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  1. What is the best result the Western Allies can achieve after Pearl Harbour?

    OTL pretty much covers it. Fascism is wiped out. WAllied casualties are, compared to OTL WW I were somewhat lower, despite the much greater total death toll (~34%) overall for WW II. The Japanese try and fail in the Lunge South, the WAlles will wind up facing the Japanese on mainland Asia in...
  2. Would a victorious Nazi Germany go ahead with Generalplan Ost?

    Along the A/A line. Worth noting that there is a whole lot of nothing in most of this region, even today.
  3. Would a victorious Nazi Germany go ahead with Generalplan Ost?

    For the first couple years 600K would be a reasonable figure. That would fairly rapidly drop as the border region was depopulated. As Mao said, "Guerrillas must move among the people as a fish swims in the seas". No people mean no support. There would be an ongoing need for at least 100,000...
  4. Would a victorious Nazi Germany go ahead with Generalplan Ost?

    It depends on exactly the peace treaty that ended the war. The normal assumption is that the Soviets have to utterly collapse for Hitler to have a victory before the end of 1941. In that case the Treaty is probably beyond severe, including reparations, very possibly "guest workers" and the sort...
  5. Would a victorious Nazi Germany go ahead with Generalplan Ost?

    The sheer banality of it. Many, actually most, of the Reich's functionaries overseeing the Death Camps, the mistreatment of the populations in the East, the vast number of war crimes committed that would make a billy goat puke, did it with zero emotional buy-in. The administrator's would be...
  6. Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

    Really? Quite fun? Ya. Kicked for a week.
  7. Would a victorious Nazi Germany go ahead with Generalplan Ost?

    Oh, the Reich's grand plans, like turning the city of Moscow in a huge artificial lake, were simply beyond the tech of the time. Like most of Hitler's grand visions reality would have wound up smacking him upside the head. Not because he wouldn't have tried, but because he would probably have...
  8. Would a victorious Nazi Germany go ahead with Generalplan Ost?

    If you look around a good library, or law library, you should be able to find at least some of the testimony/exhibits from Nuremberg. There are a number of excellent works out there on the Camps (often they tend to be a little propaganda heavy, but the central points are generally backed up by...
  9. Would a victorious Nazi Germany go ahead with Generalplan Ost?

    Lidice, CZ. Folks sometimes forget that the Nazis did things that were beyond words.
  10. Would a victorious Nazi Germany go ahead with Generalplan Ost?

    Not as much as actually fighting the war would be. There is this rather interesting belief that controlling large numbers of people is difficult. It isn't, not if you literally don't care when they die (they are already condemned, only question is when they physically cease to exist, so it it...
  11. WI: US-China Cold War

    Let me make this formal. Bumping is seriously frowned upon here. Double bumping = Trolling Thread locked.
  12. Peace Treaties in an Anglo-American War

    A lot depends on the date. 1910 or later the British undoubtedly will want the Panama Canal leases transferred, along with Hawaii and the Philippines, possibly Alaska. The U.S will want British Columbia and Yukon Territory (connects the lower 48 to Alaska), possibly Alberta, Manitoba, and...
  13. How much damage would Seoul suffer in a war with North Korea?

    The PRC is likely to do what it actually wanted to do before the intervention in the Korean War. Set up a 100-150km deep "North Korea" puppet state that would give them a buffer between the West and the PRC that would also allow them to control efforts at illegal immigration, forcing those who...
  14. How much damage would Seoul suffer in a war with North Korea?

    Absolutely. It is the CW version of a neutron bomb.
  15. Map Thread XV

    This is either the oddest map I've ever seen or it is wildly off-topic, political in nature, and has no business being in this thread. Keep your political debates for Chat.
  16. How much damage would Seoul suffer in a war with North Korea?

    CW agents are actually terrific for covering large areas. They readily spread over a wide area with a small bursting charge. The shells can be VT fused ensuring that the ideal dispersal altitude is reached. The agents are heavier than air and will naturally seek out shelters. Vx is shockingly...
  17. How much damage would Seoul suffer in a war with North Korea?

    There is a difference between "able" and "would", one that is critical in this scenario. The U.S. is "able" to render North Korea an uninhabitable wasteland where the dominant form of life would be cockroaches for half a century. This would require jacketing/salting around 150 Warheads with...
  18. Aruba refinery successfully attacked in 1942?

    How many direct targets do you see in the top photo? How many of them are more than 25 feet wide (a deck gun isn't a rifle, isn't even a 37mm, where you have tracers and can "walk" your fire to the target)? How many storage tanks do your see in the top photo? I see some worksheds and some...
  19. Aruba refinery successfully attacked in 1942?

    It is worth considering that NONE of these pictures was taken from 800 yards off-shore and 7 feet over the wave tops. Again, I realize that I am wasting my time here since this isn't meant to be a discussion but a validation of a preconceived notion. In any case...
  20. Aruba refinery successfully attacked in 1942?

    I really do need to learn not to respond to these threads. The tanks at a civilian refinery/storage facility are not separated because they are expected to survive a few 10.5 cm shells. They are separated so Mr. Murphy can't wipe out the facility. Lightning, hurricanes, and idiots are a vastly...
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