Alternate history is one of my favorite topics, and I’m curious to hear your thoughts.

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    I’m not a historian, so I can only speculate

    A reputable historian doesn’t speculate either ;) conjecture is for the pub with friends.

    Jokes aside really enjoyed your previous answer! I generally don’t like speculative history as it is usually just some power fantasy or slight adjustment of our current world. I like the different angles you approached it from. Fun to tease out, if we can ignore the whole “third Reich owns A quarter of the world and is massacring people based on their genes or otherwise perceived deficiencies” portion lol

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      Thanks for the nice words. My approach was to avoid speculating too much about what might happen based on someone’s ideology and instead see which real life events can’t happen and extrapolate from there. This makes my answers equally plausible, no matter if the Axis powers stay fascist dictatorships or if they become more democratic over time, as long as overall alliances stay roughly the same.