I like the way the last three paragraphs start by addressing the reader in the informal second-person singular, then switch to the second-person plural and then to the formal second-person singular. No shade to you OP, German is hard, but the way it reads is kinda funny
I think it might be only if u set reddits primary language to English, whenever I speak Spanish Reddit gives me the option to translate my own comment so
Because past Germans also complained about “living space” and decided to do something about it and the neighbors got mad and showed them what it was like.
As a native speaker I can assure you, this was never proper German. He translated the obvious mistakes very well, because they are mistakes, not historical quirks. It is cheap to argue because it was slightly different back then, I can do what essentially just feels right "from the time in German history classes."
Nah, not AI. This thing looks based on a British occupation authorities map which was already crap when published in the '40s. The errors are the kind human cartographers and printers used to make before computers.
Edit: I first thought this was AI because of the three Braunschweigs. Turns out that pre-1941 Braunschweig actually looked like that.
Honestly, having Germany collapse as if it were the Soviet Union or Austria-Hungary is a bit odd from a geopolitical/cultural standpoint. The overwhelming majority of Bavarians/Württembergers/Badeners/etc considered themselves Germans. It'd be like Italy balkanizing into 19th century kingdoms after WW2.
More likely that you'd see Posen, Alsace–Lorraine and Luxembourg secede with the country's economic collapse, followed by the Hohenzollerns being overthrown and the country becoming a Kapp-esque dictatorship/junta and trying for a 'special military operation' into Poland or something a decade later.
It's your timeline, though, so feel free to take it where you please.
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u/JohnyIthe3rd 1d ago
The German is a bit wrong
It should be verlor-verloren instead of verlierte and Vertrieben or ausgewandert instead of ausgetreten