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sillygoose Again time is short and we're going over already much beaten ground. a) If Germany is largely relieved of the ToV restrictions it can rearm pretty damned quickly. Its industrial base is still there plus the necessary knowledge. Not to mention that Germany was able to hid a fair...

Not a lot of time so will respond briefly. A partially remilitarised one is less of a threat. However you talked of the ToV basically being dropped. In that case and especially if Germany escapes reparations totally what restraints are there on Germany rearming to a much larger scale. Yes...

Except that the Soviets are still a fairly distant potential threat while a re-militarised Germany is right on their doorstep and has very recently shown how huge a threat it was to the western powers. France is still struggling to rebuild its shattered eastern territories and isn't going to be...

Sillygoose What your basically saying is that the results of WWI are reversed with Germany re-emerging as the dominant power in Europe, markedly more so than in 1914. I'm not sure that the allies - both Britain and France and probably also Belgium and some other smaller states can afford...

Given how stretched the Soviets were at that point and how much the Poles hated and feared both Russian rule and communism its difficult to see the country not being endlessly in turmoil against any Soviet rule if they did somehow overrun the bulk of the Polish republic. If however they did...