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  1. WI: Nazis Win the War - How Long Does the Holocaust Actually Last?

    I am unaware of any quotes either way from the Western military. Once the offensive began and the front line Soviet formations (primarily NKVD Border Guards, followed by Red Army formation a couple days later) started to crumple then various Western officials started sounding the death knell...
  2. WI: Nazis Win the War - How Long Does the Holocaust Actually Last?

    The WAllied observers assumed that the Red Army was going to collapse after the start of Barbarossa, not before. Even the Heer General Staff was less than enthusiastic about the invasion. Hitler gave them the "one good kick" speech and they fell into line. Now if you asked any military...
  3. WI: Nazis Win the War - How Long Does the Holocaust Actually Last?

    I crossed swords with Ian on more than one occasion, still do, although he tends not to post as much as he once did. Not only did he not Ban me, he asked me to become a Mod.
  4. WI: Nazis Win the War - How Long Does the Holocaust Actually Last?

    If we Banned folks for disagreeing this wold be one lonely place. :D The Cold War was exactly that, Cold. The Soviets believed, truly believed that they would win by playing the long game. They built massive military capabilities, in part because they knew that it might be necessary to give...
  5. France Better Prepared for WW2?

    This sort of proceeds from a false assumption, namely that the French were not prepared for WW II. The French had spent ungodly sums of money and effort in preparation for WW II. Had you asked them, on August 31st, 1939, if they were ready, the answer would have been "mainly, but we need...
  6. WI: No Coup Against Allende In Chile

    Okay, just to be clear... You are supporting Pinochet's reign, with full knowledge of said reign? Is that correct?
  7. WI: Nazis Win the War - How Long Does the Holocaust Actually Last?

    The camps themselves, except for those that had useful manufacturing facilities attached, would likely have been wound down by 1950. After that it would be extermination through labor, with real trouble-makers sent to the lower number of camps still in place. The Nazi planning was so...
  8. WI: Nazis Win the War - How Long Does the Holocaust Actually Last?

    This is so far from the truth that it has left the planet entirely. General Plan East called for the EXTERMINATION of 85% of the Polish people (or transportation, which amounts to the same thing), 75% of Belorussians, 50% of Czechs, 60% of Russians, 65% of Ukrainians, etc. They put it in...
  9. Can you move a thread to a different forum ?

    asked and answered.
  10. Israel Joins Both of the Gulf Wars

    Utter disaster, especially in 1991. What was actually a very broad based effort turns into the Crusaders defiling Muslim lands. The Saudis couldn't afford to toss the Coalition out, Saddam would have been in Medina in a week, and not as a Pilgrim, but the government would likely have fallen...
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thank you for the kind words.
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    You need to check with Meadow on this. The business part isn't my asteroid. I have heard that there is a possibility of a chance that it might happen, but that's all.
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Hollywood is very much alive. Bollywood is more mainstream in the U.S., but the major studios in the U.S. are still the big guys in the schoolyard. Anime, as we know it IOTL, didn't happen. Most of Japan spent two decades after the war putting itself back together with much less U.S...
  14. Falklands war goes poorly for UK. Do they use nukes? What's the internatl response?

    For all the public knows, the British might very well HAVE moved the patrol SSBN into the South Atlantic. Literally no way to know. The only reason the presence of the RN SSN force is known is that one provided a flaming data point. As far as following orders, that is what Naval Officers do...
  15. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The concern over contamination from Europe is very real, or at least was into the early 1970s ATL. There is immigration, but, as noted, the real influx was from the U.S., Canada, and especially Australia. The Islands are very close to the U.S., even more so than IOTL (in no small part due to the...
  16. WI: Jimmy Carter & George HW Bush died on the same day?

    It is unlikely the funerals would occur on the same day.
  17. Falklands war goes poorly for UK. Do they use nukes? What's the internatl response?

    Royal Navy SSBN are equal to the USN's in terms of stealth. They are holes in the water. Undetectable. Soviet boats were generally less stealthy, something the Soviets made up for with some interesting tactical choices, but even detecting them requires exceptionally advanced signal processing...
  18. Falklands war goes poorly for UK. Do they use nukes? What's the internatl response?

    The Junta calculated that the UK lacked the capability to react and if it did react it would be in a less than comprehensive manner. They miscalculated, but mainly in the degree that the"gringo woman" would go to defend the prestige of the UK (because, let's face it, that was the real issue on...
  19. Falklands war goes poorly for UK. Do they use nukes? What's the internatl response?

    I can think of exactly one scenario where the UK would use a Special Weapon. It would require Argentina to use one first, or use a biological weapon against the British mainland. Since the Argentinians lacked both nuclear capability and, as far is is known (or has even been rumored) a...
  20. whst would the status of English be in the EU if Britain hadn't joined?

    Almost certainly unchanged. The U.S. is still the largest economy, has (in many cases unfortunately) the highest profile in mass media and entertainment, and the UK, in or out of the EU is far too vast a market to ignore. English is so common that it is almost inescapable.
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