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I think that the critics, while bringing valid points to the discussion, ought to be careful about declaring things "impossible". Tons of "impossible" things have happened IOTL in the last century, some of them with very serious consequences. And not to mention that AH doesn't exist in a vacuum...

Right. 1942 ITTL would feel like 1944 except without as much bombing. Not having as many allies in Eastern Europe, I think, would be quite damaging to Nazi ambitions against the USSR. Hundreds of thousands of Romanians did participate in the invasion of Russia after all. I expect that even if...

So basically Hitler will try to invade Russia at some point even if France isn't totally finished by 1942? Would the German military even follow such an order?

Thanks for the responses. My idea for this scenario was more born of the "Hitler was irrational, so he attacked Russia when he was still fighting Britain". I was wondering if he would do the same if he was having trouble putting down the French.

Here's a problem I've been thinking about: People say that there's no way for Nazi Germany and the USSR to have a lasting alliance, because it was a fundamental part of the Nazi ideology to crush Russia eventually and get their living space. Stalin, of course, thought that Hitler wasn't a retard...

Wow that Irving guy is pretty repulsive. I'm interested in the comparison to Mussolini. We don't view him as evil incarnate the way we do Hitler, but maybe that's simply because we had Hitler for that instead. Perhaps in TTL the Germans would be viewed more like the way we see the...

Aw crap I forgot to describe the precise way that Hitler goes down: As the Allies are closing in on Berlin from all sides, something similar to OTL's July 20 plot happens, and succeeds, with the eventual result that most of the German army and militia (Volkssturm types) surrenders, followed by...

I've seen some people here say that Hitler was actually pretty lucky in many ways to be as successful as he was IOTL. Like the Battle for France going massively in his favor, or the fact that Barbarossa ran into the Red Army just as it was in the middle of an overhaul after Stalin's purges. So...

I imagine that the point of the "language" argument is to explain why China keeps tending towards reunification rather than fragmentation. Europe only got sort of united once (Romans) whereas China has been unified by like ten different dynasties. That's almost a moot point. Practically no...

Have the KMT get the country under control faster. There may very well still be warlords or a military dictatorship later on, but a united China can avoid having to contend with its own people and send bigger troop concentrations to a place should Japan try to threaten it. Manchuria, for...

For reasons already said this idea is cool but not very possible. It would make a really neat ASB TL however.

A stronger China to put Japan back in its place somewhat would be a good POD for this scenario. Japan thought it could walk all over China which encouraged the rise of militarists. If this is avoided then Japan can develop more normally. Everyone wins except for the Koreans who either lose their...

Mao Zedong's rule was, given his lifetime, bound to result in evil things because that's what his political position was based on. From the Yanan Rectification Movement to the Anti-Rightist Campaign to the Cultural Revolution and all the atrocities that happened in between were a result of him...

Wow, what an extensive update on Poland. Awesome that we get to see some AH about the country that so often gets its status reduced to an east-west highway.

Bump for update and more attention in general.

For Chinese aims to be "Nazis", it's got to be pretty extravagant. Here's what I'd go with: - Getting HK, Macao, and Taiwan back. They are populated by Chinese, they should be ours! - Getting the old Qing borders back. Self-explanatory; what are those damned Russkies doing all the way over...

Wow, that's just low.

It's possible, but only in the case that things really went belly-up and people were in danger of revolt. And even then "free enterprise" would be limited to relaxing controls over the black markets. We're talking about Mao Zedong here, who even when millions of peasants were dying had...

This I doubt. Mao's campaigns didn't really have much if anything to do with the outside world. They were based around striking fear into everyone who wasn't him and keeping his monopoly on power.

I was thinking that Yuan Shikai, being a powerful general of the late Qing, would benefit the fledgling ROC more if he sided with it than if he were to just die off. And about a harsh ruler stamping out corruption, for a nation like China that would probably require a Mao-like strongman, the...