"What if Britain had not swapped Heligoland?" Topic
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| IainJL | 22 Jan 2010 8:40 a.m. PST |
Not sure how I missed that this had ever happened? Interesting scenarios for Pulp, WW1 and interwar (and cold war) link |
Wyatt the Odd  | 22 Jan 2010 9:06 a.m. PST |
Would've likely been like Jersey and Guernsey, I suspect. Wyatt |
| Griefbringer | 22 Jan 2010 9:15 a.m. PST |
I presume the Brits might not have bombed it that hard? |
| alien BLOODY HELL surfer | 22 Jan 2010 9:25 a.m. PST |
We'd have re-located criminals there rather than Australia, which turns out to be quite a nice place once you adjust to the wildlife trying to kill you on a daily basis. Big mistake that one. Should have left the scum here in the cold and re-located Blighty to sunnier climes ;-) |
| Porkmann | 22 Jan 2010 10:15 a.m. PST |
The exchange of Playmobiland was even more devastating. |
| IainJL | 22 Jan 2010 11:00 a.m. PST |
Actually in WW2 I suspect that it might have brought Britain into a more direct confrontation with Hitler before Poland and perhaps hardened British views about Czechoslovakia. In WW1 it creates a more interesting scenario for Naval games (noting that the Committee for Imperial Defence did consider a close blockade strategy of the North German Coast). I quite like the idea of a hotbed of intrigue in the 1930's just off the German Coast and with Sea Route to Poland and the Soviet Union. |
| elsyrsyn | 22 Jan 2010 1:54 p.m. PST |
Zanzibar for Heligoland? That seemed a fair trade to someone? |
| Dr Mathias | 22 Jan 2010 2:03 p.m. PST |
Regarding the Zanzibar swap- I doubt the countries involved in the Scramble for Africa knew exactly how bad of a hell-hole Africa really is. Plus Zanzibar was primarily the main staging point for anyone going into the interior on that side of Africa. |
| elsyrsyn | 22 Jan 2010 5:22 p.m. PST |
True – and Bing and Bob weren't even yet on the road to the place … Doug |
| Monophagos | 24 Jan 2010 5:27 p.m. PST |
"The Road to Heligoland" – must have missed that one……. |
| elsyrsyn | 24 Jan 2010 9:37 p.m. PST |
"The Road to Heligoland" – must have missed that one…… It didn't do a lot of box office. Doug |
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