- Location
- Western New York
“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.”
Although my stories don’t (yet) touch on it, I’ve often wondered what would happen in Europe after the collapse of a multi-generation Reich and it generally depresses me.
The easiest solution might be ‘restore the status quo ante bellum’ but how do you bring back Poland and the Soviet states (etc) when almost everyone is either dead or a second or third generation immigrant somewhere else? Even in the relatively leniently treated western annexations, there’s a lot of Germans there now and a lot of locals living in the East. Do you just dump everyone back into their country of ultimate origin? What about mixed marriage offspring? For that matter, how can the rest of the world impose a settlement on a nuclear power like the Reich? Is there a way to glue Humpty Dumpty together again or is the best possible outcome one resembling the former USSR in OTL, but much messier and much much more bitter?
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.”
Although my stories don’t (yet) touch on it, I’ve often wondered what would happen in Europe after the collapse of a multi-generation Reich and it generally depresses me.
The easiest solution might be ‘restore the status quo ante bellum’ but how do you bring back Poland and the Soviet states (etc) when almost everyone is either dead or a second or third generation immigrant somewhere else? Even in the relatively leniently treated western annexations, there’s a lot of Germans there now and a lot of locals living in the East. Do you just dump everyone back into their country of ultimate origin? What about mixed marriage offspring? For that matter, how can the rest of the world impose a settlement on a nuclear power like the Reich? Is there a way to glue Humpty Dumpty together again or is the best possible outcome one resembling the former USSR in OTL, but much messier and much much more bitter?