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Champ Clark

The most likely alternative to Wilson would be Champ Clark. I haven’t gone far enough in my research of him to know what his thoughts were regarding annexation of Mexican land, but based on one of the speeches I have of his re: the Philippines, I believe he would be opposed to any annexation...

I wonder what the limit was to the port's growth. I have been to that area many times and it is somewhat shallow and has the most extreme tides in the world to the point that you can even walk from island to island during low tide.

Here's a simple plan if anyone is interested, it was called Projekt Hummerschere (Project Lobsterclaw). I also have a much more detailed one if anyone wants it.

Does anyone know of any good ones in the Caribbean? The most notable I can think of is Port Royal, Jamaica.

As everyone already knows, the Nazis had some grand plans for places: - Germania (Berlin): Although there were many architectural projects planned, the most notable is the new "Volkshalle" which was supposedly so large that it would have had problems with self-generating rain inside. - Linz: was...

Those divisions didn't arrive until after Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes anyways by which time the Russian invasion was already defeated. You're trying to come up with an impossible what if to keep those divisions in France which is entirely unnecessary in the first place. You can keep those...

You can't really compare 18th Century and 20th Century warfare. Königsberg was in fact an important harbour and military hub, holding both large supply stores and fortifications. This alone makes East Prussia worth it, let alone the millions of Germans who he Kaiser is sworn to protect (you...

Good luck explaining that leaving thousands of German civilians at the mercy of the Russians is "winning with as small casualties as possible" Got anything to back that up? Let's keep away from broad generalizations of people, especially from explanations of how groups of people "worked". The...

It did matter, for reasons which I listed which you haven’t addressed. Just because it doesn’t matter to you, a 21st century Pole, doesn’t mean it wasn’t important to Germans a hundred years ago. Like I said, this is paradox video game thinking. The whole point of a monarch, or even...

Do the Germans still have their synthetic production? How much oil is gained through that?

Looks like you edited your post: My understanding is that the only pre-war German fortifications north of Graudenz were on the opposite side of Marienwerder, Marienburg itself, and Danzig itself. I have no doubt that the bridge crossings would have significant entrenchments, however with the...

Thank you for illustrating my point; It is about 100km between Graudenz and Danzig.

Who cares if the Hohenzollerns originially came from Swabia? East Prussia had been their home and powerbase for hundreds of years. East Prussia was every bit a core area of Germany as the Rhineland was. It was the home of over 2,000,000 Germans in 1914 and many important cultural sites such as...

It seems like a ridiculous proposition to say they could NOT do such a thing