What if Germany kept fighting in World War 1?

What if Germany kept fighting in World War 1 instead of surrending in 1918 after the arrival of American soldiers? Instead, Germany is desperate and keeps fighting until the capital, Berlin is overrun regardless of how many additional people die. How would this impact the eventual peace agreement and the future of Germany and Europe as a whole?
 
What if Germany kept fighting in World War 1 instead of surrending in 1918 after the arrival of American soldiers? Instead, Germany is desperate and keeps fighting until the capital, Berlin is overrun regardless of how many additional people die. How would this impact the eventual peace agreement and the future of Germany and Europe as a whole?
That could be devastating, especially with the Spanish Plague and good shortages as a factor. The war could continue to 1919/1920. Maybe the Kaiser martyrs himself as the OHL suggested, the crownprince takes over , a radical Nationalist Stahlhelm Anti-Liberal dictatirship under the new Kaiser, who coups against Hindenburg and Ludendorff, emerges. Millionen of civillians are Organizer Info ,Landwehr'- Units to fight the Entente. Another factor ist the developement of Bolshevik expansion.The Allies may even prepare to fight an additional war in the East.
 
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Honestly, there has been quite a few threads on this, and Germany was on the verge of collapse.
You just have to look at how much the German army disintegrated during the Hundred Days offensive.
Germany didn't have the manpower to hold on, never mind an offensive.
 
Germany gets steamrollered in 1919, assuming they don't collapse into anarchy first. The navy already refused to fight and mutinied, how long before that spreads to the army? Germanies allies had collapsed and surrendered so there are more allied armies available for use against them. The British blockade is tighter than ever and with the Russian Civil War raging the Germans won't be getting as much from there as they need, there'll be food riots on the home front.
 

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How likely is it that Bavaria/Baden/Saxony declare independence and ask the Allies for a a separate peace?
Saxony is a no, Bavaria is a maybe, not sure about Baden. Saxony is too small and dominated by Prussia. If Bavaria declares independence in the aftermath of a violent collapse of the Kaiserreich it could seize Baden to get a connection to the Bavarian Palatinate.
 
Germany gets steamrollered in 1919, assuming they don't collapse into anarchy first. The navy already refused to fight and mutinied, how long before that spreads to the army? Germanies allies had collapsed and surrendered so there are more allied armies available for use against them. The British blockade is tighter than ever and with the Russian Civil War raging the Germans won't be getting as much from there as they need, there'll be food riots on the home front.

What I’m really trying to ask is what Germany would look like after this scenario. Would it lose even more land than it did IRL?
 
What I’m really trying to ask is what Germany would look like after this scenario. Would it lose even more land than it did IRL?

Versailles was pretty savage, if the Allied armies fought for another 3 months or so until Germany collapsed I doubt there would be much more than detail changes to the treaty. However as others have said those 3 months or so would see Allied armies would be well into Germany itself so perhaps less responsive to Nazism in the following decades.
 
It is always hard for the war to go into 1919 simply because everyone saved for the Americans was exhausted, sick of war, and simply unable to keep fighting for much longer. It doesn't help Entente would occupy strategic points in Austria-Hungary for their further operations against Germany.

I will say as bad shape as Germany was in 1918-1919, so was the rest of the Allies at the end of their rope as well.
 
What if Germany kept fighting in World War 1 instead of surrending in 1918 after the arrival of American soldiers? Instead, Germany is desperate and keeps fighting until the capital, Berlin is overrun regardless of how many additional people die. How would this impact the eventual peace agreement and the future of Germany and Europe as a whole?
The Spanish flue is also a factor- for all participants.
 
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