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  1. What if "CalBear" Never Existed?

    *Munches popcorn*

  2. The Pacific War if the Munich Agreement Never Happened

    Japan won't attack the western powers in this instance, unless they've truly lost their marbles. They will likely keep grinding away in China.

  3. How Plausible is the "Disaster at Dunkirk = Nazi Victory" Tropes?

    Do the multiple, additional BEF evacuations from other French ports in the May - June (and unofficially, continuing until August) period still succeed? People always seem to forget those operations - from St Valery, Le Havre, St Nazaire, Nantes, and the French Mediterranean ports - but they got...

  4. Demographics of a surviving British America?

    Indeed. Significant Polish, Ukrainian, Italian and Greek immigration seems very likely.

  5. what would eastern europe look like in a successful generalplan ost ?

    I wonder what the fate of German-allied Eastern Europeans would have been? (Slovaks, Croats, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Romanians)

  6. WI: Soviet victory at Warsaw, 1920?

    I suspect sufficient British (diplomatic and financial) pressure would be applied to France to ease up.

  7. WI: Priests can marry but not become bishops

    I believe exceptions do get made on a case-by-case basis for widowed priests with children who wish to remarry (similarly to widowed priests in the Eastern Catholic churches, and widowed permanent deacons in the RCC).

  8. WI: Colonel Gersdorff successfully suicide bombs Hitler on 21 March 1943

    This assassination would be coming right on the heels of the German victory in their spring 1943 counter-offensive, culminating in the Third Battle of Kharkov. If a coherent military government can be put together sufficiently quickly, and puts out peace feelers, is there any possibility that...

  9. Hitler takes power later

    To what extent was that accelerated by wartime stress and quack medicine, though? This timeline's Hitler may stay healthier, longer.

  10. Hitler takes power later

    I doubt that Hitler would moderate all that much, but if the Weimar Republic has survived until 1946 then its democratic institutions may be deeply enough embedded by that point to resist a complete Nazi takeover of the state, even with Hitler being elected (as either President or Chancellor).

  11. What would a fully successful July 20 plot meant for Germany and ww2

    Stepping back a few months: what if the earlier planned March 11, 1944 assassination attempt at the Berghof (by Busch and Breitenbuch, with Tresckow's oversight) had gone ahead and taken out Hitler, followed by a successful implementation of Valkyrie? What would the ensuing military choices, and...

  12. WI: Valkyrie conspirators move nine days sooner on July 11, 1944, Allies agree to shorter occupation?

    From memory, didn't Allen Dulles of the OSS opine after the war that whilst the post-coup regime would have publicly been offered only unconditional surrender, that wouldn't have necessarily ruled out secret talks with the US and UK, and a degree of informal "shaping" of said surrender?

  13. How would a "reformed" Nazi Germany that completed Generalplan Ost be viewed by the world?

    I've often wondered - grimly - if the Nazi toleration of "acceptable" and nominally pro-Axis Slavic nationalities like Slovaks, Bulgarians, and Croats would have continued after a German WW2 victory, or if they'd also have been thrown into the Generalplan Ost grinder eventually?

  14. D-Day in 1943: Plausibility and operations in France

    Would a wider breakout breakout necessarily be the goal, at least initially? I thought at least some of the OTL 1943 invasion plans had a more limited vision of seizing the Cotentin Peninsula portion of Normandy (and ideally, Brittany as well)?

  15. Is it possible for the Axis to win after Pearl Harbor?

    Japan is screwed in almost any non-ASB timeline, after Pearl. Germany? Strongly likely to be screwed after Barbarossa failed to take Leningrad and Moscow, extremely likely to be screwed after Hitler's DOW on the United States, completely screwed after the losses at Stalingrad and in Tunisia (I...

  16. Road Less Traveled: WW1 negotiated peace in 1916/17

    In the end, I think the only ultimate red lines for the army high command regarding withdrawal from occupied French and Belgian territories - especially if Falkenhayn is still around, of if a strong Cancellor is keeping them in line - would be an insistence on retaining and annexxing the...

  17. How important was the Dunkirk evacuation ?

    Wasn't Dunkirk only one of several successful evacuations (albeit the largest)? The BEF wouldn't have been completely taken, although the blow would be a heavy one.

  18. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    On the other hand, I've been able to sell some female friends on For All Mankind, who are usually adamantly non-scifi but have gotten hooked in by the well written NASA staff, family and friends drama, with the smaller accompanying packaging of alt-history and hard scifi, and I think this will...

  19. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    I mean, it's at lest moving, realistic and well-written family drama - and demonstrates how badly Ed has been affected all these years by Shane's death, and his subsequent paranoid fears for Kelly. I think he was dealing with a lot of repressed guilt and PTSD in his role at NASA, that was...

  20. For All Mankind (AH Tv series at Apple TV)

    Regarding the Baldwin family - looking at the timeline involved and her apparent age of 17 or 18 in 1983, it seems as if Kelly must have been unusually old for an adopted child when Ed and Karen took her in; Shane died in 1973 - even if they adopted Kelly as early as '74 or '75 she must have...
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