WWI: Allied Invasion of the German Empire

Zelc

Banned
Let's say, in 1918, rather than surrender, the Germans somehow kept the fight going. What would happen if the Allies took the war onto German soil?
 
German Resistance continues for a few more months, but continues to get weaker. By the middle of 1919, Germany is going to be in a state of civil war, and half the time the entene will be fighting communists, not imperial Germans.
 

Zelc

Banned
German Resistance continues for a few more months, but continues to get weaker. By the middle of 1919, Germany is going to be in a state of civil war, and half the time the entene will be fighting communists, not imperial Germans.

I had a feeling. German conservatives vs. Spartacists?
 
I've seen it written that the French were about to launch an offensive in Lorraine that would have carried them into German Empire territory. If it had happened it c/would have reduced the stab in the back myth.
 
Let's say, in 1918, rather than surrender, the Germans somehow kept the fight going. What would happen if the Allies took the war onto German soil?

Maybe there could have been a WW1 Berlin battle. As allies pushing forward, Berlin is encircled by French,Belgian, British Empire , Commonwealth , Italian (coming from the South, already pushed through Bavaria ) and American troops , maybe some Czech Legion volunteers and others. Exhausted Heer units and inexperienced and ill-equipped Landwehr units try to hold the Entente advance but fail, some Heer troops from the east and the Baltikum, previously fighting Bolshevik troops, hasted back to Berlin to defend the Reich´s capital.
The Kaiser was suggested to die as a propaganda martyr figure on the front to save the monarchy(some German princes follow this Prussian example), he did and the crown prince is pronounced Emperor but there is no coronation, as Potsdam is already under Allied command. Meanwhile Ludendorff and Hindenburg and the OHL reign as a quasi military dictatorship as the German Empire begin to dissolve. In an desperate atempt to save the sitution, in a secret note Ludendorff offers the Entente a Alliance against the Bolsheviks in the East, the offer is immediatley slammed.
The German propaganda blames now Social Democrats and Bolsheviks for the failure of the Heer. There are heavy reprisals against opposition , far-right paramilitary groups like "Stahlhelm" crack down Opposition, there are Anti-Semitic slurs. Ludendorff orders the Reichstag to dissolve. The Berlin population, weakened by starvation and sickness, is not ready to fight a battle but they are ordered to fight along the Heer anyway.
 

Zelc

Banned
We are not talking about the Nazis, the Entente doesn't to occupy Berlin for a German surrender.

The Allies don't necessarily need to get to Berlin. Wouldn't socialist factions, like the Spartacusbund, attempt to topple the ailing monarchy and attempt to sue for peace?

They'd probably get to the outskirts of Cologne at best.
 
I agree with the last post. The Imperial Army is likely to be a dead issue when the Entente forces cross the Rhine. There maybe die hards, or Communists, or whatever fighting on, but the kaiser is liable to flee & any viable government still existing will cooperate with the Entente
 
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