Louis Frederick calls Berlin Conference

As A result of the Stalin War of 1938 in January of 1939 the Kaiser after consulting with the chancellor called for a conference to be held in Berlinn in 1939.
Invited were all of Europe's monarchs-the Kaiser's cousin King George VI,Queen of the Netherlands, Belgian King, Kings of Greece,Italy,Bulgaria,Romania,Norway,Sweden,Finland,Ukraine,Denmark,Hungary,Polnand and several monarchs from the smaller states. Also invited were the french President and the Austrian Chancellor.

At the last minute the Czechoslovkian President was added to the list.

The topic to be discussed was the recent war in the east and the European response to it. Norway seemed to feel that the situtation was resolved and didn't impact its security. Sweden expressed some concern about the recent Soviet war but did not want to stir up a hornets nest,Finland expressed a desire for guarantees for its security as well as that of the Baltic states.
The Finnish Prime Minister expressed a need for a position to be taken regarding the St Petersburg enclave, which had grown population wise as a result of White Russians fleeing Belorussia.

Germany, Austria and Czechoslovkia all held talks concerning the borders and the large ethnic german population living in the Studenantland and some progress was made on the issue.

Germany annonced a Second Naval agreement with Great Britain.
Germany had also begun the next phase of its Military expansion.
 
The purpose of the Conference was from the German point of view to see where the nations of Europe stood on the issues. Germany had gone through a rebuilding phase after the restoration of the Monarchy.

It had also thrown off the restrictions placed on it after WWI with regard to the size of its military and what armaments it would have. The German army had steadily grown. German relations with Poland had been slow to improve but with no Polish Corridor in this time line things had never grown as tense.
In 1928 German had built its first new capital ship the Battlecruiser Vietmeyer. It was armed with 8-12 inch guns and represented the first major capital ship to be built. Since then three pocketbattleships, 2 additional battlecruisers and several cruisers had been added. The battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz were under construction as was the Aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin. While the Imperial Navy was expanding there were no plans to build it into the size that the Kaisers Grandfather had during the last war.
Indeed, there seemed to be more of an effort to modernize the army. The lessons of Stalin's war were that the tank was an important weapon. The light tanks Pzkpf I and II were regarded ar too light in view of that and a serious upgrade of the Pzkpf III's armament had been ordered. Even the Pzkpf IV was to be rearmed with a more powerful 75mm gun.

Poland had moved to start production of the 14TP tank and had begun work on the 25 TP in view of the threat from the Soviets. Already a number of the old MG armed tanks were to be converted into SP gun platforms. The 37mm ATG would need to be replaced with a more powerful weapon and as a stop gap measure the Poles were going to try mounting the Polish verison of the French 75mm gun on the tanks.
The Ukranians were seeking to buy tanks and artillery from the west. It had produced copies of the Soviet BT7 tank as well as Ukranian verisons of the 45mm ATG but it needed better weapons.

Czechoslovkia had been producing it's new T-38 tank but it could see that it might need to begin work on a much heavier tank. Romania had expressed an interest in buying more of the Czech tanks for its army.

France had just signed a deal to sell Poland 100 of it R-35 tank, 100 fighter plans and some of the new 47mm ATGs.
 
The Conference was not the great success that the Kaiser had hoped it to be. It appeared that Europe was still divided upon what should be done about the recent war in the east. Still tensions between Poland and Germany had been eased as King Stefan and Kaiser Louis Frederick agreed that the USSR might resume hostilities.

It appeared that Italy and Yugoslavia were moving toward a seriious diplomatic incident. The Italians had had claims against Yugoslavia since the end of the First World War. It appeared that Mussolini was secretly supporting a Croatian independence movement. He was also seeking Bulgarian aid to end Yugoslavia. So far the French and British had check that move but the recent failure of the British government to act in the east was seen by the Italians as a lack of resolve. Thus Italy prepared to make its move by causing the outbreak of war in Yugoslavia that would require Italian intervention to restore peace.
 
While Germany had played host to the largest European gathering since before WWI it had been not the great success that the Kaiser and Chancellor had hoped for.

Instead of an agreement on the key issues of the time the European leaders seemed to unable to agree on much of anything. In a secret briefing the Kaiser was informed that it appeared that Yugoslavia was about to explode into chaos as a result of Italian actions seeking to dismember that country. It appeared that the Bulgarians would join the Italian in a territorial grab. Intelligence had also pointed to the fact that the Soviets might very well launch another land grab operation aginst either one of three places: Ukranie, Poland or the St Petersburg Zone.
 
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