What if WWI Really Had Ended By Christmas? (Part II)

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
  • In an alternate timeline, the Western Front ended by Christmas. It was a miracle. Yet this was certainly not the end to hostilities. Just setting up a different stage the world would go down.
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  • @AlternateHistoryHub
    @AlternateHistoryHub  3 года назад +653

    Click here for Part 1 if you havent seen it. ruclips.net/video/2HHPc39eN28/видео.html I wanted to flesh out more of this world, thought it'd be interesting. I'm going to do a shorter scenario next.

    • @Soldier-ui8ue
      @Soldier-ui8ue 3 года назад +8

      K

    • @izzy10valentin
      @izzy10valentin 3 года назад +3

      :) always love your videos, babe!

    • @flashm0b
      @flashm0b 3 года назад +2

      Thanks for your videos!

    • @startrooper453
      @startrooper453 3 года назад +2

      cool

    • @idek6585
      @idek6585 3 года назад +2

      I don't care if they are a hour long, or 5 minutes, your videos are great.

  • @ordinary_magician
    @ordinary_magician 3 года назад +2173

    Class is about to start but this looks more important

  • @ARIXANDRE
    @ARIXANDRE 3 года назад +1138

    This is an alt history that would just delay our timeline. The big players had a bloodlust that only war could satiate.

    • @crimsonstrykr
      @crimsonstrykr 3 года назад +7

      Hahahahaha! Caaaaarl! Why would you do that Carl?

    • @ARIXANDRE
      @ARIXANDRE 3 года назад +6

      @@Isometrix116 I'm deeply sorry you only have your hands ,so you've heard, to "satisfy".

    • @kuzev
      @kuzev 3 года назад +9

      I have always wondered what would happen if WW2 stopped in 1941 -1942. And what could potentially do that miracle. So I came to the conclusion it needs to be something out of this world - like a meteor hitting the Earth or something

    • @Victor-el3ul
      @Victor-el3ul 3 года назад +6

      @@kuzev Well, I think that there is an alternate WW2 book involving alien invasion of the earth during 41-42 or something like that about which Turtledove wrote.

    • @kuzev
      @kuzev 3 года назад +2

      @@Victor-el3ul I have to check that out. Even though usually I dig more "realistic" scenarios

  • @yankee3875
    @yankee3875 3 года назад +3391

    “Or even some damned thing in the balkans” Nice touch, Bismarck would approve

    • @whywasimadetofeelnothingbu1991
      @whywasimadetofeelnothingbu1991 3 года назад +62

      Glad to see I’m not the only one who got that

    • @joemamaobama6863
      @joemamaobama6863 3 года назад +41

      Fortune has it she is a woman and I am not tzat way inclined
      -Otto von Fredrick tze great

    • @coffeeandpie1480
      @coffeeandpie1480 3 года назад +9

      h

    • @NoScope-fs6km
      @NoScope-fs6km 3 года назад +10

      I agree, nice touch

    • @jjnn2
      @jjnn2 3 года назад +15

      Yes, yes, you're all in the know, now explain it so I can be in the club

  • @PrinceAli_27
    @PrinceAli_27 3 года назад +1759

    I’m sorry, BUT WHAT IS THAT CURSED MAP. EmperorTigerstar would be ashamed

    • @bathamsteryt
      @bathamsteryt 3 года назад +15

      Where

    • @4realm8rusirius
      @4realm8rusirius 3 года назад +83

      @@bathamsteryt 0:42

    • @KBvidss
      @KBvidss 3 года назад +66

      On golly tho

    • @avobrabo4876
      @avobrabo4876 3 года назад +90

      I’m having a stroke just looking at that abomination

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- 3 года назад +50

      I hear tiger Star scream his name lol

  • @F22onblockland
    @F22onblockland 3 года назад +175

    Wilhelm II with even more responsibility?
    Oh this ain't ending well.

    • @prome3439
      @prome3439 3 года назад +8

      Yeah. I think maybe a WW was not to be avoided but without this massiv crybaby as leader, Germany might have had a bit more of an Diplomatic aproach.
      But tbh, in this scenario, that guy would have caused the next war prob. within 4-7 Years.

    • @jwil4286
      @jwil4286 2 года назад

      @@prome3439 he didn’t even start WWI, Serbia did

    • @prome3439
      @prome3439 2 года назад +1

      @@jwil4286 Im not saying he did, war was coming, if it were not for serbia, they would have found another reason to do it.

  • @MonsieurDean
    @MonsieurDean 3 года назад +99

    Oh sweet, a sequel.

  • @Screaming-Bees
    @Screaming-Bees 3 года назад +98

    "Even if lenin wasn't put in power. Even if Lenin wasn't put in power."

    • @JJAB91
      @JJAB91 3 года назад +2

      @Egg T If only communism never rose, millions would have been saved.

    • @yaboistefan1206
      @yaboistefan1206 3 года назад +3

      @@JJAB91 yeah but history has a way of saving the present , useless ideologies rising shows the world how useless they are , this if communism never rose well then the same number of people would still die eventually from a different bs ideology somewhere along the line
      So think of the millions of deaths caused by marxist lenninism and stalinism as a tragedy , but as a sacrifice humanity had made to show the world inneficient ideologies and helping us avoid for the future .

    • @magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479
      @magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479 3 года назад +2

      @@yaboistefan1206 true, true, but there have been many far less destructive ideologies like some forms of Socialism that many people could've looked to rather than Communism, it only took one man to make a disaster.
      And also if Russia was always under the thumb Germany and his military i would see the wars becoming less likely especially if they started investing in their interests there like trade routes to the east similar to the Ottoman rail that Cody presents, there would still be deaths from battles and executions but the same numbers would be far far less than it is now, considering that a good chunk of the population is now a German puppet.

    • @da_gonozal6754
      @da_gonozal6754 2 года назад

      Even if Lenin wasn't put in power.
      Even if Lenin wasn't put in power.
      They did surgery on a grape.
      They did surgery on a grape.

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus 2 года назад

      @@JJAB91 cute avatar

  • @MisterSpinalzo
    @MisterSpinalzo 3 года назад +24

    That makes me wonder, what if Frederick III. didn't die after just 99 days in power? What if he never picked up smoking?

    • @granville7
      @granville7 3 года назад

      that would open up very interesting possibilities especially if he were still kaiser come 1914. the german empire may have seen some democratic reforms by then.
      or another alternate timeline: what if the revolutionists from 1849 had won and Germany became a unified modern parliamentary democracy by 1850 with the kaiser just a figurehead with no real political power?

    • @jwil4286
      @jwil4286 2 года назад +1

      @@granville7 the Kaiser would have kept SOME power (look at Liechtenstein as an example of what constitutional monarchy entailed). But yeah

    • @Rowlph8888
      @Rowlph8888 Год назад

      @@granville7 Bismarck would Still be in power. He was, not a mega maniac, just wanted balance of power and the most strength on the continent

  • @Canada1994
    @Canada1994 3 года назад +2

    I wish that this was the real timeline for three reasons
    1.) My Great Great Uncle wouldn't have died in the final Canadian push in the Battle of Passchendaele
    2.) The city of Berlin Ontario wouldn't have been bullied and pressured into changing it's name to Kitchener to show its Patriotism (the name change happened in 1916). My family lives in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.
    3.) The Kaiserreich Germany would still exist (at least a bit longer).
    Also I read the Battle of Dorking. It was mainly written by a British officer using the fear of a German invasion to inspire Britain to reform and modernize it's army.
    Lastily after the German surrender in WW1 Britain and France did play with the idea of "turning the clock back to 1815" setting the borders in Germany to the small disunified nations that it was after Napoleon.

  • @vigorelliinstitute879
    @vigorelliinstitute879 3 года назад +2

    When my alternate history book is done, I might send you a signed copy.

  • @irosour7590
    @irosour7590 3 года назад +1

    The beginning is literally the greatest poem I’ve heard

  • @Walterdecarvalh0100
    @Walterdecarvalh0100 3 года назад +16

    Yep, as someone that loves the German empire and all that bismarck did, I can grantee that wilhelm ii was an idiot.

    • @jwil4286
      @jwil4286 2 года назад

      there is ONE thing I dislike about Bismarck: he saw the Catholic Church as a threat, and unfairly persecuted it in Alsace-Lorraine, Baden, Wurtenberg (I don't have a key on my keyboard for the umlauts), and Bavaria. However, it did impact my hometown, as an order of Catholic sisters, namely the Sisters of St. Francis for Perpetual Adoration, ended up coming here and did a lot of good for our community.
      Wilhelm II stopped that persecution.

  • @sheacorduroy5565
    @sheacorduroy5565 3 года назад +1

    12:07 I have a jigsaw puzzle of this exact castle!

  • @anton2192
    @anton2192 3 года назад +1

    Can't wait for the inevitable HoI4 mod

  • @massimotrento3498
    @massimotrento3498 3 года назад

    @AlternateHistoryHub
    Video Ideas:
    What if Luxembourg never lost Bohemia and the rest of their Western European land, and became a powerful country that still stood today?
    What if Germany reunited without Prussia, and Prussia still stood as a separate, powerful country that still stood today?
    Thanks!

  • @DonPedroman
    @DonPedroman Год назад +1

    This would be detrimental for Spain, as we wouldnt have sold massive ammounts of food and materials to both sides during 4 years

  • @danielvanmiddeldijk5711
    @danielvanmiddeldijk5711 3 года назад

    @AlternateHistoryHub
    Hey just an idea, what if you do a video about if Wilhelm II wasn’t put to power (it may not even be possible but still)

  • @thesaturn793
    @thesaturn793 3 года назад

    i love all the hoi 4 cameos.

  • @JTL1776
    @JTL1776 3 года назад +1

    BETTER IDEA WHAT IF WW1 HAD 2 CHRISTMAS TRUCE AND INSTEAD OF ENDING IN 1915 OR 1918 IT ENDING ON STALEMATE OF CHRISTMAS DAY OF 1916.
    the stalemate last 1915 and 1916 but what if the stalemate had a second 2nd Christmas truce and ended in 1916.

  • @woollypidgeon1948
    @woollypidgeon1948 3 года назад

    You should do a video on if Cascadia became a country

  • @mcintoshpc
    @mcintoshpc 3 года назад

    Without WW1, weapons development would have been DRAMATICALLY slowed, at least on the conventional side. Don’t know about the nukes though

  • @johanneslehmann4915
    @johanneslehmann4915 3 года назад

    you should really make a Darmstadt Episode!11!11!!11!!!1!!1!! For Real at least for entanglent through Hessian Mercinaries in North America, Russian ties, British ties and eventually actually actual things.

  • @annonhym487
    @annonhym487 3 года назад +1

    Didn't the US have sympathies with the German Empire up until the Germans started with their submarine war? I wonder if some skilled politicians managed to keep Wilhelm 2 in check there could've been closer ties with the US so the next war wouldn't necessarily include the US siding with the allies.
    Another interesting question would be what would happen to the colonial empires once this alternative timeline hits the 40's.

  • @Bobahat
    @Bobahat 3 года назад

    (All Alternate History Hub videos): Meanwhile in Scandinavia... Business as usual.

  • @scottishbananaclan
    @scottishbananaclan 3 года назад

    Man it's already Christmas 2021

  • @megareavermickeybot7985
    @megareavermickeybot7985 3 года назад

    The Dark twist to what was seemingly a good time line

  • @saqvobase4301
    @saqvobase4301 3 года назад

    I've got an idea for a parallel timeline, what if electricity never got popularized and people kept using steam/coal.

  • @Davd35
    @Davd35 3 года назад

    0:45 I love that Germany is shown as youtube

  • @denizaksoy6185
    @denizaksoy6185 3 года назад

    I would like to give you a new Video-idea : What if Austria had unified Germany

  • @jonanthandough
    @jonanthandough 3 года назад +4

    11 seconds ago .. never been this early :D

  • @six2make4
    @six2make4 3 года назад +4

    Everyone: Good thing their greatest fear of a German dominated Europe never came to pass.
    The EU: Haha... Ja.. Gut...

  • @Gingerninja800
    @Gingerninja800 3 года назад

    interesting scenario you could cover. What if Austria formed Germany instead of Prussia?

  • @jamesu1540
    @jamesu1540 3 года назад

    Then my entire family tree for the last 3 generations would have been changed

  • @jasonsantos3037
    @jasonsantos3037 3 года назад

    Aleksey a part 3 does Diana World War in Christmas time what America is doing after the war had ended Their future's gonna be

  • @elbozo5723
    @elbozo5723 3 года назад +1

    tzar: “well shit i give up”

  • @screaming_ghoul
    @screaming_ghoul 3 года назад

    6:54 didn't know one of your dolls could look so pretentious, but here we are.

  • @NerdishGeekish
    @NerdishGeekish 3 года назад

    Gotta be honest tho. An alternate history novel where France and Britain are the fascists would be awesome.

  • @supremechaosbeing2696
    @supremechaosbeing2696 3 года назад +1

    someone’ll make this about current pandemic.

  • @sombertownds149
    @sombertownds149 3 года назад

    6:53 wow, im watching this while playing hoi4

  • @mage1over137
    @mage1over137 3 года назад

    So I am pretty sure the Kaiser would have kept Nicholas as Tzar. Monarchs tended to favor Monarchs, also despite being at war they actually had a very good and close relationship. War with Russia was mostly because that was plan, and for Russia it was actually rather rash decision in Tzar's part, as he had taken a servant boys comment as a challenge to his honor. So I think the Kaiser and Tzar would want to work together against the west.

  • @crazym8211
    @crazym8211 3 года назад

    ok, it's not diet Kaiserreich... It's Kaiserfallout

  • @StephenLynx8492
    @StephenLynx8492 3 года назад

    In this alternate more German dominated world, the Etsy store would instead be called Oetzi, but nothing else about it including pronunciation.

  • @Phoenix27272
    @Phoenix27272 3 года назад

    Cody! What would have happened if the Spanish Armada didn't get hit by a storm? Do you think if the british navy could've stopped them? Would Spain have successfully conquered England? Could they have held it? What would have been the longterm repercussions?

  • @rgreed20081
    @rgreed20081 3 года назад

    In this alternate time line, many Germans have wished that Annie Oakley had not missed.

  • @nemo7840
    @nemo7840 3 года назад

    I'm sensing Kaiserreich vibes

  • @aarona3411
    @aarona3411 3 года назад

    What if the Cold War never happened? (i.e. the Allies still win WW2, but tensions never arise and relations never deteriorate? Yes that'd be pretty unlikely but it also feels like a truly alien alternate timeline)

    • @jwil4286
      @jwil4286 2 года назад

      two words: Operation Unthinkable

  • @teriyaki3740
    @teriyaki3740 3 года назад

    Do the lore of The New Order mod for Hearts of Iron IV

  • @cow1816
    @cow1816 3 года назад

    "Even if Lenin was not put into power, *EVEN IF LENIN WAS NOT PUT INTO POWER,* "
    9:36

  • @MrWizeazz
    @MrWizeazz 3 года назад

    What if Augustus never had Caesarion killed?

  • @Delightfully_Bitchy
    @Delightfully_Bitchy 3 года назад +1

    9:35 "Even if Lenin was not put into power"
    Was that repeat intentional?

    • @ramongarrison6935
      @ramongarrison6935 3 года назад +1

      It’s because they place an ad there but sometimes you don’t get the ad

  • @CaptainBootyFloss
    @CaptainBootyFloss 3 года назад

    Ok, interesting video. But did you know that the Americans used shotguns in World War I and it made the kaiser mad?

  • @doommuffin2663
    @doommuffin2663 3 года назад +2229

    “Even if Lenin was not put into power...”
    Me:
    “Even if LENIN was NOT put into power...”
    Me: I’m listening...

    • @friedwater6519
      @friedwater6519 3 года назад +75

      9:36

    • @lacintag5482
      @lacintag5482 3 года назад +211

      I like how the editor animated both of them with unique animations instead of realizing it was obviously a mistake.

    • @EvilParagon4
      @EvilParagon4 3 года назад +45

      What's with RUclipsrs having a lot of double takes recently? I see so many videos these days where RUclipsrs accidentally say the same sentence and it gets let in.

    • @hebl47
      @hebl47 3 года назад +54

      @@EvilParagon4 Oh thank god it's not just my imagination. I was afraid the Matrix was glitching on me, but if someone else also noticed this, then perhaps everything is ok.

    • @OMGitzpeyton
      @OMGitzpeyton 3 года назад +14

      @@EvilParagon4 They read off a script you think he just though of all this stuff off his head? Lol He did research wrote it down and read it on camera

  • @gavros9636
    @gavros9636 3 года назад +1607

    I'd like to imagine an alternate Cody from this alternate timeline speculating on what would have happened if the french never made peace with the germans on Christmas.

    • @thorpeaaron1110
      @thorpeaaron1110 3 года назад +279

      That would be labeled What if the Six Months War escalated?

    • @pqwzy1338
      @pqwzy1338 3 года назад +15

      @EBONIE THORPE probably

    • @cucumber623
      @cucumber623 3 года назад +32

      if only the belgian empire spanning from the north sea to vladivostok could settle their differences with prussia

    • @ryanrockz7687
      @ryanrockz7687 3 года назад +5

      Underrated comment

    • @metalgear6531
      @metalgear6531 3 года назад +39

      And that makes me wonder what predictions this hypothetical Cody would get wrong. My first guess is "There's no way the Japanese would be suicidal enough to pick a fight with the US" or even "The Japanese just kind of keep doing their own thing, not caring about the nonsense those silly Hakujin out west are getting up to"

  • @walterl322
    @walterl322 3 года назад +1810

    “Not evil terrible, stupid terrible”
    This is the kinda funny alternative to nazis...

    • @brendenpeterson5684
      @brendenpeterson5684 3 года назад +191

      I mean, the Nazis were kinda stupid terrible on top of the evil terrible. The Kaiser would have a lot of competition on the stupid end

    • @walterl322
      @walterl322 3 года назад +67

      @@brendenpeterson5684 that’s true, they were really stupid, though the genocide thing was too terrible and I don’t feel like laughing about it, at least I can humour the empire...

    • @ronmka8931
      @ronmka8931 3 года назад +26

      @@brendenpeterson5684 they did beat france in a humiliating defeat only to get humiliatingly defeated by russia

    • @dusk6159
      @dusk6159 3 года назад +12

      Though still the nazis were already plenty stupid, unaware and of course delusional, but yeah

    • @Destroyer-od5dm
      @Destroyer-od5dm 3 года назад +10

      @@ronmka8931 the victory in france was in part dumb luck, since all the nazis did was repeat the schlieffen plan

  • @nowhereman6019
    @nowhereman6019 3 года назад +1179

    "Oh God, Germany still has a Kaiser."
    And a Wilhelm one at that!

    • @jakespacepiratee3740
      @jakespacepiratee3740 3 года назад +12

      This guy is a bit of a Mr.Z if you know what I mean.

    • @yipyap6161
      @yipyap6161 3 года назад +16

      So uncreative in their naming of Monarchs

    • @mikaelleonbriones6356
      @mikaelleonbriones6356 3 года назад +21

      Germany doesn't always have a Kaiser...
      But when they do it is a German version of Donald Trump

    • @TheTrueAdept
      @TheTrueAdept 3 года назад +63

      @@mikaelleonbriones6356 not really. The biggest problem is that Willy wasn't exactly used to being Kaiser, remember he was expected to literally drop dead when he came to power. As time went on, he would probably mellow out or pick one of his sons as a successor. The funny thing was, many people forget that he actually tried to stop WW1 from escalating to the war that we now know. He was in a catch 22 situation where the Serbs (and, to be honest, the Serbs DID assassinate the crown prince of Austria-Hungry and his wife in a fit of nationalism, and that is something that can't have a precedent of ignorance so-to-speak) but he didn't want to be the one that caused the war. If you want to actually blame people for the war, blame the Serbs AND the French, for they pretty much caused a series of events to ensure that WW1 happened.

    • @mikaelleonbriones6356
      @mikaelleonbriones6356 3 года назад +2

      @@TheTrueAdept Ok thanks for the explanation but you should've included a not wanting to be that guy because you totally runied my joke lol, still thank yuo for the clarification

  • @Daniel-jm7ts
    @Daniel-jm7ts 3 года назад +424

    Lebensraum im Osten: nah
    German inhabited railway in the middle east: perfect

    • @АлексейТабаков-ы8в
      @АлексейТабаков-ы8в 3 года назад +5

      Because it's not Nazi Germany with Hitler in charge, shockingly.

    • @ozzy-uo1gh
      @ozzy-uo1gh 3 года назад +3

      @@АлексейТабаков-ы8в a unified german baltic state was an idea before 1920s i don't know when but there's even a song called die grenzwacht hielt im osten which is apart of a poem which came out in a book that came out in 1920 i think

  • @TacticalAnt420
    @TacticalAnt420 3 года назад +886

    “Even if Lenin wasn’t put in power”
    Ok.
    “Even if Lenin wasn’t put in power”
    Wait what?

    • @PotatoAndSickle
      @PotatoAndSickle 3 года назад +114

      Even if lenin wasn't put in power

    • @joshuapartridge5092
      @joshuapartridge5092 3 года назад +44

      yeaaaahhhh, its a really important point, mkay?

    • @theluftwaffle1
      @theluftwaffle1 3 года назад +76

      In this timeline Lenin stays in Switzerland and causes a rebellion there, causing the Alpine Commune to rise!

    • @josephgioielli
      @josephgioielli 3 года назад +21

      I thought it meant 1) If he just didn't come to power or 2) If he had been killed. I think that was why he was upside down. Maybe wrong on that, just how I saw it.

    • @knightartorias746
      @knightartorias746 3 года назад +20

      @@theluftwaffle1 Then he gets overthrown and we see the rise of the Great Swiss Empire.

  • @quedtion_marks_kirby_modding
    @quedtion_marks_kirby_modding 3 года назад +577

    The german character with a sock puppet is the funniest shit I have seen.

  • @steelballrunner636
    @steelballrunner636 3 года назад +235

    Europe: destroyed
    USA: I see this as a absolute win!

  • @ComicalRealm
    @ComicalRealm 3 года назад +968

    Fun fact: The youngest British soldier in WW1 was just 12 years old.

    • @Jan_Koopman
      @Jan_Koopman 3 года назад +30

      How?!

    • @bignards3
      @bignards3 3 года назад +168

      There was a Serbian soldier that was 10 years old as well

    • @Ranio_
      @Ranio_ 3 года назад +65

      In serbia 8 year old

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 3 года назад +41

      Let’s not forget Private Simpson

    • @cooper8515
      @cooper8515 3 года назад +5

      Based

  • @skeletonwguitar4383
    @skeletonwguitar4383 3 года назад +221

    In short: an actual Christmas Truce miracle COULD be worse

    • @aegeanharrier6648
      @aegeanharrier6648 3 года назад +22

      3 world wars and one with cold war era weapons. Or second with nukes in europe...Yet I would rather a nuke to a camp for interesting purposes

  • @lewatoaofair2522
    @lewatoaofair2522 3 года назад +276

    “Bolshevik-ism”
    It’s just “Bolshevism”.

    • @romulus2473
      @romulus2473 3 года назад +1

      Why is my favorite toa knowledgeable on communism.
      And why do I now have to assume Kopaka is an insurrectionary anarchist and Onua is a laissez-faire capitalist?

    • @Rynewulf
      @Rynewulf 3 года назад +2

      Luxury Gay Space Gommulism

  • @Incom1ng
    @Incom1ng 3 года назад +180

    "Germany will have her way with the Russian west."
    -Winsty Churro

  • @romaingallagher1100
    @romaingallagher1100 3 года назад +189

    Germany: is the real winner of the war.
    Europe some years later: we live in Kaiserreich now.

    • @kentvincent674
      @kentvincent674 3 года назад +16

      At least less Leftist

    • @veemie8148
      @veemie8148 3 года назад +18

      @@kentvincent674 It would probably lead to better and more peaceful leftist movements in the future. Ones that followed the intentions of Marx more closely. Socialism was never meant to take over from pre-industrialized feudal societies like Russia or China, it was intended to be a refutation of industrialized capitalist (liberal) societies.

    • @noodled6145
      @noodled6145 3 года назад +7

      @@veemie8148 Marx was very anti-jewish. Definitely not a good thing to follow him closer in that aspect.

    • @veemie8148
      @veemie8148 3 года назад

      @@noodled6145 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author

  • @pupusamonkey
    @pupusamonkey 3 года назад +148

    "the only true beneficiary of this alternative war would be the United States" followed by a joyous American in a funny hat made me chuckle.

    • @eidoneverchoosen1171
      @eidoneverchoosen1171 3 года назад +2

      Always will be no matter which side won world War 1 the USA always stays on top and rises as a superpower on our side of the world

    • @SirAntoniousBlock
      @SirAntoniousBlock 3 года назад +1

      @@eidoneverchoosen1171 Nope, not if it stayed isolationist, it would eventually be faced with a two fronted war of its own sooner or later.

    • @jmmh1313
      @jmmh1313 3 года назад

      Honestly i don't want to sound as a nazi, which is hard given that my opinion on this regard has something to do with one of the arguments of holocaust deniers, but anyways, i think that the immigration of rich people in general (mostly jews but also left-wing and people from some minor ethnicities) to the USA due to the regime of terror that the III reich was obviously gonna be meant a lot for the growth of the united states. And i base my point in the fact that, if you look at the numbers (not the ones that exagerate the numbers of the holocaust as if it wasn't bad enough to kill 4 million people) a lot of the jews that were part of the high society of germany did manage to scape with their possessions.

    • @jmmh1313
      @jmmh1313 3 года назад

      At the end, what i mean by this is, no, the USA was no one before WW2, and if it wasn't for the nazis the chain of events that leaded to the rise of the USA wouldn't have happened. The fact that the USA is seen today by those who are objective as a nation of immigrants has a lot to do with the fact that its prosperity was linked with those who went there fleeing from terror, who worked as both cheap labor and diligent entrepreneurs, paying the taxes of the country and investing on its debt, creating, at the end of the day, what the usa is nowadays.

    • @avinashreji60
      @avinashreji60 Год назад

      @@SirAntoniousBlock No fucking way, no European power could ever invade the United States

  • @ziggytheassassin5835
    @ziggytheassassin5835 3 года назад +302

    i feel like once nukes are used everyone would start desiring peace out of fear. especially when its nations who haven't experienced a major war in over 100 years.

    • @JJAB91
      @JJAB91 3 года назад +32

      @Egg T They'll be like regular nukes but with funny accents

    • @vinceisvalid
      @vinceisvalid 3 года назад +21

      @@JJAB91 when they land the entire country would hear a friendly "Guten Tag!"

    • @sergeantpanther678
      @sergeantpanther678 3 года назад +12

      @@vinceisvalid It's just "Tachchen!" and then a volksmusik cover of the Ink Spots starts playing.

    • @leviticus2001
      @leviticus2001 3 года назад

      Just like our timeline!

    • @SirAntoniousBlock
      @SirAntoniousBlock 3 года назад +10

      Germany (or anyone else) wouldn't have the bomb by mid 20th century they'd barely have functioning flying machines, as the huge technological leaps of that century were brought about by the two world wars.
      Without these wars I think we'd be looking at more of a steampunk type world.

  • @afinoxi
    @afinoxi 3 года назад +712

    "Germany will have her ways with the Russian west"
    R34 artists : *INTERESTING.*

    • @Jan_Koopman
      @Jan_Koopman 3 года назад +84

      @Alternate knight, NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

    • @4realm8rusirius
      @4realm8rusirius 3 года назад +20

      Oh dear

    • @hugo57k91
      @hugo57k91 3 года назад +59

      On one hand: Oh god no
      On the other: Oh god yes

    • @Newbmann
      @Newbmann 3 года назад +27

      Mien gott
      Wait take that either as me being shocked by the art itself or for me being shocked by the degeneracy of the artists.

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- 3 года назад +6

      Alternate knight ah yes

  • @S-Fan2006
    @S-Fan2006 3 года назад +112

    I have an idea, “What if Austria-Hungary and Germany had switched fates regarding the Treaty of Versailles?” I find it interesting because of how much could likely change.

    • @jeroenboth167
      @jeroenboth167 Год назад +7

      Do you mean like Austria getting the blame of the war for example?

    • @eingrobernerzustand3741
      @eingrobernerzustand3741 10 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@jeroenboth167it's pretty much obvious that he means that we are going back to the 1840s, but in the 1920s.

  • @TheWhiteDragon3
    @TheWhiteDragon3 3 года назад +163

    It really tickles me every time I see the Nazi logo covered with the RUclips play button.

    • @Kez_DXX
      @Kez_DXX 3 года назад +14

      A bit tongue in cheek, innit?

    • @meinerHeld
      @meinerHeld 3 года назад +6

      @@Kez_DXX any way they can keep tongue from speaking

  • @kuzev
    @kuzev 3 года назад +95

    "No matter who's in charge of Russia It doesn't matter as they'll lose their territory to Germany no matter what" sweet word flow

    • @ultratheman
      @ultratheman 3 года назад +1

      IT WONT MATTER IT WONT MATTER IT WONT MATTER IT WONT MATTER

  • @aidanlynn
    @aidanlynn 3 года назад +241

    I’ve always had a hard time grasping the fact that they stop fighting, exchanged gifts and played football yet went back to the fighting again the next day.

    • @connorh2215
      @connorh2215 3 года назад +73

      It was mainly the commanders that forced them to get back to fighting under threat of execution for treason or being fired. Even so some groups refused the fight for quite a while after the Christmas truce

    • @artembolshakov3901
      @artembolshakov3901 3 года назад +56

      I think this fits perfectly with gentlemanly / noble morality.
      "I respect you as a person, but we are on opposite sides and we must be loyal to our causes which we hold so dear. This is just the tragedy mankind must face."

    • @Chiquitito1201
      @Chiquitito1201 3 года назад +6

      @@artembolshakov3901 sumn about this hits different

    • @SirAntoniousBlock
      @SirAntoniousBlock 3 года назад +6

      Boxers touch gloves belt the crap out of each other and embrace at the end.

    • @natedash11
      @natedash11 Год назад

      Probably had more than a few of them missing on purpose though.

  • @hebl47
    @hebl47 3 года назад +42

    14:05 Germany sending workers to Turkey? Now that's an interesting reversal.

    • @alanpennie
      @alanpennie Год назад

      Germany still had a lot of peasants into the middle of the 20th century.

  • @whitewolf5069
    @whitewolf5069 3 года назад +97

    Private Robert: This war is a bit mad intit Sarge?
    Sarge: Oh yes Private Robert, but we do our duty for our majesty
    Private Robert: This will be easy! We’re gonna be home by Christmas!
    Sarge: ...... How’s the tea coming Lieutenant Peter?

  • @dfmrcv862
    @dfmrcv862 3 года назад +90

    "Except for Belgium"
    I feel like there should be more to this...

    • @rocekth
      @rocekth 3 года назад +4

      How much more do you need? They got completely occupied

    • @dfmrcv862
      @dfmrcv862 3 года назад +2

      @@rocekth Hmm... how about *more* occupation?

    • @davidgomez7882
      @davidgomez7882 3 года назад +2

      @@dfmrcv862 Eternal occupation. Take it or leave it.

    • @SuperExodian
      @SuperExodian 3 года назад

      @@davidgomez7882 eh, as a belgian, occupation is still preferable to the sorry excuse of a state we are lol.
      i'm 28 now, i've not yet voted in a belgian election that didn't lead to an "election crisis".
      i think i'm just gonna start voting for the seperatists and hope they win, end the farce.

    • @brandonhey7797
      @brandonhey7797 3 года назад +1

      @@SuperExodian I didn't realise Belgium was in such a state. At least you still have sport.

  • @jinhyolee8442
    @jinhyolee8442 3 года назад +266

    The first time I was this early, The Christmas Truce hasn't happened yet.

    • @28ebdh3udnav
      @28ebdh3udnav 3 года назад +1

      Dam it, I was about to post that til I noticed your comment

    • @brendad5056
      @brendad5056 3 года назад +3

      The last time I was this early France was still a monarchy

    • @dinoxman8584
      @dinoxman8584 3 года назад +4

      Last time I was this early Abyssinia and Siam.
      Need I explain more?

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- 3 года назад +1

      Your in the wrong timeline

    • @nochinochi5982
      @nochinochi5982 3 года назад

      the last time I was here early was when Germany won two world wars

  • @unknownbenefactor8029
    @unknownbenefactor8029 3 года назад +50

    Soo.. If Hitler is an Angry racist who yelling at his neighbours all the time.
    Wilhelm would be that one children who show off their nice new boat and bragging about how great and powerful his father was.

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 3 года назад +11

      so my neighbor is hitler?

    • @aekgir4698
      @aekgir4698 3 года назад +4

      @@raptorfromthe6ix833 maginot time

    • @jwil4286
      @jwil4286 2 года назад

      @Führer des Benutzers Hitler (and many others) were already antisemitic. However, he’d remain a soldier

  • @Drejco515
    @Drejco515 3 года назад +128

    I think that a "What if Kaiser Frederick III didn't die?" scenario would be interesting. Give him a 10-20 year reign, and the world could have been very different.

    • @jwil4286
      @jwil4286 2 года назад +8

      easy breaking point: I think he died of lung cancer, which a) he got by being a smoker, and b) he could have survived if he had been properly diagnosed.

    • @ThomasAndRandomRobloxGames
      @ThomasAndRandomRobloxGames Год назад

      i thought you meant never die

    • @Rowlph8888
      @Rowlph8888 Год назад

      Does anyone know what kind of attitude he had? I would guess he wasn't jealous of the Brits like Wilhelm, dismissing Bismarck and energising the naval arms race. Especially because Wilhelm, had an extra complex due to resenting his British mother, due to his deformity, from the troubles with his birth
      He was Prussian as well, so probably equally militaristic, but who knows

    • @Clueless-political-guy
      @Clueless-political-guy Год назад +8

      @@Rowlph8888We *do* know. He was pretty liberal.

  • @sculpture_9498
    @sculpture_9498 2 года назад +6

    Could you do an alternate history where Annie Oakley accidentally kills Kaiser Wilhelm II after a failed gun show? This would kill Wilhelm almost 20 years before WWI and the ramifications might be interesting.

  • @trashpandaa4021
    @trashpandaa4021 3 года назад +103

    Christmas truce results in Huey Long creating a united one-world dictatorship

    • @GG-43
      @GG-43 3 года назад +30

      Anarcho-Longism: no gods, no masters, every man a king

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 3 года назад +13

      *BRIDGES ACROSS THE PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC OCEANS!*

    • @soarel325
      @soarel325 3 года назад +8

      Uh, hello? Based department?

    • @xaveircombs2690
      @xaveircombs2690 3 года назад

      @@GG-43 huey is was a protestant.

  • @HolyknightVader999
    @HolyknightVader999 3 года назад +81

    Actually, the Germans would likely bring the Czar back. Only this time, it'd be a Czar who's under their control.

    • @artembolshakov3901
      @artembolshakov3901 3 года назад +18

      Alternate dynasty or some shit, maybe one (even) closer to Wilhelm's, just to congratulate yourself on nobility bingo.

    • @HolyknightVader999
      @HolyknightVader999 3 года назад +2

      @@artembolshakov3901 Exactly.

    • @thomaskhan2933
      @thomaskhan2933 3 года назад +8

      German sock puppet part 2 :)

    • @HolyknightVader999
      @HolyknightVader999 3 года назад +2

      @@thomaskhan2933 Just like with the Austrians.

    • @MysticKenji2
      @MysticKenji2 3 года назад +2

      bringing back the czar would be a good way to ensure an insurgency. russian republican army, anyone?

  • @mr.pinecone6558
    @mr.pinecone6558 3 года назад +64

    The USSR would be cooler if that happened

    • @The360MlgNoscoper
      @The360MlgNoscoper 3 года назад +11

      Imagine the West supporting the Soviets after germany broke russia.

    • @jakespacepiratee3740
      @jakespacepiratee3740 3 года назад +8

      the virgin USSR VS the CHAD EMPIRE OF ETERNAL PUTIN (Modern Russia)

    • @shinsenshogun900
      @shinsenshogun900 3 года назад

      Still would be based, but without Lenin, so it's Trotsky, Bakunin, or Stalin
      I'd hate to hear Marxist-Trotsky/somebody elsism

    • @notlucas6859
      @notlucas6859 2 месяца назад

      @@jakespacepiratee3740 ‎

  • @Namelessone67
    @Namelessone67 3 года назад +34

    Germany just can’t catch a break even when they “win”

    • @Negetive2digit
      @Negetive2digit 9 месяцев назад +1

      There's a reason why their theme in Civ 6 is a sad song about a lot of bad things happening. They share that with China, which kind of gives some context to shared similarities in their backstories.

  • @misterzygarde6431
    @misterzygarde6431 3 года назад +43

    I doubt that the public would’ve loved a quick resolution.

    • @thorpeaaron1110
      @thorpeaaron1110 3 года назад +9

      We would see riots across every major city in Europe

  • @michaelspears3199
    @michaelspears3199 3 года назад +62

    9:36 Wait. Even if Lenin was perhaps not put into power?

    • @startrooper453
      @startrooper453 3 года назад +14

      Even if Lenin was perhaps not put in power.

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz 3 года назад

      could have been Trotsky

    • @brennalynnn
      @brennalynnn 3 года назад +3

      There's a chance lenin couldn'tve been put into power?

  • @TheExtrreme
    @TheExtrreme 3 года назад +40

    So in this timeline, Germans migrate to Turkey. In ours it's the other way round

    • @awddfg
      @awddfg 3 года назад +1

      @Let's Travel *_Hehe stay angry_*

  • @johnrandolph1989
    @johnrandolph1989 3 года назад +23

    Well here's to a German Empires national hamburger day in Moscow.🍔😏

  • @mrsammyg3125
    @mrsammyg3125 3 года назад +22

    What if the Soviet Union survived in Kazakhstan?

  • @matheusdemello2323
    @matheusdemello2323 3 года назад +28

    That was fast? I thought you’re gonna wait until 2021 Christmas?

    • @weldin
      @weldin 3 года назад +4

      No one would remember part one existed by then. I almost forget about it already lol.

  • @Bluesonofman
    @Bluesonofman 3 года назад +19

    America would have become too German to be part of the Allies in this Timeline.

    • @KuroshiKun
      @KuroshiKun 3 года назад +12

      trueee America would be super germanized or at least super sympathetic to the germans since all those german americans wouldn't have been targeted by WWI propaganda.

    • @jwil4286
      @jwil4286 2 года назад +1

      Would they become so German that they would invade Canada to help Germany (and hurt Britain)?

    • @Bluesonofman
      @Bluesonofman 2 года назад

      @@jwil4286 Yes

  • @_MC529
    @_MC529 3 года назад +14

    8:29
    *FINALLY*
    Someone acknowledges the incompetence of Wilhelm II (mostly caused by his mother, actually).
    Definitely a HUGE factor for WW1 and WW2.

  • @trygveplaustrum4634
    @trygveplaustrum4634 3 года назад +33

    1:25 "Goes down a 'War of 1812' path"
    *Ahem, "goes down an 'AMERICAN War of 1812' path."*
    I don't think the Russians would consider Napoleon's rout as anything but a victory.

    • @francesconesi7666
      @francesconesi7666 3 года назад +4

      Well, at least in my country, the Russian theater of that war is always referred to as "Napoleon's invasion of Russia" and not "War of 1812", that is more of an anglo-american nomenclature.

    • @housetheunstoppablessed4846
      @housetheunstoppablessed4846 3 года назад

      Napoleonic Wars are the wars that occurred in Europe, the War of 1812 was a concurrent conflict.

  • @Kristof1
    @Kristof1 3 года назад +19

    As Polish guy myself, I say, that, that 'd be better for us.

    • @macblackadder93
      @macblackadder93 3 года назад

      I'd doubt it. Poland wouldn't still exist again.

    • @duwang8499
      @duwang8499 3 года назад +3

      @@macblackadder93 Poland would exist. There was even a Kingdom of Poland shortly before the end of WW1.

  • @redtexan7053
    @redtexan7053 3 года назад +15

    🎶I don’t want to set the world on fire🎶
    *Wilhelm II:* “Actually, I do, and I’m doing it RIGHT NOW!”

    • @arutka2000
      @arutka2000 3 года назад

      War. War never changes.

    • @alanpennie
      @alanpennie Год назад

      The Kaiser died just before that song became a hit, which sad in a way.

  • @isaacdonitz9506
    @isaacdonitz9506 3 года назад +21

    Bruh Russia wouldve peaced out too in the face of such a hopeless situation, probably ceding poland and some of the Balitics

    • @Newbmann
      @Newbmann 3 года назад +10

      I would expect russia to lose all of the Baltic states
      Because of the Baltic Germans population I could also see Austria Hungary gaining Volyn and a bit more of western ukraine to merge with Lviv.

    • @Poctyk
      @Poctyk 3 года назад +3

      Alternatively Kaiser (since he is winning) could consider continue the war to win the real prize (or rather few prizes)
      Access to the iron/coal of Donbas
      Caspian oil
      Black soil.
      I.e. What in our timeline Hitler wanted to secure the nazis power from potential Naval blockade.

    • @Newbmann
      @Newbmann 3 года назад +2

      @@Poctyk Oil is less of a deal with the Ottomans owning most of the middle easts rather than the british.
      Coal and Iron I mean germany has enough of that in the rhine.
      Grain would be the main thing which Poland and the baltic states can do that.
      Before you say naval blockaid would lose acess to ottoman oil they built a rail to prevent that IRL its just WW1 prevented it from finishing it would continue post war in this timeline.

  • @cedricl.marquard6273
    @cedricl.marquard6273 3 года назад +11

    Make one: "What if Wilhelm's arm wasn't fucked during birth" basically, what if he wasn't such a brash leader and had some calmer qualities.

  • @JenniferinIllinois
    @JenniferinIllinois 3 года назад +26

    "Wilhelm II wasn't evil terrible, just stupid terrible" 🤣🤣🤣

  • @freedamerican5243
    @freedamerican5243 3 года назад +21

    What if I had clicked on this later so I could have funny comments to read? Part II

  • @Shusiareed
    @Shusiareed 3 года назад +13

    Scenarios for future Videos:
    - What if Frederick the Great and Maria Theresia married (maybe with the extra that these two had also a son who inheritated prussia and austria and Title of holy roman emperor)?
    - What if Germany was unified with prussias greater german solution?
    - What if Prussia splitted up Austria after the German war and annexed all Habsburg lands into the new german empire?
    - What if germany backstabed Austria hungary with their war with serbia?
    - What if the 30 years war never happend?
    - What if America/the USA became a Monarchie, under Fredericks brothers, after their independence?
    - What if the Confederacy took over the whole USA and implemented slavery in the north?
    - What if Germany became communist after ww1?
    - What if the Qing Empire never fall/never was pushed around by the european powers (Opium wars n stuff)/never lost territory to russia, japan and the europeans
    - What if Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemberg and Switzerland became Part of the german empire (maybe a Greater German Empire Version with Austria, Bohemia, South Tyrol, Slovenia and Istria+ Switzerland and the Low-Countries)?
    - What if germany formed earlier like france and britain, maybe due a sucessfull Roman conquest of germania or out of east frankia?
    - What if Maria Theresias father had a son?
    - What if the spanish Habsburg never died out?
    -What if the HRE was able to hold nothern Italy?
    - What if Catholic christianity never gain influence and was replaced by Orthodox christianity?
    - What if the jews instead of the Christians became dominant in europe?
    - What if the US colonized the whole american continent (North and South)
    - What if Germany kept their Alliance with Russia?
    - What if an German royal House was on the Russian throne (Like in Britain)
    - What if Russia was able to colonize further into North America and was able to develope the Region?
    - What if Luxemburg didn't lost Bohemia?
    - What if imperial china never fell/ was able to colonize and westernize (Qing on it's largest extent) and so werr able to rival europa and japan/was able to hold them out of their sphere and never lost any territory at all, maybe where also able to grow
    - What if the Dual Empire between France and Germany happened? Thats a short scenario i saw on reddit. The scenario is like this: A french phyrrhic victory in the battle of Leipzig lead to a Hohenzoller-Bonaparte Alliance.
    - What if the catholics won the 30 years war?

  • @ordinary_magician
    @ordinary_magician 3 года назад +54

    A novel about Britain getting taken over by a German-something?
    I would make a joke about the EU but I know that it would be taken seriously so nvm.

    • @Kumimono
      @Kumimono 3 года назад +3

      Windsors are descended from German nobility. :)

    • @jwil4286
      @jwil4286 2 года назад +1

      @@Kumimono and aren't the Windsors also closely related to the Hohenzollerns?

    • @Kumimono
      @Kumimono 2 года назад

      @@jwil4286 They way interbreeding went on in olden times, probably...

    • @jwil4286
      @jwil4286 2 года назад +1

      @@Kumimono no, like, weren't George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II all first cousins?

    • @Kumimono
      @Kumimono 2 года назад

      @@jwil4286 I think so, Queen Victoria's descendants.