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Here's the last of the Reichs, Reich-4. I saved this one for last because it's practically Germany takes over the world. According to SJG, the Wehrmacht succeeded in breaking into Leningrad, Germany and Japan succeeded in developing nuclear weapons by 1945, and German ballistic missiles managed to destroy the United States. The Axis split North America between them, with the Japanese providing the bulk of the occupation troops. The Axis turned on one another, and after an incident in the Persian Gulf in 1979, the Germans launched a first strike which decapitated the Japanese Empire and left Germany a functioning state that eventually took over the world. I chose to interpret this as a nuclear war that heavily went in Germany's favor, because that's what it would take to keep the Nazi regime in place and give it the ability to take over the world. I considered painting the whole world grey, but I thought that would be boring, so I left a lot of German client states, such as the United States and a revived Republic of China. This also matches SJG's assertion that the Nazis are having trouble finding the wherewithal to dominate the world, so some "outsourcing" made sense to me. As for Italy, Italy was taken out of the picture; after Mussolini's death, the Italian regime fell into civil war, with the anti-German faction winning. The Germans could not have this and replied with nukes.

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