Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7431988-20130903205525/@comment-32656-20130910142023

The "Bavarian Socialist Republic" was pretty much just a bunch of far-left activists who took control of Munich for a short time. No real authority, and they were put down very easily in the end. That it took as long as it did to get rid of them is actually a little hard to believe, imo. The ting didn't even have any local support, really.

Even those two cities would be out of range of American bombers based in Britain. Really, the whole USSR is safe from planes that take off from there. And the bombers that actually could carry them can't take off form carriers. Best you might be able to do, if the Allies hold the Greek islands, is hit the edges of the Black Sea. Maybe Vladivostok or bases on the Pacific, depending on the situation there. But there's no way that would cause a surrender - especially in your strategic situation.

The Nazi Party was not near that popular early on. Really, until the late 1920s, they had virtually no support - in the era you discuss, they had only a few thousand members. And, for that matter, without Hitler, they would have remained a Socialist Party. None of their supporters would have been the same as otl, or went to the DNVP.

No way the DNVP gets a majority that early on. Heck, they wouldn't gain that, at all. Best they would manage, eventually, is a plurality - which is exactly what Hitler got.

You mistake the DNVP with the Nazis. They were not near that extreme. Heck, I doubt that they would even ban the Communists. Let alone the other parties.

Lettow was not a dictator, and hated the concept. He would not do the things you list of that nature. Most you'd see is him take some sort of power ala~ the legislation that allowed Hitler to go ape otl. Heck, he refused to be an ambassador for Hitler's Germany because he disagreed with it and did not want to be associated with it - led to him being watched and followed the entire war.

Lettow would also reinstate the monarchies after he had power.

You're not going to see an "Allies" form when there's no threat.

Without German aid, the Republicans would win the Spanish Civil War. What you've missed is that the Nationalists were losing until the Germans gave them armed support, and brought the Nationalist Army to mainland Spain from North Africa.

The US would not be "afraid" of the USSR. You're not going to see Manhattan start that early, or even as fast as otl.

Rommel would not be anywhere near commander of the German military. Despite the impression given by the command in Africa, he was actually a fairly-low ranking general. He got that command because of his performance in France during 1940. at best, it was a corps-size one. He did not get a larger command until well after the pullout from Africa. You'd see much the same commanders as in otl.

Treaty of Versailles would have been revoked by the mid-1930s. Austria joining Germany would have put the nail in that coffin long before 1942. You've forgetting that it included a clause that aimed to prevent the two merging.

Japan would have acted like otl in China - i.e. going after the coastal areas long before then.

Soviets would not just attack Sweden, or even Finland, like that. They did it otl because they had an opening. Here, they do not have that.

Impossible for the Soviets to do those actions in Italy or southern France like that. ASB, really.

Not would that paratrooper move have worked. Limited range on those things, and it sure as heck would not have made Denmark surrender.

Such ferrying would not have worked. Even the Danish Navy would have been able to prevent that.

Not possible to move such vast numbers of troops like that.

If an attacking force takes casualties like that, they will not get through.

Those atomic programs, especially the Soviet one, are far too advanced. Remember, the Soviets only got one in 1949 because they stole the info for it from the US. US would be delayed here by a later start and less scientists.

You're just not going to see the US get involved like you have them. You need an actual reason for the isolationism to be broken, and you have none.