Here you go. I uploaded the album to imgur since I think there is a 3 map a day rule. Each section is about 5 year intervals. You can find it here.
Map Thread XVIII
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Yet more from ̶m̶y̶ E̶x̶p̶o̶n̶e̶n̶t̶i̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶I̶n̶c̶r̶e̶a̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶W̶a̶n̶k̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶T̶i̶m̶e̶l̶i̶n̶e̶ Triumph at Trafalgar. World map in 2010, the last one showed 1968. The biggest even in the intervening years was the fall of Eurasia in the late 90s.
Also, MORE subdivisions.
Reddit thread.
Yet more from ̶m̶y̶ E̶x̶p̶o̶n̶e̶n̶t̶i̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶I̶n̶c̶r̶e̶a̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶W̶a̶n̶k̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶T̶i̶m̶e̶l̶i̶n̶e̶ Triumph at Trafalgar. World map in 2010, the last one showed 1968. The biggest even in the intervening years was the fall of Eurasia in the late 90s.
Also, MORE subdivisions.
Reddit thread.
This timelines diverges from ours in July 1918, when Colonel Von Lettow Vorbeck, at the head of an experienced guerilla force fighting in east africa, beat the Anglo-Portuguese which had just landed on the port of Quelimane, the battle of Namacura just north of the city would be a resounding german victory and Von Lettow Vorbeck's troop managed to capture large ammunition stocks, however where IRL he decided to retreat north after this deep excursion in Mozambique he instead decides to try his luck and cross the Zambeze, which he manages to do effortlessly as all entente troops were away
Crossing the Zambeze was a symbolic achievement as his army was now very close to the South Rhodesian border and could potentially take the railway linking Salisbury to Beira on the coast, isolating the colony, this prompted a rash decision by the British to occupy the poorly defended southern half of the Portuguese colony from fear of further advances from the colonel. While he would eventually retreat and surrender in early december, nearly a month after the armistice, this was a large humiliation for the portuguese, with British and South African troops in Southern Mozambique, Jan Smut, the leader of the South African force, veteran of the Boer wars and one of the most influential person in South Africa had wanted to take over southern mozambique, from where most of the Transvall's ressources are exported, for over 20 years. He pressed the british government to force portugal to give away the south, in exchange Portugal would get a small southern band of what was German East Africa
Jan Smut would become PM of South Africa in 1919, through intense diplomatic maneuvering he managed to temporarily keep Southern Mozambique up to the Zambezi part of South Africa, he used it to promise Mozambique North of the Save River to South Rhodesian shall they decide to join the Union of South Africa in the 1922 referendum, additional cheap land in the east of the country were promised to farmers, and although many were suspicious and afraid South African would outcompete them, the controversy dramatically increased the participation from the farmers, who were the most abstentionist group and the most pro union one anyway, rail workers were also convinced by making the entirety of the Beira-Salisbury Railway part of the South Rhodesia. Popular Opinion also remembered the close call of Von Lettow Vorbeck's invasion of Mozambique and realized they would be safer against a future threat as a part of South Africa, and so by the end of 1922 the Unionist Side had won, although by a small margin, the process of union would be rather long however, taking several years and the union was slightly loosened to accommodate the Rhodesians
In 1968 the Union of South Africa is booming economically, partially thanks to the new ressources export economy, which benefits greatly from the additional rich provinces of South West Africa (added shortly after the second great war) and Bechuanaland, previously a tightly linked protectorate that was added 5 years ago (along with the two enclaved protectorates of Basutoland and Swaziland, the later who kept high autonomy in its affairs. The country is a new important imigration destination, hundreds of thousands of English, lured by the picturesque landscapes of Natal or the Cape immigrated in the past years, and the Union is as attractive as Australia to many.
Politically however, the country isn't doing as well, the United Party is entering its 30th year of continuous rule carried by the majority of Anglo, Asian and Coloured voters, the process of enfranchisement of the two later groups having been completed by the last election in 1966. That process had started in 1950 and expended the Cape Franchise, which allowed all Coloured and Indians the right to vote to the entire country. The franchise of the black African population is however very limited, while in Bechuanaland and Basutoland allow up to 30% of the population to vote, they are small in the scale of the country, most of the populated provinces only allow those who fulfil excessive wealth requirements to vote, so that only slightly more than 50,000 can vote in the entire country. The continued United Party rule has alienated the now minority (among whites) of Afrikaner, and over the past decade an increasing numbers have decided to go to the Orange Free State, the only province where the National Party rules unchallenged, it is the only one that entirely forbids black African form voting and it seems it would be the most reluctant to change, the additional provincial freedom given after the accession of South Rhodesia giving them protection to their rule.
Meanwhile, factions within the hegemonic United Party are more and more opposed, the more left oriented Freedom Group, led by the charismatic Ahmed Kathrada, an Indian South African, wants to quickly enfranchise large part of the black population, they however face considerable opposition including in its home province of Natal, and some are accusing them of communism sympathies, on the other side the United Front led by the Rhodesian Ian Smith wants to effectively freeze the enlargement of the franchise, saying that the country must first be further developed and a black middle class must arise before they would be allowed to vote in large numbers. The last faction has grown considerably as a backlash because of the more liberal policies over the past few years, and has attracted many Afrikaners who are aware the National Party will never again win an election., a surprisingly large number of coloured also support the front as they want to stay distinct from the black african
The United Party has seen its share of votes slightly diminish during the last elections, but it may very well splits during the next years from factional conflicts, if this is the case the United Front would likely be the strongest party; but would also be unlikely to gather an absolute majority.
Since the United State's end of segregation the international community is looking at South Africa, while many abroad are hopeful the black population will be able to vote within the next decade, it is clear that a majority of south african don't want to go too fast, the promise of full franchise by the 1970s repeated during the previous decade seems less and less plausible by the day. The recent colonial insurgencies in Portuguese Angola and Mozambique embolden the conservative and some fear that communism may spread to the country, while the black population is becoming increasingly politically conscious of their situation. South Africa's long term future depends on how united it will be against the various forces, both internal and external that may push the country to an exteme of communism or another of segregation.
Not I. They are nice sure, but I don't know any way to slow them down to look over the details on my iPad.
*These two images were supposed to be together, but bad things happen when you try to upload stuff too big.
Well, this has taken me too long to finish up, making sure everything looked good. I think I started making it way back in December but I can't remember because I spent too much time not working on it. A "What if Aragon and Castile Never United?" world with a lot of creative liberties.
I hope you guys get some of the easter eggs I left in here, including some nations that were covered on YouTube. As for others, they are plainly video game inspirations (German Bueneventura Bay is from my playthrough of a map mod for Cities Skylines for example). I had a load of fun making it, fantasizing about the stories the map can allude to. I personally thank all of you for the work you put out to inspire me to make this.
Old post that this is based on:
I will make a "realistic" world appropriate for the POD soon. It may take as long as this map here did. However, no promises, cause I'm ready to start off on my Gaulish Brennusia TL.
The art for the UN buildings is not made by me or by commission.
Some links to my inspirations for the landforms I used are below:
The nation of Austronesia
The nations of New Wales and Caribia
The nation of Lingor
The nation of Australisia
The nation of Neu Kroatien
I hope you guys get some of the easter eggs I left in here, including some nations that were covered on YouTube. As for others, they are plainly video game inspirations (German Bueneventura Bay is from my playthrough of a map mod for Cities Skylines for example). I had a load of fun making it, fantasizing about the stories the map can allude to. I personally thank all of you for the work you put out to inspire me to make this.
Old post that this is based on:
Okay, I've finished the last map for 2012 in my map series: military alliances. This will also be put in a bunch of spoilers for the other 2012 maps, concluding the 2012 series.
CDTO: Primarily the USA and the powers in Europe. During World War 2, the US was called into the war against the New Russian Empire and the Japanese Empire that Western Europe was fighting. In the aftermath, the Russian Republic, which rebelled against the New Russian Empire, joined the CDTO, a new organization for European defense to ensure that no threat like the ones from the 20th century would rise and challenge the status quo to world peace, which influenced the faction's aggression towards China, which in turn was aggressive vice versa. However, a schism is occurring where Russia is finding its own way, which would possibly split the CDTO in half. The organization has good ties with Saudi Arabia thanks to the US, Britain, and France importing Saudi oil to Europe and exporting valuable assets for the country.
TCI: Cajuterra, New Wales, Klien Venedig, Haiti, and Jamaica visited a summit in Ulrichburg, Klien Venedig, to discuss the economic future of Central America and the Caribbean after some sects of the CDTO had initiated cyber attacks against the nations. Cajuterra is the leading member of the faction and represented Caribbean disdain for the CDTO's aggression. So far, they are actually very friendly with the USA, Germany, Scandinavia, Britain, and other Western European countries but they do not have good ties with Russia and some Eastern European countries, which led to some speculating that Russia coordinated the cyber attacks on behalf of the CDTO to sabotage foreign relations.
IA: The Republique de l'Inde and its neighbors were concerned about the fledging rogue nation of Mysore, which had nuclear weapons. It is unclear where their nuclear program started and who sponsored it, but Mysore's nuclear arsenal and extreme isolationist policy is crossing paths with l'Inde's ambitions to unite the whole subcontinent of India into a single economic union. The Empire of China has been abrasive towards the Indian nations, annexing lands in Burma and stationing thousands of troops at the Kashmir border.
PDTO: The Pacific Defense Treaty Organization was a league started by Japan and Lisenia in response to Chinese aggression in the East China Sea. Neu Geuinea and Indochina became members despite sour history with the Japanese Empire in the 20th century. The PDTO is willing to cooperate with the CDTO and the Indian Association to take down China, and they followed through when the three factions overthrew the Chinese regime in the Great East Asian War.
EC: The Ethiopian Commonwealth is largely an organization of states that were annexed into the Ethiopian Empire during the 19th century during the Scramble for Africa. Ethiopia became a modernized power as rapidly as Japan did in response to Western imperialists. The Commonwealth today follows the same philosophy as before, as they believed they were stronger together than alone to avoid subjugation by the CDTO. Not only was this organization an alliance against foreign influence, but also a sign of protest against CDTO condemnations of Ethiopia's nuclear program.
I will make a "realistic" world appropriate for the POD soon. It may take as long as this map here did. However, no promises, cause I'm ready to start off on my Gaulish Brennusia TL.
The art for the UN buildings is not made by me or by commission.
Some links to my inspirations for the landforms I used are below:
The nation of Austronesia
The nations of New Wales and Caribia
The nation of Lingor
The nation of Australisia
The nation of Neu Kroatien
With this I think Portugal would become totally against the British in loyalty, seeing as they have been once more betrayed innthe area, if we go by the Pink Map and the British threats against Portugal as a initial betrayal. Reminds me of how Montenegro joined WWI on Serbia's side, only to end up annexed. One would also think at least a bit of Mozambique would get its own province. While Jan Smuts might be loyal, not everyone could be assured to follow the British, and having Transvaal with a coastline might make them a bit more independent leaning. Not that it turned out that way here.
Nice! Is that a Jewish Frisia and NE England? A Magyar Egypt? A southern Italian *Tunisia?
Correct, Correct, close. It began as a South Italian Utopian state (one of many that spun off originally) but evolved into a theocratic dictatorship with heavy nationalism and expansion intertwined. It is the closest thing this world has to a fascist state. They have idle dreams of taking the Nilus river from the Magyarabs.(not related to the Mayarab of OTL just convergent name) At the time they are still trying to convert the new Albanians they gained after the war by outlawing teaching Albanian in school.
Isaac Beach
Banned
A Garden of Stars - Dkarpo
Dkarpo, Bianco, Jeman, Ağ, Tetri, White; for our purposes the formermost will suffice.
Of the 12 Capricorn International Interstellar Exploration Program probe groups, that which journeyed to Lacaille 9352 were among the most distant. A series of microprobes with large solar sails, they would each be propelled at a rate of 10,000 gs for ten minutes, accelerating them to just under a quarter of the speed of light. Though launched in 2088 those aimed at Lacaille would not arrive in the system until the tail end of 2140, and even sending its information at the speed of light it would take another decade for their collated research to reach the listening posts at the edge of the Solar System.
What they found was a robust star system despite Lacaille’s relatively weak luminosity, particularly compared to that of Humanity’s native Sol. The Probe Group detected no less than three gas giants, with a frozen rock of a world in-between two of them, and an asteroid belt with a high percentage of metal-rich asteroids. But what was of especial interest for researchers was the inner planets, of which two were found. One was well within the habitable zone but given the star’s meek radius and low effective temperature this was very close to the star itself and the planet was tidally locked, and its atmosphere absent. Further afield was a planet with a 100-day orbit and an atmosphere approaching that of Mars prior to terraformation, but with even weaker sunlight, and yet this excited analysts as a candidate for long-term terraformation and habitation[1].
By the time this was transmitted to Sol there were already plans to launch a further round of probes, vastly more efficient with the inclusion of fusion-powered thrusters, by an international consortium operating from the densely inhabited Moon, though interest in Solar colonisation would receive the bulk of attention of wider Humanity over the following centuries. The second round of probes were more traditional than the Capricorn Program, and brought to their various assignations planetary drones to perform in-atmosphere surveyance.
This was not universally successful, with several drones burning up in different atmospheres due to miscalculations or pure chance. But those on Lacaille C were successfully landed and would begin a trend of drones being rotated in as prior ones slowly dilapidated, some of which are still lost beneath the modern sands of Dkarpo.
Despite this occurring over a period of centuries interstellar exploration and research largely fell out of vogue in the face of Humanity’s predilections with Sol itself, expanding into the Asteroid Belt, terraforming and colonizing over centuries the planets of Venus and Mars and, with time, the moons of the gas giants. But this negligence towards the reaches beyond the Oort Cloud would prove fortuitous, as the population grew so did research, economics and industry. By 2600 the entire Solar System had become host to a laser-guided astronomical interferometric array, vastly increasing the capabilities of astronomers by a factor of hundreds. Systems tens of lightyears away could be observed with extreme clarity, opening up a world of new studies and informing the wider Solar community as to the possibilities that lay beyond Kuiper.
Perhaps more importantly, a palpable antimatter industry had sprung up around both Jupiter, Saturn and the Sun. This would prove indispensable to the renewed interest in interstellar travel, as the huge energy expended by antimatter engines could easily reach a speed of 1G, ideal for transporting manned missions. Although much focus was paid to nearer and dearer locales as Barnard’s Star and Alpha Centauri, both of which were known to host habitable and biologically active ecosystems, a collection of consortiums from Jupiter, Mars and Lunar had a longer tact, and prioritised further afield stars as Epsilon Indi and, indeed, Lacaille 9352. The journey took 12 and a half years from Sol’s perspective, though it was less than half of that for the eight man crew that actually travelled to the system, due to time dilation[2]. Their job was to assess on the planet itself the plausibility of terraformation, available resources, and what would need to be towed in rather than found in-system. Aside being water poor and dimly lit, the planet was ideal for terraformation, and this is where the history of Dkarpo’s people begins.
Terraforming equipment was launched before the manned mission returned, updated from the designs that had characterised Europa and Titan, among others. Complete terraformation would take 200 years, rather faster than previous attempts (Mars had taken over 350 years), but people began living on it sooner than that, using a combination of habitats and genetic modification to ease into the small, flowering world. Many were Martians, Earthlings, Europans and Belters, often from regions wracked with civil war or discrimination, and for it what would become Dkarpo became known as a refuge far away from the scandal and violence of the rest of Humanity.
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In modern times, Dkarpo is named in its various languages for the vibrant cleanliness of its surface: white as a marble. It was never to be a hydrous world, and so is marked with broad, white sands and muddled steppes and yellowing plains. Though this is less the case in the planet’s south, where the attenuated Bulaman and Ochi Seas irrigate plains, forests, wetlands and swamps. The landscape is varied, demarcated with spiralling mountain chains, precipitous veldts and deep gorges, valleys and savannah and tidal coasts.
The days are long, literally. Sunlight from Lacaille itself is meek and largely infrared, and so two enormous industrial mirrors were built and towed to Dkarpo’s Lagrange points 4 and 5, redirecting diffuse sunlight to the planet itself. Due to their angled positions relative to Dkarpo two thirds of the planet are illuminated at any time, a yellowish haze dominated by two bright dots in the sky. This has had consequences for agriculture and culture; a midday siesta is common planetwide and crops are characteristically drought resistant.
Due to its relative aridity there aren’t many large animals, as there is no diverse, leafy ecosystem to support them in great numbers. However, where the climate is mild toward the poles and open prairie dominate giant elk, two meters tall, graze and gallop. These are oft’ considered the symbol of Dkarpo, a lofty, dominant stag upon an endless plain.
The vast majority of the planet’s 120 million residents reside on the northern coast of the Bulaman Sea, in a principal region between the Ginto Forests and the many valleys of the Dkarpon Alps. This is mostly realised through cantons numbering a few hundreds or thousands each, and the largest city on the planet, Zafran on the mouth of the Dedalo River, is but 400,000 strong. Indeed the myriad inhabitants of the planet were oft drawn from backgrounds that can be traced far back in time to isolated regions of Sol and Earth, and so Dkarpo’s people have never been characterised by dense conurbations as on The Eye of Humanity - Nazar or Gió[3].
Dkarpo’s culture tends to be pastoral and Arcadian. Extended families live together, either in large estates or communal compounds with other families. This is usually adjacent to some kind of work, animal husbandry, agriculture, aquaculture, energy production, and so on. Dotted across the planet are small community centres, which contain essential services such as hospitals, internet centres, churches and schools, niche market goods and professionals such as accountants or technicians[4]. These centres tend to be linked to more rural locales and one another with maglev trains, although personal vehicles (including aircraft) aren’t uncommon and usually travel along service routes astride said trains. Equestrianism is ubiquitous. Dkarpo’s few urban centres tend to be more traditionally planned, with maglev and trams forming the primary mode of transport around. All this bleed into one another, as the rural districts are by far the main source of sustenance for the urban areas.
Politics is immaterial on a national level, with population density being too low for ‘nations’ to form in a traditional sense, and while there is a planetary council of sorts it is rather ineffectual and certainly doesn’t have any ability to militarily compel communities. Thus, Dkarpo tends to exist in a state of droll anarchy. A mix of mayoral hierarchies, direct democracies and local councils predominate, sometimes with de facto hereditary leadership but rarely de jure. This will likely become formalised over the coming centuries as the population grows and societies become entrenched. What laws do exist tend to be enforced by local sheriffs or constabularies, with varying degrees of effectiveness; especially sparse regions such as Nadbupedma Steppe are essentially unpatrolled and many small ‘felon towns’ exist there as a result.
There aren’t many major industries planetside, though the Gshong Depression does host archaeological digs for long extinct fossils, highly prized throughout the rest of The Garden of Stars. This low density of economic activity means that food is largely organic and as it happens sugar is almost entirely absent from the planet, with most sweetness in food being derived from honey or fruit (watermelon chips are a peculiar affection of this). As such Dkarpons are rarely obese, which has aided their interstellar reputation as the ideal agrarian society.
This is not to say that Dkarpo does not have its problems: Dkarpons are a suspicious and superstitious people, and outsiders are rarely treated with kindness outside of tourist traps. Vendettas are common, often resulting in murders and multigenerational disputes across communities, and given the provincial and decentralised nature of power corruption and nepotism is the norm. Unfortunately for some this has a charm all its own, and there have been recent attempts by organised crime syndicates from out of system to establish themselves there.
It is worth noting that this is not the case for the two ‘mirror stations’ that provide Dkarpo with light. By the nature of their often precarious and industrial existence the station-cities, each numbering a few tens of thousands, are very stringently structured and institutionally democratic, and often look down upon the planetside Dkarpons as provincial hicks. They don’t get on.
There are six ‘primary’ ethnic groups that take up the vast majority of the planet’s population. These are the Alpina, found predominantly in the Dkarpon Alps; the Kavkasira, also found in the Alps as well as the Ginto Forest, Byas Plain, the Padangie Lowlands and the southern shores of the Bulaman Sea; the Maliden, which can be found across nearly the whole extent of the planet except the Ginto Forest-Dkarpon Alps bioregion; the Bodi most commonly found in the planet’s northern hemisphere and especially in the Gshong Depression, with an isolated subgroup in the Sudjolo Mountains; the Taga between the Dkarpon Alps, the Kalo Coast and Coloznie Valley, the East Byas Plain, the Dugutila Savannah and the western edge of the Ochi Sea; and the Yohura who dominate the Bulaman and Ochi Seas and especially the Labirin Wetlands[5].
Dkarpo is a cradle, a white marble at the edge of the Garden of Stars, of waxing days and a pious people; of sudden breaks atop horseback across the planet’s valleys and plains; of family and, in large part, peace.
~ Excerpt from Bastion Savoth’s ‘The Garden of Stars’.
[1] – It’s much easier to transform a planet with an existing atmosphere than one that’s completely barren. Hence in this universe Mercury has not been terraformed while Venus and Mars both have.
[2] – This might seem like a lot, but Humans live very long lives by 2500, though they aren’t immortal. Whereas ten years there and back is an eighth or seventh of our lives on average, here it is more like a twentieth or, in some societies, a twenty fifth.
[3] – ‘The Eye of Humanity – Nazar’ (and yes that is its full name) is a tidally locked planet orbiting Barnard’s Star (basically a rip off of Illion), while Yofeng orbits Alpha Centauri. They’re both very densely populated and form a central civilisational core with Sol. There is constant interchange, trade and migration between the three so they tend to be well integrated.
[4] – I should note that the term ‘accountant’ is rather different then at current; herein they tend to handle a much wider array of responsibilities to ensure a high quality of life for their clients, taking a holistic approach to the whole breadth of their finances and daily needs. Technicians are more or less the same.
[5] – I will elaborate on these groups later, I assure you.
Awesome map! Those are very natural looking boundaries for South Africa.
Is Southwest Africa internationally considered a mandate like OTL or is it recognized as integral territory?
Is the Union a republic or have they remained under the British crown?
It's not a great warm water port. Mexico or California could probably close off the strait. It needs to expand through California to get direct access to the Pacific.
Inspired by a video I saw in YouTube about a supposed Nazi plan on assassinating Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at the Tehran Conference. Both US and UK had their successors ready of course and the war was basically already decided but in Soviet Union there was a power struggle. Beria managed to take full power and marketed himself as more humane and moral than Stalin, while remaining a terrible human being and a tyrant besides. As a show of good faith Red Army retreated from their German occupation zone to the British and held referenda in the SSRs (utterly undemocratic in reality of course) of independence. Soviets follow a no-threatening policy with the West and through post war years mostly sell cheap goods while suppressing internal dissent harshly. No nukes were used on Japan and Soviets and Americans invaded Japan. US President Henry Wallace seeking warmer relationship with the Soviets retreated from Japan. After the war USA disassembled their nukes and all UN members signed for non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and agreed to share and advance peaceful uses of nuclear technology. US, while isolating themselves from Europe created Pan-American Economic Cooperation Organization with Cuba and Central American nations, being the seeds of the Pan-American Union. A referendum was held in Germany for their post war economic system. Choices being free market capitalist, communist and "current". "Current" being that of the 3rd Reich which won the vote. Germany was turned into a centrist parliamentary republic similar to France. Prime Minister Anthony Eden nationalized German industry to rebuild Britain, which leads to German industry not being reduced post war. French and British governments lacking the American economic aid of OTL create the Union of Normandy with a ceremonial British monarch as the head of state and two heads of government one French and one British. This Union's main objective is keep the colonies through an "imperial federation". The cold war is much less bipolar (more tripolar) in this world but also of a lower intensity. At least until WW3 happens I suppose.
What do you mean by economically Nazi? I thought that the Nazis mismanaged the economy in such a way that it required constant plunder from conquered nations to stay afloat. Maybe there's just a lot of state intervention in the economy, with critical industries like Krupp working for Germany? Anyone, please let me know if I got my history wrong.
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The need for plunder was due to lack of trade in wartime. More than half the world's markets were closed to Nazi goods, I'd say. Without war, the Nazi economy would be like any other communist one, maybe even healthier.
Lovely. But what is Germany like to live in? As a government? Who is Reichskanzler (or what is the office of Head of Government called - I don't think Führer would be possible?) Is German industry still nationalised, and, if it was nationalised "to rebuild Britain", why is it not reduced? Wouldn't things be shipped off to Britain in this case?
Thanks, I seem to need a daily laugh. Without jest, however, you’ve created an interesting scenario in thinking that Germany would actually be allowed to do a damn thing such as vote independently on a matter and have that vote respected in a post-WWII world. It would probably work out well, but it just wouldn’t be allowed. Least of all after a successful assassination of the opposing wartime leadership. Perhaps in a world where the assassination was done by a completely different partisan group, though… Something that caused the allies to redirect their attention from Germany.
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