UK/Reich Alliance?

Stephen

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I don't think you necessarily need to make Hitler more cute and cuddly. Stalin certainly wasn't and Britain still made an alliance of convenience with him. Mainly you need a more aggressive Stalin that appears the bigger threat. This is trick as Russia is more distant but if Stalin invade the Baltic countries and Poland before Hitler makes any noises about Poland I think Britain and France would look the other way while Germany fights the soviets and later forgets to give Poland and other Baltic countries back there independence.

Giving Germanophobic politicians like Churchill heart attack could help too.

To actually get a British alliance with Germany you would need something like a nutty French regime or Stalin invading the middle east.
 
THe challenge then is making Stalin rather more aggressive. I know of no way to do that with a POD after 1933.
 
Assuming some sort of rapprochement between the UK and Nazi Germany, the USA in 1936-1941 will be happily disengaged. The US military especially the Navy was hugely concerned with Japan (WPO {war plan orange}) had been the compass for military planning since 1919. OTL it took huge amounts of maneuvering by FDR to move the USA into a tacit alliance with the UK after 1939.

Assuming the UK & Germany don't come to blows, and France is left alone (and absent 100% UK backing won't go after Germany on their own) no way the US will want to get involved assuming the Germans go after the USSR. OTL there was a general agreement in the US not to let many Jews in, and the State Dept worked to prevent Central & South American countries from allowing refugees (see the St Louis incident). Since any POD would require the 1936-38 Nazis to be less thuggish and unsavory (and most likely minus Hitler) an aggressive social anti-Semitism (severe restrictions on university admissions, professional restrictions etc - sort of an anti-Jewish "Jim Crow") will raise very few eyebrows indeed and certainly not interfere with normal relations and business as usual.

IMHO this scenario would definitely keep the Nazis from aligning with Japan (done for tactical reasons with racial inferiors) - removing another potential irritant between the US & Germany.
 

Tovarich

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Assuming some sort of rapprochement between the UK and Nazi Germany, the USA in 1936-1941 will be happily disengaged. The US military especially the Navy was hugely concerned with Japan (WPO {war plan orange}) had been the compass for military planning since 1919.

Was it?
I'm only going by a bio-pic I once saw years ago (I think it starred Gary Cooper), but that showed Billy Mitchell getting into real hot water with his superiors for daring to even suggest Japan may be belligerent towards the US.
 
They didn't know of this, however. No one did...which is why this is such a difficult issue.

Yes, they did. I didn't say 'gassing' or 'murdering'. The Holocaust was a later issue that was concealed from the Allies for a short while (escaped Jews informed the British in 1942 IIRC, but were not taken seriously), but in the 1930s everyone knew that the Nazis were ghettoising and heavily, heavily discriminating against Jews. Krystallnacht was met with disgust in Westminster.
 
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