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Sorry for the long delay, it wasn't that easy for me to write all the remaining stuff of the worst war TTL ever had. Read it and you'll know what I mean. Prepare for the worst.

@Stalker: Thanks for the tip on Russian city names.
Bug, Boh, whatever... wikipedia transliterates it as Boh.
About the attack through the swamps: I was ware of it. Russia ITTL is more settled, and I can imagine that they drained some swamps. Besides, the Ardennes were thought as impossible to pass for tanks too. (Note the parallel to OTL.)
PS: Fasten your seat belt, this is going to be a bumpy ride. Sorry.


First another retcon:
1830: A Swedish ship coming from Australia (OTL South Africa) discovers Antarctica.

1910: Shayna Löwenpferd born in Marseille. Her father is the owner of a small, not-too-well doing antique shop, her mother a teacher for mathematics.

September 1916: Marseille conquered by Socialist troops. Many Jews flee to Greater Judea. Her family stays, however - her father is a radical orthodox Jew who sees the existence of a Jewish state as wrong. Soon however, he loses his shop, and the family becomes even poorer.

1930: Young Shayna, after becoming adult, is allowed to travel to Italy. The Socialists think she won't dare to escape since her parents are still in Marseille; however, she stays in Italy, never to return. She has a number of different jobs, finally ending as a teacher. Her hopes for a job at a university are crushed since the famiglia doesn't trust anyone not in the Imperial Catholics and doesn't like working women that much either.

1932: Fascists make life in Italy difficult for people with foreign names. Shayna Löwenpferd changes her name into Sofonisba Leoncavallo.

1934: The German technocracy claims all of Antarctica for Germany.

1935: Sofonisba Leoncavallo is forbidden to publish. Unable to protest or flee, she mostly retreats into her house and works on her philosophical system.

June 1943: Russia and Greater Italy force the Seljuks to accept occupation of their biggest cities (Constantinople, Angora, Smyrna and all other harbors). The Russians take those cities in the north, the Italians those in the south.


And now let's continue where we stopped at WW2...
In early 1944, the situation is still undecided. In the Old World, Germany's reduced to Persia and its remaining Indian colonies in Asia and Morocco and its African colonies on the black continent; but in Atlantis. Still, everyone in Greater Italy and Unionist Russia believes that the Germans have to run out of power somewhen - after all, they only can continue the fight because they have hired hundreds of thousands of African, Arab, Indian and native Atlantean mercenaries.


Early 1944: Germany sends more ships from Atlantis into the Med. The battle between the "natural aircraft carrier" that's Italy and Germany's artificial aircraft carriers begins.
Russian desert troops conquer the desert in the NE of Persia. The conquest looks good on a map, but is mostly wortless, except for the fact that now all Persian cities can be bombed or shot with rockets.

January 1944: Germans conquer Oran. In Atlantis, they conquer the Mississippi delta, cut the Italians off from the Caribbean and take their oil wells.
Russia takes Kwatta, the one entryway to the Indian subcontinent.

February 1944: Germans besiege Algiers. In Atlantis, they advance from the South towards Roma Nuova.
After hard battles with many thousand dead, Russia also takes Peshawar, the second entryway to India. Germany tries to mobilize the various independent states in the Indus valley, but most don't want to fight Russia.

March 1944: Germans conquer Algiers.
Russians manage a complete breakthrough in Northern India. German troops flee,have to build up a new front some hundred miles east in Lahore. Some Indus valley states side with Russia.

March 10th, 1944: Supreme commander Conoli capitulates in Italia Nuova. The war on this continent is over. As soon as the German troops have recovered, they're shipped to North Africa.

April 1944: Germans cross the border between Algeria and Tunisia. They have entered Italian-speaking territory.
The situation in the Italian Andes becomes unbearable. The Italian minority fears an uprising of the Quechua and "mestizos", since the country is completely cut off from necessary food supply, and the stocks are running out. The ruling padrones contact Germany via Braseal, and after some negotiations, the technocracy accepts that Gaetano Riccobono (Cuzco) and Nicola Greco (Potosi) can keep their power, if they leave the war, secede from Greater Italy and sign a treaty that forbids a reunification of their two states with each other or other Italian-speaking states in the world. Now, the Germans and their allies rule the whole double continent of Atlantis.
Rusians start moving south in the Indus valley.

April 17th, 1944: First sea battle in the Adria. German aircraft carrier "Bernhard I" enters the sea.

May 1944: Germans conquer Tunis.
Russian troops coming from NW and NE unite in Sukkhur in the Indus valley.

June 1944: Germans manage to conquer the Balearic Islands from the air, with paratroopers. Taking the islands costs them many lives, however. The chances to use them for a landing in Italy, or another naval landing, have shrunk.
Russians besiege Hayderabad.

June 18th, 1944: German paratroopers take Malta. Although successful, this attack weakens their paratrooper force even more, however.

June 26th, 1944: A single German plane flies towards the North Italian city of Verona. It drops a single bomb on the city - the first nuclear bomb. Of the quarter million people in the city, 70,000 will die immediately, more than 80,000 until the end of the year.

June 27th, 1944: Germany tells the Italians that they have some more nuclear bombs ready and won't hesitate to obliterate more Italian cities.

June 31st (note: it's a leap day), 1944: When padrone Santino Neri of Rome doesn't want to capitulate, he is killed by his own underlings.

July 1944: Italy capitulates in Europe and North Africa. Germany has knocked out the first opponent.
Russians take Hayderabad and Lahore, threaten the Ganges valley.
Seljuks overwhelm their Italian occupationers.

Late 1944: Germany doesn't use nukes against Russia yet, fearing that they might retaliate against the civilians in the occupied part of Germany. This makes the Russians think (they're wrong) that the Germans only had one nuke to start with.
The more areas the Germans reconquer, the more atrocities become known (millions of Germans, Poles, Czechs, Hungarians and Slovaks were forced to work for the Russians, many in Russia proper; many German and other women were raped; and the Russians and Italians brutally retaliated against partisans). The public sphere, once they learn about this, is shocked, and the Technocratic propaganda can use this for their own spin.

July / August 1944: Germany occupies Egypt, Northern Africa, Italy. In Italian-occupied Germany and on the Balcans however, Russian troops disarm and replace the Italians. The Germans only can retake the Alps and Upper Switzerland, linking up with their partisans there who have held out throughout the years. In the southern half of Anatolia, the Seljuks take up arms and fight the advancing Russians.

August 1944: Chinese troops sent by the emperor occupy Srinagar, and declare Kashmir a Chinese protectorate.
The Punjab battles.
Free Seljuks declare war against the Russians who still occupy the northern half of their country.

September 1944: Austria, Slovenia, the Black Forest and Germany south of the Danube are liberated.
In Switzerland, the survivors of the short-lived independent Switzerland government (1942/43, we remember) are secretly put on trial for treason / secession and hanged. The Italians are made responsible for their deaths.
The Italian lands in North Africa are officially seperated from the rest of Italy and forbidden to reunificate.

October 1944: Germans push the Russians behind the Main, march into Bohemia and Hungary.
In India, Germany has decided the Punjab battles for itself and slowly starts to drive the Russians back.
Germans attack the Russian occupation force of Gallipoli; Although the Russians defend well, the Seljuks uprising in their back make defense difficult.

November 1944: Germans retake Prague and the old capital Dresden, march into Brandenburg, Silesia and Slovakia, where they link up with the Polish, Czech and Slovak partisans.
Amritsar reconquered by the Germans and their Indian allies.
Gallipoli falls, German navy enters Marmara Sea.

December 1944: Germans reach the Baltic from the south. Now, only Poland and Prussia are Russian-occupied.
Germans reconquer Lahore.
Germans bombard Constantinople.


January 1945: Germans push the Russians behind the Vistula, also push northwards from the Carpathians.
Fresh German troops landed in the Indus delta march towards Russian-occupied Hayderabad.
Seljuks and Germans kick the Russians out of Constantinople.

February 1945: Poland and Herzogsberg (OTL Königsberg) liberated.
Hayderabad besieged, this time by Germans.
German navy enters the Black Sea.

March 1945: German troops reach the Dvina.
German navy has entered the Persian gulf, bombs the oilfields the Russians have tried to repair since they conquered them.
Sea battle of Suchumi.

April 1945: All of pre-war Germany is liberated, and the technocrats decide that the time is ripe to start "Plan 10".
Germans conquer Rawalpindi.
Sea battle of Burgas, Bulgaria.

April 22nd, 1945: A German nuke destroys Popovsk (OTL Chabarovsk). More than 150,000 dead people. A few German and Polish forced laborers are also among the victims, but the Technocracy sees them as collateral damage.

April 23rd, 1945: Germans nuke Murman (OTL Murmansk). There'll be more than 250,000 victims.

April 28th, 1945: Germans nuke Minsk.

May 1945: Russian dictator Gridenkov tries to suppress the whole tragic, claims the Germans had no more nukes, and Russian scientists were working successfully on their own nukes. Some local governors in the East, however, start to contact Germany with the help of their embassies in China.
Germany starts to roll back the Russian and their allies in the Indus valley.

May 15th, 1945: Germans nuke the city of Gridenkovsk (OTL Donezk, Ukraine - yes, it was renamed). If you ask: They used a plane coming from an aircraft carrier in the Black Sea. More than 500,000 people will die.

May 24th, 1945: The governors of the Pacific provinces capitulate to Germany, let the German troops march in. Gridenkov is mad at them, calls the Russians in the occupied areas to resist.

June 1945: Gridenkov has mobilized troops in the East to "fight the Germans and their allied traitors!"
After the German conquest of Sukkhur, Russian troops in the Indua valley are cut off.
German troops land on Crimea, declare the peninsula for independent.

June 4th, 1945: The Russian north-west splits off, akin to the Pacific areas. This gives the Germans Finland, too.

June 13th, 1945: After the Russians drive the Germans and their allies at the Baikal front back, the Germans send a plane north, and have Lenapetrovsk (near OTL Kirensk) nuked. The radioactivity will spread with the river further north.

June 21st, 1945: Novgorod (yes, former capital of Novgorod republic) falls.

June 25th: Germans nuke Tver. Now the central industrial area of Russia is threatened.

July 1945: The defeats on all fronts make some militaries think about making an end. Gridenkov is going more and more mad, claims that the Germans are "poisoning" the minds of the Russians with their secret weapons, and plans killing all the German forced laborers. Rumors say that he already had some captured Germans sacrificed to Chernobog.
Russian Indus army capitulates.
Seljuks overwhelm last Russian troops in their cities.

July 9th, 1945: Gridenkov is killed by the "generals' conspiracy". They and the Germans are glad and hope for an ende of the war. But since the biggest part of Russia still wasn't hit by the war, many governors, mayors and officers loyal to Gridenkov swear to continue the fight.

August 1945: Russians manage to stop the Germans at Peshawar and Kwatta.
Kaluga conquered; Vladimir, Moscow and other cities in the area bombed.
Germans take Perekop, start advancing into the southern steppes.
In the East, Yenisseisk is taken by Germans. During he figths, the university of the city burns down; China protests against this "rape of a site of culture".
Persians and Afghans are now at advantage against the confused Russian troops.

August 14th, 1945: Tula nuked.

August 26th, 1945: Nishni Novgorod nuked.

September 1945: Except for some fanatics, the Russians in Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, Persia and Afghanistan capitulate or flee further back.

September 5th, 1945: Voronezh nuked. Germans decide not to use any more nukes in the war.

October 1945: Russian troops leave the Transcaucasus and Choresm. Order has pretty much broken down.

Late 1945: Germans march along the Russian railroads, topple pro-Gridenkov governors and replace them by their satellites. Every Russian province becomes an independent state.

November 1945: Socialist uprisings among the workers in the north Italian cities start. Germans bound in Russia are unable to interfere.

December 1945: Sofonisba Leoncavallo flees via Dalmatia, Croatia, Hungary to Germany, where she settles in the (European) capital of Dresden. Again, she takes on a different name, Sophie Stein. Soon, she starts writing against Socialism.


Early 1946: Socialist uprisings spread throughout Italy; weak German occupation troops retreat behind the Alps or to the Balcans and North Africa.

March 11th 1946: German troops have reached the Urals; World War 2 declared to be over.


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