in and out of the reich

MAINBURG POLIZEI Paul Leone SCHUTZPOLIZEI DES REICHES (Reich Protection Police) – the uniformed police force of the GREATER GERMANIC REICH. The Schutzpolizei is responsible for basic law enforcement – foot and automobile patrol, traffic control, prison management – while criminal investigation...

For all your semi-crapsack TL discussion, debate and question-and-answer needs! TIMELINE THREADS: All Quiet on the Eastern Front (COMPLETE) From the Atlantic to the Urals (COMPLETE) An Ordinary Germanic (COMPLETE) Murder in Hitlerstadt (COMPLETE) The Bengasi Confessions (UNFINISHED)...

BENGASI – The capital of both the Italian PROVINCE and CIRCANDARIO (section) of BENGASI. After TRIPOLI and TUNISI the third largest city in ITALIAN NORTH AFRICA. Its population is roughly fifty percent ITALIAN ARABS, the rest being Italian (including AEGEAN ITALIANS and MALTESE ITALIANS) or...

"Sei ferne von falschen Sachen. Den Unschuldigen und Gerechten sollst du nicht erwürgen; denn ich lasse den Gottlosen nicht Recht haben." 2. Buch Mose 23:7 "Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked." Exodus 23:7 * * *...

ONE – MEETING Therese Lohmeyer is verbally abusing a hospital coffee maker when I first meet her. The accent suggest she’s German. The vocabulary confirms it. No disrespect to my Australian friends but nobody tops a German for swearing. I’m still trying to sort out where one insult ends and...

FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE URALS Breitspurbhan – Scheme to establish a broad-gauge railway running enormous double-decker coaches from the Atlantic to the Urals. Status: Partially complete. The trans-Europe routes are as Hitler intended but the gauge is less and the coaches are fewer and of a...

I – Obituary This story starts with how she died – or how her death was announced. In the summer of 2016, I was heading back to Salzburg (and eventually London) after a conference in Lubiana. Owing to a bungled attempt at reading the schedule, I ended up on the regular instead of the express...