Chapter 514: The Eastern Lions
Chapter 514: The Eastern Lions:
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In former German East Africa Colony, the now British League of Nations Mandate of Tanganyika, the Imperial German Tropentruppen (Tropical Forces) known as Lettow-Vorbeck's Löwen (Lettow-Vorbeck's Lions), fought a Guerrilla warfare against the local British Authorities and their Commonwealth forces and Allies. This Axis Central Powers were under the Command of Theodor von Hippel, who just like Lettow-Vorbeck before him fought a irregular warfair and guerillia campaign that tied down many local and overall Allied troops in the area. This meant that the longer they could campaign and destroy the British colonial economy, as well as tie down British, Commonwealth and overall Allied forces for as long as they could. Not only that, but their call also had a immense popularity in the overall african population in Tanganyika. The native africans had not overall liked the German Colonial rule that much, but the few white Farmers the Germans had brought into the region, had been nothing compared to the low payed Indian workers that had swarmed the Colonies and all of Eastern Africa in masses, since the British Empire had taken over the Colony as a League of Nations Mandate. Ever since then, the African tribes and people rightfully feared that they slowly would become a total minority in their own land and so many openly welcomed back the Germans and supported them directly or in secret, when they promised a End of English Colonial Rule and a return to the good old days of German Colonial Rule. Many tribes and people, mainly in the interiro of the African Continent, like the Kimbu, Hehe, Nyamwezi, Masai, Sukuma, Bena, Pogoro and Gogo joined forces with the Axis Central Powers fearing conquest and dominance from the Costal Regions ever since Islamic times. They knew that the Germans would expell the Indians once again, when they had retaken the Colony from the British, just like promised. In Dodoma, Tobora and other cities and towns in he center of the colony local militias formed to join the German Army Forces, or simply to ambush British troops, raid Indian settlements and plantations in revenge for them taking their Land.

In the Allied and Axis Central Powers Propaganda this Tanganyika Campaign or Tanganyika Insirgence, Tanganyika Uprising was viewed and stylized as the fight between two Lions, that of Lettow-Vorbeck and the British one. The overall racial problems and tensions in the British Mandate of the League of Nations only got worse, when the Japanese under Ishizaki Noboru landed their Indian forces of the Indian National Army and the Indian Legion landed on the eastern coast disguised and secretly to help the German Forces against the British. Their plan was to uprise the Indian Plantation workers, arm and rain them to drive out the British Empire, or at least tie down as much Commonwealth Forces outside of Asia as possible, so they had a more free hand in their own operations. This however complicated and confused the overall situation as now anti-Indian, anti-British african Askari fought alongside anti-British Indians with militias and factions evolving with very different and opposing end goals, ideals and dreams for Tanganyika. This rivaling factions actually helped the British and heir Commonwealth Forces to rally some of the local Africans and Indians behind the Allied Banner, while at the same time trying to balance both major ethnic groups and interest out, without openly turn them against each other and sart a full-out open civil war in their colony. This tensions and the overall problematic situation only improved with a massive amount of luck, as French Colonial Forces and Colored American forces arrived alongside their regular soldiers. This colored forces assured the Africans in Tanganyika, that the Allies used their own to defend their homelands and not relied further on the Indians as forces, this gave them hope for a future Tanganyika without a Indian majority. Still the fighting for Tanganyika continued and the increasing tensions and ethnical tensions were a hard time for both sides in the conflict, who tried to establish controll over all of the region for their own sides to win the Second Great War.
 
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Chapter 515: The Japanese Enigma (Nazo)
Chapter 515: The Japanese Enigma (Nazo):
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The original Japanese Enigma was known as the San-shiki Kaejiki, or Type 3 Substitution Machine and had the same function and failures as the original German machine. The lossed at the devastating Battle of Midway and the overall hald of the major Japanese Campaigns and Operations in the Pacific War and the Asian War soon lead to the creation of a very own, Japanese variant of the machine, the so called Nazo. Unlike the Enigma however the system used the Japanese Kanji, however it had two different variations, that of the hiragana and that of the katakana, meaning that the movable rotors of the machine would write the same word in two different ways once it was repeated, depending on the situation and positioning in a sentence, as they switched with one another. This meant that the Japanese Enigma, the Nazo hat even more possible combinations, then it's German counterpart. This situation was even made worse, for the Allied intelligence, as the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy, while both using the same Nazo machine, neither of the two military branches truly trusted one another, because of their rivalry, leading to a different arrangement of the movable rotors in both branches and therefor once again much higher encryption overall. Further more, each Japanese Nazo was entrusted into the hands of a so called Nazo Officer, this offer was tasked with safeguarding the Nazo Machine entrusted to him with his life, literally and should he fail to accomplishe this mission destroy the machine and himself at all costs to prevent either from falling into the enemies hands. To do so a explosive devicse was implemented in every Nazo machine, simply letting it blow up just like a normal grenade would, destroying the Nazo in the process.

The explosive however was not big enough to kill the Nazo Officer standing nearby, a intentional decision as sometimes this could take out other Japanese forces nearby as well, or damage equipment, not meant to be destroyed yet. Therefore the Nazo Officer was encouraged to end himself, either with a swort, or a grenade of his own, so that he and with him his knowledge of the Nazo Machine would never fall into the enemy hands at all. Another method to prevent this, was the fact that possibility to rig the Nazo Machine in a way that it would explode once a untrained or uninformed soldier, best case a enemy one tried to encrypt the machine by using it's key's, or open it. However the system was not fool prove and even the best planned out ideas could not hold forever and so in 1943, the Americans managed to get a hold on one of the machines. Unfortunate for them, they capured a Imperial Japanese Army one and it took some time to decrypt it and a little longer to realize why they still were unable to crack the Imperial Japanese Navy code with it. As soon as the Allies realized this they made the capture of a Imperial Japanese Navy Nazo one of their top priorities and in 1944 they managed to get their hands on one of the machines, sadly for them only a few months later the American public elected Thomas Dewey as their President to end this publicly not very popular Second Great War for British Imperial Interests and Soviet Tyranny once and for all. More fortunate for the Americans and their Allied friends was the fact that the Imperial Japanese Empire did not produce the same masses, then the Germans did with their Enigma. Also while encrypted on the higher levels, the decrypted massenges were then provided to the lower divisions, they could and would still be intercepted occasionally by Allied forces sometimes.
 
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Chapter 516: The Allied Togo Campaign
Chapter 516: The Allied Togo Campaign:
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General Hans-Karl Freiherr von Esebeck, commander of the German Togoarmee (Togo Army) was not very pleased after the Allies had driven him off the coast and pushed him past the Volta River. They had shorter supply lines and much more forces and equipment, so the Germans and their local Askari soldiers tried to use Guerrilla-warfare to slow the enemy down as long as possible, organising their resistance from Yendi, their operation base. Quiet surprisingly, even for himself, General Feiherr von Esebeck got urpriding reinforcements, send to him by Duke Adolf Friedrich of the United Baltic Duchy, the Herzog zu Mecklenburg, former Africa explorer, Governor of the German Colony of Togo and later Vice President of the German Colonial Society had send parts of his Baltic Duchy Landsheer (Baltic Landwehr or Baltische Landeswehr, the "Baltic Territorial Army") and the Teutonic Order to reinforce German Togo against the Allied Forces. The incoming American, British and Free French Allied Forces, suddenly faced German Armored Troopers (Panzersoldaten) of the Teuronic Order in Africa and their overall advance was put to a sudden stop. German Newspapers for months to come printet the story of Erwin Friedrich Maier, a Armored Trooper of the Teutonic Order who destroyed two American and three British Tanks before falling over death, not from enemy bullets, but a heat stroke in his heavy armor. Quickly the Panzersoldaten, or German Armored Troopers (GAR's) as the Allied called them changed their armor more adapting to the terrain and tempeatures. Future versions lacked much or the overlapping armor plates and unnessesary armor plates on the arms and legs. What was not well liked by many, but helpful quit the less, was putting the uniform underneth the Armor in water, so that it somewhat cooled the heat under the Armor, as well as use thicker cloths alltogether, to not feel the heat of the armored plates right trought the clothes, burning the skin. Another idea was to color the Armor in camouflague, mainly white, brown, yellow and eathen, bright colour that somewhat blended in with the surrounding, but also reflected some of the burning heat from the sun.
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Somewhere in this hills of northern Togo the Germans had fortified their positions, waiting to ambush them at any second now, knew the American Captain, as did the British Commander next to him. They had tried scouting the Area from above with Allied fighters and planes, even bombed a few of suspected German positions, but the Germand had shown to camouflague themselves like masters, using bushed, sand, dirt, local plants and even painted large canvas to cover their anti-tank guns, artillery and larger tanks together with their fighters and bombers the best they could. Out of some trees and painting the Germans even faked some ghost positions and once the Allies bombed these by air and came closer for inspection they ran into a German ambush or even a minefield. The common Allied strategy therefore during the Togo Campaign became that of fighting in depth with two frontlines behind one another and battle-ready reinforcements staying close by in chase a German ambush assaulted the backs and sides of their lines anywhere. This carefull strategy however streched the Allied Forces and their logistic and slowed them down even more, but at the same time it prevented further German assaults, raids and ambushes, saving many Allied lives. What ruely turned the fighting around in Togo was the Fact that many norther tribes allways had dislike the German (or any foreign rule) and were willing to side with the Allies in hopes of gaining their independence or authonomy after the Second Great War. Thei supplied the Allies with local scouts, who unbelievable to many Allied and Axis Central Power soldiers, knew the land so well, that they could tell if a single bush or rock in their tribal land was out of place, giving away many of the hidden German Positions so that the Allies could bomb them by air, or barrage them with their Artillery. This suddeny forced the Germans to change their plans and retread further north of Yendi, with many of their forces in ambush leaving their positions and even some heavier equipment during the night so they could manage to escape at all, before the Allies arrived. General Hans-Karl Freiherr von Esebeck knew the Togoarmee still had a chance if it retreated and was backed up by the soon incoming German and Fascist French reinforcements for a counter-attack on the Allied Coastal positions, he hoped.
 
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Chapter 517: Coprospism: Celebes/ Sulawesi Kunihideism or Jigōism
Chapter 517: Coprospism: Celebes/ Sulawesi Kunihideism or Jigōism
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The 4,230,000 inhabitants of Celebes/ Sulawesi were majorly devided between a Protestant Christians (northern island),a Sunni Mohammedans (southern island) and a few tribal, native religious territories in between, who slowly were converted to Shinto. This meant that the Celebes/ Sulawesi Kingdom Multinational, partly Democratic and Republic Parliamentarian Republic, a personal union between Christian north (capital Menado) and Mohammedan south (capital Makassar) with the Japanese attempting to play both sides against one another to rule over them. As none of this two major religious and ethnic groups was willing to give up power to the other and let them rule over them, a Japanese noble had to be found as their King, who supported by the Imperial Japanese Army, the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Japanese conglomerates (Zaibatsu) would modernise the Island, but also use it's ressources for Japan. Instead of a Japanese General-Governor, from 1942 on a Japanese Count, Higashifushimi Kunihide. Count Higashifushimi Kunihide (東伏見 邦英, 16 May 1910) was was born as Prince Kuni Kunihide (久邇宮邦英王 Kuni-no-miya Kunihide ō), the youngest child of Lieutenant Colonel Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni and his wife, the former Shimazu Chikako (19 October 1879 - 9 September 1956). Prince Kuni's uncle, Admiral Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito, the head of the Higashifushimi-no-miya line, had no heirs; consequently, following consultations with his father, Prince Kunihide was given to the custody of his great-uncle and his wife on 26 October 1919. Upon attaining his majority in 1930, he sat in the House of Peers as an imperial prince until the following year, when the Emperor Hirohito, his cousin and brother-in-law, requested him to relinquish his imperial status to perpetuate the Higashifushimi name. Upon leaving the imperial family, he was ennobled as Count Higashifushimi and appointed a Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers.

In 1942 he was send to Celebes/ Sulawesi on Orders of the Emperor ordered the Buddhist monk to form a pro-Japanese Dynasty and Count Kunihide did as he was told. He formes a partly democratic Coprospist State with elections on provincial level and a council of advisers made up by the Kings and Sultans of Celebes/ Sulawesi. As a name for his new Celebes/ Sulawesi dynasty, Kunihide had chosen his Buddhist Dharma name was Jigō (慈洽). However Count and now Supreme King Higashifushimi Kunihide/ Jigō had little intentions to serve only the Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Japanese Navy and accomplishe the goals given to him by the Japanese Emperor. He hoped to gain at least a little bit of independence and choice in what he did here himself. Because of this Admiral-General Kunihide as some called him by the honorable ranks the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy had given him did more as they had requested from him. As a devote Buddhist Monk he specificly immigrated Buddhist Japanese, not only Shinto ones as colonists in a attempt to grow a Buddhist culture and state in Celebes/ Sulawesi. Buddhist Monks even outnumbered Shinto Priests who converted the native tribal religions during the first years of his rule, until Tokio commandet that the natives should be converted to both faith and believe systems. To do so and to further support his goal of a future unified Celebes/ Sulawesi religion and culture, Supreme King Kunihide/ Jigō used his modernisation and education efforts of the Island to show similarities and connections between the local and native language, culture, architecture, traditions and religions compared to the Japanese (Buddhist and Shinto) ones. In this effort, the cultures, tradition and religious believes of locals and the Japanese somewhat mixed and formed a unique Celebes/ Sulawesi one during the reign of Supreme King Kunihide/ Jigō until his death on February 2, 2014.
 
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Well, I’m not surprise that everyone convert to shinto so easy. For most, people here worship is spiritual. Well like pagan worshipers, East Asian believe everything have spirit, that the reason why buddhism work so well here, it did not tolerate anything and improve the important of spirit. Just build few shrines and temples, soon people will come and ask for luck and health, don’t ask me why it’s how religion in East Asia, Indochina, Thailand work. Even some Christian I know, they kind of worship spiritual than anything I watch in the news or western movie.
 
I know (trought it will take decades for a major Shinto/ Buddhist state in this regions still), saw a small home shinto shrine in Japan once with Jesus on a Cross right next to it, there is somewhat more tolerance and openess for other believe systems and many asian religous cult of animal/ nature/ and ancestor worship have similar ground bases upon whose more links can be build.
 
Chapter 518: The White Ruthenian State Bonds
Chapter 518: The White Ruthenian State Bonds:
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One of his last but major acts as the King of White Ruthenia for Wilhelm, the younger brother of German Emperor Wilhelm III and his nearly 5,550,000 subjects was the issuing of the so called White Ruthenian State Bonds. The White Ruthenian State Bonds were meant to raise money to fund the ambitious programms of the new state without relying so much on German Gold Marks and Papiermark or other foreign currencies. The idea to sell state bonds to finance projects for the young state was also used in other states of the Axis Central Powers, the Co-Prosperity Sphere and even the Allies to some extent. To do so the bind issued by the White Ruthenian government used to pay periodic interests and promised to be repaid on the maturity date. The White Ruthenian State Bounds were mainly used to dry the Pinsk Marshes, to build new roads, railways, bridges and overall infrastructure, like the western former Polish and earlier independent part of this Nation State already had. Another major reason during the Second Great War to spend the money from the White Ruthenian State Bounds on, was the Royal White Ruthenian Army and the Militia. They were in dire need of modernisation and still realied heavily on cavallry and carts, something that while it had proven to be efficient in the Russian Winter was not the best standart for a strong and modern army at all. Because of this Fact, King Wilhelm and after his death on 8 December 1942 the former Prince Oskar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia, the fifth son of Wilhelm II as the next White Ruthenian King, Oskar modernised the Royal White Ruthenian Army with the help of the White Ruthenian State Bounds and mostly German Imperial Army instructors.

To do so many of the former Infantry and Cavalry Divisions were modernised into motorized, sometimes even mechanized alongside more modern tank divisions. This lead to some very crazy ideas for new types of divisions, battalions and companies. Some saw the introduction of bycicle brigades, other used motorcycles or even small cars and trucks. One of the most curious developments during this time, was somewhat of a mixed back, as it turned out as a ugly mutation between a small Jeep and a motorcycle, looking much like slightly bigger motorcycle with four wheels. To many non White Ruthenian observer however, this vehicle was viewed as nothing more, but some kind of mechanical horse, a silly attempt of the still very primitive and outdated White Ruthenian Army as many believed. The idea was not getting better, when the vehicle, similar to some German motorcycles, who used tracks, instead of tires. The vehicle lacked in everything, armor, transport space and even some kind of weapon able to deal with enemy vehicles, tanks or even enemy infantry in any way or form. This meant that the Royal White Ruthenian Army invested in a vehicle half-motorcycle who'se use for them and the overall Axis Central Powers was questionable at best. However the Royal White Ruthenian Army wasted this potential mostly, as his half-motorcycle could have been better used their ressources to build more trucks and tanks instead.

Other uses of the White Ruthenian State Bonds meanwhile were worth their money, as they allowed to increase the overall infrastructure needed to supply and reinforce the Axis Central Powers during their Eastern Crusade. This included better education in White Ruthenia too, but even more the majority, this paved the fundations for the future infrastructure and industry of the newly independent nation state of White Ruthenia. This would serve as a major point to modernise the Kingdom of White Ruthenia and lead to a Industrialisation similar to that of the Central European powers that were members of the Axis Central Powers. While not completely on pair with their overall urbanisation and industrialisation until at least the 1960ies till the 1980ies, this support by Germany allowed for a much faster recovery of many eastern member States of the Axis Central Powers after the Second Great War. A support however also meant to put many of them in German debt and influence them to be absorbed into a German dominated central European economy sphere in the End during the 1950ies.
 
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Chapter 519: Haishenwai – the Pearl of the East
Chapter 519: Haishenwai – the Pearl of the East:
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Haishenwai, the former Soviet Union and Russian Empire city of Vladivostok that had been captured by the Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Chosen Army and the Imperial Manchurian Army during the Hokushin-ron, the Northern Strike/ Offensive had ever since been turned over to the Empire of Manchuria again. The first thing the Co-Prosperity Sphere did besides renaming the city back to Haishenwai again, was holding a big triumphate military parade to celebrate their victory over the Red Army and the Soviet Navy here. This also saw a new path for Haishenwai, as many russian shops and street signs were replaced by Manchurian names and words again. Still a small White Minority of exiled Russians chosed to stay and live in the little district of Vladivostok near the harbor from now on. One of the more bigger, major changes was the fact that many of the old Russian Buildings and Architecture were seen as signs of European Colonisation, Imperialism and Opression now, however neither Emperor Puyi, nor the Japanese wished to tear apart major city blocks just to rebuild them again, for financial, but also logicstical and practical reasons. The solution they found, was to use the so called Imperial Crown style (teikan yōshiki) mainly for the fassades, roofs and interiro of buildings. While parts of the more modern, newer Japanese architecture were inspired by western works, this meant that the old European houses inside the Co-Prosperity Sphere would be able to remain. However this meant their outside appereance was altered so that they fit in with the other buildings of asian architectur, who were inspired by some form of asian cultural and religious influence. This meant that they were changed to fit the overall appereance of those around them. But in a attempt to promote Coprospism and the overall Idea of the Co-Prosperity Sphere sometimes streets and urban quarters were not only rebuild on the outside, to look exactly like those that were used by the dominant culture, religion or ethnic group, but instead resemble that of other members of the Co-Prosperity Sphere to show simularities and to support a unified feeling of a united pan-Asian culture, tradition and ideal.

The military parade trought Haishenwai however had not only supporters, as many of the former Russian Settlers were forced to leave their homes to make room for the incoming Manchurian (including Manchu labled Han Chinese) or Japanese and even Chosen settlers who would replace them in the future. This lead to some resistance, especially among the White Russian Militia and Armed forces who had helped liberate the city from the Red Army alongside members of the Co-Prosperity Sphere Armies. They had believed that they could establish their own government with Japanese support and one day be officially reunited with the Russian Empire that had been reestablished in Europe once again. The Japanese and more so the Manchukuo however betrayed them and the plans and goals the White Forces and Russians had, claiming that the Russian Empire's taking of this region from China had been unjust and a crime, a great unrightfull thing they would now undo. This however formed a Resistance in Vladivostok among the Whites and the Russians who opposed the Manchu and Japanese takeover of the now Haishenwai labelled city. They started to sabotage and even attack Japanese and Manchurian Forces, only giving them a legal aliby to deport Russian and European citizens north into siberia as potential enemy spies and agitators. Additional Haishenwai was divided into it's new old city districst, with some new rules and variations. The Europeans (Russians, Ukrainians and others), were forced to live in their own enclosed district, a kind of ghetto and only live there, even if they were allowed to leave it. Major important areas like the new government district (including the Imperial Manchurian Army Garrison, Fortress and Fortification), the military garrison areas, as well as both the commercial harbor and the military harbor, where the Imperial Manchurian Navy now started to station their Eastern Manchurian Sea (also known as the Japanese Sea, or Eastern Chosen Sea) Fleet as their man base along the eastern coast.
 
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Chapter 520: The Merivoimat
Chapter 520: The Merivoimat:
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After Leningrad had fallen, the Axis Central Powers, mainly the Imperial German High Sea Fleet trained their submarines and battleship safely in the Teutonic Sea (the former Baltic Sea), out of range of Allied Bombers, similar to how the Japanese did in the Japanese Sea once the Soviet Union was pushed away from it's coasts between 1941 and 1942. This would lead to the earlier development of the Type XXI submarine class of the German diesel–electric Elektroboot (German: "electric boat") early on in 1943. The better training also decreased the overall losses of Axis Central Powers submarines because of too unskilled crews, like before. The main difference however was the fact that the Royal Finnish Navy, the Merivoimat was transferred out of the now safe Baltic Sea to assist the Axis Central Powers against the United Kingdom, or cut off Soviet Union supply convoys on the Northern Route. Originally at the start of the Second Great War, the strength of the Finnish Navy was still limited, as some of the planned ships had not yet been constructed and wartime constraints on the economy prolonged ship building times.The Finnish Navy operated the following vessels in the Teutonic Sea (Baltic Sea); two coastal defence ships (Ilmarinen and Väinämöinen), five submarines (Vesihiisi, Iku-Turso, Vetehinen, Vesikko and Saukko), four gunboats (Turunmaa, Karjala, Uusimaa and Hämeenmaa), seven motor torpedo boats (two Sisu-class, one Isku-class, four Syöksy-class), one minelayer (Louhi), eight minesweepers (six Ahven-class, two Rautu-class), one training ship Suomen Joutsen. At the same time the Finnish Navy operated the following vessels on Lake Ladoga, one icebreaker (Aallokas), one gunboat (Aunus), one minelayer (Yrjö), one tug (Vakava), two motor boats (S 1 and N. K. af Klercker). The Finnish Navy, the Merivoimat also had several auxiliary warships, ice-breakers and patrol boats from the coast guard.

During the Winter War, the Merivoimat dccupy the de-militarized Åland Islands to protect merchant shipping, but Finnish efforts to use submarines to sink Soviet capital ships failed. Five more torpedo boats were ordered from Italy to grew the Finnish Navy, while large mine fields were laid down in cooperation with the German High Sea Fleet where the Finnish navy 6,382 mines, and the German navy's vessels, submarines and aircraft laid some 45,000 mines, of which 3,000 were magnetic mines. Even after the Second Great War, when mine sweeping seasons were held constant,y it would take up to 1968 to get most of the mines removed again, as the Soviet Navy laid 14,284 mines themselves. The Finnish even used captured captured Soviet ships, even if most were older models, including a steam engined paddlewheeler.

The Finnish and the German Navies even managed to conquer most smaller and larger islands belonging to the Sovier Union at their Northern and Western Coast. The Finnish Merivoimat and the German Navy then fortified and garrisoned these Islands to further secure the region. However with the Soviet Navy eliminated in the Baltic Sea and many Soviet soldiers there killed, taken prisoners or being forces to retreat further east. The Merivoimat meanwhile transported many of their ships further west to the Norwegian Coast, as did the Germans, to raid the British Islands and the convoys to the Soviet Union over the Northern Route from there. While the Ships of the Finnish Merivoimat were not as big, fast, modern or numerous then the German, or French ones that tried to blockade the British Islands, the Finnish Navies effort against the supply convoys for the Soviet Union never the less were a great help for the overall Axis Central Powers, as it freed up more German Naval forces to continue their campaigns against England and America, not only around the English Kingdom, but all across the Atlantic Ocean in a attempt to end more incoming supplies, material and fresh forces from the United States of America destined for the British, Isles, North Africa of in chase of only supplies and war material the Soviet Union. Even if most of the last mentioned American supplies took the longer southern route around Africa into the Soviet Union to be delivered over Persia/ Iran and Central Asia.
 
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I just finished reading this story and its pretty good, if a bit handwavey at times, but I don't think that Tanzania would be nearly as fond of the Germans, Imperial or otherwise, as the story describes. While the atrocities in other territories such as the Belgian Congo are more well known, the Germans committed some very terrible acts during their rule over Tanzania. After establishing control over the territory in the late 1800s, the Germans enacted a number of policies that placed extremely onerous burdens on the native peoples of Tanzania and greatly disrupted their way of life. Among these policies was the conscrption of native farmers to grow cotton for the colonial government. This incited a massive uprising in 1905 which would come to be known as the Maji Maji Rebellion. It quickly began to escalate across the southern parts of the colony and started to directly threaten the security of the colonial government. This prompted the Governor of German East Africa, Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen, to adopted punitive measures to quash the rebellion. He enacted an extensive scorched earth campaign across southern Tanzania in an effort to starve out any rebels that he couldn't find or convince to surrender in advance. This did manage to bring the rebellion to an end by 1907, but it also devastated the south of Tanzania and may have caused over 250,000 deaths as a result of the famine their scorched earth campaign created. While this uprising was around 40 years old by the time the Germans returned in the story, I highly doubt that there wouldn't be memories of the deaths and suffering caused by the Germans for no end other than their continued subjugation to them. I mean, the population of Tanzania just before WW1 was around 7.5 million which means that the deaths caused by the Germans represent the death of over 1/30 of the entire population of Tanzania. Surely that has to have caused some ill will to remain between Germany and the people of Tanzania.
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And this story will continue soon. ;D

I am not implying that the Tanzania people help out the Germans for good will or love of their old masters, many are just not very supportive of the massive Indianisation that took place in their "Mandate"/ "Colony" after the British took over, less so then some of the new plantation owners were Indian themselves coming from British Raj and getting them not only out of jobs, but for all it looked like to them at the time, driving them off from the majority of their homeland in numbers and percentages far greater then the German crimes against them before (even if done so less directly brutal and with less force) the outcome for them is as problematic for their future in their homelands from what it looks like during the time (TTL maybe even more so then OTL) as the ACP clearly use such fears in anti-British Propaganda. Many of this anti-British fighters are not automatically pro-German as we will soon learn after WW2 as they will rise up against the Germans shortly after, they just try to kick out one foreign ruler with their long-time enemy.

Also if decolonisation happens TTL we will see more states following ethnic african tribal borders and clans territories I would assume because of ongoing heavy Namo and Faro influence for those people after WW2.
 
Chapter 521: Coprospism: Javanese Karaton Sukarnoism/ Pancasila:
Chapter 521: Coprospism: Javanese Karaton Sukarnoism/ Pancasila:
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The Coprospism in the Island of Java had Republic elements of a Constitutional Monarchy, guided by Sukarno (born as Kusno Sosrodihardjo on 6 June 1901) as the President and later Ratu (King/ Emperor), who ruled over his newlyindependent 41,700,000 inhabitants. Sukarno had been a leader of the Independence struggle from the Netherlands/ Dutch and had been a prominent figure ever since. When the Japanese invaded ans liberated Java from Dutch Colonial rule, he and fellow nationalist were freed and collaborated with the Japanese, who helped them aid their national ideas. In 1942 Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declared independence of the Javanese Republic that had much support by the locals who wished for a democratic independent stae as it had from local Sultans and Rajas, who feared for their position in a possible direct democratic Javanese pro-pan-Indonesian Republic and therefore like the Japanese opposed pan-Indonesianism. With diplomatic and military means Sukarno who was used by the Japanese to organize and pavify a Javanese government, that he believed could be a Indonesian one once. When the Japanese proposed the idea to him on Sumatra, Sukarno wanted to use the Japanese for his idea; "The Lord be praised, God showed me the way; in that valley of the Ngarai I said: Yes, Independent Indonesia can only be achieved with Dai Nippon...For the first time in all my life, I saw myself in the mirror of Asia."

In May 1942, Sukarno was sent back to Jakarta, where he re-united with other nationalist leaders recently released by the Japanese, including Mohammad Hatta. There, he met the Japanese commander General Hitoshi Imamura, who asked Sukarno and other nationalists to galvanise support from Javanese populace to aid Japanese war effort. Sukarno was willing to support the Japanese, in exchange for a platform for himself to spread nationalist ideas to the mass population. The Japanese, on the other hand, needed Indonesia's manpower and natural resources to help its war effort. The Japanese recruited millions of people, particularly from Java, to be forced labor called "romusha" in Japanese. They were forced to build railways, airfields, and other facilities for the Japanese within Indonesia and as far away as Burma. In the end over 10 million Romusha in Java were forced to work by the Japanese military and about 270,000 of these sent to other Japanese-held areas of the Co-Prosperity Sphere in South East Asia (like Japan, Manchukuo, Siam/Thailand, Borneo, Sumatra Burma, or New-Guinea), while the Japanese Imperial Army stationed over 120,000 soldiers on the Islands together with a full Tank Division, artillery support and fighters and bombers and the Imperial Japanese Navy had 20,000 soldiers present to support Sukarno's rule and help him build a independent Javanese Army to defent their islands. To gain cooperation from Indonesian population and to prevent resistance to these measures, the Japanese put Sukarno as head of Tiga-A mass organisation movement. In March 1942, the Japanese formed a new organisation called Poesat Tenaga Rakjat (POETERA/ Center of People's Power) under Sukarno, Hatta, Ki Hadjar Dewantara, and KH Mas Mansjoer. The aim of these organisations were to galvanise popular support for recruitment of romusha forced labor, requisitioning of food products, and to promote pro-Japanese and anti-Western sentiments amongst Javanese. Sukarno coined the term, Amerika kita setrika, Inggris kita linggis ("Let's iron America, and bludgeon the British") to promote anti-Allied sentiments. Soon the Japanese requisitioned rice and other food produced by Javanese peasants to supply their own troops, while forcing the peasantry to cultivate castor oil plants to be used as aviation fuel and lubricants. Additionally, food requisitioning by the Japanese caused widespread famine in Java which killed more than one million people on the island. In Sukarno view, these were necessary sacrifices to be made to allow for future independence of Indonesia. He also was involved with the formation of Pembela Tanah Air (PETA) and Heiho (Indonesian volunteer army troops) via speeches broadcast on the Japanese radio and loud speaker networks across Java and Sumatra. By mid-1944 these units numbered around two million, and were preparing to defeat any Allied forces sent to re-take Java.

Sukarno and Hatta were sent on a seventeen-day tour of Japan, after the Co-Prosperity Sphere Conference (or Tokio Conferense), where they were decorated by the Emperor Hirohito and wined and dined in the house of Prime Minister Hideki Tojo in Tokyo. The independence promised to Java in 1941 and the Japanese allowed for the establishment of the Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence (BPUPK), a quasi-legislature consisting of 11 representatives from most ethnic groups in Java. Sukarno was appointed as head of the BPUPK and was tasked to lead discussions to prepare the basis of a future independent Javanese state. To provide a common and acceptable platform to unite the various squabbling factions in the BPUPK, Sukarno formulated his ideological thinking developed for the past sixteen years into five principles. On 1 June 1942, he introduced these five principles, known as Pancasila or Sukarnoism (his form of Coprospism), during the joint session of the BPUPK held in the former Volksraad Building. Pancasila as presented by Sukarno during the BPUPK speech, consisted of five common principles which Sukarno saw as commonly shared by all Javanese and in extension by all Indonesians: 1) Nationalism, whereby a united Javanese state would form, even if he had hopes that one day a Indonesian State would stretch from Sabang to Merauke, encompassing all former Dutch East Indies, Papua New Guina, Borneo and the Malayan Peninsula. 2) Internationalism, meaning Java was to appreciate Co-Prosperity rights and contribute to world peace, and should not fall into chauvinistic Fascist Royalism and National Monarchism, but instead embrace it's Coprospism as a all Asian brotherhood. 3) Democracy, which Sukarno believed has always been in the blood of Javanese/ Indonesians through the practice of consensus-seeking (musyawarah untuk mufakat), an Indonesian-style democracy different from Western-style liberalism and more close to the Japanese Coprospist ideal. 4) Social justice, a form of populist socialism in economics with Coprospist-style opposition to free capitalism. Social justice also intended to provide equal share of the economy to all Javanese/ Indonesians, as opposed to the complete economic domination by the Dutch and Chinese during the colonial period before. 5) Belief in God, whereby all religions are treated equally and have religious freedom. Sukarno saw Indonesians as spiritual and religious people, but in essence tolerant towards differing religious beliefs was supported.

On 22 June, the Islamic and nationalist elements of the BPUPK created a small committee of nine, which formulated Sukarno's ideas into the five-point Pancasila, in a document known as the Jakarta Declaration (named after their capital): 1) Belief in one and only Almighty God with obligation for Mohammedans to adhere to Islamic law, 2) Civilised and just humanity, 3) Unity of Java (and secretly all of Indonesia), 4) Democracy through inner wisdom and representative consensus-building and finally 5) Social justice for all Javanese/ Indonesians. Due to pressure from the Islamic element, the first principle mentioned the obligation for Mohammedans to practice Islamic law (sharia). However, the final Sila as contained in the new Javanese Constitution which was put into effect on 18 August 1942, excluded the reference to Islamic law for sake of national unity with the more democratic and republican elements in Java. The elimination of sharia was done by Mohammad Hatta based upon a request by Christian and Hinsu representative, and after consultation with moderate Islamic representatives Teuku Mohammad Hassan, Kasman Singodimedjo, and Ki Bagoes Hadikoesoemo. On 7 July 1945, the Japanese allowed the formation of a smaller Preparatory Committee for Indonesian Independence (PPKI), a 6-person committee tasked with creating the specific governmental structure of the future Indonesian state. On 9 July, the top leaders of PPKI (Sukarno, Hatta, and Radjiman Wediodiningrat), were summoned by Commander-in-Chief of Japan's Southern Expeditionary Forces, Field Marshal Hisaichi Terauchi. Field Marshal Terauchi with support of the Japanese Government and Miliary, gave Sukarno the freedom to proceed with preparation for Javanese independence and after much wining and dining, Sukarno's entourage was flown back to Jakarta on 14 July.

With support from leaders of youth groups and members of PETA militia, Chairul Saleh, Soekarni, and Wikana, Sukarno declared Javanese Republic independence, supported by Japanese Admiral Tadashi Maeda, the Japanese naval liaison officer in Jakarta, who favored Javanese independence and hoped to help build a Javanese Republic Navy as part of the Co-Prosperity Sphere Navy. Javanese Independence was proclamed and the basic governmental structure of the new Republic of Indonesia: announced: Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta were appointed as President and Vice-President and their cabinet established. The 1942 Indonesian Constitution was put into effect, which by this time excluded any reference to Islamic law or any pan-Indonesian ideas. The Central Indonesian National Committee (Komite Nasional Indonesia Poesat/KNIP) to assist the president prior to election of a parliament was established. Sukarno's government supported the formation of a national Javanese Republic Army (JRA) out of the Japanese formed militias and began to form an adequate military apparatus to maintain control their new state. The members of various militia groups formed during Japanese occupation such as the PETA and Heiho, who were encouraged to join the JBKR, the Javan Badan Keamanan Rakjat (the Javanese People's Security Organization), that was later reformed into the Javan Tentara Keamanan Rakjat (The Javanese People's Security Army), the JTKR. Both the JBKR and the JTKR like the former militias they were created from were mostly supplied with Japanese weapons or captured and confiscated former Dutch weapons and trained by Japanese officers and Commanders. At the same time around 40,000 Dutch citizens in all of former Dutch East India were rounded up by the Japanese and their supported Co-Prosperity Sphere governments, including the Javanese one to be imprisoned in laor camps as European Colonialists and Imperialists, should their service in government and other vital positions not be needed anymore for the transition of power to the new, native governments and states.

With his political and military power as the Javanese President now finally secured and his independence recognized after the End of the Second Great War, Sukarno reformed his Coprospism to what he called “a system of guided democracy”. He argued that at the village level, important questions were decided by lengthy deliberation designed to achieve a consensus, under the guidance of village elders. Sukarno argued it should be the model for the entire nation, with the president taking the role assumed by village elders. He proposed a government based not only on political parties but rather on "functional groups" composed of the nation's basic elements, which would together form a National Council, through which a national consensus could express itself under presidential guidance. One of his major steps towards more independence and sovereignty, was the implementation of economic nationalism and it's strengthened by the issuance Presidential Directive No. 10 of 1942, which banned commercial activities by foreign nationals in rural areas. This rule targeted ethnic Chinese, who dominated both the rural and urban retail economy ecer since times of Java being a Dutch Colony despite the fact that at this time few of them had Indonesian citizenship. This policy resulted in massive relocation of the rural ethnic-Chinese population to urban areas, and approximately 100,000 chose to return to Chinese member states of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. The law however even if written neutral did not target the Japanese buisness man and Zaibatsu who had since 1941/42 taken over most of the formerly Dutch and Chinese markets in all of former Dutch East India. In 1954, ten years after gaining fully indonesian independence, Sukarno instated the Javanese Constitution by presidential decree. It established a presidential system which he believed would make it easier to implement the principles of guided democracy. He called the system Manifesto Politik or Manipol, but it was actually government by decree. Sukarno envisioned an Indonesian-style Coprospist society, adherent to the principle of USDEK: 1)Undang-Undang Dasar '42 (Constitution of 1942), Coprospist Socialisme Javanese (Javanese coprospist socialism), 3) Demokrasi Terpimpin (Guided Democracy), 4) Ekonomi Terpimpin (Commanded Economy) and 5) Kepribadian Javanese (Javanese Identity, but secretly pan-Indonesia's Identity as well).

This was the slowly beginning, later full transformation of the Javanese Republic into the Javanese Karaton (Empire) under Sukarno as a more dictatorial Ratu (King or Emperor) ruling from Bogor Palace. The Javanese Romusha were during this time used by Sukarno to promote pan-Indonesianism and to settle Javanese there in the other to claim these states and their island for a ne Indonesian Nation State. In March 1958, Sukarno disbanded parliament and replaced it with a new parliament where half the members were appointed by himself. In September 1958, he established a Provisional People's Consultative Assembly (Madjelis Permusjawaratan Rakjat Sementara/MPRS) as the highest legislative authority according to the 1942 constitution. MPRS members consisted of members of DPR-GR and members of "functional groups" appointed Sukarno as the president and Ratu. However Sukarno's ambitions were not shared by anyone, as the Japanese and his neighboring Co-Prosperity Sphere states opposed any form of pan-Indonesianism.

Internally Sukarno also heavily relied on Javanese Mohammedan Nationalism that he hoped to boost into Indonesian Nationalism, however he soon had to make new allies with the younger, more republican and democratic populations in Java and Madura to form a federal state. However his social reforms were not good enough for all and the Communist Party under Musso took advantage of public disaffections by launching rebellion in Madiun, East Java, on 18 August 1948. The Federal Constitution of 1946 and the Provisional Constitution of 1948 were parliamentary in nature, where executive authority laid with the prime minister, and which, at least on paper, limited presidential power. However, even with his formally reduced role, Sukarno commanded a good deal of moral authority as Father of the Nation. Besides the Communist, the Darul Islam guerrillas under Sekarmadji Maridjan Kartosuwirjo also rose up against Sukarno in West Java with anti-Republican and anti-Japanese paroles in 1946, 1948 and 1950. They demanded a End of the Republic and the creation of a Mohammedan Sultanate State in Java under Sharia Law. Sukarno called for a National Conference (Musjawarah Nasional), which failed to bring a solution to the crisis between his government, the Socialists/ Communists and the Mohammedans/ Islamists. On 30 October 1954, the Darul Islam tried to assassinate Sukarno with a grenade while he visited a school, but failed, killing six innocent children instead. After this Sukarno used the martial law, disbanded all socialist and Mohammedan parties with the help of the military and arrested many politicans in opposition to him, from socialist Sjahrir to Islamic politicians Mohammad Natsir and Hamka. Using martial law powers, the government closed-down newspapers who were critical of Sukarno's policies. As a result on 1957 and 1959, Darul Islam tried to assassinate Sukarno several time, but Sukarno again escaped injury.

At the same time Sukarno, who had by now lost socialist and mohammedan support, now relied more heavily on the Japanese, as his authoritarian, dictatorial style and new structure of his state also had alienated the youth, the republican elements and many democratic factions. So Sukarno used aggressive, anti-imperial rethoric and politic to increase Javanese Co-Prosperity Sphere and international prestige, as the Javanese even supported anti-Colonial Rebellion movements in India, the Middle East and Africa. A state visit to Japan in 1952 to celebrate ten years of Javanese Independence and to strengthen Sukarno's ties to the Japanese Empire and the Co-Prosperity Sphere in general, began to give him increasing Co-Prosperity Sphere and Yen Bloc financial and military aid. For his anti-colonial aid, Sukarno would continue to be remembered as a influential figure in some later emerging independent countries. Sukarno's further drift even closer to the Co-Prosperity Sphere then before, saw the beginning of a strong anti-German and anti-Axis Central Powers campaign in 1961, leading to unfriendly and cold relations with the German Empire. This lead to the Sunda Strait Crisis in 1962, when the Javanese Karaton (Javanese Empire) denied German Merchant and Military Ships passage trought the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra.

As Sukarno devoted his energy to domestic and international politics, the economy of Java was neglected and deteriorated rapidly. A situation getting worse, after the collapse of export plantation sectors, that deprived the government of much-needed foreign exchange income. Consequently, the government was unable to service massive foreign debts it had accumulated from both other Co-Prosperity Sphere countries over the years. Most of the government budget was by now spent on the military, resulting in deterioration of infrastructure such as roads, railways, ports, and other public facilities. Deteriorating transportation infrastructure and poor harvests caused food shortages in many places all over Java. The still medium industrial sector languished and only produced at 24% capacity due to lack of investment. Sukarno himself was contemptuous of macroeconomics, and was unable and unwilling to provide practical solutions to the poor economic condition of the country. Instead, he produced more ideological conceptions such as Trisakti: political sovereignty, economic self-sufficiency, and cultural independence, including more independence from the Co-Prosperity Sphere and Japan overall to finally archive the dream of Indonesia, pan-Indonesian State. Sukarno advocated Javanese/ Indonesians to be "standing on their own feet" (Berdikari) and reach economic self-sufficiency, free from foreign influence overall, a move that displeased the Japanese.

This caused fewer Japanese investors and Zaibatsu to invest in Java in a attempt to put economic and diplomatic pressure on the Javanese Karaton. This meant that towards the end of his rule, Sukarno's lack of interest in economics created a distance between himself and the Javanese people, who were suffering economically, while at the same time he alienated the last internal and external (mostly Co-Prosperity Sphere) allies and supporters he had left. While Sukarno's face had become bloated by disease, and his flamboyance and sexual conquests, which had once endeared him to the people, began to cause public criticism and turned further support away from him. This combined with his fall from Japanese support, led to more open protests and movements against Sukarno in a attempt to purge Javanese society, government and armed forces of Sukarno's party and organisations. Because of this, the Javanese Karaton Military put Sukarno under house arrest in Bogor Palace, where his health deteriorated due to denial of adequate medical care. He died of kidney failure in Jakarta Army Hospital on 21 June 1968 at age 67.
 
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Chapter 522: The Berlin-Bagdad-Damascus Railway and the Allied Middle East Defence
Chapter 522: The Berlin-Bagdad-Damascus Railway and the Allied Middle East Defence:
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The Axis Central Powers supply and reinforcements in the Middle East and the Caucasian Region heavily relied on the Berlin-Bagdad-Damascus Railway (in Germany simply known as the Bagdad Bahn, Bagdad Railway). The Neo-Ottoman Empire and German troops were transported over the Bagdad Railway coming from Central Europe, the European Part of the Neo-Ottoman Empire or Anatolia going to the frontlines in Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Persia and the Caucasus Region. This included infantry, supplies, guns of all kind and even vehicles all the way up to tanks. This meant that the Axis Central Powers supply lines to the front were much closer and securer than that of the Allies, who had to go all around Africa first. Still the German Empire knew that given enough time, the Allies thanks to the United States of America would start to get the upper hand soon. Because of this the Axis Central Powers led by the German Empire and heavily supported by the Neo-Ottoman Empire and their local commanders realized that they had to act quick and with force, to push back the Allied force all the way until they would end up in the Indian Ocean, if they hoped to get any chance of conquering the region for themselves and denying the Allied Nations the oil of the region for the Rest of the Second Great War in hopes to win it that way. To interrupt the Allied build up at the same time, Axis Central Powers tried to raid and bomb them with their fighters and bombers and even ambushed and raided them with their ground forces from time to time. However the major German Campaigns in the Area were quickly stopped thanks to the help of the Free French, local Militia and majorly the Americans who helped the British Empire and their Commonwealth allies. Therefore the Germans had sendet ten whole trains to the Neo-Ottoman Empire to help with the overall Axis Central Powers supply lines there. After the Conquest of Cyprus, the Imperial German Air Force (IGAF) managed to support the Axis Central Powers ground Offensive in Syria, Palestine and Iraq from this forward bases, as well as their push into northern Egypt from Cyprus airbases as well.
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At the same time some German Armored Trains were redirected from the Russian Front of the Eastern Crusade, as local Arab assaults from irregular militias and auxillary forces of the Allies started to increase together with enemy uprisings against the Neo-Ottoman Empire and Germans behind the frontline. Unlike the somewhat similar front in North Africa however, the Middle East allowed for a much wider overall front and therefore helped to avoid trench warfare for the most kind by using flanking maneuvers and even ambushes on enemy forces hat had penerated the original frontline and suddenly faced a secondary frontline or the enemy reserves. The Allies on the other side utilized every hill, mountain, oasis, town and city they could fin to fortify this positions against the Axis Central Power Invasions. Because the Middle East was vital for the British (not so much the overall Allies, as America produced enough oil to supply them for the rest of the Second Great War anyway) and majorly, that conquering the region was important for their Axis Central Powers enemies. Because of this, the Allied Forces in the Middle East used not only regular fortified positions, trenches and foxholes, but the overall American, British and Free French Forces actually got inspired by some older tactics and strategies. Instead of a single defensive line, their defensive position often were made up by all-around defensive parameters, including mortars, artillery, anti-tank, anti-air, tanks, trenches, barbed wire and sometimes even bunkers and other more or less well fortified positions. This allowed the Allies to stretch out their defenses a little more, while at the same time not being completely vulnerable once the Axis Central Powers had managed to push trought somewhere. Because of the limitations in man, material and equipment for now until further American reinforcements would arrive, the Allied positions were spread out quiet far and even did not connect all the way over the frontline. Places with vast desert areas, or inpassable mountain were left with only a few of this defences, while the main river and coastal regions, as well as the urban centers were prepared with many overlapping lines of such Allied defensive positions.
 
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Chapter 523: Coprospist States: the Ganap Philippine Republic
Chapter 523: Coprospist States: the Ganap Philippine Republic:
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The Batasang Pambansa (National Assembly) of the Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas; Japanese: Firipin kyōwakoku; Spanish: República de Filipinas) was created after the Philippine Executive Commission (Komisyong Tagapagpaganap ng Pilipinas) as a provisional government had formed the KALIBAPI (Kapisanan sa Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas; Tagalog for the "Association for Service to the New Philippines") as a coalition government in the Philippines. The Ganap Philippines ad the Republic was also called were one of the more direct and most democratic Coprospist Member States inside all of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Under the new government of President José P. Laurel, the KALIBAPI Coalition Government formed, with the Nacionalista Party Clique (or Laurel Party/ Clique) as the biggest new Party in the Coalition Government. It was greatly supported by the Ganap Party, a major pro-Japanese Party and the Japanese favorite in their new puppet state government. However the Nacionalista Party mistrusted the in their minds too openly pro-Japanese Ganap Party and their frowing influence, as they believed, the Ganap Party would directly make them a direct puppet or even colony of the Japanese they feared. Because of this they rather allied with the

Movement of United Nationalists (Nagkakaisang Nacionalista), that tried to rally Philippine National Groups, Parties and Movements around itself, just like the Nacionalista Party did. During their Liberation of the Philippines, the Japanese had banned a few Parties, mostly socialist, communist and openly pro-American and pro-Allied ones, as they saw them as a potential threat and danger to their Co-Prosperity Sphere Influence and Rule in the Philippines. Over 21,000 Japanese resided in the Philippine, when the Japanese Empire declared the War for their Liberation landed their forces. Japanese had settled there since the Middle Ages, when Japanese Christians fled to the Philippines to escape the religious persecution imposed by the Shoguns, later creating the basis for a Japanese-Mestizo community of Filipino-Japanese, who were a gybrid group estimated tio range from 100,000 to 200,000 people out of the overall population of 18,000,000. They were supported by 100,000 new Japanese settlers who arrived every year since the Japanese liberation, in the End of 1942 nearly 200,000, bringing the overall Japanese or Filipino-Japanese population rise

to nearly 420,000 people. Most of these voted and supported the Nippon Kokang Party (Japanese Exchange Party), a intercultural pro-Japanese and Filipino-Japanese party and Organisation that promoted Coprospism, Co-Prosperity Sphere political, culural and religious unity and exchange and had close ties to the Ganap Party. The Kokang Party just like the Ganap Party often highlighted Tagalog words derivered from Japanese and even actively tried to increase their numbers. Both were also supported financially and with propaganda by the Japanese Zaibatsu, the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy inside of the Philippines. These parties and the government coalition, as well as the Nacionalista Party also promoted the majority of Filipino-Japanese Newspapers and Propaganda Movies. They also supported the use of Tagalog as a common lingua franca in the Philippines beside Japanese and promoted a more unified Ganap Philippine Culture to form a strong Nation State. Their goal was to unify all of the Philippine Islands and People (therefore their use of the Ganap Philippines even if they were not in any form linked to the Ganap Party).

Beside the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy, who as seperate factions had a major influence over the Philippine Republics security and economy, the Philippine Republic Army and Philippine Republic Navy under guidence, training and leadership of majorly Japanese Officers, Commanders, Generals, Captains and Admirals itself was rising to a significent influence and power between 1942 and 1944 as their rapid growing and importance for the protection of the Ganap Philippine Republic's independence and prosperity grew. Other Philippine Parties under the Coalition Government were the Philippine National Unity Party, the Demokratiko Partido Philippine, the Partido Liberal Philippine, the Philippine National Coalition and the National People's of the Philippine, who were a little more social conservative and had split from the United Nationalists over social and minority issues. Secessionism and separatism minority parties overall however had no strong power base, even if them and some now illegal parties formed the base for various rebel groups and militias opposing the Manila government or the Japanese (like the Mohammedan Moro's in Mindanao).
 
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Chapter 524: The Axis Central Powers Europabrigaden, Afrikabrigaden and Asienbrigaden
Chapter 524: The Axis Central Powers Europabrigaden, Afrikabrigaden and Asienbrigaden:
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With the Axis Central Powers victories across Europe, Africa and Asia, the Axis Centra Powers member States (mostly Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary, Romania, the Neo-Ottoman Empire and the Fascist French) gained some Allied and Red Army soldiers as prisoners of war, who were not that supportive of the Allies in general or their respective Colonial Empires or Dominions where they originated. This often included Allied native or auxillary forces from Africa and Asia, but also often former members of the Allied or Soviet Union regular armies (like Irish, Bretones, Indians, Ukrainians, Cossacks, Central Asians and others). In a attempt to utilize these trained soldiers with anti-Allied tendencies for their own cause, either as a fighting unit for direct frontline use, reserves and garrisons or as a mere propaganda tool, the Axis Central Powers used this volunteers or even some of them pressed into their service in three major cathegories; Europabrigaden (European Brigades, for all of those coming from European States, Territories and Provinces), Afrikabrigaden (African Brigades, for all of those coming from African Colonies) and Asienbrigaden (Asian Brigades, for all of those coming from Asian Colonies, Territories and Regions).
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This Brigades served as auxillary forces alongside the Axis Central Powers Armies, often even incorporated in their direct command chains in some way or another, even if they were no true integrated part of their forces. However they were in their majority only used to engage other Allied or Red Army forces, not their own former ones, as the German Forces and the Imperial German High Command did not fully trust them otherwise. This was also the main reason why often even high ranking captured Commanders and Generals of these forces were not intrusted with the overall German and Axis Central Power plans and planning. Instead, they often had only enough information for their local, direct goals and missed a overall picture. This and mainly second-rate weapons and equipment meant that this Axis Central Power Brigades often lacked the proper means and sometimes even training and moral to be the best possible auxillary forces for them. This meant that this Brigades were often as unpopular on the frontlines as minor Axis Central Powers forces like Bulgaria, or Greece. The Brigades mainly served as reserves or garrisons behind the frontlines, even if some of them were also used to form Exile Armies and Special Operation Forces, who were intendet to be used behind the enemy frontlines to get the local population to rise up against their unpopular colonial masters, sometimes successful, sometimes not.
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Later historians saw the so called Europabrigades as a first step towards a unified European Monarchy, a first glimpse of the later annexation of Germanic nation states or close border regions directly into the German Empire, or the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Others however believed that the many German Orders, like the Teutonic, the Gothic or the Burgundian ones were the true first step towards a multinational, pan-European military force that would rival the former United States Army as a nearly, solely pan-continental powerfull and mighty continental army. The Brigades and the Orders also played into the idea and propaganda of the a unified Monarchic European Continent, the so called Fortress Europe that the Germans and their Axis Central Powers allies portraied the European Continent to be. The idea behind this was to portrait Europe as a ideal Monarchistic Continent, like it had been for centuries and to show in this propaganda, that also the experiment of pure Democracy and the experiment of Communism had failed. Kings and Queens would rule the future Europe, not the Proletariat or the voting Masses believed the European Monarchistic Bloc under the Axis Central Powers. During and after the Second Great War parts of the Brigades were incorporated into the regular armed forces, or served as the fundament of new armed forces for completely new, independent Fascist Royalist and National Monarchist States.
 
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New stuff coming, but it takes time as my lazy ass is adding Chapter numbers here and also copieing chapters to deviantart to reach more people for my stories there too. ;D :p
 
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