What would Irish infrastructure look like now if Germany won the war and wanted Ireland to prosper

I assume your own responses would be Yes, Yes, No.

Personally I haven't a clue as there are far too many variables.

If I remember from reading years ago, Hitler didn't see the Irish as subhuman, but not exactly perfect specimens either.

So it's possible we would be some sort of manufacturing hub tolerated for the Reich or we could also be used as similar to what we do now with beef etc

In saying that himself was a vegetarian and big into animal rights so he could have done an Eamon Ryan and made us cut the herd too.

What a strange thread ,

neutral ireland may have sailed a path through a german led post war worlld ,

The Reich did build infrastructure in captive land , they built an auto-bahn straight across poland , obviously it wasnt for polands benefit , it was heading straight to the eastern front .

Ireland would have been ,a small english speaking island with no industry,and an undeveloped farming sector , off the far west of europe

I cant imagine that a german europe would have been funding anything in ireland ,

That's not the question that was asked..

The question was

What would Irish infrastructure look like now if Germany won the war and wanted Ireland to prosper ?

I.e What would the infrastructure of Ireland look like if it had the urban planning,engineering and technology expertise and a government that was willing to invest and modernise the infrastructure of the land to make it prosper look like? and they had 80 years to do it....

The only reason that Ireland doesn't have a crumbling infrastructure now is because it joined the Eu in the 1970s and the E.U helped invest and plan and construct...

Travellers waiting on a bus or a taxi from the airport to get onto the m50 motorway isn't a high speed network... is there any country in Western Europe that doesn't have a railway from the main airport?

I'd say we'd all have lovely looking uniforms and the trains would definitely be better, but not everyone would like their destination.

I’d say the infrastructure would be amazing , it would to be to the Tiger Tanks to Cavan.

Ireland would have been used for our lands and food that's it. We would all be farmers off some type and all probably poor too. They would take all our food and leave us with little just like the British did.

Yes, you're 100% right. Eamon Ryan is a modern day Hitler. 😜

We had a lucky escape back in the day. Hitler planned to make the IRA a puppet government in Dublin.

Exactly. Nazi Germany's economic policies were disastrous, the war was being used to cover up for the ineptitude of Nazi's government. Let's consider Greece as an example of a conquered state. Hitler actually regarded Greeks as almost equal to Germans, and didn't want to exterminate them. Greece's was conquered without much infrastructure damage. And yet 600 thousand Greeks died of hunger and related diseases during the German occupation. In Greece, where there was never a problem with growing food or fishing the sea.

Hitler was neither a vegetarian, nor was he "big into animal rights". He ate meat, he was just advised not to by his doctors because of his terrible bowels. His "vegetarianism" & his "teetotalism" (he drank alcohol) was part of Goebbels plan to make him appear more like Ghandi, less like Churchill.

As for the animal rights, yes Germany brought in strict animal welfare laws, but they were designed to make it difficult for Jews & Muslims to obtain meat as their religious strictures around slaughter were what the laws prohibited.

A point my father made to me a few years ago. One of the reasons infrastructure in Germany is so good now is because Germany was pretty much flattened during WW2. Its much easier to build straight roads and modern buildings when you have a blank canvas to start with.

As others have said, under German rule, I'd expect modern Ireland to be one big field, feeding the rest of Europe.

Godwinned in the thread title, even before Post #1

Impressive !

In modern Germany, the transport systems are now aged and unreliable. Even the cities look aged.

And remember, facilities and infrastructure need people to use them, which rely on population. You can't be comparing Ballinrobe with Frankfurt, like. Compare with a small German town.

what we were thought was fact, the intention was genocide by the british.

the famine was a genocide, deliberately so.

what was imported and exported was irrelevant as the irish were prohibited from accessing it.

Ehh they built Atlantic wall in France.

U-boat pens in Lorient that are still there today.

Bunkers in Poland, roads through Poland.

They didn't just Slavs, they wanted to use them as slave labour.

English looked down their noses at us and English were seen by Hitler as being of old Anglo Saxon stock and more like Nordic Aryan.

We would be yet more Untermenschen to be worked to death.

Forget neutral Ireland.

Once Britain fell, Northern Ireland and then us would be taken in days.

Ports would be built, u-boat pens would be built to defend and control the Atlantic.

We would become some Lebensraum to the West.

We would be on the front line with US and Canada.

We would have our own Atlantic Wall rather than Atlantic Way.

they weren't given a choice.

they were fighting with the british whether they wanted to or not.

they were kept in concentration camps because they were saw as being lesser.