Chapter 343: National Monarchism: Danish Christianism
Chapter 343: National Monarchism: Danish Christianism
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The National Monarchism in Denmark was unlike any other in the Axis Central Powers, thanks to King Christian X. As a member of House of Glücksburg, a Dano-German branch of the House of Oldenburg, he was born into the Danish royal family, both his father and his grandfather were born as princes of a German ducal family. While he was authoritarian, with a strong stress of the importance of royal dignity and power, had led to the Easter Crisis of 1920, when he dismissed a democratic elected cabine. His popularity was quiet low afterwards, but Christian managed to convince the public of his good attentions by actions during the Second Great War. While only of symbolic value, he rode trought the streets of Copenhagen unaccompanied by guards every day and became a symbol of resisting the German occupation. In solidary to the Danish Jews, he wore the Star of David until the German Empire stopped it's anti-Semitic laws and politics with the end of Adolf Hitler. His reign spanned two world wars, and thanks to his role as a rallying symbol for Danish national sentiment during the German Occupation, he became one of the most popular Danish monarchs of modern times.

It was Christian X who quickly realized that the flat Danish land could not withstand the Imeprial German tanks for very long period of time, Jutland would have been overrun quickly and without any mountain ranges from wich a draw-out resistance could be mounted against the Imperial German army, Denmark's Army, Navy and the Danish Army Air Corps stood no chance. With the threat of the Imperial German Air Force bombing Copenhagen and only one of his generals in favor of continuing fighting, Christian X and the entire Danish government capitulated, in exchange for maintaining political independence in domestic matters. As a strategic important region for Scandinavia and the Battle for Britain, Denmark remained occupied by German forces. Unlike others, who went into Exile, like Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, King Peter II of Yugoslavia, President Edvard Beneš of Czechoslovakia and others, during the Imperial German occupation of their countries, Christian X remained in his capital. His brother King Haakon VII of Norway had triked the Germns into supporing him insead if Prime Minister Quislings and gained a huge support base in the Nasjonal Samling and the Hirden in Norway. At the same time however King Leopold III of Belgium had been imprisoned in Belgium by the German Empire and his state had been split up by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the French Empire.
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In support of collaboration with the German Empire and the Axis Central Powers were the National Monarchist Party of Denmark (Danish: Danmarks Nationalmonarcistiske Arbejderparti; DNMAP), the Danish foreign minister and prime minister Erik Julius Christian Scavenius, Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (German: Helene Adelheid Viktoria Marie) the third eldest daughter of Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, a princess of Denmark through her marriage within the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg to Prince Harald of Denmark. Princess Helena and other pro-German, pro-Axis Central Powers and National Monarchist sympathiser during the Second Great War supported the HIPO Corps (Danish: HIPO-korpset) was a Danish auxiliary police corps (the word HIPO is an abbreviation of the German word Hilfspolizei or auxiliary police), established by the German Military Police, the Lorenzen Group (Danish: Lorenzengruppen) and Peter Group (Danish: Petergruppen) two armed paramilitary groups, the Danish People's Defence (Danish: Dansk Folke Værn or Dansk Folkeværn) was the civilian arm of the Danish Schalburg Corps and the Free Corps Denmark (Danish: Frikorps Danmark) was a Danish volunteer free corps created by the DNMAP, all recruited from the ranks of Danish Namo collaborators.

When Germany later implemened Martial Law in August 1942, Christian's official speeches reflected the government's official policy of cooperation with the occupying forces, but this did not prevent him being seen by the Danish people as a man of "mental resistance." During the first two years of the German occupation, in spite of his age and the precarious situation, he nonetheless took a daily ride on his horse, Jubilee, through Copenhagen, unaccompanied by a groom, let alone by a guard. He did so in order to demonstrate that he did not abandon his sovereign rights in th face of occupation. When the Germen Emperor Wilhelm send king Christian X a telegram in 1942, congratulating him on his seventy-second birthday, the king's reply telegram was a mere, Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus. Chr. Rex (Giving my best thanks, King Christian). This perceived slight, known as the Telegram Crisis, greatly outraged the German Emperor and he recalled his ambassador from Copenhagen and expelled the Danish ambassador from Germany, threatening Denmark with full occupation and declaring martial law (officially in response to some Danish resistance groups). German pressure then resulted in the dismissal of the government led by Vilhelm Buhl and its replacement with a new cabinet led by non-party member and veteran diplomat Erik Scavenius, who the Germans expected would be more cooperative. Unknown to the Germans, however had the full confidence of the king, who recognized the increasing Imperial German and Namo threat to Denmark. Denmark had already lost parts of his southern territory to Germany and Christian X feared that, whatever independence Denmark had been able to maintain during the first years of the occupation would end abruptly with the German putsch in August 1942.
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After a fall with his horse on 19 October 1942, Christian X was more or less an invalid for the rest of his reign and life. While the role he played in creating the Easter Crisis of 1920 greatly reduced his popularity, his daily rides, the Telegram Crisis and the admiring stories spread by Danish circles all around the world had once again made him popular to the point of being a beloved national symbol. The pressure put on Denmark and the Danish during the Second Great War after the Telegram Crisis and the German declaration of Martial Law in the country, forced Christian X to sign the Integration Treaty (also Treaty of Coppenhagen) that integrated Denmark into Germany. Fearing that total annexation like in Belgium, might happen to Denmark too, Christian X saw this as the only way to save at least a little bit of Danish independence, national sovereignity and dignity. Much like the Kingdom of Bavaria, the Kingdom of Denmark became a German State, but the Danish (now officially a German minority group like Saxons, Bavarians and others) had special rights reguarding it's internal politics and freedom within the German Empire. This independence over it's army, railways, post office, diplomatic body, parliament and internal elections was the main reason King Christian X accepted the treaty instead of handing the government over toa German Miliary Administration. Despite this forced treaty that brought Denmark into Germany, Christian X would be remained as a fighter for Danish independence, nationalism, souvereignity and dignite (leading to the double meaning of his form of National-monarchism; Christianism, a reference to christian morals and the Danish democratic opposition against to much Namo and Faro authoritarianism), even long after his death on 20 April 1947.
 
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Also does Denmark national monarchism like its otl counterpart seek to create a colonial empire with congo and dutch indonesia.
Also is brazilian integrataism a more powerful force in this timeline?
 
Very interesting, I wonder about the white peace, will it be a costly peace for britain?
In terms of money yes, the war has already cost England much and it as well as america will get out of it poorly (leading to Mosley as the Prime Minister cementing his rule over England and the Empire and changing society further), however territorial changes will remain "few", loosing only what they have already lost in Asia, and Africa with the addition of loosing some territories in Africa that go to Italy, Spain, Fascist France or Germany (but Austria-Hungary will get nothing from the African Cake). Britain will keep some Colonies in Africa and later sell a few of them to Italy, Germany, France and Spain to get money after the war debt to secure and hold onto India and the rest of it's Empire.
Also does Denmark national monarchism like its otl counterpart seek to create a colonial empire with congo and dutch indonesia.
Also is brazilian integrataism a more powerful force in this timeline?
Denmark will not seek any colonies as it is defacto a German member state of the German Empire under his own King, like bavaria and Saxony by the end of the war (loosing Iceland and other oversea territories).
Yes Brazilian Integralism will rise more powerfull TTL during and after the war as the victory of ACP and C-PS forces boosts this winning ideologies greatly in contrast to the falling Soviet, Communist and Socialists views or the last remnants of capitalism and democracy in America. After all TTL will be a dystopia, even if not as bad and evil as a true Nazi-Axis victory would ever have been (wouldn't like to write that one even if i like alterate and very different realities in alternate history).
 
Chapter 344: Andaman Island Horrors
Chapter 344: Andaman Island Horrors:
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With the integration of the Nicobar Islands into the Kingdom of Siam/ Thailand and the Andaman Island into the newly independent Kingdom of Burma, the Co-Prosperity Sphere started to put garrison forces in these regions, to shield it's western coastal trade and flank from Allied raids and invasions. In north and middle Andaman some Indians lived alongside the native Great Andamanese and Jarawa populations, as well as the Onge in South Andaman Island and the Sentinelese in South Sentinel Island. Many who had been brought to the island were prisoners from British India and Burma, only a few worked on plantations and farms. Occupied by Japan during the Second Great War, there was a divide who should rule the islands once liberated. The Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind (Provisional Government of Free India) lead by Subhas Chandra Bose, claimed the islan for a independent indian state, but Siam/Thailand and Burma also claimed the region for their own states. While Bose visited the island during the war to support his claim, he renamed them Shaheed (Martyr) & Swaraj (Self-rule). While Bose raised the flag of Indian independence on the island during his visit, the Japanese decided to give the Nicobar Islands to Siam/ Thailand, as a secure ouer base for the future planned Cra/Kra Canal. The Andaman Islands however were given to the new independent Kingdom of Burma, as a compensation for all the territory it had to give up to Siam/Burma and therefor loose. The Japanese, Siam/Thai and Burmese then used the native population and former British prisoners as forced abor, to help them establish their own garrisons, small ports and airfields on the islands. These labor forces were also encouraged to develop the islands fisheries, timber, and agricultural resources to support this occupation and garrison forces, so they would not rely to much on importet ressources. The former inmates if they cooperated openly with the Co-Prosperity Sphere against the Allies were promised to return to a liberated India, or settle on the islands as citizens if they wished to do so.
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These plans were quickly put into action, while Japan and Burmese nationalist still liberated Burma, but not everywhere they worked like planned. On the South Sentinel Island, the initial party of Japanese and Burmese soldiers, send to build a small makeshift dock and even a small airfield near the coast for patrols or even a few naval bombers. This first group however never responded back to the military headquarters in Rangoon and soon a second group was send under the assumption that Allied (most likely British and Indian forces or commandos) had assaulted the base during the build and could use it for their own raids against Co-Prosperity Sphere naval supply lines from Singapore to Rangoon in Burma, or the railroads from Singapore to Bankok in Siam/Thailand. The Destroyers, Cruisers and landing crafts send to retake the Island under Commander Sakaa Naoko, saw it as a good training exercise to future landings planned against the Indian Coast, the island of Ceylon, the Maledives or the Chagoc Archipelgo to secure their rule in the Indian Ocean. His landing forces soon encountered the hostile natives, but their modern weapon quickly desroyed any resistance of these Sentinelese, who have even before rejected, often violently, any contact with the outside world. Their time of being a uncontacted, untouched civilisation was suddenly over, disrupted by a force and war they did not know or care about in any way or form. As Commander Naoko wrongly believed that the native savages had eaten the previous force and workers and not only killed them as intrudors to their island, his forces were delicately in their handling of any native resistance. After the last members of their tribe were either rounded up by the Japanese/ Burmese forces, or killed, the rest of them was deportet to the Burmese main land as slave labor, like any other resisting native tribes on the Andaman Islands. In their place convicted criminals from Burma and Siam/Thailand were used as forced labor, as the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army, as well as the Burmese and Siamese/Thai Kingdoms believed that the use of Allied prisoners of war was to risky in chance that a British/Indian, American or other Allied force would land in the Andaman Islands and then easily liberate this prisoner forced labor force.
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Chapter 345: Namo and Faro in South America: Argentina
Chapter 345: Namo and Faro in South America: Argentina
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In Argentina Nimio de Anquín (born 1896), a Thomist writer wished to combine the models of European Fascism and later Fascist Royalism with his own attachment to the Catholic Church. He was born in Córdoba, Argentina and studied law at National University of Córdoba. With his studies in Argentina completed he travelled to Germany to study philosophy under Ernst Cassirer Whilst in Europe he developed his interest in politics and became a follower of the ideas of Charles Maurras after coming into contact with his work. Soon de Anquín sought to develop his own political ideas by seeking to combine Thomism with Hegelianism, leading him to call for a national syndicalist state. His idea of combining Fascism (Fascist Royalism) with the Christian Catholic faith, lead him to his own political carrier in 1934. He was a founder of the Instituto San Tomas de Aquino in Córdoba, Argentina in 1929 and this group would become linked to the Argentine Fascist Party. In 1934 he joined the Fascismo Argentino de Córdoba (Blueshirts). By the following year he had taken over as leader of the group, which by then had changed its name to the Frente de Fuerzas Fascistas in 1935. Various groups then merged in 1936 to emerge as the Union National Fascista under de Anquin's leadership. A strong admirer of Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism, he argued that Argentine nacionalismo should follow the Italian model by seeking to mobilise mass support but that the domestic version of fascism should put a stronger emphasis on the centrality of Catholicism to national identity than its European counterparts.
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As one of the first persons to combine Fascism with Catholicism directly, de Anquin became one of the first Fascist Royalists in the world. In 1934 he was suspended from his lectureship at the Colegio Nacional de Monserrat, in Córdoba, due to the violence of his movement. The violence continued however until active repression began in late 1936 when he attempted to force university students to sign a letter in support of Francisco Franco. By 1939 the Union National Fascista had grown significant, thanks to the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War and other National Monachist and Fascist Royalist governments, that had by then taken over most states of Europe. Their Axis Central Power alliance fascinated de Anquin, who was sympathising with them and who wrote in 1941 that “by the great Hitler and Mussolini, liberalism and ugly democracy have died”. De Anquins continued to write on political matters, inevitably focusing on his two favoured themes of militant nationalism and anti-democracy, producing newspapers to support his ideology and movement of the Argentine Fascist Party (Partido Fascista Argentino, PFA) and later National Fascist Royalist Union (Unión Nacional Fascista Monárquico, UNFM). Ieological de Anquin denounced the middle and upper class for complicity and cowardice and claimed that communism, Judaism, and degenerate Radicalism were responsible for murders and the problems of Argentina. De Anquin by God, honour, and the Fatherland, to return the homicidal bullet of thos who opposed a strong Argentine. Is growing popularity led to his participation in the Revlution of '43. The coup happened out of fear of the US pressure to change Argentina neutral position and with the goal of hurting British economic interests in the country and ultimately replacing Great Britain as the dominant economic power in Argentina and South America.
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The coup led to the rule of the Generals Arturo Rawson, Pedro Pablo Ramirez (the founder of Argentina's Fascist Royalist militia, the Guadia Nacional and General Edelmiro Farrell. The coup was heavily supported by the military, the population and the church. It was heavily anti-communistic and quickly took over the education and all other aspects of Argentina life. In the end de Anquin formed a mixture of conservative government and military junta, as Caudillo Presidente. He ended the week democracy and the decade of coups. Strongly de Anquin claimed neutrality during the Second Great War, but was openly sympathic to National Monarchists and Fascist Royalists, as well as the Axis Central Powers. He believed that with their help, Argentina would replace Britain and America as the dominant, hegemonic powers in South America. Under Caudillo Presidente de Anquin, Argentine was called the Argentine League in memory of the Federal League or League of Free Peoples (Spanish: Liga Federal or Liga de los Pueblos Libres) an alliance of provinces in what is now Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil that aimed to establish a confederal organization for the states that had emerged from th Spanish Colonial Empire under José Gervasio Artigas. This meant that the Argentine League tried to gain land from Uruguay, Bazil and Great Britain (Falkland Islands, leading to the Falkland Crisis/War) and because of this de Anquin also supported the Brazilian Integralists during the Brazilian Civil War. During his Caudillo Presidency, de Anquin often showed himself in line with Juan Manuel de Rosas and José de San Martín.
 
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I hope that British migrants did not have the same treatment like German in ww1 or Japanese in ww2 otl. I feel that this kind of treatment brutality and racist alone can stand at war crimes.
 
Little information: all future battles and major events of TTL and any other TL will be written completely fresh and independently to give them more spice and fit better inside the TL itself. ;D
 
Chapter 346: India in turmoil: Cripps Mission and the Quit India Movement
Chapter 346: India in turmoil: Cripps Mission and the Quit India Movement
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In late February 1942 the British government send senior minister Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Privy Seal and leader of the House of Commons on a mission to secure full Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in the Second Great War. Cripps a member of the left-wing Labour Party, traditionally sympathetic to Indian self-rule, but was also a member of the coalition War Cabinet led by the Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who wished to block Indian independence. In a attempt to nagotiate a agreement with the Indian national Congress, that spoke for a majority of Hindu Indians, as well as with Muhammad Ali Jinnah from the All-Indian Mohammedan League, who spoke for the minority Mohammedan population. Cripps promised elections and self-government (in the form of a Dominion status) if India stayed loyal to the British and their war efford. The proposals were discussed under Cripps together with the Indian leaders and even published. Both major indian parties refected the proposal and Churchill himself called them unacceptable for Great Britain too. Because of this no middle way was found and the Cripps mission failed to archive it's goal. The Indian National Congress then moved towards the Quit India Movement declaring that India refused to cooperate in the war effort. As a response, the British imprisoned practically the entire Congress leadership for the duration of the war, further spreading the Indian mistrust in the British and vice versa. The only group in support of the British war efford were Jinnah an his Mohammedans, who hoped to gain the right to opt out of a future Indian Union in favor of a independent Mohammedan state after the war. When the British promised him to include this right to opt out of a future Indian Union, Jinnah and his supporters openly helped the British war efford, but were seen as traitors by other independence nationalist movements.
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With the failure of Cripps Mission, the Quit India Movement was launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during the Second Great War, demending the end of British Rule to India. Gandhi then called for Do or Die, during his Quit India speech that gave the movement it's name, delivered by him in Bombay at the Gowalia Tank Maidan. There the British used Tear Gas against the protestors, that called for Indian Independence (a decision playing into the hands, of anti-British Co-Prosperity Sphere propaganda). Because of this, the All-India Congress Committee launched mass protests troughtout all of India, demanding what Gandhi called "An Orderly British Withdrawal" from India. But even as it was wartime, the British Empire were prepared to act and as their response, almost the entire leadership of the Indian National Congress was imprisoned without trial within hours of Gandhi's speech. Most of them spent the rest of the war in prison and out of contact with the masses. The British Colonial Government had the support of the Viceroy's Council, that was in it's majority Indian,, of the All India Mohammedan League, the princely states, the Indian Imperial Police, the British Rajn Army and the Indian Civil Service. Many Indian businessmen, who were profiting from heavy wartime spending did not support the Quit India Movement either, as they hoped for more profits within the British Colony of India.
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Many Indian students meanwhile paid more attention to Subhas Chandra Bose, who was in exile, established a Co-Prosperity Sphere government in Sadiya/ Sediya, where Lt Col. A. D. Loganathan was appointed its Governor General. For many religious Indians, it was no coincidence, that Bose's provisorial capital city Sadiya/ Sediya (xôdiya), literally meant "land of rising sun", just as Japan, that was helping in Bose's war for indian liberation. The city and the whole region had not only bin the third capital of the Chutia Kingdom, but was also the place, were ge Eastern form of Prakrit and the modern form of Assamese were developed, The city was also famous for a flower named satphul (the word means "blessing" or a "desert flower"), similar to the Jasmine. There in Sadiya/ Sediya, Bose established the provisional government of Assam as the newest member state of the Co-Prosperity Sphere and raised the Indian National Army (INA) as well as it's special forces, the Bahadur Group, that was extensively involved in operations behind enemy. Their growing numbers and support were the reason, why Bose called out "Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom!" as his own slogan for Indian independence, in strong opposition to Ghandi's democratic way and nonviolent civil disobedience and protests. Bose's new government was also backed by the Axis Central Powers member states, who recognized it as legitime, the same way the Co-Prosperity Sphere and even the majority of indians did, after the British arrested and imprisoned nearly all members of the Indian National Congress. Because of this dramatic and dangerous development, the American President Franklin Roosevelt, pressured the British Prime Minister Churchill to give in to at least some of the Indian demands. While the Quit India campaign was effectively crushed, Grea Britain refused to grant immediate independence, saying it could happen only after the war had ended. The Japanese, the Co-Prosperity Sphere and even the Axis Central Powers used this for their own propaganda, calling it empty promises to ensure a continue of British rule and opression of India. Their propaganda claimed, that only Netaji (Hindustani: "Respected Leader") Subhas Chandra Bose, could liberate India and the imprisoned members of the Indian National Congress and other protesters and truly liberate India with the help of the Indian people's own power and not on British mercy and terms.
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(RUNNING OUT OF SUPPLIES INTENSIFIES)
With most of the Mediterranean Sea (Gibralta, Malta, Cyprus, Syria, Spain and Marocco) secured for the ACP, with a greater support (French, Spanish and Neo-Ottoman) TTL and with the Eastern Crusade doing better too, a certain Fox will clearly get more supplies and reinforcements the OTL (not to mention the Allies are fighting the ACP in other parts of Africa too). But will it be enought?
 
Chapter 347: Operation Alexander/Unternehmung Alexander
Chapter 347: Operation Alexander/Unternehmung Alexander
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In Egypt, the Axis Central Powers, prepared Operation Aleander (Unternehmung Alexander – named so to give the Allies the false impression that this offensive ould focus mainly on the Middle East) as a part of the Western Desert Campaign. Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel and Ettoro Bastico led the German, Italian, Fascist French, Spanish and even some Austrian-Hungarian forces in a plan to defeat the British Eighth Army commanded by Sir Harold Alexander and Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery. Their plan was the surrounding and destruction of Montgomery' forces in El Alamein, before the Allies (mainly the Americans) would send massive amounds of equipment and fresh forces. They tried a plan to make a Axis Central Powers victory possible, before stronger Allied forces would arrive before the Eighth Army got new reinforcements. To do so the mainly German and Italian forces launched a new attack on 30 July that wold last until 5 August 1942 in the south of El Alamein. The Battle itself would be known as the Battle of Alam el Halfa, because of the ridge that stopped the original Axis Central Powers assault and push to the east.

Thanks to the Ultra intelligence interceptions, Montgomery, knew beforehand of Rommel's intentions and left a gap in his southern defence sector, knowing full well that he Axis Central Powers planned to attck there. To counter this plan, the Allies deployed the bulk of their artillery and armor on Alam el Halfs Ridge (20 miles or 32 km) behind the front. Montgomery additionaly also used a new tactic, were tanks were used in an anti-tank role, remaining in their elevate position atop of the ridge. The main British plan was to hold the armor back and fire upon the advancing Axis Central Powered forces, until their push an breaktrought was stopped. Then the still fresh Allied (mainly British and Commonwealth) Forces could push out to counter-attack the then already exhausted and greatly weakened enemy troops.
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Before the battle even began, German, Italian, Austrian-Hungarian and Neo-Ottoman bombers from Cyreneica, Cyprus and Syria heavily attacked the fortified Allied positions and forces in El Alemain to soften them up before Rommel's main attack. This however gave Mont, even more prove that their intelligence had intercepted the right time and that the rest of the cought Axis Central Powers massages and plans was most likely true too. The main push was lead by German, Italian and Austrian-Hungarian forces, quickly breakin the southern Allied defence line and pushing further east and then north, once they were behind the enemy defence lines. Everything worked smooth until the moment, the advancing Axis Central Powers tanks and transports reched the feed of the Alam el Halfa Ridge. Suddenly heavy Allied bombardment from the highgound position stopped their advance and fresh Allie reinforcements from the north and east even forced them back a little bit into a position they could better defend.

That his assault over the ridge failed, was one of the major setbacks of Rommel's push into Egypt and the overall Axis Central Powers war in North Arica. Rommel withdrew to a securer defence position, hoping for fresh and new supply and reinforcements for his forces, before the Allied ones would arrive, to start a new offensive as quick as possible. But his supply lines were very streched and the infrastructure in Africa a overall cathastrophy to say the least. Montgomery on the other hand, decided not to followRommel after his withdrawal an to not exploit this defensive Allied victory. Montgomery instead believed that the continued methodical build up of strength for his autumn offensive, was still the best course of action.
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Lieutenant-General Bernard C. Freyberg, of the 2nd New Zealand Division, however had other plans ans started a attack launched against the Italian positions, suffering heavy losses whiledoing so. Rommel meanwhile had noticed that the devastating Allied attacks had greatly weakened his motorized, armed forces, the spearhead of his army, forcing him to break of his offensives and retreat to mor securer position. Rommel hoped that new Axis Central Powers reinforcements and fresh troops together with new fighter and bomber attacks ould break the Allied air superiority and dominance on the ground, opening the gates to Egypt, before the balance of power swited to greatly in the Allies favor. Out of his originally nearly eight divisions, Rommel had lost 2,900 kiled, qounded or captured soldiers. 49 tanks, 36 aircraft, 43 guns and 217 transport vehicles had been destroyed in the battle. The 4 Allied Divisions meanwhile had suffered 1,750 killed, wounded or captured soldiers, lost alongside 86 tanks and 74 aircraft. But in his final analyse of the battle, Rommel saw more then a tactical defeat and retreat.

Rommel realised that his troups fought hard and inflicted bigger causualities and losses on the Allies then the other way around. If both sides would receive the same supplies and reinforcements, there would be no problem for the Axis Central Powers, but Rommel was sure that the time limit for his operational ability to initiate offensives was limited, the more material and troops the Americans were bringing into Africa. With the possibility of a second or third Front in western Africa, the ability to defend the Axis Central Powers base in Africa, was heavily relieing on his next offensive and breaktrought, knew Rommel. Only then the Axis Central Powers strategic aims in the African theatre could remain a possibility, wrote Rommel in his report to Emperor Wilhelm III in Berlin, who quickly greenlighted new supplies and troops for him. Realising the urgency of the situation, the German Emperor allowed 350,000 troops, over 200 tanks, ove 1,000 field guns and thousands of aircraft to be send to reinforce Rommel and other African Fronts alongside other Axis Central Power forces. These troops were desperately needed to counter the 500,000 troops, over 1,800 tanks, over 1,200 field guns and thousands of aircraft, the Americans were now transporting into Africa (only 108,000 of these American forces had arrived in Africa and the Middle East to help out the British and Commonwealth Forces until now).
 
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