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  1. Death of Stalin in Fall 1945

    An interesting POD might be that Stalin dies in Fall 1945, leading to Beria-Malenkov-Molotov running the show with Khrushchev-Zhdanov-Bulganin-Voznesensky-Mikoyan as very important players. The Nature of Stalin’s Dictatorship: the Politburo has a good listing of who was spending the most time in...

  2. Antwerp to a Successful Market Garden

    In the dissertation Fighting Spirit Kampfgruppe Chill and the German recovery in the West between 4 September and 9 November 1944, a case study, Jack Didden argues (With evidence) that the British missed an opportunity by not lunging north of Antwerp on September 5, 1944. They had the fuel...

  3. Decisive Victory Lodz 1914

    IOTL, Germany won a victory at the Battle of Lodz in November 1914 which fell short of its decisive potential. While the Russian offensive against Silesia was permanently put on hold and Russian forces in Central Poland went on the defensive, the Russian 2nd and 5th Armies escaped destruction...

  4. Nazi-Sponsored Coup in Afghanistan, 1941

    I was reading some of the lit on Anglo-Soviet and Nazi intelligence/diplomacy in Afghanistan during the 30s and 40s. For Nazi Germany, Afghanistan (Along with Iran, Iraq, and Turkey) played a significant part in its strategic vision of a land corridor by which the German Army could attack Soviet...

  5. More Successful Italian Campaign

    Was thinking on some opportunities the Allies had to hurry up the timetable on the Italian Campaign and hop into the Balkans sooner - potential PODs, etc. Once idea is having the Germans withdraw completely to the Apennines in Fall 1943, as Rommel proposed IOTL. Here's a sequence of events which...

  6. Fuhrer Goering, Roosevelt, and the Atlantic Crisis: German-American War in May 1941

    In March 1941, the United States passed the Lend Lease Act. In April, it moved the line of its "Neutrality Zone" substantially to the East and began convoying shipping to the UK/Canada in the Western Atlantic. It also provided intelligence on all German movement within its zone. These decisions...

  7. Fuhrer Goering and Spain

    An interesting aspect of the oft-discussed scenario of Goering assuming leadership of Nazi Germany after Hitler's death in Summer 1940 (Let's say July) is his relationship with Spain. To put it bluntly, Goering hated Franco's guts. Spain's resistance to German economic penetration after the end...

  8. Germany goes East in 1914 - French Munitions Production?

    IOTL, Germany's offensive crippled French iron/steel production for the entire war, resulting in drastically lower munitions production from 1914-1916, with disastrous consequences for France's manpower and ability to go on the offensive and apply tactical lessons. In 1914 France produced 4.69...

  9. WI: No Molotov-Ribbentrop

    I think the recent historiography of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact has established that while the USSR was negotiating in bad faith - it had less than friendly intentions toward Poland and the Baltics and intended to convince the UK/France to countenance its schemes in exchange for military...

  10. Separate Entente-Ottoman Peace 1916

    I've been reading Shattering Empires: Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908–1918 by Michael Reynolds, and he notes that if Russia had been willing to press its allies to accept a separate peace with the Ottomans as proposed by Chief of Staff Alekseyev (Rather than remaining...

  11. The Socialist Fatherland is in Danger: WI no Brest-Litovsk Treaty

    So IOTL, Lenin was able to unify various Bolshevik leaders against the two anti-peace positions - Trotsky's "no war, no peace" and Bukharin's "revolutionary war". In this case, let's say Lenin has a stroke and is incapacitated in January 1918. As a result, the Bolsheviks end up narrowly...

  12. Lenin dies on the Eve of October

    So on the eve of the October Revolution, Lenin decided to leave his hideout to go to the Smolny Institute to convince the Central Committee to launch a full on insurrection against the government (Up until that point Trotsky was set on keeping his actions defensive). On the way there, he got...

  13. WI: Better Russian Plans in East Prussia, 1914

    So IOTL 1914 the Russian Army's invasion of East Prussia was a mess. One of the biggest problems was that the Russians shifted their main point of effort from the Gumbinnen direction to the more austere Allenstein (Tannenberg) direction, meaning that when the German 8th Army rushed headfirst...

  14. WI: Northern France not Occupied in WWI

    Alright, so let's say that at the Battle of the Aisne in September 1914 the German corps which arrived to fill up the gap between 1st and 2nd Army (XV and VII Reserve) and 1st Army's right flank (IX Reserve) are delayed by a few days achieving their various other tasks. As a result, the BEF and...

  15. WI: Russia holds on in 1917

    Historically, the Russian Empire’s war effort was struck a death blow by the February Revolution. The collapse of the home front reverberated through the army and made further offensives impossible. So let’s say that things go a bit differently in 1917. A small barracks mutiny occurs in mid...

  16. Normandy 1943

    Always enjoyed these threads and I think its been a while since the topic was last discussed, so let's run through the number again. So the setup is that at the Second Washington Conference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Washington_Conference) the US and British decide on a modified...

  17. Alternate Allied Strategic Bombing Effects 43-44

    The Allied bombing campaign from 43-mid 44 was hit and miss in terms of successes, particularly in 1943. Major successes such as the Ruhr campaign were often not repeated, and failed strategies like the fall-winter 43-44 bombing of Berlin went on far longer than necessary. Other strategies that...

  18. Plausibility Check: Western Allied Victory via Air Power

    Assuming the USSR is defeated by 1943, or at least reduced to a state whereby it no longer is a significant drain on German forces, would the Western Allies be able to destroy Germany's transport system, defeat the Luftwaffe, and cripple/severely damage fuel production solely with air power...

  19. WI: Earlier End to Iran-Iraq War

    Iraq entered its war with Iran unprepared for serious resistance, expecting the new Islamic Republic to rapidly disintegrate and giving Saddam control of Khuzestan province. However, the Iraqi Army was delayed and then halted by even weak Iranian resistance, and its air force was dominated by...

  20. Allied Landing in France 1943

    An often asked question, but it's interesting enough for continued discussion; could the Allies have landed in France in 1943, and what would have been the results ofthis? I believe based off of German weakness that the Allies could win a victory with reasonable losses compared to OTL, but...
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