AHC:German invasion of France before Poland

pike

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Is its possible that Hitler may postpone the invasion of Poland in order to take out France or some other country first?

Id say Hitler should have taken out the French first because they were the greater threat than Poland.

Could Yugoslavia be taken out earlier during WW2 or at the start?
Could the pro Axis King have been thrown out before Germany starts to invade Poland. Giving the Axis a incentive.

Denmark invaded first?

How would an alternate start to WW2 change it course?
 
Right, so with less equipment and a less experienced force, he decides to take on a much larger and better equipped country. This is not going to go well for Adolf.
 
Is its possible that Hitler may postpone the invasion of Poland in order to take out France or some other country first?

Id say Hitler should have taken out the French first because they were the greater threat than Poland.

Could Yugoslavia be taken out earlier during WW2 or at the start?
Could the pro Axis King have been thrown out before Germany starts to invade Poland. Giving the Axis a incentive.

Denmark invaded first?

How would an alternate start to WW2 change it course?

Uhhhh. What? Poland was attacked, and France joined in after the Poles were attacked. It would be illogical to stop the attack in the East, move all the troops West, then attack the French while still having two fronts. Its better to finish the weaker (Poland) first, then to take on the French. I don't really see the point in attacking Denmark or Yugoslavia (especially straight away). At this point Yugoslavia was of no strategic significance to Germany or the Allies.
 

pike

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Hitler was not logical so i dont see why he would not start WW2 by attacking France.
 
Hitler was not logical so i don't see why he would not start WW2 by attacking France.

Hitler wasn't a drooling moron. A hateful monster who created the most disgusting ideology ever yes, and later in the war a coked up paranoid obsessed with his own ego. But he was smart enough in 1930 to listen to his generals and take stock of the strategic situation. His own plans from the start relied on invading Poland and defeating it in a rapid war.
 

pike

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So what you all saying is that there is no possible way for alternate start to WW2.

AH some time only in name some time more than others.
 
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Steady on.

It IS possible, but you'll need a POD somewhere to make attacking France first more attractive than Poland.
 
Germany goes down in flames shortly when the Allies realize how un-modernized relative to them the Wehrmacht actually is and by the summer of 1940 the Allies are marching in triumph down the Unter Den Linden.
 
Steady on.

It IS possible, but you'll need a POD somewhere to make attacking France first more attractive than Poland.

Got a possible two part pod.

Part 1 France dosn't return the land she occupied when Germany defaulted on her reparations.

Part 2 Early in the thirties France faces a successful communist revolution brought on by the depression.

1936 Under the pretext of restoring order Hitler orders the Army to regain all territories lost to France after WWI. In these circumstances Britain and the US are unlikely to intervene, and the USSR would be unable to. There's also a (slight) chance that Britain may join the Germans in the attack. The King would probably encourage Baldwin to act.
 
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