I decided to do a bit of a redux. For now I'll concentrate on replacing leaders only.
Germany
Adolf Hitler/Adenoid Hynkel(The Great Dictator)
Heinrich Himmler/Heinrich Kemmler(The Dresden Files)
Hermann Goring/Goring Herring(The Great Dictator)
Konrad Adenauer/Wilhelm Klink(Hogan’s Heroes)
Wilhelm Pieck/Freder Frederson(Metropolis)
Gunther Von Kluge/Johann Schmidt(Marvel Comics)
Augustus Von Mackensen/Baron Friedrich Munchausen(Baron Münchhausen)
Wilhelm II/The Inca of Perusalem(The Inca of Perusalem)
Wilhelm III/Friedrich I(Richard III adaptation)
Victoria/Snow White(Based on 1937 Snow White)
History
In the past, Germany was made up of several tribes which resisted Roman Rule(The name Germany comes from Germania, a term for non-Roman). In the Middle Ages, the land was populated by independent Kingdoms, the most famous of which is likely that of Schneewittchen(Snow White), who was cursed into a deep sleep by the evil Queen Grimhilde. There are also tales of the Witch Frau Totenkinder, who lured children to her home made of candy. These Kingdoms were folded into the Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne. Then the temporally displaced town of Grantville was transported from North America in 2000 to the year 1632 into the heart of the Holy Roman Empire and went on to form the United States of Europe(1632) which would eventually be dissolved by Napoleon when he conquered most of Europe. By this point all of the future inhabitants had died out and the technology had become more widespread. Germany was united under Otto Von Bludiron(Meccania, the Super State), defeating France in 1871 and cementing its status as a world power.
Germany suffered only limited damage from the 1898 Mollusc Invasion, but regardless was among the main powers along with Britain, America and Japan, to fund an expedition to Mars in order to enact revenge, led by inventor William Hattison(Thomas Edison’s Conquest of Mars, replacing Edison with Hattison from a Conspiracy of Millionaires). The invasion injured and killed Martian races that were not involved in the invasion such as the Sorn and Barsoomians. The force was defeated by stranded Earth Man John Carter, who revealed to Hattison and the expedition that the Molluscs were not native to Mars and had in fact invaded and been driven off Mars by Carter’s forces before attacking Earth(League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Mars: The Home Front). Hattison was returned to Earth defeated.
Without a common enemy, and now with more advanced technology, tensions grew between the Earth Bound nations. Germany was the first to break the piece in 1901 when it invaded US territories demanding an end to the Martin Doctrine(Alt-Monroe Doctrine named after Benjamin Martin from The Patriot instead of James Monroe). The attack was badly timed as President Henry Fleming was assassinated and succeeded by Vice President John Norton(Mocked as “Heeza Liar”, by his critics, a name he adopted). Germany devastated the East Coast, bombing New York while Japan, which had conquered China( American Propaganda portrayed the invasion with China and Japan as allies), attacked the West Coast including destroying San Francisco. Germany was pushed out of America while Japan was defeated when The floating City of Columbia, which had declared its independence from the US in 1898, joined the war on the US side in order to fight the “Foreign Hordes”. In Europe, Berlin was devastated by Britain and France, who also saw devastation In London and Paris. Germany was forced to capitulate after the death of invasion leader Prince Karl Albert. As part of the reparations, Germany rebuilt New York into the City of Metropolis, a futuristic city designed by Engineer Karl Rotwang, who also rebuilt Berlin into a similar city. Germany would go on to fight in the Great War in 1914 and be humiliated in the treaty of Versailles.
In 1927, the abused workers of the Berlin-Metropolis rose up to overthrow the cruel government, among them Adenoid Hynkel, who usurped the role of the leader of the Worker’s Party from Freder Frederson, a member of the elite class who gained sympathy for the working class. After the revolution his relations were discovered and he was removed from power.
Leader Info:
Adenoid Hynkel(The Great Dictator)
Our swap out for Hitler. Hynkel was born in 1888 as Adenoid Shickelgruber before changing his name. Due to the machinations of the cult of Oliver Haddo, known as the Seven, he was conceived on the night of the first Jack the Ripper murder. The ritual led to a being known as the Broodseven-Sub-Two-Raksha entering his body. As a child a time traveller abducted him and leaped into a river while his parents were away. However, the nanny stole an infant from a poor jewish woman and passed it off as the real Adenoid before his parents returned and this became the one known to history, while the original Adenoid survived, being adopted when the woman was found dead but the infant alive, growing up to be a Jewish barber. The Broodseven-Sub-Two-Raksha leaped bodies back to the new “Hynkel”. Hynkel’s jewish origins and the identical jewish stranger would be at risk of exposure on several occasions. Hynkel, as a youth wanted to be a painter but was turned down many times. A friend of his, Jenny Sparks, suggested he try going into politics. After serving in World War I, Hynkel joined the Nazi party, which had been infiltrated by the Brotherhood of the Lamb, of which two of Hynkel's lieutenants, Kemmler and Garbitch, were members. Hynkel would seize power along with other workers following the 1927 Metropolis uprisings and he would rise to replace party leader Freder Frederson as "The Fooey" in 1934. Hynkel's rise to power is said to be influenced by the Broodseven-Sub-Two-Raksha and the use of a microphone which was actually an SCP that allowed the speaker's voice to control those listening to it.
Canonically, Hynkel allies himself with Benzino Napaloni of Italy and Emperor Yoshiro of Japan. He has various ploys, including an effort to place Aviator Ted Scott in power in the US. In 1939, he invaded Arztozka, starting World War II. He also made a pact with Fearless Leader of the Soviet Union. In 1940, Hynkel was briefly replaced by a jewish look alike, buying time for many to escape his wrath, including the Von Tapp family. Hynkel as the war raged on became more and more paranoid, relying on secret projects like the Ubersoldier program, summoning saxon warlord Heinrich I, searches for the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail, Nuclear Bomb technology from Ixania, and the extermination of Concentration Camp prisoners to fuel a ritual to mind control the Norse Pantheon. Hynkel has shrugged off many assassination attempts such as Operation: Valkyrie and one which appeared to succeed by the Inglorious Basterds destroying a theatre playing the Propaganda film Nation's Pride, but seemed to have been a double supplied by his magical ally Grindelwald.
It is unclear how Hynkel died. He is said to have retreated to a bunker, and gone insane, ranting about strange things which he'd viewed from the future. He is also believed to have retreated to Mandoras with other Nazis. American Sergeant Frank Rock, and the vigilante Batman are said to have tracked him down there and killed him, discovering he was actually the Devil, though this was possibly a Demon illusion. He is also alleged to have waged a secret occult war until his death at the hands of Hellboy in 1952. Some accounts say his brain was saved after this, or that he acted as a supervillain leading the Knights of Nordica under the name "The Hate Monger" until his death. These accounts may have some truth to them as Dieter Vogel was revealed to have been cloning Hynkel until this was stopped in 1975. It is generally believed Hynkel died by at least 1974 as the Broodseven-Sub Two-Raksha had left his body by then and did not inhabit a clone.
Hynkel's influence is still felt today. The 1968 broadway smash hit Springtime for Hynkel became a success despite its subject matter. In 2003, German Chancellor Martin Shormann let in six million jews back into Germany to make up for the Holocaust committed by Hynkel, and in 2011, Hynkel somehow returned to life and attempted to become the leader of the European Union.
Heinrich Kemmler
Kemmler is a very powerful sorcerer. Something taken from both the Dresden Files and Warhammer 40k(which features a necromancer named Kemmler, though that would be a future setting here). Kemmler here was finally defeated by a massive magical army in 1961 with a group consisting of Albus Dumbledore, Yen Sid, Prospero, the Watcher's Council, Hellboy, the SCP Foundation, the White Council and others. This is due to The Dresden Files making it clear that he is one of the most powerful Necromancers of all time and so it would understandably take a lot of power to take him down. Fortunately in this altered setting he is not nearly as powerful yet, allowing him to be killed just a bit easier.
Hermann Herring(The Great Dictator)
Not much to say as he has a brief appearance. We can assume he is simply Goring under a different name.
Wilhelm Klink(Hogan’s Heroes)
As mentioned before the idea of making Klink the democratic leader comes from a way to justify how Klink is portrayed in crossovers, such as his cameo in the 66' Batman series and The Simpsons were Homer has been sending him letters. Therefore he took a "Know nothing" approach.
Freder Frederson(Metropolis)
Frederson is from Fritz Lang's Metropolis. His inclusion makes that film's ending a Pyrhic Victory. In the film, he is a member of the upper Class, the son of the the City's master Joh Frederson. He lives a hedonistic life until he sees the struggling poor workers and falls in love with one of them, a girl named Maria. After sneaking below in disguise and taking the place of a worker. Their cause becomes his cause. However, the film implies he will serve as a mediator to the government and the workers. In Universe, his backstory is both an advantage and a disadvantage. He was born a member of the wealthy class, so he is criticized for this, but at the same time he has also worked alongside the working class. Here he is roped into the Communist side due to his Pro Worker's affiliation. He has been removed from power by Hynkel's rise as the new leader of the Worker's party, now the Nazi party and seeks to reclaim his old position as he does not trust Hynkel.
Gunther Von Kluge/Johann Schmidt(Marvel Comics)
Schmidt was a bellhop in a hotel when Hynkel visited and vowed to turn a random employee into the greatest weapon the Nazis had, dissatisfied with the then current efforts of Nazi scientists to create super soldiers. As it happens Schmidt was a very dangerous man. His face transformed by an experimental super soldier serum created by Dr.Abraham Erskine. Schmidt now plans to overthrow Hynkel. In the Canon, Schmidt follows his MCU counterpart a bit more closely than his comic counterpart.
Augustus Von Mackensen/Baron Friedrich Munchausen(Baron Münchhausen)
Baron Munchausen, based on the exaggerated tall tales of a real figure's military service during the Russo-Turkish War, the fictional Munchausen has ridden on a flying cannonball, travelled to the Moon, and been swallowed by Sea Monsters multiple times. He has also in one account been granted immortality, as well as being known to have cheated death multiple times. He even according to one account encountered an Astronaut on the Moon. However immortal he may be, it's possible, for someone in search of him, to find him, and recruit his help in overthrowing Hynkel. Should he succeed, he's unlikely to remain in power and would sooner give it up to go on more adventures. Munchausen was chosen because Mackensen has a type of "Awesome meme presence" with his Prussian outfit, distinctive hat, and mustache. Munchausen is the closest fictional character I could think of. He's an old Prussian(even more so since he's hundreds of years old). Has a nice hat, a moustache, and does insane things all the time.
Wilhelm II/The Inca of Perusalem(The Inca of Perusalem)
in 1901, Germany attempted to invade the United States. Despite the death of President Henry Fleming and assumption of the Presidency by John Norton, Germany was defeated and in the aftermath, the Kaiser was removed from power, replaced with Wilhelm III as a puppet ruler. No one quite knows what became of Wilhelm II after he lost his position, but it seems that he travelled to the nation of Parador and to the long standing Incan civilization(Which in this setting due to the inclusion of Tremaire, repelled the Conquistadors with Dragons).Possibly giving into madness, he returned as the self proclaimed Inca of Perusalem. Remaining a powerful figure, Wilhelm II may just make his long awaited comeback. He is represented visually by Christopher Plummer, who plays him in the film The Exception.
Wilhelm III/Friedrich I(Richard III adaptation)
The former Puppet Kaiser, Wilhelm III is now in the same boat as his father. However, he intends to mount a return to power. While he originally wished to take the name of Wilhelm III like his father, the perceived shame to the family has changed his mind. He now wishes to be known as Friedrich I. This is likely due to Frederick the Great having an unknown stand in replacing him. Because Wilhelm III lacks much Fictional presence, fantasy casting, specifically Ian McKellen's Richard III, which shifts the Shakespeare play to 1930's Fascist Britain with Nazi iconography, is used here. It's another "Third" and evokes his "German Puppet King" status.
Victoria/Snow White(Based on 1937 Snow White)
The daughter of Queen Victoria and the Princess of Germany. While she would have been named after her mother, instead she was named after a Medieval Princess famous for being placed under a curse and awoken by the kiss of a Prince. She is quite popular in Germany and even Hynkel is a fan of her, often seen drawing her during meetings. Also I think she should be included for the Joke value alone. Who wouldn't want to be able to say, they won World War II as Snow White? She is a reference to how Disney’s Snow White was immensely popular in Nazi Germany with Hitler being a big fan and doodling the characters as mentioned.
