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Hi! I do not have much time, so a quick answer: In South Tirol a vote was thought about, but Italy was allowed to add so much other(!) regions to "South Tyrol", that on paper the Germans were a minority and ST was added to Italy. Italy cheated blatantly in 1919. @Barbarossa: Thanks for the...

Hi! First of: A great, interesting TL! While I dislike to make my first comment here a critical one, I think it warranted due to the overboarding "capital shuffle" ideas. An artifical capital city is unlikely to the extreme and even a change of the capital away from Berlin not that likely as...

Hi! The post-WW1 plebiscites are a bad example how to do such a vote. Not all, but many were rigged to favour the groups the winners liked. e.g. The Tondern area voted with 80+% to stay with Germany, but came to Denmark. Or the trickery Italy was allowed to get away with in the South Tyrol...

Hi! Your comment is not forgotten, but the answer will be in the next or next-to-next update.:) @Arrix Thanks for the praise!

Hi! @Hörnla, Barbarossa From a geographical standpoint, yes, the situation is not too bad, but that is mainly because E-L in 1888 is not that densely settled. Otherwise we would have gotten a border situation akin to those Barbarossa linked in. Between the voting districts was enough space to...

Hi! @Hörnla The chapter is only about the plebiscite and it´s result. What comes after, mediation, conflict, stasis, will be seen in coming chapters.:) @all Here is a map of the post plebiscite border. In the left bottom is an OTL map with the language border.

Hi! A heartfelt Thank you all for the support! (cyberspace hug)

Hi! Quite right! The normal soldier does his duty, which is a problematic one at best in the case of war. And going by his comment on the Japanese soldiers the way he worded it on the German soldiers, Calbear considers them all war criminals as well, the implication is clear. How could such a...

Hi Derekc2! No problem! Here is the link: https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=342193&page=11 You need to scroll down to the bottom of the page. While my post could have been better worded, English is not my native tongue and I was mad about "Life in Blacks"...

Hi! @all Thank you for the uplifting words! You readers are the only reason I still use my freetime for writing here. I was seriously considering to stop, but that would be punishing you for the deeds of one person. @Tyr I PMed Ian early on that I was wrongly kicked, but to this day I did not...

Hi! I will post a map these days, do not fear!

Hi! I am back and deeply disappointed by AH.com! "Life in black" slurred millions of soldiers by his heavily implied opinion that all, every single German soldier was a war criminal. When I defended them, saying that beside the war criminals there were millions of Axis powers soldiers who...

Hi! What I meant is that Japan either wins with the CP or if they lose against the CP, the Central Powers OTL war aims for East Asia are so small scale that Korea would stay Japanese and to calm the waves, one would later talk about a misunderstanding. As for the US: Without the...

Hi! @zeppelinair The Entente spewed a lot of propaganda about how nice and fair they were. Versailles and Trianon were not treaties, they were a farce to cover up their cheap greed. No one who is fair would have made these "treaties". e.g. what Italy, which cheated openly, was allowed to get...

Hi! But Korea will not become independent after WW1 even in the worst case scenario for Japan. Korea would be given to Russia or another nation (depending on which side Japan lost), but definitely not independence for Korea. Why do you think many former Entente nations are so deep in WW1...