The Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Chapter 681: A Continent under Siege
Chapter 681: A Continent under Siege
The Continent of Australia felt the immediate threat of the Japanese Empire and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, even before the invasion of Darwin. Japanese submarine raids occurred all around Australia, the Imperial Japanese Navy and Air Force controlled the waters of the northern coast, were minor cities and towns were bombed, from airplanes in Timor, New Guinea (Niugini/Niu Gini/ Papua, mainly the Japanese air bases on Tanjung Vals Island) or Darwin itself. Besieged before, invaded now the Australians heavily fortified the southern areas of their continent, were the main industry and industrial centers were located. This was the main defense area for Australian Army, according to the Australian Government and overall Allied strategy and tactics for the Great Southern Continent. The Allies concentrated their few, limited assets of Australia in one central region that would be easily to defend and supply with the help of the Americans in the East and the British in the West. Still the Japanese tried to cut off Australia, raiding it's shipping routes and coats with their merchant hunter ships, submarines and even midget-submarines (often transported by bigger ships or bigger submarines) bombing their cities with their bombers, fighters or even naval forces in the north coast, all the way down to Learmonth and Pearth in the West, as well as Brisbane and Sidney in the East. Constantly the Japanese raided allied ships and convoys, even mined the Arafura Sea, the Gulf of Papua and the Torres Strait to cut off Allied supplies over the northern route. Despite all this the Australians held their own, fighting the Japanese and Taikoku Co-Prosperity Sphere forces in Papua/ New Guinea bravely, while other Australian Divisions in Africa and the Middle East rioted to get back home, so they could defend their own home-nation instead of British Egypt, Transjordan and Iraq. The Australians, New Zealanders and Americans actually fought so well there, that the Imperial Japanese High Command feared for their southeastern Expansion deeper into the Pacific to cut off Australia from America. So in a move very similar to their assault on French Indochina, the Philippines, the Dutch East indies and British Burma in a attempt to continue the War in China, the Japanese assaulted mainland Australia in Darwin to get the Australian Army out of New Guinea (Niugini/Niu Gini/ Papua), hoping this would allow them to surround Australia, starve it out (a more then foolish plan considering how self-sufficient the Continent state was) and force it to give into Japanese demands.
However the Invasion of Darwin quickly looked like a disaster, ad it was not a place from where Japanese forces would be able to push further, deeper into the continent. Instead Japanese supply lines to the Darwin Garrison became a logistically problem for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Still the Japanese were -partly right- believing that this tied down many Australian and other Allied troops who would now defend the Australian coast, instead of being send to Papua/ Niugini to fight their forces there. Thanks to this Darwin became a essential pillar of the outer defense perimeter and actually even more Japanese forces were shipped in. They builder defensive positions, trenches and bunkers to defend the town against a Allied counterattack, but as nearly all citizens had fled southwards, the Australian and American air forces heavily bombarded the Japanese Garrison there. Partly thanks to this too, the Japanese believed their strategy to work and send more own fighters and bombers to Darwin as well. To even increase this strategy and tactic, the Imperial Japanese Navy even started a second invasion from Pagona, Daru, Bugi and Meauke in the south of Nuigini/ Papua to land on the Thuesday Islands/ Torres Strait islands, with no resistence. It was a combined Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy operation, establishing garrisons on Badu, Moa, Ngurapi and Muralug near the coast of Cape York. While the anti-air guns, the anti-tank weapons and the coastal artillery the Japanese brought with them helped them against Allied bombers and even intercepted Allied ships in the region alongside the Japanes minefield in the Torres Strait. The Japanese even build trenches on these islands, alongside fortified positions and bunkers, hoping to hold them against allied counterattack for as long and as costly as possible.
The Continent of Australia felt the immediate threat of the Japanese Empire and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, even before the invasion of Darwin. Japanese submarine raids occurred all around Australia, the Imperial Japanese Navy and Air Force controlled the waters of the northern coast, were minor cities and towns were bombed, from airplanes in Timor, New Guinea (Niugini/Niu Gini/ Papua, mainly the Japanese air bases on Tanjung Vals Island) or Darwin itself. Besieged before, invaded now the Australians heavily fortified the southern areas of their continent, were the main industry and industrial centers were located. This was the main defense area for Australian Army, according to the Australian Government and overall Allied strategy and tactics for the Great Southern Continent. The Allies concentrated their few, limited assets of Australia in one central region that would be easily to defend and supply with the help of the Americans in the East and the British in the West. Still the Japanese tried to cut off Australia, raiding it's shipping routes and coats with their merchant hunter ships, submarines and even midget-submarines (often transported by bigger ships or bigger submarines) bombing their cities with their bombers, fighters or even naval forces in the north coast, all the way down to Learmonth and Pearth in the West, as well as Brisbane and Sidney in the East. Constantly the Japanese raided allied ships and convoys, even mined the Arafura Sea, the Gulf of Papua and the Torres Strait to cut off Allied supplies over the northern route. Despite all this the Australians held their own, fighting the Japanese and Taikoku Co-Prosperity Sphere forces in Papua/ New Guinea bravely, while other Australian Divisions in Africa and the Middle East rioted to get back home, so they could defend their own home-nation instead of British Egypt, Transjordan and Iraq. The Australians, New Zealanders and Americans actually fought so well there, that the Imperial Japanese High Command feared for their southeastern Expansion deeper into the Pacific to cut off Australia from America. So in a move very similar to their assault on French Indochina, the Philippines, the Dutch East indies and British Burma in a attempt to continue the War in China, the Japanese assaulted mainland Australia in Darwin to get the Australian Army out of New Guinea (Niugini/Niu Gini/ Papua), hoping this would allow them to surround Australia, starve it out (a more then foolish plan considering how self-sufficient the Continent state was) and force it to give into Japanese demands.
However the Invasion of Darwin quickly looked like a disaster, ad it was not a place from where Japanese forces would be able to push further, deeper into the continent. Instead Japanese supply lines to the Darwin Garrison became a logistically problem for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Still the Japanese were -partly right- believing that this tied down many Australian and other Allied troops who would now defend the Australian coast, instead of being send to Papua/ Niugini to fight their forces there. Thanks to this Darwin became a essential pillar of the outer defense perimeter and actually even more Japanese forces were shipped in. They builder defensive positions, trenches and bunkers to defend the town against a Allied counterattack, but as nearly all citizens had fled southwards, the Australian and American air forces heavily bombarded the Japanese Garrison there. Partly thanks to this too, the Japanese believed their strategy to work and send more own fighters and bombers to Darwin as well. To even increase this strategy and tactic, the Imperial Japanese Navy even started a second invasion from Pagona, Daru, Bugi and Meauke in the south of Nuigini/ Papua to land on the Thuesday Islands/ Torres Strait islands, with no resistence. It was a combined Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy operation, establishing garrisons on Badu, Moa, Ngurapi and Muralug near the coast of Cape York. While the anti-air guns, the anti-tank weapons and the coastal artillery the Japanese brought with them helped them against Allied bombers and even intercepted Allied ships in the region alongside the Japanes minefield in the Torres Strait. The Japanese even build trenches on these islands, alongside fortified positions and bunkers, hoping to hold them against allied counterattack for as long and as costly as possible.
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Chapter 682: The Royal Polish Army Forces
Chapter 682: The Royal Polish Army Forces
Ever since the Red Army Winter Offensive after the Defense of Moscow, the Royal Polish Army had established itself as a proud force in the Eastern Crusade against Atheism and Bolshevism. From a force, believed to be backwater and not the most modern, the Polish lacking in modern tanks and mechanized army divisions saved the day, when the polish cavalry and infantry did not got stuck in the Russian mud, when their forces did not have the oil in their motors freeze. However the Royal Polish Army had shortcomings too. It's main tank, the 7TP (siedmiotonowy polski - 7-tonne Polish) had been developed from the British Vickers 6-ton and was the standard tank of the Royal Polish Army. Despite this only around 200 to 260 vehicles would be build over the Second Great War. Its chassis was used as the base for the C7P artillery tractor and many Polish forces rather imported more modern tanks for their forces from the German Empire or the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, becoming dependent in their defense to them because of it, similar how the Polish Kingdom was depending for most of it's trade and industry on them too. Thanks to that the Polish Government, ruled by the former Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony as the Polish King King George I. (Jerzy I.) expanded it's original 28 Infantry Divisions, 2 Mountain Divisions and 10 cavalry brigades during the Second Great War massively. The number of Infantry Divisions was nearly doubled, the cavalry brigades increased to whole divisions and two more added to them, even their own motorized, mechanized and tank divisions modeled after the German and Austrian-Hungarian ones were created to help out win the Eastern Crusade. To convince volunteers to join in the new Royal Polish Army and for the later conscription the Axis Central Powers and the Polish Kingdom used all king of propaganda images, songs and ideals.
The Polish-Soviet War from 1919 to 1921 was represented as a major victory for the defense of Central European civilization from the Red Army and the atheist, Bolshevist of the Communist regime. In 1941 they celebrated the twenty years anniversary of this glorious fighting and conflict as well as it's continuation against the Soviet Union once again, to free all of Eastern Europe this time around. The Polish Knight (Rycerze) similar to the armored soldiers (knightly orders) of the other Axis Central Powers were seen by many in the population as the holy, catholic defenders of their Kingdom and Nation State. To many inside the Axis Central Powers Poland was the shield of the knightly figure personification of Europe itself in map-like propaganda images, even if the Kingdom of White Ruthenia and the Kingdom of Ukrainia fulfilled this role more truly and realistically after they had been created out of the Eastern Polish territory. Polonia the national personification of the Glorious Polish Kingdom often joined her European sisters in the propaganda of the Axis Central Powers and polish communities and exiles all over the world, even inside the Allied nations, even counter-governments supported the Eastern Crusade at least to some extent, knowing it would end the danger of the Soviet Union and their Red Army, while creating buffer states from future Russian aggression with White Ruthenia and Ukrainia in the east. Even if some extreme Polish Nationalists saw this territories as rightfully polish and stolen either by the Entente, Allies, Axis Powers or Axis Central Powers during, in-between or after the Great Wars. Similary, the Polish Kingdom alongside Austria-Hungary celebrated the Battle of Vienna (1683) under King John III Sobieski, where Poland once before had defended central Europe, from unchristian (this time Ottoman Mohammedan) forces, to protect nit only Catholicism, but all of Christendom and European Civilization and Culture. A celebration and propaganda not well viewed in the Ottoman Empire, but liked widely by Austrians, Hungarians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Romanians, Russians, Serbs and others once enslaved or threatened by Ottoman Rule, even including the Russian Empire.
Ever since the Red Army Winter Offensive after the Defense of Moscow, the Royal Polish Army had established itself as a proud force in the Eastern Crusade against Atheism and Bolshevism. From a force, believed to be backwater and not the most modern, the Polish lacking in modern tanks and mechanized army divisions saved the day, when the polish cavalry and infantry did not got stuck in the Russian mud, when their forces did not have the oil in their motors freeze. However the Royal Polish Army had shortcomings too. It's main tank, the 7TP (siedmiotonowy polski - 7-tonne Polish) had been developed from the British Vickers 6-ton and was the standard tank of the Royal Polish Army. Despite this only around 200 to 260 vehicles would be build over the Second Great War. Its chassis was used as the base for the C7P artillery tractor and many Polish forces rather imported more modern tanks for their forces from the German Empire or the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, becoming dependent in their defense to them because of it, similar how the Polish Kingdom was depending for most of it's trade and industry on them too. Thanks to that the Polish Government, ruled by the former Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony as the Polish King King George I. (Jerzy I.) expanded it's original 28 Infantry Divisions, 2 Mountain Divisions and 10 cavalry brigades during the Second Great War massively. The number of Infantry Divisions was nearly doubled, the cavalry brigades increased to whole divisions and two more added to them, even their own motorized, mechanized and tank divisions modeled after the German and Austrian-Hungarian ones were created to help out win the Eastern Crusade. To convince volunteers to join in the new Royal Polish Army and for the later conscription the Axis Central Powers and the Polish Kingdom used all king of propaganda images, songs and ideals.
The Polish-Soviet War from 1919 to 1921 was represented as a major victory for the defense of Central European civilization from the Red Army and the atheist, Bolshevist of the Communist regime. In 1941 they celebrated the twenty years anniversary of this glorious fighting and conflict as well as it's continuation against the Soviet Union once again, to free all of Eastern Europe this time around. The Polish Knight (Rycerze) similar to the armored soldiers (knightly orders) of the other Axis Central Powers were seen by many in the population as the holy, catholic defenders of their Kingdom and Nation State. To many inside the Axis Central Powers Poland was the shield of the knightly figure personification of Europe itself in map-like propaganda images, even if the Kingdom of White Ruthenia and the Kingdom of Ukrainia fulfilled this role more truly and realistically after they had been created out of the Eastern Polish territory. Polonia the national personification of the Glorious Polish Kingdom often joined her European sisters in the propaganda of the Axis Central Powers and polish communities and exiles all over the world, even inside the Allied nations, even counter-governments supported the Eastern Crusade at least to some extent, knowing it would end the danger of the Soviet Union and their Red Army, while creating buffer states from future Russian aggression with White Ruthenia and Ukrainia in the east. Even if some extreme Polish Nationalists saw this territories as rightfully polish and stolen either by the Entente, Allies, Axis Powers or Axis Central Powers during, in-between or after the Great Wars. Similary, the Polish Kingdom alongside Austria-Hungary celebrated the Battle of Vienna (1683) under King John III Sobieski, where Poland once before had defended central Europe, from unchristian (this time Ottoman Mohammedan) forces, to protect nit only Catholicism, but all of Christendom and European Civilization and Culture. A celebration and propaganda not well viewed in the Ottoman Empire, but liked widely by Austrians, Hungarians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Romanians, Russians, Serbs and others once enslaved or threatened by Ottoman Rule, even including the Russian Empire.
Tomorrow's Chapter 684: The Adolf Hitler Benevolent Charitable Society
Gonne be such a creepy chapter (mostly thanks to OTL), but will be partly creepy and sweet TTL. Not easy to write that's for sure.
Gonne be such a creepy chapter (mostly thanks to OTL), but will be partly creepy and sweet TTL. Not easy to write that's for sure.
Still you can see it in some of the images of him and children too that he only smiles for the camera and looks rather unpleased truely. What's most fascinating to me is that this shows the monster, the demon and devil was still human to a part after all, reminding us that the evil feelings, thoughts and ideas that sometimes all come over each and every of us are better fight and burried away deep inside, not embraced and empowered untill they overwhelm and control our every act, moce and thought so we become true demons/ devils ourselves. Turely demonizing him as the devil (beside a moral point clearly) lifts some responsibility of him and his looneys and that is dangerous in my eyes. He was the monster, but human too (even if a wicked evil one), that's very important to (partly) understand such evil people and by doing so fight/ stop them I would argue.
Britain and the Soviets are getting on high debt, while the Americans are still doing quit fine by now.
On the Axis Central Power side Germany is doing fine, mostly by forcing the other states to pay for most of it, either by being force to, or thanks to revenue equalization deals between Germany and the rest of the ACP. For them and Japan we will get closer looks into ressource production, industry and economy in later chapters too, very soon.
Chapter 683: Evolution of the Pacific War Plans
Chapter 683: Evolution of the Pacific War Plans
One thing the American's had learned in decades of war planning and preparations for War Plan Orange that the vast distance of the Pacific did not simply allow the United States Navy to cruise to Japan and enforce a peace on them. The devastating Battle of the Philippines had further shown this to be true and the Japanese Empire and the Co-Prosperity Sphere quickly had learned the same lesson with their problems and losses at Midway, as well as with their problems to reach and conquer Hawaii. The lesson the Americans had thereby learned was that to travel the vast space of the Pacific Ocean, the most direct route was not the best one. Instead what they needed to do, was take the slower, longer route southwards over the Pacific islands there. This would allow them to use island-hopping, to gain bases from which they would supply their forward moving fleet of ships on shorter ranges. This not only would allow them to build forward harbors and supply bases, but also airfields from where their fighters and bombers could support them in their operations. This had been quickly realized by the Imperial Japanese Navy too, during the long-lasting, costly battles in Nuigui/ Papua/ New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, especially Guadalcanal. When their own airbases supported their fleet operations, inland fighting's and together they helped on their coastal fighting on land the new, necessary combined operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy stood a much better change of success in archiving their operative goals and overall victories. After the neutralization of the Guadalcanal Henderson Air Field of the Americans, the Japanese not only held naval superiority at night, but full air superiority at day as well, a important factor in their later success that could not be underestimated by anyone involved in the conflict. What neither side predicted before the outbreak of the Second Great War was how much they would need to volunteer, or forcefully involve the local natives as carriers or workers during their military campaigns in the region, alongside own workers and engineers they would bring with them from either Asia, Australia or America. The problematic of this strategy however soon showed themselves, as infrastructure of any kind was nearly non-existing in the southern Pacific islands, meaning that every airfield, harbor and even railroads, roads and paths had to be build out of nothing.
In this jungle and mountain surroundings the native scouts were of prime importance, as they showed the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Allies which paths to follow and where they could go. This often lead to a bound of trust between the native scouts, warriors and tribes towards their foreign soldiers they worked with and vice versa. However both the Japanese/ Taikoku and the Americans, Australians and New Zealanders brought with them their own prejudice and racial ideas about the natives of this islands, often viewing them as nothing more then primitive, naked savage cannibals at best. It did not help that some of the tribes on the islands truly still were cannibals and their nightly raid on foreigner camps often lead to a general assumption that no native could truly be trusted. Allies and Co-Prosperity Sphere soldiers alike feared to be stolen in their sleep, only to awake in a cooking pot and so regular guards were installed at even the smallest camps and outposts to prevent soldiers from going missing and ending up death. Thanks to this many stationed in the Solomones/ Papua/ Nuigui developed post-traumatic stress disorder, either from constant enemy raid, shelling with bombs and grenades, direct action or the horrors of cannibal tribal warriors, poisonous animals and plants lurking in the green jungles at day and night. Later psychologists of these soldiers and general public and media coverage even invented a new term for this form of PTSD; the Janguro no kyōki (JNK, or jungle madness, JM), as it literally drove many soldiers crazy and insane if stationed there to long. The Allies tried to counter this by rotating their front troops and reserves constantly during a few weeks/ months, a lesson already used since the madness of trench warfare during the First Great War. The Japanese however often lacked this ability and therefore had no such luxury, especially in Nuigui/ Papua and the Solomones, where many of their forces had to rely on self-sufficiency and self-supply because of a lack of transportation, reinforcements and supply routes.
One thing the American's had learned in decades of war planning and preparations for War Plan Orange that the vast distance of the Pacific did not simply allow the United States Navy to cruise to Japan and enforce a peace on them. The devastating Battle of the Philippines had further shown this to be true and the Japanese Empire and the Co-Prosperity Sphere quickly had learned the same lesson with their problems and losses at Midway, as well as with their problems to reach and conquer Hawaii. The lesson the Americans had thereby learned was that to travel the vast space of the Pacific Ocean, the most direct route was not the best one. Instead what they needed to do, was take the slower, longer route southwards over the Pacific islands there. This would allow them to use island-hopping, to gain bases from which they would supply their forward moving fleet of ships on shorter ranges. This not only would allow them to build forward harbors and supply bases, but also airfields from where their fighters and bombers could support them in their operations. This had been quickly realized by the Imperial Japanese Navy too, during the long-lasting, costly battles in Nuigui/ Papua/ New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, especially Guadalcanal. When their own airbases supported their fleet operations, inland fighting's and together they helped on their coastal fighting on land the new, necessary combined operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy stood a much better change of success in archiving their operative goals and overall victories. After the neutralization of the Guadalcanal Henderson Air Field of the Americans, the Japanese not only held naval superiority at night, but full air superiority at day as well, a important factor in their later success that could not be underestimated by anyone involved in the conflict. What neither side predicted before the outbreak of the Second Great War was how much they would need to volunteer, or forcefully involve the local natives as carriers or workers during their military campaigns in the region, alongside own workers and engineers they would bring with them from either Asia, Australia or America. The problematic of this strategy however soon showed themselves, as infrastructure of any kind was nearly non-existing in the southern Pacific islands, meaning that every airfield, harbor and even railroads, roads and paths had to be build out of nothing.
In this jungle and mountain surroundings the native scouts were of prime importance, as they showed the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Allies which paths to follow and where they could go. This often lead to a bound of trust between the native scouts, warriors and tribes towards their foreign soldiers they worked with and vice versa. However both the Japanese/ Taikoku and the Americans, Australians and New Zealanders brought with them their own prejudice and racial ideas about the natives of this islands, often viewing them as nothing more then primitive, naked savage cannibals at best. It did not help that some of the tribes on the islands truly still were cannibals and their nightly raid on foreigner camps often lead to a general assumption that no native could truly be trusted. Allies and Co-Prosperity Sphere soldiers alike feared to be stolen in their sleep, only to awake in a cooking pot and so regular guards were installed at even the smallest camps and outposts to prevent soldiers from going missing and ending up death. Thanks to this many stationed in the Solomones/ Papua/ Nuigui developed post-traumatic stress disorder, either from constant enemy raid, shelling with bombs and grenades, direct action or the horrors of cannibal tribal warriors, poisonous animals and plants lurking in the green jungles at day and night. Later psychologists of these soldiers and general public and media coverage even invented a new term for this form of PTSD; the Janguro no kyōki (JNK, or jungle madness, JM), as it literally drove many soldiers crazy and insane if stationed there to long. The Allies tried to counter this by rotating their front troops and reserves constantly during a few weeks/ months, a lesson already used since the madness of trench warfare during the First Great War. The Japanese however often lacked this ability and therefore had no such luxury, especially in Nuigui/ Papua and the Solomones, where many of their forces had to rely on self-sufficiency and self-supply because of a lack of transportation, reinforcements and supply routes.
Chapter 684: The Adolf Hitler Benevolent Charitable Society
Chapter 684: The Adolf Hitler Benevolent Charitable Society
After Adolf Hitler had become Chancellor of Germany, up until his death during the Second Great War, he earned many million Reichsmark throughout his career, mainly through sales of his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle), as well as his salaries as Chancellor and President. After gaining power he even made himself tax-exempt. Originally Hitler wrote his political manifesto and autobiography Mein Kampf ("My Struggle") in Landsberg prison while serving a sentence for high treason as a result of the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. The book was printed by the Franz Eher Nachfolger publishing house and largely ignored at first, but sales began to boom in the late 1920s and early 1930s as economic depression and social unrest troubled Germany, factors which significantly boosted Hitler's popularity. After Hitler came to power in 1933, couples who married under the Nazi state were given a copy as a wedding gift. The book eventually became a best-seller within Nazi ruled Germany, selling almost twelve million copies by the war's end. While hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic had crippled the German economy and plunged millions of German workers into unemployment, Hitler and his party received lavish donations from wealthy benefactors at home and abroad. The iconic American car maker and anti-Semite Henry Ford was reported to be one of the foreign supporters. Helene Bechstein, part of a rich aristocratic family who sold pianos, supported Hitler financially and gave him a top hat and business suit. The Ruhr steel barons Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp donated almost five million Reichsmark to the Nazi Party over the course of the war.
Much of the party donations were used to pay off many of Hitler's private projects, such as the Berghof and Eagles Nest. He caused a minor controversy within leading elements of the party when he, in 1925, purchased a luxury Mercedes-Benz and a chauffeur to drive it for a total expenditure of 20,000 Reichsmarks. Some stated that Hitler is driving a Mercedes, which cost incredible amounts of money, can afford to go on travels and has enough money to finance his propaganda appearances. All of this is financed through a system of slush-funds, essentially the donation of larger and smaller benefactors. Till 1930 Adolf Hitler had sold 55,000 copies of Mein Kampf in a single year, as more and more party members and citizens were interested in what Hitler was all about. In 1933 when Hitler took power in Germany, sales skyrocketed to over 850,000. Hitler then made the government itself buy 6 million copies of his book, to provide them to soldiers and government workers alike. Married couples even got a free copy on their wedding day. Throughout his rise to power, Hitler neglected to pay taxes on his income and allowances. In 1934, one year after becoming Chancellor, the tax office of Munich sent Hitler a fine of 405,494.00 Reichsmark for not paying taxes nor properly declaring his income. He was given only eight days to pay off this debt. The new Chancellor responded by ordering a state secretary of the ministry of finance to intervene, which resulted in Hitler becoming tax-free. The head of the Munich tax office declared, "all tax reports delivering substance for a tax obligation by the Führer are annulled from the start. The Führer is therefore tax-exempt". After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler took over his office and claimed his salary as well.
With the start of the Second Great War, royalties on the sales of his book stopped, as he was declared a enemy of the Allies. Until then he had made 560,000$ in royalties from Britain and 50,000$ in royalties in the United States. Thanks to the “Trading With The Enemy Act” the United States government stopped this money to flow to Germany and instead used the 260,000$ in royalties for war refugee charities. At the height of his rule, shortly before his death, Hitler would earn about 13,5 million dollar a year in today's money. Overall Hitler had earned around 170 million dollar in today's money from his book sells alone, money he used to buy estates or found the Nazi Party. Hitler even had licensed his image to the government, from postcards over pictures, propaganda leaflets and books. After his death, some of this money, like that of the Adolf Hitler Foundation (AHF), managed by the Adolf Hitler Society (AHS), both ironically supported by Adolfists and Hitlerists alike, went into education, charity and other good-will projects, even on the Allied side, were Hitler's enemies did nearly the same with the royalties from his book. So in the End a man who died to early to cause all the horror he had planned and who was only prevented from doing so by a military coup ended up as a benevolent, interesting and well liked historical figure, who's Foundation, Society and groups inspired by him did charity of all sorts and kinds. Nearly all of them not in the name of humanity as a whole, but their respective nation states, governments, military and overall ideologies, but still. Some of them would even help in the foundation and financiation of the Neo-Ottoman Empire Province of Yehudah/ Yehud/ Judea/ Judah, or Yehud, (the autonomous province of the Kingdom of Judea), as well as the German-French Protectorate of the Kingdom of Israel in Madagascar.
After Adolf Hitler had become Chancellor of Germany, up until his death during the Second Great War, he earned many million Reichsmark throughout his career, mainly through sales of his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle), as well as his salaries as Chancellor and President. After gaining power he even made himself tax-exempt. Originally Hitler wrote his political manifesto and autobiography Mein Kampf ("My Struggle") in Landsberg prison while serving a sentence for high treason as a result of the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. The book was printed by the Franz Eher Nachfolger publishing house and largely ignored at first, but sales began to boom in the late 1920s and early 1930s as economic depression and social unrest troubled Germany, factors which significantly boosted Hitler's popularity. After Hitler came to power in 1933, couples who married under the Nazi state were given a copy as a wedding gift. The book eventually became a best-seller within Nazi ruled Germany, selling almost twelve million copies by the war's end. While hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic had crippled the German economy and plunged millions of German workers into unemployment, Hitler and his party received lavish donations from wealthy benefactors at home and abroad. The iconic American car maker and anti-Semite Henry Ford was reported to be one of the foreign supporters. Helene Bechstein, part of a rich aristocratic family who sold pianos, supported Hitler financially and gave him a top hat and business suit. The Ruhr steel barons Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp donated almost five million Reichsmark to the Nazi Party over the course of the war.
Much of the party donations were used to pay off many of Hitler's private projects, such as the Berghof and Eagles Nest. He caused a minor controversy within leading elements of the party when he, in 1925, purchased a luxury Mercedes-Benz and a chauffeur to drive it for a total expenditure of 20,000 Reichsmarks. Some stated that Hitler is driving a Mercedes, which cost incredible amounts of money, can afford to go on travels and has enough money to finance his propaganda appearances. All of this is financed through a system of slush-funds, essentially the donation of larger and smaller benefactors. Till 1930 Adolf Hitler had sold 55,000 copies of Mein Kampf in a single year, as more and more party members and citizens were interested in what Hitler was all about. In 1933 when Hitler took power in Germany, sales skyrocketed to over 850,000. Hitler then made the government itself buy 6 million copies of his book, to provide them to soldiers and government workers alike. Married couples even got a free copy on their wedding day. Throughout his rise to power, Hitler neglected to pay taxes on his income and allowances. In 1934, one year after becoming Chancellor, the tax office of Munich sent Hitler a fine of 405,494.00 Reichsmark for not paying taxes nor properly declaring his income. He was given only eight days to pay off this debt. The new Chancellor responded by ordering a state secretary of the ministry of finance to intervene, which resulted in Hitler becoming tax-free. The head of the Munich tax office declared, "all tax reports delivering substance for a tax obligation by the Führer are annulled from the start. The Führer is therefore tax-exempt". After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler took over his office and claimed his salary as well.
With the start of the Second Great War, royalties on the sales of his book stopped, as he was declared a enemy of the Allies. Until then he had made 560,000$ in royalties from Britain and 50,000$ in royalties in the United States. Thanks to the “Trading With The Enemy Act” the United States government stopped this money to flow to Germany and instead used the 260,000$ in royalties for war refugee charities. At the height of his rule, shortly before his death, Hitler would earn about 13,5 million dollar a year in today's money. Overall Hitler had earned around 170 million dollar in today's money from his book sells alone, money he used to buy estates or found the Nazi Party. Hitler even had licensed his image to the government, from postcards over pictures, propaganda leaflets and books. After his death, some of this money, like that of the Adolf Hitler Foundation (AHF), managed by the Adolf Hitler Society (AHS), both ironically supported by Adolfists and Hitlerists alike, went into education, charity and other good-will projects, even on the Allied side, were Hitler's enemies did nearly the same with the royalties from his book. So in the End a man who died to early to cause all the horror he had planned and who was only prevented from doing so by a military coup ended up as a benevolent, interesting and well liked historical figure, who's Foundation, Society and groups inspired by him did charity of all sorts and kinds. Nearly all of them not in the name of humanity as a whole, but their respective nation states, governments, military and overall ideologies, but still. Some of them would even help in the foundation and financiation of the Neo-Ottoman Empire Province of Yehudah/ Yehud/ Judea/ Judah, or Yehud, (the autonomous province of the Kingdom of Judea), as well as the German-French Protectorate of the Kingdom of Israel in Madagascar.
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Hitlerite charities for Jewish welfare...now I've seen everything
I'm sure TTL Hitler would not like or believe either what is happening to his former fortune and ideals.
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He did TTL as well, maybe TTL the friendly.fire was not so much a accident, depending on how direct he would have opposed Italian-German Alliance and Italy's membership in the Axis Central Powers, as some other leaders have been killed for doing so as well.