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Chapter 665: The Axis Central Powers Oil Situation

The German Empire had run into serious oil and petroleum problems during the Battle of France, the Axis Central Powers victory there gave them access to 682,128 tons of stolen oil. Till 1942 the German synthetic oil production had also increased to around 3,765 million tons synthetic oil (around 57% of German oil consumption, or about 92% of aviation gasoline) and was intended to be pushed even further, as the mass of German oil supply (63% to 72% before the war had been imported from the Western Hemisphere). Because of that the Allied bombing raids tried to target these synthetic oil plants whenever they could. Imperial Air Admiral Hermann Göring had called for a Imperial German Air Force to defeat the Soviet Union and protect the Fortress of Europe, numbering 15,000 to 25,000 planes, that would then consume the equivalent of 60% of the 1935/ 1936 world's oil production. With the expansion of the Axis Central Powers military to fight this more motorized, mechanized Second Great War, the German Empire was in dire need of further oil supplies. Besides their synthetic oil 1,038 million tons domestic oil were produced in Germany alone, mostly in the northwest Hannover and such as well as Baden and Würtemberg. Another 1,219 million tons came from Austria (Zistersdorf), 634 million tons were produced in Hungary (Balaton and Budafpusza), 159 million tons came from Poland (Jasto), as well as 2,062 million tons from Romania in 1942 (their oil production was later increased to around 5 million tons at the height of the Second Great War, a drastic decrease from their 8,7 million tons in 1936). Frontline forces even had to be supplied with oil from those forces further behind to keep going, a situation worsening in Russia, as there was not enough for the whole German tank, motorized and mechanized forces. The 26% to 52% shortfall could only be made up by conquering oil from Russia and this the Axis Central Powers focused on the Caucasian region, capturing Maikop (that produced 19 million barrels annually), Grozny (that produced 32 million barrels annually), and Baku (that produced 170 million barrels annually, mainly captured intact as the local Azerbaijany forces joined with the Axis Central Powers). Overall the Axis Central Powers needed a total of around 24,000,000 million tons in 1942 alone. Like everywhere in the Soviet Union, retreating forces destroyed or dismantled area's of production and usable installations, making the Axis Central Powers start from scratch. Experiencing this before Hermann Göring's staff had begun making the necessary preparations in advance. But a shortage of transport that was competing with military requirements, a shortage of drill equipment as well as drillers, and the absence of refining capacity at Maikop, Grozny and Baku created such difficulties that when the German forces had captured them, they were only able to extract around 1/4th or 1/5th (between 194,2 million to 205,3 million barrels, or 26 million to 27,85 million tons) of the former production for most of the Second Great War.

This still meant that the Axis Central Powers suddenly had enough oil and petroleum for their expanding air and tank forces after the Caucasian Campaign, while the Soviet Union's Production decreased to 1/3rd of it's former million tons production, making it becoming heavily depending on Allied (mostly American oil imports, as the USA increased it's production, producing 3.7 million barrels/ 504,774 tons per day to 4.7 million barrels/ 641,200 tons per day, so that by a Allies consumption of 7 billion barrels of oil, 6 billion of which came from the United States alone). Together with the Axis Central Power conquest of northern Iraq oil fields another 1,135,000 tons of production fell into the German hands, however the fact that some of this pipelines and railroads still lead to Allied controlled regions in Iraq, Syria and Transjordania (or Soviet Union controlled ones in the Caucasus had been destroyed), meant that the Axis Cental Powers could not fully access, the 15% to 18% of the world's oil production they had under there control in 1942. Britain meanwhile heavily relied on the remaining Middle East, were Persia produced 14,563,000 tons, the unoccupied parts of Iraq produced 3,163,000 tons, Bahrein produced around 1,062,000 tons, Kuweit would produce around 600,000 tons in 1944 thanks to American-British companies, and Saudi Arabia would produce around 6,400,000 tons. This lead to the bombing of Axis Central Power captured/ controlled Oil Fields by the Allies (mainly the Americans and British bombers) and Allied controlled Middle East Oil Fields by the Axis Central Powers (mainly German, Ottoman and Italian bombers). However Stalin in his paranoia openly warned the Allies to not bomb the Caucasian oil fields, as he mistrusted them to only do so to back-stab him, once they were finished with the German, using this opportunity to further weak the war torn Soviet Union. Because of this, Stalin wasted many of his own fighters and bombers trying to destroy the railroads, roads and pipelines coming from this oil fields instead, to deny their use for the Axis Central Powers, while still being able to capture them mostly intact afterwards. During this campaign the Soviet Union's already weakened air forces lost even more pilots and planes to their already superior German counterpart.

 

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Chapter 666: The Imperial Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere Oil Situation

As a densely populated country with few natural resources, especially oil, the Imperial Japanese Army focused on gaining access to strategic resources in Manchuria, East China, Mongolia and the Soviet Union, while the Imperial Japanese Navy favored targeting the Dutch East Indies, Indochina and the Pacific Islands. In 1938 Japan imported 106 thousand barrels of oil per day, only producing 7% (or around 8 thousand barrels of oil per day) of their domestic and military oil requirements, while 10% came from the Dutch East Indies and 70% to 80% came from the United States of America. The 25 oil companies of Japan had 37 refineries and could totally only produce 22 thousand barrels of oil per day (or around 22% of the Japanese demand). Because of that the majority of their oil had to be imported and the United States produced 63% of the worlds petroleum. Further more 60% of the internal Japanese petroleum production marked was controlled by the Stanvac Company and the Rising Sun Company (in cooperation to Royal Dutch Shell oil). Because of their sizable coal reserves, the Japanese attempted the established synthetic fuel industry as the Germans, but lacked the expertise, alloy and catalytic metals required for synfuel production back then. On top of that the Imperial Japanese Navy operated their very own petroleum refinery, to produce heavy fuel oil and would add another one by the End of 1942, they also owned their own coal mine in Chosen. On the other hand the Imperial Japanese Army operated their own coal mines, oil refinery and synthetic fuel plants in Manchuria and Yankoku. At the beginning of the Second Great War in the Pacific, the Empire of Japan had stockpiled enough oil for 4 years of normal consumption, or two years of war supply, thanks to increased manufacturing. Until the liberation of Indochina into Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, the Americans shipped oil to Japan until they imposed a total Embargo, leading to the fact that 75% of the aviation gasoline fueling the Japanese planes crushing the American Fleet in the Philippine Sea, on their way to relieve the Republic of the Philippines. The Japanese Empire's Army and Navy thereby knew that they had to conquer and capture the oil fields of Royal Shell in the Dutch East Indies and Borneo (that produced 165 thousand barrels of oil per day), as their energy depended on foreign imports. Since these areas (including Indochina and Malaysia) also contained around 90% of the world's natural supply of rubber it was crucial to seize these resources quickly, ensure their long term maintenance of power and a Pacific Wall to defeat any Allied attempt to reconquer these regions.

Because of the damage taken to the oil fields or outright Allied sabotage, the production in the conquered regions shrunk to 115 thousand barrels of oil per day in 1942 after the conquest, only slowly rising to 121 to 132 thousand barrels of oil per day in 1943. During this time the Japanese Navy required at least 18 thousand barrels of oil per day and the Imperial Army consumed 6 thousand barrels of oil per day. As a frame of reference, the US fuel demand for the war in the Pacific was 45 thousand barrels of oil per day in 1942, 78 thousand barrels of oil per day in 1943 which became even significantly higher in 1944. The overall oil supply from Sumatra, Java and Borneo shrunk from 32,000,000 tons in 1940 down to between 25,000,000 tons and 27,000,000 tons of oil between 1941 to 1943. But the supply line to Japan would dry up as the Japanese produced around 247,465 tons of tankers in 1942, losing only 4074 tons to Allied attacks by submarine or planes. In 1943 their 382,926 tons produced would be for the first time be outnumbered by the losses who numbered 386,014 tons. From then on it was a downfall as the Japanese Empire realized that the Allies could and would starve them out even if their defense ring was holding, so the Japanese started to build submarine transports and submarine tankers to better secure their own transports as it was a massive 5,600 kilometer until these resource convoys had reached the Japanese Home Island. This meant that by 1944 the petroleum supply chain for the Japanese Empire was cut in half and would have dried out completely had the war continued longer. Overall 56% of of Japanese ships were sunk due to aerial bombs or submarine launched torpedoes, with the US submarines in the Pacific responsible for over 50% of all marine vessels sunk during the Second Great War. The fact that many of the oil facilities in Dutch East Indies had been sabotaged and took a long time to be brought back to full production, something further limiting the Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere use of this. Even more so as a American submarine unknowingly sank a Japanese cargo ship transporting a significant amount oil production equipment and expert personnel. The Japanese Empire compensated parts of this shortcomings of crude oil by limiting their pilot training hours and navigation courses in favor of deploying Kamikaze plain tactics (with only enough fuel for a one way trip). In contrast to that the United States supplied around 85% of the crude oil and overall oil used by the Allies during the Second Great War.

 

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Chapter 667: The Ottoman Way

The laicism, separation of church and state, populism and nationalism created by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (therefore called Kemalism) was the ideological basis for the Neo-Ottoman Empire/ Second Ottoman Empire. Some of them opposed the multi-party democracy established after the Young Turks and were more in favor of the constitutional monarchy of the Young Ottomans, who saw their roots and authority coming from Mohammedanism, but were open to synchronize some of it with liberal ideas and parliamentarian. With the rise of Nationalism and religious fanaticism and ideology in the world, the Kemalists watched with longing and jealousy to Europe, were the National Monarchists and Fascists Royalists had managed to direct this nationalist and religious ambitions and ideologies into a form that they could not only control, but truly shape. This gave birth to the Young Neo-Ottomans, a National Monarchist group that believed the same concept could save and renew the Turkish Republic. To do so they had to recreate a strong and powerful Ottoman Empire, but none that was plagued by multiculturalism and multi-religious groups. Unity trough Nationality and Religion was their end goal, a ideal that sought to form a new centralized and united state out of the weakened remnants of Monarchy and Mohammedan Religion that had so heavily slowed down and weakened the Ottoman Empire for centuries before. Taking this approach the Young Neo-Ottomans in the government and the military reached out to their former allies, the reborn German Empire and the reborn Austrian-Hungarian Empire, who had managed to archive this fusion and grew stronger because of this before them. Not willing to become the Sick Man of the Bosporus again, the partly industrialized nation of Turkey tried to modernize it's military-industrial complex with their help, not willing to lose any more influence to Austria-Hungary, or Italy in the Balkan Peninsula. The old alliance with Bulgaria was renewed and drove them closer to the new Axis Central Powers, but many Young Neo-Ottomans believed that they had to dramatically increase the National and Religious unity of their nation in order to not be torn apart from the inside like during the First Great War, when they claimed that Armenian, Kurds and other minorities had back-stabbed the proud and victorious Ottoman Army at the home-front.

To do so these Young Neo-Ottomans had open ears for German Chancellor Hitler's dream of Living Space in the East and the Axis Central Powers call to destroy the Soviet Union and free it's minorities. The very same regional nationalism that had split and divided Turkey after the First Great War was now seen by the Young Neo-Ottomans as a great means to get rid of their century old rival Russia and by doing so unite themselves with the Turkish Ethnic groups in Central Asia into a unified Greater Turkish Empire that would be big and strong enough to oppose all foreign powers trying to grab themselves a part of it while being reborn to a Great World Power themselves at the same time. The threat of Communism and the Turkish Socialist Soviet Republic puppet later created by the Soviet Union, convinced many Kemalists to support the Young Neo-Ottoman, even if it was for different other reasons then the Young Neo-Ottomans believed. While cracking down on left socialist and communist groups, the Kemalists believed that with the return of the Sultan, they would once again have a more unifying figure as the head of their state, one that could claim, lure in and restrain the threat from the religious fanatics and rising Mohammedanists too, while like in the true times of the Old/ First Ottoman Empire they as the military and their regional commanders and governors would hold the true power over the new state in their hands. Neutral and non-aggressive before this new alliances and friendship with the Axis Central Powers lead to a rise of anti-Allied and anti-Russian (anti-Soviet) Propaganda in the Kemalist, Young Neo-Ottoman and Mohammedan factions of the Turkish Republic, while it was transforming into a new Turkish/ Ottoman Empire. Therefore the Kemalists and Young Neo-Ottomans helped the German encouraged coup either directly, or indirectly when their forces were not outright opposing of fighting these parts of the government and military toppling the old Republic and it's government. A military coup in disguise of a aristocratic and religious one so to speak, while at the same time allying with aristocratic and religious Mohammedan groups to a extent. They even aided the coup directly by supplying trucks, trains and airplanes to quickly spread it's holdings and influence over the whole country before any other group could even truly react.

This new officially once again Mohammedan Regime managed to ease the religious hardliners to aid the new government instead of opposing it again, while at the same time getting old aristocratic monarchists and democrat republicans in on their train with a parliamentarian constitutional monarchy. Socialist and Communists of aiding groups to the Soviet Puppet regime were persecuted and ended up in reeducation camps or shot. Their new alliance partners of the Neo/ Second Ottoman Empire, the Axis Central Powers helped with the modernization of Army and Industry, but similar to Italy, Turkey had not been ready for the Second Great War when it started. Their claims of a Sultanate and Ottoman Empire, were claims of old borders for a new ethnic Turkish nation state, that sought to kill or oust the ethnic and religious minorities inside it's new and old reclaimed borders, so that they never could betray their great Empire from within again. Trough Propaganda and modernization the new regime created jobs and strengthened the new state, but had to wait until after the Fall of France before it could take it's first “conquest” as fruits of victory. The Turkish invasion into Fascist French Syria and their following re annexation (without any bigger Fascist French resistance, similar to Japan in Indochina) of that territory convinced many in a wave of nationalism and patriotism that they could reclaim old strength, position and power quit easily now that Britain and France were weakened by the New/ Second great War in Europe. However the loose coalition of Kemalist Military, Aristocrat Young Neo-Ottomans and Mohammedans, while using their ideology for a Pan-Turkish movement and to encourage other Mohammedans to rise up against the Allied and Soviet Colonial Imperialists to join their Sultanate to recreate the Ummah Caliphate under Turkish Ottoman rule stretching over the whole Mohammedan world either directly, or as a protector with Mecca as their most secret and holy side firm under Turkish Ottoman authority once again and the Arabs driven back into the desert. But similar with Italy the Axis Central Powers could not wait further after the failed incursion in Iraq and the starting Eastern Crusade until maybe the Second Ottoman Empire would be ready for war. Therefore German Army and Navy forces (two whole armies) alongside a few Austrian-Hungarian and Italian ones (combined around one army) were send to the Second Ottoman Empire and started to attack the southern Soviet Union as well as the Northern Allied Middle East front, aiding the Turks/ Ottomans massively in their invasion of Greek Islands, the Anatolian/ Armenian and Caucasus Campaign, the Invasion of Cyprus and the Middle East expansion into Syria, Iraq, Transjordania and Persia. This so called Axis Central Powers support was in parts so massive, that the German Imperial Army often outnumbered all other Axis Central Power forces in a battle/ frontline.

The Mohammedan claims of the Second Ottoman Empire as a Mohammedan Turkish Nation State paid off when the Azerbaijan Mohammedan people betrayed the Soviet Union and allowed for a massive push of the Turks and Axis Central Powers into the Caucasian Region by switching sides and cutting of a whole Soviet Red Army. Still these victories were more German then the Ottoman Turkish propaganda claimed them to be mainly Ottoman/ Turkish/ Mohammedan and even most of the weapons of the Mohammedan and Pan-Turkish rebels in Central Asia actually came from German sources, even if logistics and infrastructure were a nightmare inside of Turkey. This became clear as many of the early “victories” and “conquests” were because of a lack, or the encirclement of Allied and Red Army forces opposing this rather smaller Axis Central Powers offensive forces. Once however enough enemy reinforces had stabilized this Caucasian and Middle East Fronts, the Turks/ Ottomans and the Axis Central Powers had to bring in more of their own forces as well, stopping their blitzkrieg and slowing down drastically, mainly because of the poor supply and reinforcements coming trough because of the overall problematic infrastructure.

 

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Chapter 668: The Pacific Theatre Division

The Pacific Theatre of the Second Great War was divided into a couple of major strategic zones and theatres. In the North the Pacific Ocean Area (POA): Northern Pacific stretched from Alaska over the Aleuts all the way to Hokkaido Karagfuto/ Sakhalin and the eastern coats of the Russian/ Soviet Far East. This area was not only important, because it secured the continental United States directly against the Japanese Empire led Co-Prosperity Sphere invasion, but also because it was had been the main eastern supply route to the Soviet Union until the Japanese and Manchurians had captured the Far East. In the Central Pacific stretching from the Californian and Central American West Coast to Korea and the Eastern Chinese Coast was the Pacific Ocean Area (POA): Central Pacific, a region that had once bee seen as the direct route of American operations in a possible war against Japan to reach the Japanese Home Islands. However since these early war-games the American planning staff had realized that the supply of a fleet over such a long distance would always benefit the defender in the Pacific and had therefore opted for a more southern approach. This so called Island hopping strategy was meant to ensure that a chain of islands could be used as a linked line of supply bases, therefore allowing for a trans-pacific ocean operation.

South from there from the western Coast of Peru and Chile, the Pacific Ocean Area (POA): Southeast Pacific all the way to American Samoa, British Fidschi and New Zealand. All of this Area is under the strategic supreme command of Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet Chester William Nimitz, the fleet admiral coordinating the naval operations of the Untied States Navy and the United States Marines against the Empire of Japan and the Co-Prosperity Sphere in the Pacific War. His main objective after Midway is to defend Alaska and Hawaii from further Japanese invasions and defeat the Imperial Japanese and Co-Prosperity Sphere Navies to cripple their offensive capacities and End this war as quick as possible.

West of his area lies the the so called Pacific Ocean Area (POA): Southwest Pacific stretching from Australia all across Southeast Asia. This is the main area of the so called Island hopping strategy and the Supreme Command is put under General Douglas MacArthur in charge of the United States Army operations in this overall area. In the Solomon Islands (in cooperation with Nimitz there) and New Guinea, General MacArthur and his forces face the majority of pressure from the Japanese Empire and their Co-Prosperity Sphere allies (mainly the Taikoku and Chosen Empires) in the Pacific Front at the moment. The Indian Ocean meanwhile is designated as the so called British Strategic Direction Area where the British Royal Navy under Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten

and Commander-in-Chief, India, Archibald Percival Wavell who commanded the Allied Operations along the Indian-Burmese front against the Imperial Japanese Army, the Royal Burmese Army, the Royal Yikoku Army and the Tibetan Empire Army. Together with Mountbatten, Wavell secured the South of Asia, including the Indian Subcontinent as a whole as well as all islands in the Indian Ocean, including Ceylon and Madagascar.

 

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Chapter 669: Allied Strategic Resources

The German Empire led Axis Central Power Conquest of most of Europe and even more so the Japanese Empire led Co-Prosperity Sphere conquest of South-East Asia has led to some problems in terms of strategy, tactics and partly even more important resources. Japan and the Co-Prosperity Sphere now controlled vast amounts of rubber and oil. Because of that and the Japanese led invasion of Burma and East India, the Allies had send three whole divisions to Ceylon and planned to send even more, as it was not only of major strategic importance for South India, but also a main producer of rubber. The situation in Liberia was quit similar, as it had opened up to Allied forces early in the war, when Axis Central Powers forces (mainly German and Fascist French) threatened their borders and invaded them. Afterwards it became a important transit point for troops and resources bound for West Africa were Allied forces had landed, particularly war supplies flown from Parnamirim near Natal in Brazil. Even more importantly, it served as one of the Allies' only sources of rubber during the war, after nearly all plantations of Southeast Asia had been taken over by the Japanese. The importance of this resource led to significant improvement of Liberia's transport infrastructure and a modernization of its economy, both partly thanks to American and British credits and aid. Liberia's strategic significance was emphasized when Franklin Roosevelt, after attending the Casablanca Conference, visited Liberia and met President Edwin Barclay. However despite all of this, Liberia had tried to remain neutral for most of the Second Great War, only official declaring war on Germany (as well as the other Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere) on 27 January 1944, after German the new Liberian President William Tubman had been voted into office. Besides Ceylon, Liberia and the Belgian Congo were the only Allied sources of enough rubber left, making Africa strategically more important then the Axis Central Powers realized back then. Thanks to a Defensive Agreement with the United States that also was intended to secure the world's largest rubber plantation, operated at Harbel by the Firestone Company since 1926. To better transport this Liberian resource, the Americans build roads and the international airport (Robertsfield Airport), while also transforming the capital of Montovia into a modern deep water port (the Freeport of Monrovia) with their own help. Poor Liberia even adopted the US dollar when joining the war to increase their economy. All of this would hunt the state after 1944, when America under new president Thomas Edmund Dewey ended their participation in the Second Great War, shortly after followed by Great Britain. Unable to get their debt repaid, the US started to get economic problems, hardship and mass unemployment. As the Dollar was falling and the American economy crumbling apart, just like the rest of the not very long United states too would, Liberia crumbled alongside them. Unknown to President Tubman the Axis Central Powers, mainly the German Empire and the French Empire had already agreed to conquer and split up all remaining independent nation states in the Africa Conference in Berlin in 1941, including Liberia and now all on it's own there was no chance in hell that he would hold out against them for very long when their forces would return to West Africa. Then there was Belgian Congo, where the Allies would get their main supply of Uranium.

For this very same reasons that Africa was important to the Allies, South America was too, even more so as the economics heavily dominated the politics of the continent. However this massive South American economic power came at a cost as most of them were mono-cultures. This means they neglect other products and productions in favor if a single product, or the promotion of a few single line of production. This also means that should this single production someday be disrupted or badly damaged, that nearly all of their national economy would be shattered by it. But the chance to turn this mono-production into a monopoly production, tempted the nations of South America. Brazil specialized on Coffee, Argentine on corn and wheat, Chile on chopper and saltpeter, Bolivia on tin and Venezuela in Oil and Petroleum. This mono-cultures brought a massive conjuncture for this nations, but also some very hard economic problems. During the Great Depression, this mono-cultures were hit with immense power. Chile had before learned thanks to the invention of the synthetic Nitrogenium production that they could not live from Saltpeter forever, it's production crumbled from 57% in 1913 to 23% in 1929. But South America did not fear to learn from this mistakes and tried it's best to increase it's national economies to free itself from the global market. They tried to widen their production bases to not solely rely on single products or resources anymore and started to increase the search for new resources and riches in their own nation states. At the same time they increased the internal transportation and infrastructure to transport and deliver said resources in plans for economic and industrial growth over a certain amount of years. Autocracy thanks to industrialization was their plan, but before that they still remained highly depending on the import of finished products, like machines, tools or train-materials. With two third of the south-American imported goods coming from the Untied States, Germany, Great Britain and France, the continent was economically split during the Second Great War, especially as German imports even dominated Brazil and Chile (were even a strong German military corporation and tradition was alive since the Prussian formation of the German Empire). Overall18% of all Chopper, 13,3% of all Tin, 13% of all Oil and Petroleum, 9% Cotton, 15% wool, 10% of all corn, 7% of all wheat and 22% of all coffee came from the continent. Most of it produced by Brazil (corn, cotton, cacao and coffee), Argentine (wool, corn and wheat), the two nations who rivaled for dominance in this south American hemisphere for themselves, while Bolivia (Tin), Chile (Chopper) and Venezuela (oil) came close behind them.

Because of this the immense economic area of the Ibero-american, or Latin-American have strong economic ties to the United States as the economical and industrial strongest nation in the Americas, and even for European countries. The south-American economies heavily relied on the exports of their resources, completing itself with the north-American and European high industry products they get in return. But much stronger then Europe ever has, the United States of America are involved in the South American trade and economies, seeing the southern American continent as a natural field of their trade-political expansion politics, called the Yankee-Imperialism by many. But the United States could not prevent the increase of European countries own trade expansion into south-America. The United States answer to that is a dollar crusade, as the ibero-american and latin-american nation states are quit hungry for fresh investment. Wall Street keeps the dollar rolling, to regain some of the lost economic influence that had gone to the Europeans. All of this could be followed back to the so called Monroe-Doctrine of 1823, when Monroe called for a “America for Americans”, that had changed it's meaning and ideal quit some over time. In the hands of the north-American capital-expansion, the Monroe-Doctrine became a powerful instrument and became more and more a Dollar-Doctrine. But unlike the Big-Stick policy of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt called for a policy of good neighborhood to replace it. To do so America started a role of a police officer for the region, a nice uniform and coat were the real power political goals of Wall-street could hide behind, to transform this good neighborhood into dollar. All of the sudden, Panamericanism was born as a unification of political and commerce interests. North American trusts owned the chopper of Chile (Anaconda and Kennecott), the rubber (Ford) and Mangane of Brasil, the oil of Venezuela and Columbia and the Chopper, Silver and vanadium of Peru. The United States trust-capital is holding south America in a tight grip, to break this monopoly became important for the economic and political independence of South-America. Something the Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere would rival for after the Second Great War, as American economic power and influence diminished. Until then the United States had invested 1,000,000,000 $ in the Caribbean and Argentine, 500,000,000 to 600,000,000 $ in Mexico, Chiel and Brazil, as well as around 100 Million in Bolivia, Columbia, Peru and Venezuela.

 

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Chapter 670: Johnston Atoll Preparations - Japan

On the Johnston Atoll, the Japanese under Command of Nishizō Tsukahara began their occupation of the island and build first defenses, in chase the Americans would try to reconquer this position so close to Hawaii that endangered and prolonged the supply lines from America to Australia and New Guinea. While the Imperial Japanese Navy Carrier Hosho and the Japanese Airship Aircraft Carrier (AAC) Tatsu (or Tatso) had helped during the initial Operation Ma had long been redirected to other areas and only few transports from Chūkan (Midway) delivered fresh forces, engineers, Marines, Imperial Armored Samurai and some equipment the Empire of Japan could spare. As a important point in the cut-off plan for Australia and Papua from American supplies, reinforcements and help, the Johnston Atoll was located quit central as a part of the operational Central Pacific Area Fleet (中部 太平洋方面 Chūbu Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Central Pacific Area Fleet (中部 太平洋方面艦隊 Chūbu Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai), right below the operational zone of the Northeast Area (北東太平洋 方面 Hokutō Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Northeast Area Fleet (北東太平洋 方面艦隊 Hokutō Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai) and above the Southeast Pacific Area (南東太平洋 方面 Nantō Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Southeast Pacific Area Fleet (南東太平洋 方面艦隊 Nantō Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai). While the Japanese tried their best to redirect a number to support and transport ships with a few destroyers to the Johnston Atoll (Yosuton Kanshō) to help with new workers from Chosen and Yankoku, but they could not spare much because of much bigger major operations planned and other, much more important frontlines and supply regions. Admiral Tsukahara knew that the western reef prevented the Allies from directly assaulting his island garrison from the west, therefore he concentrated much of his forces on the south and east, to protect the Yosuton/ Johnston airfield were Japanese fighters and bombers were by now stationed. Because he know that he would receive no further reinforcements, heavy weapons and supplies of all kind Admiral Tsukahara ordered the garrison of Yosuton to be self-sufficient. The Japanese managed to do so (partly) because they started to grow vegetables and other plants to supply themselves the best they could. Still the average daily rations were small and below the needed minimum for any civilian, let alone a soldier.

The rice, meat, fish and vegetables they had were not enough and so some Japanese soldiers on the island started to fish for their own food on command of their officer, as their original supplies only lasted for twenty days and even those later arriving lasted only for two more months. Because of that the Japanese used the captured American food, even if they first believed it to be poisoned. Some soldiers starved, others died of diseases brought with them from Papua or other island garrisons, or from a lack of vitamins. To distract his forces from this problem, the Japanese Commander ordered them to build a airfield, that partly helped them to get supplies via transport planes from Chūkan (Midway). Most fortified positions, machine-gun, gun, artillery and anti-air emplacements. Most of them were placed on the south and east as the Japanese believed the Americans would come from this directions, away from the western coral reef, where no American invasion was believed to be possible. A radar was installed on Yosuton and searchlights, guns, machine-guns and anti-air there and on the northeastern Sand Island. A part of the Japanese forces were send there to cover each other from island to island. The two parts of Sand Island itself were connected by a trench to give the forces there some cover. Because of the small reef south of Sand Island, the Japanese mainly fortified the eastern and northern part of that island against a invasion, while their forces on the west were sparsely and in the south, were a small pier was, the main purpose of the Japanese defenses was to assist the forces on Yosuton itself. The Japanese positions there on Yosuton itself were focused on the east and south, the main targets of a possible American landing invasion. The Japanese defenses on the north of Yosuton were not as many, but supported by entrenched and partly even cement buildings and fortifications at the main hangars and barracks of the Japanese Garrison there. The western part of the island, similar to Sand Island hat a wooden supply pier, two exactly were transport and supply ships or seaplanes could dock at for unloading. The few defensive positions in the west were meant to cover this area and each other, while one also targeted the so called Munsen's Gap a small area of the submerged western coral reef were landing transports and vehicles could pass trought.

 

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Chapter 671: A Egypt Fox

Field Marshall Erwin Rommel knew that in the east coast of Egypt behind the Nile as well as on the Sinai Peninsula behind the Suez Channel, the British Empire had some of it's last remaining oil reserves. Therefore he tried his best to outflank Alexandria if possible, rush east and take these regions, while he hoped General Erhart Steineiche, German Commander in the Middle East and General Nuri Pasha, the Second Ottoman Commander in the Middle East could copy his Libya-Egypt strategy of fast, mobile encirclement of enemy forces in the Mesopotamian region between between the Rivers of Euphrates and Tigirs and pushy the British/ Allies out of Iraq to deny them the Mosul, Kirkuk, Baghdad and Kuweit oil fields, and out of Persia to deny them the Ahwaz and Bandor Shahpur oil fields too. At the same time the Soviets had started to develop their own remaining oil fields in Chapoew north of the Caspian Sea and Kransnovodsk east of the Caspian Sea, as well as in the Volga/ Ural region, but many of those now were in direct range of Axis Central Power bombers and unlike the Allies who feared bombing the Caucasian oil fields of Maikop, Grozny and Baku without Stalin's approval of such a plan, the Imperial German Air Force had no such limitations. However the German Emperor Wilhelm himself intervened, ordered Ahwaz to be spared as he believed it would soon be conquered by German, Austrian-Hungarian and Russian forces, while Tzar Vladimir quickly after intervened and ordered to spare the other Russian oil fields to be spared too, as he viewed them as very important for the rebuilding of Russia after the war, like so many believed the Red Army to be already beaten and also needed this oil for trade income and ruble rolling in after the liberation of Russia from Stlain and Communism was finished. Imperial German Air Admiral Hermann Göring and other military leaders were quit outraged by this events, as they believed this would delay the overall victory, giving the beaten Red Army time to catch it's breath and reorganize, but they were soon overruled and outvoted by the Emperor's the majority of the military high command who believed the Eastern Crusade to be almost over by then and even their own prejudice of the Soviet Union and the Red Army overall lack of abilities, discipline and efficient command structures.

In the meantime in Egypt, General Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and Marshal of Italy (Maresciallo d'Italia) Ettore Bastico, technically his superior had failed to take Lake Qarun and bypass Giza by capturing Faiyum with it's main central railway intersections west of the Nile. With the British Eight Army under Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery still securing Alexandria, Rommel's flank would be exposed like back in Tobruk if he continued to push east without ending this threat. Therefore the Axis Central Powers air forces (mainly German, Italian, Austria-Hungarian and Turkish bombers from Libya and Cyprus heavily bombed the city of Alexandria in hopes to weaken the Allied forces there before a main German assault would follow, or at least weaken them enough that they would not dare to oppose Rommel in the rest of northern Egypt. Meanwhile the Allies burned secret documents and plans in Cairo and prepared to blow up all bridges over the Nile as well as blockade the Suez Channel by sinking flooding prepared old tank ships right in it's middle. Unknown to Rommel and the Axis Central powers, most of the British Eight Army had secretly by then already retreated from the Siege of Alexandria in a attempt to get behind the Nile, from were they could head east and join the Middle East defenses, or south and join the remaining defenses of Egypt around Cairo. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery did not intend to dare and risk letting his forces get encircled, eliminated or capitulated, even if it meant a temporary retread, as he was hellbent on beating Rommel and the Axis Central Powers. Sure their supplies lines were much shorter now then his, but they had until now lost much more forces then the Allies in North Africa and the overwhelming industrial power of the Empire and the United States would soon crush the German, Austrian-Hungarian and Italian forces in Egypt and push them back out of the country, then out of Libya and the rest of North Africa, following them to Southern Europe Montgomery and many other Allied leaders hoped and planned.

 

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Chapter 672: Johnston Atoll Preparations - America

On Hawaii the Admirals Raym. A. Spruance, Richmond K. Turner and Harry W. Hill, along the Generals Holland M. Smith, Julian C. Smith, Leo D. Hermle, Merritt A. Edson and David M. Shoup planned a miracle. It was well known since the 1942 mid-term elections that the overall American public opinion was more opposing of the war and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt by the day. The fact that some accused him of fascist-monarchist-authoritarian policies, methods and goals himself did not help, neither did the fact that many newspapers had to be regulated from printing articles about fighting a British-French Imperialist war to preserve their Colonies and Dominance in Europe, while at the same time aiding the Communist Red Tyranny of Stalin as a common enemy of both the Axis Central Powers and the Co-Prosperity Sphere that the Comintern shared with the Allies and vice versa. A victory in the Pacific, Africa or Europe was needed to keep the morale and war support up and it was needed quick and easy. However the Strategy Europe First and the heavy pressure the Japanese led Co-prosperity Sphere put onto Papua/ New Guinea and the Solomones meant that not much resources were available for any Allied Pacific Operation in it's own, as most forces and reinforcements or supplies were send to Australia. Therefore the planning United States Admirals and Generals had to find a weak spot in the Japanese Outer Defenses, a single easily isolated island garrison, that could not only be quickly cut off from any reinforcements and supplies, but also be a target for the first American counteroffensive and a easy, quick victory to lift the spirits back at home.

The target was quickly found, identified as the Johnston Atoll and Sand Island at the outer edge of the Japanese Defense Perimeter. With long range bombers from Hawaii, aided by the American's own Pacific Fleet with the remaining Carriers (optional) and their massive battleships, they should be able, rather quickly to deal with this lonesome Japanese island fortifications there, retaking the territory and getting a first incident of hope for the Pacific back to the newspapers at home, especial since the situation in Africa and Europe did not look that good either right now. One Marine and one Infantry Division were designated to land on the Johnston Atoll and Sand Island to recapture them, but the western coral reef made a approach of the fleet from there problematic and it was most likely that both Japanese island fortifications were build to support one another. Because of that the Marine and Infantry landings planned on Sand Island (Blue Beach, Yellow No. 1 and Yellow No. 2), as well as those on Johnston Atoll (Red No. 1, Red No. 2 and Green Beach) itself were intended to face away from one another. This however meant that the American Fleet supporting the Operation had to be best split up in a more northern and a more southern group too to aid their respective islands better. On Sand Island the Marines were planned for the eastern Blue Beach Zone and Yellow No. 2 as the Japanese entrenchment and defenses there were the largest, so that the supporting Infantry could land more easier and secure at Yellow No. 1 to cut both Japanese Garrisons in the northern Sand Island in two. In the southern Johnston Atoll the Marines were meant to land at Red No. 1 and Red no. 2. where the Japanese had their main defenses and the most heavy resistance was anticipated. The Infantry meanwhile would land at Green Beach under much better cover they believed. All landings in Sand Island and Johnston Island were therefore planned to support one another and crush the Japanese Garrison forces between their own.

 

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Chapter 673: A Hashemite Strategy?!

The Stalemate in the Middle East, was problematic for the Axis Central Powers and the Second Ottoman Empire. Ironically, like so often in this war (similar to Italy) the Ottomans had chosen a rather unsuspected ally, the Hashemites (Arabic: الهاشميون‎, Al-Hāshimīyūn; or House of Hashim) a royal family that had shortly ruled over Hejaz (1916 to 1925), Iraq (since 1921), Jordan and Syria (since 1920). As a part of the Dhawu Awn, one of the branches of the Hasanid Sharifs of Mecca (also called the Hashemites), who had ruled the city continuously from the 10th century until its conquest by the House of Saud in 1924, they shared a common ancestor in Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, making him the 37th-generation direct descendant. The Hasanid Sharifs of Mecca from whom the Hashemite royal family is directly descended, including the Hashemites' ancestor Qatadah ibn Idris, were Zaydi Shias until the late Mamluk or early Ottoman period when they converted to Shafi'i Sunni Islam. Their later dynasty in the region was founded by Sharif Hussein ibn Ali (Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi, Arabic: الحسين بن علي الهاشمي‎, al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī; 1853/1854 – 4 June 1931), who was appointed as Sharif and Emir of Mecca by Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1908, then in 1916 was proclaimed King of Arab countries (and claimed for himself the title of Caliph), but was only recognized as King of the Hejaz, after initiating the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. His sons Abdullah and Faisal assumed the thrones of Jordan and Iraq in 1920/ 1921. His son Ali bin Hussein (Arabic: علي بن الحسين بن علي الهاشمي‎, ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī; 1879–1935) was King of Hejaz and Grand Sharif of Mecca from October 1924 until he was deposed by Ibn Saud in December 1925. He was the eldest son of Hussein bin Ali, the first modern King of Hejaz, and a scion of the Hashemite family. With the passing of the kingship from his father he also became the heir to the title of Caliph, but he did not adopt the khalifal office and style. This betrayal by the British for letting the Saud conquer the Hashemites after they had aided them against the First Ottoman Empire was not forgotten.

Instead of a unified Arab Empire under Hashemite rule, the British and French divided the regions under the sons Abd al-Ilah of Hejaz (Arabic: عبد الإله; also written Abdul Ilah or Abdullah; 14 November 1913 – 14 July 1958) the first cousin and brother-in-law of King Ghazi of Iraq, who was intended to serve as regent for King Faisal II from 4 April 1939 to 23 May 1953, when Faisal came of age. He also held the title of Crown Prince of Iraq from 1943. Ghazi bin Faisal (Arabic: غازي ابن فيصل‎ Ġāzī bin Fayṣal) (21 March 1912 – 4 April 1939) was the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920. He was born in Mecca, the only son of Faisal I, the first King of Iraq, the son of Hussain bin Ali. He was succeeded by Faisal II (Arabic: الملك فيصل الثاني Al-Malik Fayṣal Ath-thānī) (2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the next King of Iraq, himself the son Abd al-Ilah of Hejaz, who reigned from 4 April 1939 even trough a pro-Imperial German Coup by some of his officers, that cost 3,000 Iraqi troops their life in combat while 3,000 nationalist officers were purged. This greatly weakened and diminished the Iraqi Forces during the Second Great War.

Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein (Arabic: عبد الله الأول بن الحسين‎, Abd Allāh Al-Awal ibn Al-Husayn, February 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the ruler of Jordan and its predecessor state, as the Emir of Transjordan from 11 April 1921 under a British mandate. Abdullah claimed, he was a 38th-generation direct descendant of Muhammad as he belongs to the Hashemite family. Born in Mecca, Hejaz, in the First Ottoman Empire, Abdullah was the second of three sons of Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and his first wife Abdiyya bint Abdullah. He was educated in Istanbul and Hejaz. From 1909 to 1914, Abdullah sat in the Ottoman legislature, as deputy for Mecca, but allied with Britain during the First Great War. Between 1916 and 1918, he played a key role as architect and planner of the Great Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule that was led by his father Sharif Hussein. Abdullah personally led guerrilla raids on garrisons. Abdullah became emir to the Emirate of Transjordan in April 1921, which he established by his own initiative. Faisal I bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi (Arabic: فيصل بن الحسين بن علي الهاشمي‎, Fayṣal al-Awwal ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of Iraq from 23 August 1921 to 1933. He was the third son of Hussein bin Ali, the Grand Sharif of Mecca, who had proclaimed himself King of the Arab lands in October 1916. Faisal fostered unity between Sunni and Shiite Mohammedans to encourage common loyalty and promote pan-Arabism in the goal of creating an Arab state that would include Iraq, Syria and the rest of the Fertile Crescent. While in power, Faisal tried to diversify his administration by including different ethnic and religious groups in offices. However, Faisal's attempt at pan-Arab nationalism may have contributed to the isolation of certain religious groups. The Kingdom was later abolished by the French Colonial Administration gained the Mandate of Syria in 1920.

The Second Ottoman Empire therefore believed they would have a chance, convincing the Hashemites thanks to their pan-Mohammedan propaganda and rhetoric that was meant to split up the Arab nationalism and it's people to weaken them. They portrayed the British and French as the main Allies as a untrustworthy bunch that had betrayed and stabbed the Hashemites in the back, yes had even done so to the Saud who they betrayed the Hashemites for, as they had promised a unified Arab Nation State after the defeat of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, only to split the region up into their own proto-colonies, the so called Mandates of the League of Nations. This the Ottoman Turks called out and claimed, proved the true British and French intentions all along, as they had divided and kept the people of Europe, Africa, Asia and America small and depending on them, so their Empire's could rise and remain at the top of global powers. However despite some pan-Mohammedan sympathies for the Second Ottoman Empire and the Turks, similar to the pan-Turkish movements never gained a strong foothold in the Middle East and the Arab nations and Arab nationalism, let alone the Hashemites. This was mainly because of the Turkish purges and displacement against ethnic minorities during the war, including Armenian, Kurds and Arabs that they intended to get rid off in their Greater Pan-Tukish New Ottoman Empire. Therefore no alliance between the Hashemites/ Arab Nationalists and the Second Ottomans/ Turks and Germans ever formed, even if some local groups, parties and even volunteer forces still joined them in their fight. Especially since the Hashemites did not trust the Turkish Ottomans to hold on to their promise to have the Syrian, Mesopotamian, Jerusalem and Hejaz Provinces remain as semi-independent Kingdoms (Mamlaka) under their own Hashemite Kings (Malik).

 

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Chapter 674: Klan Temple (Klemple)-ism or Klanism

Thanks to his massive success in the anti-war really in Washington, William Joseph Simmons believed he could not only reunite and revive the Ku Klux Klan, but that to do so he had to implement new changes too. While Hiram Wesley Evans had become the new Imperial Wizard in 1922, Simmons had become the elected Emperor for life. Ever since the 1930s fascist leaning splinter groups of the Klan had risen, like the Black Legion, the Knights of the White Camellia and others, that sought close relationship with other National Monarchist/ Fascist Royalist groups like the German-American Bund and the Silver Shirts (often shortened SS). William Simmons believed that one of the main factors that the KKK had failed to archive a so massive loyal fanaticism and mass movement unlike the National Monarchists and Fascist Royalists had done in Europe was because while it had it's believes and ideals, it lacked a core ideology, a unifying center, around which a own ideology and even political party could be build. Therefore William Simmons as the Klan's Emperor rewrote the Kloran (a portmanteau of "Klan" and "Koran"), the Klan's handbook into his personal ideological book to outline and cement his ideology and believes that should form the new, future Klan, detailed outlining the role of different Klan members as well as detailing Klan ceremonies and procedures. The letters Kl were often used at the beginning of words to delineate a Klan association. Examples include: Kloran, Klonversation (conversation), Klavern (cavern or tavern; local branch or meeting place), Klavaliers, and such. The original Kloran was written by William J. Simmons, for his revived "Knights of the Ku Klux Klan," around 1915. He drew heavily on his previous experiences as a "fraternalism;" he was a member of many different lodges and had sold memberships in the Woodmen of the World before deciding to revive the Klan. The Klan created the Kloran as a means to share their knowledge and to keep a set of values within the organization. Now however as William Simmons rewrote the Kloran and tried to establish a mass movement around himself at the center and top, many things changed. The Black Legion with it's around 135,000 members was a Klan organized along military lines, their Michigan Legion alone had 5 brigades, 16 regiments, 64 battalions, and 256 companies. It boasted of a membership of one million Legionnaires in Michigan, but observers estimated that it had between 20,000 and 30,000 members. When William Simmons incorporated them into the newly unified Klan, they formed a sort of paramilitary group (the Black Knights in their Black Robes and Black Hoods), who had to swear allegiance to him alone, similar to Hitler's SA and other movements of the time. They were officially the military branch of his so called Invisible Empire and their main enemies were the Washington Government, Republicans, Catholics and Jews.

William Simmons Second Klan started to organize white citizen's councils opposing the central government's growing authority in the Southern States and calling for a Invisible Empire in the whole world, as well as in a spiritual sense. The secrets, working order and ideology implemented by William Simmons were outlined in the Kloran and all outside of this hidden state and empire were designated the Alien World and non-members Aliens. Around William Simmons, as the commander in Chief, whose power was supreme "within the limits of this Constitution" and whose edicts, decisions and rulings were binding on all members of the order, the Klan became a very militarized organization. They even used own specific terms, referring to states and territories within the United States as Realms, given a number given by it's organization within the KKK hierarchy and it's capital the convention was named a Klorero, ruled by a Grand Dragon, while a ruling council of none Hydras ruled over the whole hidden Empire. Inside the Realm, the Klan established Provinces, counties or a number of counties (six at maximum), designated by the local Grand Dragon. Each Province was lead by a Great Titan. Underneath this was the basic unit, the Klan with a jurisdiction era known as a Klanton, led by a Exalted Cyclops. The officers at each level above the local Klan unit were designated by a unique prefix: Imperial at the Empire level; Grand at the Realm level; and Great at the Province level. Thus, for instance, an Imperial Kludd would be the chaplain for the whole organization, a Grand Kludd for the Realm, Great Kludd for a Province and simply Kludd for a local Klan.

Not all offices were reproduced at each level. The Kladd, Klarogo, Klexter, and Klokard were not present at the Province level, and the Kladd was not included on the Realm level. The Klazik, second vice-president, and Klonsul, attorney, positions only existed at the Imperial level. The Klazik's duties included being head of the department of Realms and organizing new Realms and Provinces. At the Province level there were three Klaliffs that served as an advisory board. A Klokann of three members, each one named a Klokan, filled this role at the local levels and a Klokann of four members at the Imperial level, in which they served as a "Supreme Board of Auditors and Special Advisers" and was led by a Chief Imperial Klokan. The Imperial Wizards Genii constituted his Imperial Kloncilium; this was the Imperial Wizards supreme advisory board, as well as the Klans highest administrative organ in between Klonvokations. It met regularly every July, but could also be called when the Imperial Wizard or five Geniis petitioned him to do so. The Kloncilium was also the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of the organization with appellate jurisdiction and the right to finally determine disputes between Realms, Provinces, Klans and members in unorganized states. Giant was adopted as an emeritus title: Imperial Giant for an ex-Imperial Wizard, Grand Giant for an ex-Grand Dragon, Great Giant for ex-Great Titan, and Klan Giant for an ex-Exalted Cyclops. A Kleagle was a recruiter and was responsible for organizing local Klans. Klankraft or Klanishness – the overall practice and state of being a Klan member. This could be defined as the employment and patronizing of fellow Klansmen, as well as sale of official Klan memorabilia, such as T-shirts, watches and belt buckles. The definition robes, cross lightings and parades, the mysticism, everything that made the Klan the Klan was soon found. Other definitions included maintaining the sanctity of one's home, maintenance of white supremacy and purity, and loyalty to the Klan itself.

Terms related to membership and non-membership: were Alien – a non-member, Naturalization – the Klan initiation ceremony, Citizen – a Klan member, Passport – membership card, Banished – expelled from the Klan. There were even special names for different Klan Groups, according to their activity; Wrecking Crew – an action squad commissioned to take physical action against enemies and wayward members of the Klan. Depending on time and organization, these groups consisted of 5 to 8 members and were authorized either by the klokann, the Exalted Cyclops and/or the Kludd. Sometimes led by the Nighthawk. An action taken by the crew is wrecked. Some names used by wrecking crews include "Secret Six", "Ass-tear Squad" and "Holy terrors". The Klan Bureau of Investigation – Pioneered by the Mississippi White Knights, these groups investigate the Klans enemies and check leaks, later they were formed by William Simmons Second Klan into it's very own secret service. Degree teams – a group which performs the task of initiation. In terms of finances the Klan knew the following worlds; Klectoken or Klecktokon – initiation fee. It stabilized around $10 before the 1960s, the Imperial tax – membership dues and the Provincial tax – secondary dues, paid per capita for the upkeep of a Realm. The overall Code words and phrases used by the KKK were; A.Y.A.K. or Ayak – "Are you a Klansman?" to be answered with; A.K.I.A. or Akia – "A Klansman I am"; these were code words for Klansmen meeting in strange surroundings. They would be inserted into common conversation, for instance "Does a Mr. Ayak live in this neighborhood?" to be responded by "No, but a Mr. Akia does." The password would then be accompanied by a secret handshake or other sign of recognition. Other words and phrases included K.I.G.Y or Kigy – "Klansman, I greet you", S.A.N.B.O.G. or Sanbog – "Strangers are near, be on guard", Itsub – "In the sacred unfailing bond", a correspondence sign-off, Sor – "Sign of recognition", K.L.A.S.P. – "Klannish loyalty a sacred principle", C.A.B.A.R.K. – "Constantly Applied By All Real Klansmen", O.R.I.O.N – Our Race Is Our Nation, or L.O.T.I.E or LOTIE – Lady Of The Invisible Empire. This was one of a number of names for Klan women's auxiliaries.

Two KKK codes for dates and times have been developed, the Ku Klux Register in the original prescripts and the Kalender developed by William Joseph Simmons too; The Klan months were 1st – Dismal, 2nd – Dark, 3rd – Furious, 4th – Portentous, 5th – Wonderful, 6th – Alarming, 7th – Dreadful, 8th – Terrible, 9th – Horrible, 10th – Melancholy, 11th – Mournful and 12th – Dying. Colors were used for the days of the week were; 1st Prescript; 1. White, 2. Green, 3. Blue, 4. Black, 5. Yellow, 6. Crimson and 7. Purple. Twelve designations were used for the hours of the day: 1. Fearful, 2. Startling, 3. Awful, 4. Woeful, 5. Horrid, 6. Bloody, 7. Doleful, 8. Sorrowful, 9. Hideous, 10. Frightful, 11. Appalling and 12. Last. The Kalender developed by W. J. Simmons even included codes for days of the week, weeks, months and years. For months: 1st – Bloody, 2nd – Gloomy, 3rd – Hideous, 4th – Fearful, 5th – Furious, 6th – Alarming, 7th – Terrible, 8th – Horrible, 9th – Mournful, 10th – Sorrowful, 11th – Frightful and 12th – Appalling. For weeks and days: Weeks; 1. Woeful, 2. Weeping, 3. Wailing, 4. Wonderful and 5. Weird. Days; 1. Dark, 2. Deadly, 3. Dismal, 4. Doleful, 5. Desolate, 6. Dreadful and 7. Desperate. Years were reckoned according to reigns and cycles. The Reign of Incarnation and Incantation was all time up to the American Revolutionary War. The First Reign of the Klan's Incarnation and Incantation was the period between the Revolution and the establishment of the original Klan, which was reckoned to May 6, 1866 in this scheme. The Reign of our Second Incarnation and Incantation was reckoned between 1866 and Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest's dissolution of the Klan, which is reckoned to 1872. The Reign of our Third Incarnation and Incantation began in 1915. The Klan year, Anno Klanslar, began in March of each year, and the cycle was reckoned from December of each calendar year.

After the rewriting of the Kloran, William Joseph Simmons reformed the newly unified and growing Klan into a ideology (Klanism), a southern political party (Southern Knights Party, Confederate Party or Dixieland Party). The ideology inside this party was inspired by Social Darwinism, racism, Nordicism, anti-Catholicism, white Nationalism, anti immigration, pro-segregation, white nationalism, Neo-Confederism, Anti-Communism, Prohibition, Antisemitism, but also Nazi Ideology and the idea of National Churches (mainly the German Protestant one). Therefore William Joseph Simmons structured the religious part of his new ideology and believes around the so called Klemple (Klan Temples, or Klaos, from the Greek word for temple naós), were so called Kliests (Klan Priests) preached his philosophy and ideology, the next step were the Grand Klemple, were a Klishop (Klan Bishop) would preach as the next member in this hierarchy. The headquarter was in the Major Klemple, the main Klemple at Stone Mountain, the Confederate memorial, were the Second Klan had been founded and were the annual Labor Day Cross-burning ceremony would be held each year. The burning cross ceremony soon became a stable in all Klemple's seen as a religious rite that symbolically represented the cleansing of the impure, something the Klan unknowingly shared with the Catholic Inquisition. There in the Major Klemple, William Joseph Simmons served as the Klophet (Klan Prophet, as the Klope, the Klan Pope while mostly more accurate as a term, was seen as too controversial by the anti-catholic KKK). The Klempleists and Klanedans as they called themself and their religion (Klanedanism or Klempleism) believed that god had created the white man above anything else and that all other races, especialy Blacks, Jews, Catholics and Asians were vastly inferior to them and destined to serve this white, blessed superior human beings. A ideology that spit in the face of real science and evolution theory, even if it clamed both as well as religion would support their weird pseudoscience. After the Second Great War, the Klan and his political and religious branches would attract millions again, especial during the Second Great Depression after Allied Nations like Britain and France could not, or outright refused to pay back the debt they had with the United States. As a political party, the party branch of the Klan would be a major (sometimes even the second strongest) political party of the newly independent Southern States (Dixieland or the American Confederate States). However thanks to the lessons learned by William Joseph Simmons before, during and after the Second Great War, many Klansmen and Klanist believers held offices in the Southern States even when their party was not elected as the majority itself, as they formed coalitions with the Dixiecrats, the Silver Shirts or even the smaller groups of America German Bund when necessary and influenced elections in the south enough to swing whole states.

 

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Chapter 675: A Indian Invasion plan?

In Japanese occupied Singapore, renamed Syonan-to (昭南島, Shōnan-tō), Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, responsible for the Indian Area (インド洋方面 Indoyō Hōmen) of the Indian Area Fleet (インド洋方面艦隊 Indoyō Hōmen Kantai) and Captain Mitsuo Fuchida planned for more operations in the Area (as Rangoon was sean as a secondary operation harbor in the Indian Ocean, to close to Allied controlled waters and not as good defendet from surrounding bases and a fortified Strait of Siam/ Thailand (the former Strait of Malacca). The city itself remained under Japanese control, destined as a future Japanese colony, similar to the other formerly direct British controlled Straits Settlements, while the Federated Malay States and the Unfederated Malay States were directly annexed and resettled by the Thai. However only Syonan-to itself was directly Japanese annexed and controlled, the other Straits Settlements became part of the Greater Siamese/ Thai Empire as a ally and member of the Co-Prosperity Sphere as well. As a direct connection from Asia to Europe and a important harbor fortification, Syonan-to was too important for the Imperial Japanese Navy to let it be controlled by any other power and so they kept administrating it directly for the Japanese Empire, annexing it like Formosa and Honan (Henan) before. Their Indian Ocean Raid on Ceylon and the East Coast of India had shown before that the Allies still lacked defenses and preparations there, so the Japanese hoped to exploit this weakness further. However as the Allies own convoy transportation had shown such a distant proved problematic for even a major global power, as this lines of reinforcements and supplies could be easily cut off by airplanes, warships and submarines. Even the Germans had showed that the whole Indian Ocean was a easy target with the Emden in the First Great War and so the Japanese had to take this into their planning, realizing that supplying the Invasion forces was questionable at best, even worse the Papua/ Nui Gui most likely. Therefore the original idea and proposal of a large-scale landing on the Eastern Coast of India to break the defense of the Indian-Burmese frontline and push further into India, maybe even push the Allies completely from the Indian Subcontinent and all of Asia had to be adapted to this realities.

As a kind of compromise the plan Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo made for the Indian Area Fleet was supposed to land fresh combined forces of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy only on Ceylon itself. The Japanese believed they could take the island in a short amount of time, a continuation of their quick conquest of South-East Asia before. While this did not help out the overall supply situation, the Japanese plan hoped that a island that big would, together with captured Allied equipment and supplies help them sustain their landed forces there and take out the Allies fast enough, so that they could secure all of Ceylon before the Allies had any time to react. This in return would force them to redirect many of their forces from Assam and Bengal south as they could not know that the Japanese would not land further forces on the eastern and southern coast from Ceylon afterwards. By forcing the Allies to such a move, the Japanese would reopen the Indian-Burmese front for their own offensive there too, pushing in two places of South Asia against the Allies (mainly British) at once and thereby not only take pressure from other fronts, but expand their own defense parameter while doing so. In the Japanese planning, this would allow them to hold out longer, by grinding out the Allies down in a prolonged war that they while having the industry and resources, would lack the mind, spirit and war support needed to fight for such a long time. In the End the Japanese Military believed that by doing this they would easily win in the End, after all they were in a long drawn-out war in China since the Invasion of Manchuria or the Guangxi Civil War, latest the Chinese Civil War, while the United States and to a extent even the British and French had tried to avoid war for as long as they could with their appeasement and neutrality. Because of that the Japanese believed most Americans and Europeans (with the exception of the Germans perhaps) were rather weak minded and unable to fight another war like the First Great War ever again. This meant that the Japanese underestimated their opponents in this regard, even if they knew their true potential and danger. Once again their whole plan relied heavily on nearly everything going according to plan exactly, or otherwise their series of victories would End and with it the End would come to their military and empire soon after.

 

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Chapter 676: The Royal Polish Navy

Fueled by the National Radical Camp (Polish: Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny, ONR), lead by Boleslaw Piasecki, Henryk Rossman, Tadeusz Gluzinski and Jan Mosdorf and other Royal Monarchist groups like the Royal Polish Party (Polska Impreza Królewska), the Polish Crown Party (Polska Impreza Koronny) and the Monarchistic Party (Partida Monarchistygzna) into a new unified National Government, the Konfederacja Narodu (Confederation of the Nation) that incorporated Nationalism, Monarchism and Polish Catholicism into a Polish Kingdom ideology that was closer to the Empire of Austria-Hungary and partly even to the German Empire in terms of culture and religion, then to the Soviet Union and even a Russian Empire that was mainly orthodox. At the same time the Camp of Great Poland (Obóz Wielkiej Polski) however was outlowed, so the Greater Poland Nationalist irredentism that still targeted parts of Germany, the United Baltic Duchy, the Kingdom of White Ruthenia, the Kingdom of Ukrainia and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. When the Second Great War started, the Polish Forces joined their Axis Central Powers allies and attacked the Allies as well as later the Soviet Union. This meant that the Polish Forces were for most of the first years of the war not able to directly face the enemy themselves. However the Royal Polish Navy trained alongside the Imperial German Navy in the Baltic Sea (or Teutonic Sea as it was later called) and attacked Allied shipping lines in this region and the North Sea, including the coast of Norway and Sweden. The Polish Royal Navy even joined the Germans and the other Axis Central Powers in the Battle of the Atlantic, even if most of their ships and submarines only operated from French and Spanish west coast ports after having travelled around England to get there. All of this meant the Polish Royal Navy faced the superior Royal British Navy and later the United States Navy in the Battle for the Atlantic, heavily loosing numbers and battles, as the war continued.

The Royal Polish Navy would however shine much brighter once the Eastern Crusade against the Soviet Union started. Focussing more on the Baltic/ Teutonic Sea and the Norwegian/ Artic Sea (or Thule Sea as it was called in Imperial Germany after Iceland), the Royal Polish Navy did a great job cutting off the Allied supply routes and convoys meant for the Soviet Union over the northwestern route. In fact the Marynarka Wojenna Królestwo Polskiej (Royal Polish War Navy) had only 3 destroyers (ORP Błyskawica, ORP Grom and ORP Burza), three submarines and a small Riverine Flotillia meant that their ships were no match for any of the Allied Naval forces, even after the German Empire had send them two additional destroyers, five cruisers and seven submarines all of obsolete, outdated models. One of the main reasons the Polish lacked a good navy during the Second Great War was mainly the loss of their major harbors and connection t the Baltic/ Teutonic Sea that would force them to use German Empire, or United Baltic Duchy harbors, heavily relying on them to a extent, that some Polish politicians even questioned the continuation of a navy as a landlocked nation state altogether. However the early victories of the Royal Polish Navy changed this perspective as they brought victories and prestige to Poland after the humiliating acceptance of their pre-First Great War borders in exchange for the guarantee of their independence and protection. Thanks to this the Royal Polish Navy was a symbol and reason for pride and glory for the Royal Polish Navy, something leading to the order or purchase of new Royal Polish Navy ships, most coming from Imperial German sources.

 

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Chapter 677: Indian-Pacific Theatre Division Map Japan/ Co-Prosperity Sphere

The Naval Theatre that the Empire of Japan and it's allies inside the Co-Prosperity Sphere operated in could be divided into a couple of regions, that it's forces operated in. First there was the Northeast Pacific Area (北東太平洋方面 Hokutō Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Northeast Area Fleet (北東太平洋 方面艦隊 Hokutō Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai) under Boshirō Hosogaya (細萱 戊子郎 Hosogaya Boshirō that stretched from Karafuto/ Sakhalin and Hokkaido over the Aleutians to Alaska, the West Coast of Canada, Washington and Oregon. In the West they were supported by the Imperial Manchu Navy, who alongside the Imperial Chosen Navy also helped in the Japanese Sea beside the Imperial Japanese Navy. In the Central Pacific, there was the Central Pacific Area (中部 太平洋方面 Chūbu Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Central Pacific Area Fleet (中部 太平洋方面艦隊 Chūbu Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai) under Nishizō Tsukahara (塚原 二四三 Tsukahara Nishizō) that stretched from the East Coast of Japan and the Phillippine Sea to California, Mexico to Central America. The Southeast Pacific Area (南東太平洋方面 Nantō Taiheiyō Hōmen) of the Southeast Pacific Area Fleet (南東太平洋 方面艦隊 Nantō Taiheiyō Hōmen Kantai) under Nobutake Kondō (近藤 信竹 Kondō Nobutake), from south of the Equator and the overall the New Guinea (Niugini/Niu Gini/ Papua) naval area all the way south to Australia, New Zealand and the West Coast of South America under Jinichi Kusaka (草鹿 任一 Kusaka Jin'ichi). This force was partly supported by local Co-Prosperity Sphere Navies, like the Royal Papua/ Nuigini Navy and the Ganap Philippine Republic/ Royal Navy.

Because of the Japanese Imperial conquests and domination of this region, the Pacific Ocean was known internally in the Co-Prosperity Sphere as the Japanese/ Nippon Ocean and viewed as the main naval battleground against the Allied forces. Then there was the China Area (支那方面 Shina Hōmen) of the China Area Fleet (支那方面艦隊 Shina Hōmen Kantai) in the Chinese Sea (or South Japanese Sea) under Mineichi Koga (古賀 峯一 Koga Mineichi). This force was supported by the local Co-Prosperity Sphere Navies, mainly the Imperial Yankoku Navy, the Imperial National Han Chinese Navy and the Imperial Taikoku Navy. The Southern Expeditionary Area (南遣方面 Nanken Kantai Hōmen) of the Southern Expeditionary Fleet (南遣艦隊 Nanken Kantai) under Shigeyoshi Inoue (井上 成美 Inoue Shigeyoshi), was supported by the local Ganap Philippine Republic/ Royal Navy, the Imperial Vietnamese Navy, the Royal Cambodian Navy, the Imperial Siamese/ Thai Navy, the Brunei Sultanate Navy, the Sulawesi Sultanate Navy, the Royal Moluccas Navy, the Riyal Bali Navy, the Royal Tanggara Navy, the Sumatra Sultanate Navy, the Karaton Java Navy. The Indian Expeditionary Area (インド洋遣方面 Indoyō Kantai Hōmen) of the Indian Area Fleet (インド洋方面艦隊 Indoyō Hōmen Kantai) under Chūichi Nagumo (南雲 忠一 Nagumo Chūichi) stretching from the west coast of Burma along Southeast Asian Islands and Ressource Regions all the way to the West Coast of Australia, including all of the Indian Ocean. It was partly supported by the Royal Burmese Navy and the Azad Hind Navy (provisional Assam and Bengal/ Northeast Indian government navy). Unlike the Pacific Ocean Navy, the Indian Ocean Navy never had a huge priority during much of the Second Great War, always fighting for reinforcements and supplies with the Pacific Ocean Forces, were the Empire of Japan saw their main enemy in the Pacific War.

 

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Chapter 678: Austrian-Hungarian Leaders: Karl Eglseer

The Austrian-Hungarian General Karl Eglseer (born 5 July 1890) served in the Austrian-Hungarian Army during the Second Great War, leading the Fourth Mountaineers Corps (Vierte Gebirgskorps), earning the Merit Cross for his service. As a skilled Mountaineer and Tricky leader, he nearly always fought against enemy odds in the Carpathians, where they fought local anti-Axis Central Powers socialist rebels, the Yugoslavian mountains and hills, where they took part in the campaigns against the Serbian royalist Chetniks, Yugoslav Resistance, Mohammedan, Communist and Socialist rebels alongside the Serbian and Montenegro State Guard, the Serbian Volunteer Corps (Serbian: Српски добровољачки корпус), the Slovene Home Guard (Slovene: Slovensko domobranstvo, SD; German: Slowenische Landeswehr), Black Chetniks and regular Austrian-Hungarian Army, Police and Militia forces. They later fought against the Red Army in the Eastern Crusade on the Crimean Peninsula, where he took part in the liberation of the Ukrainian Kingdom and were Karl Eglseer joined the Gothic Order, as well as during the later Caucasus Campaign that encircled a whole Soviet Union Red Army (mainly Georgian SSR forces) together wit Ottoman, German and Azerbaijan forces in 1941/42. Karl Eglseer would be killed on 23 September 1944, when a Red Army partisan group blew up the bridge in the region, where his train was traveling over.

 

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Chapter 679: Lessons learned after Midway: The Bombing Raids against Hawaii

With the problems that Operation Ma against Hawaii itself faced, the Imperial Japanese Navy realized that even without any American Carrier left that the Japanese know of, the conquest of Hawaishima/ Hawaii Islands seamed much more problematic then at first anticipated and planned. Therefore Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto planned to use another strategy and tactic regarding the American base and bastion there. Their own carrier losses during Midway meant that the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy were by now unsure if their operation and invasion against Hawaii would be problematic before they had not rebuild part of their forces and implemented new tactics, strategies and equipment to do so. While planning to annex Hawaishima, because of the massive local Japanese population of the island, Japan did not believe their support alone would make the invasion a given success. Because of that Admiral Yamamoto planned for another form of attack, knowing how important the island base and supply route of Hawaii was for the American war support and American offensives in the South Pacific. As a result, Admiral Yamamoto had come up with a new strategy and tactic, that involved using Japanese Seaplanes and land based bombers alongside Japanese fighters with additional wing tanks and drop tanks to increase their range), alongside Japanese submarines from bases close by, such as Johnston Island, Lisianski Island, Laysan Island and Midway Atoll to get to Hawaishima. Their main target there would be the airstrips, the harbor's facility buildings, the dock's and the oil and fuel tanks. Beside this Japanese submarines were instructed to lay mines in the surrounding waters, in hopes to target enemy ships and transports this way, who would not suspect such a move from them. While both operations were meant to accompany and support one another, they both would be running separately in hopes of increasing the chances of success. The plan was also actually meant to target some of the bigger remaining American battleships and force them to retread to Pearl Harbor in hopes of hindering their operations elsewhere.

Admiral Yamamoto knew that even if he could not destroy them this way, keeping them out of the picture for as long as possible would give him and the Japanese Empire free reign in the Pacific Ocean, long enough to archive a new outer Defense Parameter for the Co-Prosperity Sphere and break the Allied will to fight. But unlike this elaborate plan, the truth was a little bit more complicated. Allied radar easily picked up the incoming Japanese forces and gave plenty of time to the American fighters and defenders in anti-air guns to get ready for them. Japanese aircraft losses of long-range machines and skilled pilots were high, their devastation and destruction on Hawaii itself laughable in comparison. The American Press soon called it the “Hunting Season” as many American soldiers stationed there referred to it as a easy task, like shooting ducks. Worse of all it helped the United States by showing how much of a major target Hawaii was and was the reason for many new defenses on the islands themselves in the next months and years. The numbers of radar, search lights and anti-air defenses were dramatically increased. The Japanese however were not simply getting shot down either and developed new strategies and tactics of their own, like flying so low that enemy radar would not detect them so easily, or at all, or flying directly out of the sun, so they would be harder to detect and hid from the enemy.

 

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Chapter 680: The Second Ottoman Empire inside the Axis Central Powers

The new Second Ottoman Empire under Caliph Abdulmejid II was a strange birth, born out of the nationalist Turkish military and rising nationalism and religious fundamentalism. It tried to build abridge between the Attatürk Military and Turkish Nationalism, as well as on Mohammedan radicals and therefore had to appease a few very different and even opposing sides to create their new nation state. Appeasement to both sides was therefore a given, as the military tried to hold the true influence and power in the state, while also using Pan-Turkish and Pan-Mohammedanist ideal to advocate for a Turkish lead multi-national state that would be tied together by the Mohammedan faith. To archive this goal the Mecelle, the Islamic Law civil code was renewed and reformed to fit in with a modern nation state to serve as the old and new basis for the new Second Ottoman Empire. It also mentioned the renewed Meclis-I Ayan (Senate or upper house, 400 seats), the base for the new constitutional monarchy of the Second Ottoman Empire, were influential aristocrats and military leaders would send in their representatives. Another major pillar was the Meclis-I Mebusan (House of Representatives or lower house), where the Vilayetes (Provinces, 100 seats) would send their representatives from all over the Second Ottoman Empire, including all different ethnic, religious and lingual parts. The main parties were the Kemalists Nationalists with the military as a major backer and supporter of the new government and the Caliphate Mohammedans, who rallied aristocratic and religious factions behind them. While there were other minor factions and local parties, most of them did not manage to get any major support outside their Vilayetes, or ethnic and religious groups. Their dream of a New Caliphate meant some adjustment in this new state and it's law, like implementing the women to be a subservient to the man, below him to appease the religious hardliners and fanatics, by cementing the oldest man as the patriarch head of his clan/ family and declare him the judge in every internal clan/ family conflict. To not upset their new Axis Central Powers Allies, the Christians and Mohammedans were declared as equals before the law, but most of the time Mohammedan Law, Mohammedan Judges and majorly Mohammedan jury painted another reality. That was also the reason why the Georgian Kingdom searched for the protection of the German Empire and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, instead of the Second Ottoman Empire who tried to dominate the southern Caucasian regions. In some Vilayet administrative divisions, like that of the Arabi, Armenian, Kurds and Azeri (Azerbaijani) the affects of the Second Great War could be still felt, as voting and laws were abandoned in favor of deportation of those who had opposed Ottoman Rule before by rebellion, declaring independence or outright fighting alongside enemies of the Turks and the Ottoman Empire. They were deported or killed and their possessions left behind redistributed alongside the Turkish Mohammedans who now settled in this rightfully Turkish regions.

Originally meant to stabilize the Second Ottoman Empire, this so called Southern Arab War, the Operation to secure the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsual would cause further problems. In the Maghreb and Orient regions, the Turkish Ottomans tried to incorporate anti-colonial pan-Mohammedan movements for their own cause and declare a Jihad against the Allies, even some Ottoman military missions were send there, as well as to Central Asia and Afghanistan to form local militias and increase Mohammedan military structures there. Partly the Ottoman Military even send officers and troops, for joint Mohammedan military exercises, something that would become a tradition after the Second Great War in the whole Mohammedan World. These ambitions were heavily supported by the local Mohammedan Brotherhood, a pan-Mohammedan, anti-colonial, anti-imperialist organization that tried to liberate and unify all Mohammedan lands from Western Imperialism and Western Colonization. Instead they aimed to recreate a new, unified Caliphate. This goals of further military, religious, political and economic cooperation were helped by the Turks and Germans, by building new roads and railways, from Kostantiniyye, over Bagdad, to Cairo( Egypt), Tehran (Persia) and Kabul (Afghanistan). Some of these constructions had started before the Second Great War in the region and later served as roads of Axis Central Power military pushes, others would only be finished after the Second Great War. The ongoing Second Great War however not only forced the Second Ottoman Empire to increase it's port and shore defenses and artillery along the Black Sea and Mediterranean Coast (along with the rearmed of the Strait of Kostantiniyye, the Bosporus), but to even give into some of the minorities and regional demands. Some more local power and provincial authonomy was given their own Vilayet Assemblies to govern alongside the Wali/ Vali in this new reformed Vilayet Law (Turkish: Teşkil-i Vilayet Nizamnamesi). Even their army and local militias had to take in non-turkish groups, like the mostly Arabian Special Desert Regiment of Camel riders. Simultanously the Shaykh al-Islām scholars and Islamic scientists gained more influence, religious education was introduced in schools again and the Constitution and Mecelle, explicitly refferenced the Second Ottoman Empire not only as a Mohamemdan Turkish led Nation State, but mosques were renwed, rebuild, or newly build and Iman theologues were send to each regiment of the Second Ottoman forces, no matter if Turkish or Mohammedan or not. The same was not true for Christian Priests or Jewish Rabbies in the military. Slowly but steady secularisation and emancipation were either dismantled, or ablosihed alltogether.

 

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Chapter 681: A Continent under Siege

The Continent of Australia felt the immediate threat of the Japanese Empire and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, even before the invasion of Darwin. Japanese submarine raids occurred all around Australia, the Imperial Japanese Navy and Air Force controlled the waters of the northern coast, were minor cities and towns were bombed, from airplanes in Timor, New Guinea (Niugini/Niu Gini/ Papua, mainly the Japanese air bases on Tanjung Vals Island) or Darwin itself. Besieged before, invaded now the Australians heavily fortified the southern areas of their continent, were the main industry and industrial centers were located. This was the main defense area for Australian Army, according to the Australian Government and overall Allied strategy and tactics for the Great Southern Continent. The Allies concentrated their few, limited assets of Australia in one central region that would be easily to defend and supply with the help of the Americans in the East and the British in the West. Still the Japanese tried to cut off Australia, raiding it's shipping routes and coats with their merchant hunter ships, submarines and even midget-submarines (often transported by bigger ships or bigger submarines) bombing their cities with their bombers, fighters or even naval forces in the north coast, all the way down to Learmonth and Pearth in the West, as well as Brisbane and Sidney in the East. Constantly the Japanese raided allied ships and convoys, even mined the Arafura Sea, the Gulf of Papua and the Torres Strait to cut off Allied supplies over the northern route. Despite all this the Australians held their own, fighting the Japanese and Taikoku Co-Prosperity Sphere forces in Papua/ New Guinea bravely, while other Australian Divisions in Africa and the Middle East rioted to get back home, so they could defend their own home-nation instead of British Egypt, Transjordan and Iraq. The Australians, New Zealanders and Americans actually fought so well there, that the Imperial Japanese High Command feared for their southeastern Expansion deeper into the Pacific to cut off Australia from America. So in a move very similar to their assault on French Indochina, the Philippines, the Dutch East indies and British Burma in a attempt to continue the War in China, the Japanese assaulted mainland Australia in Darwin to get the Australian Army out of New Guinea (Niugini/Niu Gini/ Papua), hoping this would allow them to surround Australia, starve it out (a more then foolish plan considering how self-sufficient the Continent state was) and force it to give into Japanese demands.

However the Invasion of Darwin quickly looked like a disaster, ad it was not a place from where Japanese forces would be able to push further, deeper into the continent. Instead Japanese supply lines to the Darwin Garrison became a logistically problem for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Still the Japanese were -partly right- believing that this tied down many Australian and other Allied troops who would now defend the Australian coast, instead of being send to Papua/ Niugini to fight their forces there. Thanks to this Darwin became a essential pillar of the outer defense perimeter and actually even more Japanese forces were shipped in. They builder defensive positions, trenches and bunkers to defend the town against a Allied counterattack, but as nearly all citizens had fled southwards, the Australian and American air forces heavily bombarded the Japanese Garrison there. Partly thanks to this too, the Japanese believed their strategy to work and send more own fighters and bombers to Darwin as well. To even increase this strategy and tactic, the Imperial Japanese Navy even started a second invasion from Pagona, Daru, Bugi and Meauke in the south of Nuigini/ Papua to land on the Thuesday Islands/ Torres Strait islands, with no resistence. It was a combined Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy operation, establishing garrisons on Badu, Moa, Ngurapi and Muralug near the coast of Cape York. While the anti-air guns, the anti-tank weapons and the coastal artillery the Japanese brought with them helped them against Allied bombers and even intercepted Allied ships in the region alongside the Japanes minefield in the Torres Strait. The Japanese even build trenches on these islands, alongside fortified positions and bunkers, hoping to hold them against allied counterattack for as long and as costly as possible.

 

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Chapter 682: The Royal Polish Army Forces

Ever since the Red Army Winter Offensive after the Defense of Moscow, the Royal Polish Army had established itself as a proud force in the Eastern Crusade against Atheism and Bolshevism. From a force, believed to be backwater and not the most modern, the Polish lacking in modern tanks and mechanized army divisions saved the day, when the polish cavalry and infantry did not got stuck in the Russian mud, when their forces did not have the oil in their motors freeze. However the Royal Polish Army had shortcomings too. It's main tank, the 7TP (siedmiotonowy polski - 7-tonne Polish) had been developed from the British Vickers 6-ton and was the standard tank of the Royal Polish Army. Despite this only around 200 to 260 vehicles would be build over the Second Great War. Its chassis was used as the base for the C7P artillery tractor and many Polish forces rather imported more modern tanks for their forces from the German Empire or the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, becoming dependent in their defense to them because of it, similar how the Polish Kingdom was depending for most of it's trade and industry on them too. Thanks to that the Polish Government, ruled by the former Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony as the Polish King King George I. (Jerzy I.) expanded it's original 28 Infantry Divisions, 2 Mountain Divisions and 10 cavalry brigades during the Second Great War massively. The number of Infantry Divisions was nearly doubled, the cavalry brigades increased to whole divisions and two more added to them, even their own motorized, mechanized and tank divisions modeled after the German and Austrian-Hungarian ones were created to help out win the Eastern Crusade. To convince volunteers to join in the new Royal Polish Army and for the later conscription the Axis Central Powers and the Polish Kingdom used all king of propaganda images, songs and ideals.

The Polish-Soviet War from 1919 to 1921 was represented as a major victory for the defense of Central European civilization from the Red Army and the atheist, Bolshevist of the Communist regime. In 1941 they celebrated the twenty years anniversary of this glorious fighting and conflict as well as it's continuation against the Soviet Union once again, to free all of Eastern Europe this time around. The Polish Knight (Rycerze) similar to the armored soldiers (knightly orders) of the other Axis Central Powers were seen by many in the population as the holy, catholic defenders of their Kingdom and Nation State. To many inside the Axis Central Powers Poland was the shield of the knightly figure personification of Europe itself in map-like propaganda images, even if the Kingdom of White Ruthenia and the Kingdom of Ukrainia fulfilled this role more truly and realistically after they had been created out of the Eastern Polish territory. Polonia the national personification of the Glorious Polish Kingdom often joined her European sisters in the propaganda of the Axis Central Powers and polish communities and exiles all over the world, even inside the Allied nations, even counter-governments supported the Eastern Crusade at least to some extent, knowing it would end the danger of the Soviet Union and their Red Army, while creating buffer states from future Russian aggression with White Ruthenia and Ukrainia in the east. Even if some extreme Polish Nationalists saw this territories as rightfully polish and stolen either by the Entente, Allies, Axis Powers or Axis Central Powers during, in-between or after the Great Wars. Similary, the Polish Kingdom alongside Austria-Hungary celebrated the Battle of Vienna (1683) under King John III Sobieski, where Poland once before had defended central Europe, from unchristian (this time Ottoman Mohammedan) forces, to protect nit only Catholicism, but all of Christendom and European Civilization and Culture. A celebration and propaganda not well viewed in the Ottoman Empire, but liked widely by Austrians, Hungarians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Romanians, Russians, Serbs and others once enslaved or threatened by Ottoman Rule, even including the Russian Empire.

 

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Chapter 683: Evolution of the Pacific War Plans

One thing the American's had learned in decades of war planning and preparations for War Plan Orange that the vast distance of the Pacific did not simply allow the United States Navy to cruise to Japan and enforce a peace on them. The devastating Battle of the Philippines had further shown this to be true and the Japanese Empire and the Co-Prosperity Sphere quickly had learned the same lesson with their problems and losses at Midway, as well as with their problems to reach and conquer Hawaii. The lesson the Americans had thereby learned was that to travel the vast space of the Pacific Ocean, the most direct route was not the best one. Instead what they needed to do, was take the slower, longer route southwards over the Pacific islands there. This would allow them to use island-hopping, to gain bases from which they would supply their forward moving fleet of ships on shorter ranges. This not only would allow them to build forward harbors and supply bases, but also airfields from where their fighters and bombers could support them in their operations. This had been quickly realized by the Imperial Japanese Navy too, during the long-lasting, costly battles in Nuigui/ Papua/ New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, especially Guadalcanal. When their own airbases supported their fleet operations, inland fighting's and together they helped on their coastal fighting on land the new, necessary combined operations of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy stood a much better change of success in archiving their operative goals and overall victories. After the neutralization of the Guadalcanal Henderson Air Field of the Americans, the Japanese not only held naval superiority at night, but full air superiority at day as well, a important factor in their later success that could not be underestimated by anyone involved in the conflict. What neither side predicted before the outbreak of the Second Great War was how much they would need to volunteer, or forcefully involve the local natives as carriers or workers during their military campaigns in the region, alongside own workers and engineers they would bring with them from either Asia, Australia or America. The problematic of this strategy however soon showed themselves, as infrastructure of any kind was nearly non-existing in the southern Pacific islands, meaning that every airfield, harbor and even railroads, roads and paths had to be build out of nothing.

In this jungle and mountain surroundings the native scouts were of prime importance, as they showed the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Allies which paths to follow and where they could go. This often lead to a bound of trust between the native scouts, warriors and tribes towards their foreign soldiers they worked with and vice versa. However both the Japanese/ Taikoku and the Americans, Australians and New Zealanders brought with them their own prejudice and racial ideas about the natives of this islands, often viewing them as nothing more then primitive, naked savage cannibals at best. It did not help that some of the tribes on the islands truly still were cannibals and their nightly raid on foreigner camps often lead to a general assumption that no native could truly be trusted. Allies and Co-Prosperity Sphere soldiers alike feared to be stolen in their sleep, only to awake in a cooking pot and so regular guards were installed at even the smallest camps and outposts to prevent soldiers from going missing and ending up death. Thanks to this many stationed in the Solomones/ Papua/ Nuigui developed post-traumatic stress disorder, either from constant enemy raid, shelling with bombs and grenades, direct action or the horrors of cannibal tribal warriors, poisonous animals and plants lurking in the green jungles at day and night. Later psychologists of these soldiers and general public and media coverage even invented a new term for this form of PTSD; the Janguro no kyōki (JNK, or jungle madness, JM), as it literally drove many soldiers crazy and insane if stationed there to long. The Allies tried to counter this by rotating their front troops and reserves constantly during a few weeks/ months, a lesson already used since the madness of trench warfare during the First Great War. The Japanese however often lacked this ability and therefore had no such luxury, especially in Nuigui/ Papua and the Solomones, where many of their forces had to rely on self-sufficiency and self-supply because of a lack of transportation, reinforcements and supply routes.

 

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Chapter 684: The Adolf Hitler Benevolent Charitable Society

After Adolf Hitler had become Chancellor of Germany, up until his death during the Second Great War, he earned many million Reichsmark throughout his career, mainly through sales of his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle), as well as his salaries as Chancellor and President. After gaining power he even made himself tax-exempt. Originally Hitler wrote his political manifesto and autobiography Mein Kampf ("My Struggle") in Landsberg prison while serving a sentence for high treason as a result of the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. The book was printed by the Franz Eher Nachfolger publishing house and largely ignored at first, but sales began to boom in the late 1920s and early 1930s as economic depression and social unrest troubled Germany, factors which significantly boosted Hitler's popularity. After Hitler came to power in 1933, couples who married under the Nazi state were given a copy as a wedding gift. The book eventually became a best-seller within Nazi ruled Germany, selling almost twelve million copies by the war's end. While hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic had crippled the German economy and plunged millions of German workers into unemployment, Hitler and his party received lavish donations from wealthy benefactors at home and abroad. The iconic American car maker and anti-Semite Henry Ford was reported to be one of the foreign supporters. Helene Bechstein, part of a rich aristocratic family who sold pianos, supported Hitler financially and gave him a top hat and business suit. The Ruhr steel barons Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp donated almost five million Reichsmark to the Nazi Party over the course of the war.

Much of the party donations were used to pay off many of Hitler's private projects, such as the Berghof and Eagles Nest. He caused a minor controversy within leading elements of the party when he, in 1925, purchased a luxury Mercedes-Benz and a chauffeur to drive it for a total expenditure of 20,000 Reichsmarks. Some stated that Hitler is driving a Mercedes, which cost incredible amounts of money, can afford to go on travels and has enough money to finance his propaganda appearances. All of this is financed through a system of slush-funds, essentially the donation of larger and smaller benefactors. Till 1930 Adolf Hitler had sold 55,000 copies of Mein Kampf in a single year, as more and more party members and citizens were interested in what Hitler was all about. In 1933 when Hitler took power in Germany, sales skyrocketed to over 850,000. Hitler then made the government itself buy 6 million copies of his book, to provide them to soldiers and government workers alike. Married couples even got a free copy on their wedding day. Throughout his rise to power, Hitler neglected to pay taxes on his income and allowances. In 1934, one year after becoming Chancellor, the tax office of Munich sent Hitler a fine of 405,494.00 Reichsmark for not paying taxes nor properly declaring his income. He was given only eight days to pay off this debt. The new Chancellor responded by ordering a state secretary of the ministry of finance to intervene, which resulted in Hitler becoming tax-free. The head of the Munich tax office declared, "all tax reports delivering substance for a tax obligation by the Führer are annulled from the start. The Führer is therefore tax-exempt". After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler took over his office and claimed his salary as well.

With the start of the Second Great War, royalties on the sales of his book stopped, as he was declared a enemy of the Allies. Until then he had made 560,000$ in royalties from Britain and 50,000$ in royalties in the United States. Thanks to the “Trading With The Enemy Act” the United States government stopped this money to flow to Germany and instead used the 260,000$ in royalties for war refugee charities. At the height of his rule, shortly before his death, Hitler would earn about 13,5 million dollar a year in today's money. Overall Hitler had earned around 170 million dollar in today's money from his book sells alone, money he used to buy estates or found the Nazi Party. Hitler even had licensed his image to the government, from postcards over pictures, propaganda leaflets and books. After his death, some of this money, like that of the Adolf Hitler Foundation (AHF), managed by the Adolf Hitler Society (AHS), both ironically supported by Adolfists and Hitlerists alike, went into education, charity and other good-will projects, even on the Allied side, were Hitler's enemies did nearly the same with the royalties from his book. So in the End a man who died to early to cause all the horror he had planned and who was only prevented from doing so by a military coup ended up as a benevolent, interesting and well liked historical figure, who's Foundation, Society and groups inspired by him did charity of all sorts and kinds. Nearly all of them not in the name of humanity as a whole, but their respective nation states, governments, military and overall ideologies, but still. Some of them would even help in the foundation and financiation of the Neo-Ottoman Empire Province of Yehudah/ Yehud/ Judea/ Judah, or Yehud, (the autonomous province of the Kingdom of Judea), as well as the German-French Protectorate of the Kingdom of Israel in Madagascar.