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  1. Nazis win, who succeeds Hitler?

    When you start looking at the power play aspect, assuming they are still around, it comes down to Himmler and Goring. Both have what are effectively their own private armies in the Waffen SS and the Luftwaffe Panzer Corps, along with the 7th Flieger Division. The Waffen SS is vastly stronger on...
  2. Nazis win, who succeeds Hitler?

    In this scenario it would almost certainly be Goring. The only way you manage both of the requirements is with total air superiority. That mean's Goring's Luftwaffe kicked ass and took names (also, to be clear, impossible).
  3. Quality of life in the Greater Germanic Reich?

    Imprison? The whole country was a prison. There was secret policeman/paid informer for every 166 residents of the Country (as a comparative the Gestapo had one for every 2,000 and the KGB one for every 5,800). When the Wall fell, a mob attacked Stasi HQ. The burned ONE BILLION documents from...
  4. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    It is getting there. Whether it will ever actually succeed completely is an open question. Stettin pretty much killed the reunification movement for the immediate future. The only real question is how long the A4 will stand in the way. Much like OTL's Japan, the majority of the residents of...
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Metric is slowing moving forward, but it still is not to the default level. Most Americans would stare at you if you asked for a Liter of something (or call an ambulance thinking you needed a litter).
  6. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Up until the early ATL 1990s the movies about the war tended to be, if not affirming of the power of the Light, really tilted toward justifying the Wallies. The War was less popular as a subject than IOTL, with silly throwaway comedies, musicals, and the inevitible Westerns coming out of...
  7. Quality of life in the Greater Germanic Reich?

    You could LITERALLY trade a used pair of Levi's for a car. Granted, unlike the excellent cars built in the BDR, those manufactured in the DDR were beyond crap, but that is about as eloquent of a statement as exists. The German government invested DM 50,000 per person between 1990 and 1995...
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    No really, although you don't see many 9mm in the U.S. In the U.S. versions of the M1911 are still popular (mostly because the U.S. military literally gave away a couple million of them to law enforcement and the damned things last forever) as is the Thompson or the M2 carbine for when things...
  9. Quality of life in the Greater Germanic Reich?

    They did and the didn't. The reality was that the Reich was so damned inefficient and riddled with corruption from Goring on down that maintaining any sort of "middle class" lifestyle for the people of the "Inner Reich" required that the Occupied countries be bled dry to support the Reich's...
  10. Quality of life in the Greater Germanic Reich?

    For Aryans it will be good, at least until the Nazis manage to crater the economy with their greed and lack of common sense. In the Western Occupied zones things will be anywhere from tough to "the cow dies and we have sell one of the children so we don't starve" bad. In the East, the plan was...
  11. Could Germany defeat the Soviet Union one on one?

    The difficulty here is that one of the most critical elements was handwaved. WHY did the British leave the war? What were the terms? This decides thing like Lend Lease, how much of the Heer has to remain in the West, how many U-boats have to be produced, etc. The equation is incomplete.
  12. Other cases of massive diaspora immigration (back) to the "homeland"?

    A Bump after 40 minutes? The mind reels. NEVER bump threads.
  13. Why were WWII Japanese Army losses so disproportionate?

    The critical thing to keep in mind, in both theaters, but especially in the Pacific, is that overwhelming majority of casualties were taken in the last year of the war. Total USMC fatal casualties (including MIA/presumed KIA, and DoW) were 19,277. Losses on Peleliu (1,252), Iwo Jima (5,885), and...
  14. Battleships in Rivers

    The Soviets used several old Dreds (as well as lighter vessels) in support of various locations, with Leningrad and Sevastopol the most well known.
  15. Battleships in Rivers

    Easiest way to figure this out is to look at ports inland that are located on rivers. As an example the Port of Stockton (~70 miles inland on the San Joaquin River) has NO width restrictions, can handle seagoing vessels that draw 35' and are up to 900 feet in length with 60,000 ton d.w. That...
  16. WI: Afrikakorps reaches the Suez Canal

    God will have clearly pointed his finger at the Reich and the world is doomed. It would have required divine intervention for Rommel to get to Suez.
  17. Why were WWII Japanese Army losses so disproportionate?

    Which would be easily double the Reich's maximum.
  18. Why were WWII Japanese Army losses so disproportionate?

    Not at all sure I can agree here. Even in combat there are rules. Those rules are recognized by every civilized nation, and U.S. troops are specifically instructed on them (currently war crimes are covered under Article 134 of the UCMJ, along with specific elements of Articles 80-132 of the...
  19. Why were WWII Japanese Army losses so disproportionate?

    The population of the Philippines was ~16 million in 1941.
  20. The global reaction to Trump

    Even think about pulling current politics into post 1900 again and you'll be on the beach.
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