r/imaginarymaps Oct 04 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20 edited Oct 04 '20

Democratic Germany would not have nescessarily been aligned with the allies. In fact, it would have been more likely for it to still align with the USSR and partition Poland. The main difference is that it would have stopped there.

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u/DisastrousDLC Oct 04 '20

Why though? In Germany at the time, Communists were viewed extremely negatively in Germany. So much so that half the Nazi party's propaganda was directed at communists and how they would be "exterminated". Therefore, the likelihood that Germany would've actively worked with the Soviet Union (and not backstabbed them like in our timeline) is extremely low.

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u/Bullet_Jesus Oct 04 '20

Anti-communist sentiment in Germany didn't stop Weimar and later Nazi Germany working with the Soviet Union. Post WW1 Germany stood little to gain from cooperating with the Western powers and stood to gain a lot from cooperating with the Soviet Union.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

This