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Prologue:
If you didn't already know, there was a thread HERE that was my original ideas for a time-line centred around the Malaya Archipelago turning to National Socialism, and its conflicting interests with the Communists of the north, and the Democracy of the south. The last thread really helped me work on ideas, and I would love to have the same amount of critiquing again.

I have ideas that go right up until 1962 at the moment, but for now I will post the POD and see if people understand/like where it's going.

The Point of Divergence

The point of divergence comes in the early months of 1943. But up until then history comtinues as normal, however to fully understand this time-line you must understand the background and context of the situation. There are two men: Ernst Herman van Rappard and Meinoud Rost van Tonningen. Both are born in the Dutch East Indies, both are part caucasion and Indian. They were even friends as children. However their family heritage is very different. Rappard is far more asian looking and didn’t even enlist in World War I. He is smart with multiple degrees and studied in Berlin, Vienna and Munich. Tonningen has heritage as the Colonisers of Dutch East Indies. His father was Marinus Bernardus Rost van Tonningen, Major General in the Dutch Army and the Royal Dutch East Indies Army. His grandfather Johannes van den Bosch was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.

Both men move to Holland as they get older and enlist in the national fascist movement. There is confrontation from within the NSB as there are varying opinions with anti-Semitism, and the future of Holland (whether it’s absorbed into the Reich, functions as a sister country, etc). The parties split, and the two men are cast into the unpopular one (they are more hardcore Nazi then most) called the National Socialist Dutch Workers Party (pretty much a mirror image of the Nazis, even more so than the NSB and other groups). The group pretty much died by 1939, and when Rappard added Hitlers name to their party, the German leader requested it be taken off. The party however was revived when the Germans took over Holland. There was once again bickering between the factions over the future of the country and who would be the flagship group. Finally all political groups apart from the NSB were destroyed, including the group of Rappard and Tonningen.

From now (mid-1940) to early 1943 nothing really happens for the time-line. They go their separate ways. Rappard joins the SS and is wounded, and Tonningen does errands for the new government and Germany. Tonningen had originally planned to join the SS-Westland, and despite being more than physically capable he was rejected on account of his Indian heritage. He was ridiculed as being "sinjo-Rost, a sinjo is an Indo-European boy. Being not prestigious enough is obviously a problem for someone with so much noble heritage.

In early 1943, as the Japanese campaign in the Pacific began to stutter, there was a mentality shift from Japan conquering all Asian countries and then fighting off the Allies, to forming a partnership with the other nations in which they all helped destroy the Allied attack. Puppet leaders and governments were elected in some countries, but the Dutch East Indies was proving harder to crack for Japan with factional wars within parties. Japan requests Germany and the puppet Dutch government send over interned Indonesian nationalists who had been imprisoned since before the war by Dutch colonials, mostly from the 1926 revolts (communist). These men would provide a face for the movement. Germany has problems with releasing the sub-human Indo people who are communists, and after heated discussion a compromise is made with Eurasian (Dutch-Indo mix) men being sent. Neither party is really happy with the result, as the anti-Colonial Japanese were forced to bring in Europeans, which was against their mentality of “Asia for Asians!” and highly hypocritical. Rost Tonningen is a personal friend of Himmler (the latter was witness to formers wedding OTL) and Rappard is friend of Rost. They are selected to head this movement, and are given supplies and material from both Axis powers to get the job done. However, Japan and Germany have different objectives of the operation, codename Awakening.

The Japanese want the men to galvanise the Nationalism of DEI, and elect one party and leader to represent them against the Allied forces in the war. They pretty much want Rost and Rappard to calm down the masses and prepare for the Allied counter-attack. (This is obviously not going to work because the men are semi-European themselves, and it’s noted that neither man, especially Rappard, is very persuasive of charismatic).

The Germans had very different plans. They saw Japan as a losing side in the war, and not only were the plans for control of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand now gone, but even holding countries like the DEI was failing. Rappard and Tonningen were sent to set up a pro-right wing government based on Nazi ideology, which would hopefully spread to other countries. With their former ally China turning towards Communism, the threat of the Red would soon be in SE-Asia. Both men were promised high ranking positions in Holland after the war by Himmler if they undertook the positions. This agenda was kept secret from Japan.

Epilogue [so far...]

So so far they haven't even reached the Dutch East Indies, and so far most of it has been setting the scene, etc. Would love to hear questions for clarity and/or knowledge that will help this time-line become decent. Thanks.
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