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AndrewR
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That German map in the first episode that is on the wall, that a few people were talking about. The Nazis have taken over the top-right of the USA - all the way up to the boarder with Canada. They were stopped in Canada?

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Those PMS-y female Canadian-border officers would make any world dictator-hopeful turn, tuck tail and run...this, of course, is speaking from experience.

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Maybe they couldn't drive in the snow.
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Mark Nguyen
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Also likely that they signed a non-agression pact with Canada, or that Canada declared itself neutral or capitulated along with Britain.

There was huge fuss made about an American counterattack. Well, DUH... I mean, who the hell would take on a numerically superior force, and think they can get away with it after simply occupying their captial and NE states? As it stands, to occupy everything West of Germany AND THEN to come over to North America and invade, the Nazis MUST have had a substantially larger army than in "our" timeline, or else Vosk and company would have helped them out somehow, as I've posited before.

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Or the Germans used USA Today weather maps to invade with and they didn't realise that Canada was there.

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Or they had already taken Canada and the maps are showing their progress into the U.S. only...
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Most likely, a majority of the American audience is unaware that Canada fought in World War II and therefore would not understand why the Nazis would've invaded Canada.

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Or, it's just not important to the story. What does it matter what deployment plan the Nazis followed? The relevent part is that they're THERE. That's the situation the characters have to deal with. Most people aren't interested in hearing a tactical analysis of how it happened. That isn't what the story is about.

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Malnurtured Snay
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Yeah, but who on this board qualifies as "most people", anyway?

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According to part II, Britain was taken, so one could assume that its colonies may have gone the same way.

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If Canada was taken, wouldn't they be coming in all over the Northern US though?
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quote:
Originally posted by Topher:
According to part II, Britain was taken, so one could assume that its colonies may have gone the same way.

Why? They're not continentally contiguous and in real life the Nazis didn't do that to French or Dutch colonies. In any case, Canada was a Dominion with it's own foreign policy by then.
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Depending on what year this was supposted to have taken place, consider that Canada was not as easy to take as the US.
Canada during the war had up to a million man army, 4th largest Navy, and a 250,000 strong Airforce.
Now consider that there is only one real way to take Canada from Europe, up the St. Lawrence, a very narrow channel guarded by the 4th largest Navy, a million plus men and a considerable airforce. Not so easy pickings.
If this took place pre 1941, then the USA would have been not prepared for war yet, whereas the Canadians had already had a battle hardened force with which the Nazi would have to contend.
The USA also has a very wide seaboard for landing spots, making it easier to invade.

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Of course, this was an alternate timeline and things may have bbe different.

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Apparently the shift took place in 1916 with a failed October Revolution, so anything regarding Canada would have pretty much been the same.

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