world war 2

Specifically, what if the only managed to arrive to the outskirts/limits of cities such as Rivne, Vilnius, Minsk, Odessa and others but never conquer them but don't manage to "go beyond them" and take the same territory they managed to do so in our world ? What would be the consequences with the...

What if there was German government-in-exile during World War 2 that aided the allies? Say Hitler cracks down harder on the German royal houses than in OTL, and one of them flees the country. This happens in 1939-1940. A lot of Germans who fled in the interwar years join the Free German army...

Your challenge is to have as many possible world wars, with a soft 1900 POD though shortly before would be acceptable too... Just how many earth shattering conflicts can you concoct? Is the world more or less developed by the end of it all, or are we currently in a new stone age? Looking...

French Ministry of the Navy, Hotel de la Marine, May 5th, 1929 It is a mildly hot day as French Minister of the Navy Georges Leygues stares at the pile of papers before his desk. The reorganization of the French naval force is in full swing, and there is still much to be done. Indeed, a...

I am planning on uploading a story that continues after the end of the SS-GB show. It would focus on Archer’s efforts to further undermine German occupation of Britain as well as international developments. Will explain more soon, but I have ideas regarding the situation of British Jews, the...

I read once that, had the Enola Gay crash landed, there was a chance that the atomic payload could detonate in the explosion. This is not true of Fat Man or subsequently developed nuclear warheads. Unfortunately I cannot track down where I read this information, but for the sake of ALT history...

What would be the consequence IF everything that can go wrong GOES wrong for the Germans and their allies in Operation Barbarossa and after? What if they CANNOT even reach cities like Vilnius, Minsk or Khmelnytskyi ?

Apologies if this has been discussed before but I am fascinated in what would have happened had Hitler sent his troops West in 1939 instead of against Poland. Would Germany have occupied France and the Low Countries? Would they have been stopped? How long would the war have lasted? I'm...

I was reading about the Nazi’s Operation Bernhard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard The Nazis basically planned to send the British economy into hyperinflation by printing British currency on mass and dropping it over British cities The Nazis weren’t able to complete this...

in 1936, Chiang Kai Shek was temporarily deposed as leader of the KMT in the Xi'an Incident before re-obtaining power and making an alliance with the CCP that would later prove fatal to him (at least, that's what I get from it from a basic once over). What if, in an alternate timeline, Shek died...

With a Point of Divergence after Pearl Harbor, your challenge is to ensure that the final surrender of an Axis power comes not from Japan, as it historically was in September 2nd 1945, but from Germany. This can be done by either extending the lifespan of the European Axis powers, or by ensuring...

I did consider putting this in the ASB section given Yamaguchi's determination to go down with Hiryū, the fact there are two elements to this scenario, the second requires two changes which is pushing it. Anyway, if necessary we can ask it to be moved but it's not completely out of the realms of...

Yesterday I discovered a video on The History Guy's channel on an incident that happened in New York Harbor on April 24, 1943. The S.S. Elestro was docked in the Jersey shore area or near it. The ship was being loaded with armaments for the European theater. Several tons of explosives were...

It's say, 1935 or 1936, and someone at the top of the British defense establishment realized that if Britain were to fight Japan in the Pacific, Italy in the Mediterranean, or the United States anywhere, the FAA would probably need a modern single seat, single engine fighter. If you're a...

I don't know if this is the right place. But I swear I wouldn't be doing this if I weren't desperate. I'm looking for a WWII documentary I saw long ago but since lost to time. Somehow, I think the title was something similar to 'WWII in Numbers' ( it is NOT the 2019 generic doc ), but it is...

 Prelude This is probably just going to a be one-and-done, though I hope you enjoy! I always found it strange that despite the Nazi's championing female fertility and large, traditional families, Hitler only got married on his deathbed and never had any children (despite pretty much every other...

Lithuania Marches On Chapter 1 - Lithuanian Independence Operation Barbarossa. Its Sunday of 22 June 1941, 3 million soldiers at the foot of the motherland. One of the Hitler's goals was to reach Leningrad, however the Baltic nations (under Soviet control) stood in the way. As Army Group North...

Erich von Manstein after the defeat at Kursk and seeing how the initiative has completely passed to the Soviets, decides that now is a great time to switch sides, so he takes a truck and drive it straight to Soviet lines with a white flag attached on top, as he gets into contact with Soviet...

Hello there, In Line of Wing's work on FFO (may he be praised), which cannot of course pretend to translate everything, I have thought it would be interesting to add a few addentum, annexs and personnals files of all the authors. The thread will be alimented ... when I got time. Still, I hope...

Today, I read that a German victory in WW1 by a succesfull Westfeldzug in 1914 or a East First strategy could result in a situation like the Napoleonic Wars, where Britain every time built new coalitions against France (ITTL Germany). Is this plausible?