Hopefully quite a bit more.what more could Germany take?
Hopefully quite a bit more.what more could Germany take?
Colonies? Probably, or at least they'll surely try.Hopefully quite a bit more.
With Britain and America still in the war I don't see why the British need to let Germany have any colonies. Would the Germans really be willing to continue the war over colonial territories anyway? The Germans have won in Europe at this point but are as battered (probably more so) as the British. Surely all of their gains in Europe from Brest-Litovsk and France/Belgium more than make up for the loss of their colonies anyway. Does the average German citizen even care about the colonies?Colonies? Probably, or at least they'll surely try.
European territory? Question there is I suppose do they want to deal with occupying some part of France for quite a while. We'll have to see.
While this is entirely speculative on my part and I look forward to where the story goes, I would say Britain would prefer colonial concessions over Germany swallowing up even more of Europe.With Britain and America still in the war I don't see why the British need to let Germany have any colonies. Would the Germans really be willing to continue the war over colonial territories anyway? The Germans have won in Europe at this point but are as battered (probably more so) as the British. Surely all of their gains in Europe from Brest-Litovsk and France/Belgium more than make up for the loss of their colonies anyway. Does the average German citizen even care about the colonies?
Does this includes german Tsigtao? Maybe Germany would want that back to maintain access to the chinese market.Germany will sell all of its colonies in Asia to the British and Japanese
Well. Germany can always partition Belgium with France if Britain proves to be not open for negotiations regarding the colonies. Doesn't look like a good trade for Britain.With Britain and America still in the war I don't see why the British need to let Germany have any colonies. Would the Germans really be willing to continue the war over colonial territories anyway? The Germans have won in Europe at this point but are as battered (probably more so) as the British. Surely all of their gains in Europe from Brest-Litovsk and France/Belgium more than make up for the loss of their colonies anyway. Does the average German citizen even care about the colonies?
Probably not. Germany cannot afford it to look like their main ally lost the war with Italy.Italy will annex some territory of Austria-Hungary, probably some parts of Tyrol
... IMHO wrong wording:2. Germany will annex Luxembourg
Four of these are correctHere's what I think a future peace treaty would look like
- All parties must recognize the treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the treaty of Bucharest
- Germany will annex Luxembourg
- Germany will not annex any French or Belgian territory
- but it [Germany] will occupy key positions along the French border until France pays all of its reparations to Germany
- German forces will get out of Belgium, but Belgium will be demilitarized
- Italy will annex some territory of Austria-Hungary, probably some parts of Tyrol
- All parties will recognize the territory territories that Bulgaria took during the war
- Bulgaria will probably take some parts of Greek Macedonia
- Greece will be likely compensated with Northern Epirus
- All German colonies in Africa will be returned
- Belgian Congo will be under joint German-belgian control, probably a Condominium
- Germany will sell all of its colonies in Asia to the British and Japanese
green represents something I'm sure will happen, while yellow represents something I'm not too certain about.
...that's both more and less, than what I expectFour of these are correct
But can France pay?Before all else Germany would probably gun for war reparations, as otherwise their economy detonates. Karl Helfferich's plan for financing the war severely overcharged their debt with the hope that Germany wins and extracts reparations from France like in 1871. OTL this led to the German economy imploding in 1918-1923 because, well, they lost.
Because Germany is still the Empire, raising/establishing taxes is not possible, so reparations are the only way they can stay afloat.
I mean, who knows. If we extrapolate from OTL German reparations, Germany failed to meet the quota so often and had to be bailed out so often that I think some people calculate they paid a negative amount of reparations by 1933 lol. (Might be misremembering)But can France pay?
Longwy-Briey alone produces 26.1% of Europe's pig iron ore, which if annexed would bring Germany to 50.1% of Europe's iron extraction approx.I mean, who knows. If we extrapolate from OTL German reparations, Germany failed to meet the quota so often and had to be bailed out so often that I think some people calculate they paid a negative amount of reparations by 1933 lol. (Might be misremembering)
On the other hand Germany was planning to turn the Longwy-Briey mines into federal owned regions and extract direct revenue from all their production, so maybe that will help a little? 🤷♂️ not sure how profitable they were.
Also stealing every merchant ship and patent didn't exactly help either.France will be economically devastated, but at least at first, it will still have colonies to help finance the reparations. And if Germany is smart, they won't also constantly fuck with France's economy out of some weird desire to keep France down, the way the Allies did with Germany afterwards (also, forcing Germany out of the gun export market was just petty BS. If you want them to pay up, leave them to find any way they can rather than kneecapping them in every way)