Weber's Germany: The Veterinarian Totalitarian
- Thread starter Tom Colton
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Just realized that the name Weber is really not going to be popular after this all settles down. Apparently the name Adolf was actually pretty popular until WWII happened
That's quite the wait. But good things take time, and I can't throw stones from my glass house. Eagerly anticipating.
With apologies for missing my last deadline, and in memory of the late @Kaiser K.
0300 Hours, the Soviet frontier.
Along the edge of the Russian borderlands marking the end of civilisation and the beginning of that hellish wasteland populated only by insurgents and saboteurs, along with scattered scavengers attempting to eke out whatever remained of their lives, there stood two young Russian soldiers, no older than twenty-two. Hundreds of miles away, the red and black banner of the Nazis fluttered over their conquests in Byelorussia, where German guards undoubtedly went about their business in much the same way. The two Russians looked at each other, and pondered the question of the lands to their West.
"Alexei, do you ever think our Motherland will ever be the same again? Will we ever regain our homes to the West from the Fascists? Will freedom ever come for them?"
"Honestly, I do not know...perhaps this is just how things were meant to be. Did God destine them? Neither you nor I were the first to ask these questions, Leonid, but none of us can answer them for sure."
The world was locked into a Cold War, split between Fascism, Communism, and the forces claiming to represent Democracy.
Between the forces of the latter two lay the Greater German Reich and her allies, tucked behind the walls of Fortress Europa. After the death of Adolf Hitler, the Germans had revitalised themselves, forging with blood and steel a Germania stretching from the Rhine to the Dnieper. Central and Eastern Europe were demesnes of oppression under Fascism, with only Scandinavia and Swizerland existing as any holdouts of freedom between these two Iron Curtains.
The Soviet authorities had been forced into a headlong retreat after their disastrous collapse along the Leningrad-Rostov front, and now only maintained a token regular force along their western front, which blurred into a lawless "death zone" in which their partisans lived only for the chance to kill as many Nazis as they could, in the hope of somehow regaining their homelands, or just shedding as much German blood as possible.
Opposing the Nazis to the West were the burgeoning economies of the United States and the United Kingdom, along with their allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, drawn up in the months after the first pause in hostilities between the Nazis and Soviets. Although exhausted from their efforts in the East, and running headlong into the Soviets along the confluence of their spheres of influence there, they now only wait for the moment of opportune to bring down the German regime.
These three superpower blocs were those which remained standing after the three great conflicts known as the Second Great War, the Great Patriotic War and the Asia-Pacific War, with the last of these marking the once-mighty Empire of Japan being reduced to dust and rubble after the devastation brought upon it by the colonial powers of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with the Chinese, so long oppressed under the yoke of the Chrysanthemum Throne, making no small contribution themselves.
How we got here is a long story. To understand the world as it stands now, it would be wise to come back to that critical juncture, with the clock ticking to the end of the forced peace signed at Sofia, counting down to the moment that the Four Horsemen of Conquest, War, Famine and Death would be loosed upon the earth once again, with Hell following them...
Along the edge of the Russian borderlands marking the end of civilisation and the beginning of that hellish wasteland populated only by insurgents and saboteurs, along with scattered scavengers attempting to eke out whatever remained of their lives, there stood two young Russian soldiers, no older than twenty-two. Hundreds of miles away, the red and black banner of the Nazis fluttered over their conquests in Byelorussia, where German guards undoubtedly went about their business in much the same way. The two Russians looked at each other, and pondered the question of the lands to their West.
"Alexei, do you ever think our Motherland will ever be the same again? Will we ever regain our homes to the West from the Fascists? Will freedom ever come for them?"
"Honestly, I do not know...perhaps this is just how things were meant to be. Did God destine them? Neither you nor I were the first to ask these questions, Leonid, but none of us can answer them for sure."
The world was locked into a Cold War, split between Fascism, Communism, and the forces claiming to represent Democracy.
Between the forces of the latter two lay the Greater German Reich and her allies, tucked behind the walls of Fortress Europa. After the death of Adolf Hitler, the Germans had revitalised themselves, forging with blood and steel a Germania stretching from the Rhine to the Dnieper. Central and Eastern Europe were demesnes of oppression under Fascism, with only Scandinavia and Swizerland existing as any holdouts of freedom between these two Iron Curtains.
The Soviet authorities had been forced into a headlong retreat after their disastrous collapse along the Leningrad-Rostov front, and now only maintained a token regular force along their western front, which blurred into a lawless "death zone" in which their partisans lived only for the chance to kill as many Nazis as they could, in the hope of somehow regaining their homelands, or just shedding as much German blood as possible.
Opposing the Nazis to the West were the burgeoning economies of the United States and the United Kingdom, along with their allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, drawn up in the months after the first pause in hostilities between the Nazis and Soviets. Although exhausted from their efforts in the East, and running headlong into the Soviets along the confluence of their spheres of influence there, they now only wait for the moment of opportune to bring down the German regime.
These three superpower blocs were those which remained standing after the three great conflicts known as the Second Great War, the Great Patriotic War and the Asia-Pacific War, with the last of these marking the once-mighty Empire of Japan being reduced to dust and rubble after the devastation brought upon it by the colonial powers of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with the Chinese, so long oppressed under the yoke of the Chrysanthemum Throne, making no small contribution themselves.
How we got here is a long story. To understand the world as it stands now, it would be wise to come back to that critical juncture, with the clock ticking to the end of the forced peace signed at Sofia, counting down to the moment that the Four Horsemen of Conquest, War, Famine and Death would be loosed upon the earth once again, with Hell following them...
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WEBER'S GERMANY WILL RETURN
CHRISTMAS 2017
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COME AND SEE
CHRISTMAS 2017
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COME AND SEE
THANK CHRIST!
EDIT: This story, and Stupid Luck and Happenstance are my go-to's for post 1900.
EDIT: This story, and Stupid Luck and Happenstance are my go-to's for post 1900.
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Yep, or as a friend in college once said after seeing that movie, "Come and Don't See."
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Thank you for this lovely Christmas present Tom Colton.
Can`t wait for the update.
Can`t wait for the update.
1980s Soviet movie about Germany's invasion of and atrocities in Beylorussia. It's as grim and soul-crushing as that sounds.
Thanks, everyone!
In addition to the specific movie mentioned above...
...I've also repeatedly referenced the apocalyptic motif of "Come and see" after which the movie is named, used prior to the introduction of each Horseman of the Apocalypse (hence the Dürer drawing above.)
In addition to the specific movie mentioned above...
Figure 35: An infamous photograph of grinning Einsatzkommando personnel posing with a teenaged Byelorussian partisan they are about to execute. August, 1941. [6]
...I've also repeatedly referenced the apocalyptic motif of "Come and see" after which the movie is named, used prior to the introduction of each Horseman of the Apocalypse (hence the Dürer drawing above.)
No, you're right; I haven't explicitly mentioned Braun yet. He'll have his part to play soon enough though, where I'll expound on weapons development.
Speaking of which...
"WEBER'S GERMANY" WILL RETURN
(OCTOBER 2015)
COME AND SEE
KOMM UND SIEH
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Non-nuclear bombs create mushroom clouds too, you know. @Tom Colton's already confirmed that Germany will develop fuel-air bombs.
Of course, it could be a nuke.
