From Varyar's thread, ideas I had for their hypothetical
Idea is that the fall of the Reich has changed the borders of western Europe and part of central, with some countries reforming as they were and others not, while the new democratic Germany remains far bigger and, as Aznavour suggested, wrangled keeping Crimea. However, the conquest of Eastern Europe meant a lot of the newly liberated countries didn't want to, or couldn't, reform as they were. The Swedes and Norwegians had too many people who liked being Aryans, there are too many western settlers in some parts (some a majority and some a powerful minority), and in large swathes the Nazis killed so many people while so few Germans moved that you've just got sparsely populated scrubland with random small states and "reservations".
This isn't far into the end of the Reich, and all the neat lines don't take into account various ethnic & nationalist insurgencies.
- Burgandy are countries that were only partially conquered (some worse than others); blue are French and British colonies that changed as a result; red are German allies
- Deep purple is a new country formed out of conquered lands, light purple are sparsely populated areas
one where Germany annexes Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, large parts of northern and eastern France, most of Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, bits of northern Yugoslavia, and the USSR out to the Urals. Probably ASB, but let's allow it for the basis of discussion. Eventually, the Nazi Party (probably for economic reasons, because good luck on that front with your ideology of choice) loses control and is replaced. What happens now?
Idea is that the fall of the Reich has changed the borders of western Europe and part of central, with some countries reforming as they were and others not, while the new democratic Germany remains far bigger and, as Aznavour suggested, wrangled keeping Crimea. However, the conquest of Eastern Europe meant a lot of the newly liberated countries didn't want to, or couldn't, reform as they were. The Swedes and Norwegians had too many people who liked being Aryans, there are too many western settlers in some parts (some a majority and some a powerful minority), and in large swathes the Nazis killed so many people while so few Germans moved that you've just got sparsely populated scrubland with random small states and "reservations".
This isn't far into the end of the Reich, and all the neat lines don't take into account various ethnic & nationalist insurgencies.
- Burgandy are countries that were only partially conquered (some worse than others); blue are French and British colonies that changed as a result; red are German allies
- Deep purple is a new country formed out of conquered lands, light purple are sparsely populated areas