Die Wacht am Rhein - A Kaiserreich TL

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Nikolai Bukharin

(October 9, 1888 - May 2, 1968)

Prime Minister of Russia

(January 17, 1936 - April 16, 1936)

President of Russia

(April 16, 1936 - March 8, 1937)

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

(March 8, 1937 - May 2, 1968)

Alexandra Kollontai

(March 31, 1872 - March 9, 1952)

People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs

(April 16, 1936 - March 9, 1952)

Sergey Kirov

(March 27, 1886 - November 11, 1981)

People's Commissar of Economy

(April 16, 1936 - April 19, 1944)

Mikhail Frunze

(February 2, 1885 - September 14, 1966)

Chairman of the Soviets

(April 19, 1937 - April 18, 1945)

Leader of the All-Union Communist Party

(April 19, 1937 - April 18, 1945)

Member of the Political Bureau of Fourth Internationale

(April 18, 1945 - September 14, 1966)​

 

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Wilhelm II
(January 27, 1859 – June 4, 1941)

Emperor of Germany
(June 15, 1888 - June 4, 1941)

Man of the 20th century, third emperor of Germany. He presided over German conduct of the First and Second Weltkrieg, defeated France twice, helped to advance his country into the world's most powerful nation with the largest army, largest air forces and largest navy. Considered as the greatest German of all time.

Failed to prevent Russia from falling into a Syndicalist camp.

Wilhelm III
(May 6, 1882 – July 20, 1951)

Emperor of Germany
(June 4, 1941 - July 20, 1951)

Son of Wilhelm II. In his early reign, a Peace with Honour was signed with the Union of Britain (1942). After sinking of SS Kaiser Wilhelm (considered by syndicalists as a false flag operation), he renewed offensive on May 1, 1945. He is known for issuing direct orger for the German Strategic Air Forces to drop a nuclear warhead on the city of Dover and invade place with paratroopers and marines - which is considered as a direct cause of radiation poisoning among them and increasing rate of cancer among Britischkorps veterans.

During his reign, German Marinekorps invaded Australasian Confederation (syndicalist since 1936)

During his reign, Kaiser Wilhelm was launched into space as a first artificial satellite of Earth (September 2, 1950).

Wilhelm IV
(July 4, 1906 - February 21, 1994)

Emperor of Germany
(July 20, 1951 - February 21, 1994)

Franz von Papen
(October 29, 1879 – May 2, 1969)

Chancellor of Germany

(August 3, 1934 - March 8, 1937)

His immediate actions following the Black Monday and economic depression helped to deregulate some sectors of economy and introduced more small and medium companies to the German empire.

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck

(March 20, 1870 – March 9, 1964)

Chancellor of Germany

(March 8, 1937 - March 8, 1957)

Known as the second Bismarck (or Bismarck known as "early Lettow-Vorbeck"). Was appointed as a Reichskanzler by Wiilhelm II, Wilhelm III and Wilhelm IV to governments of coalition between National Liberal Party, German Conservative Party and Zentrum (elections of 1937, 1942, 1952) and the Grand Reform Coalition between SPD, FVP, NLP (election of 1947).

During his tenure in power, Reichstag voted in favour of the Kaiserbund Program - division of Mittelafrika colonial state into smaller, native countries ruled semi-independently by local, German-educated African leaders with Kaiser as a head of state, German interference into foreign policy and army. (1942)

Resigned after twenty years, when coalition of SDP and FVP won general election of 1957. His direct successor was Herbert Frahm of SDP.

He had supervised naval invasions on British Isles, Ireland and Australia, launching the first satellite into space (1948) and man into space (1952).

In his early reign, he ordered German troops to invade France (after French invasion of Switzerland), then recalled the order following diplomatic ultimatum to Paris government.

Greatly sponsored development of technology - jet and rocket propulsions, solar and wind power, nuclear warships, nuclear space propulsion and atomic power plants.​

 

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Werner Heisenberg

(December 5, 1901 – 1 February 1976)

Chairman of the Imperial Institute of Nuclear Physics

(March 9, 1939 - March 11, 1976)

Supervised German atomic program and subsequent creation of nuclear bombs (1944).

Wernher von Braun

(March 23, 1912 - October 11, 1977)

Chief Designer of the Imperial Air Forces Institute of Rocket Propulsion

(September 2, 1939 - October 11, 1977)

Supervised development of rocketry, responsible for the launch of first ballistic missile (1938), first ballistic missile used by the military (1945 - V-4 rockets used against London), first space satellite, first manned spacecraft and German lunar landing.

Heinrich Himmler

(October 7, 1900 - January 21, 1994)

Founder of Himmler Fried Chicken

German businessman known for founding fast food chicken restaurant chain.

Hermann von Göring

(January 12, 1893 - November 14, 1977)

Statthalter of Mittelafrika

(March 29, 1928 - December 24, 1944)

Minister of Defence

(March 8, 1947 - March 8, 1952)

Herbert Matare

(September 22, 1912 – September 2, 2011)

Chairman of the Matare-Welker Electronics

(November 4, 1945 - September 2, 2011)

Created first transistor. (1941)​

 

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Albert Lebrun

(August 29, 1871 – March 6, 1950)

President of the Fourth French Republic

(August 19, 1939 - March 6, 1950)

Pierre Laval

(June 28, 1883 - August 11, 1961)

Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic

(August 19, 1939 - December 24, 1952)​

 

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Louis Ferdinand von Preussen

(November 9, 1907 – September 26, 1994)

King of England

(May 21, 1945 - September 26, 1994)

Winston Churchill

(November 30, 1874 - January 26, 1965)

Prime Minister of England

(May 21, 1945 - January 26, 1965)​

 

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John Reed

(October 22, 1887 - October 7, 1942)

President of the United States

(January 21, 1937 - March 15, 1937)

President of the Combined Syndicates of America

(March 15, 1937 - October 7, 1942)

Norman Thomas

(November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968)

Secretary of the Continental Chamber of Syndicates

(November 7, 1938 - October 7, 1942)

President of the Combined Syndicates of America
(January 20, 1945 - January 21, 1953)
Acting:
(October 7, 1942 - January 20, 1945)

Carlo Tresca

(March 9, 1879 - February 2, 1952)

Secretary of the Continental Chamber of Syndicates

(October 7, 1942 - February 2, 1952)

Max Schachtman

(September 10, 1904 – November 4, 1972)

Secretary of the Continental Chamber of Syndicates

(February 2, 1952 - October 27, 1962)​

 

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French police clashes with workers' and students' demonstration in Paris (May 1968).

More than twenty years after Second Weltkrieg, French population dissatisfied with capitalism, overreaching German influences and social conservative authoritarian governments took over Paris, proclaimed withdrawal from Mitteleuropa and asked both Combined Syndicates of American and the Union of Soviets for help. French government failed to suppress revolution - by May 1968 national economy was brought to halt by general strike, loyalist police officers were lynched, German citizens were either expelled or harrassed. Some parts of military switched sides. Inability to cointain syndicalist rebellion caused nationalist government of Germany to crush it. 500,000 soldiers, 1,200 aircraft, 1,600 tanks, 25 aircraft carriers, 40 battleships (most of them from the First Weltkrieg) and 10 battlecruisers were used to suppress demonstration and perform a show of force against anyone who could be rebellious.​

 

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Swiss Mountain Infantry patrol in the Alps.

On February 14, 1937 pro-French socialists won local election in Romandy, a French-speaking region of Switzerland. New local governments were disbanded by national government to prevent Communard infiltration of state legislatures. Commune of France issued direct ultimatum to allow elected governments to work and to held local plebiscite about possibility of joining France. There was no response - Swiss government mobilized 850,000 soldiers (February 17) and began preparations for a defensive war. Two days later, Red Army of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' crossed the border and attacked Swiss garrisons, followed by a German ultimatum, which had forced them to withdraw on February 18. 656 Frenchmen and 45 Swiss were killed during first two days of a war.

Switzerland later provided assistance to Germany during invasion on France.​

 

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Bismarcksplanet, photographed by Kaiserin Cecilie zu Mecklenburg space probe conducting Grand Tour since 1977.

Bismarcksplanet was discovered by a German nationalist scientist affiliated with Alldeutsche Verband on 1929 and named after Otto von Bismarck, first German Reichskanzler.​

 

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Soviet tanks before battle of Vladivostok (1938)

Resurgent Russian state under Bukharin and the Kollontai invaded Republic of Transamur, starting the Second Russo-Japanese War. Within a week after invasion, capital city of Transamur fell to the Soviet Mechanized Forces, conducting the first Deep Battle Operation in the world. After a month, whole Fengtian Republic and Japanese province of Korea would be occupied.

588th Bomber Regiment, operated by all-female staff, spraying poison gas over Japanese infantry during the battle of Harbin. (1938)

Soviet forces in Harbin (1938).
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African American trade unionist being lynched by the American Unionist Legion (1939)

Shortly after end of the Second American Civil War, disgruntled white supremacists in the South formed an American Unionist Legion, to oppose any attempt of syndicalism in the United States. Legion would be eradicated during a Second Southern Operation perpetrated by the American People's Liberation Army between 1940 and 1944.

White supremacists in the Combined Syndicates of America planning their infamous Atlanta coup d'etat of 1968. (1968)

Soviet soldiers posing before McDonald Syndicate advertisement. (1984)

Wonder Woman (2018)

American movie made by the Chicago Fantasy Film Syndicate. Depicts Wonder Woman, a comic character from 1950s, fighting against evil and corrupted authoritarian government of fictional city in America, while liberating people from opression. Her creator modelled her after women fighters that were conscripted by Reed government during the Second American Civil War, most notably Jane Wyman - Lt. General, who executed Huey Long on October 14, 1938.

Natasha Krupskaya - Soviet Wonder Woman fighting against misogynist Empire of the Rising Sun. Based on a 1950s science fiction novel under same title. (2019)​

 

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Last Days of Huey Long (2016)

Lt. General of the American People's Liberation Army Jane Wyman (Hayley Atwell) executes Huey Long, dictator of the American Union State. Movie depicts last days of the American Civil Wars - bloody siege of New Orleans - last stronghold of American anti-Syndicalist forces. Lt. General Jane Wyman disobeyed her direct orders from her superior officer and directly led assault on the Presidential Palace, where she shot Long six times and executed every inhabitant of the Palace. With a resurgence of American gun-loving sentiments and growing feminism, she had become a popular hero for millions Americans.​

 

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French Communard trenches (1939)

Failure of Flanders-Wallonie Strategic Offensive and German Race to the Sea forced Jacobin government to conscript as many men and women as possible to stop the counterattack. Kaiserliche Armee encountered strong resistance from Syndicalist fighters composed from the Union of Britain's conscripts and volunteers from across the world. At the beginning of the war, both sides expected a quick victory - Communards pushed their tanks through Flanders Wallonie to invade Rheinland and ignite socialist uprising, while German counterattacked them and seized Northern France. Battle of France ended after six months, when German forces conducted offensive on the whole frontline, inflicted massive casualties and occupied whole country after rapid Blitzkrieg campaign. Two million French and one million German soldiers died due to Battle of France.​

 

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Former princess Elizabeth of Windsor in a labour camp in Canadian Union of Syndicates - a CSA puppet state that arose on 1945 after American-Canadian War.

Elizabeth of Windsor was re-educated in a system of labour corrective camps across Canada, spending ten years in Vancouver Labour Prison No. 1, Quebec Correction Camp No. 4 and Ottawa Re-education Camp. On 1956 she began work as in textile industry, three years later she was elected as a Syndicate's representative for the Canadian Trade Union Congress, which she led from 1968 to 1972 as a figurehead for Reformist wing inside the Congress.​

 

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Romanov princes worked to death by Nikolai Bukharin's regime in the Siberian Punitive State-Owned Farms.​

 

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Diana Spencer

Following American conquest of Canada, noble titles were abolished. Diana Spencer, daughter of Lord Spencer is notable supporter of the reformist wing inside the Trade Union Congress.
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George H.W Bush

Son of the People's Commissar of Planned Parenthood, GHW joined People's Liberation Air Forces and volunteered to join expeditionary forces in Indochina, where he was captured by Mongolians.

Combined Syndicates of America supported Jacobin People's Republic of Vietnam, State of Red Cambodia and Laotian Alliance of Syndicates during their struggle against German puppet government ruling the land since 1942. Between 1959 and 1968, war was conducted by local syndicalist forces against German Asienkorps and their Askaris troops. Since 1968, quagmire expanded - Soviets provided direct assistance in form of military supplies, tank, trucks, rifles, ammunition and artillery guns, Combined Syndicates of America started airstrikes against pro-German positions and blockaded main cities' ports while Greater Mongolian Empire sent ground troops to start their own campaign against Syndicalism.

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Japanese tank during battle of Batavia (1941)

After lost war against the Soviet Union, Japanese Empire fell into the hands of expansionist, nationalist regime that started rapid industrialization of the Home Islands, militarization of society and aggressive war to establish new Peace under the Sun in Asia. Phillippines, left without protection after American Civil War, were the first target for Japanese war machine, followed by Dutch East Indies (weakened by the loss of mainland Netherlands to the syndicalist revolution) and Legation Cities in China. Empire of India, that arose after Princely Federation defeated both Delhi and Communard regimes, was defeated in the long war of 1943-1947. All these regions were made into puppet states, ruled by the Japanese Emperor with some rights to autonomy.​

 

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Genghis Khan II (Roman von Ungern-Sternberg)

(January 22, 1886 - March 5, 1953)

Dictator of Mongolia
(March 13, 1921 - May 14, 1921)

Khagan of Mongolia
(May 14, 1921 - November 7, 1936)

Emperor of Mongolians
(November 7, 1936 - March 5, 1953)

Genghis Khan II, supported by Japanese Empire due to mutual fear of social revolution that was happening in the Republic of Russia during spring 1936, conquered China (except Legation Cities seized by Japanese and Manchuria seized by Soviets), transformed backward state of Mongolia into industrialized country through massive state intervention, "campaigns" to eradicate poverty, unemployment and poorness through conscription of millions Chinese to build state infrastructure, factories, ports and cities. During his bloody reign (he had caused approximately 70-100 million deaths), he was heavily supported by the German Empire (which lost their colonial possesions in China due to Chinese republican Revolution of 1936) with military and economic advisors, equipment, engineers and great amount of money to counter Soviet influence in the area.​

 

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Kempetai officers.

Secret police of the Imperial Japanese Army was reinforced by the National Populist government in early 1940s. Dreaded force would has right to arrest any civillian or army officer, torture to gain any credbile information and - in case of war - execute those who were deemed as treasonous. In occupied territory, Kempetai took part in various genocides to eradicate people deemed as unnecessary to the New Asian Order and even assisted Mad Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg in his infamous "campaigns". Since 1950s, their activities on the Home Islands has been overtaken by the Imperial Japanese State Security Commission and limited to the occupied territories.

Indochinese children trained by Imperial Japanese Army officers. (1944)

Japanese government authorized local IJA garrisons to train young generation of Indonesians, hoping to create a more loyal population of the puppet state.

Hideki Tojo in Manila (1942)

Shortly after fall of Manila, Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo arrived in the city, to sign a peace treaty with Phillippines government. Second Republic was established as a puppet state of the Japanese Empire and quickly joined the New Asian Order. Following disastrous end of the Second Russo-Japanese War, democratic government fell and was replaced by the Imperial Way faction formed to achieve Showa Restoration through abolition of democracy, formation of fascist, militaristic state, modernization of military, state intervention in economy, collaboration with the largest Zaibatsu cartels and unification of all Japanese under One Party, One Prime Minister and One Emperor. With the help from Germans, Imperialists were able to fund their activities and lift Japan from post-war recession.​