A Challenge!

I have an AH challenge for anyone who feels up two it.

This is a challenge that will require more than the AH cliche answers because the results are always the same and I have read them too many times.

Challenge: Describe a Nazi Germany victory no later than 1945 where the United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union and Facsist Italy exists and Emperial Japan doesn't and where Nazi Germany is not wanked and only holds its territory no greater than what it had in 1944.

Bonus Challenge 1: Describe each culture and environment in either:
  1. United States
  2. Soviet Union
  3. Great Britain
  4. Nazi Germany
Bonus Challenge 2: Create a viable explanation on how United States Air Force that was formed no later than 1947 ITTL.

Conclusion: The whole challenge is based upon on the idea that the cold war was between the United States and Germany rather than the Soviet Union.
 
PoD: Hitler is killed in the Beer Hall Putsch. He dies a martyr for his political causes, but the National Socialists become a mass movement with party leaders like Joesph Gobbels creating powerful propaganda. That said, the Nazis are much more like conservatives and much less like Nazis in OTL. That is to say, Kanzler Goring does little but drink alcohol and quietly sign papers while the German Government never fully radicalizes to the degree it does OTL.

And to some degree, this Nazi Clique is still rabidly nationalistic. But Goring has brilliant people like Hjamar Schacht to fix the economy and with bold deficit spending funded by military budgets, Germany by 1940 has a considerable army and is ready to try to regain the honor it lost in WW1.

Goring, whose main benefit to Germany was a modern airforce, dies in a traffic accident, and the Party Boss Martin Bormann now steers a nationalistic course. On his orders, an effort is made to annex Austria--resulting in the shooting death of Austrian Kanzler Engelbard Dolfuss. Italy threatens war over the incursion, but Italy is bluffing, and Bormann, who knows this from a more capable Abwehr, makes the move south. The Annexation of Austria is a humilating blow to Mussolini, who responds to this move by attempting to align with the allies.

In Neighboring Czechloslovkia, another crisis is brewing--one not initally caused by Germany. The SdP leader Konrad Heinlein had demanded political concessions from the Czech government, but President Benes did not fully concede them. Germany attempted to back Heinlein's SdP, but the situation in Czechloslovkia had become terribly confused. Eventually, the decision was made for the German Wehrmacht to be committed to the Sudentenland. A Series of incidents followed, ultimately triggering a state of war between the two countries. Seeing an opportunity to meet its claims on Germany, Poland jumped into the conflict.

Italy wanted in, as well, but its political alignment with France and the United Kingdom meant that it would watch from the sidelines as Germany managed to drive back the Polish attacks and with great difficulty, manage to break through the Sudentenland with a drive north through former Austria.

Uninterested in getting involved in the fighting, and recognizing that the war wasn't entirely Germany's fault, the Allies warned but did not attack. After a difficult three year campaign, Germany managed to defeat Poland and Czechoslovakia--the resulting peace treaties left a Bohemian and Slovakian State in Central Europe run by friendly regimes and a Poland stripped of Posen and Danzig.

Bormann had managed to achieve much of what he felt Hitler had wanted to do--unite all Germans under a single country. Although the war had been very difficult, Germany would return to a more peaceful footing and attempt to incorporate these new territories into the German State.

On the other side of the world, Japan attacked China and got dragged into a giant stalemate. Then, in desperation, Japan decided to attack the Allies over their oil embargo. To the immense relief of Germany, a Vengeful UK, France, and USA crushed Japan flat by 1944.
 
Hitler killed in 1942 whilst traveling through the Protectorate of Bohemia (in lieu of Reinhard Heidrich). The military acts and takesover. Makes peace with Stalin's Soviet Union with control over all of pre-1939 Poland and Baltic States in December 1942.

UK and USA make peace with Germany in late 1943 when France, Belguim and Holland regain their nominal independence. An armistice line not far from Tobruk is signed in North Africa. UK and USA sign Anglophone Pact and begin co-ordinating their foreign policy to a great degree.

USA goes onto conquer Japan.

US is the strongest power, untouched by war and with a new large military occupied area in Asia.

China is still as fucked as OTL.

Soviet Union stuggles. Stalin is ousted by Beria who is in turn ousted by Zukhov who places Molotov in the General Secretary role. The end result, a change in the dictatorship, the military has more control, the party less. the GRU is now more feared than the NKVD.

Britain still slowlyh loses their colonies over the decades but remains also an important USA forward base. This would cause problems in the 60s

Germany leads Euroe. Controls a large Empire in the east with Poland and every nation on the European continent is subservient to it. Italy comes as close to a partner as possible and is still largely tolds what to do by Berlin.

With the growth opf the Soviet and German air forces and the beggining of German U2 spy planes flying over the continental USA, causes the US to form the Air Force in 1945. The Air Force gains the use of all strategic weapons and thus a lot of influence in 1946, with the first US nuclear test.
 
I'm heading for bonus challenge 1, the culture in Germany.

Music:
In the years after the victory, folk music would be popular. I think that people like Heino would have been also popular ITL. But I think that folk music would have been longer "in", maybe until the mid 80's. In OTL there was a new german wave (Artists like Falco or Nena), I think that it would have also risen up, but it would have been opressed by the Nazi government, thus the new german wave gains a rebellious image, and the young people who are tired of going to the Hitler Youth, start to become addicted to the rebellious music. Rock music would have also been popular, but only in the underground because that was "nigger music" in the Nazi term. But coming to a conclusion, music would be pretty much the same in Nazi Germany than in OTL (Also because Germany has the third biggest music market). But with most songs sung in german of course.

Cinema:
In Nazi Germany, movies were very important for the regime, mostly because of propaganda reasons. But the main question is, would Arnold Schwarzenegger still have been a successful actor? My answer: yes! Arnold always wanted to be an actor and if not in America then in Germany. He would have also been the perfect picture of the "perfect aryan" (Despite the fact that he has no blond hair), because of his muscolous body. But would movies like Terminator still exist? Maybe, but I'm thinking of a germanized version of it. Look at this:

Die Maschine (The machine):
Hamburg, 2024:
In future a bolchevist-zionist conspiracy has brought down mankind. The world has been destroyed with nuclear weapons, because the conspiracy has manipulated the imperial cyber security system "Wehrnetz (defensenet)", which caused a nuclear armageddon. But they also created the "machines", android beings, which terrorize the surviving humans. But the surviving humans put themselves together to defend against the machines. The leader of the people is "Johann Kerner (ITL John Connor)", who brought the machines and the conspiracy almost down, and has brought mankind close to victory. In order to prevent mankind to win, defensenet send a machine from type "MX-101" to the Hamburg of 1984 to kill Johann Kerners mother "Sandra Kerner (Sarah is a jewish name and calling a girl by a jewish name would have been a scandal in Nazi Germany.)". But the humans are prepared and send "Karl Reiss" to the past.

Hamburg, 1984:
In the past, the MX-101 and Karl Reiss try to be the first who finds Sandra Kerner. In a "Tanzhalle" (Dancehall, but more conservative), the machine and Reiss fight in a shoot-out against each other, with Reiss escaping with Kerner. Reiss and Kerner become busted by a local SS commando, but they were found by the machine. The machine breaks in the local SS headquarter, and shoots several SS-men down, but Reiss and Kerner can escape. They both flee to a motel, and have sex with each other (Ironically Johann Kerner is the son of Reiss because of that). But the machine finds them once again, and chases them to a factory. In the fight, Reiss is killed, but with her last power, Kerner can kill the machine with some explosive.

After killing the machine, Kerner flees to the Ostmark (Austria in OTL), where a Hitler Youth member takes a photo of her. It will be the photo what Karl Reiss will hold in his hands in future.

Cast:
The machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Karl Reiss: Jürgen Prochnow
Sandra Kerner: Iris Berben (If someone knows a better german actress, let me know)
But of course there could have been a "Terminator", maybe with Stallone in the main role and hey, two action franchises (Rambo and ITL Terminator), that's not bad. Speaking of Stallone, I think that Rocky IV would have changed a bit. Rocky doesn't fight Ivan Drago anymore, it's now "Johannes Drach" in Berlin, right infront of the führer. Before the fight, Rocky trains in the black forest to make him stronger than ever (Damn, this makes me wish a Rocky IV set in Nazi Germany. Imagine that, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" sung by the crowds before the match). And maybe Rambo III would have played in some different place (I'm thinking of persia or turkey). And another matter is, would Bruce Willis still exist? OTL, he had a german mother and a american father, but would they have still met each other with a victorious Nazi Germany? I highly doubt, except Willis father was taken prisoner in Germany and learned Wilis mother to know. Anyways, I think that there would have been plenty of high quality german movies, with a high number of action movies, most of them with Schwarzenegger.

Television:
I don't think there is much to say, there are no private television stations, only state-controlled television. The most popular news broadcast is the "Tagesschau" (Same as OTL), also popular is the Sportschau, with reports from the german football league. Because there nothing more to say, I'm going to the next point.

Sports:
Hitler didn't like football or boxing at all (For him, this wasn't real sports, he only liked both because the people liked it, and Germany had much success on that sports). Nonetheless, Germany would rule football in europe and in the world, only brazil is able to compete with them seriously.
But a big issue is also motorsports. Hitler loved cars, and he supported german car creators (Ferdinand Porsche for example) heavyly. So german manufacturers would celebrates many victories in formula one (I think that there would still exist one) or in the DTM.
Coming to the DTM, the DTM (Same as OTL) would be a bit more important to germans like formula one, because this would have been the place where the manufacturers messed with each other. And drivers like Klaus Ludwig would have become some kind of people's heroes. But what I wonder, what would have been with Michael Schumacher, or his brother Ralf or Heinz-Harald Frentzen, or to think wider, what would have happen to Heidfeld, Rosberg, Sutil, Glock, Vettel and most interestingly to Kubica?

Anyway, that's it for the moment.
 
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