DBWI: Germany wins the Second Weltkrieg

Well, 70 years ago today Berlin, the center of the German Empire, fell to Vladimir the Great's Russian Empire. Meanwhile, the last holdouts in the west had surrendered to the French Red Army, and the Second Weltkrieg, which saw the fall of the German Empire, was over. The world since then has been a Cold War between the Russian Empire and the Commune of France, continuing today. But what if things had been different? How might Germany have won the Second Weltkrieg? What would the world look like today if it had?
 
While I would dispute that the Cold War continues, as the Russian Empire now only reaches as far as Ukraine after being forced to withdraw from it's other puppets, while the Reds, especially in America, go from strength to strength under "baguette syndicalism", it was still a terrifying time to be alive. Whatever you say of the German Empire, and by the end it was a terrifying entity, if it had been able to win the Second Weltkrieg the Cold War would have been largely butterflied, especially if they had managed to get more supplies to the AUS, which still had a chance against the Combined Syndicates at that point.

((I'm assuming that this is set in Kaiserreich, am I correct?))
 
How might Germany have won the Second Weltkrieg? What would the world look like today if it had?

Better relations with Britain are the key. Access to British industrial capacity wasn't enough, Germany needed unsecured loans to afford the goods. I'm not quite sure how to get those though - you'd need rather more palatable leadership in Germany in the 1930s. After that, Churchill's rants about the USSR should push the British government along. With British support, Germany should have the resources to defeat the Soviets, particularly if the British share atomic technology with Germany in the early 1940s.

This would give a Europe dominated by Germany and Britain. France might be on board too. We might well see Britain turning away from the Empire to forge closer links with Germany, instead of the messy federation of white Dominions that we now have.
 
Better relations with Britain are the key. Access to British industrial capacity wasn't enough, Germany needed unsecured loans to afford the goods. I'm not quite sure how to get those though - you'd need rather more palatable leadership in Germany in the 1930s. After that, Churchill's rants about the USSR should push the British government along. With British support, Germany should have the resources to defeat the Soviets, particularly if the British share atomic technology with Germany in the early 1940s.

This would give a Europe dominated by Germany and Britain. France might be on board too. We might well see Britain turning away from the Empire to forge closer links with Germany, instead of the messy federation of white Dominions that we now have.

OOC: This is a DBWI. Also yes it is set in a particularly dystopian version of KR.
IC: But the Syndies did split after the Revolutions of '84; ironic that the CSA keeps Orthodox Totalism while it was swept out of France and Britain, where it originated. The Bhartiya also have kept Orthodox Totalism. And the new Red East European states still have a lot of problems; Serbia is still a pariah even amongst the Internationale for what it did to both the Muslims and the Orthodox. Maria also recently officially aligned with the Qing, so I think its fair to say that the Cold War is still on, it just shifted theaters.
 
Well, 70 years ago today Berlin, the center of the German Empire, fell to Vladimir the Great's Russian Empire. Meanwhile, the last holdouts in the west had surrendered to the French Red Army, and the Second Weltkrieg, which saw the fall of the German Empire, was over. The world since then has been a Cold War between the Russian Empire and the Commune of France, continuing today. But what if things had been different? How might Germany have won the Second Weltkrieg? What would the world look like today if it had?

It would be a Germany vs. CSA cold war, which would end with Germany as the victor. One of the reasons that the Cold War is still going on is because of the anti-totalist revolutions that moved the European Internationale spitting and some elements of the Internationale adapting market socialism starting with French Leader Mitterand's reforms. The only reason CSA survived was because of its trade with the surviving totalist nations in Europe and Asia. Without a foothold as in OTL, it would have probably collapsed.
 
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