Making a democratic Germany isn't that hard, there are multiple opportunities for accelerating the democratisation of Germany that was occuring when the Great War halted it.That would be hard, it's harder to make a war between US and UK than making a democratic Germany (which is hard). Somehow UK must have become fascist, ans perhaps Canada left the commonwealth, UK answered with force, and US and Germany stepped in to save Canada, but even that is farfetched.
Making a democratic Germany isn't that hard, there are multiple opportunities for accelerating the democratisation of Germany that was occuring when the Great War halted it.
And, of course, Germany was democratic in 1921 in OTL.
Yes, in OTL, but it would not necessarily have become a dictatorship in the 30s. Even with a post-Great War POD that doesn't remove the Great Depression, it wasn't completely assured, only likely, and I was talking about a pre-Great War POD. Remember, accelerate the democratic development that was occuring. Yes, it was far from as long gone as in the UK, but it was likely that, without a Great War, or if the development had been quicker, parliamentarism would have become triumphant.Yup, but in a very unstable condition, would have become a dictatorship of some sort in the 30s anyway, and would not have been able to wage a war before that. Also I wouldn't call the pre WW1 Germany democratic, there were elctions yet, but it was the Kaiser who appointed the governmnet, and they only had to answer to the Kaiser.
Yes, in OTL, but it would not necessarily have become a dictatorship in the 30s. Even with a post-Great War POD that doesn't remove the Great Depression, it wasn't completely assured, only likely, and I was talking about a pre-Great War POD. Remember, accelerate the democratic development that was occuring. Yes, it was far from as long gone as in the UK, but it was likely that, without a Great War, or if the development had been quicker, parliamentarism would have become triumphant.
It did in Sweden during the Great War, and before that Sweden and Germany were pretty similar to eachother in their level of democracy.
No, it wasn't a parliamentary democracy when the war began: Statsministern was still appointed by the King, and it was still the King that choose the Prime Minister. It was the Borggårdskrisen, during the Great War, that changed that.Wasn't Sweden already a parliamentary democracy, though with voting reserved for property-owners? Isn't that a bit more democratic than Germany?
Didn't Turtledove actually do this..?![]()