A window of opportunity 1905

Cheers stevep

Thanks for your valuable input.

I really think that if the Nazis are stopped during the lifetime of Fieldmarshal v. Hindenburg there may be a slight chance of reverting to democracy or sort of though it is a narrow windov.
Post Hindenburg a military dictatorship - quite so.
There is lots of possibilities of whats happening if Nazi-Germany is out of the equation in Europe. Mussolinis Italy for one though without a big brother in the North he may have some difficulties doing real harm except to minor neighbours and may always fear French retaliation.
The Soviets is another dark horse though the Army purges may well happen handicapping them for some time.
I thing it is a realistic course for the Nordics to arm up and keep armed and mobilize at the right time - and keep being mobilized ward off aggression by anyone.

I am pondering a number of options but welcome any comment.

575

Thanks - Gustav Stresemann was one I thought of but yes he dies too early, and that surprisede me but its the look of peoples younger than me in that day and age - giving him those 5-10 years would definitely be a gamechanger.

1927
The Vestre government is no better at combatting economic problems that its Socialdemocratic predesessors.

A spin-off of the setting up of separate airforces and the cooperation of these across borders make for the first unofficial General and Naval Staff meetings of the Nordic countries at Copenhagen.
Lectures is held on the Schleswig War of 1864, the ground and naval War of 1905 and the deployment of Free Corps to the Baltic Nations during 1919-20 are subjects as are reports from the Russian Civil War and what have been gleaned from the Soviet – Polish War, WWI and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5.
The real outcome of the meeting and lectures is that the chiefs-of-staffs get to know each other and all have already realized that either the southern or the eastern threat may risk coming to involve all which necessiate a dissemination of information between the countries.
The days of keeping to a strict west/south area of Norway - Denmark and a east area of Sweden – Finland must be regarded as at an end. The uncertainties due to the unruly years since the Great War and instability in many countries are too important not to take notice of and exchange with the other Nordics.
Another important outcome is the intelligence bureaus of the four nations begin sharing knowledge more broadly than before again piecing together the larger puzzle so as not to miss important clues originating in other parts of Europe.
The main issue of interest to all is the effects of the Rapallo Treaty of 1922 between Weimar Germany and Soviet Union on cooperation – also on military matters. The actual military cooperation had been a shock to several now disillusioned Nordic Communists who had been to the Soviet Union and had made reports to the Finn securityservice which of course had passed the information on to the Military Intelligence which had a natural interest in all that would pass in the Neighbouring Country.
The Finn securityservice had a bright moment in realizing that if the two WWI defeated powers would join in arms the Nordic countries might be in danger in some way.

Dissiminating the information to Government made for many hours of discussion on what to do in the situation. At last King Carl briefed by the Primeminister decided that the information would be given to the other three Nordic Countries.

The British severing of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union due to subversive activity there make the Nordic primeministers agree that the staff-meeting and intelligence cooperation must continue though under strict secrecy.

Adolph Hitlers half-sister Angela Raubal and her children sisters Angelika “Geli” Raubal and Elfriede Raubal and their older brother Leo Raubal had during 1925 moved to Germany from Austria and Angela had gotten the job as housekeeper of her younger brother Adolph.
Geli was a strong willed girl but Adolph Hitler tried to control her and whoever she would see.
During December Adolph Hitler discovered that Geli had a relationship with his driver Emil Maurice, a founding member of the SS even though he was part jewish, and dismissed Maurice.
Geli Raubal was furious at her uncle Adolph Hitler because of his dismissal of Maurice and went to Hitlers apartment in Prinzregentenplatz 16 in Munich to talk things through following the dismissal. Geli and Hitler had a very vocal argument during which Geli showed Hitler she had found his Walther pistol and now would kill herself because of his actions. Trying to disarm Geli the gun goes off and Hitler was killed.
The Nazi Party would play the death of Hitler down which wasn't too difficult as Hitler had still been in the process of assessing his position within the Nazi Party following his prison time two years earlier during which he had openly told that he had left the Nazi Party to write a book. Following his release from prison in 1925 he had been working to reestablish his leading position.
Given a kind of Heros Funeral by the Nazi Party Angela Raubal and her children was silently whisked away out of Bavaria to their native Austria.

Italy sign a friendship pact with Hungary which by Yugoslavia is seen as a threat to Yugoslavia which indeed by Italy is seen as an obstacle to its aims in the Balkans; primarily as Italy saw its promises for joining the Entente 1915 never fulfilled among these a major part of the Dalmatian coast which the new Yugoslavia had claimed for itself.


Italys war aims in Dalmation WWI of which it was alotted Istria and the first island ajecent to this.

Italy also signed the second pact with Albania since 1926.
Even so Italy had by 1924 signed a frienship treaty with Yugoslavia but had begun courting that countries neigbours in order to wreck the little Entente of Yugoslavia – Czechoslovakia and Romania by signing a treaty with Romania 1926 recognizing the possession by that country of Bessarabia and now would also court Hungary and Bulgaria. Albania was part of the package that Italy wanted for itself. By 1925 the Yugoslavian parliament had rejected a 1925 treaty giving privileges to Italians living in Dalmatia.
Hungary was giving access to the port of Fiume for overseas exports.