====== Central Powers victory clichés ======

Alternate history is often built on working with a result that is opposite to the one from [[OTL]]. in OTL, [[pods:WWI|World War I]] was won by the Entente, leading to many amateur and professional alternate history writers doing the exact opposite. I.e., that the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria) won the first world war.

Unfortunately, plenty of writers get wrapped up in some... //rather questionable// notions of what the aftermath of a Central Powers victory in WWI would be like, what it would mean for European politics, society, economics, culture and science. Often, authors forget that scenarios within a realistic framework need to keep that level of realism for good and bad. What they do instead is engage in either overly dystopian or nakedly wish-fulfillment outcomes, with little logic or facts behind either.

On this page, we'll mostly cover the "A CP victory would make Europe/the world an utopia !" [[alternate history cliches|AH clichés]]. Believe it or not, they seem to be //more common// and pervasive than the clichés involving everything descending into dystopia after a CP victory. The logic behind this AH cliché in a nutshell: In a world where the Central Powers have won [[pods:WWI]], it's nigh impossible to not have a German-led Zollverein in Europe. It will - of course ! - exclude Britain and France, because reasons (or Imperial Germany fanboyism).  

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More TBA.

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==== AH.com discussions on the topic ====

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/would-the-world-be-better-if-central-powers-won-ww1.297956/|Would the World be better if Central Powers won WWI ?]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wwi-was-one-side-morally-better.334351/|WWI: Was one side morally 'better' ?]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/is-a-cp-win-in-wwi-more-desirable-than-a-entente-win.349472/|Is a CP win in WWI more desirable than a Entente win ?]]**

**[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/besides-no-nazis-why-do-people-frequently-think-that-a-cp-victory-would-be-a-better-world.397233/page-5|Besides 'no nazis', why do people frequently think that a CP victory would result in a better world ?]]**


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==== See Also ====

**[[Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck]]**

**[[Disunited Germany]]**

**[[German Techwank]]**

**[[pods:wwi#the_central_powers_winning_wwi|CP victory PODs]]**

**[[Wank]]**

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