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  1. What would Asia look like under a victorious Japan's rule?

    Poor choice of wording I guess. The Reich did experiments of all kinds, most of them horrific, but they did them on camp inmates. The Japanese used live agent in the open, not just in lab conditions.
  2. Reagan gets his 600 ship navy

    The budget issue was, in large part, political. There was also some concern that the only way to get the DDG 51 in sufficient quantities was to put the Spruances on the bottom of the sea.
  3. What would Asia look like under a victorious Japan's rule?

    Actually they were. There were just much more inclusive. The thought everyone who was not Japanese was lesser. They plowed a furrow of Death through China and across all of Asia. There are researchers who estimate that, even when Japan was on the ropes in summer 1945 the IJA occupation was still...
  4. Reagan gets his 600 ship navy

    306 and dropping. The USN couldn't even absorb the cost of mothballing the Spruance class DDG when they were replaced by the DDG 51 class, despited the fact they had ALL been updated and were ready to go through 2019, even without another refit. They were all either broken up or expended in...
  5. Map Thread XIV

    A Great Country that still has chattel slavery? Really? In Virginia, of all places? Seriously?
  6. Reagan gets his 600 ship navy

    Realistically it makes no difference at all. IOTL the fleet wound up with 588 ships. The Navy didn't get quite what it wanted (there was a plan to replace the old mine hunter/minelayer fleet of 25 ships with a new class of 32 ships, and there a plan to construct 20 more Spruance to the original...
  7. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    Yep. The Nazis were willing, even eager to do things that the Romans, at their most repressive, would have rejected. This is, in part, because the Romans were far more practical, a live slave is a lot more useful than a dead one, but even Rome had a standard of behavior and the goal of...
  8. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    The brothel system (which tends to fall between the cracks when people talk about the Reich's evils, unlike the IJA Comfort Women) were not going to be dismantled simply because the War was over. The Waffen SS would have continued to use the same system as it gradually supplanted the Heer (which...
  9. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    It is when you get into the details when you just have to stop and watch cartoons for a couple hours before you can go back to the research. The plans for exactly how to achieve the population reductions, the kidnapping of toddlers, sex slavery, etc.
  10. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    The U.S. as an example is actually a mirror image for the Reich. During the vast expansion of "Manifest Destiny" millions of people emigrated TO the U.S. (depending on source somewhere in the area of 11 million from 1790 -1900). Considering the TOTAL U.S. population in 1900 was ~76 million...
  11. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    I go with the 11 million as shorthand for the main "industrialized" effort. Outside of that the figures get increasingly large, especially when you figure the 20+ million Soviet citizens who died as a direct result of the War. The thing about the Reich (which I really had hammered home doing...
  12. WI: United States Remains Completely Neutral In World War II?

    It isn't the President's job to keep the U.S. completely neutral. It is his RESPONSIBILITY to serve the People and protect the Constitution against ALL enemies, FOREIGN and domestic. Sometimes that means being an actual, Honest-to-God leader and moving the country in the right direction. FDR...
  13. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    Vastly worse, at least in the publish or perish sense. No problem. That is why I tend to use the 11 million figure unless the subject is specifically the Holocaust. Sometimes people try to justify the camps with some sort of "religious war" idea. That fails once you remind them that is wasn't...
  14. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    Absolutely. Homosexuals even got their own public identifier (the infamous Pink Triangle).
  15. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    11,000,000 ELEVEN MILLION That is the number of human being that the Reich killed in an organized, industrialized effort. No allowed to die due to negligence or because of changes in agricultural policies that were expected to improve production, even at the cost of some individuals...
  16. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    They could, but Hitler was a genuine admirer of Mussolini. In any Reich victory scenario the Soviets have to be off the table by the end of 1943 (unless there are additional POD before that time like the British signing a peace treaty). If you wait until the 1943 campaign season the Soviets...
  17. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    The Caucasus peoples were not Slavic. The Nazis saw Slavs as half a step above Jews and almost equally undeserving of life. With the exception of transplanted Russian and Ukrainian populations the rest of the region have Turkic, Greek, even Mongol, roots. They are not Aryan, so the are not equal...
  18. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    Two most likely possibilities are Turkey and the old Ottoman Empire. The other is to finish off Europe (Spain, Portugal, and the UK, which would, of course, draw in the U.S.) After those two scenarios are in place the next step would be into India or the non-Italian dominated portion of Africa...
  19. If the Nazis won would they have been able to accomplish Generalplan Ost?

    It has never really made sense to me either. There is some argument that it is based on the specifics of their dialect, which differs from the rest of Latvia and is similar to Lithuanian (a group that was marked for 85% reduction), but I have never seen anything definitive either way.
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