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  1. Optimal Post-WWI Polish Borders Map Survey

    "There is no way to stop various parts of Poland being coveted by Germany and the USSR, no matter where the inter-war borders are drawn. That in 1945 there is a Poland inhabited by Polish people is all that matters." Yes, but only after a genocide and slaughter on ethnic minorities (for...

  2. Optimal Post-WWI Polish Borders Map Survey

    My suggested map:

  3. Map Thread IX

    What happened with Albania and Vietnam i.e. why is Vietnam a puppet of China and Albania is in the NATO-camp?

  4. AHC: Draw the Ideal Map of Post-WWI Europe

    That was after 1919. And it's from the point of view (1918/19) unlikely that something like this would happen in the German Reich. "(cf. "Famous pogroms include the Odessa pogroms, Warsaw pogrom (1881), Kishinev pogrom (1903), Kiev Pogrom (1905), Białystok pogrom (1906), Lwów pogrom (1918)...

  5. AHC: Draw the Ideal Map of Post-WWI Europe

    Probably, or why migrated a lot of Poles to the Ruhr Valley? The descendants of this polish migrants live there up to this day.By the way, there weren't killed by the Nazis. Germany has a history reputation to house ethic minority like Danes, Frisian, France, Sorbs and so on. And in...

  6. AHC: Draw the Ideal Map of Post-WWI Europe

    "It is a bit remarkable that we can talk about 'fair plebiscites' where it extends Germany or is supposed to whilst cheerily assigning Polish areas to the German state." It's in possible to accomplish a plebiscites in each region of germany! And Why should there something like this? We all...

  7. Pope Flees to North America

    France-Canada? (Maybe the pope as a citizen of the British empire ;D)

  8. WI Dutch was far closer to German?

    This map is outdated http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Germanic_Languages.PNG "Sometimes, Low Franconian is grouped together with Low German. However, since this grouping is not based on common linguistic innovations, but rather on the absence of the High German consonant...

  9. WI Dutch was far closer to German?

    By the way, let's Luther translate the Bible in Bremen (or maybe Emden) and perhaps what you get is bible that is mutal intelligible for all citizen of the northern part of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nations (that include all dutch (and dutch in the early modern English meaning;D )) and...

  10. WI Dutch was far closer to German?

    The lexical similarity similarity between High German and English is 60%! (But this figure is unweighted ie the number of basic germanic terms is much higer than the number of basic old-french words). That means lexical similarity between High German and Dutch is probably higher. (cf...

  11. WI Dutch was far closer to German?

    "50% word share with German". The percentage is probably much higher cos there are both West-Germanic languages and German dialects with in the NL and at the boarder are direct descendants of the old franc. (and in contrast to England, there were no 'Dane Law' and 'Norman conquest' either in NL...

  12. WI Dutch was far closer to German?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconian_languages "Sometimes, Low Franconian is grouped together with Low German rather confusingly as "Low German". However, since this grouping is not based on common linguistic innovations, but rather on the absence of the High German consonant shift and...

  13. WI Dutch was far closer to German?

    According to the table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages): Ingvaeonic:Primitive Saxon-->old saxon-->Low German -->Anglo-Frisian-->English or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Germanic_languages_(simplified).png but is simplified...

  14. Fate of German Jews without Hitler

    Götz Aly wrote in his new Book ("Warum die Deutschen? Warum die Juden?: Gleichheit, Neid und Rassenhass" - 1800 bis 1933-literary->"Why the Germans? Why the Jews?") that the German Antisemitism wasn't the result of anti-Judaism rather then the result of envy! According to his research Jews did...

  15. Neandertals Survive!

    Actually, The Neanderthal died out never. All Sapiens outside of sub-Saharan Africa are derived from Neanderthals i.d. approx. (max) 5% of our DNA is Neanderthal DNA. That means only the indigenous population of sub-Saharan Africa are pure Sapians...

  16. PC: British Heligoland Post-WW2

    "voluntarily given by Britain to Germany" Britain got Zanzibar for Heligoland. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heligoland%E2%80%93Zanzibar_Treaty)

  17. Who is the better ally for Nazi Germany? China or Japan?

    Nazi-Germany needed a medium-term ally! There were no thoughts about commercial interests! In 1949, The German economy would go bankrupt without war time economy and the only safe trade routes lead to Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. (+ Yugoslavia) There is no way to support China after 1939...

  18. Plausibility Check: No German Reunion

    "It is of course theoretically possible to have two German states with democratic governments, just like Germany and Austria today exist side by side. " That's not possible because each citizen of the GDR was formal citizen of the FRG.And two states of which the population of one state has...

  19. Plausibility Check: No German Reunion

    No, Because all citizen of Germany are German! And the Federal Republic of Germany did never recognize the GDR as sovereign country. "Gemäß ihrer Rechtsauffassung maß die Bundesrepublik Deutschland einer eigenständigen DDR-Staatsbürgerschaft nur eine begrenzte Bedeutung und Gültigkeit zu.[5]...

  20. "Alternate History, Nazi"s win the war" How Plausible?

    Without wartime economy, Nazi-Germany goes bankrupt! Hitler needed agricultural produces and commodities without war against the USSR, the fascists would spend a lot of money on raw materials and Stalin could rearm in the meantime.War against the USSR is unavoidable!
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