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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.
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Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta
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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.
The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:
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This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.
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Explanation: It's a common historical counterfactual for amateur history enthusiasts to ask "What if Nazi Germany had [insert technology here]?" as a means of creating alternate timelines where Nazi Germany won the war.
In reality, considering that the US was deeply concerned that the Nazis may have been getting close to nuclear weapons themselves (they were actually far behind the US project), any serious reversal of Allied fortunes in Germany probably would've ended up with the nukes being used on the Nazis instead of Imperial Japan.
Was Munich considered an important enough target for a nuclear attack? I would have thought they targeted the industrial areas around the Rhine or Elbe.
I don't think the biggest effect of those bombs were the damages done to military targets, but the shock due to the sheer scale of power and destruction they showed off
There may have been another city other than Berlin as you want the leaders to survive so you can get a proper surrender. That's why they didnt nuke Tokyo and why the Brits decided to stop all attempts to kill Hitler. I get the sense that dresdin would be high up the list
There also wasn't a whole lot Tokyo left. If you make your houses of tightly connected wood and paper, and the enemy has fire bombs, you end up a hundred thousand corpses, and 40 square kilometers of ashes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1945)