WI/AHC/PC: Britain in the Central Powers?

That entirely depends on the state of the France nation-state after a WWI-analogue. Also, on the conditions of the WWI itself. If its a quick or decisive victory, then there you go.

For example, OTL they had expended practically their entire pool of young males, and were thrown into a demographic crisis which greatly hindered it economically and militarily (even to and past WWII). In addition to this, the state was practically mortgaged out to the US, and much of its best industrial regions/mines have been utterly ravaged/sabotaged upon retreat. Assuming a similar situation as OTL WWI, but with an Entente defeat, there is practically no way for France to bounce back against a Germany. Ever. Much smaller population (even moreso after Germany takes more land), much reduced industry, near bankrupt, and in a massive demographic crisis. And which would likely face a civil war upon defeat. Yeah. And after that, a pacifist movement will most certainly spring up (after all, there really isn't much hope for France in a round 3).

I suppose you could always put Action Francaise or an analogue in power, but a France which loses WWI is effectively finished. It's already lost most of its best and brightest in the trenches, and really has lost the majority of its heavy industry (and lots of iron/coal to fuel that industry).

Also, why would France (or any Nazi analogue, really) have to be anti-semitic? Mussolini and other fascists weren't anti-semitic, or made use of concentration camps. Most nations in the time period were quite anti-semite (really, look at the State Department in WWII).
France's anti-semitism was more wide-spread and known. In fact one of the Presidential candidates included being anti-semitic in his list of qualities.
 
well - why not?

the french behaviour in algeria in the 50ties seems to be fit into "nazi cruelty"... so at last in this point the french fit into this...

about racial behaviour... again look to algeria... i do not think that the racial "superiority feeling" of the french of this period is different to "Herrenmenschen"-Behaviour of german nazis....

mix it with some serious socialsim... (like the nazis had), so you have no big differences in the basic layer... sure - i do not know if pure faschism would be succsessful in france, but we do not know how france will change with a hard, very hard peace (all atlantic and channel harbours 99years british/german, marsailles too... no army larger 50.000 men, no artillery larger as 90mm, no airplanes, no submarines, no battleships, no cruisers - the coal area in northern france gone, a lot money to pay...

such things can change people... esp. such nationalistic and radical "proud" ones as the french...

yes, in such a scenario some totalitarism or faschism is not only possible but realistic

The French Army behaviour in Algeria was no different from the behaviour of many other armies in many other areas of the world at the same time. I would like to point out that Torture was not generalised, it did take place and I deplore it but to say that the entire French Army behaved like the Nazis is very much over the top.

If the French Army and the French people were so racist then how come overseas territories like Martinique which are 90% black have been integral parts of France for half a century now? What about black MPs from Senegal starting from the mid 19th century? There has never been a belief in "ethnic French superiority" in any circle including reactionnaries like Mauras and such.

The conditions of the Versailles Treaty while crippling to Germany where not the cause of World War Two, I repeat they were not the main cause of World War Two. Germany lost the Saar true, but it kept the Rhur, Saschen, and a good deal of the Silesian coalfiels. The war reparations demanded on Germany where no higher in a proportion of the German economy than the same reparations Germany asked on France after the 1870-71 war. The German government could have paid the reparations in full if they had wanted to.
The theory of the "Carthagenian" peace of Versailles has been utterly debunked by several academics, including in a recent book called Peacmakers by Margaret MacMillan.

France and Germany are political hotbeds so French Fascists are possible. France has a history of anti-semitism, so even Nazism taking hold in France would work. Also, we could butterfly the A-H into the Entente.

While people like Charles Maurras and such were very much antisemitic they were NOT nazis and in fact hated the nazis with a passion during World War Two. Antisemitism is only one facet among many of nazism. Nazism was a modernist and revolutionary ideology, the Maurrassians and ultra Royalists where traditionalists and reactionaries. Nazism was a socialist ideology. The Royalists where not socialist at all, they wanted some form of corporatism that's true but there is a big difference between this and socialism.
 
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