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  1. AHC: "Lost Cause of the Third Reich"

    I am surprised by your interpretation. I don't want to "equate Dresden with Auschwitz". The wider Nuremberg trials covers a host of lesser/difference issues beyond the genocide of Auschwitz or the wider Holocaust, which I believe has no Allied or other Axis counterpart, nor do I want to make...

  2. AHC: "Lost Cause of the Third Reich"

    Best way to get to a "lost cause" is probably a much shorter ww2 and a quick German surrender. The scenario would be that a group of German generals sometime between 1941 and 1945 kill Hitler and take power. See that the war is impossible to win, they negotiate a surrender that is something...

  3. AHC: "Lost Cause of the Third Reich"

    Well, arguably the Nuremberg Trials were "unfair" in the sense that only Germans were under trial. Case of war crimes could also have been levied against the Western Allies (Arthur Harris, Dresden and all), much more plausibly against the Soviets and most definitely against the other Axis...

  4. AHC: Make a Divided Greenland

    which would make it more difficult, because it is then easier to sail back yourself.

  5. AHC: Make a Divided Greenland

    How so?

  6. AHC: Make a Divided Greenland

    Well, the Chagos were only a 1.000 people in the 1960s. The population of Greenland were some 20.000 around the ww2, so the impact would be bigger. Not Palestine-size bigger (estimates range from ½ to 1 million), but still.

  7. AHC: Make a Divided Greenland

    Well, this is the pre-1900 forum, so why not go way back to say the 14th century, and have the original Norse settlements survive. Inuit immigration into Greenland still happens and is concentrated in the North and East, whereas the Norse stay in the South and West. When nationalism hits in the...

  8. If Japan had a (secret) nuclear program...

    Of course Imperial Japan would have a nuclear program. An ATL-Japan that sits out ww2 would also have working nukes by the 1950s if not earlier. There is even a discredited story about OTL-Japan getting to the test-phase in 1945. But it gets harder for democratic Japan / post-occupation Japan...

  9. If Japan had a (secret) nuclear program...

    Given that the Japanese nuclear power construction started in 1954 with massive American assistance, it would be hard, as in borderline impossible, for Japan to keep this a secret from the USA. Also, how would this play with the Genshi-ryoku Kihon Hō (Atomic Energy Basic Law) from 1955, which...

  10. What if the USA from Southern Victory ISOTed to OTL 1950?

    It is a fair point. OTL the hatred between maoism, communism, social democracy and national socialism etc makes the split between Sunni and Shia Muslim seem like a friendly shuffle :) Still, there are other factors, e.g. the USA from SVerse seeing France and Britain as the traditional enemy...

  11. What if the Soviets took Denmark in World War II?

    yes, OTL Danish politics saw a number of new parties in 1973, but that is no reason a new party couldn't happen earlier in the 1930s. And yes, new political parties do require whomever they are gaining votes from to become less popular. But why is it impossible to imagine the Conservative...

  12. What if the Soviets took Denmark in World War II?

    Except Slovakia did have a couple of divisions of some 45.000 men on the Eastern front... Please, a party in a democracy coming out of seemingly nowhere and gaining some 10-12% of the votes due to a charismatic leader happens all the time. It hardly requires a PoD a full century before. The...

  13. What if the Soviets took Denmark in World War II?

    While I agree that a Nazi party gaining a plurality or majority before ww2 with a PoD in 1933 is very much impossible, then please note I am simply arguing for a party gaining 10-12% of the electorate. Obviously, a more savvy and charismatic leader than Fritz Clausen should be able to do that by...

  14. What if the Soviets took Denmark in World War II?

    I have thought about this scenario a bit. As noted by @Ajobek and others, you need a PoD a significant time before Yalta conference, so we are talking something like D-Day failing / being aborted in 1944 or Germany kicking WAllies out of Italy in 1943-44. Not impossible, but darn close to it...

  15. What if the USA from Southern Victory ISOTed to OTL 1950?

    I forgot about Alaska, but there you have your new flashpoint. In TL-191 it is an underdeveloped part of a Tsarist Russia, that won its civil war against a proto-USSR. Maybe some 80.000 Russians live here. TL-191 only goes up to 1945, so we can either assume that it remains as it is, or go with...

  16. What if the USA from Southern Victory ISOTed to OTL 1950?

    OTL Korean war from June 1950 is probably butterflied away. The Soviet Union will need time to evaluate what exactly it is facing in TL-191 USA. On one hand, this is US weakened by war and the ongoing occupation of the Southern states and Canada. OTOH, this is a USA that is much more militarized...

  17. WI: The Industrial Revolution occurs 3 centuries late

    I have never heard of a connection between slavery and industrialisation before, thought I have definetly encountered a US-centric view of history (e.g. where social settings in the US are believed to drive global change) before.

  18. The Death of Russia - TL

    I think that @Lalli was asking about referendums ITTL, not OTL :)

  19. Alternate Battle of Poland 1914

    And as discussed in other threads, then the potential for any alt-Russia government to fuck up as badly as the OTL Soviet Union is slim to negligible. (also, I said Kerensky-ish, not Kerensky, Helmuth48 - to whom this story belongs - wrote that a provisional government had taken over, no...

  20. Alternate Battle of Poland 1914

    Funny thing is that Russia will come out of this war much stronger than OTL due to no civil war and no communist dictatorship. However bad an instable Kerensky-ish government can be, it can't be bad on the 7-12m deaths level of the civil war not to mention the Holodomor-level genocides of...
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