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  1. Plausibility Check on France keeping Algeria?

    Unless there is a much greater European population, I think not. French population growth was slow during the XIXth century with the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars taking an extreme toll. Another factor that is often blamed is the inheritance laws preventing that inheritance be passed to one...

  2. Could Vichy France Survive in this scenario

    How would Vichy be in a position to break free and declare war on Germany? Its army was either in the colonies or sent to work in Germany. After Operation Torch, Germany also occupied Southern France which ended the semblance of independence that Petain had by making the seat of his government...

  3. France + Algeria = Great(er) Power?

    IIRC Senegal was one of the first subsaharan countries to declare independence. Also the "Tirailleur Senegalais" were from all across French Africa, not just modern day Senegal. That federated state kind of existed (the French Union and then the French Community), but in practice the metropole...

  4. France in an Axis victory

    Not important in terms of resources. Nice is a medium-sized town, and I wager it's more populous than all of Savoy put together. Corsica is a bigger fish. It used to be a Genoa dependency and the local language (which has been repressed by the French) is a dialect of Italian. Italian irredentism...

  5. France in an Axis victory

    It's very, very, very unlikely for Germany to annex the northern half of France. That's a misconception I see based on the "occupied zone/free zone" divide following the 1940 Armistice. German troops were only stationed in the northern half. Pétain's government moved to Vichy as it was a town in...

  6. Freedom Dies in Darkness: The Story of the 1968 Election and Beyond

    This is dank

  7. 1939 Poland as German Ally

    An alliance with Poland in 1939 doesn't mean Hitler can't get the land he wants later. By the time France is defeated and the Barbarossa is on the way, Hitler may well decide to put a Vienna Award on Poland. A shorter Spanish Civil war ending in a Republican victory with a Stalinist regime...

  8. Operation Pike in April 1940

    There is no way the Soviet retaliation could go that far, especially with their main source of oil (and soon after their entire economy) on fire. I doubt they could afford to support Germany as they did if they wanted to. An invasion of Turkey or Iran would bog down a couple hundred kilometers...

  9. What if Italy stays out of WWII?

    I think France giving the German a harder time and fighting on (say 1 or 2 months more) would persuade Mussolini to not enter the war.

  10. Make America Great Again: A Hearst TL

    I love this, keep going!

  11. Nazis win, who succeeds Hitler?

    Yeah possibly. I was also thinking about Goebbels using the propaganda apparatus to pull a cultural revolution.

  12. Nazis win, who succeeds Hitler?

    I recall Fritz Todt was mentioned as a possibility not too long ago. As minister for armaments before his death he had taken over many of Goring's prerogatives, was somewhat respected by the army and the party. He could be a sort of Khrushchev. To push the Soviet parallel I think Himmler would...

  13. If Nazi Germany used chemical weapons in Normandy, would it have affected the outcome of the war?

    Without doubt the Allies would retaliate and use it on the frontlines in Italy or to clear the beach on DDay 2, so Germany probably looses even faster. But they could refrain from using it on non military targets, partly to claim the upper moral ground on the issue esp since German defeat is...

  14. France Wins Its War in Algeria in the 1960s

    If by winning you mean keeping Algeria until the present day, not going to happen without massive ethnic cleansing. Which can happen, if the General's putsch of 1961 succeeds and De Gaulle is killed. Among the organisations affiliated to the OAS were neofascists parties such as Jeune Nation...

  15. If Nazi Germany used chemical weapons in Normandy, would it have affected the outcome of the war?

    I'm not sure the Allies would jump straight to obliterating cities in mustard gas, nor would the Germans for that matter.

  16. Would it be possible to have a Christian Republic in present-day Europe similar to OTL Iran?

    Tiso's slovakia maybe

  17. Succes of fascism with a moderate "Hitler"?

    Check out MSZ's Kalter Krieg

  18. Heil Belgium

    That's ideological blah blah blah. In practice, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were totalitarian, corporatist, nationalist, imperialist states. Differences in actual policies were very dim. Just like, there was Stalinism, and then Mao came and said peasants can into revolution. Besides, i'm no...

  19. If French made a mass resistance after the fall of their nation in WWII

    This could be done by having Petain dead of old age in 1939, or better yet, have him be in England with De Gaulle by the time the country falls. Petain, as the victor of Verdun, was a very respected and well-known figure, much more than the recently-promoted General de Gaulle, and he largely...

  20. Rumsfeldia: Fear and Loathing in the Decade of Tears

    In a massively unstable world, where immigration to Western Europe is probably 2 to 3 times what it is now, EU being a socialist's thing, there's definitely going to be a *FN rising at some point to question this. Maybe not run by Le Pen if he exhausted his political capital defending Rumsfeld...
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