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  1. Effect on rest of WW2 of a failed Sealion

    Think I would have to go with the estimates above. Major variable is how quickly the RN arrives to intervene. The Fallschirmjägers have another issue not faced by the Allied paratroopers on D-Day. Most of their equipment and weapons were dropped in separate canisters. Cue scattered German...

  2. Make the Graf Zeppelin an Essex equivalent

    The US navy gives the German navy a surplus Essex Class sometime in the 50s or 60s that they rename Graf Zeppelin? Only way I can see it happening.

  3. Effect on rest of WW2 of a failed Sealion

    The plan evolved across the summer as they replaced the Chief of the Imperial General Staff a couple of times, it did not Help General ironside's position that his name kept coming up in connection with plots to overthrow the government and install a pro-Nazi regime. Broadly speaking by the...

  4. Would the allies appease to a communist Germany?

    Well since in that case the Germans would be invading a nominally independent Rhine state and the rabid anti-Communism of much of the British establishment I imagine the British would happily support direct French intervention.

  5. Effect on rest of WW2 of a failed Sealion

    Well I am assuming that the bulk of landing troops aren't likely to get off the beaches and most of the losses are POWs. The Fallschirmjägers on the other hand are likely to take massive casualties on a par with the Hague. I am also assuming that with the most rashly optimistic assessment of...

  6. Effect on rest of WW2 of a failed Sealion

    I am assuming that the follow up waves wouldn't just be thrown into the meatgrinder on the beaches, less because of any concern about the losses than because much of the transportation needed to move them will have been lost in the initial assault. I believe that's about right. losses will also...

  7. Effect on rest of WW2 of a failed Sealion

    I think Barbarossa would go ahead, even in the worst case scenario the Nazis have lost 100,000 men in Sealion while Barbarossa involved some 3,000,000. The biggest impact is that the ability of the Nazis to bail out the Italians is going to be limited. If it does come down to a choice I suspect...

  8. WHAT IF : US-USSR Joint Invasion of the Empire of Japan Between 1941-1944 ? (Maybe with the help of KMT in China?)

    Not very, the Aleutians were a miserable place to use as staging grounds for further advances, the extreme cold is just too much of a challenge for an operational base.

  9. WHAT IF : US-USSR Joint Invasion of the Empire of Japan Between 1941-1944 ? (Maybe with the help of KMT in China?)

    Yes the problems were Stalin's refusal to believe an attack was imminent and his panicked reaction when it began.

  10. The Germans build carriers, instead of battleships, prior to WW2

    But carriers make terrible raiders. You seem determined to not only have the Kriegsmarine build a carrier, not implausible, but fleet of them with work beginning in the mid 1930s when the Kriegsmarine barely existed and then having them operating as successful unescorted raiders in the Atlantic...

  11. WHAT IF : US-USSR Joint Invasion of the Empire of Japan Between 1941-1944 ? (Maybe with the help of KMT in China?)

    The American forces don't have any bases remotely close enough to mount an invasion during this time.

  12. The Germans build carriers, instead of battleships, prior to WW2

    They did that not because the Stukas were especially effective, but because there was a readily available alternative and they wanted to conserve RAF strength for the defence of Southern England. And the losses the Luftwaffe inflicted were a function of constricted waters and convenient land...

  13. The Germans build carriers, instead of battleships, prior to WW2

    Watching the latest Drachinifel video and I can't help thinking that in an alt universe this would probably be the reality of a more determined Kriegsmarine foray into carriers.

  14. The Germans build carriers, instead of battleships, prior to WW2

    And the Luftwaffe's performance at Dunkirk and in the Channel hardly build confidence in their anti-shipping skills. The truth is an inadequate surface fleet built around carriers isn't going to perform any better than an inadequate surface fleet built around battleships.

  15. What might've happened if the Allies didn't exist, and the countries within never declared war on the axis?

    Perhaps, but since the basic premise of the OP is so farfetched as to render it academic. The only way the guarantee to Poland isn't issued is if there is no Munich Agreement and the. Germans don't march into Prague. It should be remembered that Hitler didn't expect the Munich negotiations to...

  16. What might've happened if the Allies didn't exist, and the countries within never declared war on the axis?

    Sorry but you are wrong here, reclaiming Alsace-Lorraine and destroying the French army were prerequisites for turning east, the intent to reclaim Alsace-Lorraine was right there in Mein Kampf. The idea that Hitler thought the French and British would stay neutral is a myth, he knew full well...

  17. Did Ronald Reagan really sell drugs to minority neighborhoods? (Yes, this is a serious question)

    There have certainly been suggestions that the CIA turned a blind eye to drug running to prop up the likes of the Contras but its been wildly exaggerated in the years since.

  18. What might've happened if the Allies didn't exist, and the countries within never declared war on the axis?

    There was no alliance in 1939 and all that really united the British and the French was the security guarantee to Poland. Once Germany invaded Poland a declaration by those countries was inevitable. The war started because Hitler wanted a war, and kept pushing until he got one.

  19. Republican Spain in WW2 and the Cold War

    To what possible end? Stalin generally acted from cold strategic calculation when it came to foreign policy.

  20. British politics in a TL in which Hitler is assassinated in 1943

    Ignoring the distinctly unlikely scenario Churchill will still lose the election because the Labour manifesto aligns with what the majority of the British people wanted and the Conservatives just couldn't offer a similarly radical agenda. The new PM would still be Attlee.
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