Okay, so this thread's subject is pretty much exactly what it says on the tin: how could we make it so Wiemar Germany continue while Fascist Italy kicks off WW2 instead?
Look, I know Wiemar Germany was a failed state, ridden with poverty and instability, but it might have been stable enough to keep on going despite its problems if we butterflied it into being slightly more successful.
We also might have to wank Italy quite a bit to make them capable of kick-starting a world war, but perhaps in TTL they have time to prepare without a noisy upstairs neighbor starting the war early?
In TTL, Nationalist Spain probably still wins the Spanish Civil war, but will probably not remain neutral, instead joining TTL's equivalent of the Axis.
The war would probably start with Italy invading one of its "new Roman Empire" territories, perhaps Greece, or, for the sake of parallelism, making an agreement with the Soviet Union and invading Turkey (which is probably very unlikely)
So, anyways, here's how the war would probably be set up:
Look, I know Wiemar Germany was a failed state, ridden with poverty and instability, but it might have been stable enough to keep on going despite its problems if we butterflied it into being slightly more successful.
We also might have to wank Italy quite a bit to make them capable of kick-starting a world war, but perhaps in TTL they have time to prepare without a noisy upstairs neighbor starting the war early?
In TTL, Nationalist Spain probably still wins the Spanish Civil war, but will probably not remain neutral, instead joining TTL's equivalent of the Axis.
The war would probably start with Italy invading one of its "new Roman Empire" territories, perhaps Greece, or, for the sake of parallelism, making an agreement with the Soviet Union and invading Turkey (which is probably very unlikely)
So, anyways, here's how the war would probably be set up:
- The Allies: Britain, France, Germany, maybe Turkey (if Italy invades them), maybe Poland (if the Soviet Union is in TTL's Axis Equivalent), maybe the USA, maybe the Soviet Union (if Italy doesn't make a pact with them, or does but betrays them like Germany otl)
- TTL's Axis Equivalent: Italy, Spain, maybe Poland (if the Soviet Union is in the Allies), maybe Japan, maybe the Soviet Union (if Spain can get over the Soviets supporting the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and Italy pursues some kind of treaty, non-agression pact, or full-on alliance with them)