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Post by Max Sinister on May 1, 2024 20:39:36 GMT
WI the Nazis had not liberated Mussolini (maybe because he got killed ITTL), but abducted the Italian royal family/Badoglio instead? There had been plans for that.
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Post by stevep on May 1, 2024 23:19:26 GMT
WI the Nazis had not liberated Mussolini (maybe because he got killed ITTL), but abducted the Italian royal family/Badoglio instead? There had been plans for that.
Not sure but suspect it would alienate more of the Italian population from the Axis cause and demoralize the Italians fascists who continued to support them after the rescue of Mussolini. How big an effect that would be in the short term might be difficult to say but abducting the royal family is likely to antagonize a lot of its supporters and possibly also the church as well.
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Post by Max Sinister on May 8, 2024 1:52:03 GMT
WI female suffrage had been introduced in Germany after 1919? At this time, German women voted more often for the clerical/conservative parties. Which means: Without female suffrage, a leftist majority of main SPD and radical USPD in the parliament would have been the result.
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Post by Max Sinister on May 8, 2024 17:32:44 GMT
WI Takeo Yoshikawa had been caught spying in Pearl Harbor? Would they still have pulled off their airstrike, or would this have been become impossible?
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Post by Zyobot on May 14, 2024 18:17:18 GMT
‘AHC: Japanese Civil War In 1930s’.
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Post by Zyobot on May 16, 2024 2:46:34 GMT
‘AHC: More Ternary Computers’.
IOTL, it was binary computers that dominated for practical and engineering reasons. But if those kinks were ironed out and the tech were made scalable beyond a handful of novelty builds, though… 🤔
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Post by Zyobot on May 17, 2024 15:32:53 GMT
‘Joseph Goebbels Serves In World War I’.
First prerequisite is he never develops a clubbed foot or other deformities that prevent him from serving. Otherwise, I’m quite certain he’d have been called up just like everyone else.
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Post by American hist on May 18, 2024 18:21:10 GMT
If the Germans could have built the tiger tanks in mass numbers And they were better Than what they were.
Another possibility would be if Argentina went fascist during World War 2 And Brazil’s authoritarian dictatorship decides to join in the war effort for the axis.
Also, how could Cole steam trains have lasted longer in the USA?
Another question how could the Railway passenger Service have lasted longer in the United States without government subsidies?
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Post by Zyobot on May 18, 2024 21:11:02 GMT
'AHC: Red Equivalent of Generalplan Ost'.
Basically, have a communist regime(s) draw up large-scale plans for genocide and extermination on the scale of Generalplan Ost. To my knowledge, Communist regimes are usually associated with "ad-hoc" blood purges and killing tons of people via accident or callousness, but not deliberately razing entire peoples, cultures, or regions of the world to the ground and dismantling them brick by brick (as the Nazis sought to do).
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Post by Max Sinister on May 19, 2024 0:08:06 GMT
‘Joseph Goebbels Serves In World War I’. First prerequisite is he never develops a clubbed foot or other deformities that prevent him from serving. Otherwise, I’m quite certain he’d have been called up just like everyone else. Whatever happens, he'll be less of a chickenhawk. (Kurt Schumacher - some truly brave guy from the SPD - pointed out that percentage-wise, there were fewer veterans among the Nazis in the Reichstag than among his SPD guys, and half of those Nazis who were either were officers or only got training in 1918 and never saw the front.)
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Post by Max Sinister on May 19, 2024 0:10:36 GMT
'AHC: Red Equivalent of Generalplan Ost'. Basically, have a communist regime(s) draw up large-scale plans for genocide and extermination on the scale of Generalplan Ost. To my knowledge, Communist regimes are usually associated with "ad-hoc" blood purges and killing tons of people via accident or callousness, but not deliberately razing entire peoples, cultures, or regions of the world to the ground and dismantling them brick by brick (as the Nazis sought to do). This reminds me of some PoD I once thought up. A decision I'm "comrade" Stalin thankful for he never did. If he had decided to swallow all Eastern European states instead of keeping them nominally independent - what if we had ended up with Ceausescu in charge of this Super Soviet Union? Can you dare to imagine?
(Even worse: Have Mao conquer and annex Indochina, and Pol Pot taking over China!)
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Post by Zyobot on May 19, 2024 0:21:20 GMT
‘Joseph Goebbels Serves In World War I’. First prerequisite is he never develops a clubbed foot or other deformities that prevent him from serving. Otherwise, I’m quite certain he’d have been called up just like everyone else. Whatever happens, he'll be less of a chickenhawk. (Kurt Schumacher - some truly brave guy from the SPD - pointed out that percentage-wise, there were fewer veterans among the Nazis in the Reichstag than among his SPD guys, and half of those Nazis who were either were officers or only got training in 1918 and never saw the front.)
No, but seriously, that's gotta' be one of the most hilarious ironies I've ever heard about. German ultranationalists who by and large never actually fought for their country, much less died for it.
In fact... wasn't Hitler kind of a layabout who exaggerated his service record, despite technically serving on the front lines? Even if not, I still recall Himmler was an officer cadet who never saw action, whereas Heydrich served a peacetime stint in the navy before being dishonorably discharged. Only one who I can think of who did have a somewhat impressive service record is Göring, a few of his more dubious honors notwithstanding.
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Post by Zyobot on May 21, 2024 2:38:06 GMT
‘AHC: UK Gets The Atomic Bomb First’.
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Post by stevep on May 21, 2024 8:36:39 GMT
‘AHC: UK Gets The Atomic Bomb First’.
Assuming WWII goes roughly as OTL its possible but unlikely given the strained resources available. It would need the US to never really get going with their programme.
The other question is when and under what circumstances? While WWII is still ongoing in which case a specially modified Lancaster could carry one of the bombs used against Japan OTL but getting through even a denuded 1945 German air defence might be an issue.
If its after the war then news of the event will start a race in both the US and the USSR along with possibly other nations depending on the status of the rest of the world.
If for some reasons WWII doesn't occur or is greatly abbreviated its possibly more likely that having started a programme Britain continues and ends up winning the race, plus possibly keeping its existence secret - although there would be the issue of communists spies. In which case if say Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the USSR come into conflict with Britain things could end fairly quickly.
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Post by Max Sinister on May 22, 2024 13:10:28 GMT
Inspired by "Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar defeated Hitler" by Nicholas Rankin:
WI Franco had bombed the Republican ships in Tangiers in 1936? He was close to doing it IOTL. (Unusual for him, later he was so over-cautious...)
After such an incident, the WAllies should have done something.
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