Alfred Rosenberg (1892-?)
Alfred Rosenberg served as a second lieutenant in the White Army, under the command of Colonel Max Erwin von Schneubner-Richter, a fellow Baltic German, who despite his First Great War service in the Imperial German Army, returned to Russia to fight for the White Army. Both men shared a vile fascination with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, especially those of Socialist/revolutionary flavors, along with other secondary prejudices such as Islamaphobia and the Yellow Peril, and the belief that the "Indo-European master races" had the natural right to rule the world. After the Romanov victory, von Schneuber-Richter arranged for Rosenberg to join the Foreign Section of the Okhrana.
Rosenberg seemed destined to fester in mid level bureaucratic mediocrity, if not for a chance meeting with General Pyotr Wrangel at a war veteran reception. While Wrangel personally held a deep aristocratic contempt for Actionism, Rosenberg's sentiments about uniting the Indo-European peoples to fight "Jewish capital and revolution" were also held by the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter and brother to the late Tsars Nicolai II and Alexander IV. Wrangel arranged an audience between the Grand Duchess and the engineering student. Anastasia became Rosenberg's patron as he rose through the ranks of the Okhrana, becoming Director of Foreign Section Departments II and III, the Okhrana Departments respectively responsible for Germany and Austria-Hungary, in 1931.
The Great Depression found fertile grounds for Imperial Russian subversion, especially in eastern Poland, Prussian provinces east of the Oder, Hungary (Anastasia had issued a proclamation declaring the Magyars to be honorary Indo-Europeans), Romania, Bohemia and the Sudetenland. Surreptitiously Russian controlled newspapers and radios swarmed east and central European audiences with venomous attacks and fake news against the large corporations, socialists, Freemasons, atheists, Muslims, Romani, and above all, Jews. Rosenberg also acted as the conduit between Anastasia and disaffected German nobles, chief among them Prince August Wilhelm, the fourth son of the Kaiser, and managed Russian relations with far right and Actionist political parties, including the German Fatherland National Party (DVNP), the Agarian League, Polish National Democrats, the Magyar Arrow Cross, Iron Guard in Romania, the Czech Vlajka and Sudeten Young German Bund.
Angered by the 1936 Pogroms in Russia that murdered 10,000 Jews, Herschel Greenspan assassinated the Grand Duchess Tatiana in Nuremberg at the 1937 DVNP rally. Anastasia and Tsar Michael directed Rosenberg to conduct a wave a terror bombings against Jewish and socialist targets in Germany. Prince August Wilhelm had a final falling out with his father over the former's sympathy for the Russian position, as well as the German government's belated crackdown on volkisch terrorism, and the Prince went on a six month long world tour before going into exile in Saint Petersburg.
Upon the outbreak of the Second Great War, Rosenberg's years of plotting bore a terrible fruit, as waves of far right sabotage terrorism swept across Germany, Austria-Hungary, Poland, the Baltics and Ukraine. Prince August Wilhelm was declared the Teutonic Grand Duke of Prussia, and installed in 1942 by General von Ungern-Sternberg in East Prussia as the head of a puppet government. The Teutonic Grand Duke was supported by volkisch militants, the dispossessed lower middle class, Junkers impoverished by mass bankruptcies and actionists, who would rather fight for Indo-European brotherhood against the "Jewish socialist yoke", instead of staying true to the "puppet Kaiser". Upon the capture of Brest, Congress Poland was declared restored and the National Democrats massacred the city's Jewish population and Polish government officials.
Rosenberg's crowning achievement was the July Days of Prague in 1942. Konrad Heinlein, the fugitive leader of the Sudeten Young German Bund, launched simultaneous uprisings in Reichenberg and Pilsen on the morning of July 3rd, 1942. At the same time, Lieutenant General Emanuel Moravec, commander of the KuK forces in Prague, declared for the Romanovs and launched an attack on Prague Castle to capture the Austro-Hungarian Prime Minister Benes and Minister of War von Trapp. Scrambling onto an armored train that blasted and rammed its way past Moravec's barrels, Benes and von Trapp barely escaped to Slovakia. It took the diversion of two German Group Armies, three Polish divisions and five weeks for Austria-Hungary to crush the Bohemian-Sudeten Uprising).
In the end, Rosenberg's hateful machine of subversion and mass terror could not avert the defeat of Imperial Russia on the Eastern Front. The collaborationist formations proved to be worthless in pitched combat, the Imperial Jan Sobieski Grenadiers Mechanized Division was routed from its fortifications by a Polish regiment from a division of the same appellation. Teutonic Grand Ducal troops fared even worse in battle. By November 1943, Imperial Russia and its puppet collaborator governments had all been chased from "redeemed soil".
The fate of Rosenberg himself is still unknown to this day. His last confirmed sighting was on September 1944 in Kazan, ruling out his death in the earlier atomic bombing of Saint Petersburg. While the Grand Duchess Anastasia was handed over in 1949 by Zhukov's government, along with collaborators like Heinlein and Moravec, to all be hung for crimes against humanity or high treason, the Russian republican government denied all knowledge as to Rosenberg's whereabouts. Most historians do not think it likely that Rosenberg followed the example of the Grand Teutonic Duke in taking his life. Unverified sightings and rumors still filtered in from the 1950s to 1980s from around the world, though concentrated in South Africa, Argentina and Australia.
Regardless of his final disposition, Rosenberg left a terrible legacy of hate, division subversion and violence, in deep societal scars across eastern Germany, Poland, and northeastern Austria-Hungary, as brothers raised the flag of treason and Freedomism, to fight brother. His reputation for omnipresent evil, though somewhat exaggerated in popular culture, can be seen in villains such as the Orange Skull, the Mouth of Sauron and SPECTRE.