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Ugh, now I'm reading more about the details of the Battle of Smolensk...I might need to do a 3rd retcon on the Eastern Front.
Yep, I'm going to have to rewrite the whole center part from July 1941 on again, which is going to have a huge impact on the whole TL; hopefully anyone still reading is up for another rewrite; I'm going to do a lot more reading before I get started so I don't have to do this again, but there is vast changes to AG-Center as a result of the fall of Leningrad in July, plus no other fronts and a lot more air power on hand.
I was thinking that, will do.Then I'd suggest you start a new thread, since the retconned versions of the TL are still here. With a new thread you could just put up all the "canon" versions of the chapters and have a much more coherent thread.
Yep, I'm going to have to rewrite the whole center part from July 1941 on again, which is going to have a huge impact on the whole TL; hopefully anyone still reading is up for another rewrite; I'm going to do a lot more reading before I get started so I don't have to do this again, but there is vast changes to AG-Center as a result of the fall of Leningrad in July, plus no other fronts and a lot more air power on hand.
Thanks for the kind words, I'll post the link to the next thread when I start it, I've got more reading and planning to do first, as there was a lot I didn't take into account along the central axis. Its not going be that massive of a change per se in 1941, but will change things for 1942 on and and probably bringing it somewhat closer to the original version than my first re-write.This has been a good TL so far.
Yes, especially without the US and Germany at war; also Germans in Latin America and all over will opt to return home or fight in the German military, plus more foreign anti-communist volunteers. Plus with greater economic opportunity in Germany after victory it will be more appealing, not to mention the shortage of young men relative to young women making dating prospects better.One of the German's stated intentions was to reunite the German People where ever they may be.
Hence, I wonder if with their continued success compared with OTl, would Americans of German descent be attracted to return to the Fatherland.
I think, in the Band of Brothers, there was a prisoner who was saying 'I one of you guys' and regaled them with comments of his favourite baseball team - they were not amused - he was shot together with some of the others.
Indeed, but a dirty secret that is usually not well known in the US is how many German Americans did end up back in Germany during both WWs. In WW2 though it was a lot less due to Nazi ideology being less attractive and a LOT more anti-Nazi sentiment in the German American community after the experiences of WW1. In fact there was a famous petition of 50 famous German Americans in US newspapers disavowing Nazi Germany and urging German Americans not to deal with the homeland. Though I still expect Bund members would try to volunteer.People move, especially over seas for at the end personally happiness. This maybe derived from job opportunities, cultural reasons (being oppressed at home), just want something new, whatever.
Unless people have a bad situation in the US or think they can do much better in Germany being willing to pick up and move. If a meme forms that Greater Germany is a land of opportunity then yah you might see people moving in some numbers. Otherwise I expect it will be small, those who moved to US and didn't like it or have family back in Germany or perhaps friends.
This sorta of chain migration where one person goes, then pulling extended family and later friends is how things happen. Again people left Germany for a reason in the first place.
Michael