If you didn't realize this already it is taking place at the ending of Harry Turtledoves series The War That Came Early.
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-The German Reich (Taken by Kratu)
-The Republic of Finland (Reserved by Kolmya)
-The United States of America (Reserved by Kargintina)
-The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Taken by hippie kiwis)
-The Kingdom of Hungary (Reserved by Reddogkeno101)
-The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Reserved by The Sarian)
Timeline for the Alternate World War II:
1938
-During negotiations over the fate of the Sudetenland between Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, and Édouard Daladier the Sudeten German leader Konrad Henlein is assassinated by a Czech Nationalist by the name of Jaroslav Stribny. Once Hitler heard of what had happened he decided there was no room for negotiations anymore and proceeded to declare war on Czechoslovakia. The French, Soviets, and British soon follow with declarations of war against Germany several days later.
-The German Heer concentrates on breaking through the Sudeten line leaving the Siegfried line undermanned so the French launch a token offensive that captures several border towns in hopes of relieving some pressure on the Czechoslovakians they fail at this miserably and withdraw back to the Maginot Line soon after.
-The Czechs put up persistent and relentless resistance against the German invasion, destroying the Skoda works to prevent German capture of the facilities. However the Slovak Hlinka Guard initiate a pro-Nazi rebellion leading to the exile of the Czechoslovakian government to Paris.
-The war does however lead the French to start suppling Republican Spain allowing them to link up the remainders of their forces again and pose serious resistance to the Nationalist faction. Marshall Sanjuro leader of the Nationalist forces attacks Gibraltar and forces the British Navy to withdraw from the port.
-Soon after the fall of Czechoslovakia Poland having played a minor role in the partitioning on the country openly declares itself to be aligned with Germany. This leads to Polish-Soviet tensions rising until Stalin accuses the Poles of oppressing the Byelorussian minorities in their country and declares war to Poland. The Soviet advances stalls due to Mid-Winter conditions and Polish-German resistance and are slowly driven back to the pre-war borders.
-The Japanese believing the Soviets to be distracted in Europe attempt an attack on the Soviet Union to conquer the Far-East the Japanese soon declare war and cross the border attempting to severe the Trans-Siberian Railway.
1939
-The Germans now in a two-front war desperately invade the Low Countries in an attempt to rush towards Paris. The Low Countries fall swiftly and the Germans push farther south than they did in 1914 even pushing into the outskirts of Paris. Paris is heavily bombed and the Eiffel Tower is destroyed by German bomber but the French and British Expeditionary Force slowly start pushing the Germans out of the outskirts away from Paris. Some unhappy German officers take part in a conspiracy against the Government but are exposed, arrested, and sent to concentration camps.
-With Nazi Germany already straining its resources for external war in November 1938, there is no Kristallnacht of Germany-wide pogroms and burning of synagogues. Still, discrimination and persecution of Jews becomes ever more intensive and oppressive. Even Jews completely assimilated in the German culture, who thought of themselves as Germans (and as patriotic Germans) are driven beyond the pale, not allowed to join the Army even when they want to (and when they had served with distinction in the previous war) nor being allowed to use the air raid shelters when Allied bombers start arriving overhead. The conquest of Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France expose an increasing number of additional Jews to the racist brutality from which German Jews have suffered since 1933. The Jews have no clear idea how far the Nazis intend to go, but they have many reasons to feel foreboding and start assuming that they could count themselves lucky to be still alive at the war's end.
-In the Spring of 1939 the Japanese successfully severed the Trans-Siberian railway cutting Vladivostok from the rest of the Soviet Union, the siege of Vladivostok begins with both sides taking heavy casualties for little ground lost or gained.
- In the Summer of 1939 the Germans have slowly introduced the Panzer III, a tank with thicker armor and a turret large enough for the whole gun crew. Panzer IIIs prove formidable against their French counterparts, but their arrival is delayed by a lack of resources and the diversion of most German armored units to the Eastern Front in Poland. The Germans completely occupy Denmark and fight with the British in Norway. Sweden displays its neutrality by printing both Allied and Nazi propaganda, but Stockholm is still heavily fortified in order to defend Sweden's independence. German U-boats are forced to take extra measures to avoid targeting neutral merchant ships in the hope of avoiding American involvement in the war, while experimenting with the snorkel. The British and French successfully launch an offensive, driving the Germans into a slow retreat towards the French border. Some of the German military high command launch another coup against Hitler, but this, as well as the previous one is put down. In the aftermath, many Germans suspected of being disloyal, from ordinary privates to generals, are arrested by the SS and Gestapo.
-Little changes on the Spanish Front and German Jews become forced to wear the Yellow Star even as Polish Jews are fighting alongside German soldiers.
-In the Fall of 1939 Germany increases its commitments to Poland, sending Panzers and infantry to cut off the Russians in the disputed territory. In response, the Russians escalate the war, launching a full scale invasion that drives as far as the Vistula before being stopped and driven back.
-Tension mounts between American forces stationed in Shanghai and the Japanese Imperial army. The Japanese and well-to-do Chinese collaborators drink in fancy bars, while the Japanese show off their success in Russia, likening it to the 1905 Russo-Japanese War.
1940
-The Russians at Vladivostok finally surrender due to a lack of food. Due to a shortage of trained bomber pilots in the Far East, the Soviets take experienced co-pilots and retrain them as bomber pilots. The Japanese force their captured Russian prisoners to go to a Unit 731 facility, Bataan Death March style, where they are experimented on by the Japanese. The Russians make peace with the Japanese on the basis of the new border being the current front line so the Russians can concentrate on their enemies to the west.
-The Germans are slowly retreating as the British and French counterattack. The Allies evacuate Norway, leaving it to the Germans. Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland in a bid to convince Britain and France to join Germany and Poland in their campaign against the Soviet Union. Winston Churchill is the primary voice of opposition against this, but he dies, in an apparent accident, after being hit by a drunk driver. The Allies agree to this plan, sending their troops into Russia to fight the Soviets. The German Army withdraws from France, being only slightly harried by a few stubborn Francs-tireurs. The Czechoslovakians who continued to fight after their country's defeat are disgusted, and head to Spain to fight the Fascists there. A few groups in France and Britain consisting mainly of disaffected soldiers and politicians wonder if a coup may be necessary to stop their countries' descents into police states, while Roosevelt cancels all supplies sent to the British and the French.
-The Germans and their Polish allies drive the Soviets out of Poland and into Belorussia. The Soviets suffer many major defeats, and the German army is at the gates of Smolensk by the beginning of winter. British and French troops arrive to bolster the German and Polish defense against the Russian counterattacks. The obsolescent SB-2 is consigned to night bombing missions as the much better Pe-2 is now available and the SB-2 is unable to defend itself against fighters such as the Bf-109. The Soviets take a measure of revenge on the British by attacking Scapa Flow with long range bombers. The Baltic is dangerous waters for both sides as it teems with mines and patrol aircraft.
-Rudolph Hess parachutes into Scotland and convinces the war weary British and French to assist Germany in its war against the Soviet Union.
1941
-President Roosevelt, alarmed at Japan's aggression, freezes the flow of oil and raw materials to Japan. Shortly after, on Sunday, January 12, 1941, Japan launches surprise attacks on French Indochina, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong, Malaya, Hawaii, and a few minor targets. The Asiatic fleet is devastated, anchored at Cavite and attacked without warning. At Pearl Harbor, the Americans have warning of the attack and only lose a carrier and a battleship, as well as some fuel storage facilities.
-The Spanish front remains a stalemate.
-Jews in Germany are forced to bear a new name. Jewish males will have to have the new first name of Moses, and Jewish females have the new name of Sarah, but can still live a more or less normal lives in their homes. In the Czechoslovakia, the country's entire Jewish population is consigned to a ghetto in Theresienstadt. The worst is the fate of Jews in the German-occupied parts of the Soviet Union: captured Red Army soldiers are killed out of hand, Jewish civilians in captured towns are subjected to cruel harassment, and in the American press there are stories of systematic massacres. Polish Jews remain protected by their country's being an ally of Germany, German soldiers in Poland being ordered not to interfere with local Jews.
-A military coup is set off in Britain and France turning the countries back against the German Reich.
-The Japanese take Midway Island away from the American forces there, and start a bombing campaign against the Hawaiian Islands. All US Navy front-line aircraft carriers, except for the USS Ranger, are sunk at the Battle of Midway. The Heavy Cruiser USS Boise is sunk by a Japanese submarine.
-The war in North Africa is very desultory as the reluctant and badly equipped Italians are defeated again and again by the British.
1942-1943
-British forces are pushed back towards Egypt when the Afrika Korps arrives under the command of Walther Model. Field Marshal Montgomery is killed when his transport plane is shot down by the Germans and is replaced by Claude Auchinlek.
-The Germans are forced to transfer substantial amounts of men and equipment from Russia to the reopened Western Front. French and British troops stranded in the Soviet Union are also shipped back to France and Belgium. After reversing the pro-Nazi coup in the British government, leaders of the plot are assigned to minor diplomatic posts far from London to prevent future collaboration, though their sympathizers remain in England, largely unknown. The 1942 US elections change little with a few Democrat seats being lost, but the USA remains out of the European theater of war. FDR does sell/send Britain some B-17 "Flying Fortress" bombers that the RAF uses for daylight bombing raids of German cities. FDR eliminates funding for work on an atomic bomb in Tennessee, on the advice that the project is unlikely to yield results for the amount of money it requires. The German U-boat (U-30) sinks the British Navy's aircraft carrier Ark Royal. Following the second insurrection in Munster, the SS begin another purge of the military, removing anyone with connection to Munster from duty.
-Due to the shift of manpower to the Western Front, Germany is now starting to lose ground in Russia, with just enough soldiers left to slow the Soviet advance. The biggest difference is Germany's use of Panzer IVs as medium battle tanks instead of just infantry support. They receive larger guns (75 mm vs the 50 mm of Panzer IIIs) and better armament so that they can now go toe-to-toe with Russian T-34 tanks. The bigger shock for the Russians is newer German Tiger I main battle tanks (Panzer VIs) with their 88mm guns that are true "tank killers". There is no mention of the Panzer V (Panther) tank. The German Luftwaffe also introduces FW-190s into the mix to aid the older Me-109s. The book ends with the Red Army breaking through German lines and advancing on the town of Horki in Belarus.
-In the Pacific, the Japanese are at a standstill. While they now have Midway, they still haven't taken the Hawaiian Islands. The American Navy's stock of fleet carriers is reduced to a single surviving vessel (USS Ranger) to protect the Hawaiian Islands, but is later joined by two "baby flattops" (converted merchant vessels that each possess only half the aircraft capacity of the Ranger). From Midway, Japanese launch a biological attack against the Hawaiian Island by dropping canisters of plague infested fleas living on rats. However, the United States is apparently prepared for this, as it frequently issues vaccinations to servicemen, countering each new disease the Japanese send.
-Despite General Franco's death by a sniper, little changes in Spain as both sides still receive only limited support from their allies. However, now that France is fighting the Germans once again on the Western Front, the regiment of Czechs are requested by the French government to return to France to help the French Republic fight the Germans in Belgium. The Czechs, remembering France's earlier betrayal, are wary of France's intentions and continue fighting around Madrid. The Nationalist forces receive assistance from the German "Legion Kondor", though the German officers are regularly targeted by Republican snipers.
-Life for the Jews in Germany, what little there is, goes on as before. Strict rules and curfews with no relief is combined with miserable treatment by the Nazi authorizes. The RAF starts daylight bombing raids on German cities that kill both Jew and German alike. demonstration in front of the cathedral of Munster demanding the release of the city's archbishop turns into a slaughter as members of the Gestapo open fire on the crowd. Waffen-SS troops enter Munster to restore order and close off the plaza in front of the cathedral to the public. Rumors go around that the SS troops were brought in after the Wehrmacht refused to do so. Anti-SS sentiment continues to grow in Munster.
1944
-In Munster tensions continue to grow until the reach the breaking point as a group of citizens attack an SS officer leading to a full out rebellion in Munster. Several Divisions of Wehrmacht forces are withdrawn from the front lines in order to put down the rebellion and tensions grow further within the Wehrmacht itself. Hitler decides if he declares war on the United States he will be able to rally the German people behind him once again. This escalates the tensions even higher. Hitler announces he will give a speech in Munster to attempt to calm tensions.
-In Spain Czech Sniper Vaclav Jezek kills Marshall Sanjuro, the Nationalist forces fall into pieces with infighting becoming prominent, the Republican Army forces the Nationalist Army to surrender on June 23rd, 1944.
-The United States and the Soviet Union form an Alliance against Japan.
-Several minutes after Hitler starts his speech on July 20th, 1944 a bomb explodes underneath the stage killing him instantly. Soon after the General Heinz Guderian broadcasts a message as the leader of the Committee for the Salvation of the German Reich that the Committee is now in charge of the country. But the SS, Gestapo, and some parts of the Wehrmacht (particularly the Luftwaffe) were still fiercely loyal to the National Socialist Party. Fighting breaks out amongst the German forces as people either support the council or the Nazi Party. Over the next month the Committee gains the upper hand and starts to persecute the higher ranking Nazis.
-Truces breakout across the Western and Eastern fronts. In August the nations of Europe agree to start hammering out a peace treaty in Paris. The Treaty of Paris dictated that Germany would withdraw its forces from the Low Countries, Denmark, the Soviet Union, and Norway while the Soviet Union annexes Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and the Vilno region of Poland. Other than those changes Status Quo.
-The Committee revokes the Nuremberg laws of 1935.
-America restarts the Manhattan Project at the request of Albert Einstein.
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Nationstates Nation Name: Kratu
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Official Nation Name: Deutsches Reich or German Reich
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Capital: Berlin
Population: 72 Million People
Head of State: Committee Chairman General Heinz Guderian
Head of Government: Committee Chairman General Heinz Guderian
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Military Size and Branches:
Heer: 2,300,000 Men
Kriegsmarine:
-1,300,000 Men
-137 Submarines
-39 Destroyers
-8 Battleships
-15 Cruisers
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-500,000 Men
-18,000 Aircraft (Approximately)
Primary Weapon: K98k Rifle (Slowly being replaced by the Sturmgewehr 44)
Secondary Weapon: Walter P38 9mm Pistol
Primary Machine Gun: MG42/MG34
Primary Artillery Weapon: 10.5 cm leFH 18
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