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Chapter 102: Winter of 1941/42
Chapter 102: Winter of 1941/42
The German forces would spend the winter refitting and modernizing their forces. At he time of the spring offensives, the German army would not be larger, but all Panzer divisions would include 200 Panzer III’s and 40 Panzer I’s as scouts. The organic artillery support would increase to two heavy artillery regiments (2x12 150 mm SP guns on a Panzer III chassis), and 2 light artillery regiments (3x12 105 mm on a Panzer I chassis) and two FLAK regiments with 12 37mm AA guns and 12 4x20 mm Vlakvierling guns mounted on a Panzer II chassis.
The heavy tank battalions would increase in number to 30, each woth 24 Panzer IV Tigers and 24 Panzer III’s.
The number of Panzer divisions remained steady at 24, with the number of Panzer grenadier divisions kept at 24 with 36 mobilized infantry divisions (up from 24). The Germans would form 12 mountain divisions from their original 8, a further 4 airborne divisions bringing the number to 8, and the formation of 4 specialized marine divisions. With a total of 72 regular infantry divisions and 48 occupation divisions, the German division tally would rise to 220, a modest increase of 20 divisions. Together with an increasing contribution from Germany’s allies, this would be more than enough for the tasks ahead.
A very noticeable change was that 4 of the panzer divisions, 4 of the Panzer grenadier divisions, the 4 new mountain divisions, the 4 new airborne divisions and the entirety of the marine corps would consist solely of NSDAP party members that there screened for ideological conviction and ruthlessness.
The strategic bombing command that Germany had initiated in 1941 would continue throughout the winter, as weather would permit, with the interesting detail that bomber crews were rotated in the available He-274’s. This was part of the planning for operation Nachzehrer to have thousands of bomber crews with combat experience in 1943.
In regards to the bigger strategic picture, Germany would undertake a two-year long massive expansion of the port and aircraft facilities on the Azores and on Iceland and provide a massive emphasis to the build-up of naval capacity in the broadest sense including capital ships, destroyers and fast diesel powered transports. The expansion activities were so massive that it attracted attention, despite the overall complete control of information leaking out of Germany and continental Europe. For Germany, these constructions were claimed as defensive precautions, but it nevertheless led to a further increased funding for the US Navy, the expansion bill dubbed “the three ocean navy” as a spoof on the previous yet now insufficient two-ocean navy bill.
Politically, Germany would consolidate its political and economic control over Europe and extent its ties to the empire of Japan and initiate more trade with the unoccupied Commonwealth. The Germanized Europe would also approach the US, bringing cynicism and idealism into conflict in the political debates in the US. Some would favor conflict, while some would say the opportunity was long gone. Germany earned itself very few friends, in particular as rumors of atrocities and disappearance of thousands of people started to abound. An American unwillingness to undergo friendly negotiations became the result, in effect leading to the division of the world into two trading blocks. An American and a Eurasian one.
Germany in turn would be approached by the Soviet Union, but refrained from the peace terms. These included all of the Soviet Union until the Urals as well free passage of German troops and transport trains through the Union – and the dissolution of the communist party. The talks broke down in November 1941leading to Soviet counterattacks in February 1942. These all ended badly, and in March, the NKVD uncovered a military coup. This led to another round of purges, leaving a diminished, exhausted, and demoralized and leadership devoid red army to face the Germans in 1942.
The German forces would spend the winter refitting and modernizing their forces. At he time of the spring offensives, the German army would not be larger, but all Panzer divisions would include 200 Panzer III’s and 40 Panzer I’s as scouts. The organic artillery support would increase to two heavy artillery regiments (2x12 150 mm SP guns on a Panzer III chassis), and 2 light artillery regiments (3x12 105 mm on a Panzer I chassis) and two FLAK regiments with 12 37mm AA guns and 12 4x20 mm Vlakvierling guns mounted on a Panzer II chassis.
The heavy tank battalions would increase in number to 30, each woth 24 Panzer IV Tigers and 24 Panzer III’s.
The number of Panzer divisions remained steady at 24, with the number of Panzer grenadier divisions kept at 24 with 36 mobilized infantry divisions (up from 24). The Germans would form 12 mountain divisions from their original 8, a further 4 airborne divisions bringing the number to 8, and the formation of 4 specialized marine divisions. With a total of 72 regular infantry divisions and 48 occupation divisions, the German division tally would rise to 220, a modest increase of 20 divisions. Together with an increasing contribution from Germany’s allies, this would be more than enough for the tasks ahead.
A very noticeable change was that 4 of the panzer divisions, 4 of the Panzer grenadier divisions, the 4 new mountain divisions, the 4 new airborne divisions and the entirety of the marine corps would consist solely of NSDAP party members that there screened for ideological conviction and ruthlessness.
The strategic bombing command that Germany had initiated in 1941 would continue throughout the winter, as weather would permit, with the interesting detail that bomber crews were rotated in the available He-274’s. This was part of the planning for operation Nachzehrer to have thousands of bomber crews with combat experience in 1943.
In regards to the bigger strategic picture, Germany would undertake a two-year long massive expansion of the port and aircraft facilities on the Azores and on Iceland and provide a massive emphasis to the build-up of naval capacity in the broadest sense including capital ships, destroyers and fast diesel powered transports. The expansion activities were so massive that it attracted attention, despite the overall complete control of information leaking out of Germany and continental Europe. For Germany, these constructions were claimed as defensive precautions, but it nevertheless led to a further increased funding for the US Navy, the expansion bill dubbed “the three ocean navy” as a spoof on the previous yet now insufficient two-ocean navy bill.
Politically, Germany would consolidate its political and economic control over Europe and extent its ties to the empire of Japan and initiate more trade with the unoccupied Commonwealth. The Germanized Europe would also approach the US, bringing cynicism and idealism into conflict in the political debates in the US. Some would favor conflict, while some would say the opportunity was long gone. Germany earned itself very few friends, in particular as rumors of atrocities and disappearance of thousands of people started to abound. An American unwillingness to undergo friendly negotiations became the result, in effect leading to the division of the world into two trading blocks. An American and a Eurasian one.
Germany in turn would be approached by the Soviet Union, but refrained from the peace terms. These included all of the Soviet Union until the Urals as well free passage of German troops and transport trains through the Union – and the dissolution of the communist party. The talks broke down in November 1941leading to Soviet counterattacks in February 1942. These all ended badly, and in March, the NKVD uncovered a military coup. This led to another round of purges, leaving a diminished, exhausted, and demoralized and leadership devoid red army to face the Germans in 1942.
Urgh. This is a bleed-out for the USSR. The speed of operations seems a bit unlikely given the railway options open to Germany in Russia, but this is your thread. The strategic locations seem right and in these circumstances the unfed, cold POWs would die in their millions. Ugh.
Thanks for the comments. The reason for the rapidity is a number of factors. The Germans have a better logistic trail, and much more mobilized infantry. That means that fewer soldiers escape the bigger encirclements of TTL. That, and the continuous strategic bombing means that Soviet resistance is much lower, and the amout of supplies needed for the Germans is lower. Then add that Leningrad is captured and soon rails and waterways can be expanded from here via Moscow, all the way to the Urals.
Similar in the south. The Germans are in complete 100% of the black sea and whenever there is a port or a river, the Germans are well supplied. This trend follows into the next update.
Actually, studying the russian river mesh sort of highlights how Russia came about. Nowhere else were the infrastructure pre-made to forge a large empire. ITTL, it counts against the Soviet Union
Chapter 103: Summer offensives in 1942.
Chapter 103: Summer offensives in 1942.
The renewal of the German offensives in May would spell the end of the Soviet Union as a coherent state. Throughout the fall of 1941 and winter and early spring of 1942, Germany had consolidated their gains and prepared the supply line expansions needed further ahead. Intelligence indicated that Stalin sought to preserve what was left of European Russia, and as before, the German strategy called for the annihilation of Soviet military power as far west as possible. Sacrificing millions of POW’s on expanding the railroads and was done to play it safe.
With expansion of the railroads and supply dumbs generated for AGC and AGS in Rostov and Zestafoni in the south and Voronezh in the middle and Nisnij Novgorod, the Germans were again concentrated in three army groups. The included 8 German Panzers, 8 Panzer Grenadier, 12 mobilized infantry divisions and 16 regular infantry divisions in AGN (8/8/12/16), 8/8/12/16 in AGC and 8/8/12/24 in AGS with the additional 4 allied panzer divisions and 20 allied infantry divisions. In the far south, Germany had put increased political pressure on Turkey and Persia and consequently formed an alliance. In consequence, the soviets would be attacked from the South in Armenia (from Turkey), Aserbajdsjan (from Persia), and in Turkmenistan (from Persia).
In the Far East, Japan had agreed to conduct a minor offensive to see how far west it could get along the trans-Siberian railroad.
At the supply hubs, the Germans had not only extended the railroads, but also generated stores of rails and timber for future railroad expansion, huge diesel and gasoline pools and in Rostov, a major group of Marinefährpramen to provide artillery and transport support via the waterways that reached out from Rostov.
In addition, to extent the range of the German supplies thousands of trucks had been organized into sequential lines of supplies were one group with bring forward supplies 300 km with a second group taking it 300 km further and with a third group planned. The capacity would obviously decrease for each round of transport, but the advantage would be much greater range.
Similarly, the Transport capacity of the Luftwaffe was at the disposal and forward airfields had been cleared for the rugged JU-87, FW-190 attack aircraft (the FW-190 was by now mostly used in the attack role due to continues suppression of the red air force) and the Ar232 transports.
When the attack commenced in earnest on May 15 1941, the attack plans were not too subtle with each army group in AGN, AGC and AGC from Rostov splitting up in 3 panzer groups. It was argued as the most efficient strategy against a badly battered and demoralized opponent to obtain rapid control of the key supply roads (the middle Panzer group), and perform outflanking maneuvers on either side to encircle red army units. That the Germans were wholly successful in this across all three fronts was a testimony to both German strength and Soviet weakness. Within the first 3 weeks, the Germans reaching and captured Tbilisi in the far south with their allies advancing 50 km towards Baku and capturing Asjkhabad in Turkmenistan. Stalingrad was captured on the March with half a million soviet soldiers becoming encircled between Rostov and Stalingrad in the south (protecting the Volga was seen as the last Soviet hope before it was crossed). At Voronezh, only 350000 soviet soldiers were captured because there were no more and the Germans advanced 400 km east to Saratov, again crossing the Volga. East of Nisnij Novgorod only 300000 soldiers were captured and the Germans “only” managed to advance to Kasan due too poor offensive terrain.
Following these gains, the forces that had been mobilized by the red army in the winter of 1941-42 were shattered, and in most cases, a new units being formed behind the front had been withdrawn in panic with many dissertations. Everywhere, in the general staff, in the trenches, in the NKVD, it was known that the game was lost, and a breakdown of discipline and loyalty ensued.
Meanwhile, the Germans did not stop or even slow down their advances. They simply attacked with fewer division and exploited the breakdown in Soviet fighting coherence. On June 14th, the defenders of Baku surrendered preferring Persian captivity to German captivity which by the end of June resulted in complete German control of Caucasus. From here on a major effort was made to reconstruct the waterways connecting Rostov with Stalingrad, and open the waterways through the Caspian sea into the Ural river. This would not happen before late July 1942, but when it did it allowed the resupply of German units as far east as Uralsk, Aktobe and towards the eastern side of the Urals. After the capture of Stalingrad and Saratov, AGS and AGS each send three panzer divisions (3/3/4) towards Uralsk which was reached on June 22nd, and they drove on towards Aktobe which was reached on July 10. The remainding majority of AGC and AGS cleared up the eastern bank of the Volga. AGN were in a better position as continuous waterways linked Moscov to Nisnij Novgorod and Kasan, and the army group could strike towards Perm and Ufa on the western side of the Urals. These targets were reached in late July.
As the Soviet defensive power collapsed, the political system broke down. Various states declared their independence, but this resulting in Soviet infighting and the inability to support a front versus the attacking Germans. General Zhukov finally assumed control over Russia east of the Urals when he led a faction which executed Stalin on July 29th. The government under Zhukov started peace negotiation with the modest intention to preserve an independent Russia east of the Urals, but it was not to be. Hitler wanted all of Russia as a satellite state and requested that the Germans were allowed to maintain bases, could instruct the building of infrastructure and could approve or dispose of the Russian government. These horrific terms were rejected initially, but the Germans had continued preparations for another round. With a link-up of the waterways and control of the river tributaries, the German initiated round two on August 25th. With soviet defensive power not existing and ultimately relying on a fools hope that the Urals would protect them, the Germans breached the urals using a combination of mountain troops and airborne landing behind and reached Chelyablinsk and Sverdlovsk in mid-September and Orsk in early September were the Ural river had permitted a more rapid expansion. Central Asia was now open to the Germans and Zhukov folded and accepted the German terms on September 30th.
The war in the East had been won and while a puppet state remained in between them, the Third Reich had linked up to the Japanese Empire.
The renewal of the German offensives in May would spell the end of the Soviet Union as a coherent state. Throughout the fall of 1941 and winter and early spring of 1942, Germany had consolidated their gains and prepared the supply line expansions needed further ahead. Intelligence indicated that Stalin sought to preserve what was left of European Russia, and as before, the German strategy called for the annihilation of Soviet military power as far west as possible. Sacrificing millions of POW’s on expanding the railroads and was done to play it safe.
With expansion of the railroads and supply dumbs generated for AGC and AGS in Rostov and Zestafoni in the south and Voronezh in the middle and Nisnij Novgorod, the Germans were again concentrated in three army groups. The included 8 German Panzers, 8 Panzer Grenadier, 12 mobilized infantry divisions and 16 regular infantry divisions in AGN (8/8/12/16), 8/8/12/16 in AGC and 8/8/12/24 in AGS with the additional 4 allied panzer divisions and 20 allied infantry divisions. In the far south, Germany had put increased political pressure on Turkey and Persia and consequently formed an alliance. In consequence, the soviets would be attacked from the South in Armenia (from Turkey), Aserbajdsjan (from Persia), and in Turkmenistan (from Persia).
In the Far East, Japan had agreed to conduct a minor offensive to see how far west it could get along the trans-Siberian railroad.
At the supply hubs, the Germans had not only extended the railroads, but also generated stores of rails and timber for future railroad expansion, huge diesel and gasoline pools and in Rostov, a major group of Marinefährpramen to provide artillery and transport support via the waterways that reached out from Rostov.
In addition, to extent the range of the German supplies thousands of trucks had been organized into sequential lines of supplies were one group with bring forward supplies 300 km with a second group taking it 300 km further and with a third group planned. The capacity would obviously decrease for each round of transport, but the advantage would be much greater range.
Similarly, the Transport capacity of the Luftwaffe was at the disposal and forward airfields had been cleared for the rugged JU-87, FW-190 attack aircraft (the FW-190 was by now mostly used in the attack role due to continues suppression of the red air force) and the Ar232 transports.
When the attack commenced in earnest on May 15 1941, the attack plans were not too subtle with each army group in AGN, AGC and AGC from Rostov splitting up in 3 panzer groups. It was argued as the most efficient strategy against a badly battered and demoralized opponent to obtain rapid control of the key supply roads (the middle Panzer group), and perform outflanking maneuvers on either side to encircle red army units. That the Germans were wholly successful in this across all three fronts was a testimony to both German strength and Soviet weakness. Within the first 3 weeks, the Germans reaching and captured Tbilisi in the far south with their allies advancing 50 km towards Baku and capturing Asjkhabad in Turkmenistan. Stalingrad was captured on the March with half a million soviet soldiers becoming encircled between Rostov and Stalingrad in the south (protecting the Volga was seen as the last Soviet hope before it was crossed). At Voronezh, only 350000 soviet soldiers were captured because there were no more and the Germans advanced 400 km east to Saratov, again crossing the Volga. East of Nisnij Novgorod only 300000 soldiers were captured and the Germans “only” managed to advance to Kasan due too poor offensive terrain.
Following these gains, the forces that had been mobilized by the red army in the winter of 1941-42 were shattered, and in most cases, a new units being formed behind the front had been withdrawn in panic with many dissertations. Everywhere, in the general staff, in the trenches, in the NKVD, it was known that the game was lost, and a breakdown of discipline and loyalty ensued.
Meanwhile, the Germans did not stop or even slow down their advances. They simply attacked with fewer division and exploited the breakdown in Soviet fighting coherence. On June 14th, the defenders of Baku surrendered preferring Persian captivity to German captivity which by the end of June resulted in complete German control of Caucasus. From here on a major effort was made to reconstruct the waterways connecting Rostov with Stalingrad, and open the waterways through the Caspian sea into the Ural river. This would not happen before late July 1942, but when it did it allowed the resupply of German units as far east as Uralsk, Aktobe and towards the eastern side of the Urals. After the capture of Stalingrad and Saratov, AGS and AGS each send three panzer divisions (3/3/4) towards Uralsk which was reached on June 22nd, and they drove on towards Aktobe which was reached on July 10. The remainding majority of AGC and AGS cleared up the eastern bank of the Volga. AGN were in a better position as continuous waterways linked Moscov to Nisnij Novgorod and Kasan, and the army group could strike towards Perm and Ufa on the western side of the Urals. These targets were reached in late July.
As the Soviet defensive power collapsed, the political system broke down. Various states declared their independence, but this resulting in Soviet infighting and the inability to support a front versus the attacking Germans. General Zhukov finally assumed control over Russia east of the Urals when he led a faction which executed Stalin on July 29th. The government under Zhukov started peace negotiation with the modest intention to preserve an independent Russia east of the Urals, but it was not to be. Hitler wanted all of Russia as a satellite state and requested that the Germans were allowed to maintain bases, could instruct the building of infrastructure and could approve or dispose of the Russian government. These horrific terms were rejected initially, but the Germans had continued preparations for another round. With a link-up of the waterways and control of the river tributaries, the German initiated round two on August 25th. With soviet defensive power not existing and ultimately relying on a fools hope that the Urals would protect them, the Germans breached the urals using a combination of mountain troops and airborne landing behind and reached Chelyablinsk and Sverdlovsk in mid-September and Orsk in early September were the Ural river had permitted a more rapid expansion. Central Asia was now open to the Germans and Zhukov folded and accepted the German terms on September 30th.
The war in the East had been won and while a puppet state remained in between them, the Third Reich had linked up to the Japanese Empire.
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This concludes the invasiom of the Soviet Union. I think with the build-up of strength, it was a foregone conclusion and in 1942, the "whole rotten structure" finally felled apart as Hitler had hoped would happen in 1941.
It is possible that this could have been made differently, or a peace could have been made earlier, on better Soviet/Russian terms, or that this kind of peace would have taken until 1943, but I feel it was time to move on.
It is possible that this could have been made differently, or a peace could have been made earlier, on better Soviet/Russian terms, or that this kind of peace would have taken until 1943, but I feel it was time to move on.
Chapter 104: European mobilization for war in the west and implementation of German demographic supremacy.
Chapter 104: European mobilization for war in the west and implementation of German demographic supremacy.
The fall of the Soviet Union meant that the Third Reich reigned supreme in Eurasia, but only few people knew that Hitler did not consider this solution final as long as the Jewish influence remained in the world’s largest economy and as long as Germans were so heavily outnumbered in Eurasia*. When the Ural peace was signed, Europe would mobilize all of its resources on the final crusade in the west and on the solution to the long-term demographic problem.
The Demographic solution: As indicated, the procedure to follow was thorough, consisting in first cataloguing Jewish influence, and then eliminate first-degree contacts. Secondarily, personality test and physical tests were characterized through examination and psychological interviews (cf. chapter 84) in order to identify people with Aryan breeding potential and future slave potential. In principle, roughly a quarter of the population in eastern Europe would qualify for the slave potential and a quarter for Aryan breeding programs, but the number of captured people and a shortage of German males following WW1 and to a degree WW2 meant that only the female part could be used. The programs would start at the massive scale in rural Russia were collectivization of farms facilitated this. Introduction of mechanized farming equipment reduced the labor needs and allowed shuffling of the composition of individual collectives, and the unneeded people could be sent for euthanasia, whereas German breeding potential people could be sent to Germany and the remaining would tend to maintain breeding of the future slave race. Starting with the Jewish population, then their contacts and then undesirables in General, Germany would euthanize 5-6 million annually in occupied Europe over the next 20 years, the majority in Eastern Europe and all of these in gas chambers and with application of industrial efficacy. To the outside world were Germany controlled all information, people would simply disappear. Mass chemically induced sterilizations would supplement these approaches, but only after the conclusion on the war in the west and when the technology had become available in the early 1950’s. The availability of further millions of selected women in their fertile age, to work and marry, massive indoctrination, incentives, and the official allowances of secondary registered partners and prohibition of preventive measures, led to a dramtic increase in German childbirth.
The crusade in the west:
From the first preliminary war games, it had been clear that attacking North America and the USA in any conventional way was an exercise in futility. Indeed, after the fall of France and in particular Great Britain, the US had established a strong army, navy and air force.
Options, such as a build-up in Canada, or Mexico had been explored very silently, but while Canada was nominally a British dominion, they now longer tool orders, and Mexico were apparently more scared at the German expansion than they were at their former foes in the North. To make any sense of the endeavor, Germany had made a navy to rival the great powers. Added to Germany’s own production had been 6 British battleships (5 KGV and 1 Vanguard), 3 carriers, 8 Town class cruisers and 30 destroyers from British shipyards, and the French contributing the battleships Jean Bart and Richeliu (equipped with 2x3 German 16 inch gun turrets and 6’’ DP guns) and 4 heavy and 4 light cruisers. While the Dutch provided two battlecruisers from project P1047 build with German 3x2 16 inch guns.
German shipyards had also been busy to laying down 2 60000 tons battleships (not yet commissioned) and 6 fleet carriers in 1939 at 45 000 tons designed to operate a new generation of fighters and twin engine attack aircraft, and they had continued their production of 12 long-range destroyers per year and increased this with a further 12 light cruisers.
Overal in heavy guns capital ships, this gave the Germans:
4 Bismarck class BBs (3x2 16 inch, 31 knots, 45000 tons), 5 pocket battleships (18000 tons 2x3 13.5’’ guns, 31 knots),
5 KGV type battleships, 1 Vanguard,
2 Richeliu class battleships (2x3 16’’, 31 knots),
and two Dutch built battlescruisers (armed with 3x2 16 inch guns).
In carriers, the Germans had 17 fleet carriers: 2 27000 tons German fleet carriers, 6 22000 tons fast converted liners, 3 Illustrious class carriers as well as the rather unique 1939 class of 6 45000 tons fleet carriers.
In support were 4 German heavy cruisers, 4 french heavy cruisers, 8 Town class “light” cruisers, 4 light French built cruisers, 18 German light cruisers and 92 CODAS powered heavy destroyers.
The Germans by know also had made more than 200 submarines and 20 Milch Kühe. Enough to seriously curtail American Merchant shipping
What was perhaps as pronounced as the warships were the fact that had continued and upscaled the production of fast transport, including mobilizing the British shipbuilding industry and made more than 30 of the Altmarkt class ships. Since 1939, they had been openly made for fleet purposes and mounted either 2x2 6’’ DP guns or had been as a converted oiler/axilliary carrier format capable of supporting 2 squadrons of aircraft.
This navy would be a match for the American navy, but would still have no chance of sustaining an invasion against the American mainland. What was the key to the invasions was the specialized weaponry, aircraft, material and troop preparations.
The fall of the Soviet Union meant that the Third Reich reigned supreme in Eurasia, but only few people knew that Hitler did not consider this solution final as long as the Jewish influence remained in the world’s largest economy and as long as Germans were so heavily outnumbered in Eurasia*. When the Ural peace was signed, Europe would mobilize all of its resources on the final crusade in the west and on the solution to the long-term demographic problem.
The Demographic solution: As indicated, the procedure to follow was thorough, consisting in first cataloguing Jewish influence, and then eliminate first-degree contacts. Secondarily, personality test and physical tests were characterized through examination and psychological interviews (cf. chapter 84) in order to identify people with Aryan breeding potential and future slave potential. In principle, roughly a quarter of the population in eastern Europe would qualify for the slave potential and a quarter for Aryan breeding programs, but the number of captured people and a shortage of German males following WW1 and to a degree WW2 meant that only the female part could be used. The programs would start at the massive scale in rural Russia were collectivization of farms facilitated this. Introduction of mechanized farming equipment reduced the labor needs and allowed shuffling of the composition of individual collectives, and the unneeded people could be sent for euthanasia, whereas German breeding potential people could be sent to Germany and the remaining would tend to maintain breeding of the future slave race. Starting with the Jewish population, then their contacts and then undesirables in General, Germany would euthanize 5-6 million annually in occupied Europe over the next 20 years, the majority in Eastern Europe and all of these in gas chambers and with application of industrial efficacy. To the outside world were Germany controlled all information, people would simply disappear. Mass chemically induced sterilizations would supplement these approaches, but only after the conclusion on the war in the west and when the technology had become available in the early 1950’s. The availability of further millions of selected women in their fertile age, to work and marry, massive indoctrination, incentives, and the official allowances of secondary registered partners and prohibition of preventive measures, led to a dramtic increase in German childbirth.
The crusade in the west:
From the first preliminary war games, it had been clear that attacking North America and the USA in any conventional way was an exercise in futility. Indeed, after the fall of France and in particular Great Britain, the US had established a strong army, navy and air force.
Options, such as a build-up in Canada, or Mexico had been explored very silently, but while Canada was nominally a British dominion, they now longer tool orders, and Mexico were apparently more scared at the German expansion than they were at their former foes in the North. To make any sense of the endeavor, Germany had made a navy to rival the great powers. Added to Germany’s own production had been 6 British battleships (5 KGV and 1 Vanguard), 3 carriers, 8 Town class cruisers and 30 destroyers from British shipyards, and the French contributing the battleships Jean Bart and Richeliu (equipped with 2x3 German 16 inch gun turrets and 6’’ DP guns) and 4 heavy and 4 light cruisers. While the Dutch provided two battlecruisers from project P1047 build with German 3x2 16 inch guns.
German shipyards had also been busy to laying down 2 60000 tons battleships (not yet commissioned) and 6 fleet carriers in 1939 at 45 000 tons designed to operate a new generation of fighters and twin engine attack aircraft, and they had continued their production of 12 long-range destroyers per year and increased this with a further 12 light cruisers.
Overal in heavy guns capital ships, this gave the Germans:
4 Bismarck class BBs (3x2 16 inch, 31 knots, 45000 tons), 5 pocket battleships (18000 tons 2x3 13.5’’ guns, 31 knots),
5 KGV type battleships, 1 Vanguard,
2 Richeliu class battleships (2x3 16’’, 31 knots),
and two Dutch built battlescruisers (armed with 3x2 16 inch guns).
In carriers, the Germans had 17 fleet carriers: 2 27000 tons German fleet carriers, 6 22000 tons fast converted liners, 3 Illustrious class carriers as well as the rather unique 1939 class of 6 45000 tons fleet carriers.
In support were 4 German heavy cruisers, 4 french heavy cruisers, 8 Town class “light” cruisers, 4 light French built cruisers, 18 German light cruisers and 92 CODAS powered heavy destroyers.
The Germans by know also had made more than 200 submarines and 20 Milch Kühe. Enough to seriously curtail American Merchant shipping
What was perhaps as pronounced as the warships were the fact that had continued and upscaled the production of fast transport, including mobilizing the British shipbuilding industry and made more than 30 of the Altmarkt class ships. Since 1939, they had been openly made for fleet purposes and mounted either 2x2 6’’ DP guns or had been as a converted oiler/axilliary carrier format capable of supporting 2 squadrons of aircraft.
This navy would be a match for the American navy, but would still have no chance of sustaining an invasion against the American mainland. What was the key to the invasions was the specialized weaponry, aircraft, material and troop preparations.
Chapter 105: The test of the Nachzehrer
Chapter 105: The test of the Nachzehrer
Shoyna, 1000 km north-east of Arkhangelsk, May 1943.
Adolf Hitler received his first injection more than 6 months previously, and all data indicated that he could count on complete protection. Still, it was unnerving to visit the former small city of Shoyna at the coast of the arctic sea. No humans and no animals moved, except the VIP’s, Professor Blome, Heydrich, Göering, and Hitler himself and their entourage of SS guards. A dead person lay in the street, but the SS guards had broken in the doors and it was no problem to enter the houses if one wanted to see more corpses. 48 hours earlier, guided by submarine radio beacons 3 He-277 bombers had taken off from Talinn and established a shallow dive from 300 km’s from the coast. There they had each fired a V1F missile (F for Flugzeug) 100 kms of the coastline and observers claim each of the missiles struck within 1-2 km of the city center. Programmed for only 150 km of flight, they had started to disperse their payload 5-10 km from the shore.
It would be a mixture of 10-100 micrometer plastic granules upon which Anthrax sporozoites had been allowed to dry. Passaging the Anthrax Bacillus through the airways of 100’s of humans and only selecting clones from humans comfirmed to die rapidly had selected for strain of remarkable lethality. After passaging though recipients of a live vaccine strain (which was to reactogenic for non-prisoner human use), the new strains had even been an overmatch for the otherwise effective vaccine and necessitated a new round of vaccine development based on isolating supernatant from the weaponized strain of the bacterium*. A mixture of the old and the new bacterial supernatant was shown to provide protection against both natural and weaponized anthrax and was intended for the German soldiers during operation Nachzehrer. Adolf Hitler and his deputy had been the recipient of this vaccine and gambled heavily on its efficacy on his inspection of Shoyna. Upon seeing the results it was clear the test had been a success. It was also clear that the area would have to be sealed off for decades.
Later, the same day Hitler would observe the effects of the release of Tabun and direct bombing using He-277 delivered Tabun loaded bombs. This he would observe from a purpose built Panzer III air tight and capable of receiving fresh air through carbon filters. Here he entered a small village to observe the effects as they happened. Humans convulsing and suffocating littered the main street. Hitler observed passively for what must have been 15 minutes, then he turned around to the radio operator and asked him to transmit the coded signal. Der Nachzehrer lebt. Upon receipt of the signal, ships boarded men and weapons, the Kriegsmarine went to sea and the airports on the Azores and Iceland became alive. Only a few weeks now remained.
*This is basically the process of directed evolution and works on all organisms. The key thing is the willingness to use humans as incubators and thus the ability to select for pathogenicity in humans. Use of humans with partial vaccine immunity select for new variants, including the toxins, that necessitates new vaccines to counter them.
The principle of increasing pathogenicity by rapid passaging was shown and published by Louis Pasteur
Shoyna, 1000 km north-east of Arkhangelsk, May 1943.
Adolf Hitler received his first injection more than 6 months previously, and all data indicated that he could count on complete protection. Still, it was unnerving to visit the former small city of Shoyna at the coast of the arctic sea. No humans and no animals moved, except the VIP’s, Professor Blome, Heydrich, Göering, and Hitler himself and their entourage of SS guards. A dead person lay in the street, but the SS guards had broken in the doors and it was no problem to enter the houses if one wanted to see more corpses. 48 hours earlier, guided by submarine radio beacons 3 He-277 bombers had taken off from Talinn and established a shallow dive from 300 km’s from the coast. There they had each fired a V1F missile (F for Flugzeug) 100 kms of the coastline and observers claim each of the missiles struck within 1-2 km of the city center. Programmed for only 150 km of flight, they had started to disperse their payload 5-10 km from the shore.
It would be a mixture of 10-100 micrometer plastic granules upon which Anthrax sporozoites had been allowed to dry. Passaging the Anthrax Bacillus through the airways of 100’s of humans and only selecting clones from humans comfirmed to die rapidly had selected for strain of remarkable lethality. After passaging though recipients of a live vaccine strain (which was to reactogenic for non-prisoner human use), the new strains had even been an overmatch for the otherwise effective vaccine and necessitated a new round of vaccine development based on isolating supernatant from the weaponized strain of the bacterium*. A mixture of the old and the new bacterial supernatant was shown to provide protection against both natural and weaponized anthrax and was intended for the German soldiers during operation Nachzehrer. Adolf Hitler and his deputy had been the recipient of this vaccine and gambled heavily on its efficacy on his inspection of Shoyna. Upon seeing the results it was clear the test had been a success. It was also clear that the area would have to be sealed off for decades.
Later, the same day Hitler would observe the effects of the release of Tabun and direct bombing using He-277 delivered Tabun loaded bombs. This he would observe from a purpose built Panzer III air tight and capable of receiving fresh air through carbon filters. Here he entered a small village to observe the effects as they happened. Humans convulsing and suffocating littered the main street. Hitler observed passively for what must have been 15 minutes, then he turned around to the radio operator and asked him to transmit the coded signal. Der Nachzehrer lebt. Upon receipt of the signal, ships boarded men and weapons, the Kriegsmarine went to sea and the airports on the Azores and Iceland became alive. Only a few weeks now remained.
*This is basically the process of directed evolution and works on all organisms. The key thing is the willingness to use humans as incubators and thus the ability to select for pathogenicity in humans. Use of humans with partial vaccine immunity select for new variants, including the toxins, that necessitates new vaccines to counter them.
The principle of increasing pathogenicity by rapid passaging was shown and published by Louis Pasteur
Guess you might have seen it coming
How could a scenario like this not be horrible?
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