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I have heard it both ways that the French Maginot line was either a complete success and a total failure. At the moment I am working on a book talking about its effect. I am arguing that it did everything it needed to do. The French just messed things up afterwards. What I am looking for is...

IOTL, Japan built (or converted) both auxiliary carriers and auxiliary cruisers. With skew to auxiliary cruisers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_auxiliary_cruiser_commerce_raiders After all, cruiser conversion was much cheaper compared to carrier conversion, and combat...

What if Molotov had somehow took over control of the USSR in the post war, how would he affect the soviet politics in the cold war? And considering that he lived until 1986, how far could his reign go in this tl? The PoD is up to you, but the USSR still need to take over half of europe at the...

J. Edgar Hoover is the man often credited for having built the FBI into the powerful national agency that it is today, but he's also widely remembered as having been power hungry, ruthless, and was even accused of trying to turn the FBI into his personal police force. President Harry Truman once...

I came with this Hitler who scenario (this is not a notzis cliché), the PoD is that Hitler doesn't get knocked out by that gas attack in late WWI Basically in this scenario Hitler turns into a italian kind fascist, adopting the 25 points of fascism and adding some of his own (he still is a anti...

At one point during the war the British apparently received reliable intelligence that Field Marshal Kesselring was setting up his headquarters in a hotel that was right on the coast in Sicily and planned an operation to insert two dozen commandos by submarine to try and kill him and any other...

In 1934 Engelbert Dolfuss was assassinated in Vienna by Austrian National-Socialists, what if he survives, and presumably survives any further assassination attempts by Nazis? I do not see him caving to Munich as his successor did. Would he prepare to fight a military conflict before giving into...

There were German plans to abduct the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for possible use after "Germany won the war". Even after the Windsors had gone to Portugal. What might have been happened if they had been 'abducted'?

I mentioned this a while back in the aesthetically pleasing AFV thread, but I've had this idea for a WWII period APC/IFV. Basically, you're looking at a 15 ton chassis (think BTR-80), 8x8, ~15-20 hp/ton, with a 37mm gun in a turret like the M8 Greyhound, armor proof against ~13mm ammunition...

Suppose that Mussolini has a stroke or is assassinated somewhere around 1939, before the Battle of France. Italo Balbo or someone else becomes duce, and commits to keeping Italy out of war, noticing the poor performance Italy had in WWI. What are the effects on a neutral Italy in WW2? Will the...

Always been fascinated with the German Side of the conflict since the war seemed to revolve around them. I get this is kind of a question with a lot nuances, so I'm just wondering what are some holes in this scenario. What if Hitler didn't lauch a summer offensive in 1943 (elastic defense -...

As Polish troops advance into the Ukraine during the 1920 Kiev offensive, they linked up with the remnants of the Czechslovak Legion, who after capturing the Tsar's Gold reserves in 1919 attempted to head for Vladivostok only to be caught in a battle near Omsk and sent fleeing in the opposite...

So, assuming Non expansionist Koreo-Japanese empire, instead of OTL Japanese Empire, as western Ally Stronger Nationalist China in the Axis Butterfly nets as needed outside the East How would China be divided if it lost WW2? And effects on the ensuing Cold War etc.

Czechoslovakia had a rather large prewar Fascist movement known as the National Fascist League, led by former Czechoslovakian Legion officer Radola Gajda. They were followers of a more Italian style Fascism. Let's assume that this Fascist Czechoslovakia is led by Gajda, let's also assume he...

In 1944 Getúlio Vargas, that was the president of Brazil at the time was invited to the yalta meeting to sit along with Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill, but he refused as it was a moment of political instability in Brazil (mostly because Brazil was transitioning from a dictatorship to a...

Interested but not knowledgeable enough. Through coup, revolution or otherwise, have one of the Scandinavian states (Sweden/Norway/Finland/Denmark, may include Baltic States if it's eaiser) become Fascist during the Interwar Era and survive WWII. Bonus points if it also survives the Cold War. If...

WI: NACA Modified P-38 fighter ------------------------------------------------------- Notice to Readers: This TL is still alive but only occasionally updated at this time (Summer 2019). Real life and the greatly expanded scope of detail required to continue advancing the TL at this point...

Well, since Twilight of the Red Tsar is a very well known scenario I don't think we need a description for it, you can read it here This thread question is: It is possible for Hitler to sink a victorious reich into the ground without a war scenario like in AANW and before his own death? In...

No, I'm not talking about the soviets taking over mainland europe after winning in Poland, I mean a PoD before the death of Lenin that still does not butterflies WWII (it might butterfly Stalin) and results in the soviets taking over mainland europe it is possible? Also the best east german...

I found this on a south korean channel, it is as you can see a axis victory scenario, I want to know your opinions on it