovery in science such as the Newtonian physics and Calculus were able to be discovered earlier? Also, what factors...

The title states it all, is there any possibilities for such thing to happen? I know that the OTL situation was already very grim for the Flensburg government to exist. But what would happen if in this case the Soviet decided to attack the Allies? Would there still be any chance for Doenitz's...

Let us just first reduce the complex reason behind why they were still alive, Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia to some butterflies. Perhaps I could suggest no World War 1 which I admit was already highly unpreventable or the longevity of Frederick IV caused a whole chain of event that lowered...

It just come up to my mind that I need to find good flag for my TL Central European Federation flag, which is basically a federal successor of the Austrian-Hungary Empire. The territory still mainly includes the territory of Austria-Hungary in 1914 prior to World War I but the country used the...

Few days ago I've tried to make some quite long TL about a completely different Asia but I decided to narrow the scope a little bit involving mainly about Dutch East Indies and Europe only. How can you make the colonization process more effective and so on. The time line started in 1800. Please...