the German Socialist Party, the SPD,
minor quibble with this: the German Socialist Party was a far-right nationalist party formed after WWI which merged into the Nazis in 1922. The SPD's been the Social Democratic Party of Germany since 1890, and I see no reason why they'd change their name again ITTL. I might be wrong tho.
 
minor quibble with this: the German Socialist Party was a far-right nationalist party formed after WWI which merged into the Nazis in 1922. The SPD's been the Social Democratic Party of Germany since 1890, and I see no reason why they'd change their name again ITTL. I might be wrong tho.
Thanks for the catch, I actually meant for that to say "the leading German socialist party" and I didn't pay enough attention
 
The Dutch haven't diverged yet so there hasn't been much reason to focus on them. They are some of the friendliest to the German Republic, though, and are still focusing on quietly building up their colonies with a weather eye on the Japanese and Venezuelans.
but they will have a lot better access to german tech than otl. and being so friendly, the germans may opt for reasons of detente to let some tech appear through the Netherlands.
plus dutch tech level at this time was pretty high,for example with regards to radiolocation developments (radar) they kept up front with with the other countries.
 
As an addendum to the last chapter, here are the voting results from the 1936 Prussian Election. I removed it from the chapter because it, and the segment talking about it, felt distracting and a bit too detailed for what I wanted, but it gives a nice visual for how the SPD's control of Prussia is slackening.

 
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