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    Alternatives to nation-states?

    Hanseatic League type associations of city States, particularly along trade routes?
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    Alternatives to nation-states?

    Not for want of trying.
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    This forum will continue to operate

    A huge thank you to everyone involved. Wonderful news!
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    Review of Dominion

    Todt had wanted to do pretty much the same, but didn't have the same clout with Hitler, nor did the NSDAP or the SS have the same sense of urgency in 1941 as in 1942/3 ( the discussions started well before the agreements were concluded).
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    Review of Dominion

    That applies nearly as well to the USSR as it does to the Third Reich!
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    Review of Dominion

    As I understand it, France was struggling to heat people's houses in 1942-1944, never mind rebuild its industries to rival Germany. The Polish and Ostenlands coal would no doubt ensure that the Reich and Bohemia-Moravia, the Croats and Slovaks wouldn't go short and might well supply...
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    Review of Dominion

    Germany hadn't enough coal for its own needs (and a lot of their coal was brown coal) , nor had France or Italy or Scandinavia. I don't think that any Russian/Polish/ Ukrainian coal fields that the Reich seizes would be sufficient to allow them to lock British coal out of the European market...
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    Review of Dominion

    You made a lot of good points on the Scottish Nationalist issue but I'm afraid that I couldn't agree on the economics The thing though is that, historically speaking, since the later 1880s the British have made their money in global trade and spent it in Europe on tourism, wines, food and...
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    Review of Dominion

    While the Scottish nationalist thing did evidently reflect Sansom's personal political view, it has to be said that there were Scottish and Welsh nationalists and Irish nationalists (and Breton nationalists in France) who did either attempt to spy or propaganda broadcast for the Nazis in hopes...
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    Has anyone devised an up to date template letter (simply worded and with key issues as bullet points)? Our local MP is Carla Lockhart and I think I have to (a) recognise the priority of child safety; and (b) make sure that the issues are set out clearly for a non-expert. If they have, please share!
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    While I would be extremely reluctant to advocate this step , having first discovered alternate history back when I was 14 in the early 1980s and loved it (Sideways in Time, Bring the Jubilee, Lest Darkness Fall, Circumpolar) and would have undoubtedly joined any alternate history sites going...
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    Incredibly pat historical occurrences

    William Patrick Hitler was recruited into the US Navy by a recruiting officer called Hess, though I strongly suspect that this was rigged by the USN for PR purposes.
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    Railway nationalisation under Gladstone

    France, which had a good deal more state involvement in its railways does tend to have its population a good deal more evenly distributed across the country than the UK. There are other considerations as well such as multipolar proximity to major European markets of course but...
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    Railway nationalisation under Gladstone

    Not sure that it does mean a very different population distribution. OTL every Parliamentary constituency that wasn't controlled by a territorial magnate worried about the effects on fox hunting was pushing for a rail connection. This was tempered a bit OTL by the need to raise a bit of capital...
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    PC: A WWII without the Bolshevik coup in Russia in 1917?

    I am not sure where you are making these assumptions from. The USSR was in the doghouse for (i) a separate and very generous peace with Germany; (ii) the brutal execution of the Romanovs; (iii) sponsoring Communist parties and world revolution in the UK, France and USA; and (iv) trying to...
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