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Find a way for Hitler and Nazi Germany to acquire more land and natural resources without bringing the weight of the Red Army into the conflict?
Find a way for Hitler and Nazi Germany to acquire more land and natural resources without bringing the weight of the Red Army into the conflict?
Grofaz was disenchanted with Habsburg state, hated what it represented, and surely, it would require some major POD to change his mind and try to essentially recreate it anew.Put the eastern line the Polish "ethnic" boundaries, and push into the Balkans?
Given that his original plan was extermination anyway, what difference does it make to go into the Balkans?Grofaz was disenchanted with Habsburg state, hated what it represented, and surely, it would require some major POD to change his mind and try to essentially recreate it anew.
Given that his original plan was extermination anyway, what difference does it make to go into the Balkans?
If Adolf Hitler can make peace with Britain, he can acquire Lebensraum in Poland and perhaps western France as well.Find a way for Hitler and Nazi Germany to acquire more land and natural resources without bringing the weight of the Red Army into the conflict?
Technically, Hitler can acquire eastern Lebensraum in Poland. Indeed, the interesting thing is that Germany didn't have a rapidly growing population during this time and thus its living space in Poland would have certainly been sufficient for it (heck, a smaller Germany was able to absorb 15 million ethnic Germans after the end of World War II in our TL!).The problem is that the Fuhrer had very definite ideas on that subject which were by no means recent and had been made as clear as could be in *Mein Kampf*:
"And so we National Socialists . . . take up where we broke off six hundred years ago. We stop the endless German movement to the south and west, and turn our gaze toward the land in the East.
"If we speak of soil in Europe today, we can primarily have in mind only Russia and her vassal border states....
"The giant empire in the East is ripe for collapse: And the end of Jewish rule in Russia will also be the end of Russia as a state.”
Poland?There isn't really any other place where there is a large, almost endless land for the German people to colonize that was occupied by a race that needed to be "destroyed". In the North there were Aryans, in the West there were Aryans, and not enough land except across the ocean and in the South across the sea the land wasn't worthwhile.
Africa would be a good location for some lebensraum. Just have Hitler being fascinated with the concept of MittelAfrica.Find a way for Hitler and Nazi Germany to acquire more land and natural resources without bringing the weight of the Red Army into the conflict?
The problem is, though, that Hitler wouldn't be able to acquire any additional African territory beyond Germany's lost colonies (which I believe Britain and France were willing to give back to Germany in 1937 in exchange for an end to German territorial claims in Europe).Africa would be a good location for some lebensraum. Just have Hitler being fascinated with the concept of MittelAfrica.
Poland?
Also, for what it's worth, if Germany avoids bringing the U.S. into WWI and thus wins WWI, it could have large amounts of Lebensraum in the East (in Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic states) without further invading the Soviet Union.
Yeah, no Halt Order, BEF crushed, Britain makes peace, Germany dominates continent and colonizes Poland and Czech areas. They draw on the resources of Europe and the European empires under their control. The German public would have their hands full producing enough people to replace the Poles and Czechs.Find a way for Hitler and Nazi Germany to acquire more land and natural resources without bringing the weight of the Red Army into the conflict?
Even in this TL, I can imagine how hard it would be for German Frauen to keep popping out babies to settle all of this Lebensraum!Yeah, no Halt Order, BEF crushed, Britain makes peace, Germany dominates continent and colonizes Poland and Czech areas. They draw on the resources of Europe and the European empires under their control. The German public would have their hands full producing enough people to replace the Poles and Czechs.
Considering the Nazis didn't even get back to pre-WW1 birth rates by the start of WW2 and German men will be away on occupation duties for a while...it might be tough, but that depends on whether occupation babies count and can be resettled.Even in this TL, I can imagine how hard it would be for German Frauen to keep popping out babies to settle all of this Lebensraum!![]()
Occupation babies?Considering the Nazis didn't even get back to pre-WW1 birth rates by the start of WW2 and German men will be away on occupation duties for a while...it might be tough, but that depends on whether occupation babies count and can be resettled.
Babies born of local women and occupying soldiers, in this case Germans.Occupation babies?