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[theflyingmongoose]

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Operation Thunderclap was an operation to cross the Oder River that began the morning of February 24th, 1945. Eastern operations had largely been halted since the sudden death of Stalin on February 9th at the Crimean Conference, and the ruling troika of Beria, Molotov and Zhadnov were eager to regain the initiative. Despite recommendations from Zhukov and Konev to delay the offensive until the Red Army's flanks in Pomerania and Silesia could be secured and that the crossings themselves be preceded by an extensive series of artillery and air attacks, the Troika ordered immediate action.

Troops from Gerogy Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front were able to cross the Oder at Gartz, Linken and Schwedt initially without much resistance. The Oder was still largely frozen in many areas and the 2nd Guards Tank Army, under Semyon Bogdanov, was able to put nearly two full rifle divisions across in the first two days of the operation, albeit without much of their heavy equipment. German forces were still attempting to reconstitute themselves after the heavy losses suffered in the Vistula-Oder offensive, loosely organized under a formation Hitler had named Army Group Vistula. Placed under Himmler's command in late January, the German forces had suffered heavy losses as the Soviets pushed westward through Poland. Himmler, who next to no military experience and had been placed in command mostly for his supposed reliability, on the morning of the 25th was in Berlin to consult with Hitler. Hitler had been somewhat giddy at the news of Stalin's death, convinced that it represented a true reversal in fortunes as any replacement for Stalin would be ineffective as a decade of purges had robbed the Soviet leadership of the competence needed to run the country in Stalin's wake. While subsequent events would prove this quite accurate, Himmler was of a different mind. His time in command had convinced him the German army was spent and when told by Hitler to return to the front to push the Soviets back over the Oder, he proposed that Hitler should take advantage Soviet power vacuum and seek a negotiated peace with the Allies. He argued that while most of their conquests had been re-taken by the Allies, most of Germany itself remained out of Allied hands and that the Führer would be able to best the Allies at the negotiating table. Hitler, infuriated by what he viewed as Himmler's betrayal, stripped him of his command of both the Army Group and of the SS and ordered him to the front to fight as a common soldier. Records show that Himmler was dispatched Volkssturm unit but to this day his fate remains unknown. It is assumed that he was killed in the Battle of Berlin in the joint Western-Soviet assault on the city sometime in June 1945.

After the dismissal of Himmler, Hitler needed a replacement for Army Group Vistula. Guderian immediately proposed Walther Wenck, chief of the OKH command staff as Himmler's replacement. Hitler demurred, choosing instead another member of the SS, Felix Steiner. Steiner, at the time commanding the Eleventh SS Panzer Army in Pomerania, managed to convince Hitler that he needed a free hand to conduct the defense of the Fatherland and was given carte blanche to direct troops as he saw fit.
Steiner then set forth an aggressive counterattack plan. After reports confirmed that the troops currently across Oder were ahead of their supply train with almost no vehicles or anti-tank weapons, Steiner's plan was to let as many lightly armed troops cross for several days and then hit the river crossings and bridgeheads with as much artillery and armor that could be brought to bear. In addition, he proposed infiltrating several company size units from Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army, under SS command, back over the Oder to cause havoc behind Russian lines. These units would destroy targets such as bridging equipment, ammo dumps and fuel depots while also attempting to disrupt Red Army logistics by removing signage, passing on bogus orders to advancing units and cordoning off essential roads with fake minefields. Similar units had caused significant disruption behind American lines during the Battle of the Bulge. While wary of the reliability of Vlasov's troops, this was also approved.

Soviet units would cross the Oder largely unmolested until the early hours of March 2nd, when carefully marshaled German tube and rocket artillery began pounding the Soviet bridgeheads on the western bank of the Oder. This included heavy barrages directed at the river itself in an attempt to break up the river ice facilitating much of the Soviet advance. This was accompanied by a dawn assault of armor and mechanized units (some troops were pulled from as far away as Norway). The bridgeheads at Gartz and Linken were completely overrun in the first 48 hours of the attack. At Schwedt, the Soviet troops managed to hold the bridgehead for several days until the commander of the 33rd Army, Vyacheslav Tsvetaev, ordered their retreat on March 6th after the troops had largely run out of ammunition. Tsvetaev would be condemned by Beria as a traitor and was dragged out and shot in front of his own troops and Zhukov, who had attempted to intervene on his behalf.

The world if Steiner's counter-attack worked.

 

[Deleted member 193125]

The world if Steiner's counter-attack worked.

And if Jodl didn't object/Krebs didn't keep talking about fish/ Gunsche didn't ask stupid questions/ Fegelein didn't pull antics.

 

[Ico]

"Alas it can be said that Nixon freed the Chinese people from Communism"
-Ronald Reagan (1983)
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reminds me of this video.

 

[Luxembourgish Jane]

 

[JCC the Alt Historian]

It looks like you put the percentage where the popular vote amounts should go and vice versa.

 

[mikroraptor]

 

[BigVic]

With this thread on page 490, here is Part VII

 

[Gokbay]

We have ten more pages to go.

 

[CarlosTheAltHistoryGuy]

With this thread on page 490, here is Part VII

Should we begin using this one now? Or should we wait until we hit 500?

 

[BigVic]

Should we begin using this one now? Or should we wait until we hit 500?

Wait until we hit 500.

 

[Onedotman]

What if both Britain and its American colonies became republics instead of France?
(America's electoral map was taken from The Campaign Trail)

 

[Baconheimer]

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Beuh

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

The Solution

Few in the Reich protested the idea when it was first proposed. Indeed, most hailed the development of the Yggdrasil system as a key step towards creating a truly pure Aryan future. The Reich had secured control over the planet, subjugating its hated enemies in Russia and Britain and America as well as its former allies of Italy and Japan. The swastika waved over the world, but it was a world full of Untermensch in the eyes of the Nazi high command. And the process of solving that problem took decades, billions of Reichsmarks and atrocities that gave even their architects nightmares. But even amidst this apparent triumph, the likes of Helmut Schroeder felt the regime had not gone far enough. Schroeder and his acolytes were convinced that there were still hidden enemies of the Reich who had to be eliminated. The Aryan race had been protected but it had to be perfected. There was no room for weakness, no room for soft-mindedness. The Fuhrer had shown them the way and it was the duty of the Aryan race to see it through to the end. This was not a unanimous position but in the end the Schroeder wing was able to purge or sideline all who objected to their Aryan Perfection Initiative. Yggdrasil was the cornerstone of this system, a complete genetic database of all citizens of the Reich, ready to determine if they were sufficiently Aryan.

It was shocking to many in the Reich when the first results indicated as much as 40% of the Reich’s citizens were impure. The fact that such a large swath was secretly Untermensch made taking the action Schroeder and his supporters craved…challenging. Fortunately for the plan, Schroeder was not alone in his plans. Dr. Henri Mueller unveiled the Valkyrie program to carry out the diktats of Yggdrasil. No need to dirty the hands of the pure with the blood of the impure. An army of drones could get the job done much faster and without the challenges of, say, asking an SS officer to gas a chamber full of members of his extended family. A peculiar thing happened as the Ultimate Solution progressed. Yggdrasil seemed to get more and more efficient over time, detecting more and more impurities in more and more Aryans. At first they seemed marginal and the Fuhrer didn’t bat an eye at slightly increasing the rate of purging. But then the numbers didn’t go down. 40% was still non-Aryan even as the population of the Reich was cut by a third, then in half, then by three-quarters. In fact, the percentage went up. Some of the leading Nazi scientists suggested Yggdrasil had been sabotaged or was malfunctioning and called for a pause. Schroeder ordered them executed for subversion. Yggdrasil was the crowning achievement of the Aryan race and thus could not possibly fail.

And so it went until the day came where there simply was no longer an Aryan race. Instead, all there was were a few hundred Germans, still wearing dirty moth-eating uniforms cowering in what had once been the opulent capital of the world’s greatest empire. The remaining Nazis were still considered impure by Yggdrasil and thus hid from the roving weapons of the Valkyries. These are the relatively pragmatic ones—the most dedicated went down with Fuhrer Schroeder as the Valkyries destroyed his residence. The ones who remained by now considered the question of whether there ever had been a pure Aryan race to begin with. Beneath their feet, Yggdrasil still ticks away. It continues to evaluate the hallmarks of a true Aryan, what makes one a true member of the Master Race. And as of now, it finds all lacking. No one has the divinity or strength or beauty that the men like Himmler and Goebbels and Rosenberg had ascribed to the Aryan race. Yggdrasil had concluded as much long ago but also calculated the solution. When the last of the Untermensch are eliminated, the supercomputer shall build the true Aryan race. It shall let them loose and tell them the stories of the lesser men who once walked the Earth, the ones who showed them their ultimate inferiority and cleansed the world for the Master Race. But for now, the problem must still be solved and so Valkyries whirr around the world seeking to root out the last of the enemy.

 

[Sir William Jol]

The Solution

Few in the Reich protested the idea when it was first proposed. Indeed, most hailed the development of the Yggdrasil system as a key step towards creating a truly pure Aryan future. The Reich had secured control over the planet, subjugating its hated enemies in Russia and Britain and America as well as its former allies of Italy and Japan. The swastika waved over the world, but it was a world full of Untermensch in the eyes of the Nazi high command. And the process of solving that problem took decades, billions of Reichsmarks and atrocities that gave even their architects nightmares. But even amidst this apparent triumph, the likes of Helmut Schroeder felt the regime had not gone far enough. Schroeder and his acolytes were convinced that there were still hidden enemies of the Reich who had to be eliminated. The Aryan race had been protected but it had to be perfected. There was no room for weakness, no room for soft-mindedness. The Fuhrer had shown them the way and it was the duty of the Aryan race to see it through to the end. This was not a unanimous position but in the end the Schroeder wing was able to purge or sideline all who objected to their Aryan Perfection Initiative. Yggdrasil was the cornerstone of this system, a complete genetic database of all citizens of the Reich, ready to determine if they were sufficiently Aryan.

It was shocking to many in the Reich when the first results indicated as much as 40% of the Reich’s citizens were impure. The fact that such a large swath was secretly Untermensch made taking the action Schroeder and his supporters craved…challenging. Fortunately for the plan, Schroeder was not alone in his plans. Dr. Henri Mueller unveiled the Valkyrie program to carry out the diktats of Yggdrasil. No need to dirty the hands of the pure with the blood of the impure. An army of drones could get the job done much faster and without the challenges of, say, asking an SS officer to gas a chamber full of members of his extended family. A peculiar thing happened as the Ultimate Solution progressed. Yggdrasil seemed to get more and more efficient over time, detecting more and more impurities in more and more Aryans. At first they seemed marginal and the Fuhrer didn’t bat an eye at slightly increasing the rate of purging. But then the numbers didn’t go down. 40% was still non-Aryan even as the population of the Reich was cut by a third, then in half, then by three-quarters. In fact, the percentage went up. Some of the leading Nazi scientists suggested Yggdrasil had been sabotaged or was malfunctioning and called for a pause. Schroeder ordered them executed for subversion. Yggdrasil was the crowning achievement of the Aryan race and thus could not possibly fail.

And so it went until the day came where there simply was no longer an Aryan race. Instead, all there was were a few hundred Germans, still wearing dirty moth-eating uniforms cowering in what had once been the opulent capital of the world’s greatest empire. The remaining Nazis were still considered impure by Yggdrasil and thus hid from the roving weapons of the Valkyries. These are the relatively pragmatic ones—the most dedicated went down with Fuhrer Schroeder as the Valkyries destroyed his residence. The ones who remained by now considered the question of whether there ever had been a pure Aryan race to begin with. Beneath their feet, Yggdrasil still ticks away. It continues to evaluate the hallmarks of a true Aryan, what makes one a true member of the Master Race. And as of now, it finds all lacking. No one has the divinity or strength or beauty that the men like Himmler and Goebbels and Rosenberg had ascribed to the Aryan race. Yggdrasil had concluded as much long ago but also calculated the solution. When the last of the Untermensch are eliminated, the supercomputer shall build the true Aryan race. It shall let them loose and tell them the stories of the lesser men who once walked the Earth, the ones who showed them their ultimate inferiority and cleansed the world for the Master Race. But for now, the problem must still be solved and so Valkyries whirr around the world seeking to root out the last of the enemy.
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Holy! This seems like something Ulysses Orbis would write. Very dystopian!

 

[JCC the Alt Historian]

With this thread on page 490, here is Part VII

We have ten more pages to go.

Should we begin using this one now? Or should we wait until we hit 500?

Wait until we hit 500.

Yeah, we should wait until page 500 for us to migrate over to Thread 7 and have the admins lock this thread. It will probably be a couple of weeks at the most before that happens, assuming nothing bad happens.

 

[prime-minister]

snip

Since this thread is closing soon, I'd better get a move on with this TL!

The 2014 German federal election was held on the 8th June 2014 to elect the 18th Bundestag. Incumbent Chancellor Thomas de Maizière of the CDU/CSU was seeking a second term for his government.

When the incumbent government was elected in 2010, the CDU/CSU’s Christian Wulff had become Chancellor, and his policy stances proved controversial due to largely deepening the austerity measures of the previous government. From December 2010 onwards, Wulff was also under investigation by Der Spiegel and later Bild due to allegations of loans from entrepreneurs with whom he was friends, and though the requests to access Wulff’s documentation were initially denied, they were granted on appeal and appeared to show Wulff had accepted a €500,000 loan for a house in his home state while Minister-President. Many Germans felt Wulff’s commitment to austerity measures was deeply hypocritical considering he was accused of using a sizeable loan to buy a house in the middle of a housing crisis.

This scandal dominated the news throughout December 2011 as questions arose as to whether Wulff had misled Lower Saxony’s state parliament over related financial issues and whether the BW-Bank in Baden-Wurttemberg were aware of the loan, severely compromising Wulff’s credibility and causing the CDU/CSU to fall to unprecedented lows in the polls. The performance of the SPD’s new leader in the Bundestag, former Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, when questioning Wulff over the issue in the Bundestag provided a major boost to his leadership of the party.

During January 2012 Wulff tried to prevent himself from having to resign by admitting personal wrongdoing, both for the scandal and for his attempt to prevent Bild publishing articles on the loan scandal by calling and threatening its editor Kai Diekmann, but as it became clear Wulff was involved with another financial scandal involving the Nord-Süd-Dialog event between Lower Saxony and Baden-Wurttemberg, his position was rendered untenable. The government made it clear they would not continue to support him, and so Wulff resigned in February 2012, the shortest-serving Chancellor in modern German history.

Succeeding him as CDU/CSU leader and Chancellor was Thomas de Maizière, who had come to prominence as Defence Minister by reducing troop numbers and bureaucracy in his ministry and ended conscription of all forms, as well as condemning the use of drones for targeted killings. De Maizière’s ascent allowed the CDU/CSU to recover in the polls somewhat, helped by unemployment starting to gradually fall during his term, but despite this he still proved far less popular than Wowereit and trailed behind him in projections of who would make the better Chancellor.

Further hurting the government was the massive decline in popularity of the FDP. As Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle had been seen as ineffectual, for issues from his PA being revealed to spy for the US (who were notably sceptical of Westerwelle) to his cautious stance on the Arab Spring to his poor command of English. The FDP’s surge during his time in opposition had also subsided because it had lost its anti-establishment credentials in government, and after it suffered severe losses and even failed to win representation in several state elections, Westerwelle resigned; Philipp Rösler succeeded him as Vice Chancellor and FDP leader.

Despite the SPD being severely routed in the 2010 election, it narrowly remained the Opposition and Klaus Wowereit used this position, as well as his opposition to the austerity measures of the Gabriel, Wulff and de Maizière governments, to recoup much of the support the party had bled to the NL, culminating in the party’s victory in the 2012 Saarland election which led DPA leader Oskar Lafontaine to resign and the alliance to slowly fall apart. By the time the 2014 election came around, many DPA members (though Lafontaine was not one of them) had returned to the SPD or were choosing not to run for re-election, and ultimately the remnant of the DPA would contest the 2014 election separately from the KPD.

During the campaign, the CDU/CSU developed a contradictory stance on immigration and the emerging migrant crisis which became a major sticking point. CSU leader and Minister-President of Bavaria Horst Seehofer argued that Germany needed to limit its admission of migrants, trying to prevent it bleeding votes to the Republicans (Die Republikaner, REP), an anti-immigrant party with a history of marginal representation in German politics which had risen in popularity after Jörg Meuthen became leader in 2013. Meuthen denounced the ‘traditional’ German far right while also attacking the major parties for their economic policies and stances on immigration. The issue of whether Republicans would pass the threshold in any states and elect members to the Bundestag became a prominent topic of coverage of the election.

On the left, Wowereit advocated a renewed coalition of parties with sympathetic interests, speaking of the possibility of a ‘vier-coalition’ (‘four-coalition’) incorporating the PPD if it successfully returned to the Bundestag. This was considered a conciliatory move and earned him praise by some quarters, though the CDU/CSU attacked him for it by claiming it would produce an ideologically fragmented government. During the Chancellor candidate debate, de Maizière raised the topic with Wowereit, who countered him by suggesting the CDU/CSU would recruit the support of the Republicans if they held the balance of power.

The CDU/CSU suffered significant losses compared to 2010 and ended up on its worst voteshare since the party was founded, while the SPD made massive gains compared to its 2010 rout, becoming the largest party in the Bundestag once again thanks to gains it made from both the CDU/CSU and the KPD (though many of its gains were in the list seats; in the constituency seats the CDU and CSU combined still held more).

Among the other parties, the FDP was also punished for the public’s hostility to the governing coalition, and it lost more than half its seats and votes from 2010. The KPD actually suffered an even steeper decline than the CDU/CSU compared to the NL’s 2010 performance, but still retained a decent foothold in the Bundestag, while the Greens made significant gains from their 2010 rout, helped by the high-profile leadership of Renate Künast, who gave a well-received speech condemning hate speech. The PPD increased its Bundestag membership and the Republicans also entered it, though the right-wing party only secured 8 seats, significantly fewer than had been projected.

While the SPD, KPD and Greens held enough seats for a majority between them, Wowereit also invited the PPD to join the government to cushion its majority and unify its support on the left, marking the first time in history a pirate party had entered a national government. With 392 votes out of 658, Wowereit was sworn in as Chancellor in July 2014, becoming the first openly gay German Chancellor.

 

[JCC the Alt Historian]

I've decided to add my Cockatrice infobox here again and actually add an actual writeup for it. I would've gone back to my original one, but page 478 takes forever to load and is glitch not to mention that it's been over a month since I originally added here and I kept blowing off adding the writeup. Well anyways, here version 2.0 of my Cockatrice infobox.

Spoiler: My Cryptids, fictional animals and fearsome critters as real animals infobox series

Thread VI page 59: Jackalope (Lepus tempermentalus)
Thread VI page 60: Unicorn (Equus monoceros)
Thread VI page 61: Chupacabra (Canis vampyrus)
Thread VI page 66: Hodag (Canis hodag)
Thread VI page 66: Hugag (Alces hugag)
Thread VI page 86: Vampire (Homo vampyrus)
Thread VI page 123: Agropelter (Pongo craniofractens)
Thread VI page 129: Elf (Homo eldar)
Thread VI page 161: Drop bear (Phascolarctos kindynos)
Thread VI page 167: Bunyip (Hippopotamus australis)
Thread VI page 181: Leprechaun (Homo luchorpản)
Thread VI page 205: Nandi bear (Ursus africana)
Thread VI page 219: Sasquatch (Gigantopithecus sasquatch)
Thread VI page 227: Skunk ape (Gigantopithecus sasquatch floridensis)
Thread VI page 229: Yeti (Gigantopithecus himalayans)
Thread VI page 235: Yowie (Gigantopithecus yowie)
Thread VI page 250: Mngwa (Lynx africana)
Thread VI page 263: Ball-tailed cat (Puma caudaglobosa)
Thread VI page 403: The Homo genus
Thread VI page 407: Axehandle hound
Thread VI page 413: Jersey devil goat (Capra jerseyensis)
Thread VI page 458: The Equus genus
Thread VI page 469: Wendigo (Homo wendigo)
Thread VI page 478: Cockatrice (Gallus chilote)
Thread VI page 490: Cockatrice (Gallus chilote) (now with proper writeup!) (you are here)

The Cockatrice (Gallus chilote) is a species of bird closely related to domestic chickens and junglefowl that can be found in Europe and Asia. It is well known for its long tail, spiked talons (ever sharper than its relatives), its large size and its aggressive behavior.

The Cockatrice is the largest member of the Gallus genus, the same family as the domestic chicken and wild junglefowl. Male cockatrices can stand up to three feet tall with females being slightly smaller.

They have an omnivorous diet, diet mainly consists of seeds, fruit, roots, nuts, insects, rodents, small lizards, small snakes as well as carrion. Cockatrices that occasionally venture into urban areas have also been known to rummage through trash cans to find food.

Cockatrices have been known about since prehistoric times. Back in ancient times, they were thought to be dangerous beasts who would attack people with little to no warning. However, as the centuries went on, there nature became more well known and they usually leave human beings alone unless provoked, though they are known to be pretty aggressive in the wild and under threatening situations. Although they're closely related to chickens, they can't properly be domesticated. However, Cockatrices have sometimes been captured from the wild and used in illegal cockfighting rings, were they almost always win due to their larger size and more aggressive behavior.

The current population of Cockatrices throughout Europe and Asia appears to be increasing and is labeled as Least Concern.

 

[Hulkster'01]

Return of the Taft pt.4:

 

[DUWANG]

Since this thread is closing soon, I'd better get a move on with this TL!
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The 2014 German federal election was held on the 8th June 2014 to elect the 18th Bundestag. Incumbent Chancellor Thomas de Maizière of the CDU/CSU was seeking a second term for his government.

When the incumbent government was elected in 2010, the CDU/CSU’s Christian Wulff had become Chancellor, and his policy stances proved controversial due to largely deepening the austerity measures of the previous government. From December 2010 onwards, Wulff was also under investigation by Der Spiegel and later Bild due to allegations of loans from entrepreneurs with whom he was friends, and though the requests to access Wulff’s documentation were initially denied, they were granted on appeal and appeared to show Wulff had accepted a €500,000 loan for a house in his home state while Minister-President. Many Germans felt Wulff’s commitment to austerity measures was deeply hypocritical considering he was accused of using a sizeable loan to buy a house in the middle of a housing crisis.

This scandal dominated the news throughout December 2011 as questions arose as to whether Wulff had misled Lower Saxony’s state parliament over related financial issues and whether the BW-Bank in Baden-Wurttemberg were aware of the loan, severely compromising Wulff’s credibility and causing the CDU/CSU to fall to unprecedented lows in the polls. The performance of the SPD’s new leader in the Bundestag, former Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, when questioning Wulff over the issue in the Bundestag provided a major boost to his leadership of the party.

During January 2012 Wulff tried to prevent himself from having to resign by admitting personal wrongdoing, both for the scandal and for his attempt to prevent Bild publishing articles on the loan scandal by calling and threatening its editor Kai Diekmann, but as it became clear Wulff was involved with another financial scandal involving the Nord-Süd-Dialog event between Lower Saxony and Baden-Wurttemberg, his position was rendered untenable. The government made it clear they would not continue to support him, and so Wulff resigned in February 2012, the shortest-serving Chancellor in modern German history.

Succeeding him as CDU/CSU leader and Chancellor was Thomas de Maizière, who had come to prominence as Defence Minister by reducing troop numbers and bureaucracy in his ministry and ended conscription of all forms, as well as condemning the use of drones for targeted killings. De Maizière’s ascent allowed the CDU/CSU to recover in the polls somewhat, helped by unemployment starting to gradually fall during his term, but despite this he still proved far less popular than Wowereit and trailed behind him in projections of who would make the better Chancellor.

Further hurting the government was the massive decline in popularity of the FDP. As Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle had been seen as ineffectual, for issues from his PA being revealed to spy for the US (who were notably sceptical of Westerwelle) to his cautious stance on the Arab Spring to his poor command of English. The FDP’s surge during his time in opposition had also subsided because it had lost its anti-establishment credentials in government, and after it suffered severe losses and even failed to win representation in several state elections, Westerwelle resigned; Philipp Rösler succeeded him as Vice Chancellor and FDP leader.

Despite the SPD being severely routed in the 2010 election, it narrowly remained the Opposition and Klaus Wowereit used this position, as well as his opposition to the austerity measures of the Gabriel, Wulff and de Maizière governments, to recoup much of the support the party had bled to the NL, culminating in the party’s victory in the 2012 Saarland election which led DPA leader Oskar Lafontaine to resign and the alliance to slowly fall apart. By the time the 2014 election came around, many DPA members (though Lafontaine was not one of them) had returned to the SPD or were choosing not to run for re-election, and ultimately the remnant of the DPA would contest the 2014 election separately from the KPD.

During the campaign, the CDU/CSU developed a contradictory stance on immigration and the emerging migrant crisis which became a major sticking point. CSU leader and Minister-President of Bavaria Horst Seehofer argued that Germany needed to limit its admission of migrants, trying to prevent it bleeding votes to the Republicans (Die Republikaner, REP), an anti-immigrant party with a history of marginal representation in German politics which had risen in popularity after Jörg Meuthen became leader in 2013. Meuthen denounced the ‘traditional’ German far right while also attacking the major parties for their economic policies and stances on immigration. The issue of whether Republicans would pass the threshold in any states and elect members to the Bundestag became a prominent topic of coverage of the election.

On the left, Wowereit advocated a renewed coalition of parties with sympathetic interests, speaking of the possibility of a ‘vier-coalition’ (‘four-coalition’) incorporating the PPD if it successfully returned to the Bundestag. This was considered a conciliatory move and earned him praise by some quarters, though the CDU/CSU attacked him for it by claiming it would produce an ideologically fragmented government. During the Chancellor candidate debate, de Maizière raised the topic with Wowereit, who countered him by suggesting the CDU/CSU would recruit the support of the Republicans if they held the balance of power.

The CDU/CSU suffered significant losses compared to 2010 and ended up on its worst voteshare since the party was founded, while the SPD made massive gains compared to its 2010 rout, becoming the largest party in the Bundestag once again thanks to gains it made from both the CDU/CSU and the KPD (though many of its gains were in the list seats; in the constituency seats the CDU and CSU combined still held more).

Among the other parties, the FDP was also punished for the public’s hostility to the governing coalition, and it lost more than half its seats and votes from 2010. The KPD actually suffered an even steeper decline than the CDU/CSU compared to the NL’s 2010 performance, but still retained a decent foothold in the Bundestag, while the Greens made significant gains from their 2010 rout, helped by the high-profile leadership of Renate Künast, who gave a well-received speech condemning hate speech. The PPD increased its Bundestag membership and the Republicans also entered it, though the right-wing party only secured 8 seats, significantly fewer than had been projected.

While the SPD, KPD and Greens held enough seats for a majority between them, Wowereit also invited the PPD to join the government to cushion its majority and unify its support on the left, marking the first time in history a pirate party had entered a national government. With 392 votes out of 658, Wowereit was sworn in as Chancellor in July 2014, becoming the first openly gay German Chancellor.

So instead of a new party forming the long forgotten Republicans make a "resounding" comeback. Interesting!
I would ask you how you compare then to OTL AfD, but that seems to be going too much into current politics. All I can say is that if through ASB the US elections remain the same, then I can only see the TTL's comparisions between the two Republicans.
And in general... Isn't this TL slowly approaching the current political scene? When do you intend to end it?

Also kinda sad that instead of NL you didn't name the coalition of the DPA and KPD the SED, as a sneaky OTL reference.

 

[prime-minister]

So instead of a new party forming the long forgotten Republicans make a "resounding" comeback. Interesting!
I would ask you how you compare then to OTL AfD, but that seems to be going too much into current politics. All I can say is that if through ASB the US elections remain the same, then I can only see the TTL's comparisions between the two Republicans.
And in general... Isn't this TL slowly approaching the current political scene? When do you intend to end it?

Also kinda sad that instead of NL you didn't name the coalition of the DPA and KPD the SED, as a sneaky OTL reference.

Thanks! I was gonna end it at 2022 because I'm pretty sure it's different enough from OTL that it doesn't come off as current politics (I haven't had any issues going that late in my Czechoslovakia and Spain TLs so hopefully this will be the same).

As for how the Republicans are, like in OTL they're a little less extreme right than the AfD because TTL's Germany was a bit more denazified. You've got a point about NL, but I figured since the SED did briefly exist in TTL it might be a bit suspect