====== A Red Eagle Rises ======

A timeline by [[offtopic:Maverick]]. It can be read [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=56099|here]].

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==== Setting ====

German politics of the 1920s and 1930s, the world of the 1930s and 1940s, and the United States from the 20s to the 40s.

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==== Premise and POD ====

German communist revolutionary Karl Liebknecht surviving the revolutions of 1918 and having a change of heart, while also dealing with alternate lives for Adolf Hitler and Bruno Hauptmann.

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==== Characters ====
  * Karl Liebknecht
  * Adolf Hitler
  * Bruno Hauptmann
  * Charles Lindbergh 
  * Benito Mussolini
  * Josef Stalin

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==== Interesting Events ====

  * The alternate lives of Adolf Hitler in America and Liebknecht and Hauptmann in post-war Germany.
  * The rise of the New Communist Party in the 1920s and 1930s under Liebknecht
  * An alternate Lindbergh kidnapping and trial involving Hitler, ending with Lindbergh entering the world of politics in the 1930s.
  * A mini civil war in Germany after a coalition is formed between the communists and the government
  * The birth of a communist German state under Karl Liebknecht
  * German expansionism towards Austria and Hungary as part of the new doctrine of Liebknecht's own Communism
  * Soviet-German alliance and military cooperation
  * Anti-Comintern pact between the Western European nations
  * Communist victory in the Spanish Civil war

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