What if Germany had won the Great War?

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Found here but in brief:

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Track 3, December 1918: a U-boat leads the German occupation force into London.

What if Imperial Germany had won the First World War? How would subsequent events have unfolded? What would the world look like today? Would any of us be around to see it?

Here's a sketch of three alternate Time Tracks (Track 1 is history as we know it). Track 3 is closest to the world of Major Richard Sorrenson MC, of the Tank Corps, as imagined in "The Doomsday Device".

Track 2 (eerily similar to Track 1)
1919: the Royal Navy scuttles the fleet at Scarpa Flow to stop it falling into the hands of the Kaiserliche Marine. The King goes into exile in Bermuda. A weak republic is formed.
1920s: British returned soldiers, embittered by the "stab in the back" from the politicians who surrendered to Germany, form the kernel of a mass fascist movement. In the mid-1930s, a charismatic war poet, backed by the army and the people, seizes power as "Lord Protector".
Early 1940s: National Socialist Britain launches a war of aggression against Germany, to regain its lost empire. Britain allies with expansionist Japan, which cannibalizes Germany's Far Eastern empire. Both are careful not to antagonize the United States, for now.


Track 3 (diverges somewhat from T1)
1919: Imperial Germany allies with White Russian forces to crush the Bolsheviks. Lenin perishes in a bayonet charge. Stalin ends his days as a slave labourer in a Siberian coal mine.
1920s-40s: revanchist Britain plays off Germany against White Russia in anticipation of a final reckoning between these two great land powers. Eventually they fight a protracted war in Eastern Europe which terminally weakens both.
1941: a combined Japanese Navy / Royal Navy task force destroys the entire US fleet in a surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. Japanese and British forces land in American-occupied Vancouver, and receive a jubilant welcome from oppressed Canadians. Next stop - California.

Track 4 (diverges markedly from T1)
1920s: Britain falls apart as a country, exhausted by war, broken by the loss of empire. German settlers colonize Britain, forcing large numbers of Britons to flee to the New World. The Irish Liberation Army (ILA) is formed to fight German occupation of Ireland.
Early 1930s: a Cold War erupts between the new hemispheric powers, the democratic United States of North America (USNA) and Imperial Germany. Both sides work frantically to build nuclear weapons, shore up alliances, and subvert each other's colonial possessions.
1940s-1950s: proxy struggles rage in German-occupied India and Ireland. American agent provocateurs run guns to Indian and Irish nationalists. Giant airships fly German stormtroops and Gurkhas to Delhi and Dublin to put down incessant rebellions.

Feel free in comments to add to or refine these Time Tracks, or suggest your own. Remember, the starting point is German victory in 1918. After that, anything goes.