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  1. WI German army support and advise to the Ottomans in WW1 is not such an uncoordinated mess?

    German support for the Ottomans in WW1 was a bit unfocused to say the least. Just for the army there were 3.5 competing power centres among German military advisers simultaneously. First there was the German component of the Turkish general staff, namely Enver Pasha's deputy Bronsart von...

  2. Hanseatic America

    So over in this thread I mentioned a concept for a TL I never really developed very far (like a lot of other ideas). @Ursogulos had valid questions to my basic description over there, but I did not want to derail that thread. I also thought it more likely to start a debate in its own. I don´t...

  3. WI the RAF kills Wilhelm II. in early June 1918?

    The Entente learned during the German spring offensive that the German emperor had taken quarters at castle Trenon. Hoping to break the German morale it was decided to make an attempt to kill him. On June 2nd several RAF bombers attacked and did some damage despite not destroying the castle and...

  4. WI USS Indiana fires on SMS Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia?

    During the Spanish-American War the Austria-Hungarian Armoured Cruiser SMS Kaiserin und Königin Maria Theresia was dispatched to evacuate AH and German citizens from Cuba. On its first attempt to make contact with American forces to get clearance to enter Santiago a US naval auxiliary informed...

  5. Consequences of a more active naval theatre in 1870/71

    After watching the recent Drachinifel video on the topic: The naval side was pretty much a sideshow of the Franco-Prussian war and the only real engagement happened outside Havana of all places. The North German navy did a decent job all things considered and achieved its strategic goals (helped...

  6. WI Reinhard Scheer, Reichspräsident

    Just found it claimed when looking for something else - German wikipedia also mentions it, also without source: Apparently Hindenburg planned to build up the "victor of Jutland" as his successor shortly before Scheer died suddenly in 1928. He had been in talks about running for president with...

  7. WI Adolf Kantner is exposed as Stasi spy during the Flick affair

    In the 1980s a string of "donations" by lobbyists for Friedrich Flick - a major German industrialist - to all major German parties was exposed. Ultimately the poilitcal impact remained limited and only a few people were convicted for tax evasion as it could not be proven that the donations had...

  8. AHC/WI: Raumpatrouille Orion runs longer

    So inspired by the news that one of my all-time favourite sci-fi series seems to get a reboot, I once again have to wonder. How do we get more Orion? And what would be the effects of a longer run?

  9. Frederick the Great marries Amelia of Great Britain

    So I finally managed to get my fathers copy of Clarks Iron Kingdom and atm read it. He mentions that there was a plan to marry Frederick the Great (then the crown prince) to Amelia of Great Britain, the second daughter of Georg II. According to Clark Frederick became a strong supporter of the...

  10. WI the Brandenburg naval squardron meets the treasure fleet in 1681

    In 1680/81 Brandenburg tried to get owed subsidies from Spain by privateering with limited success. In 1681 of St. Vincent the Brandenburg commander mistook a force of 12 Spanish galleons and 3 smaller ships for the treasure fleet they were waiting for. In fact it was a fleet hunting the...

  11. AHC: German Youth Movement has a visible international impact

    I went through some old notes today and found the stuff I used to explain in my scouting group about the history of scouting in Germany, which is rather different from the international one. When scouting was invented it quickly spread to Germany and even got official support, but at the...

  12. WI Wilhelm I. marries Elisa Radziwill?

    In the 1820s then heir presumptive Wilhelm of Prussia (the later German emperor) intended to marry his second cousin once removed Elisa. His father was initially in favour. But certain interests at court sabotaged it by pushing the position that her rank in nobility was insufficient for the heir...

  13. WI Wilhelm II. goes to Britain in 1940

    I just read that apparently Churchill offered the German emperor asylum in Britain when Germany invaded the Netherlands. He even offered a reception with all honours. Wilhelm declined because his health was not up to a flight. But WI he did go?

  14. WI Walther Wenck becomes Oberbefehlshaber der Bundeswehr

    Walther Wenck was initially chosen to become the first General Inspector of the Bundeswehr. In the end he declined, because his demands were not met: From what I know he leaned more to the traditionalist school, which wanted a closer orientation towards the older German armed forces. For example...

  15. 1920 - The fall of Warsaw

    I long have played with the idea to write a tl about this pod. And then LOTLOF came and used it. Since I guess we now can safely assume that his tl dead I decided to revive the idea. Especially in the beginning there will be some parallels, but only in some general ideas. One reason is simply...

  16. WI no dive-bombing focus in the Luftwaffe?

    I just looked into SunDeeps thread about the effect of a more widespread He 129 and started to wonder what happened if Udet missed the Curtiss Hawk demonstration and the Luftwaffe never adopts the dive-bombing concept (or at least it is sidelined). WI instead they focus on low flying planes for...

  17. WI the German airforce does not try to take the VTOL route in the 50s/60s

    In the late 50s the German Luftwaffe started to pour most of its development money into VTOL planes, which were to replace most of the conventional planes. There were some very interesting designs made by German firms like the Do 31 which was basically a jet-powered V-22 Osprey with superior...

  18. People who might have changed Weimar had they lived

    There are a number of people, who could have been influential in the Weimar Republic or even were, but died fairly young (relatively speaking). All the people below died in their mid-50s. Now I have been wondering what each of them could have achieved in the decade after their otl death and like...

  19. WI Germany rejects the treaty of Versailles

    I remember we had a thread to that end a few years back, but it went not very far. In other threads it was occasionally touched, but not specifically adressed. Thus I´d like to post this question again: Iotl the terms dictated in Versailles came as a great shock to the Germans, who entered the...

  20. AHC: Prussia visibly supports the Union in the ACW

    My last attempt of a tl came to a halt rather quickly. In the discussion and while researching I came to the conclusion that the basic idea still needs some fleshing out and that not everything I planned for the future would work. It was out of the ages I am familiar with and thus my perception...
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