re: Would it have been better if Germany would have won WW1? The First One.

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why would England or the US be affected by that? Britain is a island empire and the US already had vast swaths of land.

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Why? Maybe political fallout resulted from loss to Germany, breeding a virulent form of nationalism, coupled with economic unrest bred by the stock market crash and the Great Depression.

Don't forget the real-time appeal Huey Long had among the discontents and disaffected in those years. Picture him and Charles Lindbergh leading a nationalist populist wave, not unlike a form of authoritarian fascism which we more typically associate with Italy and Germany.

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Addendum: The Nazis didn't really fire up the concentration camps to a major degree until '43 or so, when they realized they were fricked. Had they won 'early', I think there would have been a different outcome for the prisoners, but not likely a rosy one.

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They were slaughtering hundreds of thousands of jews in their home cities and burying them in large mass graves from Poland to Lithuania and elsewhere from 38-41 before the camps were a "thing".
Complete annihilation of the race was a main goal from the initial invasion of Poland to the surrender almost a decade later.

ETA: Amazing thread and discussion guys
There are several good WW1 games. If you like FPS Verdun is top notch