Das Dritte Reich: Deutschland's Letzte Gelegenheit

Still decided whever.


1) British isles are invaded? Preferably, with Scotland and Wales obtaining independence and Irland reclaiming its legitimate lands. :cool:

2) WW2 ends with atomic bombs dropped on New York, by the Valkyrie bomber strike force?

3) A 3 way cold war between capitalism, communism and true democracy? Preferably, where the Japanese Empire and its professional warcrimers supported by the US in the name of freedoom.
 
Does anyone besides me think that Communist China is shaped like a giraffe? It also is shaped like a brontosaurus;at least I think so. Does anyone else agree?

Wishing you well, his majesty,
The Scandinavian Emperor

I think it does looks more like a squirrel, like this:
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Well, we're sorry for this long delay in actual posts in the thread, but hopefully we'll be able to post soon again. There has been a lot of change since the TL stopped being posted here, though, so I recommend looking up Chapters 2 and 3 on the website.
 
Sorry for the lack of updates in the last time, but we'll do something about that in the near future. For those of you who haven't noticed, Korporal and I have restarted the TL on his website (http://dasdrittereich.weebly.com/), so for those of you who haven't read it I recommend going there and reading everything. And either way, we're going to jump ahead in the TL a bit; this is quite a bit after the war.

The Resignation of Per Albin Hansson:

On the 21st of May, 1948, Per Albin Hansson announces that he is resigning from his position both as Prime Minister of Sweden and as leader of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Socialdemokratiska arbetarpartiet, or SAP). The Prime Minister is only 62 years old, but still wishes to live out the rest of his life in peace. He will retain both these positions until the new Second Chamber is elected, which is scheduled to happen in September of the same year.

The party congress of the SAP, which is held in July, elects Östen Undén, a law professor and former arbitrator at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, to lead the party. Undén is one year younger than Hansson, and served under him as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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Östen Undén, new leader of the SAP.

Swedish general election, 1948:

On the 19th of September, 1948, there is a general election in Sweden. The Social Democrats, led by Undén since Hansson's resignation, are expected to win the election; however, with the disappearance of their beloved wartime leader, they are not expected to do as well as in 1944, when they secured a majority on their own in the lower house, and were able to form a single-party government. The opposition consists of the Liberal People's Party (led by Bertil Ohlin), who made up the largest minority in the last election, the conservatives of the Rightist Party (led by Fritiof Domö) and the Agrarian League (led by Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp), who are very popular in the Finnish provinces.

The election results are, as expected, a plurality, but not a majority, for the SAP. They score 43% of the vote, with the Agrarians as the second largest group (securing 17% of the vote). The SAP, although lacking a majority (and therefore lacking a majority of seats in the parliament), decide to form a government on their own, again with Undén as Prime Minister. However, since the Communists are expected to vote largely the same way as the SAP, the Undén II government (as it becomes known) is confident that they will be able to get their propositions voted through in the Riksdag.
 
Operation Steel Eagle:

The RDS-1 test caused widespread concerns among the Reichswehr, as Germany was now no longer the sole atomic power of the world. As such, on September 14, 1949, the Reichswehr initiates Operation Steel Eagle (Unternehmen Stahladler), a program to develop a flight-tended intercontinental ballistic missile. General Walther Wever is placed in command of the programme, and within a month, tests are started at the military launch site outside Cuxhaven. Initially, the tests use A-4 rockets, but it is soon agreed that that model had fulfilled its potential and would need to be replaced by a large model. Several high-level military contractors (including Fieseler, Messerschmitt and Junkers) are called in to make design ideas, and in the end the Messerschmitt design is chosen. It is labeled the A-6, and soon becomes known among the people working on it as "die Silberzigarre" ("the silver cigar") because of its unusual oblong shape and its initial colour, which is soon dropped in favour of a black checkerboard pattern, which allows for easy calculation of speed based on video recordings.

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Walther Wever.

The rocket is first tested at Cuxhaven on February 9 of the following year, and the test goes swimmingly, as do several others over the following months. Soon, the decision is made to test it with nuclear weapons once a properly empty location can be found. They later decide upon the desert of French Chad, and after some negotiations with the French government they are allowed to lease a portion of land large enough for a military base and a blast range of 500 kilometres. After building a makeshift base in the allotted space, the Germans launch their first nuclear-armed missile on August 22, and the result is a resounding success and a great victory for Germany.

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The crater left after the nuclear explosion.

The following day, newspapers across the world carry pictures of the blast, and millions of people find out about the deadliness of this new weapon. The shock only deepens as scientists across the world theorise about the consequences of a nation having the power to send terror and death to so great an area within just a few hours.
 
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