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Ok, so with the POD here being November 9, 1917(so the Bolshevik coup has still happened), have Germany lose the First World War, but also have there be a Second World War, with the former Entente being on opposing sides with Germany+other powers, and have the German Alliance win that Second World War. Bonus points if both alliances resemble more liberal democratic systems than dictatorships, minus Russia.

What PODs would help here? The Nazis may be butterflied away, and for good reason: in my view it would be very difficult, for a Nazi-led Germany to successfully wage a World War. However it can be a right wing Germany, or a liberal Germany or a social democratic Germany, or a monarchist Germany. Maybe with better leadership, less antisemitism, better handling of already scarce resources, Germany could win a war so total as World War Two turned out to be for us. Perhaps Ludendorff staggers on and becomes a dictator in Germany and manages to lead his country to victory, or Von Lettow Vorbeck does the same. I'm guessing an even more protracted Russian Civil War would be a necessity, along with some measures of weakening Britain and France.

Maybe Germany manages to appear more "compliant" with provisions of an alternate Versailles? So instead of annexing Austria, it simply forces it to become an economic satellite, and Czechoslovakia faces a similar treatment.

Now then, after that, what would a German led world order look like? Would there be some rough equivalent to a Cold War? Could there have been a total German domination of Europe? Is it possible that Germany might buy off a couple of colonies off its enemies? Would decolonization change?
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