The French could always relocate their capitol to one of their Caribbean islands. Ivory Coast could take their population, though I'd imagine Madagascar and French Guyana would take their share of them.
A Storm of Steel and Fire (an alternate WW2 history)
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The Free French populace will spread out over the remnants of their empire, but I want their official capital and headquarters to be located in French West Afirca, preferably in a country bordering the ocean.
Dakar was the capital of French West Africa, the question is why the french would bother change it?
I guess the Abidjan could be the alternative...
I guess the Abidjan could be the alternative...
Abjidan will be the political capital of the Fourth Republic, but Dakar will be its primary military base.
Chose Abjidan due to distance from Axis territory, incredible economic city as well as having significant number of Frenh speakers. Dakar is similar but I envision it as a more military area for the upcoming Cold War.
Chose Abjidan due to distance from Axis territory, incredible economic city as well as having significant number of Frenh speakers. Dakar is similar but I envision it as a more military area for the upcoming Cold War.
Then why not Brazzaville? Brazzaville was where Brazzaville declaration was signed, and it was the capital of Free France before it was moved to Algiers.
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Chapter 50: The New World
August 8th, 1945- As American ships, aircraft, and troops move into Japan to secure the country, victory is celebrated in the United States. Streets are crowded with millions of cheering people. Victory over Japan, popularly called V-J Day, would signal the end of the war for the United States.
August 9th, 1945- Japanese militarists of the Kwantung Army in Korea refuse to surrender and ready themselves to die for honor in the Pusan Perimeter. First Marshal Zhukov fields an army of little over a million, with significant armor and artillery alongside a dominant Red Air Force. The Kwantung Army stands not a chance but they will not submit to the cowardice that has overtaken their government on the Home Islands.
Various Japanese generals in China either turn to temporary warlords with what few forces they have at their disposal, or surrender en masse to the Soviets or Americans, many preferring the somewhat milder treatment of the Americans when compared to the harsh Soviets.
August 11th, 1945- The last delegates of the major world powers finish arriving in Zurich for the peace talks. The United States and the Soviet Union would be attending, but would have little to no say in regards to the European Theater as the conference is between the Axis and Entente, but would discuss aspects in South America and Asia.
American military police begin arresting hundreds of Japanese soldiers and officers, as well as several dozen high-ranking government officials. There is to be a large trial against these individuals, to be held in Kyoto in mid-1946 as the city was now the official capital of Japan since the atomic destruction of Tokyo. The charges against these Japanese officials vary but all are being brought up on charges of crimes against humanity. Evidence is to be gathered, witnesses brought in, and a court of American, British, and Soviet officials is to be formed, headed by the United States.
August 12th, 1945- The Zurich Peace Conference begins. Discussion between how the post-war world will look quickly turns into a heated debate as the Fourth French Republic, the Free French, refuse to withdraw from Algeria, stating it is French land, as French as France itself. The German, Spanish and Italian ambassadors, under orders from their respective leaders, persist that Algeria is to become an Italian colony, whilst French Morocco is to be handed over to Spain. Mussolini wants Algeria for his Italian Empire, Spain wants French Morocco for the Kingdom of Spain; Hitler wants to see the Free French humiliated and removed of their primary support base, effectively crippling the fledgling government-in-exile if it was to happen and removing them as a credible threat to Axis North Africa for years, possibly decades.
Giraud knows this and pressures the British not to buckle under the diplomatic pressure and the desire of the British people to end the war as soon as possible. Wilson is not going to risk the war to drag on for an ally that was once a co-partner of the Entente but no longer. The prime minister quietly ignores Giraud. The Free French leader goes to the American in desperation but his pleas fall onto deaf ears as the Americans have no wish to interfere on the European aspect of the war, not when it is finally coming to a close.
August 13th, 1945- With Algeria, French Morocco, Tunisia and French Indochina lost to him, Giraud desperately attempts to keep the remainder of French Africa. The British are willing to support this as they still want the French to remain a regional power to help act as a counter-weight to Spanish and Italian influence. Britain would not risk war over a province that was already being lost to the Germans and Italians, but would lend their support to the remaining French colonies.
German-occupied Egypt is formed into the Republic of Egypt led by the newly elected President Abdel Nasser and joins the Axis Powers, effectively a semi-independent puppet of Germany similar to the Ukraine. Mussolini is disappointed that he would not be able to annex Egypt, but recognizes the necessity of having an ally that can largely stand on its own two feet facing Entente-occupied Middle East. The Italian Navy and Kriegsmarine would have basing rights in Egypt’s ports, as well as the Italian Army and Wehrmacht having sizable forces in Egypt for “its protection against hostile neighbors.”
August 15th, 1945- The Zurich Peace Conference concludes and with it the Treaty of Zurich is born. Pace between the Axis Powers and the Entente is achieved.
German occupation over Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the Eastern Territories are internationally recognized, as are Italy’s claims to Greece (minus the portions taken by Bulgaria and Turkey, also recognized), Yugoslavia, Tunisia, Algeria, Malta and Italian-occupied France. The German puppet states of Chechnya, Croatia, Greater Syria, as well as the National Republic of the Ukraine and Republic of Egypt are recognized. The Sinai Peninsula is recognized the Republic of Egypt’s eastern border.
Gibraltar is returned to Spain, though would have a German/Italian taskforce assigned to it, as well as principal port for both nations’ navies. But it would be Spanish territory and largely garrisoned by Spanish soldiers. British citizens that remain are to be shipped to Britain as they are no longer welcome. Spanish Morocco evolves from a protectorate into an outright colony, alienating many of Franco’s Moroccan supporters which would lead to the large scale civil war in Spanish Morocco during the early 1950s. French Morocco, much to Franco’s delight, is given to Spain, despite the Spanish Army unable to invade it during the war as Free French units were able to not only halt Spanish ambitions but invade portions of Spanish Morocco.
Turkey’s possessions in Greece and the Caucasus are recognized.
The Fourth French Republic is forced to leave Algeria, dropping their claim to it and Tunisia. The withdraw from French Morocco is forced as well, gifting it to Spain, alienating the Fourth Republic. The French still have an extensive African empire with a French upper-class. The millions of French men and women, many that left France during the Exodus while others decided to leave their homes in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, will become the dominant and wealthy class, in comparison, to the poorer African populations and strong supporters of the Republic. The city of Dakar, Senegal is to be the center of the Free French military and home port to the small Free French Navy. Abidjan, Ivory Coast will become the economic and political capital of the Fourth Republic.
Due to the Netherlands being occupied by the Germans, the Dutch East Indies is renamed to Indonesia and the country is to be given its independence sometime in 1946 after a period of rebuilding and stability directed by the American military.
Various and more points are announced in the Treaty, but the most important one is that the world after six years of the bloodiest and most destructive war in human history could now be content that was finally over.
August 17th, 1945- U.S. and Soviet forces meet on opposite sides of the Yellow River, becoming the boundary between their two militaries and the militaries of their Chinese allies. What few Japanese holdouts there were in China are all but eliminated.
August 20th, 1945- After eliminating Japanese pockets throughout Korea, barring the south-eastern area of the country, Zhukov finally attacks the Pusan Perimeter and the last battle for the Kwantung Army begins.
Italy, as a sign of goodwill and for ethnic and administrative reasons, cedes north-western Algeria, the Oran region and surrounding area to Spain. The local European population is heavily Spanish and the giving of land is to tie Spain further into the Axis, as well as help mend the high losses the Axis country suffered by the Royal Navy when it entered the war.
August 23rd, 1945- Germany formally annexes Luxembourg, Eupen-Malmedy, Northern Schleswig, and central Poland (the former General-Government) into the Reich. Plans for the future annexation of the other Occupied Territories are laid out: Eastern Poland and Lithuania by 1946, Latvia and Estonia by 1947, Northern France by 1948, Central and Western France by 1950, Belarus by 1951, with the other vast swathes of former Soviet-territory is to be annexed starting in the early-1950s and scheduled to conclude in the mid-1960s. Germanization and Aryanization of these areas have been in full swing since each territory’s occupation and with peace secured they would take prominence in German internal affairs for decades. Already German colonists are dispatched to the non-annexed territories to lay the groundwork for the eventual annexation.
In German-occupied France the French are encouraged to move to Marseille France as tens of thousands of German settlers move to France, this being only the initial wave with many more to follow. The German government wants the possible disloyal segments of the French population to leave their homes in Occupied France, whilst those loyal and racially approved may be allowed to remain. Furthermore if a French civilian desires to marry a German they are allowed to if the French individual is loyal to the German government, is law-abiding, and above all is deemed bearing sufficiently pure Aryan genes then it is approved. It is hoped that with these unions and the children that would be produced in the years to come that the French identity would be slowly and cleanly erased, replacing it with descendants who latch onto their German heritage and becoming fully-fledged citizens of the Reich who identity as only German, therefore increasing the number of Aryan Germans in the world. Similar policies are adopted in the remainder of German-controlled Europe, with marriages between Danish, Belgian and Dutch women to German men encouraged, though German-to-German coupling will forever remain the preferred and dominant. These polices in the Eastern Territories are even stricter and the guidelines more stringent. With the war won and much of the East depopulated by the battles that raged through it the SS and Slavic Aryan auxiliaries begin rounding up the non-Aryan population, even many sub-Aryans with either insufficient proof or questionable background are rounded up for the concentration camps. Hitler desperately wants to increase the population of Germany to better colonize its newly acquired territories. He hopes to either exterminate via Einsatzgruppen or via the concentration camp system, force out into ghettoes or into unpopulated wildernesses of little value, or breed out local Aryan populations of their former ethnic identities, replacing it with a German-centered one. This would see the German population skyrocket in the ensuing decades, as well as their occupied subjects in the East either be killed in camps or outbred and outnumbered by their cruel masters.
August 28th, 1945- The Kwantung Army is utterly destroyed, with the few remnants surrendering to the Red Army. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, but the Soviet Union stands triumphant.
September 2nd, 1945- Hitler renames the German Reich into the Greater German Reich.
The Soviet Union installs the Korean Communist Party as the sole party of the new government of Korea. Korea is renamed to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the capital city is Seoul.
September 4th, 1945- The United States and the Soviet Union establish two governments in China: the Republic of China with Shanghai as its capital, aided by the United States, and the People’s Republic of China with Beijing as its capital, aided by the Soviet Union. This is to be a temporary solution to the “Chinese problem” as one American politician stated. A plebiscite and election to unite the two Chinas is scheduled by both the U.S. and the USSR to start in 1947 but few believe it will come to pass. South China is formed of China east and south of the Yellow River, the remainder goes on to form North China with the exception of the province of Tibet which gains independence and backing of the American government. Both South and North China dislike this, but Kai-shek is forced to accept it for continued American support and North China cannot intervene without an international incident that the USSR does not want to occur at this time.
September 8th, 1945- The United States calls for an international body to succeed the ineffective and defunct League of Nations. This successor is to be called the United Nations and stationed in New York City, New York. All nations are invited, whether they are democratic, communist, fascist, or other. The world suffered heavily in the Second World War, casualties in the tens of millions, with many reporting nearly seventy million people having died, some speculate more. The United States does not want such a war to happen again and hopes the United Nations can prevent it.
As a precaution, however, the United States forms an economic-military alliance with several countries throughout the world, called the Alliance of Democratic Nations. It is hoped this alliance will keep in check communist and fascist aggression where the UN cannot. Founding members would be the United States, Britain, Free France, South China, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, the entirety of the South American Democratic League, and several more.
Likewise the Axis Powers officially integrates the South American Fascist Bloc into the Axis Powers. The Soviet Union integrates North China into the Comintern. Attempts to add Vietnam to the Comintern fails miserably as the communist country is surrounded by U.S. allies and has fair relations with the Americans, who also liberated their country. Vietnam might be communist, but it would become a strong American ally in Southeast Asia in the years to come. India on the other hand becomes accepting of Soviet influence and a rising communist movement would worry Britain and the United States for years. North-western India begins to experience riots and mass demonstrations against central Indian control as the predominantly Islamic population is pro-fascist. This would eventually evolve into the country of Pakistan coming to and being a bastion of fascism in an area surrounded largely by communist and democratic movements.
The Second World War might be over, but three nations have attained dominance, giving birth to three superpowers, each leading a different military alliance. The war was over, but the seeds for another had been sown. Thus the foundation for the Cold War began.
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Awsome Sir! Another great read, and most engaging ATL. Thank you for creating this ATL for the forum community to enjoy.
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Indonesia will vote for a leader when that election comes. At the moment, US officials are working with regional leaders but there is no one dominant leader just yet
*Glancing at Tan Malaka-Amir Sjarifoeddin* PKI, PSI, PNI, and NU huh?
It's a great ending for a great AH WW2.
PS: I see no logical the small piece of cake obtained by Franco's Spain, especially because it damages the geostrategic interests of the Axis. If Algeria will fall in Italian hands, as normal is that the Oran region is in Spanish hands because three quarters of the European population lives there is of Spanish origin (300,000 of a total 400,000 Europeans, whose origin is due to economic Spanish immigration was staying there since the late 19th century).
In turn, it is nonsense to the Axis members allow the Free France maintaining the colonization of French Morocco, especially taking into account the existence of the Spanish Sahara and Spanish Morocco -which are susceptible to a wide annexation/extensions of large portions of French Morocco, Mauritania and the Sahara desert (Algerian Sahara and Malian Sahara)-. Also, if Spain manages to establish a new Spanish protectorate over all Greater Morocco -except the Rif recently annexed as Spanish metropolitan territory, which include all Moroccan territory north of the river Sebou and the Moroccan territory west of the penultimate major tributary of the river Moulouya before its mouth-, Spain and the Axis could prevent a great Moroccan insurgency favored by the Allies and and having a peaceful Axis Mare Nostrum -especially if Franco delivers much of the estates of the French settlers to pro-Spanish Moroccan leaders, including Berber leaders-. To do this, Francoist Spain can encourage existing animosity between Arabs and Berbers to prevent their union against the Spanish colonization in Morocco.
Oran Region
Greater Morocco
Moroccan topography
PS: I see no logical the small piece of cake obtained by Franco's Spain, especially because it damages the geostrategic interests of the Axis. If Algeria will fall in Italian hands, as normal is that the Oran region is in Spanish hands because three quarters of the European population lives there is of Spanish origin (300,000 of a total 400,000 Europeans, whose origin is due to economic Spanish immigration was staying there since the late 19th century).
In turn, it is nonsense to the Axis members allow the Free France maintaining the colonization of French Morocco, especially taking into account the existence of the Spanish Sahara and Spanish Morocco -which are susceptible to a wide annexation/extensions of large portions of French Morocco, Mauritania and the Sahara desert (Algerian Sahara and Malian Sahara)-. Also, if Spain manages to establish a new Spanish protectorate over all Greater Morocco -except the Rif recently annexed as Spanish metropolitan territory, which include all Moroccan territory north of the river Sebou and the Moroccan territory west of the penultimate major tributary of the river Moulouya before its mouth-, Spain and the Axis could prevent a great Moroccan insurgency favored by the Allies and and having a peaceful Axis Mare Nostrum -especially if Franco delivers much of the estates of the French settlers to pro-Spanish Moroccan leaders, including Berber leaders-. To do this, Francoist Spain can encourage existing animosity between Arabs and Berbers to prevent their union against the Spanish colonization in Morocco.
Oran Region
Greater Morocco
Moroccan topography
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Oh boy, such an ominous ending!
Remind me again, what were the guidelines for slavic persons in the Reich to be dubbed Aryan? I remember they were relaxed ITTL due to the Soviet invasion
Remind me again, what were the guidelines for slavic persons in the Reich to be dubbed Aryan? I remember they were relaxed ITTL due to the Soviet invasion
It's a great ending for a great AH WW2.
PS: I see no logical the small piece of cake obtained by Franco's Spain, especially because it damages the geostrategic interests of the Axis. If Algeria will fall in Italian hands, as normal is that the Oran region is in Spanish hands because three quarters of the European population lives there is of Spanish origin (300,000 of a total 400,000 Europeans, whose origin is due to economic Spanish immigration was staying there since the late 19th century).
In turn, it is nonsense to the Axis members allow the Free France maintaining the colonization of French Morocco, especially taking into account the existence of the Spanish Sahara and Spanish Morocco -which are susceptible to a wide annexation/extensions of large portions of French Morocco, Mauritania and the Sahara desert (Algerian Sahara and Malian Sahara)-. Also, if Spain manages to establish a new Spanish protectorate over all Greater Morocco -except the Rif recently annexed as Spanish metropolitan territory, which include all Moroccan territory north of the river Sebou and the Moroccan territory west of the penultimate major tributary of the river Moulouya before its mouth-, Spain and the Axis could prevent a great Moroccan insurgency favored by the Allies and and having a peaceful Axis Mare Nostrum -especially if Franco delivers much of the estates of the French settlers to pro-Spanish Moroccan leaders, including Berber leaders-. To do this, Francoist Spain can encourage existing animosity between Arabs and Berbers to prevent their union against the Spanish colonization in Morocco.
Oran Region
Greater Morocco
Moroccan topography
I'll correct that tonight when I get off work. So they get a piece of Algeria. The rest of Morocco as well or do you think that can remain out of their hands?
Pretty much as long as they were free of Jewish or Asian ancestry, swore an oath of loyalty to the Reich, and worked with the German authorities they would be considered Aryan. Fair hair (blond, brown, red) and fair eyes (blue, green, gray) are prized and almost as an unofficial rule they need to have it. Some dark eyed and dark haired Slavs are considered Aryan but their ancestry has to be proven to be free of "impure blood" for several centuries.
Very good ending to the timeline and I agree about the Spanish receiving greater morocco and part of Algeria would make more sense.