I would argue Vonsiatsky in IRL wasn't really anti-Semitic, heck when Vonsiatsky was leading the All-Russian Fascist Organization he had split from Rodzaevsky's RFP due to disagreements over Anti-semitism.
Photos of the Kaiserreich
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I was inspired by Krasnacht to have Vonsiatsky as the insane radical voynist and Himmler analog, which is ironic considering the above.
(a LPPO rally in Lublin)
Although the State of Poland collapsed in the early 90s along with the rest of the Prague Pact and the Russian State and transitioned to a Radical Socialist government under founder Anna Walentynowicz, remnants of the ruling party, the Polish National Patriotic Party and its various Rodinist, monarchist, and Codreanuist wings organized into a new party (League of Patriotic Poles) and hold regular party activities because of the Law of Pardoning passed in 1999 by the Polish Federation of Labor. They have been irrelevant since their founding, but with the crisis occurring across RoteEuropa (the unofficial name for the European syndicalist sphere) as a result of the Kongolese and Dervish Civil War, many Poles have been flocking back to the nostalgia of a nationalistic and anti syndicalist Poland...
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black guards were SS, combat squads were SA, according to my talks with Kaisermacht.
Is Australia part of the Internationale?
Tanks of the 121st Tankya Divsya 'Savinkov's Fist' take positions around Moscow
Protesters gather on a Statist APC
Unionist politicians speak out in favor of dethawing the regime
Barricades go up across the city as Syndicalists consolidate their control
Black August was a political crisis in the Russian State upon the assassination of the ailing Vozhd Zerdony Verkinsky during a speech in August of 1995. The Vozhd was already in notably ailing health but seemed to recover by early August of 1995. After a long absence from the public spotlight he appeared before his people in Kiev to give a speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the climatic Battle of Kiev that broke the German lines and led to the Russian victory in the East. However long dormant elements of the political sphere, most notably the Syndicalist Novyy Bol'shevistskiy Blok (NBB) and big tent Narodnaya Yunionistskaya Partiya (PUP) saw their chance. During the speech a radicalized member of the NBB threw a grenade at the stage in an attempt to kill the Vozhd. The Vozhd's bodyguards managed to tackle the most powerful man on Earth out of the way of the blast (which killed 10 civilians) but inadvertently broke his leg as he hit the ground. The Vozhd was rushed to a local hospital as local Army units flooded the city and put it on lock down. After a tense week while doctors struggled to save the Vozhd's life they were despondent to see his body finally give out and during a surgery he had a massive heart attack that killed the man that dozens of others tried. The Senate (which had spent most of the last few decades) saw its chance to take control of the political organs of state and immediately moved to elect the new Vozhd, Vladimir Putin. This was in direct conflict to the man the previous Vozhd named his successor, named Aleksey Zhuravlyov and soon a political crisis struck the State. Political analysts from Paris to Calcutta compared the deadlock to that which gripped Russia after Kerensky's assassination which allowed Savinkov to take power in the first place. As the world waited with baited breath as to what would happen next, the people took things into their own hands.
The first to act was the NBB. Long dormant but never completely expunged its members had spent decades waiting for just such an occasion to take advantage of. President of the NBB Zyuganov sent out a coded transmission over the Syndicalist leaning pirate radio stations "The sky runs red today". Within hours cities across Russia were flooded with protesters waving red flags, chanting Bolshevik slogans and decrying the fascist system in Moscow. The PUP was slower to act however. Being a big tent party of various democratic movements many of its left leaning elements wanted to piggy back off the NBB protests to not draw the ire of any government crackdowns while more radical elements wished for counter protests to drown out the NBB and Moscow regime. Finally, as August entered its third week the PUP finally agreed to stage their own protests aimed solely against Moscow, choosing to not work with the NBB as much as possible. It was compromise nobody was happy with but one that many were able to stomach, if for a little while. The largest of these protests were in Moscow (PUP) and Kiev (NBB) where hundreds of thousands of protesters ground both cities to a halt. The Russian State seemed to be on the brink of massive change, something that the regime in Moscow could not abide. Putin and Aleksey met in a secret location and agreed to put aside their differences for the time being instead uniting to crush the protests and retain NRPR power. To do this both Aleksey and Putin sent messages to units loyal to them commanding they enter Moscow and Kiev and suppress the budding rebellion. The first units to enter Moscow were Putin loyalists while Aleksey's men managed to enter Kiev first creating spheres of power within the State, whoever ended their revolt first would have a leg up in the battle of legitimacy.
In Moscow things escalated quickly. Putin was just as ruthless as the Old Guard and as his troops marched into Red Square tear gas and rubber bullets were used to quickly disperse protesters. It was not long before rubber was replaced with lead however and within hours most of Moscow was under Putin's control. However certain neighborhoods with strong PUP presences were able to hold out with a combination of hit and run attacks and barricades. Centered around the Biryulovo Vostochnoye and Biryulovo Zapadnoye neighborhoods PUP supporters gave speeches championing their causes and inspiring their budding soldiers to fight. Meanwhile towards the center of Moscow Putin's men had regrouped and launched a new push on the PUP's barricades, this time spearheaded by heavy tanks. The fighting was laughably one sided as protesters turned guerrilla fighters were gunned down by the dozens whenever caught out in the open and PUP politicians, once hopeful of being the first President of a democratic Russia, fled Moscow as the screams of their supporters were cut short with gunfire. Things went much the same in Kiev except when Aleksey's men cracked down on the NBB they retreated into the factories that crowded Kiev turning each of them into fortresses that had to be cleared out or burned out. Better armed than the more academic PUP the NBB posed a serious infestation for the Statist army to weed out. As soon as a 'nest' was cleared the survivors would disperse into the crowded metropolis and become one man snipers forcing increased resources hunting them down. In the end it took months to clear Kiev in contrast to the days it took Putin to clear out Moscow. However both men knew that the slaughter of so many would do nothing but undermine their claims to the Vozhdship. Both men knew that these were the opening shots of the Third Russian Civil War.
The first to act was the NBB. Long dormant but never completely expunged its members had spent decades waiting for just such an occasion to take advantage of. President of the NBB Zyuganov sent out a coded transmission over the Syndicalist leaning pirate radio stations "The sky runs red today". Within hours cities across Russia were flooded with protesters waving red flags, chanting Bolshevik slogans and decrying the fascist system in Moscow. The PUP was slower to act however. Being a big tent party of various democratic movements many of its left leaning elements wanted to piggy back off the NBB protests to not draw the ire of any government crackdowns while more radical elements wished for counter protests to drown out the NBB and Moscow regime. Finally, as August entered its third week the PUP finally agreed to stage their own protests aimed solely against Moscow, choosing to not work with the NBB as much as possible. It was compromise nobody was happy with but one that many were able to stomach, if for a little while. The largest of these protests were in Moscow (PUP) and Kiev (NBB) where hundreds of thousands of protesters ground both cities to a halt. The Russian State seemed to be on the brink of massive change, something that the regime in Moscow could not abide. Putin and Aleksey met in a secret location and agreed to put aside their differences for the time being instead uniting to crush the protests and retain NRPR power. To do this both Aleksey and Putin sent messages to units loyal to them commanding they enter Moscow and Kiev and suppress the budding rebellion. The first units to enter Moscow were Putin loyalists while Aleksey's men managed to enter Kiev first creating spheres of power within the State, whoever ended their revolt first would have a leg up in the battle of legitimacy.
In Moscow things escalated quickly. Putin was just as ruthless as the Old Guard and as his troops marched into Red Square tear gas and rubber bullets were used to quickly disperse protesters. It was not long before rubber was replaced with lead however and within hours most of Moscow was under Putin's control. However certain neighborhoods with strong PUP presences were able to hold out with a combination of hit and run attacks and barricades. Centered around the Biryulovo Vostochnoye and Biryulovo Zapadnoye neighborhoods PUP supporters gave speeches championing their causes and inspiring their budding soldiers to fight. Meanwhile towards the center of Moscow Putin's men had regrouped and launched a new push on the PUP's barricades, this time spearheaded by heavy tanks. The fighting was laughably one sided as protesters turned guerrilla fighters were gunned down by the dozens whenever caught out in the open and PUP politicians, once hopeful of being the first President of a democratic Russia, fled Moscow as the screams of their supporters were cut short with gunfire. Things went much the same in Kiev except when Aleksey's men cracked down on the NBB they retreated into the factories that crowded Kiev turning each of them into fortresses that had to be cleared out or burned out. Better armed than the more academic PUP the NBB posed a serious infestation for the Statist army to weed out. As soon as a 'nest' was cleared the survivors would disperse into the crowded metropolis and become one man snipers forcing increased resources hunting them down. In the end it took months to clear Kiev in contrast to the days it took Putin to clear out Moscow. However both men knew that the slaughter of so many would do nothing but undermine their claims to the Vozhdship. Both men knew that these were the opening shots of the Third Russian Civil War.
*This is based on how I see my recent Russian State game playing out in the long run
He is in the party “ Alldeutscher Verband” though Ernst rohm dominates.
Logo of the Independent Serbian State Army, a hypernationalist terrorist group, operating mainly along the Serbian-Austrian border.
Although its members claim to be the direct continuation of the original Black Hand, the origins of the group are generally traced back to the early 1950s with their first attack on Goražde.
Milan Nedić, considered by many one of the founding fathers of the ISSA.
A veteran of the first Weltkrieg and the Fourth Balkan War, Serbia's defeat in both conflicts led him to believe that it was impossible for Serbia to win militarily against the Austrian empire.
On the contrary, he began to argue that the only way to achieve victory was to start a campaign of terror against the symbols of Austrian power to push the civilian population in Illyria to rebel against Vienna.
Although his direct participation in the subsequent attacks in Illyria is open to debate, Nedić never failed to show support for the ISSA, claiming that the real culprits were Austria and its "oppression" of Orthodox Serbs.
Ironically he himself was killed in an act of violence by a group of Hungarian nationalists in 1954.
A photo of the main street of Goražde after the attack of 12 August 1951. Although the objective of the ISSA was the Catholic mayor of the city, the early explosion of the car bomb killed only two innocent bystanders.
The consequences of an ISSA attack on a Catholic church in Sarajevo in 1965. In the twenty years following the first attack on Garažne, the ISSA would continue to hit civil and political targets not only in Illyria but in some cases also in Bulgaria and Albania in an attempt to foment the revolution, but obtaining very few resounds.
This twenty years is known in Austria as "The Years of Lead" ("Jahre Blei") and was also characterized by interreligious violence between the Orthodox and Catholic communities.
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German troops take down a border checkpoint on the Austrian-Bavarian border
German troops meet cheering crowds in Linz
Nebelwerfer 45s are moved towards the front. The Bohemian Campaign is the first and only time rocket artillery was largely implemented.
German troops take a rest as fighting continues near Blansko, Bohemia
Operation Otto was a German military operation undertaken from October to November 1945 between the forces of the German Heer and the Austrian Empire and Bohemian Republic. As the Second Weltkrieg came to an end in mid-1945 Kaiser Wilhelm III sought another military adventure to spread his wings. Europe was mostly under his thumb now with France shattered and broken at his feet, run by a myriad of puppets and the UK facing the same fate. He had options like intervening in Russia's civil war which had ground to a halt as Russian troops froze in Siberia against the Japanese and their Transamur puppets while also tediously clearing Bolshevik strongholds in the West. Not to mention Sudwestafrika's telegrams to Berlin spoke of grand plans to restore Mittelafrika as a beacon of peace and stability on the troubled Continent. The Western Hemisphere also saw opportunities for German interference as the Combined Syndicates were paralyzed by AFP and MacArthurite terrorists and a devastated countryside leading to a continuing power vacuum that Germany looked prime to fill. However Wilhelm III's Reichskanzler Kurt von Schleicher came to him with a problem closer to home, Austria. After the failure of the 1937 Augsleich and the dissolution of the status quo between Austria and her subjects the Empire was in a sorry state. Kaiser Otto was despondent and reportedly extremely depressed rarely leaving his room and pushing the duty of ruling to a ever more powerful Reichsrat steering the Empire towards a sort of autocratic republicanism. This however threatened the status quo as the successor states of the Duel Monarchy (Bohemia, Hungary, Illyria and Galicia-Lodomeria) warred amongst themselves threatening the precious balance of power the Balkans frequently found itself in. This, in conjunction with the ultimate failure of Otto's reforms after Black Monday left the Balkans on a knifes edge with a resurgent Serbia waiting in the wings to strike its old enemy and take its place as Balkan hegemon. Reichskanzler von Schleicher however saw this as a threat to the domination of Mitteleuropa and Germany's always tenuous grasp on supreme power. In a series of meetings stories of oppression of Germans in Bohemia, of thousands of cries for help reaching Berlin from Austria and more importantly for Kaiser Wilhelm III to become the greatest Kaiser in German history, even surpassing his father, by uniting all German speaking peoples under one throne were fed to the Kaiser. The Kaiser was utterly seduced by these stories and more spun by the Kamarilla and ordered his High Command to devise a plan to sweep into Austria and Bohemia.
The plan was deceptively simple with the first casualty to be Bohemia. With most of its troops preoccupied turning back Hungarian border incursions their border with Germany was only manned by a sparse few green troops at the checkpoints. They would be of no consequence as the plan called for pincers to quickly pierce the lightly defended areas between checkpoints, surround the checkpoints themselves and disarm the guards before word of the German invasion could spread. After that the Heer would drive on Prague and seize the President Edvard Benes and force Bohemia's capitulation. The plan was to be carried out by the storied Black Army of Field Marshal von Kleist whose exploits in Ukraine and later Northern France made them some of the most battle hardened troops in the Heer. When the green light was given late on October 7th, 1945 the vaunted Panzerkorps led by General Rommel struck first, rolling over the fence separating Bohemia and German territory, soon followed by Kleist's motorized divisions. Within four hours all checkpoints on the border were in German hands and their guards marched into temporary POW camps. What came next is the now famous Midnight Ride where Rommel personally led the spearhead from the front at Decin to Prague, driving into Prague by midnight and meeting no resistance. The advance was so fast that it was German troops that woke President Benes and alerted him of their invasion as most of his government was already in custody. Legend says that Rommel himself woke the President and had him sign a pre-written surrender document. The War was over before the Bohemian High Command realized it had started however many did not see the sudden phone call from Prague telling them not to resist the Germans as legitimate. General in Chief of the Bohemian Land Forces General Ludvik Svoboda contacted his Hungarian equivalent, Commander of the Northern Front Lajos Csatay and told him he would allow Hungarian troops into Bohemia if they helped him resist the German take over. After a short conversation with his superiors he was denied permission. The Hungarian regent Miklos Horthy did not want to anger the more powerful Mitteleuropa and ordered Csatay to hold position on the Bohemian border and only fire if fired upon and under no circumstances were they to assist the Bohemians. Without aid from the Hungarians Svoboda moved his headquarters to Olomouc and ordered the Bohemian Army to take up positions around Brno stretching their lines up to the Polish border near Kraliky and South ending at Breclav. Meanwhile Kleist consolidated his hold in the West and prepared to move eastward, hearing of the Bohemian resistance. Meanwhile the German White Army who gained their fame in Operation Zookeeper* (Invasion of the UoB) began preparing the second stage of Operation Otto, the occupation of Austria.
By October 10th, 1945 the advance units of von Kleist's Army under command of General Walter Model reached the Brno and were engaged by Bohemian artillery and tanks and were caught off guard and forced back. After regrouping Model was reinforced by a few divisions of Rommels Panzerkorps and pressed forward, concentrating his attack on three areas close to Brno. The Bohemians gave the Germans hell from their deeply entrenched positions but after the Luftwaffe arrived in support the Bohemians retreated into the Spilberk Castle which had been fortified by the Austrians some years prior. The Germans surrounded Spilberk and demanded the Bohemian's surrender before the rest of Kleist's army showed up and brought the Nebelwerfer 45's to bear along with heavier artillery. The Bohemian's responded with gunfire. Model's large artillery guns began to rain shells inside the walls while the few Panzer IV's that were with Model began to pound at the gates while under anti-tank fire from the few Bohemian's brave enough (or suicidal enough) to still man the walls. However, despite their heroic resistance the old gates buckled under the large guns of the Panzers and the German troops were able to flood in. Kleist and his Nebelwerfers were not needed as after an hour of brutal fighting the last Bohemians in the castle surrendered. The Germans then spread out across Brno and quickly dislodged the few makeshift strongholds thrown up by Bohemian troops not able to assist in Spilberk's defense. With Brno in their hands Model held his men in place and waited for the main force to catch up. When they did early on the 11th they began to exploit the hole they had punched in the Bohemian line. With few reserves able to respond the Germans punched deep into essentially open territory as the bulk of the ground forces began to roll up the Bohemian lines; Meanwhile the Panzerkorps was sent around the rear to strike further north along the lines and sow chaos in the Bohemian C&C. In Olomouch proper the Bohemian High Command struggled to come up with a counter to the German push. Reports from the front were scattered and contradictory with Germans appearing where they shouldn't and in dozens of places at once. The reserves were already being deployed to one area when suddenly fighting would spring up in another. Not only that but Bohemian positions near Poland had reported fire coming from Poland (which was just German troops in Poland but the Bohemian's didn't know that). Knowing that continued fighting would only kill more Bohemians General Svoboda ordered his men to stand down. Operation Otto I was over and with only a few thousand German casualties but almost 7,000 on the Bohemian side. The last Bohemian troops laid down their arms on November 1st, 1945 pushing the Invasion of Austria far behind schedule.
Operation Otto II was to be carried out by The White Army under Field Marshal Ritter von Leeb from bases in Bohemia and Germany itself. This was dealt with more tact by the Kaiser who saw the Austrians as his kin and wanted as little bloodshed between the two armies as possible. On November 1st, as the White Army moved into position, Kaiser Wilhelm III called Kaiser Otto in the first communication between the two since Wilhelm III coronation. The exact transcript of the call has been lost to time but by the time Wilhelm hung up the phone he was infuriated. Nevertheless Operation Otto II was slated to continue. Ritter von Leeb's plan was simple, much like the plan to invade Bohemia. He would simply advance on all fronts towards Wein while rounding up and capturing all Austrian troops they could, troops were only ordered to only shoot at Austrians if attacked first. Field Marshal von Leeb's memo ended with the now infamous line "We are here to free our brothers, not bury them". Finally Otto II began on November 7th, 1945 to much fanfare with local Austrian civilians watching German troops tear down border checkpoints at various border towns. With the Austrian economy in the middle of a steep decline the idea of Vereinigung or Unification had rapidly gained steam in Austria spearheaded by a smattering of fringe parties. By the time Otto II came around a poll by the BBC saw ~60% of Austrians supporting Vereinigung with Germany so as the Germans advanced they were met with cheering crowds. As part of the Germans attempts to further pull the Austrian populace to their side, soldiers were given AustroMarks, a special kind of Reichsmark that bridged the gap between the official Austrian Mark and the Reichsmark, to be handed out to people along the way. With the rapid devaluation of the Austrian Mark in the years prior dozens of people suddenly gained more money than they had since the Augsleich. Its said when Kaiser Otto heard of the German invasion he locked himself away in his room for weeks while the government struggled to decide whether to respond or not. In the end however as German troops approached Wein from all sides and the Austrian Army refused to resist, the government had no choice. When Field Marshal von Leeb entered Wein in mid November he was met by the President of the Reichsrat Gustav Gross who surrendered the country to the Germans. With that Otto II was over not with a bang, but a whimper. Not a single life was lost on either side as many Austrian soldiers surrendered to the Germans or at the very least refused to fight them. By the end of November Austria was admitted into the German Empire as a Archduchy under the Hapsburgs and Wilhelm III looked hungrily to the remaining areas of the Austrian Empire.
The plan was deceptively simple with the first casualty to be Bohemia. With most of its troops preoccupied turning back Hungarian border incursions their border with Germany was only manned by a sparse few green troops at the checkpoints. They would be of no consequence as the plan called for pincers to quickly pierce the lightly defended areas between checkpoints, surround the checkpoints themselves and disarm the guards before word of the German invasion could spread. After that the Heer would drive on Prague and seize the President Edvard Benes and force Bohemia's capitulation. The plan was to be carried out by the storied Black Army of Field Marshal von Kleist whose exploits in Ukraine and later Northern France made them some of the most battle hardened troops in the Heer. When the green light was given late on October 7th, 1945 the vaunted Panzerkorps led by General Rommel struck first, rolling over the fence separating Bohemia and German territory, soon followed by Kleist's motorized divisions. Within four hours all checkpoints on the border were in German hands and their guards marched into temporary POW camps. What came next is the now famous Midnight Ride where Rommel personally led the spearhead from the front at Decin to Prague, driving into Prague by midnight and meeting no resistance. The advance was so fast that it was German troops that woke President Benes and alerted him of their invasion as most of his government was already in custody. Legend says that Rommel himself woke the President and had him sign a pre-written surrender document. The War was over before the Bohemian High Command realized it had started however many did not see the sudden phone call from Prague telling them not to resist the Germans as legitimate. General in Chief of the Bohemian Land Forces General Ludvik Svoboda contacted his Hungarian equivalent, Commander of the Northern Front Lajos Csatay and told him he would allow Hungarian troops into Bohemia if they helped him resist the German take over. After a short conversation with his superiors he was denied permission. The Hungarian regent Miklos Horthy did not want to anger the more powerful Mitteleuropa and ordered Csatay to hold position on the Bohemian border and only fire if fired upon and under no circumstances were they to assist the Bohemians. Without aid from the Hungarians Svoboda moved his headquarters to Olomouc and ordered the Bohemian Army to take up positions around Brno stretching their lines up to the Polish border near Kraliky and South ending at Breclav. Meanwhile Kleist consolidated his hold in the West and prepared to move eastward, hearing of the Bohemian resistance. Meanwhile the German White Army who gained their fame in Operation Zookeeper* (Invasion of the UoB) began preparing the second stage of Operation Otto, the occupation of Austria.
By October 10th, 1945 the advance units of von Kleist's Army under command of General Walter Model reached the Brno and were engaged by Bohemian artillery and tanks and were caught off guard and forced back. After regrouping Model was reinforced by a few divisions of Rommels Panzerkorps and pressed forward, concentrating his attack on three areas close to Brno. The Bohemians gave the Germans hell from their deeply entrenched positions but after the Luftwaffe arrived in support the Bohemians retreated into the Spilberk Castle which had been fortified by the Austrians some years prior. The Germans surrounded Spilberk and demanded the Bohemian's surrender before the rest of Kleist's army showed up and brought the Nebelwerfer 45's to bear along with heavier artillery. The Bohemian's responded with gunfire. Model's large artillery guns began to rain shells inside the walls while the few Panzer IV's that were with Model began to pound at the gates while under anti-tank fire from the few Bohemian's brave enough (or suicidal enough) to still man the walls. However, despite their heroic resistance the old gates buckled under the large guns of the Panzers and the German troops were able to flood in. Kleist and his Nebelwerfers were not needed as after an hour of brutal fighting the last Bohemians in the castle surrendered. The Germans then spread out across Brno and quickly dislodged the few makeshift strongholds thrown up by Bohemian troops not able to assist in Spilberk's defense. With Brno in their hands Model held his men in place and waited for the main force to catch up. When they did early on the 11th they began to exploit the hole they had punched in the Bohemian line. With few reserves able to respond the Germans punched deep into essentially open territory as the bulk of the ground forces began to roll up the Bohemian lines; Meanwhile the Panzerkorps was sent around the rear to strike further north along the lines and sow chaos in the Bohemian C&C. In Olomouch proper the Bohemian High Command struggled to come up with a counter to the German push. Reports from the front were scattered and contradictory with Germans appearing where they shouldn't and in dozens of places at once. The reserves were already being deployed to one area when suddenly fighting would spring up in another. Not only that but Bohemian positions near Poland had reported fire coming from Poland (which was just German troops in Poland but the Bohemian's didn't know that). Knowing that continued fighting would only kill more Bohemians General Svoboda ordered his men to stand down. Operation Otto I was over and with only a few thousand German casualties but almost 7,000 on the Bohemian side. The last Bohemian troops laid down their arms on November 1st, 1945 pushing the Invasion of Austria far behind schedule.
Operation Otto II was to be carried out by The White Army under Field Marshal Ritter von Leeb from bases in Bohemia and Germany itself. This was dealt with more tact by the Kaiser who saw the Austrians as his kin and wanted as little bloodshed between the two armies as possible. On November 1st, as the White Army moved into position, Kaiser Wilhelm III called Kaiser Otto in the first communication between the two since Wilhelm III coronation. The exact transcript of the call has been lost to time but by the time Wilhelm hung up the phone he was infuriated. Nevertheless Operation Otto II was slated to continue. Ritter von Leeb's plan was simple, much like the plan to invade Bohemia. He would simply advance on all fronts towards Wein while rounding up and capturing all Austrian troops they could, troops were only ordered to only shoot at Austrians if attacked first. Field Marshal von Leeb's memo ended with the now infamous line "We are here to free our brothers, not bury them". Finally Otto II began on November 7th, 1945 to much fanfare with local Austrian civilians watching German troops tear down border checkpoints at various border towns. With the Austrian economy in the middle of a steep decline the idea of Vereinigung or Unification had rapidly gained steam in Austria spearheaded by a smattering of fringe parties. By the time Otto II came around a poll by the BBC saw ~60% of Austrians supporting Vereinigung with Germany so as the Germans advanced they were met with cheering crowds. As part of the Germans attempts to further pull the Austrian populace to their side, soldiers were given AustroMarks, a special kind of Reichsmark that bridged the gap between the official Austrian Mark and the Reichsmark, to be handed out to people along the way. With the rapid devaluation of the Austrian Mark in the years prior dozens of people suddenly gained more money than they had since the Augsleich. Its said when Kaiser Otto heard of the German invasion he locked himself away in his room for weeks while the government struggled to decide whether to respond or not. In the end however as German troops approached Wein from all sides and the Austrian Army refused to resist, the government had no choice. When Field Marshal von Leeb entered Wein in mid November he was met by the President of the Reichsrat Gustav Gross who surrendered the country to the Germans. With that Otto II was over not with a bang, but a whimper. Not a single life was lost on either side as many Austrian soldiers surrendered to the Germans or at the very least refused to fight them. By the end of November Austria was admitted into the German Empire as a Archduchy under the Hapsburgs and Wilhelm III looked hungrily to the remaining areas of the Austrian Empire.
*It was named so because zookeepers control lions. Clever right? No? Alright.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SoKmod/comments/bffnjq/nsdapehnsdp_coup_attempt/
Based on the above post from the West is Red, a WIP Kaiserreich sequel, I would come to the conclusion that Otto Strasser and his brother Gregor Strasser, along with Joseph Goebbels, were members of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Partei, the National Socialist German Party, a Totalist, Communist, Bolshevist and Sorelian political party established in 1930 after the Strasser brothers split with the Rote-Armee-Miliz (Red Army Militia), a Totalist and Communist Paramilitary group led by trade unionist Wilhelm Pieck. Gregor Stasser was the first leader of the party. After Stasser was arrested by the German government in 1935, Otto then became the leader of the party. Goebbels was the main propagandist and pamphleteer of the party. Much like the Sorelians in France, the NSDP was overtly nationalistic and openly anti-semetic. Their paramilitary was the Schwarzer Front (SF) or the Black Front.
Gregor Strasser
Joseph Goebbels
Flag of the NSDP and the SF.
Wilhelm Pieck
Logo of the Rote-Armee-Miliz (RAM)
During WKII, Otto Strasser, Joseph Goebbels and the NSDP openly collaborated with the invading armies of the Commune of France, led by the Sorelians of Chairman Georges Valois, which occupied much of Belgium and Germany west of the Rhine River. During the French and Third Internationale occupation of western Germany, Otto Strasser, Joseph Goebbels and the NSDP and their paramilitaries, as well as the Rote-Armee-Miliz of Wilhelm Pieck, assisted with the occupation and policing duties of the occupying French armies. Even more sinister, the NSDP and their paramilitaries assisted with the French persecution of German Jews in the occupied territories, many of which were sent back to France never to return and die in French concentration camps.
German Totalist millitias, members of both the RAM and the SF of the NSDP, in a town in French-occupied Germany, circa 1942.
The SF of the NSDP marches on patrol in Düsseldorf, French-occupied Germany, 1941.
After the defeat of France in 1945, the NSDP was banned by the German government as a collaborationist organization, and Otto Strasser and Joseph Goebbels were arrested by the German government for collaborating with the French and crimes against humanity for assisting with the Sorelian Genocide against the Jews of Germany. On November 19, 1947, Chairman Oswald Mosely was lynched and killed by pro-democracy and monarchist partisans in London as Canadian, American and Entente soldiers from the west and German and Reichspakt soldiers from the east were besieging and invading London, and after T.E. Lawrence took over the government of the Union of Britain through an anti-war coup, on November 30, 1947, the Union of Britain surrendered to the armies of the Entente, the Reichspakt and the United States of America. As a result, WKII in Europe had finally come to an end after over eight years of war.
During the Amiens Trials of 1946 and 1947, during which the French Sorelians were tried by the Germans and Danubians for crimes against humanity, members of the Rote-Armee-Miliz and the NSDP were tried in Berlin for treason and crimes against humanity. Wilhelm Pieck was sentenced to life in prison, as the RAM was not anti-semetic and did not participate in the persecution of German Jews, after which Pieck died in Spandau Prison in 1955. Both Otto Strasser and Joseph Geobbels were sentenced to death. Strasser was executed by firing squad on December 29, 1947 and Geobells was executed by firing squad one day later on December 30, 1947. Both of their bodies were cremated and their ashes were scattered over the Baltic Sea. Strasser remained in prison until his death of a heart attack in Spandau Prison in 1952.
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Interesting posts. Here's my take on this based on my own KR headcannon.
Milan Nedić, considered by many one of the founding fathers of the ISSA. Nedić was a veteran of the First Weltkrieg and a General in the Serbian Army during both the Fourth Balkan War against Bulgaria in 1937 and 1938 and the Fifth Balkan War against Danubia in 1939. In the Fourth War, Serbia was victorious, but in the Fifth War, Serbia failed to unite the Serbs of the Balkan Peninsula and establish a Greater Serbian kingdom, as the war ended in a stalemate.* The failure of Serbia to conquer Vojvodina and Bosnia, create a Greater Serbia and to turn the fellow South Slavic nations of Croatia and Slovenia into Serbian puppet-states led Nedić to believe that it was impossible for Serbia to win militarily against Danubia. On the contrary, he began to argue that the only way to achieve victory was to start a campaign of terror against the symbols of Austrian and Hungarian power in Danubia to push the ethnic-Serb civilian population in the Danubian kingdoms of Bosnia, Croatia and to a lesser-extent Slovenia to rebel against Vienna. Although his direct participation in the subsequent terrorist attacks in Bosnia and Croatia is open to debate, Nedić never failed to show support for the ISSA, claiming that the real culprits were Danubia and its "oppression" of Orthodox Serbs. Ironically, on October 26, 1954, Nedić himself was killed in a terrorist attack and car-bombing in Belgrade by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Federation, which sought for the independence of Macedonia from Serbia**.
*=During WKII, during the Russian and Romanian invasion of Danubia, Romania would occupy Transylvania and commit numerous atrocities during the Transylvanian Genocide. By the end of the war, Danubia reconquered Transylvania and a pro-monarchist coup occurred in Bucharest. After the coup, a fleeing Codreanu would be caught by Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of the aforementioned genocide, after which Codreanu was tried and executed by hanging in Bucharest by the armies of the Kingdom of Romania and Danubian Federation in 1947.
**=The activities of the IMRO would lead to the Sixth Balkan War between Serbia and Bulgaria, which lasted from 1987 to 1989 and saw the Bulgarian annexation of Macedonia as an autonomous region of Bulgaria. In 1992, after years of terrorism by Montenegrin separatists, Montenegro would become an autonomous region of Serbia.
The consequences of an ISSA attack on a Catholic Church in Sarajevo in 1965. In the twenty years following the first attack on Garažne, the ISSA would continue to attack civil and political targets not only in Bosnia, but in some cases also amongst ethnic Serbs in Croatia and Hungarian Vajdaság or Vojvodina and even in Slovenia, where the ISSA would attempt to collaborate with fringe Slovenian terrorist groups, none of which had any real reach. All of this was in an attempt to forment a Pan-Serbian revolution, but these terrorist attacks obtained very few results. This twenty years is known in Danubia, Bosnia and Hungary as "The Years of Lead" ("Godine vode" in Serbo-Croatian/Bosnian, "Évek vezetnek" in Hungarian or "Jahre Blei" in German ) and was characterized by inter-religious violence between the Orthodox and Catholic communities of Bosnia, as well between the Orthodox and Muslin communities of Bosnia. In 1971, after years of pressure from the Danubian government, the government of the Kingdom of Serbia under King Petar II and Prime Minister Petar Stambolić began to crack down on the activities of the ISSA, and over the ext dew years raided numerous terror cells throughout Serbia. By 1980, the ISSA had ceased all activities and was completely disbanded, with its leaders and members either executed or imprisoned by the Serbian and Danubian governments.
Petar Stambolić, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia throughout much of the 1970s and 1980s. His time in office was marked by a straightening of relations between Serbia and the other members of the Belgrade Pact, Greece and Romania and a detente with the Kingdom of Bulgaria, which sadly ended after the beginning of the Sixth Balkan War, as well as promoting democracy and parliamentarianism within Serbia and cracking down on all manner of terrorist groups such as the ISSA, VRMO and the CGMA (Crnogorska narodna armija or Montegrin Peoples Army, the later of which was a Montenegrin separatist terrorist group. Stambolić, as a Social Democrat, also passed reforms such as equal pay for women, the funding of public works and an increase in funding of the welfare state, all of which made Serbia one of the more forward thinking nations in the Balkans. His funeral in 2007, after his death at the age of 95, was one of the most attended and watched in all of modern Serbian history.
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