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  1. Es Geloybte Aretz Continuation Thread

    There is that. Also, I'm not sure because I just don't know enough about the internal politics of the colonies to extrapolate what would be plausible. I assume that all colonial powers will work with the idea that more urban, literate and industrial societies are sooner decolonised while they...

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    Declinism is very much a thing in Britain after about 1950, but it is a relative decline, not an absolute one. However, the crippling sense of loss comes about not so much in the naval sphere as with the army. There are many countries witzh powerful navies, but none that can rival Britain's. Not...

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    It really depends a lot on the career path that is intended. Of course, reading proficiency in five languages is not at all uncommon today in academics. I have four, five if you count Plattdeutsch. It's a matter of priorities. Realistically, though, teaching five languages at high level will...

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    Any unhappy Boer will be welcome in Südwest certainly. The place is short of settlers and not repaying the economic expectations Berlin had for it. Local German settlers like the Boers and resent the British. I am not sure how many of them there will be, though. It's not a great prospect out...

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    THat is the question I was pondering. All of these are part of the US colonial empire, but how does this develop ITTL? I could imagine a strongly inclusive idea - following the French, and thus a perceived "Republican" model - that extends statehood, but equally, a lack of interest in the...

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    Well, the ones I have decided on are: The continued existence of an Ottoman Empire covering Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and part of the Arabian peninsula The continued existence of Austria-Hungary covering IOTL Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and...

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    It has been reduced a little, mostly by a kind of Brownian motion (Germanophone outsiders can find Jobs in Alsace-Lorraine, Francophone Alsatians can find jobs in France). But there is still a significant French-speaking minority. And I don't see the German speaking locals bearing them ill will...

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    A Panama analogue makes sense. Certainly formalising this could be part of the concessions required for greater Egyptian independence.

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    Huge question. In brief, it changes almost everything compared to IOTL West German culture. Germany ITTL has the kind of unbroken national identity that Britain or France do, and the military is central to the nation. Veterans are respected, though the status is not exceptional since, with...

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    I suspect outright colonial dominance would only work in a few smaller territories. Britain will still be a power with global reach, but it cannot dominate its empire to the same degree when India alone can outproduce the motherland in almost any kind of industrial output. I can certainly see...

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    Ethnic nationalism. Basically, nobody likes to be a colonial subject.

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    I have had to leave it vague for want of time, but I expect with the ideology of national self-determination strong and Socialism still a powerful political presence, colonialism is doomed eventually. It will take longer, and depending on the situation and country, it can go fairly smoothly or...

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    I had the idea of a partition, with France retaining some territory on the coast. With all the attendant horrors of such things, because colonial warfare is horrific anyway, and here it's very much a matter of national pride. When IOTL we speak with horror of the "Berlin Wall" as the image of...

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    Indonesia also is a Dutch colony, whicvh means the Ottomans were never very engaged in its struggles. It was not politically opportune. I have kleft decolonisation vbaguze because I haven't had the time to do any reading (I'm actually writing a book alongside a day job and can't really do...

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    It does apply in relative terms - nowehere is as secularised as IOTL - but I think Germany is actually on track for massive secularisation for reasons that are bound up with its structure and historical experience. You make an interesting point with East Germany, but I would caution against...

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    Some will, but the relationship can be complicated. The Ottoman Empire plays a significant role in decolonisation which translates into a degree of influence with many newly independent countries, both Muslim and not. At the same time, there are faultlines within the Muslim world that they have...

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    I expect there will be a growing Zionist presence in the Levant, but never large enough to form a breakaway state or expel local populations wholesale. They remain a grouzp among several, technically subsumed with the established Jewish community, though in fact dominating it and playing an...

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    That is part of it. The atomic bomb provided Germany with a security that nothing else could, and it led to a meaningful era of relative peace. Another part of it is that the story of its development doesn't really lend itself to being told as a hero narrative. There is no one person who...

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    I assumed (lazily) that the fortunes of the Habsburg dynasty remain unchanged until about 1900, so the Mayerling suicide and the death of Sissi remain canon. There is no good reason for this, it just saved me work. The name remains unchanged, but the effort to reform things at the internal...

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    In many places, yes. No Cold war means no Communist panic, less brutal treatment of the rural poor. It's still not nice to be a villager in Guatemala, Peru, or El Salvador, but you don't have the same level of massive violence.
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