Has Edward XIII had a child yet or is Elizabeth his heir?
The Iron Eagle - The History of the Cold War
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Part of the Reich, including Calais.
Edward VIII married and has a young prince to take his place.
Technically he does but it would be controversial as much of the parliament would oppose the move. Unless there were certain extreme circumstances and the support of the Army and the House of Lords to back the King...
I'm interested for how America would respond if China went to war with Russia. Long can no longer allow appeasment with how much money has been spent to bolster Russia i feel like some action would be necessary. Although a war against a country as massive as china would likley be too costly for Long. I honestly love how invested I've become in this world, very few timelines have been able to inspire actual worry for fictional events. good job Kaiser!
Have you ever considered making a thread for this TL similar to "photos from Featherston's confederacy" ?
I am so excited to see what you will do with Ethiopia. With the destruction from WW2 and Selassie's... heavy handed rule Ethiopia is a prime target for Mao to expand his communist influence. However due to how important the red sea is as a rout to supply Israel the democratic world absolutely can not afford to lose Ethiopia as an ally.
Wasn't Ethiopia still conquered by Italy, and therfore not a democratic ally?
XXXVI - FÜHRERSCHLACHT
THE IRON EAGLE
FÜHRERSCHLACHT
FÜHRERSCHLACHT
He was unworthy, he was a failure, he was not worthy of even being in his shadow. Rudolf Hess was the worst possible man to lead a state centered around a Leader, what were the followers supposed to do if their leader was a hesitant and weak man? He was no leader, he was always a follower, the only moments he felt some control was when he praised his predecessor in public and private. And the best way to destabilize him? "Hitler would not have done that" or "The Führer would have done this", yes he still called Hitler as THE Führer even when he should not, dead men cannot be charismatic, and the people depended on the charisma of a leader to follow him. There were no tears for Hindenburg a day after he died, because he was only some old man who could not connect to a crowd, there were no tears for the Kaiser, there were no tears for the French Presidents. Meanwhile people cried to this day in the Memorial Day, those who grew worshipping a man who was no longer there, a father for the nation while Hess could not even fill the shoes of being an older brother.
Every day was harder or worse, his plans of a great reform in the Party? They failed, all chips were placed on the treacherous fool that Wegener was, the golden boy who now would shine in the afterlife. The Security? Heydrich, the damned fool, ignored his own safety and was now dead, leaving the SSK and the RSHA headless, which reminded him that he was now supposed to choose someone. The Volk? They were angry, they went for this war in the Ural mountains, the destiny of the Aryan race to reach a natural border, only for all those hopes to be crushed in an ill-fated offensive in the winter and tens of thousands of corpses to return to the Reich. The economy? What economy? There was no more growth, the government was indebted and had to spend even more to mobilize forces in this war, which means Taxes had to actually be increased on the Aryan volk, which means protests. He had been tricked hadn't he? Or was Goebbels right all along? That man was the only one who Hess could say understood Hitler like him, that and Speer but he sold his soul long ago to the old Reich Bureaucracy and Industrials who would suck the Reich dry in their corruption. Goebbels was just as devoted as he was since the very beginning, he knew his intentions were pure, but who is to say he did not have other motives? He might need to ask his astrologist.
When the Day of Victory came in 1959, the Reich was in it's bleakest situation, an encroaching old enemy from the east, a bold challenge from the south, a renewed effort from the west, and enemies within that were tearing down all they built while they fought one another. The meaning of the Führerprinzip, to always follow the leader unconditionally, a man above all law and responsibility, closer to a God-King than to a man in some ways, the Greatest Power in History, the World Capital, so many grandiose titles and reputation that were being shattered after two decades of invincibility. Resistance movements that were long thought to be gone have gained vigor the moment Heydrich died, it was as if the fact the most untoucable man in the Continent was assassinated was a signal that anyone could be killed. Hess' security was doubled and his rare public appearances were so restricted he did not show up in the Day of Victory, but Goebbels did. In his grand speech before the parading soldiers and the anxious crowd, Joseph Goebbels used with mastery his greatest gift, his voice, rallying the people before the Brandenburg Gate to speak of the great perils threatening the Reich. The Jews struck their blow, using their minions through Israeli Zionists to attack the Reich's allies in Syria, Jewish lobbies manipulating Western politics redoubled their efforts and doubled down against the might of Germany, threatening a two-front war at the first sign of collapse. He spoke to the crowds, but not before he had carefully prepared said crowd, he had chosen many of the most fanatical, he had chosen the most devout to mix in and so the sound became louder and louder with salutes as he spoke and made his challenge to his enemies, the Reich's enemies.
"They say the German people waver and claim for their false idols of liberalism and degeneracy, that they yearn for their old shackles of World Finance, for us to reject our Führer, to renounce the conquests and achievements of Adolf Hitler. I ask you, German People, are you willing to go to the last consequences to protect our sacred fatherland? I ask you, are you willing to make sacrifices and stand up against the enslavers, placing your faith in our Führer and Nation? I ask you, are you willing to stand against every test, every trial, to cut the weeds that seek to strangle us in our sleep and free our nation from the Jewish lies? I ask you, do you have steadfast faith in our Führer, do you have your complete devotion and Zeal that he shall lead us through these hard times until our definitive victory on our enemies from within and without?"
After each question the hysteria took the crowd, almost 30 years of ceaseless indoctrination and manipulation, coupled with the anxious desire for answers, Goebbels' charisma and the almost religious faith in the vague party mottos would make them raise their arms, speaking "Heil Hitler! Heil Hess!" and "As the Führer commands, we shall obey!". The Minister's intention in this grand show was not only a demonstration of unity to the outside forces who perhaps hoped for an overthrow of the Party's rule, but also a show of his own force, earning more and more of Hess' favor and showing the strength he held in controlling the German people. He was the face of the party, the voice of the party, and as he said the party must follow. Kaufmann was a savvy politician, but he was relatively uncharismatic, and he was also an ally of Goebbels in old times. Kaufmann was preparing the terrain for what would come the day Hess was no longer the Führer. Speer was no fool, he knew very well how people could say the right words to convince others, and yet he was never able to work that out with a crowd.
With Heydrich gone, his backing from the SSK was more tenuous, especially as Rudolf Hess moved in to reverse the previous compromise. Seeing the SSK as an institution far too powerful and centralized, he once more divided the Police and the Secret Police, restoring the SS and the Police, namely dividing the Police into the ORPO (Order Police) and GESTAPO (Secret State Police), perhaps that was due to the fear of another Heydrich or his new "Hitlerist" rhetoric about returning to old times. The SS continued as the State's Paramilitary Force largelly responsible for the State Security, although the Waffen-SS was officially made into a fourth branch of the Armed Forces as an "Ideological Army", it changed little from the previous structure, except ending the control of the Command office of the Reichsführer on all divisions, allowing for a more centralized command in theory. Finally came the time for choosing leaders, the overall command of the Reichsführer of the SS went to Werner Best, Heydrich's former Deputy. The Security Police, the SiPo, responsible for Internal order against dissidents and criminal repression, continued under the leadership of Adolf Eichmann, one of Heydrich's deputies and considered a very qualified organizer, although outside of Germany he was known for organizing and designing something far more perfidious than a paper pile. The Foreign Intelligence became the main task of the SD, which would be granted to Otto von Bolschwing, former representative of the SD in Buncharest and an instrumental figure in coordinating the fall of Antonescu and the rise of the Iron Guard. The GESTAPO, which received the previous internal security attributions of the SD, was placed under the Ministry of the Interior, the organization itself still led by it's longtime boss Heinrich Müller.
The SS's threat to power had been greatly weakened thanks to the combined effort of the Party in preventing the organization from growing into the balance-breaking levels of influence it held under Heydrich by dividing the SS itself from the Police, and then dividing the Internal Security under the GESTAPO and SiPo and the Foreign Intelligence under the SD, also making it so the Waffen-SS became more subservient within the OKW. The Police would also be placed back under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, who was now Eichmann's supervisor. Overall the German system, while still rather confusing, now had been decentralized and more streamlined in it's competences. The SS continued still to be a powerful organization as the visual fist of the Party, but the Reichsführer no longer held control over the Intelligence and Police agencies, as well as the Military arm of the SS was placed under greater authority of the OKW. The last proved to be a critical change in the Eastern war effort. Erich von Manstein, after his incident, was moved into the Reserve pool of officers, essentially a retirement with a gorgeous pension fund. Meanwhile, Kesselring retired from his role as Chief of the Luftwaffe due to health issues, with the operation being placed under the command of Werner Mölders, former Fighter inspector and instructor, a brilliant ace in the war who was the first pilot to score over 100 planes shot down and was instrumental in creating new fighter formations, he was chosen as both a competent officer and as a propagandist victory.
It was time for a change in command on the East in April, after all the first commander ended up moved into a disgraced reservist role, the second one was shot dead by one of his underlings, and there were fears that the Russians would push beyond the Volga if the offensive was renewed in that summer unless the Wehr seized the initiative again. The Southern Army Group, now with Manstein Retired, was placed under General Hasso von Manteufel, another Veteran from the war and Panzer commander. Walther Wenck, a known improviser who served during the Russian Front and currently held command, successfully defending the area near the former city of Kazan through a mix of improvisation and organized defenses, was made the new Head of Operations in the Far East, which surprised some due to his relative youth compared to other Generals (He was 59), however more experienced officers have avoided the role, fearing that it was suicidal. But Wenck knew the situation from the ground, the Russian forces were made stronger, especially with the overwhelming support from the Reich's enemies, but they were still the same soldiers, many still not knowing how to use the diverse supply of weapons and ammunition tossed in their direction. With the Spring mud slowing the Russian forces in March and a relative pause in the fighting during April, May was the perfect opportunity for a counter-attack. He was hard-pressed to deliver a victory while the new leadership of Kaufmann, Speer and Goebbels tried to find ways out of the war without admitting a defeat and without escalating it any further and pressure the German economy more than it already did.
Wenck had advantages which his predecessors did not, mainly the greater flow of resources and recruits which made the Wehrmacht forces engaged in the east outnumber the initial invasion force, alongside the better supply lines after being driven back near the border and the subservience of the Waffen-SS after Heydrich's death. Waffen-SS officers such as Steiner, Peiper, Dietrich and Gille were called up for meetings with the new Eastern Commander who made clear that they no longer held the protection from Heydrich, by decree signed by Hess and with Wenck having the backing of the new Party heads back in Germania, their divisions would be placed under his unconditional authority as a direct representative of the Führer in commanding the "Pacification of the East", an euphemism for the Ural War. That meant that over 300 thousand soldiers of the Waffen-SS were no longer held as a glorified reserve force to shoot prisoners with, now they would need to compensate the preferential treatment once received by Hitler, who had made sure the SS had received the "shinniest boots and bullets" in the Armed Forces. The Waffen-SS, which was also largely made up of volunteers, did not have the same experience of the Wehrmacht, but they could more than compensate it through the fanaticism and ideological indoctrination, something Wenck could count on, perhaps inspired in examples provided by the Japanese soldiers who were once willing to charge into machine gun nests with glorified bamboo sticks.
In Russia, the dispute within the High Command was to if they should push forwards and where. The Tsar was cautious, more so than his generals who once went through the humiliation and the personal loss in the hands of the Germans. The use of 7 Nuclear bombs and the building up of forces showed that Germania was willing to go to the last consequences, while the Russians had their own program being held in secret, it was still not finished, and besides they would take years to build up an arsenal to ensure a Mutually Assured Destruction, years that their enemy could use to glass everything bigger than a village from the Volga to Vladivostok. The pressure to keep the advantage was immense, with Zhukov and his "Red Clique" still being seen with suspicion, especially due to their hawkish atitude that led to them directly confronting the Tsar. Andrey was a more tolerant man than Stalin, which means they were able to keep their offices, but the Russian forces had essentially been ordered to halt at the Volga, even if Chukov claimed that the Southern front could be attacked, with the former Stalingrad and Astrakhan being vulnerable. There was a plan for a bold push, capturing Stalingrad and using it as a base to reach Rostov and cut off the Caucasus, the main source of German oil and of many other minerals needed for their War Machine. The plan, named "Operation Dagger", had ultimately been approved by the Tsar, but that proved a mistake as the Russian forces began to amass in the South while the Germans prepared to strike the Center. Wenck also would lose much of the disadvantage of his predecessors, there were no longer thousands of informants behind his lines as he advanced, the East was a mostly pacified territory in the frontier, and the SiPo and SD both would target foreign saboteurs in the East.
The Germans struck first on the 9th from Nurlat in Tartarstan, targeting the Southeast at Orenburg, a push meant to cut off the Amassing Russian forces near Saratov. Heinrich Trettner's Paratroopers would strike first during the night to sabotage communication lines of the Russian army, a task helped by the precarious infrastructure in the area which made it's effectiveness enormous. Before sunrise, the forces of Luftflotte II, based around the Volga, struck the Russian air bases, neutering the enemy air force in the start of the offensive. Furthermore, a diversionary attack at Samara pinned down the growing numbers of Russian forces in the region just long enough for the exposed flank to be overwhelmed by Hermann Balck's 7th Panzer Division, aided by Steiner's 3rd SS Panzer Corps, the breakthrough of the two amassed Tank formations was overwhelming despite the fanatic defense put up by the Russians, which was compensated by the fanatic aggressiveness of the SS in their desire of butchering them. As if it was any more possible, the war in the Urals had grown in brutality, as the Germans were now aware of the danger of partisans. The use of Napalm, a inflammable substance, as well as white phosphorus ammunition was brutal in the region of the former Samara Oblast, forests and towns were now targets as perfect as a Russian bunker, even if what they inherited from this war was a burning wasteland, it would be worth it to save their pride.
Operation Dagger was canceled as the Russian troops were overwhelmed by the offensive, an emergency redeployment was ordered to stop the offensive, resulting in the largest armored engagement since the Second World War, at Severnoye, where hurried defenses were about to be overwhelmed by the 7th Panzer Division when the 21st Tank Army under General Ivan Chernyakhovsky struck from the west, coming back from Samara. Despite the surprise assault, the Russian tank force, which was compromised of mainly Russian T-49s and American M-22 "Pershing", which were medium tank models that were still outgunned by their German E-80 counterpart, all while the Wehrmacht had the clear lead in regards to the Heavy Tank department where their E-200 Panzer was both faster and more well armored than the American M-60 "Patton", named in honor of the former President in 1957. American observers would learn the lesson, never enter a tank engagement with the Wehrmacht unless Air Superiority is absolute. The Russian forces were slaughtered, with the German indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, as well as the longer range and better experience of the Panzer crews, decisively halting the Russian push and the following counter attack routed the remains of the 21st Tank Army, what was left of it was less than a fifth of the original force, the aerial dominance the Luftwaffe held was critical for the German victory, which reminded veterans at home of the great victories of the World War. It was not only American tanks either, several British tanks such as the "Cromwell" models would prove to be outdated against the Wehr's new assets.
By the time June arrived, the Russians had to abandon Samara and the Southern front, the unexpectedly quick German advance took the City of Orenburg by assault after it had been so fiercely defended by the Imperial troops in the last year. Wenck planned to focus on the South, from where the great plains would give advantage to the more mobile German forces and allow them to strike around the Urals through cities such as Aktobe and Orsk. Central Asia was also a location where the Reich could use the local tribes to turn them against the Russians under the promise of an Independent Muslim State in Central Asia. Bohle was commanded by both Speer and Goebbels to change the rhetoric towards Islamic tribes to encourage an insurrection against the Orthodox Tsardom. Furthermore, the fall of Orenburg on the 3rd would lead to a great event on the 9th in the East. While in Europe the Germans had crossed the Or river, tens of thousands of Chinese forces crossed in the Mongolian desert, breaking the previous agreement held with the Russian government.
The Chinese attack on Mongolia was an expected event by many in Washington, President Long felt personally humiliated as if he was a repeat of Neville Chamberlain. Ever since the end of the Korean War, China and the US have been trying to build up better terms in relationship, which was abruptly interrupted by this event. Considering that earlier that year the Chinese seized Macau, the British reinforced their defenses in Hong Kong, fearing that Beijing was only starting to changed into a more expansionistic zeal as the War in Russia caused shockwaves of instability around the world. Mongolia's meager forces were no match for the Chinese, indeed the reserve of the Chinese invasion force was bigger than the entire male population of the country, only a fraction of high speed units, especially of motorized forces, crossed into the steppes and captured Ulaanbataar within a week, with the Russian forces meant to protect the Khan retreating. The Tsar knew this was a sign of weakness and treachery, but none except the most gung-ho anti-communist generals were willing to challenge the Chinese aggression when the Germans were practically bypassing the Ural Mountains through the south. The Chinese People's Republic would annex Mongolia on the 17th, officially integrating it as a yet another Province, with nothing but loud protests and and the end of any goodwill from Long's government, a price that Mao was willing to pay with his new Pan-Asian and Anti-Colonial ideas, Peking was far from done interfering in conflicts worldwide.
In Germania, despite the victories, the war did not end the infighting within the Government. Rudolf Hess, increasingly isolated, had left the governance of the nation to the Party Chancellor Karl Kaufmann. But Kaufmann was not Wegener, despite being the Gauleiter of perhaps the most important City in Western Germany and the greatest port in Continental Europe, Hamburg, he was largely seen as a placeholder. He was a compromise between Albert Speer and Joseph Goebbels, a man who supported the strengthening of the State Powers in detriment to the Party's apparatus established by Wegener and the Control Faction. Goebbels and Kaufmann went back a long date ever since the former was a Newspaper editor in Rheydt, he and Kaufmann were both part of the "Western Block" of the NSDAP in the 1920s, allies of the Strasser brothers before switching to Hitler and pledging loyalty to him. The two were Gauleiters of the greatest cities in Germany, sharing similar sentiments of nostalgia for the old days. Meanwhile, Speer and Kaufmann were recent friends, establishing their alliance after the war as part of the grandiose plans for the Führerstadt program. Resources were given by Speer as both coordinated the great expansion and modernization of the Hamburg Port, as well as the expansion and rezoning of the city to fight the illegal underworld culture in the former liberal stronghold in Northern Germany. Kaufmann liked to claim that him and Speer had "Rebuilt" Hamburg from it's previous condition, besides Kaufmann sympathized with Speer's proposal of an economical detente with the West, after all him and "his" city stood to benefit the most from sea trade with the US and it would help reduce the strength of the blackmarket, which had grown more decentralized after the crackdown on Lisbon during the invasion.
Kaufmann, however, was under no illusions, he knew he neither had the popular appeal of Goebbels or the bureaucratic strength of Speer's machinery. The three represented a "State Faction" against Wegener that had been sidelined until the war finally brought down the Partification process. Hess was personally a great supporter of Partification at the start, however the Führer's mental state meant that he could influence little in the politics of the party except for signing down on whatever the Party Chancellor or his secretaries brought to him. Goebbels was an exception, Hess began to have the propagandist as a confidant of his, perhaps because he was the only other man within the inner circle who shared the genuine devotion he had for Hitler and his Legacy. Indeed Joseph kept close ties with the Hitler family, Magda Goebbels and Eva Hitler had made peace after they no longer had to compete for the attention of the late Adolf, while Ilse Hess had been serving as the official First Lady of the Reich. Young Klara, who was only eleven at the time, had Magda Goebbels as an aunt figure, meeting her the many times Goebbels went to the Berghof or Linz, at the time Hitler's only child had enrolled in the Hitler youth, as expected she had special privileges. One incident where two young girls, unaware of who she was, shoved her into the mud and beat her with punches resulted in two SS guards taking the children away, expelling them from the Hitler Youth while their parents were sent to a Concentration camp. Goebbels knew that Eva and Klara were keys to popular heights, Hess had only intensified the almost religious cult of personality towards Hitler, refusing that his portrait was ever placed above or at the same level as Adolf's.
The Reich's situation was not much better economically, offensives cost more than defensives, especially with the need to keep a constant supply line after your Vanguard advanced beyond your expectations and the infrastructure left behind had been scorched. As Atyrau was taken, the Caspian Sea became more useful to transport supplies from refineries in the Caucasus to the frontlines in Aktau. All of that was not cheap, the German economy was built on a large deficit in the years before the World War, while plundering a continent dealt with the immediate problems, the projects made by Hitler added even greater costs such as the Führerstadt program and the need to build new infrastructure in the East to make the land actually profitable to keep instead of being an enormous resource drain like Generalplan Ost was. The "Foreign Workers" program helped industries to offset costs in manpower, only to increase the unemployment amongst the Germans who now had to pay high taxes for the Reich to sustain it's growing spending, especially thanks to the war. All fought over a territory which did not possess any resources that were critically necessary except for a few Gas deposits along the Volga. Speer opposed the continuation of the war, he wanted Wenck to achieve his victories in order to destabilize Russia and secure a few areas such as Orenburg where preliminary research showed the presence of enormous gas deposits. The Southern part of the Ural frontier was far more important than the Frozen north between Perm and the Arctic Circle.
But the Führerprinzip still stood resolute, Hess alone could stop the war, the only way to convince him to do such was to make it seem like Hitler's Will beyond the grave. While childishly there was a suggestion to dress up as Hitler's ghost and show up in the Führer's room in the middle of the night, the reality is that Goebbels was the only one who was now close enough to Hess to convince him, he had the leader's trust. But while Goebbels propelled himself into the halls of power by using the people's resentment against the war, now he was the one who wanted a triumph, the victories achieved in the East brought back the morale and euphoria of the people as per SD and SiPo reports to Kaufmann that were given to Goebbels. Inside Joseph's circle, only Werner Naumann, Minister of the practically useless postal service and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment, truly spoke out against the reckless ambition. It was far better for the Wehrmacht to consolidate it's gains and for the Government to set sights in the internal affairs than to continue in "Wegener's adventure".
The Germans planned to start a rebellion in Central Asia, indeed there would be groups who would wish for independence, however they were divided. Former Communists had more in common by connecting with the Chinese than with the hated Germans, while Nationalists despised the Communists as well. This type of divide was carefully kept by the Russian government during the war and the Okhrana kept a close watch on such dissidents. There was also the apparent paradox of the Germans encouraging revolts by the Turkic peoples while ruthlessly exploiting Azerbaijan and strongarming the Turkish government into subservience, many times using the Syrians as a threat. However, the SD overestimated the local desire to serve the cause of the Reich. The Central Asian peoples had seen for years the arrival of refugees and horror tales of what truly awaited those who found themselves across the Volga, especially stories from across the Caspian sea, where the Azeris were exploited far harshly than the relative "benign neglect" the Russians had. Small uprisings happened but they were largely irrelevant.
From Ufa, the Russians began to gather for a counter attack from the North, the Germans on the other hand reached Aktau, with plans to capture Orsk in the North. However, in Germany the social tension did not stop increasing as more resources had to be constantly relocated in order to achieve an Eastern Victory. The press attempted as much as possible to surpress the very existence of protest, not like many who were protesting were avid readers of the Völkische Beobachter as a source for this information. They mostly ocourred peacefully and it was not some grand movement in favor of liberalism like some believed in the United States, the great majority of them were either apolitical or passive supporters of the Party who had their own complaints on the situation. The public morale had increased after Wenck's campaign, but so did the demands expected from the public through longer work hours and higher taxes to pay for the War, an emergency measure which was never taken out. At the very least the German people could believe that their contributions were bringing the victory, at least until Wenck was forced to stop after Aktau where the harsh Russian resistance, the overextension of supply lines and the imminence of a Russian offensive forced them to stop and reorganize.
On the 28th of June the Russian forces under Chuikov launched it's attack on Wenck's left flank from Ufa, many of the resources of Operation Dagger were instead diverted north following the loss at Severnoye and now would be used here. Over 900 planes were involved in the operation, many of them crewed by USAAF "Volunteers" including men relocated from Korea. The Russians began the work through infiltration tactics using partisans to spot advantageous routes for assault, many went through the German lines by disguising themselves as auxiliary forces, which caused the Germans to replace the members of the staff to mostly Ukrainians in order to counter this tactic. A short and precise artillery barrage broke before the sunrise and Russian troops pushed towards the Southwest, headed towards Oktyabrski. The so called "Bashkiri offensive", named after the fact it's origin came from the territory of the Bashkir Republic, achieved a great initial success, however it failed to achieve it's goal of capturing Samara. Further South, the Russian advance was halted at Salavat on the path to Orenburg. The pressure and the imminence of a collapse in the front caused Wenck to put on hold any plans of circumventing the Urals, transferring assets to force the enemy forces into a Stalemate. As July came and went, all sides were expecting a renewal in the Southern front for August, however one event in the war would change the fate of the conflict, and of the Continent.
Ah Hess you are a treasure
If only you had Hitler's charisma
Maybe instead of Nazism we would have gotten a Astrologist Germany
Aaaand thats even better!
Might not only convince Hess but the whole Volk! Quick someone tell the Mossad!
Well that's one way to deal with bullying
Im surprised the chapters are coming in this quickly tbh, especially compared to this time last year. But i mean, if the chapters remain really good then im not complaining.
The Ural War continues. Why do i feel the most likely outcome besides Russia getting nuked out of existence is a ceasefire without an official peace treaty (basically the OTL Korean War)?
As for the event that changes the war, i have no idea what it is. I would guess the death of Mussolini and the birth of the Italian Social Republic if the chapter ended in June and not in August. Maybe it’s the Chinese making their move and invading Russia? Idk.
The Ural War continues. Why do i feel the most likely outcome besides Russia getting nuked out of existence is a ceasefire without an official peace treaty (basically the OTL Korean War)?
As for the event that changes the war, i have no idea what it is. I would guess the death of Mussolini and the birth of the Italian Social Republic if the chapter ended in June and not in August. Maybe it’s the Chinese making their move and invading Russia? Idk.
I have had some free time recently.
One doesn't exclude the other.
China is not invading Russia, they already took Mongolia and are not foolish enough to burn all the bridges.
They are still a bit of a long way for that, just a decade earlier their country was starving.
Agreed, I thought that would be the most shocking twist not a very realistic one
The chapter already has. And it seems pretty likely a few months isn’t enough time for the Russians to get nukes yet.
And given my “China attacking Russia” theory has been debunked, maybe the event is something else. Im guessing it either has something to do with the war in the Middle East or maybe something in Britain. It’s been 2 months since the coup so i doubt Italy’s gonna do anything.
Yup, thats what I said
Agreed
I'm particularly curious about the Middle East, if anyone there is up to something considering what happened to Heydricht