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The German Imperial army IOTL was very volatile and powerful as it stood, not only in technology but in pure numbers as well as organization, however it can still always be improved upon, especially if given appropriate PODs. With a POD of no earlier ghan 1900, what can you do to optimize and...

Despite the portrayal of the "Illuminati" in modern popular culture, they were indeed a real secret society during the Enlightenment era. Their aim was to counter superstition, obscurantism, the influence of religion (especially that of the Jesuits), and the abuses of power. These progressive...

Hello! I've been reading about the independence of Latin America recently, and something that consistently comes up is the significant role that Venezuela (what later became Venezuela) played in the downfall of Gran Colombia. I'm still trying to understand the specifics of how Venezuela's...

Let's say, in some way or another, the Netherlands manage to unify most of germany for the exception of the southern states like bavaria, Wurttemberg etc.. and the dutch language becomes the dominante and native tongue of the peoples. What would this Dutch majority and led country be called?

How would you picture alternate colonial empires in the Americas, from the 16th and 17th centuries onward? Either Italian, German, etc. Cristopher Columbus, for example, asked for financing from Genoa and Venice for his trip before going to Castile. Klein-Venedig (Welserland) was a German...

I know the two aerial attacks were very significant in the war, but they weren't effective as they were planned. What would need to be different/changed to have a successful and considerably meaningful impact on the German-Japanese war effort?

Initially I wanted to do a Brazilian TL, but I don't have enough material yet. So I will try to do something with the bits of knowledge I have. 1792 : TREATY OF ADRIANOPLE The Treaty of Adrianople was the the concordat which concluded the last of the Turco-Hasburgian Conflicts and ensured...

OTL some German tribes adapted to become steppe nomads lime the Goths of Crimea but most went west instead of east and the horse Germans were assimilated into various Slavic and turkic peoples over time. But what if more Germans went east and south ending up in Central Asia and fighting with...

Karl Lamp was a German who came to Peru in 1867 as an immigrant, but was crowned as an Inca by some indigenous people. So he wanted to reestablish the Inca empire. His attempt failed him and he was expelled from the country in 1883. He returned later and met with his subjects and militants (who...

Would the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars occur? Wouldn't there be the distribution of Africa (I would like to reflect on this)?

IOTL there was a small movement within cabinet to try and regain Heligoland but after Lloyd-George became hesitant of the idea he dropped it in his final demands in Versailles. But what if he didn't and Heligoland was annexed by the UK after ww1? What would be the board consequences of this...

Something which I've been thinking about, is it possible to have a state exist in the Baltic which has a German plurality in it? I say plurality because to my knowledge, the German population in the Baltics never became higher than 10 percent, and it was mostly urban, so achieving a full...

With a POD no earlier than 1600, have some German nation (or several of them) colonize the OTL 13 Colonies instead of Britain. Bonus points if the 13 Colonies are colonized by Protestant German states. You can have the English still set up colonies on the East Coast if it's necessary, but the...

How could a forming German Empire Annex a Greater Luxembourg prior to the F-P War? This Luxembourg must also include its Lands it lost to Belgium.

How to achieve the above?

During the Napoleonic wars, the Ottoman Empire joined the French Empire and invaded the Austrian lands lost in the Great Turkish War. Poland got Galicia, the Ottomans had Hungary as a puppet state. Frederick Wilhelm the Third's son, Wilhelm the First, married the princess of Austria, Maria...

My state (Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil) is famous for the great porcentual of immigration of Germans(from Germany and Austria) and Italians(here having regions of city that the large population descending from immigrants of this countries). This raised me some ideas from write my first timeline...

In OTL, English is arguably the farthest from any other Germanic language, and in fact blurs the line between Germanic and Romance languages, especially French, and to a lesser extent, Spanish. Basic Dutch, German, and Scandinavian still sounds vaguely familiar to a Native English-speaker, but...

Nazis with a more occult bent, for example Himmler and people from the Thule Society were Indophiles, trying to find commonalities between Hinduism and Norse Paganism, and seeing Hindu culture, particularly that of the Brahmin caste as an example of authentically preserved Aryan culture. Himmler...

The Kennedy Trials (Then Senator John F Kennedy giving a speech on Germany infiltration of the United State at the National Press Club) After the loss of most of Europe, part of Central Africa and all of the Eastern Europe to the Nazis. Both the US and UK began to safeguard their nation from...