What would hypothetically happen, if Czechs refused to give up Sudetenland?
Military-wise, they would be able to hold up for couple of months at least, would rest of the world just watch them burn during that time, or would West finally realize war is inevitable and jump in to help them?
And who would win in pic related? (if frogs and p*les would not be giant faggots and actually honor the treaty)
>And who would win in pic related? (if frogs and p*les would not be giant faggots and actually honor the treaty) The Reich wouldn't stand a chance most likely. Munich was probably the last chance to stop Hitler's faggotry without descending into a completely devastating war
Blake White
Would the czechs be able to hold out? i thought all the defenses were built around the sudetenland, so why wouldn;t the germans just send a massive force through north east austria?
Jayden Scott
>why wouldn;t the germans just send a massive force through north east austria? There were fortifications too.
It depends what the USSR and the West do. Stalin would want to help the Czechs and Poles, the West would want to avoid Stalin gaining too much influence AND avoid Hitler conquering the region, both the West and Stalin wanted to avoid an actual war with Germany, and of course for Hitler it was a do-or-die conflict that would have ended his regime had he failed. Likely it would have escalated into WW2 no matter what.
Austin Morris
>he Reich wouldn't stand a chance most likely But Reich steamrolled France and Poland in no time, so why would it suddenly be an issue?
Lucas Torres
That wouldn't help though
Land-wise, we would be able to resist pretty well, but we would get fucked over in air, we had no real air force meanwhile Germans had arguably the best one in the world. I'd say it would last 2-6 months before we would surrender.
Xavier King
They would have been invaded and the western powers wouldn't care. The USSR would criticize the Reich, but they wouldn't help the Czechs, because they would not have received a millitary acces through neither Poland nor Romania.
Lucas Ward
The Czechs would lose at a high cost, there would be mass-defections from the Germans and Slovaks in the military and destruction of infrastructure as the German army would take over the land. It would be less of a victory for Hitler, though, given that the area was industrially well-developed and a substantial part of the Third Reich's industry would be located here in the future.
Luis Jones
>All these alternate-history scenarios
The absolute fucking state of Veeky Forums. Maybe try to do your research first?
Well, if Czechs woudn't act like faggots, and reduse to give up Sudetenland, just like Poles refused to give up Danzig corridor, French, British and Poles would find Czechs worth saving and support them diplomatically.
Henry Jenkins
>Stalin would want to help the Czechs and Poles >Stalin >"helping" Poles infernal kek
Brody Foster
If Poland would join in Czechs, Germany would be defeated
Ian Cox
they had had less time to prepare and organize in 1938, and capturing Czechoslovakia gave them a huge amount of armaments, not to mention its industry
Lucas Kelly
Germany would not be able to invade them in 38. Prague is the industrial hearthland of central europe, their army is equipped well enough to stop any advances
Liam Torres
>p*les would not be giant faggots and actually honor the treaty What? There was never a treaty between Czechoslovakia and Polan. But Stalin offered Beneš to help him against Hitler even without France. Czechoslovakia actualy had 3 to 1 supperiority on Austrian borders+ "fortifications werent completed yet around Austria" is a meme. >there would be mass-defections from the Germans most g*rms refused to mobilize >and Slovaks let this meme die pls
Anthony Gutierrez
*Poland
Easton Sanders
>literally whole world signed an agreement saying Czechs should give up Sudetenland >"but if you would refuse, we would help for sure"
Jaxson Carter
Well Slovaks were pretty buttmad about Czechs, if Hitler offered them some territorial gains, its not really that much far-fetched to think they would join him. But then there would be the issue with Hitler already having Horthy on his side.
Dunno about English sources, but its pretty well known that Slovaks were unsatisfied with Prague's centralization, Czechization and wanted larger autonomy
Hudson Barnes
there is difference between wanting autonomy and fighting on the side of eternal Kraut
Blake Brown
>the conspirators needed strong British opposition to Hitler's seizure of the Sudetenland. However, Neville Chamberlain, apprehensive of the possibility of war, negotiated at length with Hitler and eventually conceded strategic areas of Czechoslovakia to him. This destroyed any chance of the plot succeeding, as Hitler was then seen in Germany as the "greatest statesman of all times at the moment of his greatest triumph", and the immediate risk of war had been neutralized
Lol not even close. Germans would get to Prague in a week tops, Slovakia declares Independence by then, we would probably just surrender.
Basically everything possible played against Czechoslovakia. No allies, no air force worthy speaking of, more than half of population had opinion of the state ranging from indifferent to openly hostile. Active and numerous German paramilitaries provided intelligence, they were often better armed than Czechoslovak army itself. Literal German Nazi party won last prewar election.
And not only were we outnumbered.Emphasis was put on French model of static defenses, which failed later in war in much more preferable circumstances (Czechoslovak fortifications were small, badly supply-able , deep in german speaking territory). And they of course weren't complete. Generality was mostly out of touch, completely misunderstanding the role of aircraft on modern battlefield. Most of the air force consisted of light bombers for some reason. No anti-aircraft command or reporting service was in place so they would most likely get destroyed on the ground anyway. Only place where we had a technological edge were tanks. But they were distributed on a division level, meaning they would quickly get encircled and destroyed even with German light tanks.
Meanwhile Masaryk and Beneš were more concerned with Habsburg restoration than trying to mend relations with Poland
Levi Clark
There was no border between Czechoslovakia and UdSSR
Alexander White
In an orthodox war without fancy Manstein tactics, Germany would have depleted their artillery shells within two months against France and it would've been a steady withdrawal from that point on. And getting nipped in the side by Poland wouldn't be helping.
Elijah Turner
>Active and numerous German paramilitaries provided intelligence, they were often better armed than Czechoslovak army itself. Literal German Nazi party won last prewar election. >And not only were we outnumbered.Emphasis was put on French model of static defenses, which failed later in war in much more preferable circumstances (Czechoslovak fortifications were small, badly supply-able , deep in german speaking territory). And they of course weren't complete. Generality was mostly out of touch, completely misunderstanding the role of aircraft on modern battlefield. Most of the air force consisted of light bombers for some reason. No anti-aircraft command or reporting service was in place so they would most likely get destroyed on the ground anyway. Only place where we had a technological edge were tanks. But they were distributed on a division level, meaning they would quickly get encircled and destroyed even with German light tanks.
Go back to /pol/ you fucking retard
Ethan Thompson
>more than half of population ...were Czechs
>week tops You overestimate German capabilities back then, especially their oil reserves and intel on the fortifications.
>they were often better armed than Czechoslovak army itself. How exactely? They had nothing else than small arms.
> Most of the air force consisted of light bombers for some reason. B-534 were (biplane) fighters, though.
Andrew Butler
that's exactly what happened a half year later. They accepted territorial loses under condition they don't get swallowed by Hungary. Your average slovak soldier wasn't excited about fighting Germans in Czechia.
Isaiah Cox
>Your average slovak soldier wasn't excited about fighting Germans in Czechia. Your average Slovak soldiers would be fighting Hungarians in Slovakia, somehting he would be rather excited about.
Owen Cook
>that's exactly what happened a half year later.
You mean after they were forced to give up half their country?
Logan Lewis
>No allies USSR, Yugoslavia and Romania are no allies, ok >no air force worthy speaking of literally second best fighters in the world >more than half of population had opinion of the state ranging from indifferent to openly hostile citation needed >they were often better armed than Czechoslovak army itself citation needed, also Czechoslovak army had 3x more automatic weapons in infantry division that G*rms >Literal German Nazi party won last prewar election. because suprisingly parasitic minorities always vote for their local strongest party, while Czechs and Slovaks had to choose between several others, Jewish voting and financial support of SdP also helped >Emphasis was put on French model of static defenses and combination of this with highly mobile divisions >Czechoslovak fortifications were small citation needed >badly supply-able citation needed >deep in german speaking territory irelevant >And they of course weren't complete literally the only thing that was missing were tunnels between all forts that werent even required >Generality was mostly out of touch citation needed >completely misunderstanding the role of aircraft on modern battlefield citation needed >Most of the air force consisted of light bombers for some reason fighters arent "light bombers", also B-71 (SB-2) was the the most modern bomber in the world >No anti-aircraft command citation needed >or reporting service citation needed >But they were distributed on a division level they were distributed in brigades you autist
Eli Gomez
*are not allies
Kevin Cox
>literally second best fighters in the world >also B-71 (SB-2) was the the most modern bomber in the world Look, we all love Czechoslovak airforce, but come on...
>Jewish voting and financial support of SdP also helped Well, except for overwhelming support of Jews to the Republic.
Logan Murphy
look at the air competition in Zürich in 1937, B-534 won the second place and Krauts had to remove MGs from their planes to make it faster, Czechoslovakia also won all maneuvering competitions, >Well, except for overwhelming support of Jews to the Republic. Jews were the second biggest group that voted for SdP. There were some exceptions, but Kikes and Krauts were always on the same side in Slavic countries.
Christopher Hughes
I agree with you that his post was full of shit, but the air force bit is true. Luftwaffe would wreck the dozen planes CZSK had in first days of the war.
Colton White
Germ airforce was absolutely shit until summer 1939. Numbers: 470x He 111 200x Ju 86 300x Do 17 120x Ju 87 150x Hs 123 (shitty biplane bomber) 510x Bf 109 (470 of them were noncanon versions) 400x Ar 68 (shitty biplane fighter) 150x He 45 M (shitty biplane bomber) 50x He 70 (Fairey Battle-tier autism) 40x Hs 126 (recon)
Czechoslovak airforce had 970 planes, out of those about 550x B-534 that are after Bf-109s best planes in conflict and 61x B-71 (SB-2)
Krauts had lack of fuel, spare parts, bombs and also pilots. Ju-87 are their only bombers that can be effectively used for anything that isnt just barbaric bombing of civilian areas, but as i said, they had 120 of them.
Asher Clark
>B-534 won the second place In Biplane category? By '38 Luftwaffe already had Bf 109, while B35 was just a prototype that still needed a lot of work.
>Jews were the second biggest group that voted for SdP Like if non-German voters of SdP counted more than dozen...
Ayden Cook
>frogs and p*les would not be giant faggots and actually honor the treaty
what are you talking about?
Caleb Barnes
>In Biplane category? no, long-range time category "Zurych– Thun – Bellizona – Zurych" D-510 First was Bf-109 V-8 (with removed MGs), time was 56 min 47,1 s, 387 km/h being avarage speed. Second was B-534 with 63 min 32,8 s and avarage speed 350 km/h. Third and fourth were also B-534, fifth was French D-510 with 68 min 34,4 s. >Like if non-German voters of SdP counted more than dozen... almost all Jews in Czechoslovakia voted for Hitler, SdP also got huge amount of money from local (((industrialists)))
Easton Cook
when the germans seized the sudetes, poland stole a village in silesia and both the french and british did nothing
Tyler Thompson
>deep in german speaking territory >irelevant
it's going to get relevant pretty quickly once their militia disrupts supply network, destroys your railway, monitors your troop movements and attacks your bunkers from behind and you can't do anything about that without investing disproportional resources you don't have in the first place. Most of those bunkers were never going to see any fighting anyway, wehrmacht would just find and exploit weaknesses in line, like they did every single time they encountered static fortifications. Czechs would quickly found themselves 20km behind front lines realizing you can't really do any effective troop movement with enemy air superiority.
Zachary Thomas
you mean the one Czechs stole when Bolsheviks invaded Poland
Josiah Cook
but what treaty are you talking about? French and Britain made a point in giving nothing more than vague promises of friendship.
Caleb Perry
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Colton Robinson
how did they managed to stole it when war with Bolsheviks started 3 months afterwards? >their militia disrupts supply network supplying of forts wasnt part of the plan, they had enough of ammo, also Kraut Freikorps was basicaly destroyed or expulsed back to the Germany by October >attacks your bunkers from behind you played too much Men of War >wehrmacht would just find and exploit weaknesses in line good luck finding weak line between forts that are all made the same way
Jacob Walker
I suppose that's the upside, you don't need to worry about logistics if your forces are going to get annihilated in 2 days.
Leo Long
do you know that pillboxes/forts have their own food storages
Jayden Foster
>massing troops on border without protecting flanks
what could possibly go wrong
Oliver Hill
>what are designated garrison troops that are part of the border guard
Anthony Long
Why would Whites have any claim on Lviv when it was part of Austria before the war? Silly Czech
Jace Young
Lviv isnt another name for Kiev mate
Christian Bailey
>almost all Jews in Czechoslovakia voted for Hitler Yea, I can totally imagine a Jew throwing the ballot while thinking that Jews should be exterminated, since they are responsible for every evil. Not to mention, no one in Czechoslovakia could ever vote for Hitler.
>no, long-range time category And this makes you think a biplane could hold off against the workhorse of Luftwaffe?
Angel White
SdP wasnt that radical. Their program was mostly anti-czech stuff Kikes supported. Also by Hitler i mean SdP which was his puppet party. >And this makes you think a biplane could hold off against the workhorse of Luftwaffe? That biplane has almost the same speed, much better maneuverability and same or better weapons.
Nolan Watson
It's hard to take you seriously when you say kikes
John Barnes
>Also by Hitler i mean SdP which was his puppet party. SdP wasn't under Hitler by 1935 (When there were last Czechoslovak elections).
>Their program was mostly anti-czech stuff Kikes supported Again, I'm not sure if your brain can swallow it, but Jews overwhelmingly supported the republic. If you want to challenge the consensus you must have solid evidence. Also you ain't on /pol/, so >That biplane has almost the same speed, much better maneuverability and same or better weapons. Biplanes were already becoming obsolete by 1938, while Bf 109 was workhorse of luftwaffe throughout the entire war. Heck Luftwaffe used both Avias and Bf 109s during Fall Weiss, they were not trated as equal machines.
Jackson Martinez
>Pribinovy_slavnosti
Sebastian Russell
>SdP wasn't under Hitler by 1935 this is just a shitpost right >Jews overwhelmingly supported the republic thats post war propaganda >Biplanes were already becoming obsolete by 1938 only because it is biplane doesnt mean its worse, D-510 isnt biplane and its shitty plane
Hunter Russell
>this is just a shitpost right Learn2history, user. It's much deeper than you would through.
>thats post war propaganda That's just an empty claim. If you want to make outrageous claims and not to be laughed at, you have to provide proofs.
>only because it is biplane doesnt mean its worse Name one biplane relevant in WW2. D-510 was shit because it was obsolete design by '38.
Dominic Adams
you want me to provide proofs but you proof that B-534 is obsolete is nonexistent
Henry Roberts
*your proof
Nathan Reed
Claim that biplanes were pretty much obsolete in WW2 is not outrageous, it's common knowledge. Just look how many kills did Avias earned during WW2.
Caleb Martin
how many kills did Meteor got in WW2. Haha got ya mate.
Daniel Ward
>subhuman slavshits with tiny populations defeating the germanic master race
So what, if Germany fought Poland a year before, would charging tanks with horses be somehow more effective? brainlet.
Jason Perry
Kill yourself you retarded piece of shit.
Jose Ramirez
whoa, what a great argument coming from a Slavshit subhuman.
Charles Watson
There was no charging tanks with horses, you imbecile faggtard. And Wehrmacht was an absolute trash in 1938
Dominic Anderson
just fucking kill yourself. fucking nigger subhuman Slav, you're barely above a cockroach.
Also Anne Frank probably survived in this timeline so Veeky Forumsfags everywhere can rejoice when she lives a normal including married and getting pregnant.
Oliver Diaz
What the fuck even is this sophistry? Meteors served only in the last year of war in small numbers and actually downed German aircraft.
Ryan Reyes
There's a high chance of betrayal by the sl*vakians but yeah Sudetenland was highly defensible and rugged territory and they had renowned artillery with Skoda
Joshua Davis
Shit bait
Levi Roberts
kekkoslovakia was an abomination and a non country
it served no purpose and had no friends, its faith was sealed, they were lucky enough to collaborate to avoid extermination
Gavin Evans
>Butthurt >Doesn't know english
Polack?
Cameron Thompson
>czechen has no friend >calls other butthurt
dont forget to LARP as a german few posts later, shitstain
Logan Turner
Well, just don't steal anything here, OK?
Gavin Walker
Beck offer Czechs to join them if they decide to go to war. Germany was much weaker at this time - they get stronger when they put hands on all that sweet Czech tanks and arty.
Joseph Myers
You better make the same meme about Lithuanians or Latvians.
Mason Russell
Nah. Polacks like pepiks even if peipks do not like them. Its probably hohol. they hate everyone including themselves.
Levi Cox
I understand that they had a pretty decent and large army. They could have given it a sporting try but would have inevitably lost out to the Hun's vast war machine. France and Britain would have screamed bloody murder but I don't think would have declared war or considered it worth trying to intervene, considering their mentality of appeasement at the time, as well as the costs of getting involved vs. what minuscule gains they might achieve from such a conflict.
Adam Stewart
>Military-wise, they would be able to hold up for couple of months at least No they wouldn't, it would have fallen even easier than Poland.
The defenses on the German border lacked sufficient depth, being 5 kilometers at their deepest, and only 0.1 kilometers at their narrowest. All of Czechoslovakia's notable industry was in the border regions. Worse, in 1938 the fortified border was not complete, and heavy artillery in particular was lacking. The line was manned largely by immobile fortress divisions, and lacked the necessary ability for local and large scale counter attacks which later campaigns showed were the key to holding any defended line. For example, two years later while conducting an assault river crossing from hasty positions, the Germans punched through over 10 km of French fortifications in a single day. In 1938 the Germans would have penetrated the Czech line in numerous locations in short order.
The Czechs knew this, and their original war-plans assumed they would only face a quarter or so of the overall German strength, with France diverting the bulk of the German army west. Unfortunately for the Czechs, Hitler intended to throw nearly everything at Czechoslovakia and trust in French inaction based on his own analysis of the French political and military situation. As with Poland, this would have been a successful gamble.
Charles Sanders
>And who would win in pic related? The Germans would crush the opposition. They were in fact in a much better shape than they were in 1940, relative to the opposition. The French military was in an abject state in 1938; compared to the five well-organized armored divisions Germany possessed in October of 1938, France had. . . none, except for two under-strength brigades of light tanks without most of their heavier equipment. France's best tank and mainstay of the BOF, the S-35, had only a few dozen units completed at the time; Guderian assessed French armored formations as only having firepower fit for reconnaissance units. [Horne, "To Lose a Battle, p.118] A big contrast to the BOF where the French actually outgunned the Germans. Britain's strength was completely negligible in 1938, as it was estimated they could only deploy two divisions to France in the event of a war (they deployed 13 in the 1940 BOF).
France's real armored divisions did not come into existence until January of 1940, and that was far from their only improvement. Per Jackson's "The Fall of France": in 1938 France produced 400 tanks, in 1939 they produced 1,000 (more than all the tanks produced in the years 1934-1937 combined), and in 1940 production was set to double again, with 850 tanks produced in the first six months before the battle ended production. By contrast the Germans only acquired 244 Pz 35 light tanks from Czech stocks, and had captured or built a further 237 Pz 38. France also had six armored divisions now, and while they were still organizationally deficient compared to their German counterparts, they were miles above the small tank units that were being parceled as far as usefulness went.
Basically, in every area of military production from 1939 on the Allies were outproducing Nazi Germany. It was in their interest to wait as long as possible for a war to happen. If they couldn't win in 1940, they were not going to win in 1938.
Cameron Nelson
>All of Czechoslovakia's notable industry was in the border regions. Oh yeah, glass making, that's what armies run on...
>For example, two years later while conducting an assault river crossing from hasty positions, the Germans punched through over 10 km of French fortifications in a single day Germans in 1938 did not had the same level of mobilization and mechanization nor did they had proper access to oil.
Alexander Peterson
Your map is wrong. Poland was supporting Germany and threatened to declare war on the USSR if they sent planes to help the Czechs.
Oliver Bell
>Could Czechs win? No, not without French and Eternal Anglos
>How long would it last? Ranging from several weeks to few months. It's impossible to say.
>Would it be worth it for the G*rmans? No. Loses would probably be high on both sides, key industry in czechoslovakia would get destroyed as well as most of the military equipment and most importantly tanks. Also, anti-g*rman sentiment and outright hate would be much much higher in this scenario than it was in real life.
>Would this have any impact on the rest of the war? Yes, definitely. Planned war with the Allies would have to wait until G*rmans recover from the war and until they build more tanks. On the other hand, the war would give them valuable experiences.
Jayden Edwards
>Poland was supporting Germany and threatened to declare war on the USSR if they sent planes to help the Czechs. What the fuck do you smoke?
Joshua Peterson
He's right.
Cooper Carter
If the Reds came to Czechoslovakia to "help" and went through Poland, their army wouldn't leave any of those countries.
William Anderson
Poles were supporting Germany since they saw Munich agreement and occupation of Czechoslovakia as an easy way of getting some land, which they got.