DBWI Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Jimmyson

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What if instead of dodging the bullet as happened OTL Franz Ferdinand dies in Sarajevo, from the obscure Serbian terrorist group The Black Hand. Perhaps the WeltKreig, would happen earlier, then OTL, of course ending in a central powers victory, when the German army captures Paris as in OTL. Perhaps there would be no United States of Greater Austria, which as we all know Franz was instrumental in creating.

[Edit]please move to after 1900 sorry about putting it in the wrong forum
 
What if instead of dodging the bullet as happened OTL Franz Ferdinand dies in Sarajevo, from the obscure Serbian terrorist group The Black Hand. Perhaps the WeltKreig, would happen earlier, then OTL, of course ending in a central powers victory, when the German army captures Paris as in OTL. Perhaps there would be no United States of Greater Austria, which as we all know Franz was instrumental in creating.

[Edit]please move to after 1900 sorry about putting it in the wrong forum

Well, Germany may have won WWI but the Great Crash of 1926, did horrendous damage to that nation's economy. By 1931, things were so bad, that demagogues of all sorts were popping up all over the country. One man, in particular, blamed Germany's woes on a supposed desire for revenge against the country having won WWII. His name, my friends, was Heinrich Himmler, and he took power in April 1934, the National Imperalists having (supposedly) won 65% of the German vote. And, unfortunately, friends, we all know what happened after that.

In the fall of 1938, Germany invaded a now terribly weak Austria(BTW, it wasn't officially called the USGA outside of Britain, Germany and a few other places. It's actual official name was the Republic of Greater Austria.), and sparked the Second World War, which lasted until July 1946 and resulted in 100 million dead, including many in the German concentration camps.

Perhaps if WWI had started just a few months earlier(it started in September 1914 IOTL), maybe Germany would have lost, and the Nazis wouldn't have come to power, or even existed perhaps. And maybe we wouldn't have had quite as nasty of a Cold War, either. The nuclear policies of the U.S.S.R. and the Worker's Republic of Austro-Hungary nearly caused WWIII on a few occasions.
 
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