AHC: Czechoslovakia (with Sudetenland) becomes a junior ally of Germany btwn 1919-1945

raharris1973

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How do we have Czechslovakia take a pro-German foreign policy orientation in the interwar era? How can we have Germany regard the Sudeten Germans not as a tool for wrecking Czechoslovakia, but as a lobby to help steer united Czechoslovakia to be a military, diplomatic and economic partner to Germany?
 

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Not sure honestly given their alliance with France, economic competition with Germany (both were competing in the same markets and industries), there was the whole issue around the German minority in the Sudetenland, and the general problems they had had during WW1 with being dominated by Germans (Austrians), plus their historical pro-Russian views.
 
I suppose if German Austria was annexed by Germany then Czechoslovakia would have been formed without the Sudetenland. In such a reality than Germany would be this Czechoslovakias biggest neighbor and most likely its biggest trade partner. However actually getting that POD is difficult. Maybe if Wilson supported German nationalist aspirations but you would need a hell of a POD to get that.
 

raharris1973

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Maybe if we use David T's idea, and just substitute "Germany" for "Italy" in the quote below?

Let's handwave and posit a world where Bela Kun's Hungarian Republic of Councils survived and was connected with Soviet Russia by a Soviet Ukraine that included both Carpatho-Ruthenia and the extreme southeast of OTL interwar Poland. In such a world, with Soviet power extending almost to Vienna, Czechoslovakia might be much more anti-Communist than in OTL and the other members of the Little Entente might be even more worried about Communism than they were in OTL. So they would see any disagreements with Italy (concerning, say, the Italo-Yugoslav border) as less important than creating a solid anti-Communist bloc in central Europe including Fascist Italy...
 
How do we have Czechslovakia take a pro-German foreign policy orientation in the interwar era? How can we have Germany regard the Sudeten Germans not as a tool for wrecking Czechoslovakia, but as a lobby to help steer united Czechoslovakia to be a military, diplomatic and economic partner to Germany?

Maybe a surviving Weimar Germany could become an ally to Czechoslovakia. Both countries are democratic, have no territorial issues (almost nobody in Germany cared about Sudeten before the Nazis) and would profit from economic cooperation. Weimar Germany could use Czechoslovakia to peacefully gain more political and economical influence in Eastern Europe.
In such a timeline any alternate WWII would become highly unlikely.
 
I suppose if German Austria was annexed by Germany then Czechoslovakia would have been formed without the Sudetenland. In such a reality than Germany would be this Czechoslovakias biggest neighbor and most likely its biggest trade partner. However actually getting that POD is difficult. Maybe if Wilson supported German nationalist aspirations but you would need a hell of a POD to get that.
Germany was anyway largest Czechoslovak trading partner.
 
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