AHC: Germany keeps its interwar borders

The challenge: keep Germany out of a second European war, and keep its Versailles borders intact to the present day. No alterations - no anschluss with Austria, no revision of the border with Poland, no annexation of Danzig.

The reason I am posting this is because AH timelines that have no Hitler or no WW2 still always - invariably - have Germany annexing the Polish corridor, or Danzig, or Austria. People often make it seem ASB for Poland to retain the Polish Corridor.

So the challenge is to keep the pre-WW2 German borders. No changes.
 
Seems like either no WW2 or o.e where Germany was not the aggressor (would be fun if France was). Or maybe no Stalin after WW2, since he was going to make eastern Europe looked however he wanted it to look.
 

Sumeragi

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The reason I am posting this is because AH timelines that have no Hitler or no WW2 still always - invariably - have Germany annexing the Polish corridor, or Danzig, or Austria. People often make it seem ASB for Poland to retain the Polish Corridor.

That's because Germany at the time was a revanchist, irredentist society believing in the "stab in the back" theory. As long as Germany manages to gain strength, it will attempt to regain the old on the eastern side at least. Many had acknowledged that the western borders were not going to be regained without another massive war.


The two ways for your challenge is to be achieved is to either have a dictatorship so powerful it can crack down on such evanchist, irredentist feelings, or to have Germany be perpetually weak.
 
The two ways for your challenge is to be achieved is to either have a dictatorship so powerful it can crack down on such evanchist, irredentist feelings, or to have Germany be perpetually weak.

Or scared. As long as Germany is convinced that it either cannot defeat the Western powers, or that it is threatened by the USSR to the degree its best policy is alliances with Eastern European neighbours, it won't attack anyone. This could be especially interesting in the event of a Soviet-Western WWII. It could even have a "Western", German-backed cooalition as the aggressor. Germany would feel it needed Poland and Czechoslovakia too much to alienate them.
 
The solution is very simple. If the German generals had taken the blame for the lost war and did not invent the Stab-in-the-back legend, then the German democracy would have been much more stable.
 
I think the Corridor is not such a big problem. The numbers of German was already in decline in this area, and sooner or later the Polisch would have a clear majority.
Austria: I assume if it stay independent till the 50s, there would be stronger own identity, which could let them lose interest in joining interest. I also think, that the northern german Protestants weren´t actually so interested to let so many south-german Catholics join.
Danzig is very difficult. It was a to artifactical construct. And the people of Danzig didn´t really had any profit from the situation.
 
if Germany did not go to war then Soviets would invade soon or later. This would lead to the allies coming to the defence of Germany driving the soviets out and leaving Germany's border intact.
 
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