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The PoD is that the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising sparks a massive Jewish revolt across German-occupied territory that brings down Nazi Germany. I know it isn't very plausible, but I was in the mood for a more optimistic scenario when I made this. Yes, the title is a reference to
this.
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Me and
@Joshua Ben Ari talked about this, and an few points.
1:
Lord Moyne once asked Ben-Gurion, in 1941, if he would accept a Jewish state in East Prussia once Germany was defeated. Ben-Gurion replied that the only way that Jews would go there is if they're forced do to so at gunpoint.
In 1945, the UNRRA (UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) did a survey of Jewish Holocaust survivors asking where they would want to go. In one population of 19,000 Jewish refugees, 18,700 named Palestine as their first choice. 98% named it their second choice.
No Jew would go to Germany if they're forced there for a Jewish state. No Jew wants Germany as a Jewish state. It's a fascinating map but the main idea of a Jewish state in Germany is not going to happen. Eretz-Yisrael is our home.
2: There still be an Red Scare. As much as the role McCarthy play in it, he was only the public face of it. There are many other factors to it, to Hoover and the FBI, to genuine fear of Communism in the USA. (Which there was spies and traitors in America. Alger Hiss, and the Rosenbergs alone proves that.) At best, you could diminish it, but the Red Scare will still happen and rock America to the core.
3: The whole point is having a West Germany that can act as a bulwark against Soviet expansionism. A "Prussia-Israel" is going to very much complicate things.
4: West Poland as TTL North Korea? HOW? They would have been crush by both West and East.
5: No Atomic Bombs would see to Japan fighting to the very death. The worst of the Government and Military tried to coup their own Emperor just to keep fighting even after two atomic bombs and the Soviets conquering Manchuria and Korea. Americans in the South and Soviets would see the Japanese people lay down they lives fighting them, and you would have far more death.
6: India is far too extreme, more so for being united/so large, and would see itself collapse into an hot burning mess.
7: Allies invading Spain is an big waste and look like Italy. (Which it was also an pain.) You have to remember that Franco wasn’t like Hitler or Mussolini - he didn’t have the fortitude for a totalitarian dictatorship. He didn’t want to join the Axis and didn’t want to go to war; he simply wanted to run the show in Spain and be the guy there.
Also it becoming an neo-anarchist state would again become an hot burning mess.
8: Turkey a part/with Egypt? Turkey...Turkish. Pan-Arabism and Turkey just don't mix...like at all. Same for Egypt. Once Nasser dies, or hits hard water, it just all fall apart.
9: An communist Iran is not plausible. If anything, the British would have Iraq invade and occupy the oil wells and aid it to do it. Those areas are mostly Arabic, so the Iraqis would have a tangible claim. Same for the Kurds rising up.
10: Things are too well in the USA.
11: Cuba as an State? This is far, far too late for that. The Cuban liberation movement would fight to the death to stop it becoming a part of America.
