AHC: Have France Annex Wallonia With a PoD of 1872 or Later

CaliGuy

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AHC: Have France annex Wallonia with a PoD of 1872 or later.

Also, no Nazi victory scenarios, please.
 
Can you please elaborate on this?

I'm not enormously familiar with Belgian history, so I'm sure someone can do a far better job, but 1) I'm not sure how likely a post-1872 POD is that sees Belgium allied with Germany and 2) I'm not sure that, even if such were the case, TTL's Treaty of Versailles would split Belgium in two (presumably the Netherlands gets Flanders).
 

CaliGuy

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I'm not enormously familiar with Belgian history, so I'm sure someone can do a far better job, but 1) I'm not sure how likely a post-1872 POD is that sees Belgium allied with Germany and 2) I'm not sure that, even if such were the case, TTL's Treaty of Versailles would split Belgium in two (presumably the Netherlands gets Flanders).
Why exactly would Germany split its own ally, though?
 
AHC: Have France annex Wallonia with a PoD of 1872 or later.

Also, no Nazi victory scenarios, please.

After an early WW I victory, which involves the Dutch jumping in at the last moment, the Germans throw Wallonia to France as a bone after Germany has annexed the Briey-Longwy area and a couple of French colonies (Holland gets Flanders).
 

CaliGuy

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Like I said, it's not the most likely scenario :) But I can't think of anything more plausible to get French Wallonia.
What about having the Red Army conquer Belgium, the Netherlands, and all of Germany in 1945 and then have Belgium break-up and have Wallonia join France after the collapse of Communism in 1991?
 

CaliGuy

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After an early WW I victory, which involves the Dutch jumping in at the last moment, the Germans throw Wallonia to France as a bone after Germany has annexed the Briey-Longwy area and a couple of French colonies (Holland gets Flanders).
That actually makes sense; of course, Britain would certainly be pissed off as Hell by such a German(-Dutch-French) move!
 
What about having the Red Army conquer Belgium, the Netherlands, and all of Germany in 1945 and then have Belgium break-up and have Wallonia join France after the collapse of Communism in 1991?
But would the USSR still collapse on OTL's schedule (or at all) given the extra resources and geopolitical power it gains by holding West Germany and the Low Countries?
 

CaliGuy

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But would the USSR still collapse on OTL's schedule (or at all) given the extra resources and geopolitical power it gains by holding West Germany and the Low Countries?
Maybe; indeed, the USSR's structural economic flaws were very real. Heck, even if the USSR survives for an additional two decades, we could see a reunification of France and Wallonia between 2011 and 2017 in this TL! :)
 
Easiest way is that Belgium collapses to Wallownia and Flanders between WW2 and 2000. Then Wallonia joins to France.
 
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