ASB WI Hitler gets Australia.

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WI England would have sold Australia to Nazi-Germany. (I know it is more then unrealistic that such a thing would have happend..) Would there still be a world war? Hitlers quest for "Lebensraum" would have been solved, so no reason to attack Polen, at least it would have been harder to justify it.
I know that Hitler wanted war, but so did Stalin. So would that have delayed Hitlers attack long enough for Stalin to attac first? It would have changed a whole lot of things...
 
Britain couldn't sell Australia, it was a soveriegn nation.

Why does no one ever realise this? Why? WHY?
 

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Britain couldn't sell Australia, it was a soveriegn nation.

Why does no one ever realise this? Why? WHY?
oh.. sry for that.. :D when did it become independant? I thought it was after WW2...
again sry, didnt meant to insult any australiens...
 
oh.. sry for that.. :D when did it become independant? I thought it was after WW2...
again sry, didnt meant to insult any australiens...
1st January 1901. That's when six colonies of the UK federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia, a Dominion of the British Empire. You might sell off a colony, because it's just territory - you can't sell off a Dominion, because it is itself a self-governing nation that shares your monarch.

Up until the '30s or so, the UK still had the power to boss around Australia occasionally if it wanted to (hence why it's still British pink in the 1920s UCS world maps) but we were indeed self-governing from 1901 onwards.

And it's "Australians", unless you're French. But I'll give you credit for not misspelling it "Austrailians", which always makes me want to shout "GAH!"
 
Plus, add in the fact that it was extremely unlikely the British government (shall we add a rant on foreigners still not getting the UK is more than England thing? Bit like saying 'Prussia' when referring to a united Germany) would sell somewhere like Australia as the British population might get a bit upset at the government for flogging off their brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, etc...

1st January 1901. That's when six colonies of the UK federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia, a Dominion of the British Empire. You might sell off a colony, because it's just territory - you can't sell off a Dominion, because it is itself a self-governing nation that shares your monarch.

Up until the '30s or so, the UK still had the power to boss around Australia occasionally if it wanted to (hence why it's still British pink in the 1920s UCS world maps) but we were indeed self-governing from 1901 onwards.

And it's "Australians", unless you're French. But I'll give you credit for not misspelling it "Austrailians", which always makes me want to shout "GAH!"
 

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Plus, add in the fact that it was extremely unlikely the British government (shall we add a rant on foreigners still not getting the UK is more than England thing? Bit like saying 'Prussia' when referring to a united Germany) would sell somewhere like Australia as the British population might get a bit upset at the government for flogging off their brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, etc...
I know that it would be less then unlikley. I said it in my first port. But since it was a big mistake anyway, I appologise and take back the question.
 
1st January 1901. That's when six colonies of the UK federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia, a Dominion of the British Empire. You might sell off a colony, because it's just territory - you can't sell off a Dominion, because it is itself a self-governing nation that shares your monarch.

Up until the '30s or so, the UK still had the power to boss around Australia occasionally if it wanted to (hence why it's still British pink in the 1920s UCS world maps) but we were indeed self-governing from 1901 onwards.

And it's "Australians", unless you're French. But I'll give you credit for not misspelling it "Austrailians", which always makes me want to shout "GAH!"

...I'd say '31 with Westminister; Canada was a dominion since the middle of the 19th C but that didn't stop them from selling off our fjords. :mad:

And I have a tendency to mistype it as Candainas when I'm typing fast.
 
The statute of Westmoister wasn't ratified in Australia until 1942, but if Australia got wind that the Brits would be selling us out it would be ratified immediately.
 
The statute of Westmoister wasn't ratified in Australia until 1942, but if Australia got wind that the Brits would be selling us out it would be ratified immediately.

...For a bunch of republicans, you're even more lacksadaisical about this whole "independance" thing than we are! :rolleyes:
 
That's because I was drinking coffee with one hand and typing with the other. And yes, if it aint broke don't fix it would encapsulate our attitude to republicanism. However in this case we didn't wan't to be seen as loosening ties with Britain in the face of the Japanese threat. I don't know if Britain would have sent less force to the Pacific if he had. There may be a TL in that.
 
Selling Hitler Australia (I gather that's ASB) won't solve Hitler's Lebensraum problem. Australia's a desert with some green spots. Good luck finding enough Lebensraum there.
 
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