Looks good! Subbed.

And the idea of having the governing body of the American central banking system subject to partisanship is absolutely horrifying, I love it.

Somehow I have the feeling that the Fed does more than controlling monetary policy TTL.
 
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Looks good! Subbed.

And the idea of having the governing body of the American central banking system subject to partisanship is absolutely horrifying, I love it.

Somehow I have the feeling that the Fed does more than controlling monetary policy TTL.

Thank you!

The idea of having the federal reserve board elected by the state population is, theoretically, a good idea in that it creates more accountability. Of course, in reality...well, you get the idea.
 
Nazi Germany, Namibia
Nazi Germany, Namibia

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The Greater German Reich, often referred to as "Nazi Germany" in the English speaking world, refers to the period of Adolf Hitler's and his National Socialist German Workers' Party. Under Hitler's rule, Germany was transformed into a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government. The official name of the state was Deutsches Reich (German Reich) until 1943 and Großdeutsches Reich (Greater German Reich) from 1943 to 1955. Nazi Germany is also known as the Third Reich (Drittes Reich), meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", the first two being the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and the German Empire (1871–1918). The Nazi regime ended in 1955 following the death of Hitler and the ensuing civil war.

Hitler rose to power on a platform of restoring German national glory in the face of the humiliating Treaty of Versailles. Being made chancellor in 1933, he quickly used his position to consolidate his rule with the aid of the German military. Hitler then began to embark on a program of incorporating all German speaking lands into Germany, beginning with the re militarization of the Rhineland in 1936, Anschluß with Austria in 1938, and the seizure of Czechoslovakia in 1939. The nations of Great Britain and France had pursued a policy of "appeasement" with Germany in an attempt to buy time for an eventual war. Open warfare soon broke out after Germany invaded Poland in an attempt to incorporate Danzig into the Third Reich. The following Western War was won by Germany thanks to a series of missteps made by the Allies, including an ill-timed invasion of Norway and a routing of allied forces as Calais. Britain, now isolated after the surrender of France, signed the Peace of 1940, ceding the former German colonies of Cameroon, Togoland, East Africa, and South West Africa (having pressured South Africa). Hitler placed the colonies under SS control as a consolation prize for refusing SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler his dreamed fiefdom of Burgundy.

The ease of Hitler's victory over the Western allies panicked Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who had signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler the previous year. In July, shortly after the Peace was signed with Britain, Stalin attempted a surprise offensive against German positions. The resulting conflict became known as the German-Soviet War, though it soon involved more than two rivals. Initially, Russian troops had the upper hand, quickly taking most of Poland and parts of eastern Prussia. However, the war quickly soured for the Soviets once German troops from France made their way to the Eastern Front. The intervention of Japan in Siberia tipped the tide in favor of the Anti-Comintern Pact, resulting in German troops in Moscow by the Spring of 1941. Stalin was killed by his own bodyguards. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels hailed the turn of events as the "deathblow to Judeo-Bolshevism." Years later, he commissioned a film entitled Der Tod von Stalin featuring an exaggerated account of the subject's assassination.

With their mortal foe defeated, things seemed to be looking up for the Thousand Year Reich. However, cracks almost immediately began to show in the Nazi edifice. The fall of the Soviet Union not only saw the death of Marxism-Leninism, but also the death of the Anti-Comintern Pact. Mussolini became increasingly frustrated with his treatment as a junior partner, and began to pursue a foreign policy detrimental to German interests, including harboring Jews that were fleeing Germany and other anti-Semitic regimes. Furthermore, Japan had also taken in Jewish refugees, albeit in smaller amounts. Germany felt itself increasingly isolated from its former allies.

Internal problems also began to plague Germany. The rapid expansion of the Third Reich created its own set of logistical problems. The SS struggled to populate the eastern Reichskomissariats as local nationalists terrorized would-be settlers. The German military found itself bogged down in a protracted counter-insurgency campaign that frustrated even the most competent of commanders. Furthermore, the German economic miracle began to slow down as the regime struggled to reset to a peacetime economy. Establishing a sense of normalcy proved to be far more difficult than the German leadership had anticipated.

As Hitler grew older, he became increasingly recluse, suffering from some scholars suspect to be the effects of Parkinson's disease. This led to a jockeying for position among Hitler's lieutenants. Rudolf Hess was found in the wreckage of a plane crash in northern Italy for unknown reasons. President of the Reichstag Hermann Göring and Goebbels conspired to take over as President and Chancellor respectively in the event of Hitler's death. Himmler and his adjutant Reinhard Heydrich planned a similar strategy, with the former thinking that Hitler would anoint him as the successor. By the summer of 1955, Hitler had all but vanished from the public eye, and had begun to suffer more debilitating symptoms. On August 3, 1955, he died from complications of a stroke. His death came without him making a pronouncement on his successor.

Göring and Goebbels moved fast. Fearing the power of the SS, the pair had struck a pact with members of old wehrmacht with the intention of shutting out the SS. As luck would have it, both factions attempted a coup on the same day on August 10 1955 shortly after Hitler's state funeral. The result was civil war that lasted for three months, pitting the "conservative" faction versus the SS. The conservatives had the benefit of outside aid, including Italy and the French State. Italy invaded Austria in an attempt to divert SS forces stationed there while French forces occupied the SS-controlled Cameroon and Togoland colonies. As the tide of the war turned towards the conservatives, the SS command in East Africa defected, leaving South West Africa to be the last SS stronghold. Defeated, Himmler and Heydrich fled to German South West Africa along with other National Socialist ideologues, forming the basis of modern Namibia.

Following the civil war, Göring and Goebbels were killed in a mysterious "terrorist plot" blamed on SS operatives, leaving the remaining wehrmacht leadership in charge. A provisional junta of generals led by the aging Erwin Rommel negotiated troop withdrawals from the reichskomissariats, reducing their control to "Greater Germany." The junta remained in power for a year before inviting Prince Louis Ferdinand to return as Kaiser...




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Namibia, known officially as the Greater German Reich, is a partially-recognized state situated in southern Africa. Following the German Civil War, SS forces led by Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich fled to what was then known as German Southwest Africa, the last territory held by the SS. (Following the Peace of 1940, Germany had regained its former colonies of Cameroon, Togoland, East Africa, and South West Africa, all of which Hitler handed over to SS administration. SS sympathizers and other Nazis fled to the reich-in-exile.

During the colonial period, SS colonial administrators had already planned further white settlement, as well as utilizing indigenous people for slave labor. Surveyors had found deposits of uranium, which Himmler had interest in exploiting for the creation of an atomic weapon without the sanction of Hitler, who was afraid of their use. Once the remainder of the SS machinery had relocated to South West Africa, becoming increasingly referred to as “Namibia” due to the Namib Desert that encompasses most of the colony, Himmler sought to build the country up as a launching pad by which to reclaim Germany, no matter how unrealistic it was.

Himmler, aided by Heydrich, began to remake the demographics of his kingdom in exile. Local indigenous populations such as the Ovambo were largely exterminated, with remaining populations used for slave labor. Simultaneously, he encouraged higher birthrates among Germans through financial incentives. By the 1980’s, the white (predominately German) population achieved a plurality. By the 2000’s, whites made up the majority. Irrigation projects expanded the area of arable land, albeit almost all of it is still limited to the coastal and northern regions with the interior being largely barren. The capital of Namibia Horst Wessel Stadt, renamed from the previously Afrikaans Windhoek, was rebuilt as a city not unlike old Germania, albeit on a far smaller scale. Finally, the SS completed the coveted prize of a nuclear weapon in 1969 under the administration of Heydrich.

Legally, Namibia is the government of the old Third Reich in exile, and not an “independent” nation. As such, the Namibian government has struggled with recognition from other nations. Namibia does have some level of de facto recognition from its neighbors South Africa, Portugal, Botswana, and Rhodesia who engage in small-scale trade with the “Hermit Kingdom.” Otherwise, the nation is largely isolated from the international community.

Foreign policy experts tend to view Namibia as a geopolitical curiosity at best, a hellhole at worst. The regime is largely totalitarian, with Nazism and the state intruding every aspect of its citizen’s lives. Portraits of Hitler, Himmler, and Heydrich are omnipresent, with their birthdays celebrated as state holidays. Hitler holds the office of “Eternal Leader,” and is treated with almost divine reverence. In other words, Namibia resembles Germany under the Nazis to an even greater extent.
 
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I'm surprised that no one ever thought of invading.

Namibia was/is surrounded by ambivalent powers that have no dog in the fight. Furthermore, an invasion from the conservatives and their allies would be a logistical impossibility, given the distance and geography of Namibia.

Also, with the defeat of the Allies and the lack of American interest in European affairs, there is no zeal for "making the world safe for democracy," only Westphalian-style conflicts. There are international concerns over the treatment of indigenous peoples, to be sure, but Namibia is relatively harmless to the interests of remaining powers in the world.
 
Legally, Namibia is the government of the old Third Reich in exile, and not an “independent” nation. As such, the Namibian government has struggled with recognition from other nations. Namibia does have some level of de facto recognition from its neighbors South Africa, Portugal, Botswana, and Rhodesia who engage in small-scale trade with the “Hermit Kingdom.” Otherwise, the nation is largely isolated from the international community.

Foreign policy experts tend to view Namibia as a geopolitical curiosity at best, a hellhole at worst. The regime is largely totalitarian, with Nazism and the state intruding every aspect of its citizen’s lives. Portraits of Hitler, Himmler, and Heydrich are omnipresent, with their birthdays celebrated as state holidays. Hitler holds the office of “Eternal Leader,” and is treated with almost divine reverence. In other words, Namibia resembles Germany under the Nazis to an even greater extent.
Who’s the current chancellor and monarch of the German Reich?

How did internet fare in Namibia? Did the government created a separate internet network?

How did Namibian government treats dissenters and other people who oppose that kind of terrifying regime? Did they end up in labor camps where people who oppose the regime disappear? What’s the name of an operating media agency that serves people in Namibia where free press was censored?
 

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Who’s the current chancellor and monarch of the German Reich?

How did internet fare in Namibia? Did the government created a separate internet network?

How did Namibian government treats dissenters and other people who oppose that kind of terrifying regime? Did they end up in labor camps where people who oppose the regime disappear? What’s the name of an operating media agency that serves people in Namibia where free press was censored?
i’m assuming the current monarch is georg freidrich.
 
So was there a Holocaust in Europe or not? The article seems a bit ambiguous.

If “Holocaust” you mean an intense persecution of Jews then, yes, there was a Holocaust. The Wansee Conference is butterflied away ITTL, but it doesn’t mean that the Nazis aren’t still making life Hell for Jews in occupied territories. Those who haven’t fled Germany before the wars have already begun to leave in larger droves. Forced ghettoization has been enforced in major cities in Eastern Europe. There are a few bureaucrats that occasionally bring up a “Madagascar,” but such a plan never materialized.

Significant pressure has been applied on recently conquered/allied states to take care of the “Jewish Problem” with mixed results. For example, the French State is more than cooperative in expelling (and in some cases killing) their Jewish population. Italy, on the other hand, billed itself as a haven for Jews, as Mussolini was looking for a way to spite his former ally.

Who’s the current chancellor and monarch of the German Reich?

That’ll be in a future update.

This world is awful. I love it
(The TL is great though!)

I appreciate it. I hope this TL doesn’t turn out to be too bleak, but we’ll see what happens.
 
Long runs as an independent in 1936, splitting Roosevelt’s base and causing Landon to become President. Long runs as a Democrat in 1940 and wins handily.
Uh,how did Long gain the nomination if he did that? I'd assume FDR and his pals in the Party would do everything they could to deny him the nomination out of anger for that stunt
 
So basically white-dominated states still rule Southern Africa...that’s certainly not good, but interesting.

There's a bit of a sliding scale when it comes to white-dominated countries in southern Africa:

General voting rights (birthright citizenship): Portugal (Angola and Mozambique), Botswana
Limited, but accessible voting rights: Rhodesia, Natal
Limited, inaccessible voting rights: South Africa
No rights: Namibia

Uh,how did Long gain the nomination if he did that? I'd assume FDR and his pals in the Party would do everything they could to deny him the nomination out of anger for that stunt

It wasn't without difficulty. I'll elaborate in a future post, but the situation is this: Long's influence in the Democratic Party grew even after his third party run due to a rising number of pro-Long candidates being elected to Congress. By 1940, there is a three-way struggle between the New Dealists, Conservatives, and Longists. Long is able to assemble a coalition of delegates by promising concessions to both New Dealists and Conservatives which include nominating Roosevelt-supporter Joseph Kennedy, Sr. as VP. While Roosevelt attempted to exert his influence, his health declined rapidly following his loss in 1936.
 
I’m surprised that Namibia still has any black population at all. I’m guessing that they’re basically just used as slave labor.

Also, how much territory did Germany hold onto after Rommel’s coup? Is it just the territories that were directly annexed by the Reich or did they get to hold on to autonomous regions like Poland and Bohemia?
 
I’m surprised that Namibia still has any black population at all. I’m guessing that they’re basically just used as slave labor.

Also, how much territory did Germany hold onto after Rommel’s coup? Is it just the territories that were directly annexed by the Reich or did they get to hold on to autonomous regions like Poland and Bohemia?

The wikibox indicates there is a Poland-though I wouldn't be shocked in the least bit if Germany got to keep half or more of Poland and set up a small puppet state consisting of the old Soviet portions of it.
 
I’m surprised that Namibia still has any black population at all. I’m guessing that they’re basically just used as slave labor.

What black population that does remain in Namibia is either effective slave labor or is so inaccessible that SS units don't even bother with them.

Also, how much territory did Germany hold onto after Rommel’s coup? Is it just the territories that were directly annexed by the Reich or did they get to hold on to autonomous regions like Poland and Bohemia?

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All of this territory with the exception of the General Government. The reasons is that the extended empire was just too much to handle, and its just better to reduce Germany down to its bare essentials for practical and nationalistic purposes.

The wikibox indicates there is a Poland-though I wouldn't be shocked in the least bit if Germany got to keep half or more of Poland and set up a small puppet state consisting of the old Soviet portions of it.

Poland was about as much hell as one could expect. Enough of a Polish resistance continued to antagonize the General Government and discourage German settlement in the region. Poles managed to reestablish some form of self-governance following Rommel's retreat from the region. The old GG's borders make up Poland in the present day.
 
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