I'm alive! (Remember me? echo...
echo... echo...)
Anyway, the structure of a Greater Germanic Reich has always been a weird fixation of mine, and I thought I'd toss out my view of possible Reichsgaue for such a creature under the "Germans win in the East and eventually come to terms with the British, no American involvement" variant.
Whaddaya think, sirs? I know some of the names are questionable (the ones that I recognize as lame are in
bold but I'm sure there are more, as most of them were drawn from Wikipedia) so suggestions for improvements are very welcome.
Denmark
Jutland (mainland) - Arenhusen (Aarhus)
Seeland (islands) - Kaufmannshafen (Copenhagen) - German name of the island of Zealand
Netherlands (division inspired by
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=3079929&postcount=37)
Frisien (Friesland and Groningen) - Grönnen (Groningen)
Issel (Drenthe, Gelderland and Overijssel) - Arnheim (Arnhem) - German name for the IJssel river
Ausfurt (North-Holland and Utrecht) - Amsteldamm (Amsterdam) - rough German translation of the name Utrecht (out-ford/crossing)
Holzland (South Holland and Zeeland) - Der Haag/Grafenhecken (The Hague/'s-Gravenhage) - German translation of the word Holland (wooded land)
Brabant (North Brabant and Limburg) - Endehoven (Eindhoven).
Belgium
Brüssel (Brussels and small surrounding area) - Brüssel (Brussels)
Flandern (northern half) - Antorf (Antwerp) - German name for Flanders
Wallonien (southern half) - Lüttich (Liege) - German name for Wallonia
France
Hennegau (Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Somme and northern half of Aisne departments) -
Rinsel (Lille) - German name for Hainaut, historic province in Belgium and northern France
Maas (Ardennes, Marne and Meuse) -
Etzelburg (Châlons-en-Champagne) - German/Dutch name for the Meuse river
Mörthe (Meurthe-et-Moselle and Vosges) - Nanzig (Nancy) - German name for the Meurthe river
Dub (Haute-Saone, Doubs and Jura) Bisanz (Besancon) - German name for the Doubs river
Switzerland
Zürich (northeastern cantons) - Zürich
Aare (northwestern cantons) - Bern
(Ticino, Valais and Graubunden annexed by Italy)
Poland
Weißenhang (Bezirk Bialystok) - Weißenhangstadt (Bialystok) - German translation of the name Bialystok (White Slope)
Beskidden (Generalgouvernment Distrikt Krakau) - Premissel (Przemysl) - German name for the Beskids mountains in central Europe
Oberweichsel (Generalgouvernment Distrikt Radom) -
Bauernstadt (Radom) - German name for "Upper Vistula"
Keiler (Generalgouvernment Distrikt Lublin) -
Reichsburg (Lublin) - German translation of the Wieprz (boar) river in Poland near Lublin
Vandalen (Generalgouvernment Distrikt Galizien) - Lemberg (Lviv) - German name for the Vandals, an ancient Germanic tribe
Niederweichsel (Generalgouvernment Distrikt Warschau) - Warshau (Warsaw) - German name for "Lower Vistula"
The Baltic
Kurland (Schaulen, Kauen-Land, Libau, Mitau and Riga district of Riga-Land) - Libau (Liepaja) - German name for Courland peninsula
Düna (Dunaberg, Ponewesch-Land, Wilna-Land) - Riege (Riga) - German name for Daugava river
Livland (Wolmar, Pernau, Dorpat, Petschur) - Dorpat (Tartu) - German name for Livonia
Estland (Arensburg, Reval-Land, Narwa) - Reval (Tallinn) - German name for Estonia
Belarus
Obermemel (western) - Mainsburg (Minsk) - German name for "Upper Neman" river in Belarus
Bjaresina (eastern) -
Karlsburg (Mogilev) - German name for the Berezina river
Russia
Ingermanland (between Estonia and Neva River) - Yamburg (Kingisepp) - German name for historic Ingria region around St. Petersburg
Peipus (between Lake Peipus and Lake Ilmen) - Pleskau (Pskov) - Lake Peipus between Estonia and NW Russia
Ukraine
Gotengau (Crimea) - Gotenburg (Simferopol) - after the ancient Goths
Teteriw (Shitomir Generalkommissariat) -
Himmlerstadt (Shitomir)
Wolhynien (Wolhynien Generalkommissariat) -
Keitelburg (Rivne)
Norway
Schagerrach (southern) - Christianburg (Oslo) - "Germanized" spelling of the Skagerrak strait between Norway, Sweden and Denmark
Nordland (central and northern) - Nordstern (~15 km SW of Trondheim) - historic county of northern Norway
Czechoslovakia
Böhmen (Bohemia) - Prag (Prague) - German name for historic region of Bohemia
Mähren (Moravia) - Brünn (Brno) - German name for historic region of Moravia
Karpaten (Slovakia) - Preßburg (Bratislava) - German name for the Carpathian mountains