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View submission: What if British Retain Heligoland?
Then Germany would have kept control of Zanzibar. The wealthy and well developed island seeing high amounts of German immigration and becoming a base for the colonisation of German Tanganyika as a whole
Heligoland itself would become host to a Royal Navy base during the 1900s due to the Anglo-German arms race. With the naval base effectively meant to be used to threaten Germany
If anyone with common sense was in power. Then Germany would agree to limit Dreadnought construction in exchange for getting the island
That is not happening under Wilhelm II’s rule so the base becomes a sore point in Anglo-German relations and severely limits the Imperial German Navy’s ability to project power beyond the Baltic Sea
From a WW1 POV. It could be enough for Denmark to fully join the war. Since it would be able to guarantee British support during an invasion of Schleswig-Holstein. Meaning Denmark would annex Schleswig and Holstein after WW1
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