Wasn't SS-ruled Burgundy supposed to be carved out of France?
Paxton spoke about this in Old Guard and New Order if memory serves, there were plans for other regions as well so that France would end up largely balkanised. Not sure how feasible such a plan really was, or whether or not it was entertained outside of the SS. As was often the case with Fuhrerprinzip, it’s hard to get a clear answer.
The general plan was to carve out the old HRE borders and add a few bells and whistles like the Calais region (e.g. everything north of the Somme) and give the rest back to Vichy France. 1Blomma's maps are a perfect representation of this.Did they plan to keep or occupied forever?
Paxton spoke about this in Old Guard and New Order if memory serves, there were plans for other regions as well so that France would end up largely balkanised. Not sure how feasible such a plan really was, or whether or not it was entertained outside of the SS. As was often the case with Fuhrerprinzip, it’s hard to get a clear answer.
The general plan was to carve out the old HRE borders and add a few bells and whistles like the Calais region (e.g. everything north of the Somme) and give the rest back to Vichy France. 1Blomma's maps are a perfect representation of this.
Hitler mused about an independent Brittany but in the end didn't really care much for it.The only one I recall was a vague notion of independent Brittany, but I wouldn't put it past the Nazis to try and turn back the clock several centuries in order to break France apart.
There may have been a few Marinenstützpunkte around the coast such as Brest, Cherbourg, and Bordeaux but it seems that these would in be French bases that the German's used and not any sort of official annexation like they planned to do with Baku.This is what I recollect from reading Norman Rich's Hitler's War Aims. (Someone really needs to do an updated version of that book - there must've been lots of new research on the topic over the last ~45 years.) There was also some perhaps idle talk about permanently keeping German bases along the Channel and Atlantic coast, while the Italians wanted Corsica as well as Nice and Savoy.
What would have happened to France's military?
Would there be a significant contingent of Frenchmen in the Heer/Waffen SS like IOTL?
What would a Pan-European Army look like?The good stuff would be a French component inside the SS, as part of a Pan-European Army.
It'd just be a much larger SS with more volunteer divisions.What would a Pan-European Army look like?