@Background Pony #A395  
we can’t be sure for certain but I think so, this video series shows a pretty good theory of how things could have changed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdpm5l4RoMg&t=2s

Besides no Hitler, would it have been better off if the Central Powers won World War 1?

i am writing a fanfic baced on this picture

Those who do not know history are destined to repeat it

@Andreas98
 
The richer and more advanced the country is, the stupider is its youth. It has unfortunately come to that in my homeland too.

@ŽidovskiKrižar
 
That’s beyond me. I like to read history a lot because who doesn’t like a good story?

@Andreas98
 
How for the love of God is history boring? Are these children that underdeveloped?

@SwedishSnus
 
 
Unfortunatey, even if you aided Germany, you’d still lose.

I still can believe this was pretty much how people fought wars just barely over a century ago.

@Andreas98  
If Sweden did entire WW2 on Germany’s side (Which is was considering) it would have probably done what Finland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania and switch sides

@SwedishSnus
 
Seeing how the first world war turned out we should be glad that we didn’t act. If we had joined the war then i’m pretty sure we would’t have had Folkhemmet or have become the world leader in industry (With the 4th largest air force at one point. I know it was after the second world war but Sweden could have been devastated if we joined Germany during the first one.)

@Kane  
there was however quite a large percent of the people, politicans and even the Queen who supported idea of aiding the Germans.

@SwedishSnus  
Yeah, it because it was following its long-standing policy of neutrality since the Napoleonic Wars.

@Andreas98  
@Kane
 
Sweden was actually invited to join the Central Powers during the war and we’d be rewarded with reclaiming Finland and Estonia from the russians if we accepted, resurrecting the Swedish Empire, sadly we did not.

@Cirrus Light
 
That might be true, but the amount of people now think they know everything about history.
 
I know a lot and I don’t even call myself an amateur historian.

@Kane
 
OH-HO-HO sonny, I doubt it will, it was a fucking gruesome war. They wouldn’t be able to rated decently by the ESRB if they did.

@XxMobianEquinexX
 
I had to lose my solitude. I don’t like this.

Call of Duty: World at War (Only CoD I absolutely love) was the first game that showed me the true brutality of World War 2, especially on the Eastern front. And the bravery and sacrifice both Russians and Americans spent in order to defeat their greatest enemies at the time.

@Background Pony #3D47
 
See it like i do, It’s a jumping off point. A lot of people will be exposed to the era who would’t have otherwise and quite a few of them will surely look into the topic now that it has peaked their interest. I’ve learned so much about Renaissance Italy from Assassin’s Creed II for example and much more from other games in other historical settings. Schools around the world are already struggling with keeping students engaged with “some boring history.” So the least we can do is give them a slice of history through a game in an approachable and engaging way.

@Background Pony #3D47  
I learned a tremendous amount about history thanks to games. In later years what was true was cemented and gameplay stuff was ironed out.
 
Mostly thanks to Battlefield 1942, and Destroyer Command (a sim).

@Kane
 
We weren’t but we armed ourselves to the teeth and were ready for it. (pretty much our Cold war defense policy.)

@Andreas98  
I find this funny because Sweden wasn’t even in the war.

@SwedishSnus
 
That doesn’t seem economically viable.

@Andreas98  
Don’t take me for a fool Andreas! I know fully well you’re not literate. Now up and over or it’s the firing squad for you!

@SwedishSnus
 
Can i write to my congressman first?