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What if France would have gotten the coal-rich Saarland (and perhaps Landau as well, since it was a French city until 1815) after the end of World War I?

(For the record, this can be done by having Hughes rather than Wilson win the U.S. Presidency in 1916 and then support a harsher peace on Germany at Versailles in 1919.)

Indeed, my three main questions here are these:

1. Does this butterfly away World War II (due to a weaker Germany)?

2. If World War II still occurs in this TL, does this butterfly away the Fall of France?

3. If World War II still occurs in this TL and the Allies still win World War II in this TL, do the Saarlanders become fully assimilated Frenchmen after the end of World War II like the Alsatians did?

Anyway, any thoughts on all of this?
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