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The Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Chapter 179: Prussian Democracy
Chapter 179: Prussian Democracy:
While ideological enemies in the Second Great War, the Axis Central Powers of the German Empire, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and even such as the newly created Russian Empire were closer to the constitutional monarchy of Great Britain and England then either side preferred or was willing to admit and accept. German Emperor Wilhelm II had promised his people to respect the democracy and his son Wilhelm III did the same when the new Reichstag was formed by vote after the end of Hitler's cabinet and the Nazi rule. The Reichstag had no formal right to appoint or dismiss governments, but by contemporary standards it was considered a highly modern and progressive parliament. All German men over 25 years of age were eligible to vote, and members of the Reichstag were elected by general, universal and secret suffrage. Members were elected in single-member constituencies by majority vote. If no candidate received a majority of the votes, a runoff election took place. In 1871, the Reichstag consisted of 382 members, but from 1874 it was enlarged to 397 members. The term of office was initially set at three years, and in 1888 this was extended to five years. The Reichstag was opened once a year by the Emperor. In order to dissolve parliament, the approval of the Imperial Council and the emperor were required. Members of parliament enjoyed legal immunity and indemnity. With the end of Hitler's Regime and Cabinet, the newly formed cabinet under the returning Emperor Wilhelm II ruled with the support of the German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) and some of the more or less monarchistic elements of the former Nazi government that had survived the coup. With the return of the Emperor and the later recreation of the whole German Empire as a hegemonic state in central Europe, the DNVP had a major role in the new democracy and helped to establish the old aristocratic power that returned with their monarchistic supporters.
Other parties were once again allowed, like the German People's Party (German: Deutsche Volkspartei, or DVP), the successor of the National Liberal Party (German: Nationalliberale Partei, NLP), the German Progress Party (German: Deutsche Fortschrittspartei, DFP), the German Centre Party (German: Deutsche Zentrumspartei or just Zentrum), the Bavarian People's Party (German: Bayerische Volkspartei; BVP), the Christian Social People's Service (German: Christlich-Sozialer Volksdienst), the German State Party (German: Deutsche Staatspartei or DstP), the German Farmers' Party (German: Deutsche Bauernpartei, or DBP)-that had a protection policy against the Grain coming from the Kingdom of Ukrainia- or German Peasants' Party, the Imperial Agricultural League (German: Reichs-Landbund) or National Rural League, the German-Hanoverian Party (German: Deutsch-Hannoversche Partei, DHP) and some other minor parties. Some new parties, like the German Hegemony Party (German: Deutsche Hegemonialpartei), German Colonial Society (German: Deutsche Kolonialbund) and others were created to promote special interests and ideas in the new powerful German Empire. Other parties like the Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) were looked at suspicious and lost parts of their voter base to other parties, while some like the Communist Party of Germany (German: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, KPD) and other communists and marxists in Germany or the British Union/ British Union of Royalist Fascists and National Monarchists in England were outright banned as enemies of the state. During the Second Great War, the elected governments of these nations mostly stood behind their leaders and supported the war, some like in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Great Britain even formed a so called National Union Governments a coalition [known as the
Imperial Coalition (German: Kaiserkoalition) in Germany], that tried to stabilize the state and the government for the duration of the war and unify them on the most important topics and goals of their states.
While ideological enemies in the Second Great War, the Axis Central Powers of the German Empire, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and even such as the newly created Russian Empire were closer to the constitutional monarchy of Great Britain and England then either side preferred or was willing to admit and accept. German Emperor Wilhelm II had promised his people to respect the democracy and his son Wilhelm III did the same when the new Reichstag was formed by vote after the end of Hitler's cabinet and the Nazi rule. The Reichstag had no formal right to appoint or dismiss governments, but by contemporary standards it was considered a highly modern and progressive parliament. All German men over 25 years of age were eligible to vote, and members of the Reichstag were elected by general, universal and secret suffrage. Members were elected in single-member constituencies by majority vote. If no candidate received a majority of the votes, a runoff election took place. In 1871, the Reichstag consisted of 382 members, but from 1874 it was enlarged to 397 members. The term of office was initially set at three years, and in 1888 this was extended to five years. The Reichstag was opened once a year by the Emperor. In order to dissolve parliament, the approval of the Imperial Council and the emperor were required. Members of parliament enjoyed legal immunity and indemnity. With the end of Hitler's Regime and Cabinet, the newly formed cabinet under the returning Emperor Wilhelm II ruled with the support of the German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) and some of the more or less monarchistic elements of the former Nazi government that had survived the coup. With the return of the Emperor and the later recreation of the whole German Empire as a hegemonic state in central Europe, the DNVP had a major role in the new democracy and helped to establish the old aristocratic power that returned with their monarchistic supporters.
Other parties were once again allowed, like the German People's Party (German: Deutsche Volkspartei, or DVP), the successor of the National Liberal Party (German: Nationalliberale Partei, NLP), the German Progress Party (German: Deutsche Fortschrittspartei, DFP), the German Centre Party (German: Deutsche Zentrumspartei or just Zentrum), the Bavarian People's Party (German: Bayerische Volkspartei; BVP), the Christian Social People's Service (German: Christlich-Sozialer Volksdienst), the German State Party (German: Deutsche Staatspartei or DstP), the German Farmers' Party (German: Deutsche Bauernpartei, or DBP)-that had a protection policy against the Grain coming from the Kingdom of Ukrainia- or German Peasants' Party, the Imperial Agricultural League (German: Reichs-Landbund) or National Rural League, the German-Hanoverian Party (German: Deutsch-Hannoversche Partei, DHP) and some other minor parties. Some new parties, like the German Hegemony Party (German: Deutsche Hegemonialpartei), German Colonial Society (German: Deutsche Kolonialbund) and others were created to promote special interests and ideas in the new powerful German Empire. Other parties like the Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) were looked at suspicious and lost parts of their voter base to other parties, while some like the Communist Party of Germany (German: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, KPD) and other communists and marxists in Germany or the British Union/ British Union of Royalist Fascists and National Monarchists in England were outright banned as enemies of the state. During the Second Great War, the elected governments of these nations mostly stood behind their leaders and supported the war, some like in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Great Britain even formed a so called National Union Governments a coalition [known as the
Imperial Coalition (German: Kaiserkoalition) in Germany], that tried to stabilize the state and the government for the duration of the war and unify them on the most important topics and goals of their states.
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If the Japanese want to secure themselves and their Allies in the Pacific and Asia, they need to take Port Moresby. It seems the New Guinea campaign is proceeding as it did historically though.
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Chapter 180: Hitler's former Cabinet - A tale of Joseph Goebbels
Chapter 180: Hitler's former Cabinet - A tale of Joseph Goebbels:
Paul Joseph Goebbels (born 29 October 1897) was a German politician and the Minister of Propaganda since 1933. He became one of Emperor Wilhelm III's close associates and most devoted followers, and was known for his skills in public speaking and his deep, virulent antisemitism, which he had to dial down in public peaches on orders of Wilhelm III from 1941 onward. Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of heidelberg in 1921. He joined the Nazi Party in 1924, and worked with Gregor Strasser in their northern branch. He was appointed as Gauleiter (district leader) for Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its program. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry quickly gained and exerted controlling supervision over the news media, arts, and information in Germany. He was particularly adept at using the relatively new media of radio and film for propaganda purposes. Topics for party propaganda included antisemitism, attacks on the Christian churches, and (after the start of the Second Great War) attempting to shape morale.
With the military-monarchistic coup that brought back Emperor Wilhelm II and the German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) as the leader of the Reichstag's Imperial Coalition (German: Kaiserkoalition), Joseph Goebbels was charged with treason as one of Hitler's closest and most powerful man. Thanks to his talented speeches during his own trial and the fact of his successful minister under Hitler, Joseph Goebbels managed to swing public opinion and convince the audience, judges and the Emperor, that it was partly his propaganda and speeches, that paved the base for the monarchistic influence in the Nazi Regime and their successful coup. Joseph Goebbels continued his new ministry, this time directed by the German Emperor and supported the Emperor's decision to introduce measures that would produce moral support for the continuing fight and total war, including closing businesses not essential to the war effort, conscripting women into the labor force, and enlisting men in previously exempt occupations into the Imperial German Army. Joseph Goebbels new imperial propaganda dialed back the antisemitism and his attacks on Christian churches greatly on orders of the German Emperor, even more so after Hitler and the rest of the former leading Nazi's were gone or forced to bow before the Emperor's will. Goebbels not only propagated the fight for the German Empire and it's Hegemonic position in Europe against the rotten Allied Democracies as he called them, but he also called for the Crusade against Communist Bolshevism and the Comintern and promoted the ideals and propaganda of the German/Teutonic Order (German: German Order), German Colonial Society (German: Deutsche Kolonialbund) and other similar societies that had partly the same goals as the former Nazi regime, or even a huge part of members coming from within their ranks or other conservative fascist royalist/national monarchists groups.
Under Joseph Goebbels propaganda shows like the daily radio program the Emperor Speaks (German: Kaiseransprache), or the movie Wilhelm and his Empire were produced, promoted and showed all over the German Empire and even in other states of the Axis Central Powers controlled Europe. For the Allies, Goebbels would remain a symbol of the German regime and often viewed as the second voice of the German Empire right after Emperor Wilhelm II himself. Inside the Soviet Union and under the Communists and Comintern pact, Goebbels soon was equal famous as he was the main propagator of a united European Monarchistic Crusade against Eastern Bolshevism and even broadcast speeches and proclamations of Tsar Vladimir in the parts of the Soviet Union that Axis Central Power Forces had liberated from Stalin and the Soviet Union. This lead to the assassination attempt on Joseph Goebbels, by Soviet spies on orders of Stalin during 1941 that would sadly for the leader of the Red Army not succeed.
Paul Joseph Goebbels (born 29 October 1897) was a German politician and the Minister of Propaganda since 1933. He became one of Emperor Wilhelm III's close associates and most devoted followers, and was known for his skills in public speaking and his deep, virulent antisemitism, which he had to dial down in public peaches on orders of Wilhelm III from 1941 onward. Goebbels, who aspired to be an author, obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of heidelberg in 1921. He joined the Nazi Party in 1924, and worked with Gregor Strasser in their northern branch. He was appointed as Gauleiter (district leader) for Berlin in 1926, where he began to take an interest in the use of propaganda to promote the party and its program. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry quickly gained and exerted controlling supervision over the news media, arts, and information in Germany. He was particularly adept at using the relatively new media of radio and film for propaganda purposes. Topics for party propaganda included antisemitism, attacks on the Christian churches, and (after the start of the Second Great War) attempting to shape morale.
With the military-monarchistic coup that brought back Emperor Wilhelm II and the German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei, DNVP) as the leader of the Reichstag's Imperial Coalition (German: Kaiserkoalition), Joseph Goebbels was charged with treason as one of Hitler's closest and most powerful man. Thanks to his talented speeches during his own trial and the fact of his successful minister under Hitler, Joseph Goebbels managed to swing public opinion and convince the audience, judges and the Emperor, that it was partly his propaganda and speeches, that paved the base for the monarchistic influence in the Nazi Regime and their successful coup. Joseph Goebbels continued his new ministry, this time directed by the German Emperor and supported the Emperor's decision to introduce measures that would produce moral support for the continuing fight and total war, including closing businesses not essential to the war effort, conscripting women into the labor force, and enlisting men in previously exempt occupations into the Imperial German Army. Joseph Goebbels new imperial propaganda dialed back the antisemitism and his attacks on Christian churches greatly on orders of the German Emperor, even more so after Hitler and the rest of the former leading Nazi's were gone or forced to bow before the Emperor's will. Goebbels not only propagated the fight for the German Empire and it's Hegemonic position in Europe against the rotten Allied Democracies as he called them, but he also called for the Crusade against Communist Bolshevism and the Comintern and promoted the ideals and propaganda of the German/Teutonic Order (German: German Order), German Colonial Society (German: Deutsche Kolonialbund) and other similar societies that had partly the same goals as the former Nazi regime, or even a huge part of members coming from within their ranks or other conservative fascist royalist/national monarchists groups.
Under Joseph Goebbels propaganda shows like the daily radio program the Emperor Speaks (German: Kaiseransprache), or the movie Wilhelm and his Empire were produced, promoted and showed all over the German Empire and even in other states of the Axis Central Powers controlled Europe. For the Allies, Goebbels would remain a symbol of the German regime and often viewed as the second voice of the German Empire right after Emperor Wilhelm II himself. Inside the Soviet Union and under the Communists and Comintern pact, Goebbels soon was equal famous as he was the main propagator of a united European Monarchistic Crusade against Eastern Bolshevism and even broadcast speeches and proclamations of Tsar Vladimir in the parts of the Soviet Union that Axis Central Power Forces had liberated from Stalin and the Soviet Union. This lead to the assassination attempt on Joseph Goebbels, by Soviet spies on orders of Stalin during 1941 that would sadly for the leader of the Red Army not succeed.
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"Hitler's former Cabinet - A tale of ..." will be a new series of chapters dealing with the fate of prominent Nazi's or parts of Hitler's government, including all the ones listed there, plus Reinhard Heydrich, Joseph Mengele ...
if you have any other ones that you are interested what they did or ended up TTL please let me know.
if you have any other ones that you are interested what they did or ended up TTL please let me know.
Oh dear, when I referred to Goebbels I did not imagine it would be a series. What could Reinhard Heydrich be up to? [shivers]
Spoiler alert, not all of them survive *cought* Himmler, *cought* ^^
But it gave me the idea for another nice TTL internal series.
It's coming, but thanks to my new job, longer chapters or these longer to research in total will take some time to come in al TL's.
So what happened to the Jewish people after Wilhelm and the Monarchists took over? While anti-semitism would not die down completely with Hitler still chancellor and much of the German population still hyped on Nazi bullshit, the worst laws can be repealed and a "Final Solution" prevented completely. Many German Jews were patriotic during the first world war, would be a waste to still keep them suppressed while you're waging total war against the Soviet Union.
I would think the actual race laws get repealed but there is significant sentiment among the populace remaining.
Both is right, the laws were repealed, but a anti-semitic sentiment remained through out Germany and Europe, with the exception of White Ruthenia that openly welcomes Jewish immigrants TTL. We will learn more about it in the next chapter and a later general upgrade on the situation on Jews in he world at that time.
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Chapter 181: Hitler's former Cabinet - A tale of Heinrich Himmler
Chapter 181: Hitler's former Cabinet - A tale of Heinrich Himmler:
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (born 7 October 1900) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffe (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Germany. Himmler was on the rise to become one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany under Hitler. As a member of a reserve battalion during World War I, Himmler did not see active service. He studied agronomy in university, and joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and the SS in 1925. In 1929, he was appointed Reichsführer-SS by Hitler. Over the next years, he developed the SS from a mere 290-man battalion into a strong paramilitary group, and, following Hitler's orders, set up and controlled the Nazi concentration camps. He was known to have good organisational skills and for selecting highly competent subordinates, such as Reinhard Heydrich in 1931. He was both Chief of Prussian Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). Himmler had a lifelong interest in occultism, interpreting Germanic neopagan and Völkisch beliefs to promote the racial policy of Nazi Germany, and incorporating esoteric symbolism and rituals into the SS.
With the military coup against Hitler the anti-Semitic propaganda dialed down greatly and was not openly promoted like before. Sentiments against Jews did not suddenly stop, but the end of their support and promotion by the new National Monarchist Government helped a lot. The Monarchists remembered that the Jews fought as patriotic German soldiers in the First Great War and Wilhelm II while a Anti-Semite himself believed their direct support for him during this troublesome times, could help more then their removal from the public life. Heinrich Himmler himself and many other anti-Semitic members of the SS died during the coup by the military or were later shot as traitors of the German Empire that had sided with the Nazi Regime against Germany and it's people. Emperor Wilhelm II therefore god rid of the racial laws, but did not openly encourage the returning of any Jews left. Many Jews in Axis Central Power controlled Europe started to flee or migrate to White Ruthenia in the East. This all only changed, when Hitler and Wilhelm II died and his son, Wilhelm III took over as the new German Emperor. He knew that the Jews were treated badly by the Bolshevik Communists in the Soviet Union and that their treatment under the Nazis had left bad reputation on a civilized Empire such as Germany.
But just because Himmler and most of the SS was gone, didn't mean that heir believes and ideologies were gone too. Many still believed that the Germans should colonize new regions in Eastern Europe or Africa. Some of this former Nazi's and SS members joined the military and were part of the Teutonic/German Order in the Baltic, that believed it was his mission to recreate the Teutonic Order State by taking over the United Baltic Duchy. Others tried to infiltrate the military and the new government but to a low succeed. Another prominent group besides the German/Teutonic Order (German: German Order), German Colonial Society (German: Deutsche Kolonialbund) that was infiltrated by the SS was the Burgundian Order or the Knights of Burgundia, another military order, that dreamed of recreating the old border between France and the Holy Roman Empire in Burgund. They and others inside the new powerful German Empire believed that not only territories in the East of Europe and enemy African colonies, but also annex former German regions in the West (United Netherlands) or the South (Italy) for their victorious German Empire.
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (born 7 October 1900) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffe (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Germany. Himmler was on the rise to become one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany under Hitler. As a member of a reserve battalion during World War I, Himmler did not see active service. He studied agronomy in university, and joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and the SS in 1925. In 1929, he was appointed Reichsführer-SS by Hitler. Over the next years, he developed the SS from a mere 290-man battalion into a strong paramilitary group, and, following Hitler's orders, set up and controlled the Nazi concentration camps. He was known to have good organisational skills and for selecting highly competent subordinates, such as Reinhard Heydrich in 1931. He was both Chief of Prussian Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). Himmler had a lifelong interest in occultism, interpreting Germanic neopagan and Völkisch beliefs to promote the racial policy of Nazi Germany, and incorporating esoteric symbolism and rituals into the SS.
With the military coup against Hitler the anti-Semitic propaganda dialed down greatly and was not openly promoted like before. Sentiments against Jews did not suddenly stop, but the end of their support and promotion by the new National Monarchist Government helped a lot. The Monarchists remembered that the Jews fought as patriotic German soldiers in the First Great War and Wilhelm II while a Anti-Semite himself believed their direct support for him during this troublesome times, could help more then their removal from the public life. Heinrich Himmler himself and many other anti-Semitic members of the SS died during the coup by the military or were later shot as traitors of the German Empire that had sided with the Nazi Regime against Germany and it's people. Emperor Wilhelm II therefore god rid of the racial laws, but did not openly encourage the returning of any Jews left. Many Jews in Axis Central Power controlled Europe started to flee or migrate to White Ruthenia in the East. This all only changed, when Hitler and Wilhelm II died and his son, Wilhelm III took over as the new German Emperor. He knew that the Jews were treated badly by the Bolshevik Communists in the Soviet Union and that their treatment under the Nazis had left bad reputation on a civilized Empire such as Germany.
But just because Himmler and most of the SS was gone, didn't mean that heir believes and ideologies were gone too. Many still believed that the Germans should colonize new regions in Eastern Europe or Africa. Some of this former Nazi's and SS members joined the military and were part of the Teutonic/German Order in the Baltic, that believed it was his mission to recreate the Teutonic Order State by taking over the United Baltic Duchy. Others tried to infiltrate the military and the new government but to a low succeed. Another prominent group besides the German/Teutonic Order (German: German Order), German Colonial Society (German: Deutsche Kolonialbund) that was infiltrated by the SS was the Burgundian Order or the Knights of Burgundia, another military order, that dreamed of recreating the old border between France and the Holy Roman Empire in Burgund. They and others inside the new powerful German Empire believed that not only territories in the East of Europe and enemy African colonies, but also annex former German regions in the West (United Netherlands) or the South (Italy) for their victorious German Empire.
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Chapter 182: The Pathet Lao
Chapter 182: The Pathet Lao:
With only small supports coming from China, Ho-Chi Minh had problems to support his communist revolution of a free Soviet Indochina without foreign support and help. He knew with the Japanese liberation of Indochina and the establishment of their puppet regimes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, his idea of a Communist state that unified and still liberated all of Indochina was slowly dying. To still have a chance, Ho allied with the various communist, independence or rebel groups and even some gangs in Laos (later this alliance network also including French Colonial soldier guerrillas). This alliance included the former Laotian King Sisavang Vong who had been overthrown by the Lao Issara (“United Free Laos”) movement of the former Prince and new King Phetsarath, that had become the new government under the Japanese. As a plot of Lao King Sisivang Von to ally with the French and Communist guerrillas was uncovered by the Japanese and the Lao Issarta, they arrested the king and made Phetsarath the new King. As the new Lao Issara government expended its authority by establishing the Royal Laotian Army as a defense force under the command of Phetsarath’s younger half-brother Souphanouvong, Communist rebels liberated the former King Sisavang Vong. Nearly immediately Minh and Vong became natural allies against the Japanese and the Lao Issara government under King Phetsarath, just as they became allies with the French Colonial soldier guerrillas. Together they contacted other rebellious groups that opposed the Japanese and the new government, like the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (Lao: Phak Pasason Pativat Lao), the Lao People's Party, or the Lao Patriotic Front (Lao: Neo Lao Hak Xat) to form a united coalition front against a common enemy.
Heavily supported and trained by Vietnamese communists, the Viet Minh (Vietnamese: the League for the Independence of Vietnam) and the Viet Cong (Vietnamese: the National Liberation Front) under Ho-Chi Minh, they formed the Pathet Lao (Lao: Lao Nation) as a communist political unifying movement and rebellious guerrilla alliance of the smaller groups. Because of their support and influence, the Pathet Lao were always closely associated with Ho-Chi Monh, the Viet Minh and the Viet Cong. Together they unified the small bands, gangs and rebellious movements to a unified force that fought together with their allied of the Viet Cong/Minh against the Royal Lao Issara government and turned the small rebellions in a full out Laotian Civil War. Growing between 1941 and 1943 the Pathet Lao was well organized, and efficiently equipped by their Vietnamese allies the best they could and soon the term Pathet Lao became the generic name for Laotian communists and resistance fighters against the Lao Issara Government, the Japanese and the Co-Prosperity Sphere. It was the same strategy that Ho-Chi Minh would use to transform groups like the Khmer Issarak (Free Khmer, or Independent Khmer) movements into the Khmer Rouge (Khmer: Khmer Kror-Horm/ Red Khmers) the Cambodian (Khmer) communists (rouge, French for red) part of his Indochinese Soviet Revolution against the European Colonial Powers and the Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere.
With originally nearly the same ideas and ideals as the Lao Issara, the Pathet Lao believed that the Japanese backed Lao Issarta government and their new king were mere puppets of the Japanese and their Co-Prosperity Sphere, just like the former one had been a puppet in a French Protectorate. Together they joined the Viet Minh's revolt against the Co-Prosperity Sphere authorities in Indochina during the Second Great War. With the former Laotian King Sisavang Vong as a popular figurehead, Ho-Chi Minh believed to use him as a communist puppet in a Soviet Laos that would be a provincial part of the greater Soviet Indochina. Unknown to Ho, Vong secretly still sided with the French and plotter with them against the Communists to once again return to French Protectorate status with a then more independent Laotian State. Under the former King, the Pathet Lao founded resistance government. This was an attempt to give a false front of authority to the Lao communist movement by claiming to represent a united effort. Quiet a few of its most important founders were members of the Indochinese Communist Party, which advocated an overthrow of the monarchy as well as expulsion of the Japanese and the French should they later return. Despite this ideals and goals, the Pathet Lao and the Viet Minh were quiet open for allied supplies, weapons and founding for their guerrilla war against the Japanese, just as they were before open for the Japanese support in their guerrilla war against the French Colonial Rule.
In 1943, Pathet Lao fighters accompanied an invasion of Laos by greater numbers of Viet Minh forces in hopes to weaken the Lao Issara government and established a counter government in the provinces that their rebellious forces controlled. While this expanded Ho's influence and power in Indochina and forced the Japanese and their allied governments of the Empire of Vietnam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Kingdom of Laos and the Empire of Siam/Thailand to send more troops and even smaller armies in the area, this Laotian Civil War had little effect on the Asia and Pacific War as well as the overall Second Great War they were a part of. Secretly Ho-Chi Minh and not King Vong (as believed by many Laotians that opposed the Lao Issara government) controlled and directed the Pathet Lao movement. Its stated goal was to wage the communist struggle against Capitalism, Coprospism, National Monarchism, Fascist Royalism and any foreign colonialism and imperialism. The Vietnamese Communist openly supplied, trained and militarily supported the Pathet Lao. The typical strategy during this era was for Vietnamese Communist trained guerrilla fighters to attack first, but then send in the lesser experienced Pathet Lao at the end of the battle to claim victory for their movement.
With only small supports coming from China, Ho-Chi Minh had problems to support his communist revolution of a free Soviet Indochina without foreign support and help. He knew with the Japanese liberation of Indochina and the establishment of their puppet regimes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, his idea of a Communist state that unified and still liberated all of Indochina was slowly dying. To still have a chance, Ho allied with the various communist, independence or rebel groups and even some gangs in Laos (later this alliance network also including French Colonial soldier guerrillas). This alliance included the former Laotian King Sisavang Vong who had been overthrown by the Lao Issara (“United Free Laos”) movement of the former Prince and new King Phetsarath, that had become the new government under the Japanese. As a plot of Lao King Sisivang Von to ally with the French and Communist guerrillas was uncovered by the Japanese and the Lao Issarta, they arrested the king and made Phetsarath the new King. As the new Lao Issara government expended its authority by establishing the Royal Laotian Army as a defense force under the command of Phetsarath’s younger half-brother Souphanouvong, Communist rebels liberated the former King Sisavang Vong. Nearly immediately Minh and Vong became natural allies against the Japanese and the Lao Issara government under King Phetsarath, just as they became allies with the French Colonial soldier guerrillas. Together they contacted other rebellious groups that opposed the Japanese and the new government, like the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (Lao: Phak Pasason Pativat Lao), the Lao People's Party, or the Lao Patriotic Front (Lao: Neo Lao Hak Xat) to form a united coalition front against a common enemy.
Heavily supported and trained by Vietnamese communists, the Viet Minh (Vietnamese: the League for the Independence of Vietnam) and the Viet Cong (Vietnamese: the National Liberation Front) under Ho-Chi Minh, they formed the Pathet Lao (Lao: Lao Nation) as a communist political unifying movement and rebellious guerrilla alliance of the smaller groups. Because of their support and influence, the Pathet Lao were always closely associated with Ho-Chi Monh, the Viet Minh and the Viet Cong. Together they unified the small bands, gangs and rebellious movements to a unified force that fought together with their allied of the Viet Cong/Minh against the Royal Lao Issara government and turned the small rebellions in a full out Laotian Civil War. Growing between 1941 and 1943 the Pathet Lao was well organized, and efficiently equipped by their Vietnamese allies the best they could and soon the term Pathet Lao became the generic name for Laotian communists and resistance fighters against the Lao Issara Government, the Japanese and the Co-Prosperity Sphere. It was the same strategy that Ho-Chi Minh would use to transform groups like the Khmer Issarak (Free Khmer, or Independent Khmer) movements into the Khmer Rouge (Khmer: Khmer Kror-Horm/ Red Khmers) the Cambodian (Khmer) communists (rouge, French for red) part of his Indochinese Soviet Revolution against the European Colonial Powers and the Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere.
With originally nearly the same ideas and ideals as the Lao Issara, the Pathet Lao believed that the Japanese backed Lao Issarta government and their new king were mere puppets of the Japanese and their Co-Prosperity Sphere, just like the former one had been a puppet in a French Protectorate. Together they joined the Viet Minh's revolt against the Co-Prosperity Sphere authorities in Indochina during the Second Great War. With the former Laotian King Sisavang Vong as a popular figurehead, Ho-Chi Minh believed to use him as a communist puppet in a Soviet Laos that would be a provincial part of the greater Soviet Indochina. Unknown to Ho, Vong secretly still sided with the French and plotter with them against the Communists to once again return to French Protectorate status with a then more independent Laotian State. Under the former King, the Pathet Lao founded resistance government. This was an attempt to give a false front of authority to the Lao communist movement by claiming to represent a united effort. Quiet a few of its most important founders were members of the Indochinese Communist Party, which advocated an overthrow of the monarchy as well as expulsion of the Japanese and the French should they later return. Despite this ideals and goals, the Pathet Lao and the Viet Minh were quiet open for allied supplies, weapons and founding for their guerrilla war against the Japanese, just as they were before open for the Japanese support in their guerrilla war against the French Colonial Rule.
In 1943, Pathet Lao fighters accompanied an invasion of Laos by greater numbers of Viet Minh forces in hopes to weaken the Lao Issara government and established a counter government in the provinces that their rebellious forces controlled. While this expanded Ho's influence and power in Indochina and forced the Japanese and their allied governments of the Empire of Vietnam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Kingdom of Laos and the Empire of Siam/Thailand to send more troops and even smaller armies in the area, this Laotian Civil War had little effect on the Asia and Pacific War as well as the overall Second Great War they were a part of. Secretly Ho-Chi Minh and not King Vong (as believed by many Laotians that opposed the Lao Issara government) controlled and directed the Pathet Lao movement. Its stated goal was to wage the communist struggle against Capitalism, Coprospism, National Monarchism, Fascist Royalism and any foreign colonialism and imperialism. The Vietnamese Communist openly supplied, trained and militarily supported the Pathet Lao. The typical strategy during this era was for Vietnamese Communist trained guerrilla fighters to attack first, but then send in the lesser experienced Pathet Lao at the end of the battle to claim victory for their movement.
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Chapter 183: Hitler's former Cabinet - A tale of Konstantin von Neurath
Chapter 183: Hitler's former Cabinet - A tale of Konstantin von Neurath:
Konstantin Hermann Karl Freiherr von Neurath (born 2 February 1873) was a German diplomat that served as the Foreign minister of Nazi Germany between 1932 and 1938. Holding this post in the early years of Adolf Hitler's regime, Neurath was regarded as playing a key role in the foreign policy pursuits of the Nazi dictator in undermining the Treaty of Versailles and territorial expansion in the prelude to the Second Great War, although he was often averse tactically if not necessarily ideologically. This aversion eventually induced Hitler to replace Neurath with the more compliant and fervent Nazi Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1938. This saved Konstantin von Neurath when the German military had their coup against Hitler and his regime. The returning Emperor Wilhelm II was quiet impressed by von Neurath and his successes and quickly reinstalled him in his old position as the Foreign minister of the German Empire.
Under von Neurath the German Empire and Emperor Wilhelm II reshaped Europe in their own image and created the New Order that should dominate and rule the continent from now on. Under von Neurath the Germans negotiated peace with Fascist France and managed to get them actively fighting for the Axis Central Powers in exchange for minor territorial losses in a mild peace and the acceptance of their King as a Emperor inside the new Europe. With von Neurath as the Foreign minister, the German Empire also negotiated the Astrian-Hungarian - Italian compromise in their interests in the Balcan Peninsula, that lead to both factions leading to join the Axis Central Powers. As a loyal follower of the returned German Emperor Wilhelm II von Neurath played a major role in the growing Axis Central Powers alliance that soon had control over most of Europe in 1941. It was Konstantin von Neurath that convinced the members of the Axis Central Power alliance to join the Economic Union (EU in short) of the German Empire with diplomatic measures instead of pressure alone as the German General Staff would have tried to do. Thanks to von Neurath and Red Army prisoners of war, as well as the population inside the liberated parts of western Russia, the Germans and their Axis Central Powers allies also were convinced that the Soviet Union could be crushed from inside and not only by a outer attack like the Crusade tried at first.
Konstantin von Neurath then tried to form the Axis Central Powers into a European alliance of patriotic fatherlands that would withstand the Allies Capitalism and the Soviet Bolshevist Communism as a bulwark of National Monarchism/ Fascist Royalism and called it the most European of all Ideologies. While Joseph Goebbels was sometimes called the Emperor's voice, von Neurath soon became known as his loyal delegate that would sign contracts and other important diplomatic documents representative for the Emperor himself. It was von Neurath that would make Prague the Two-Emperor-Capital, because he organized meetings between the German and the Austrian-Hungarian Emperor here on a regular basis. Other plans and diplomatic initiatives by von Neurath were not as successful, or outright failed. His attempt to get the Kingdom of England or later the Kingdom of Portugal to join the Axis Central Powers were as big failures as his attempts to negotiate a peace deal with England and the Allies after 1939 on several occasions until the Eastern Crusade began in 1941.
Konstantin Hermann Karl Freiherr von Neurath (born 2 February 1873) was a German diplomat that served as the Foreign minister of Nazi Germany between 1932 and 1938. Holding this post in the early years of Adolf Hitler's regime, Neurath was regarded as playing a key role in the foreign policy pursuits of the Nazi dictator in undermining the Treaty of Versailles and territorial expansion in the prelude to the Second Great War, although he was often averse tactically if not necessarily ideologically. This aversion eventually induced Hitler to replace Neurath with the more compliant and fervent Nazi Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1938. This saved Konstantin von Neurath when the German military had their coup against Hitler and his regime. The returning Emperor Wilhelm II was quiet impressed by von Neurath and his successes and quickly reinstalled him in his old position as the Foreign minister of the German Empire.
Under von Neurath the German Empire and Emperor Wilhelm II reshaped Europe in their own image and created the New Order that should dominate and rule the continent from now on. Under von Neurath the Germans negotiated peace with Fascist France and managed to get them actively fighting for the Axis Central Powers in exchange for minor territorial losses in a mild peace and the acceptance of their King as a Emperor inside the new Europe. With von Neurath as the Foreign minister, the German Empire also negotiated the Astrian-Hungarian - Italian compromise in their interests in the Balcan Peninsula, that lead to both factions leading to join the Axis Central Powers. As a loyal follower of the returned German Emperor Wilhelm II von Neurath played a major role in the growing Axis Central Powers alliance that soon had control over most of Europe in 1941. It was Konstantin von Neurath that convinced the members of the Axis Central Power alliance to join the Economic Union (EU in short) of the German Empire with diplomatic measures instead of pressure alone as the German General Staff would have tried to do. Thanks to von Neurath and Red Army prisoners of war, as well as the population inside the liberated parts of western Russia, the Germans and their Axis Central Powers allies also were convinced that the Soviet Union could be crushed from inside and not only by a outer attack like the Crusade tried at first.
Konstantin von Neurath then tried to form the Axis Central Powers into a European alliance of patriotic fatherlands that would withstand the Allies Capitalism and the Soviet Bolshevist Communism as a bulwark of National Monarchism/ Fascist Royalism and called it the most European of all Ideologies. While Joseph Goebbels was sometimes called the Emperor's voice, von Neurath soon became known as his loyal delegate that would sign contracts and other important diplomatic documents representative for the Emperor himself. It was von Neurath that would make Prague the Two-Emperor-Capital, because he organized meetings between the German and the Austrian-Hungarian Emperor here on a regular basis. Other plans and diplomatic initiatives by von Neurath were not as successful, or outright failed. His attempt to get the Kingdom of England or later the Kingdom of Portugal to join the Axis Central Powers were as big failures as his attempts to negotiate a peace deal with England and the Allies after 1939 on several occasions until the Eastern Crusade began in 1941.
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