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  1. WI: Military takeover preempts the Third Reich

    That seems like one of the biggest questions. A whole lot of the miltiary, particularly the older generation of Hindenburg and Maakensen, were stalwart monarchists. But restoring Wilhelm II seems like it would cause so many problems, not just diplomatic ones with France and the UK, but serious...

  2. WI: Military takeover preempts the Third Reich

    What was the driving force behind this anti-Polish sentiment? Is there any chance that a guy like von Seeckt would have been satisfied with a negotiated restoration of the pre-Versailles borders in the event that was somehow on the table?

  3. WI: Military takeover preempts the Third Reich

    It's certainly a provocative quote and there's parts of it that I agree with more than others. Rearmament is a certainty, I think Anschluss is quite likely. It's the war with Poland that I am less sure of and I think some sort of negotiated settlement is possible given the reticence to leap into...

  4. WI: Military takeover preempts the Third Reich

    I've been thinking about this topic again and I thought I'd revive this thread to see if anyone has any thoughts. Particularly I'm wondering about who might be the leader of such a hypothetical nationalist putsch. As I said above, I don't see Schleicher consolidating power as a leader, and...

  5. WI: Military takeover preempts the Third Reich

    I've been re-reading Richard Evans' Third Reich trilogy and was once again struck by this passage from the conclusion of the first volume: It's not hard to come up with a variety of PODs that could have set off a decline in Nazi fortunes. One I've been mulling over is the possibility of...

  6. Is the Myth of the Lost Cause a myth in of itself?

    Here's a question: which people should have been hanged as traitors following the civil war? Jefferson Davis is a given, but should it have been all their national elected officials? All generals?

  7. And All Nations Shall Gather To It - Volume I: The Abode of Peace

    That's all true, but the Crusader situation is massively stronger than IOTL where they were still able to put up a remarkably strong fight. And of course their much more solid presence in the Levant ITTL means that the Muslim powers will have a much trickier time uniting and coordinating.

  8. Gender Roles and Gender Equality in a Polytheist Europe

    Oh cool, what have you been reading?

  9. Gender Roles and Gender Equality in a Polytheist Europe

    That's certainly possible, but I think its also important to bear in mind that there can sometimes be some incentives to decry your own culture's historical shortcomings as simply being somebody else's fault. You see this a lot with nationalistic Indian historians who really want to suggest that...

  10. Gender Roles and Gender Equality in a Polytheist Europe

    This seems to be the root of the problem here. Paganism =/= secularism, in fact they're quite different. Just because a society doesn't have concepts like religious orthodoxy and weekly church services doesn't mean that it's any less conservative either culturally or theologically than one that...

  11. How true is the notion that saints (especially Roman Catholic) are pagan Roman gods in disguise?

    How would York Minster even know? Mind you, Bishop Spong's tenure in the US wasn't associated with any signs of God's wrath, and he deserved them just as much. C of E is so weird. It has that disturbing cadre of atheists, but it also produces some of the best religious writing of the modern...

  12. How true is the notion that saints (especially Roman Catholic) are pagan Roman gods in disguise?

    I'm pretty sure Michael was a preexisting figure in Jewish tradition. Overall, some saints would come to encompass certain aspects of preexisting cults, and others would organically develop traditions around themselves that would come to appear similar to pagan cults, but the actual number of...

  13. Status of Czechia and Slovenia in a Habsburg lead Greater German Empire?

    Assuming that this Habsburg empire doesn't get curb-stomped in a future World War (always possible) I don't see Czechia becoming independent or even having a particularly strong independence movement - German nationalists definitely aren't going to allow them to take the Sudetenland with them...

  14. Alternate developments of Christianity and their profound effects on the World,then and now

    I rather doubt Pelagianism would have the real world effect that you suggest. Rather than a greater emphasis on forgiveness, I suspect there would be greatly increased pressure for people to live sinlessly and perfectly. Part of what original sin means is that you can's hold people's...

  15. Alternate developments of Christianity and their profound effects on the World,then and now

    The veneration of Mary and the saints goes back to the very beginning of Christianity. It may have things in common with other religions, but it's every bit as much a part of Christian tradition as the eucharist.

  16. Princess Maria of Romania (1870–1874) survives

    I'm not so sure. This is the late 19th century, not the late 17th, and there's only so many royal families around; OTL he of course married someone of an even less prestigious. It's hardly a sure thing, but not implausible either.

  17. The Legacy of Saint Brendan: A History of the Western Hemisphere, 512 to 1400

    The facts of biology dictated that Native Americans were always going to have a bad time in the short term after initial contact with europeans (in terms of disease resistance). But I think there's every possibility that they do much better in this scenario.

  18. Potential Ethiopia TLs

    Because it's there. And they tried to conquer portions of it IOTL.

  19. Potential Ethiopia TLs

    Why would Ethiopia be more likely to convert to Arianism to please Kanem Bornu than to convert to Chalcedonian Christianity to please the much larger market in Constantinople? By the time that this scenario could conceivably come to pass, Ethiopia will have been staunchly Miaphysite for no less...

  20. Potential Ethiopia TLs

    I'm not sure I follow. How would closer ties with zealously anti-Arian Egypt make Ethiopia more likely to adopt Arianism? And why would Ethiopians abruptly do an about face against it's theological allies and, indeed, the church it was part of and subordinate to?
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