User blog comment:Duchland/The Two Great Wars in one?/@comment-257949-20100729184236

Tbguy, I was just about to mention that!

Of course we need to examine the cultural side of a post-Victorian Europe stepped in 30 years of continuous war. If we want Hitler to be a famous figure in this TL, then he'll have to do something astounding on the front line to get recognised and promoted into a command position. We may or may not see a communist Russia, depending on whether or not the Eastern Front also devolves to trench warfare. And once America arrives on the scene (a delay of this would make a longer war plausible), Germany will be seriously screwed unless it can find a new source of manpower. Perhaps the imperial Prussian mentality degenerates into the Spartan system it is always stereotyped as?