AH Vignette: The Reich of Erwin Rommel

He knew how the war was going and he knew the British weren't happy about Germany anti-Semitic polices from tuning into the BBC from time to time in North Africa, but the top of the British government was only at this point just hearing reports of the camps and many of them didn't fully believe them.

Outside of the war in the East sounds like a brutal affair and German anti-Semetic policy bad he would be in for a rude awakening.
True, that could make for a good sequel. Thanks for that idea. :)
 
Here's a vignette I wrote recently, inspired by the novel Himmler's War by Robert Conroy (though rather different). This is my first vignette, so constructive feedback is welcome. Hope you all enjoy. :)

You should read the Fox on the Rhine/Fox at the Front series by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson, it has the Operation Valkyrie failing and Himmler seizing power, a German-Soviet truce (until the soviet re enter the war), and a Rommel-Patton team up fighting against the SS.
 
You should read the Fox on the Rhine/Fox at the Front series by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson, it has the Operation Valkyrie failing and Himmler seizing power, a German-Soviet truce (until the soviet re enter the war), and a Rommel-Patton team up fighting against the SS.
Sounds interesting, maybe I'll read it after my exams.

Anyone going to answer this question:
I may be ignorant, but can someone explain this to me? Surely, you're not talking about Turtledoves?
 
Ah, of course. How did I not realise that!?!
Yeah, I was. May, I ask why you made it? (Not that I don't appreciate it.)
It is a habit of my of creating a TOC whenever I follow a good storythread and there is no other way to follow it when it grows beyond ten full pages and the readers can't easily find all the chapters unless the author creates a Story Only Thread and if same site doesn't have Threadmarks available like in SpaceBattles Creative Forum...
 
Thanks for your recommendation, I'll be sure to try them. :)
No problem, the Fox series as i call them also have some world building in them with excerpts from a fictional history book called War's Final Fury in it who tell the world as it will be after the end of the book, it fascinated to think what could happen with Rommel and Patton still being alive and if i can spoil it, relation between the Allies (including Germany) and the Soviet Union very low.
 
It is a habit of my of creating a TOC whenever I follow a good storythread and there is no other way to follow it when it grows beyond ten full pages and the readers can't easily find all the chapters unless the author creates a Story Only Thread and if same site doesn't have Threadmarks available like in SpaceBattles Creative Forum...
Well thank you. :)
But, what's with the two chapters already?
 
No problem, the Fox series as i call them also have some world building in them with excerpts from a fictional history book called War's Final Fury in it who tell the world as it will be after the end of the book, it fascinated to think what could happen with Rommel and Patton still being alive and if i can spoil it, relation between the Allies (including Germany) and the Soviet Union very low.
Sounds very interesting indeed. Thanks again. :)
 
So, it's the ultimate Wehraboo novel?

Those two novels didn't exactly get the voice right IMHO. He had an emotional breakdown and his eye explodes after entering a concentration camp. But, he can't kill the commandant, but he wants to because that would be murder. In Tsouras' novel it has him seeing the conditions throwing up at the smell then shooting the camp commandant and ordering the ranking SS officers there court marshaled was closer to reality.
 
Those two novels didn't exactly get the voice right IMHO. He had an emotional breakdown and his eye explodes after entering a concentration camp. But, he can't kill the commandant, but he wants to because that would be murder. In Tsouras' novel it has him seeing the conditions throwing up at the smell then shooting the camp commandant and ordering the ranking SS officers there court marshaled was closer to reality.

Uh, what? I was talking about how novels which feature Rommel becoming the leader of all the GoodGermans, ending WW2 by killing Himmler, and negotiating a separate peace between the WAllies and/or the Soviets (who are the real bad guys) is like, a textbook Werhaboo story. It's practically Wehraboo Mad-Libs.
 
Uh, what?

I didn't know what a werhaboo is. I just googled it. I thought you were talking about Rommel's voice which was off. Rommel most certainly was willing to execute soldiers he thought dishonored the uniform by raping/killing locals he would most certainly be willing to do the same for the leaders of the camps.

He was not as soft as he was in those novels and neither was Patton. Stalin is not that stupid either. It felt more like a WAllied wank as they get a free Central Europe and Stalin is left skulking. The Soviet's and the Nazis lose, and Germany is still occupied the WAllies still have Nuremberg Trials more thorough then they had OTL which was laughable. There really isn't anything left of the German Army at the end of the story after first getting ripped apart by the WAllies then the Soviet's finish them off at the end before America drops the bomb and ends the war.

Tsouras' stories were Germany wanks as he manages to keep Germany from being occupied by holding off the Normandy invasion and then fighting the Red Army to a standstill.
 
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