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HeWhoHasNoName · 10-08-2004, 10:50 PM

Assuming that the Nazi party hadn't simply run all of the nation's net access through government filters and firewalls, with monitoring stations in the SS offices, it may have made a difference.

I don't know what kind of affect it would have had. Most everybody in Europe outside of the Reich already knew that Hitler was a threat. With Soviet censorship on par with the Nazi filtering, Operation Barbarossa most likely would have gone ahead and given us the truly ugly Eastern Front, but the Mediterranean and West Europe get fuzzy.

The US would have seen that Hitler was not going to be satisfied with the appeasment measures Chamberlin handed out, and may have joined the British Expiditionary Force to France in 1940. That brings up the possibility of France never actually falling, and then the war as we know it just goes out the window from there.

10-08-2004, 10:50 PM	#9 (permalink)
HeWhoHasNoName Upright	Assuming that the Nazi party hadn't simply run all of the nation's net access through government filters and firewalls, with monitoring stations in the SS offices, it may have made a difference. I don't know what kind of affect it would have had. Most everybody in Europe outside of the Reich already knew that Hitler was a threat. With Soviet censorship on par with the Nazi filtering, Operation Barbarossa most likely would have gone ahead and given us the truly ugly Eastern Front, but the Mediterranean and West Europe get fuzzy. The US would have seen that Hitler was not going to be satisfied with the appeasment measures Chamberlin handed out, and may have joined the British Expiditionary Force to France in 1940. That brings up the possibility of France never actually falling, and then the war as we know it just goes out the window from there.