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  1. Effects of Graf Spee returning home safely??

    What would be the effect of Graf Spee avoiding the river Plate battle and returning home safely? (Perhaps considering his making the OTL decision without his float plane workable to skip the Plate and just return home safely in the dark of late December, early January in the North Atlantic??? I...

  2. Graf Spee flees immediately

    What if Graf Spee tries to flee immediately on sighting British warships of the Platte, presumably trying to delay start of combat until darkness. Maybe laying smoke at times. What happens, presumably the British try to overhaul and close??? Could the Spee escape?

  3. Germany sends Blucher to Kamerun at war start

    Blucher was sort of an oddball, too small to fight against other Battlecruisers. What if at war start, lets say July 28th, the Germans send her out with a company of marines on board to help defend Kamerun. Douala due to its geography could be a defended port with a little work, and the ship...

  4. Germany does colonialism lite

    (the PODs are right near the boundary cut off pre/post 1900 but the effects are later) With a large colonial empire secured by 1890, Germany decides her later colonial ambitions would just cause more trouble than they are worth. And does: 1) Avoids taking land from China (Tsingtao), figuring...

  5. Can John Walker Lindh avoid jail.

    John Walker Lindh, scooped up in the fighting in Afghanistan for the Taliban, spent 17 years in jail. Could he have avoided that? It was yet another incident which inflamed passions in the USA, would there been any difference if it was all avoided. I'll throw out that it seems that if he...

  6. Likliest No Sarajavo next WW1 opportunities

    Lets assume the Franz Ferdinand driver doesn't turn at exactly the wrong place as OTL, and him and Sophie uneventfully survive the visit. What would be the most likely next flare ups for war, I will guess a few scenarios but please tell me the plausibility of those or suggest others. 1) OTL...

  7. Better Germany World War 1 Blockade Running

    The Germans had some success blockade running from American ports to Germany. I have been using Chat GPT since information is sparse about German blockage running on the web, except for the merchant submarine Deutschland which is well publicized (CHAT GPS has archival material in its training...

  8. What if the peace of Amiens holds???

    Lets assume Bonaparte just agrees to British occupation of Malta in exchange for the new realities in Switzerland and Italy and British withdrawal from Cape Colony. And the peace holds with this status quo for at least 5 years, and Bonaparte is generally content with this situation, and is not...

  9. The French take Cadiz in 1810, then what?

    So it's thought that if Soult split his forces invading Andalusia, that he could of taken both Seville and Cadiz in early 1810, instead of just Seville as OTL. What would be the consequences of this ATL French success? It seems difficult to supply a huge army in Portugal to defeat Wellington...

  10. What the best way for the French to deal with the British in Spain (post 1809)???

    Lets make this after 1809, so the course of the politics has been set, Wagram has already been won, so the French have a range of strategic options. Obvious one is to avoid invading Russia in 1812, and commit Napoleon himself to Spain, but not sure that even can remove Wellington out Lisbon and...

  11. Did the Confederacy Under Achieve???

    (Or did the Union over achieve) It would seem that the Confederacy with their huge physical size, military tradition, motivated population, decent sized rail net and industry (even if poor relative to the North in number) could easily secure their independence. The Union would have to find a...

  12. So if Cornwallis escapes Yorktown...

    So if the British fleet wins the Capes or somehow in position to evacuate Cornwallis to Ney York or some place. What happens next???

  13. German-Soviet Armistice October 1941

    This ATL assumes something like the improved Luftwaffe in a "better show" in 1940 linked below happened: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-better-show-in-1940.103866/ But unlike that timeline Hitler doesn't want to risk everything on a roll of the dice invading Britain, still...

  14. A completely dysfunctional end of WW1

    Scenario: Something roughly like: The Germans do unrestricted submarine warfare, but don't do Zimmerman telegram (combined with a slightly restricted 1915 campaign which avoided the Lusitania, another ship being sunk later with less casualties, the USA tips to not going in for this TL). The...

  15. Minimal goal Barbarossa

    We have had threads about "What if Hitler knew the Soviets were strong". The consensus was that, sure Nazi dogma pushed them that way, but practically it was about food. Germany was operating occupied Europe on a food deficit and even with Soviet shipments, food stocks were dwindling monthly...

  16. Tooze vs Molotov and Ribbentrop - Check my math.

    I was trying to compare the amount of food the Germans received from the Soviets, vs the amount they might have plundered and consumed feeding their army there. The story from Tooze and such authors is that Germans needed to invade the Soviet Union to feed their people, and practically OTL the...

  17. German/French Final peace August 1st 1940

    July 1940 rolls around, Hitler thinks ahead, pretty much has in mind that he wants to do Barbarossa next year, while hopeful for a one year campaign, in the back of his mind, he realizes it could take 2-3 years to reach all the distant objectives like Baku, a couple more years to repair it all...

  18. Stalin judges the situation better

    OTL with the fall of France in 1940, Stalin tried to play the game of trying to use the situation to grab territories and other advantages. Grabbing things like Bukovina (outside the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact), making a play for influence in Bulgaria, and occasionally cutting off economic...

  19. Civilian transportation with no world wars.

    No mix up of destinations occurs with the Archduke in Sarajevo 1914, He and Sophie lives, No WW1 or WW2, The Kaiser is still a naval and ocean liner enthusiast. With no war and let's assume no great depression, do these ocean liners become bigger, faster and more comfortable than OTL, do the...

  20. German mountain divisions don't attack torward Sukhumi

    The German Mountain divisions 1st and 4th during August 42 during Fall Blau, made an effort to take Sukhumi across the Caucasus which was a doomed effort. What if these elite divisions efforts were applied toward Tupase or Grozny instead?? (OTL the initial August drive toward Tupase was made...
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