@rjpeters70:
Realistically, how much better off would Germany be today had it not fought World Wars I and II?
An Industrial Challenge would possibly occur with the U.K., France and Weimar Germany on board (later Romania,Hungary, Spain etc).
Military wise would each European Nation set the Norm up to a European fair, were they would show their goods and news at these fairs/markets and even trade.
Europe would bloom and boom, the U.S. and the Soviets would be jealous, maybe Japan would kick in, in the fairs for a good setting and settlement on the Asian market.
The Weimar Republic would sent very good goods in all over the World.
@rjpeters70:
They could have been like the Kurds, a people without a state), it might have significantly larger population, it could have absorbed Austria even, had the Austro-Hungarian empire collapsed.
Not likley since Germany was allready a Republic and absorbing Austria was in the mind set of A.H. not the Weimarian Republic.
@rjpeters70:
Would there have been a Soviet bear even?
A very good possibility but the European states could have been a very good counter part of it, working together and establishing an European country with its own Market like wall street.
@rjpeters70:
Was World War II and the rebuilding of Germany necessary for its modern industrial capacity?
Yes and No
Yes - because of WWII the world knew early about German Autobahn, Rockets, Jet Engine and Atom physics and working accurate to the highest limit.
No - because it would have taken longer depending on where the favors and the money would have flown to!
