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Interesting fact: It is speculated that the lack of a Westernized diet might have ironically helped Lodz Jewry's health during WWII before they were murdered en masse: https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/nutrition/article-706141 Since they were tragically murdered en masse, of course, no...

@raharris1973 This is an interesting tidbit of information: It's worth noting that, if the Cold War still ends on schedule in this scenario, you could see a contiguous neutralist bloc in the middle of NATO consisting of Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Serbia/Yugoslavia, and possibly Ukraine as...

Very sad for Lodz Jewry. :( Let's hope that Israel Kristal still survives in this scenario, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yisrael_Kristal He was a survivor of both the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz and eventually became the world's oldest living man, dying just a month short of his 114th...

The coup might succeed, but if it fails, I don't think that Hitler would be removed anyway since if the coup fails, any additional attempt to remove Hitler would almost certainly result in one getting executed by the Nazi regime. Why choose this fate when the regime is about to fall anyway...

I could definitely see Communist Romania signing up for this considering that AFAIK it was already willing to allow its Germans and Jews to emigrate in real life in exchange for money. So, why not its Hungarians as well? That said, though, the Szekely Land in the middle of Romania was *very*...

So, 1991 happens almost half a century earlier, and with much more US deaths and casualties?

Question for you, HL: Do you believe that such a Soviet maneuver would have saved the remaining 67,000 or so Jews of the Lodz Ghetto? They were murdered in August 1944 and here the Soviet military would already be in Warsaw by then. But based on the Polish railroad and German railroad networks...