ww2

IOTL 400,000 japanese were removed from the Karafuto prefecture in Sakhalin after WW2. If for some reason, the war ends with the Soviets occupying Northern Japan in addition to Manchuria and North Korea, would they still relocate these people? Or would some of Sakhalin be included in a Soviet...

During invasion of Poland Hitler travelled to visit frontline, and as we know, frontline is not particulary safe place. On 5 September Hitler came to met von Kluge near Komierowo, on the same day planes of Polish 42nd Reconnaissance Escadrille dropped bombs 2 kilometers from führer's column. So...

Thought would update an old thread about this subject. Basically in an ATL where Scandinavism is successful and depending on whether Finland joins or remains independent (via some Nordic variation including Iceland), what role would it likely play in WW2 and how would it have acted any...

This isn't what you think, I'm thinking of an alternate Japan that doesn't go down the path to war with the West, but that's not my point. How would the demographics/economics of Hiroshima and Nagasaki be different without the atomic bombs? Nagasaki never really reached the importance it had...

Operation FS, the Japanese invasion of the South Pacific islands, will likely always be the most ambitious military campaign ever attempted. The plan demanded that thousands of Japanese soldiers be transported as far as 7500km away from their home bases, to capture several islands including one...

I’m going to start off this particular thread with a little bit of background and analysis, starting with an extract from ‘Why Sealion is Not an Option for Hitler to Win the War, by Alison Brooks.’ “If we turn our attention to point 3 for a while, the standard response is to say that the...

In a timeline where WW2 is avoided by the Nazis never coming to power, how would USSR be effected? Would the USSR last longer than OTL(1991) or dissolve faster without it? IOTL WW2 had a massive human cost on the USSR, 20 million people killed, severely damaging the demographic growth of the...

The Soviet occupation of Eastern Germany was brutal. Whatever the Nazis did to the Soviets during Operation Barbarossa, the Soviets copied during the occupation. So what I want to figure out is, how can we prevent this from happening? Is there a way to have the Allies occupy the whole of...

It is generally agreed that Vichy France was a puppet state of Germany but here is also little doubt that free France had a substantial dependence on Britain. Rarely in my experience are the Free French thought of as a British puppet state, though that was definitely the Axis view and especially...

I have a bit of a soft spot for the US M1 Carbine, and I wonder how could we see its M2 variant, the fully automatic one with 30rnd magazine, be adopted from the very beginning, instead of its semi-automatic cousin with 15 rnds magazine. Yes, it may seem a bit wasteful to have a fully automatic...

As in the Title, is there an iconic photo of the Union Jack in ww2 similar or equivalent to the flying of the red banner over the Reichstag or the raising of the stars & stripes at Iwo Jima

I was wondering was it possible for the US to design and produce Flak Jackets similar to those that saw use in Korean War, and issue them in sufficient quantities to its infantry during WW2? I am not exactly sure how well developed were the industries necessary for production of the materials...

WI if the policy was carried out by the most fanatical members of the SS? Basically everything is put to the torch, mines are flooded, factories are blown up, warehouses are destroyed and every bridge was blown. Basically there is little of economic value in Germany when the war ends. I doubt...

Good day. My name is Reinhard Heydrich and they call me the hangman of Prague or the devil. Maybe it's me or not. I Reinhard fight for my country and those who will not do it will regret it. * Cough * so let's start. I was born on March 7, 1904. My mother Elisabeth Krantz came from a wealthy...

What if Petain, in a Mussolini-esque move, declares war on the UK following operation catapult, believing that Britain is going to be invaded by Germany shortly anyway and that the new regime will have more legitimacy/prestige with the citizens if it has a one or two military victories under its...

What if Italy hadn't stayed neutral? POD is the German advance through the Ardennes catches the French by surprise, so the war doesn't "stall" like OTL, making Mussolini ready to join. Would North Africa have been a major front, or would it have gone the same as Germany's colonies in WW1? How...

How would modern history be shaped if the Soviets were the instigators of WW2? How much would history change if Fascism was the post WW2 boogeyman instead of communism?

How would Japan act differently in 1943 and onwards if either it's Ni-Go or F-Go programmes (seperation of uranium-235 by Thermal Diffusion by different teams) yielded results before their eventual surrender? Would they have the means for delivery? What nations/cities? How would this change the...

So let’s just say that some of the main scientists for the Manhattan Project die in a plane or car crash. Operation Downfall is launched, US casualties are over two times what they were IOTL, comfortably placing it above the American Civil War as the bloodiest war the US has ever fought. Truman...

OTL, after the German invasion of Poland, France briefly rushed the Rhine but nothing came of it and until Germany broke through Belgium, the war just... kinda wasn't happening. There were naval clashes, especially in the north sea due to Germany wanting scandinavian resources. This is because...