re: OT History "What If" Discussion: Germany Wins WWI in 1914

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This hypothetical postulates a win similar to what the Germans would achieve in 1940. But just as in 1940, the UK would still have a lot of fight left in them, arguably more. And would a win on the Marne completely knock out France. I don't think France had the bitter political divisions that created Vichy. Could the French Army with its still strong nationalism pulled back to continue fighting?

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WEll had the German's stuck to the Schieffen Plan, it along iwth the French Plan XVII would have created a situation where the German's controlled Paris and French Armies would have found themselves basically surrounded and cut off from their supply lines in France. Here is a good map to show what could have happened...



Had these events transpired then WWI would have looked a lot like a cut-down version of the Franco-Prussian War that had been fought a little over 40 years before.