Photos from The Thousand Week Reich
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A russian armored car supressing a communist protest in buryatia during a period of economic downturn, 1999.
The asian economic crash of 1997 caused many asian nation such as korea (which was hit the hardest),japan,thailand,indonesia and the russian republic. Although the RR was quick to regain it foothold the western part of the country especially buryatia was still experiencing the economic downturn causing many to riot in the street especially in cities such as chitta where after a mass of rioter attacked a group of riot police the military was called in to supress it, fortunately going in the 2000s the RR was able to bring itself out of the crisis (even though they just manage to do it just barely wirh example being the exhange rate of the ruble to dollar is still low)
SS men near Zurich following a resistance attack on a fuel dump, 1949. The Swiss resistance was relentless in their efforts to undermine German rule, with propaganda regarding a 'blood kinship' between the two peoples being firmly rejected by the Swiss. Many Heer and SS soldiers serving in Switzerland privately derided Hitler's assessment of the Swiss as being 'a nation of hotel keepers,' their private journals detailing a never-ending campaign of bombings and assassinations aimed toward any viable targets.
A militia in Korea's South Hamgyong Province, 1950. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, armed militia bands terrorized affluent landowners who escaped repercussions for collaborating with the Japanese during the occupation of the peninsula. The public at large was apathetic to the situation, with many seeing it as just punishment for decades of profiting off the suffering of the average Korean. Those former collaborators who supported the Rhee regime could expect a decent measure of protection for themselves and their property, though this did not completely deter attacks by rural militia bands.
A peasant in Anhui Province criticizing a landlord before gathered members of the community, 1949. Vice President Chen Cheng, understanding that a large part of communism's appeal with China's peasants lay with the idea of land reform and lessening the power of landlords, encouraged a less extreme version of what the CCP intended to carry in the Chinese countryside. Throughout rural mainland China and Taiwan, rent prices were drastically reduced and abusive landlords were put through criticism sessions where their tenants would air grievances. The share of land owned by peasants was also vastly increased.
A Wehrmacht outdated Stug tank advances into Kiew during the second German civil war.
With the defeat of the Nazi government, chancellor Speidel set his eyes towards the former colonies in the east who had broken free. The SS colony of Gotenland had successfully captured Ukraine and the Caucasus and was about to launch an offensive into the Belarus by the time Speidel began his campaign east. By the time the baltics and Muscovy had been secured, both sides met and Heydrich offered to return to Crimea and return all other colonies to the government, but Speidel pressed for the formal abolition and dissolution of the SS. This conflict led the negocitations to break down and the second German civil war to erupt.
The second civil war was not a bloody and long conflict as the first, however. Heydrich knew that he couldn't protect his whole front and ordered a massive retreat to the Sniper where he expected to hold enought to force Speidel to accept his therms. The Kiew offensive proved to be the deciding factor of the war as a well planned and methodically executed encirclement campaign was done by Speidel, who possessed complete air superiority, and trapped 300 000 SS troops and auxiliaries in the capital. By the time they surrendered the entire SS effort crumbled and Heydrich committed suicide, resulting into the annexation of Crimea in Germany proper.
The following decades saw the reestabilishment of some eastern states as German allies, such as Ukraine and Russia, but Crimea has been completely germanized.
A Kriegsmarine diver in Rostock, 1948. The Wehrmacht experimented with special forces units following the end of the war with the Soviets, with the Kriegsmarine's 'Frogmen' being one of the most well known. Their missions included infiltration of shipyards and placing demolition charges following an insertion by submarines.
General Sun-Li-Jen at the time of his being posted to commander of the Chinese First Army, 1952. Though his talents in regards to command were unquestionable, he often chafed with Chiang in regards to the seemingly endless wars the KMT government seemed to be embroiled in. Despite being monitored by the Juntong, the general managed to conceal his pro-democracy sympathies for decades.
A german BV 222 passanger seaplane captured by the americans during operation flood, after the war this BV 222 was used as a passanger plane in hawaii and around okinawa
Another BV 222 this time on a passanger flight from kiel to gotenland
A child looking at one of the nazi run state railway newly built locomotive which was used to pull passanger train from germany to mostly gotenland and sometime moskowien
An Imperial Japanese Army officer in Zheijiang, China, 1943. The Japanese carried out multiple massacres against the Tanka people in the province as well as the other occupied parts of Southern China. The Tanka people, also known as the 'boat people' or 'sea gypsies' were seen as potential security threats due to their constant travel along the coastline and across the Yangtze River, being suspected of carrying out spying activities. This resulted in the IJA and Chinese collaborators killing almost 3 million Tanka across Southern China.
SS General Adolf Eichmann in Berlin three months before his capture by Mossad agents in Spain, 1960. Eichmann was heavily bitter over the course of his trial in Jerusalem, decrying the proceedings as 'victor's justice' and repeatedly having fits of anger in the courtroom. Upon being sentenced to death, Eichmann told the judge and jury 'shooting me is only a formality at this point, my life was over the moment I was taken into your custody. I was dead the moment I understood that so many of you had survived, that I had failed in spite of my decades of effort. The reality of my failure has already killed me, a bullet or noose is just a formality at this point.'
The facade of the former Shennongjia political prison, Wuhan, China. Originally a middle school, the KMT used the site to imprison Japanese collaborators, confirmed and suspected Communist sympathizers and other enemies of the state. Prisoners were made to work on chicken and ginseng farms for no pay for as long as fourteen hours a day. The prison's commander refused to release the inmates following the Kuomintang's decree that political prisons be empties and the Shennongjia prison was stormed by angered locals from the nearby towns.
Former Uzbek Communist Usman Yusupov. Yusupov provided his administrative expertise to the Turkestani government for thirty years, beginning in the aftermath of the German victory over the USSR. He envisioned Turkestan becoming a member of a potential alliance with Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan called the Silk Road Confederation but these plans never materialized.
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Hyderabad State Forces Commander in Chief Syed Ahmed El Edroos in his office, 1950. Edroos commanded Hyderabad's military forces as well as the Razakars through the course of the four year conflict to bring the princely state into the Republic of India. Both Indian and Hyderabad State Forces engaged in multiple instances of violence against civilians, though the actions of Hyderabad's Razakars far exceeded those of the Indian army. El Edroos was tried for war crimes following the annexation of Hyderabad and sentenced to life in prison.
Wounded Chinese Kuomintang soldiers and civilian nurses in Hunan Province are escorted back to friendly lines. The battles of attrition in central China would eventually strain both the KMT and the Japanese to their logistical limits.