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Post-victory strains on Germany
Topic Started: Nov 25 2014, 12:12 AM (55 Views)
IvoSteijn

I should start by saying I haven't read your sequel yet - I'm saving it for a long flight to Europe - but the Germany that won WW1 in Gray Tide must have been subject to the same internal strains as the Germany that lost WW1 in our history. Huge support for the Social Democrats, a dangerously overextended economy (which I don't think Germany could have fixed by reparations after victory) - these are things that would have plagued the Gray Tide Germany as well. Externally, sooner or later something would have emerged from the wreckage of the Russian Empire, and it would not have been friendly. And I see you're already thinking about the relationship between post-Gray Tide Austria-Hungary and Germany...

What do you think, would the Gray Tide scenario enable Germany to cope with these stresses?
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andrewjheller
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I think the post-war stress would be much less, because the war itself was so much shorter in Gray Tide than in OTL. It's all over in about a year and the costs in money and blood are a fraction of those in WWI. Also, of course there's no blockade for 4 years by the Royal Navy, which went far toward destroying the German economy by 1918. I would say that the greatest danger is "victory disease". Having won such a comparatively easy victory over the Entente Powers, I envision a Kaiser who is even more aggressive than ever, to say nothing of the real hotheads in his government.
You are right about Austria: the second story in Tidal Effects is primarily about the Empire and its relationship with Germany and its internal problems.
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