Kaiser Wilhelm the Tenth
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The German response to all this will be the subject of an update in the not-too-distant future... but there's other stuff that needs covering firstI'm shocked the Germans didn't get involved earlier
The German response to all this will be the subject of an update in the not-too-distant future... but there's other stuff that needs covering firstI'm shocked the Germans didn't get involved earlier
Do you think the irony was lost on the Boers?and the British had yelled about the Herero Genocide to the four winds after their conquest of Namibia during the Great War.
Sorry.Well damn, basically everyone I was rooting for (Mexico, Danube) is going to have a bad ending. I knew they were going to lose, but I was hoping they'd land some good hits here and there before the inevitable. Now it looks like Mexico will just turn into a bunch of little countries without the US needing to do more than supply the factions, and Danube will survive only because Germany helped them.
That's a very good analysis. As of right now, von Lettow-Vorbeck is commander of all German colonial troops in Mittelafrika. He'll be well-remembered even in TTL's 2020 as a hero in the popular imagination, similar to how stories of the American Wild West persist.On a brighter note, I imagine von Lettow-Vorbeck and his African troops are quite the stars in Germany right now. Cut off from all reinforcement and resupply, outnumbered by the British, they not only held out for two years but even kept the British on their toes for those same two years. In a way, they preserved Germany's honor overseas, German East Africa holding out against all odds and ensuring the colonial empire isn't a complete goner once the war was over and won.
Considering how Kaiser Wilhelm II thinks, he might consider von Lettow-Vorbeck's troops the equivalent of the British Empire's Sikh or even Gurkha troops, the cream of the crop and comparable in every way to the stormtroopers that won the war in Europe. Considering they're probably securing Mittelafrika right now, it'd be an irony if they started something of a new turn for the better in racial attitudes in Germany.
Maybe as the Afrikan Wild East?That's a very good analysis. As of right now, von Lettow-Vorbeck is commander of all German colonial troops in Mittelafrika. He'll be well-remembered even in TTL's 2020 as a hero in the popular imagination, similar to how stories of the American Wild West persist.
Maybe as the Afrikan Wild East?
Sorry.
Mexico isn't over yet... they'll be the subject of the next update...
As to Danubia, though, I'm afraid you're likely right.
That's a very good analysis. As of right now, von Lettow-Vorbeck is commander of all German colonial troops in Mittelafrika. He'll be well-remembered even in TTL's 2020 as a hero in the popular imagination, similar to how stories of the American Wild West persist.
At least Austria and Bohemia isn't going to be absorbed into Germany this time.Sorry.
Mexico isn't over yet... they'll be the subject of the next update...
As to Danubia, though, I'm afraid you're likely right.
That's a very good analysis. As of right now, von Lettow-Vorbeck is commander of all German colonial troops in Mittelafrika. He'll be well-remembered even in TTL's 2020 as a hero in the popular imagination, similar to how stories of the American Wild West persist.
On a brighter note, I imagine von Lettow-Vorbeck and his African troops are quite the stars in Germany right now. Cut off from all reinforcement and resupply, outnumbered by the British, they not only held out for two years but even kept the British on their toes for those same two years. In a way, they preserved Germany's honor overseas, German East Africa holding out against all odds and ensuring the colonial empire isn't a complete goner once the war was over and won.
Considering how Kaiser Wilhelm II thinks, he might consider von Lettow-Vorbeck's troops the equivalent of the British Empire's Sikh or even Gurkha troops, the cream of the crop and comparable in every way to the stormtroopers that won the war in Europe. Considering they're probably securing Mittelafrika right now, it'd be an irony if they started something of a new turn for the better in racial attitudes in Germany.
To be fair to the others, this is the first TL I've ever seen where German Chad is a thing.Snip
I don't think Germany took Chad at all. AFAIK, Mittelafrika ITTL includes pre-war German East Africa (no way Germany would give up territory there, what with the Lion of Africa undefeated on the field), plus the Congo and Ubangi-Shari, and linking up with German Cameroon (returned by France as per the armistice). They also still have Togo, also returned by France during the armistice, and as per the Treaty of Dresden, have basing rights at Dakar and have taken over the protectorate in Morocco.
Tschad Ist Deutsch!
It would seem according to the official map that they have
Well if you're going to f*** up, and give Chad to Germany, may as well run with it.Tschad Ist Deutsch!
Um... are there even enough cars in all of Serbia to make this a serious problem? This is only 1917, after all...Car bombs went off all across Serbia,
Well if you're going to f*** up, and give Chad to Germany, may as well run with it.