Monarchy restored in Germany in 1928

Kaiser Louis Frederick meets with the British Monarch and the British Prime Minister during a Historic visit to Great Britain in 1929. The Kaiser manages to get the British to agree to changes to the Peace treaty and assistance of the British government in talks wi Poland and Czechoslovkia. In addition the new government has carried out economic reforms that have lead to better employment in Germany. With the Kaiser's rising popularity and that of the new chancellor the Nazi party's chances decline drastically.
 
The World of the late 1920's has seen the restoration of the Germany monarchy. Unforunatly it appears that Europe has fallen into Chaos as Belgium is on the verge of a nasty civil war between the Wallons and the Flemish. At the sametime Yugoslavia has fallen into disorder and it appears likely to move to a nast war in the Balkans unless something is Done .
 
The crisis in Europe seems to have allowed Germany to re-emerge to a leadership role now that Louis Frederick is the Kaiser. The German monarch has been trying to achieve better relation with Czechoslovkia, Poland and Austria. Germany has been trying to and suceeding in establishing strong economic and military relationships with the Baltic states.
 

Glen

Moderator
Perhaps, but may I remind everyone that the year following the restoration there's the crash of 1929...not to mention Hitler's massive support, most of which he got after 1929...and at their height the SA had nearly 3 million men (not sure)...more than the Reichswehr (100,000) and the Freikorps, of which the strongest had about 500,000 at its peak...

And that's without considering the influential Social Democratic Party and the Communist revolutionaries...

Now lets say Hindenburg, the Junkers, the conservatives, the Military-Industrial Complex and the Right-Wing Freikorps support this, with the SPD, the KPD and the NSDAP opposing...

We either get a civil war or a left wing Nazi Revolution led by Rohm's SA...


Now, if we can get Crown Prince Wilhelm in front of a Harzburger front in 1932 instead of this idea...well, just sayin'...


A king might have been a rallying point for mainstream conservatives who wanted to ban the paramilitary forces like the Nazis....
 

Glen

Moderator
The World of the late 1920's has seen the restoration of the Germany monarchy. Unforunatly it appears that Europe has fallen into Chaos as Belgium is on the verge of a nasty civil war between the Wallons and the Flemish. At the sametime Yugoslavia has fallen into disorder and it appears likely to move to a nast war in the Balkans unless something is Done .

Why these Walloon/Flemish and Yugoslav butterflies?:confused:
 

Glen

Moderator
The crisis in Europe seems to have allowed Germany to re-emerge to a leadership role now that Louis Frederick is the Kaiser. The German monarch has been trying to achieve better relation with Czechoslovkia, Poland and Austria. Germany has been trying to and suceeding in establishing strong economic and military relationships with the Baltic states.

And how will Louis Frederick deal with the Polish Corridor? That's going to be a real sticking point....
 
The only way to deal with the Key question of Danzig and regaining access to it would be to gain British support for this. The Poles also would have to be asured that they would have acess to receiving good from the sea at Danzig without a German Blockade. An agreement regarding the threat facing Poland from the east might also of be help.
 
As a result of Louis Frederick becoming Kaiser and the modification of the peace traty's terms the Great Depression does not hit europe as hard as it did in OTL. The German government procedes to do a number of public works projects during the period and as a result unemployment is far less reducing the apeal of the right and left wing parties.
 
The German government opens talks with Poland to resolve all of the issues which divide the two countrys. Also invited to the talks are representives from Czechoslovkia, Luithania, Romania Great Britain and Sweden. The talks make progress on the Polish corridor question and it appears that border questions are likely to be resolved with Czechoslovkia. A larger conference is called for to deal with all of the border problems caused as a result of World War I's peace terms.
 
The conference has managed to settle territorial disputes between Czechoslovkia ,Austria, Hungary and Germany. The Polish Corridor question is almost resolve by the creation of a free trade zone in Danzig. The land will be restored to Germany but the Poles will be allowed to set up busineses within the territory which will be regulated by a joint German-Polish Commission.
 
As a rersult of the conference relations with Czechoslovkia began to see a mark improvement and it appeared that the border adjustments that were made did help to settle a lot of the unhappyness between states. The Polish question appeared to have been resolve enough to allow both sides to claim victory. Trade between Poland and Germany began to grow as did talks concerning the threat from the Soviet Union.
 
Louis Frederick goes to Romania to visit his cousins(the Romanian Monarchy) and begin to a relationship with that country. Romania 's concerns are two fold Hungary and the even larger threat the Soviet Union. Germany has the ability to improve Romania's military in return for oil at a special price. This will also benefit Germany's armament industry as jos will be created and better weapons will be available to arm the ne improved Imperial German Army.
 
As the 1930's start Germany has made a great deal of progress. There has been adjustments to the peace terms which ended world war I and German foreign policy has been quite successful in once again achiving a balance not seen since Bismarck was Chancellor. Germany has managed to neutralize the threat from France and to turn the French alliance system on its head. Trade and relations with Austria , Czechoslovkia, Romania and even Poland has grown. The Depression that threaten the world proven to be far milder as a result of changes made on the political and economic front. Still as 1932 approaches there will be new elections for the Reichstag. It appears that there may well be a new Chancellor but with the collapse of the Nazi party and the deaths of Adolph Hitler and Himmler there will be no threat from there.
 
The election of 1932 say the election of the youthful politican from Cologne. Corad A was the leader of the conservative Christain-Democrats. Louis Frederick acknowledged him as the new Chancellor and approved his proposals to modernise the german state. A new naval agreement was being ironed out with Great Britain, which would allow the serious rebuilding of the Imperial navy. The old predreanought were to be scrapped and replaced by a limited new battlefleet. This construction program would stimulate the shipbuilding industry and provide more jobs.
 
Germany has emerged from the shadow of World War one and has re-emerged as a power once again in europe. The German government has started to rebuild the once powerful military machine. Agreements with Great Britain have allowed it to start on its navy but in reality the Imperial army is actually far stronger than the treaty limits with an actual strength of over 250,000. Germany has sought to strengthen its position in the east by argeements with the Baltic states and Finland to the North. In fact it may be that a prince from one of the German states may become the new Finnish Monarch. With improved relationships with Poland and Czechoslovkia Germany is in a better position to deal with the French on a more even basis. Secretly the German General staff has been training a new reserve force that would allow the Heer to expand fairly quickly from its current 250,000 to more than five times that amount. Rearmament is underway.
 
Among the foreign policy questions that needed to be dealt with is the Question of Austria. The German government is left with two possibilities to support an indepent Austrian Kingdom or encourage the annexation of Austria within the German Empire. If this happens then Germany will have to deal with the Tyrol question and the return of heavily populated German territiories to the German National state. On the other hand it could support and enlarged Austria at the expense of Yugoslavia and Italy.
 
The question of Austria was one that had struck a cord within the German state dating back to the 19th century when there was competition between Austria and Prussia over who would lead Germany. Some elements of the Geman parliament wanted to annex Austria thus uniting all German speaking people within one nation. The Kaiser however did not want to force the Austrian people and preferred that they would vote on the question of annexation. Some believed that the House of Hapsburg would be too weak to lead the nation state.
 
A decision to annex Austria was made after a careful study that it would benefit both the German and Austrian people. Thus at * am on March 26,1937 elements of the German army entered Austria without any opposition from Austrian forces. These frorces did not occupy Austrian cities or towns but proceeded to the border areas with Italy , Yugoslavia ,Hungary and Czechoslovkia. Germany demanded that Italy return ethnic German areas and hope to get them back peacefully.
 
Thus as the 1930s progress Germany has re-emerged as a major European power. It has absorded Austria and secured its borders with its neighbors. The German Military has grown steadily and it is now capable of dealing with any threat to the state. The question is who would germany seek a relationship with and what countries would it consider as a possible threat to it. It would seem that there are three countries that would concern Germany: France, Italy and Russia.
 
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