alsace

Shortly after World War 1, Germany was forced to relinquish control over Alsace back to France. However, During the Beginning on the 20's, The still majority German population grew unhappy of French Rule and sought to secede as a united Alsatian nation-state. So on the 17th of July, 1921. Much...

IOTL, the future Roman emperor Julian (mostly known for his Pagan religious sympathies) was sent to the empire's Rhenish frontier by Constantius II in 356 AD to deal with a large Germanic invasion, spearheaded by the Alemanni tribe. The Germans were executing numerous raids across Gaul, and...

Everybody knows about the squabble of Alsace-Lorraine and how it led to french revanchism, which led to the creation of the system of alliances that led to WWI. So, i have a question: what's the best PoD for the german government to decide against annexing the region after defeating France in...

Alsace-Lorraine, for most of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was always a region of conflicting interests between two specific states: France and Germany. Neither state wanted the other to have any semblance of control over the area. Thus, the challenge here is to make Alsace-Lorraine a...

Many histories of the late 19th and early 20th centuries regarding the origins of WWI seem to indicate that snatching Alsace Lorraine from France elicited a visceral and permanent revanchist antipathy from the French towards Germany. We've all heard the various stories, e.g. schoolchildren...