german empire

So let’s say Wilhelm II is born perfectly healthy. In fact, not only is he born a healthy man, he in fact grows up to be a genius, who is deeply invested in military studies. He is basically a Napoleon of his age, and well known to be an extremely capable strategist and soldier by the start of...

Assume a Central Powers victory scenario in World War One, and the formation of a Mitteleuropa dominated by the German Empire, including Ukraine. Crimea, Latvia, and Estonia are the only areas that are directly annexed. The others are the independent states of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus...

Hello, everyone! This is a timeline I worked on a while ago before I joined AH.com. I recently looked it over, and decided it needed to be redone, since in retrospect it seems very poorly researched. So... welcome to Agadir War 2.0, renamed Michel's Victory since I needed a (slightly) less...

Before you read this post, take a few seconds to vent your urge to roll your eyes and laugh maniacally at my clichéness. There. Now, as a new member of this forum and a ww1 geek, I feel compelled to post a cp victory map. So here it is. The POD, by the way, is that the British Admiralty...

As we all know, Austria became part of the German Empire after the Austro-German War of 1874, where the German Empire dealt a crushing defeat on the Austrian Empire which led to Hungary and Croatia becoming independent (Croatia became a monarchy with a local aristocrat as their king while...

Hello all, I have been recently starting to write my first alternate history story where Hitler dies in WWI, and during the early 1930s the Hohenzollern monarchy gets restored by the German National People's Party (DNVP). The only problem is I'm having a hard time figuring out how it will...

It seems to be a near consensus here that Imperial Germany building up its navy was detrimental, because it antagonized the British and the Germans were never going to have a fleet large enough to match the Royal Navy. However, without a navy at all, wouldn't the German Empire have become...

So the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 was a result of disagreements about the handling of the Second Schleswig War in 1864. That war was a result of the Diet of the German Confederation in 1858 invalidating the Danish-Holstein union constitution from 1855. And that constitution was an attempt to...

So I've posted my Austria WIP province Map a few days ago and I thought, hey, why continue annoying the map thread iv when you also can do your own thread? So this is Valdore's V-BAM Store AkA Valdore's Shitstuff Corner. In this thread I will post (nearly) all of my maps including...

With a POD no earlier than 1849, how could the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire) be combined into one, contiguous empire? (Or closely integrated customs union with permanently aligned military)

Hi all My question is regarding this map below about the "planned Tatar republic" in pink. It says that it was planned which means material out there on it is supposedly going to be scarce. Does anyone have anything on it? More interesting as the description says it was an "area of German...

If the German Empire and the Triple Alliance in general were victorious in World War One, and the Russian Empire still fell to the Bolsheviks and became the Soviet Union, would Britain and France side with the Soviets against the Germans to restore the balance of power? Or would the Entente...

As the header says, I was wondering who the leading politicians would be in an ATL where the Kaiserreich continued? The POD isn't too important (to my mind, at least) but it could be either a no-WWI world or one where WWI was significantly shorter. Mainly to avoid Germany going too far to the...

The Sky is the Limit for Germany: A Historic Novelization of Germany from 769 AD – 2018 AD By: Richard Lewensky [1] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prologue The History of Germany is rich of struggles and...

What if the enigma machines used by the Germans during the wartime encrypted text using a mixture of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, instead of the encrypted text consisting of only latin characters. Enigma encrypted text consisting of Latin characters looks like this: ZAJ IRARKF ZLTV DH SDR VQZK...

Hi, I'm new here, so please forgive me if this topic has been overdone... As the title says, how would things change if the German Empire allied herself with the Russian Empire instead of Austria-Hungary? 1) When would the PoD have to be for this to take place? 2) Would this prevent WWI? My...

So, I was wondering, if the Germans managed a detente with the British and therefore ended the naval arms race, how would the money saved be better spent in regards the army? Would simply more regiments be the answer, or would the money be better used in Heavy Artillery and border...

I saw a Hearts of Iron Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg mod and notice that Hermann Goring was the head of state of Mittelafrika, the German Empire's semi-independent colony comprising most of Africa. Is this scenario possible? Is it possible that if the First World War won by the Central...

So WWI topics tend to straddle the century divide for obvious reasons, but the POD for this one is probably going to be before 1900, so here we go. The Russian high command in WWI was pretty dysfunctional, from what I've seen, in that the chain of command between the Ministry of War, the...