Britain post Nazi victory in the East

hammo1j

Donor
This thread pre-supposes the Dunkirk evacuation was hampered by unusually rough seas. The nazi panzers closed in and British casualties were 30,000 before 250,000 prisoners were taken.

A truce was negotiated granting Britain her Empire and the Nazis a free hand in Europe. Without Western support the Soviet Union fell, and Hitler's plans of Lebensraum for the German people were realized.

It is now 1968, six years after Hitler's death. Germany is fighting a proxy war with the United States in Venezuela and the new Fuhrer is seeing rapprochement with the British League of Nations...


We were landing in Kiev. I put down my book: "Stratagems of Adolf Hitler". It was required reading at Sandhurst in the same way that, Hannibal or Cromwell, or any other successful military commander was. Whether you agreed or disagreed with the man you could not not acknowledge his achievements: an empire that stretched to France in the West, Norway in the North or to the Ostwall in the East.

Detente between our two nations had offered the first possibilities of exchange. The officer cadet exchange programme was an opportunity for a normalisation of relations.

Kurt had visited my home town two months ago, and now he was about to repay the favour as I walked down the gantry.

He was there on the tarmac, fully resplendent in SS uniform.
 

hammo1j

Donor
When I had met him at Heathrow and taken him onto a bus driven by a West Indian driver, I had taken the drop in his sang-froid to be a result of his innate racism.

But now I realised it may have just been dispair at the mode of transport: the old charabang with its bony seats.

A sumptuous leather seat in a V12 was on offer as the super obidient chaffeur opened the door. I sensed an almost crippled personality in the driver like a lost and beaten old man.

It ate the black asphalt. On either side golden corn stretched to infinity.

"Once again Ukraine is the breadbasket of the world." Kurt intoned. "I think you will find that your colony, India has benefited from German ingenuity."

I had wondered about the rumour that India had benefited from cheap wheat from Germania.

"India is not our colony. It ranks in the second tier of the British league of nations and is expected soon to deliver itself into the premier nations."

"As the old saying goes: be careful what you wish for "

We had turned off now and were heading up an enormous driveway.
 
So, standard Dominion treatment for India? This will go well, the UK will need every possible ally to withstand the new European situation, and India will contribute a lot.

How are Italy and North Africa going?
 

hammo1j

Donor
The family agreed I should wear my uniform to the dinner in my honour in the banqueting room of this vast Roman villa.

My father had only agreed to the exchange provided Kurt wore civilian clothes.
"No one in this town wants to see a preening Nazi."

He had been taken prisoner when a Ju88 had sunk his minesweeper in the channel. He had been treated well, and in the general amnesty had returned to the navy.

The war in the Pacific had been savage but for some reason he reserved his spite for the original sins of the Nazis. At playtime in school it was always the Japanese we fought.

A flannel on my uniform had resolved most of my creases. Still, compared to the splendour of the house, I felt a little out of place.
 

hammo1j

Donor
So, standard Dominion treatment for India? This will go well, the UK will need every possible ally to withstand the new European situation, and India will contribute a lot.

How are Italy and North Africa going?
India gets aid from the Uk and troops to prevent the tribal massacres though there will still be a split along religious lines.

Ironically the UK is no longer bankrupted and has the wherewithal to help its league
 
India gets aid from the Uk and troops to prevent the tribal massacres though there will still be a split along religious lines.
Is China and Pakistan allied with Germany? Why does India need British troops and aid when it didn't need any Foreign help in otl ?
 

Marc

Donor
Yes, and sadly 10 Million Jews with no one to stop them.

That goes without saying, and is often blithely ignored with the focus on the dash and elan of a triumphant Third Reich. However, the extinction of an entire nation like Poland is bit harder for even the most indifferent leaders of Britain, etc. to hand wave away.
But that doesn't seem to deter these kind of supposings - without even a nod to the dark side.
 

hammo1j

Donor
I could not believe there were 10 Children. I met them in the banqueting hall. The youngest must have been 2 and I went down the line trying not to register lust for the older girls who were blonde and attractive.

At last I met the sow that had laid this litter and I expected to see a breeding machine that had sagged under the strain, but instead saw an attractive 40 something that still functioned as a human.

"Ah, the English sniper." Kurt's father offered his left hand. A veteran of the Eastern conflict, the right arm of his uniform flopped down, empty.

"We could have done with you in Moscow."
"1941, I enquired?"
"No, we had taken the city by then, but there were renegades you could have cleared."
"What happened?"
"A bow and poisoned tipped arrow. I was returned to the homeland, but it knawed away and I lost the arm.
"I wanted to return but the infection was ferocious. When I had it beat, in the Autumn of 42, the war was all over."
 

hammo1j

Donor
My father had taken Kurt to the local Chinese.

It was quite the delicacy around Weston-super-Mare where we lived. He had drunk a lot of the Tsing Sao before he raised the question.

"At New York International airport, I saw the book: "The Missing Ten Million". It is proscribed in this country, but I nether-the-less purchased a copy and I have placed the copy on your pillow to see if it jogs your conscience."

I had seen the paperback in Dad's bookcase. It seems an unusual offering with its exotic fonts. There were thin deposits of photos in the normal strata of the printed page.

Almost comical pictures of grotesque bug eyed humans in stripey pajamas...
 

hammo1j

Donor
My mother apologised profusely in the morning. "I'm sorry Kurt he gets like this."
Kurt smiled politely without forgiving her.

"I stayed up all night reading that book. How could I not?
"I acknowledge that these could be pictures: that time was difficult for us all.
But ten million of deaths. Why there were only 400,000 Jews in Western Europe.

"We gave them every opportunity to return to their biblical homeland, now they are your problem in Palestine"

My Elder Sister was an MP in Palestine. She hated the Jews regarding them as a disruptive element.

Terrorists she called them.
 
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