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oisin718 wrote:Hmmm... let's play a little counterfactual game:

The Blueshirts depose Dev and seize power, allying Ireland with Germany. Britain invades the Free State. Germany lands troops in Ireland, defeats the British, and conquers northern Ireland. All of Ireland is reunified into a single Reich Protectorate, and used as a base of operations for the invasion of Britain--it is much easier to cross the Irish sea from Ireland than the English Channel from France.

The British army was no match for the Germans on the ground, so Britain quickly falls. Churchill is hanged, George VI is deposed, and the Duke of Windsor is reinstated as the puppet Edward VIII. With Britain occupied and neutralized, Germany can pull it's troops away from France and Europe and concentrate it's full might on Russia.

With extra troops and resources, the Wehrmacht pushes through to Moscow and executes Stalin and the Politburo, burning the Kremlin to the ground. Leningrad falls, as does Kiev. Russian resisters flee east of the Urals, but European Russia is now in German hands. Russian and Ukrainian and Belorussian peasants are rounded up into slave camps, and the vast stretches of land on the steppes is alloted out for German Lebensraum. The war in Europe is essentially over, and the Final Solution can proceed with impunity: every Jew, Gypsy, identified homosexual, and mentally or physically handicapped person in the Greater Reich is exterminated.

The Wehrmach marches south to reinforce Mussolini's regime, and invades Rome. The Pope and the College of Cardinals are hanged from the colonnade of St. Peter's, the treasures of the Vatican are brought back as trophies to Berlin, and St. Peter's is burned to the ground.

Collis the Armstrong wrote:heh thats why i said it would be for the worse

I dont think the germans would have sacked rome tho..
last time i checked the italians and germans were..allies

Méabh wrote:nah, the Germans liked to wreck everything they didn't build themselves

but let's not get me started on that bombed library

Collis the Armstrong wrote:i say the irish could take em all on--if they could be one