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AH Challenge: The Best They Could Do, Poland May 1935


From my December 2009 AH Newsletter.  It's May 1935.  You're in charge of Poland.  Mission: Guide Poland through the next ten years.

AH Challenge: A German A-bomb

Could they have done it?  How long would it have taken?

Alternate History Miscellaneous Challenges


No Panama Canal?  A French Panama Canal? 

Alternate History Climate


Various climate-based Scenarios. Alternate History mini-scenarios based on a common idea: What if the World War II Great Powers understood some or all of the things we currently do about climate and acted on them.

The Best They Could Do: Italy July 1940


Could you do better than Benny Moose at leading Italy's ramshackle forces in World War II?.

The Best They Could Do: Japan November 1941

Could you do better than the Japanese leadership?  

POD is an amateur press magazine and also a forum for discussing AH and AH-related ideas.  A lot of the comments don't make sense unless you've following the dialogue.  Here are some of my general-interest ones.  
Panama Canal effort fails.What are the consequences? Or alternatively, what if the French effort had succeeded, opening a French-run canal in the mid-1890s?

How Bad Could It Have Gotten? I got to thinking about an Edgar Rice Burroughs book called Beyond Sixty. It was written during the worst of World War I, and had Europe tearing itself apart to the point where it reverted to the Stone Age. Obviously a tad exaggerated, but how badly could Europe have actually torn itself up? What’s the worst that could have happened?

German SA leaders learn about the upcoming Night of the Long Knifes and attempt a preemptive strike?

Paul von Hindenburg dies before the 1931 German presidential election Who gets elected in his place and how do they relate to Hitler? Do the Nazis seize power? Where does history go from there?

Petain dies before the collapse of France in May/June 1940. Who takes on his role, and how does that impact the development of Vichy France (assuming that Vichy still gets established).





 

Posted on March 26, 2010.

 

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What you see here is a truncated on-line version of a larger zine that I contribute to POD, the alternate history APA.  POD members get to look forward to more fun stuff.