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Entry: The Good War Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_good_war#20509 Post contents: <<Under what circumstances would Rhineland and Bavaria have split from a Nazi-ruled Germany without the Nazis marching in to crush the Rhinelanders and Bavarians?>> For one, the assassination of Hitler, and the resolve to destroy the Soviet Union being taken up by more "reasonable" members of the Nazi regime. If not for having to fight an American-led invasion of Western Europe, eastward looking Nazi Germany could have thrown more weight behind fighting the Soviets. That might have also included some sort of settlement with a "fascist" controlled France. Perhaps France would have looked more like Franco's Spain. There's really no telling what might have happened, especially if not for the Revolutionary influenced United States entering the Great War, Part II. You might have seen the great conservatives of Western Europe use Hitler and the eastern Germans (who had more to lose in a battle against the Soviets than the more insulated Rhinelanders, Bavarians, and Austrians) as their proxy in the war against the Soviets. Sent at: 2008 11 23