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  1. Ferreti

    The Morgenthau Plan is implemented: Effects on East Germany?

    No, the reason is that Stalin died and the East Germans revolted. Up until 1953 they were following Stalins plan to turn East Germany into one big labor camp for the Soviet Union. After the East German revolt of 1953 was crushed the Soviet leadership eased up reperation quotas and signed an...
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    Is a Late CP Victory Possible?

    Wade, Rex A.: The Russian Search for Peace. February-October 1917, Stanford 1969, pp. 51, 26-56. Rothwell, British War Aims 1971, pp. 96-100
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    Is a Late CP Victory Possible?

    T Without US intervention a lot changes. Kerensky wanted to sue for peace in 1917, accepting the German peace proposal. He only didn't do so under the threat of the UK and France ending all financial and economic support and with the promise of US forces arriving quickly. With the US not...
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    Could a Fascist Bloc with a major power patron achieve the same kind of longevity as the Communist States ?

    Franco and Salazar were in power until the 70s and their system fell because their patron superpower didn't like them. The hold of the KMT on Taiwan lasted until the 80s. It is not hard to imagine with a fascist superpower the block would live as long as the Warsaw Pact or even survive it.
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    The SPD and War Credits

    I mean, it was Russia that pushed for war. The full mobilization against Austria and the support of Serbia had no basis in any treaties, but was born out proto-fascist panslavist imperialism.
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    AHC: Stalemate for WWI, no defined victory.

    With no US entry into the war Russis drops out in 1917. Germany only gains Poland and parts of the Baltics but has more manpower freed up as well as a more organised trade partner. Without US forces entering Europe there won’t be a big forced spring offensive and no final sailing order for HSF...
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    Italian Libya in the Cold War

    One factor that I don’t see considered here is the upturn for the Italian industry from not being ravaged by war. Not only does that mean that Italy will be better off compared to France, but it also means that there will be half a million Italians who died in our timeline.
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    Is it possible to make a European power (that is not Germany or Russia) strong enough that it could rival the US?

    Sure, France would be a pretty good bet. If they had a bit more luck and were a bit more modest then the 20th Century could have gone far better for them.
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    AHC: make sure the “clean Wehrmacht” myth non-existent, and have the Wehrmacht have as bad as a post war reputation as the SS

    They had former NSDAP members as ministers until 1989 and even today the SED successor Die Linke has a former Nazi on their board of seniority. Herrmann Klenner became the chief lawmaker of the SED and their in 1984 delegate to the UN. The representative of Israel rightfully called out this...
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    WI: Post WW2 'Lost Cause' Narrative

    Yes, it was actually a series of exhibitions that are commonly just called 'Wehrmachtsausstellung'. The first one was from 1995 to 1999 and the second one was from 2001 to 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmachtsausstellung
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    WI: Post WW2 'Lost Cause' Narrative

    Nearly half of all German males over 30 had served in the Wehrmacht and the veterans had a very big lobby so the clean Wehrmacht was the official consense in society and state. Even the Waffen-SS had a rather big lobby with Helmut Schmidt (SPD) holding speeches at HIAG (association of former SS...
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    Why did Socialist Czechoslovakia's Economy perform worse than East Germany?

    Population density is often an indicator for industrial and economic development. As you can see in the following map, Saxony was a center for heavy industries.
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    Why did Socialist Czechoslovakia's Economy perform worse than East Germany?

    Uhm, I think you migth be victim to a misconception. East Germany wasn't a poor agrarian land. While Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg were mostly agrarian and rural the area that is now Thuringia and Saxony was extremly industrialized. Pre WWII Saxony was even one of themost...
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    More "German" Bundeswehr?

    This thread is full of so much bullshit. To answer OP: Just have the Bundeswehr take over the BGS equipment and structures and not just the troops. The BGS was for all intents and purposes a Reichswehr 2.0. But to have Germany design and manufacture its own tanks and jets already in the 50s...
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    German victory WW1 - How different from Nazi Germany would it actually be?

    One thing a lot of people forgett is, that Germany at this point in time wasn't the unified standardized country it was in the Weimar era and after. There wasn't a single German military or a single Geman governmental structure. The German military consisted of many armys from its member...
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    WI: German diplomats present at the Versailles Conference?

    Do they actually have a say in the negotiations? If they can get the Entente to drop the economic limitations and keep the Prussian corridor they could sell it as a true negotiated peace. Problem is, that after the conditions of the armistice were fulfilled, there was no chance that France...
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    The official ceremony for the last veteran of ww2

    I am going to bet on some German who got drafted into the Volkssturm or the Werwolf in 45 and fought some last ditch battle against the Soviets or Americans. I actually had the luck of meeting one such person in 2015. Guy was 16 years old and got drafted into a Luftwaffe Feldregiment in...
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    AHC: German Empire retains 1914 borders and becomes a full constitutional monarchy by 1950

    I would say both. African aristocrats were interestingly enough respected nearly as much as European aristocrats and a bit more than German commoners by the aristocracy. A good exampel is Prince Alexander Douala-Bell. He was a prince (later King) of the Douala people from modern day Kamerun...
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    Most irrational and counter intuitive decisions ever made

    Italy had just gained Libya, they wouldn't want more useless desert. Territory in Europe was more valuable and there was still massive antipathy against Austria. The Italian minority in Austria was also bigger than the one in France. Besides that Italy depended on British imports and wouldn't...
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    Most irrational and counter intuitive decisions ever made

    Not really. Bismarcks system of alliances was already a card house that was about to fall in when he was still in power. The Italians were never going to stick around in an alliance with the Austrians and not only wanted to gain south tyrole but held interests in the Balkan that were contrary...
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