Dead By Dawn: The Road to Revolution

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 Paris: 1973: The First National Socialist World Congress


Marshal La Rocque in 1938.

 After France's defeat in the Franco-British War and after the Treaty of Orleans, the French government before La Rocque's crew were reinstated. The Democratic Alliance had collapsed in the forties, as more and more French left for the United States, the Croix de Feux became the de facto party of most French working class people. The nationalism evoked in propaganda inspired the people, and La Rocque's personality cult was considered quite dangerous at the time. Although later compared to Iancu Serban's regime in Romania and the Morales Junta in Colombia, La Rocque was no demagouge. As such, following Frances defeat, support for the Croix de Feux remained in many upper to middle class French. The lower class, the poor, however had turned to a much more sinister inspiration. In 1923, Adolph Hitler lead a failed and abortive coup. Following this, his name was used by both Gregor and Otto Strasser to evoke the symbol of National Socialism. His name graced the youth wing of both the NSDAP and the NSE, but the power of the Strasser Brothers in forging National Socialism left Adolph Hitler relatively forgotten.

 In France in the 1940's, the writings of Max von Scheubner-Richter inspired thousands of young lower class students to idolize the Austrian founder of Nazism. In 1950, Bidane Oleastro, a Spanish Basque poet living in Paris, wrote an epic poem about a male character strongly suggested to be Adolph Hitler and as he continued to grow in the minds of the average man and woman, so did his message. The message of Hitlerian class struggle lead to an intellectual revival. In underground jazz clubs, poets and artists spoke of rebellion. The view of a messiah, a man to save France from the dark cloud of the conservative, industrialist and capitalist regime that currently held it, and give birth to a free France for all. Firmin Sauveterre, a member of the board at Columbia, returned to France in the fall of 1952, having left for the United States 23 years previous seeking work and a future. After 10 years in New York, he owned his own house, and 10 years later had graduated from Columbia, earning his masters and becoming a professor of political theory at Yale. 2 years later he gained a seat on the board of Columbia and began to discuss the rebirth of the image of Hitler. After one particularly long intellectual session, Sauveterre wrote out what would become his 26 point plan for the revitalization of France. After publishing the book in the United States, he embarked to France in order to send his message to those who need to hear it most.

 After being smuggled into France through still unknown means, he became involved in the underground movement of National Socialism, and quickly found a place at the head of most tables in the underground movement. In 1954, following the capture of Paris by British troops, the Democratic Alliance was reinstated to power. However, when the planned election occurred, the Democratic Alliance was over come by the French National Socialist Workers Party or Parti National-Socialiste des Travailleurs Français (PNSTF) and Firmin Sauveterre became the President of the newly established Fourth French Republic. Using the Sturmtruppe, the PNSTF were quickly able to push down any growing restlessness amongst the populace. Sauveterre still faced resistance from the Parti Populaire Français, the Croix de Feu successor run by Charles de Gaulle and the Parti républicain-socialiste, a liberalized semi-communist party. In 1960, Firmin Sauveterre was able to secure a coup and after a constitutional convention, declared the Popular Republic of France, outlawing all other political parties, and further driving France's population from its shores, resulting in a new wave of French immigrants to the United States, Britain and Canada in particular. In 1962, Sauveterre announced he would retire in 1966, and anointed his protege, the young, charismatic Adolphe Geroux.


 Honor ceremony for the NSDAP in Paris 1973.

  Born Francois Geroux, he changed his name at the age of 12 to that of his personal hero, Adolph Hitler, and became involved in the PNSTF at a young age. Fighting in the Sturmtruppe from age 16, he eventually found his way into the party and became a favorite of the most powerful man in France. Sauveterre was considered to be dangerous, with a frightening aura that inspired submission. Geroux held crowds with his voice, a gift only shared by his contemporary in Romania. In 1968, Geroux, aged 37, became the new president of the Popular Republic of France. Within four months, planning for the First National Socialist World Congress had begun. The planning took a detour in 1969, as France, Germany and the USSR hammered out the details of the Konigsberg Accords, an alliance system designed to overpower the Italian bloc. In August of 1973, construction on the exposition grounds were finished, including a French pavillion, a German pavillion and Chinese pavillion, along with delegates from the world's various National Socialist organizations. During the meeting Strasser-Li took offense to the centralistic depiction of Adolph Hitler in the French pantheon, and left early, but the Germans retained their exposition, resulting in the closest relations between France and Germany. Adolphe Geroux and Diedrik Holzknecht had found friendship during the conference and as the Italians looked on in shock, the most powerful potential military alliance became bound by ideology as well.


The PNSTF pavillion at 1973 Paris. Members of Nachtwache enjoy the beautiful French sun.

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 Little Known Facts August 3rd, 1975

 - In 1933, France occupied Andorra, in the midst of a particularly volatile campaign, being the first in Andorra to extend the franchise to all men over the age of 20. In 1934, after Boris Skossyreff declared himself Prince of Andorra in the name of the "King of France", Marshal La Rocque ordered the occupation of the small mountain state. In Spain, Damaso Berenguer was unable to act, as the Basque and communist insurgency were rocking the nation. The Spanish government, unwilling to enter war at that point, petitioned the League of Nations for support, only to be stonewalled in the face of Italy's war with Ethiopia. Following France's performance in the Abyssinian War, Spain continued to hold claims to Andorra, but did not act until 1953, when Generalissimo Francisco Franco entered the Franco-British War on the side of the British. In 1942, Marshal La Rocque had formally annexed Andorra into France. In 1954, after the Treaty of Orleans, the Spanish petitioned for the annexation of the territory to Spain, which was denied in favor of establishing Andorra as a completely sovereign state. The new Republic of Andorra was founded with Franco-Spanish recognition on January 1st, 1955. Since then, French and Spanish leaders have had little to do with the small state, both of whom make up the small nations biggest training partners in the world.

 - San Marino is considered the worlds oldest republic, who since it's foundation in 301 have been peaceful, law abiding and relatively sane in the political department. However, in April of 1923, the Sammarinese Fascist Party took power thanks to the political positioning of it's leader, Giuliano Gozi. Since his rise to power, only the Sammarinese Fascist Party has held the office of Captain-Regent of San Marino. Mussolini and both Balbo's often neglected their close ally, who played such a small role in world politics, that it was assumed silly to waste time with such a state. However, San Marino remains Fascist, steadfastly so, even in the face of growing resistance to the ideology the world over.

 - Following the defeat of the French in 1954, Corsica was ceded to the British. The territory was used to give the British a solid base in the Mediterranean and was largely planned to keep the French from expanding their fleet into the Mediterranean, which was banned under the Treaty of Orleans. However, as soon as British forces occupied the island in spring of 1954, they faced military resistance from the native Corsicans, divided among pro-French and separatist forces. From 1954 to 1958, the British attempted to hold the island, before attempting to transfer  the duties of governance to the local Corsicans, in an attempt to keep a British force on the island. The Ajaccio Convention of 1958 established a Corsican Republic within the Commonwealth, and organized an election of local officials. At the 1960 Independence Ceremony, bombs and gunfire were set off by the Corsican Liberation Army and French revanchists, the entire plan was scrapped. In 1961, the Italian government was ceded the island of Corsica, to the chagrin of most of the population.

  - The Malvinas, or the Falklands as they are lesser known, have been disputed for centuries. When Argentina annexed the Falklands in September of 1966, along with several other British Antarctic islands, there were around 2,000 islanders or "Kelpies" in residence. They were quickly deported, but as Britain was in Civil War, the Islanders, who like many of the people of the world were forced to find a new home rather than the one they had known all their lives. Original plans were to send the islanders to British Guiana, which was scrapped in December, when the territory was invaded and occupied by Venezuela. A compromise was found and the 2,000 "Prisoners of War" were sent in horrid conditions to the Dutch province of Suriname. 230 died in transit and the survivors were given visas to the Netherlands. After a summary movement to to the Netherlands, they were able to receive transit to any nation of their choosing. The vast majority immigrated to Australia, with New Zealand, Canada and South Africa as the other major recipients of the displaced islanders. The islands have since be repopulated with ethnic Argentinians, and while both governments of Great Britain publicly cry for the return of the Falkland Islands, with the nation embroiled in a seemingly endless war, these seem to be nothing more then catcalls from a ruined nation.

- After the Croix de Feu took power in France, little more than 200,000 left France seeking political refuge. The United States was the prime destination for these Upper and Middle Class men and women, but around 25,000 settled in Scandinavia, where the politics were a little more to the left than the rest of Europe. After the fall of France in 1954, up to half a million departed Frances shores for greener pastures elsewhere. Originally these were refugees from the war torn north and the territory annexed by Italy, and they often departed for Algeria, Libya and South Africa, who were more then willing to receive more European immigrants. In South Africa, the newly arrived French were largely settled in Katanga and the Cape. In Algeria and Libya, they found themselves in peculiar positions. In Algeria, although considered better then the Muslim natives, the "new" French occupied a rung in Algerian society decidedly lower than those of the generation old Pied Noir. In Libya, Italianization began at the earliest stages of settlement and it is reported by the Italian government that the French settlers will be Italian speaking within two generations. Then following the declaration of the Popular Republic, around 300,000 conservative Croix de Feu followers departed France for Canada (Quebec in particular), the West Indian Federation, South Africa and Australia. The cities of Montreal, Newark, Petite-Anse, Salisbury and Perth host vibrant French communities to this day as proof of this.

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  Hungary: Trianonsense


Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya, Regent of Hungary, 1920 to 1957.

 The seat of King of Hungary had been left empty after Horthy assumed power in 1920. The position of regent was an unusual one in Europe, as under Horthy, Hungary was nominally a parliamentary democracy with a prime minister at it's head. While officially a constitutional figurehead, Horthy's influence gave him the ability to exert his own rule in a sense. From 1921 to 1931, Count István Bethlen de Bethlen served as a largely powerful prime minister. His Party of National Unity (Nemzeti Egység Pártja or NEP) cemented control through electoral fraud and appeasement of the labor unions. Although he gained power on the promise of land reform, he quickly shout out the peasants and stifled their political voice. Thanks to Bethlens unwillingness to support the peasantry, support for Bethlen began to decline, and with the only minimal foreign investment in Hungary, from the United States and Italy largely, dissipating after the Great Depression, Bethlen was forced to consider resignation. On May 5th, Count Bethlen tendered his resignation before the National Diet, in response to the Berlin Uprising in Germany. He was replaced by Gyula Count Károlyi de Nagykároly, Károlyi only served in this position until Szilveszter Matuska blew up portions of a bridge in Budapest, and the continued lack of land reforms started a small uprising in Budapest by socialists.


 Gyula Gömbös de Jákfa, from 1931 to 1935.

 In November of 1931, Gyula Gombos was instated as the new prime minister. Gombos had gained the trust of Miklos Horthy after preventing Charles Habsburg from retaking the throne of Hungary in 1921, and had served as István Bethlen's Minister of Defense previously, and as such was an obvious replacement for Károlyi. Following the victory of the Reichswehr and the DNVP in 1934, Hungary followed the lead of Mussolini and established relations with the government. Like his predecessors before him, Gombos agitated for the reversal of the Treaty of Trianon, and hoped to further establish Hungary as a nation under his sole control. However, this was not to be as Gombos would die of testicular cancer in Rome in 1935. Gombos was replaced by Kálmán Darányi, who sought to squash the rising tide of support for Nazism within the nation, along with challenging the growth of liberal parties amongst the general populace. It is believed that Horthy selected Darányi for his lack of support for outright fascism, but willingness to rule by authoritarian means. Darányi also attempted to grow Hungary's international profile, especially with France and Great Britain only to find no interest from the powers of the world in the small and weak Central European backwater. Italy continued to support Hungary, and as their alliance grew so did the influence of Fascism in Hungary.

 Darányi increased the suffrage and began to expand the military, as well as cracking down further on National Socialism and Communism throughout the country. However, in 1939 at the age 53, and was succeeded by Jenő Rátz, the former minister of defense. Rátz was unique in that he was the first non-partisan Prime Minister in Hungarian history, after the NEP was banned by a Royal decree in 1940, following the outbreak of the Third Balkans War. Under Rátz, the Scythe Cross paramilitary, who supported Nazism, were defeated and it's leader Laszlo Endre executed. In 1946, Rátz died of old age, and was replaced by Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon. Nagy, the second of the non-partisan prime ministers, would also become Hungary's last. Under Nagy, the military reform expanded, and thanks to Italian investment and support, Hungary began to push ever towards regaining territories lost in 1919. In the early 1950's, Nagy once again squashed a rebellion by Nazis and Communists within the nation, and finally established land reforms to appease the ever restless peasant class, while encouraging full industrialization within Hungary. In 1957, Nagy was selected to replace Miklos Horthy as regent, and after doing so he abolished the position of prime minister. In 1958, Nagy pushed for the Hungarian entry into the World War, and after a short war with the Romanians, annexed the county of Crisana in Transylvania. The wave of nationalism following this cemented Nagy's control of power, and in 1962, joined with the Italians in their Rome Pact. In 1963, in cooperation with the Bulgarians, Nagy neutered Romania, and annexed all of former Hungarian Transylvania. With this victory, Nagy was able to finally reinstall the monarchy of Hungary, with himself, as King Vilmos the First of Hungary.

 
 By the Grace of God, Apostolic King of Hungary, Grand Prince of Transylvania, Count of the Szeklers, Vilmos the First.

 As King, Nagy was faced with the trouble of retaining control over the new territories, and while at first he merely supported the deportation of Romanians into the rump state that it had created, that soon became very clear as an unsustainable position. Afterwords, he began to push for greater Magyarization, and gained the support of the businessmen of Italy, who used the cheap labor of the Romanians within Hungary to build countless construction projects throughout Pact territory. With the rise of Iancu Serban, the Kingdom became ever present of dissent from within and out, and the Royal Security Service was founded to protect the power of the King in Hungary. However, it should be noted that after the conquest of Transylvania, King Vilmos began to loosen the controls on elections, and reinstated the National Diet. In order to avoid power struggles, political parties were banned, and candidates were forced to run as independent. The Diet was realigned into a unicameral body, presided over by the King, or in his absence, his Regent, a handpicked person operating in the stead of Vilmos.

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 Cluster  76


 Vice President Dutch Wilson, campaigning in Texas in 1976.

 In Spring of 1975, Europe erupted into war, followed quickly by Asia and Africa. The United States were pledged to provide support to the Italians in case of war, but the results were odd. The initial beginning of hostilities had begun when the Italians, chasing Nazi rebels in the Rhone-del-Est, accidentally crossed over into France. They were captured by French border guards, who after holding a kangaroo court, found the Italians guilty of crimes against the French people, and sentenced them to hard labor. In America the reaction was one of indifference. The French and Germans seemed to be nothing more than leftists with a flare for the dramatic. And thanks to a blitz of German and French ads on American television, tourists from the United States became welcome guests in Paris, Berlin, Konigsberg and Bordeaux. And as such, public opinion on the Nazis in the United States was at an all time high. College students and leftists often wore Swastika arm bands to reference their rebellion against the system.

 The Italians were America's strongest ally, but their annexation of French territory was seen as idiotic at the time, and was largely granted due to an extreme Francophobia that pervaded the Conservative Party in Great Britain following the Franco-British War. Following the Treaty of Orleans, the Italians orchestrated full control of trade on the Rhone River, but only controlled the eastern bank. The western bank was still French territory, including the city of Lyons which was infamously divided between the Italians and French. In 1956, the French government unceremoniously blocked all bridges leading into France from Italy, as such the border became closed, with the Rhone providing a natural border in lieu of heavily patrolled forces. In the 1960's, Italy saw France as a pest, something to be easily squashed, and as such neglected to provide attention to the growing insurgency in the former French Provence. In the United States however, journalists took full advantage of the free roam given to them by the Italian government and actively reported on the growing Nazi force, which more often then not, appealed to the American infatuation with liberty and made Italy look bad in the same glance. As such, much of the candidates in the running for '76 were pro isolationist, Senator John C. Carter, was not.

 In 1975, he outlined a peace plan that could be implemented with US approval with a minimum of casualties in total. As such, Carter soon found himself, along with his supporters in the Republican Party, running on the peace ticket. This caused quite the uproar from VP Wilson, who stated that American intervention in Europe, would reopen hostilities in South America and with the Soviet Union, who remained the cultural bugaboo of the United States. At a debate in August of 1975 between the Republican candidates, Wilson was ambushed by Carter, who attempted to rebut the criticisms of the Vice President in regards to his peace plan. The two never raised their voices, but rather logically stole the entire debate from President Humphrey, who was clearly frustrated by the lack of attention and applause his answers were getting. Following the debate, Humphrey announced he would not seek re-election. Wilson, quickly found himself as the odd man out and in December of 1975, he declared the rebirth of the Democratic-Republicans, which was unusual in that he took a sizable protion of votes from both parties, but mostly from the Republicans, and the Democrats were solely representing the interests of white southerners. As the campaign trail heated up in 1976, Carter began to campaign nationally, knowing he had only to run to win in the Republican primaries. He faced staunch opposition from Wilson and Scoop Jackson, but his charm became famous as the election grew closer to an end.


Then Senator, John C. Carter and Vice President Dutch Wilson at a function in 1975.

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They say they Rana Revolution...
 
In 1777, the King of Nepal, Pratap Singh Shah, died of natural causes and left his two year old son, Rana Bahadur Shah as the King of Nepal. From 1777 to her death in 1785, the Queen Rajendra Laxmi ruled as his regent, which was followed by the regency of his uncle, Bahadur Shah. Under Bahadur Shah, Nepal had expanded via conquest, to absorb the neighboring territories of Kumaon, Sirmur, Garhwal, Sikkim and Morung. As such, in order to establish his own right, Rana Bahadur Shah had his uncle imprisoned in 1797, only to abdicate in 1799, after the death of his mistress, after which he engaged in blasphemous activity, such as the destruction of temples and blaming her deaths on the gods. After being forced to abdicate, he gave his throne to his illegitimate son, Girvan Yuddha Bikram Shah Deva, in order to live his life as a holy man in Varanasi. However, in 1804, Rana Bahadur Shah returned to Nepal, with Bhimsen Thapa in tow.

 
Bhimsen Thapa, Mukhtiyar (Prime Minister) of Nepal, 1806 to 1837.
 
 Though Bhimsen Thapa had become friends with the young king when they were both held together at the age of 11 in Gorkha, this friendship would grow to last a lifetime. In 1798, Thapa joined Rana Bahadur Shah's bodyguards, and after the king's abdication, became his personal advisor. While in India, Thapa took time to study the growing power of the English in India, where through a system of proxy governments, they had begun to accumulate power. Fearing that Nepal could share the same fate, Thapa urged the king to return to Nepal, to reign in his sons stead. However, the young King Girvan was being controlled by the Mukhityar, Daomadar Pande. Upon Rana Bahadur Shah's return Daomandar was put to death, and Rana assumed the role of Mukhityar for his infant son. However, given his lack of tact, Bhimsen Thapa became his head advisor and in essence the leader of Nepal. Following this, Bhimpsen Thapa went about annihilating any and all who would challenge his authorities, confiscating land from members of the Shah family, imprisoning one of the king's wives and in one very cruel case, blinding the 10 year old nephew of Prithvi Narayan Shah, the first king of unified Nepal. In 1806, after mounting pressure within, Rana Bahadur Shah and his stepbrother Sher Bahadur Shah had an argument in court, possibly over the recent usurping of the position of Mukhtiyar by Bhimsen Thapa, and after some shouting, Rana Bahadur Shah was killed by his stepbrother, who was immediately felled by Bal Narsingh Kunwar, a member of Rana Bahadur Shah's personal guard. Immediately following this, Bhimsen Thapa tooka advantage of the chaos, and with Kunwar's assistance, used the occasion to massacre any and all obstacles in the way of Bhimpsen Thapa. For his assistance, Bal Narsingh Kunwar was given the post of Kaji.


 India in 1805

 Following the death of Rana Bahadur Shah, King Girvan remained to young to assume his full responsibility, his stepmother assumed the regency, in alliance with Bhimsen Thapa, as the young Queen Regent was the Mukhtiyar's own niece. Under Thapa, Nepal continued to expand, extending from the Sutleej river to the west and the Teesta River to the east. As Thapa began to assert Nepalese independence, it only became natural that it would come into conflict with the looming British monopoly over the subcontinent. Following several major victories in it's past, the Nepalese believed that they were undefeatable, especially after "defeating" the Chinese after an excursion into Tibet, although the end of the war was more due to lack of will on the side of the Chinese and the harsh terrain of the Himalaya's than the fighting of the Nepalese. That is not to say that Nepal was not a formidable foe, but the technological advantage of the British was not to be underestimated. From 1814 to 1816, the Anglo-Nepalese War was fought, for a myriad of reasons, including the perceived threat of Nepal to British dominance of the sub-continent, as well the appointment of Bhimsen Thapa's father to border regions with the English East India Company, with the Nepalese bearing the brunt of a British invasion, which helped develop British techniques in hill warfare, as they were largely used to fighting in planes. Regardless, the Nepalese lost, and although forced to sign a treaty, Bhimsen Thapa was able to retain his grip on power.

 
  Nepal after the Treaty of Sugauli

 Shortly after the war, King Girvan died, and his infant son, Rajendra took the throne, being dominated by Bhimsen Thapa from the beginning of his reign. Thapa was able to retain control, despite the intrigue of the Pande's, until the King announced his intent to rule independently in 1837, which led to the demise of the Thapa's power. In 1843, King Rajendra dismissed the member of the Pande family he had appointed Mukhtiyar, and announced his plan to keep only the advice of his queen, who in an attempt to give her own son precedent over the king's older sons, had the son Bhimsen Thapa, Mathabarsingh Thapa appointed Mukhtiyar. However, Mathabarsingh proved insufficient in the eyes of the Queen, and in 1846, he was murdered by Jang Bahadur Rana, the lover of the Queen and son of Bal Narsingh Kunwar, which lead to the murder of 40 nobles of the royal court, which in turn, led to the establishment of the Rana autocracy.

 After the Kot Massacre of 1846, and a short time afterwards, Jang Bahadur Rana established the position of Mukhtiyar as a hereditary one, with the Shah family playing a minor role in comparison to the Rana Prime Minister's. Over the centuries, Nepal developed more and more into a client state of the British, who became more and more invested in India, with the Gurkha troops of the Nepalese making up some of the British Raj's most elite soldiers. When the Indian Revolt began, Nepal was clearly on the side of the British, and that support only continued with the rise of the Communists. The Rana's continued to lend their support to the British, even as the people of Nepal began to plot the overthrow of the Rana's, aided by the King of Nepal, Tribhuvan. The people were also supported by Communist guerilla's and after the occupation of Tibet (1962), explicit aid from the USPRC in the form of military aid to the people. In 1966, as civil war descended on the British Isles and with the Sub-continent beginning to settle, the United Socialist Peoples Republic of China, under the orders of Strasser-Li invaded Nepal. Following a short and bloody conflict, the Kingdom of Nepal was overthrown, and the Peoples Socialist State of Nepal was established with Tribhuvan Shah, former King of Nepal, established as Director of the State, where he was unfortunately in the position he didn't want, as a puppet for the real power, which instead of the Rana's, was now the diplomat of the USPRC in Kathmandu.

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 Citadelle

 
  Modern day photo of tourists enjoying Montreal's Underground City.

 In 1949, following year after year of escalating violence due to the rising presence of Swastika Clubs, normally comprised of second generation Irish and English immigrants, who took exception to the newly arriving West Indian and Jewish immigrants from Europe, the city of Montreal, in collusion with the government of both Quebec and Canada, announced the construction of an series of interconnected underground tunnels, which would serve to reinvigorate the flailing state of business in Montreal, and encourage tourism, if not for the sights of the city, than for the marvel of something that had never been done before. Although construction was impeded by the start of the Franco-British War, by 1957, Montreal introduced it's 54 block underground complex to the world, even though by this time, the men of the Swastika Clubs had either been jailed, retired, or had traded in their billy clubs, for parliamentary whips, beating on immigrants and Jews through the means of legislation, as members of the Conservative-National Christian-Social Credit minority coalition. Designed to reinvigorate the commerce of Montreal, it worked, and shot life back into the city's failing heart. Around the world, reaction to this system were varied, usually from praise for the engineering, to questioning the folly of the solution to the social problem. But nowhere in the world did the news of the underground city have an effect, than in the city of Algiers, where the Executive Council of the Republic of Algeria, discussed the possibilities that such a project had brought forth. In 1957, it was still several years before the creation of the Rome Pact, and although both immigration from the "homeland", which among the newly arrived refugees almost always meant the Rhone-del-Est, as the Italians had dubbed the region, and the government of Algeria, run by the Pied-Noir's was facing open resistance from the majority Islamic population of Algeria.

 This is not to say that all Muslims within Algeria were against the government, given that most of Algeria's army was Muslim at the time, but there was a growing dissatisfaction with the status quo of Algeria, and thus, the Executive Council grew worried, and inspired, creating the groundwork for Codename Citadelle. The plan was actually written out into a coherent manuscript by Minister of Finance, Edmond Leblanc, who theorized that in the Doomsday Scenario for the Algerian State, there would be three safe havens (or havrepaix in laymans terms), Algiers, Constantine and Oran, home to the three biggest populations of French in Algeria. Oran and Algiers, both being coastal cities, would be surrounded by a large and modern wall, which would not only allow the government to detect all traffic in and out of the city, but provide an imposing psychological deterrent to the "Musulman Hordes". Constantine, being landlocked, but being isolated by the series of ravines and it's natural topography, it was a natural choice for a safe haven. These three "citadel's" would be connected by a series of fortified roadways, which would also serve to connect the Algerian government to the newly discovered oil fields on the border with Libya and Tunisia, as well as other fortified outposts which would serve as positions to "retake" the land of Algeria once the rebels had been quelled. In the meantime, the Pied-Noirs would enjoy the pleasures of a Five Star resort, thanks to the creation of an extensive underground complex in each of the three safe havens.

 However, in 1957, this was considered by most of the Executive Council as to extreme to carry out, and as such was tabled. It was revisited in 1962, following the donation of 300,000 European laborers from the Rome Pact to Algeria, however, and with the rise of attacks by the Mujahideen in Libya, along with the demand for gated communities, it was announced publicly, that heightened security would require stricter protection of the Ouargla oil fields would require brick and mortar defensive positions. Following this, it was announced, that Algiers would be creating a subway system, construction on which would never be completed, or at least to public knowledge. In reality, the Algiers subway was completed in 1966, but the construction of the Algiers underground, which was being done simultaneously, would not be done, until at least according to some sources within the Citadel State of Algeria, until 1972. In 1964, construction began on the walls for both Algiers and Oran, as well as two intricate series of checkpoints. By 1968, both Algiers and Oran had been divided into literally two parts, one on either side of a wall, as they began to expel bit by bit, Muslim inhabitants on the "wrong" side of the walls. In 1971, the walls surrounding Algiers and Oran were complete, as well as the necessary fortifications in Oran. As the Algerian government prepared for what they saw as inevitable, progressives from both the Muslim and French communities of Algeria fought to unite the two segregated societies, which had both separate parliaments, police and cultures, but at this point the divide was to great. The Algerian Liberation Movement, being funded by the French government of Adolphe Geroux, which was staunchly anti-colonial, was growing in strength and influence more and more by the day, with young Muslims being radicalized by the oppressive government of the Grand Colons.

 As the government of Algiers began to lose more and more control each day, the Algerian Islamic Republic was declared in Bechar, following Ramadan in 1973. With this, the anti-government forces began to ramp up actions against the French community, and the war for control of Algeria was on in earnest. By 1976, with Italy fighting off a French advance, Operation Citadelle was given the green light, and without so much as message to their enemies, on New Years Day, 1977, Algiers, Oran and Constantine, had gone quiet.

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 The Hype

 In 1975, the French had 600,000 men on the Italian-French border, although countless irregulars joined the conflict as well, attacking outposts within the Rhone, territory that was the bone of contention between Italy and France. The request had been made in a fit of anger that occurred when the French Minister of Defense, Charles De Gaulle, made a snide remark in French. Mussolini, flew into a rage, and following a few moments, stated that Italy would annex the entire occupied territory. Mussolini, with only a few years left, massacred French villages, burning down statues and laying waste to Marseilles. The city was largely rebuilt, to represent the concept Ruin Theory, provided by the architects at Speer & Hammond, a New York firm, in 1955, and following his death, the Blackshirts remained to strong in memory of Mussolini, that the position of Il Duce was left vacant. The MVSN began to run Italy through a syndicate, with independent Ras's each being autonomous from central authority, only answering to the semi deified Mussolini. As a result, after three months of this short lived sovereignty, Balbo arrived with the 3rd Italian Fleet, and 100,000 men of the Army of Africa, many in Italy refuted the so called savior of Italy, and broke with the National Fascist Council. Northern Italy, in particular Milan, were plagued by political wars as Fascists, loyal to Mussolini, few in number, fought against radical D'annunziasts, who wore black arm bands over dark red jackets, and fought for a non-conformist, anti-colonial, Italian Supremacism. Not to mention the Italian Red Army, and the National Social-Fascists, an odd crossbreed between German Esoteric theory, racial theory, Hitlerian class struggle and plain out vehement New Roman Empire aspirations, lead by a Caesar. The Italian Army spent six weeks beating obedience into the Italian populace, with the military occupying schools, and placing portraits of Italo Balbo in every classroom, a common Libyan trend. Balbo quickly showed that he had been sent to Libya, and although it was not his choice, he had forged his legacy onto the African continent.

 Balbo soon filled the positions of power in Italy and created a lower house, which could protest to the passage of new laws, although still at the whim of the Grand Fascist Council, and the Senate, who represented all those with "interests of the state" who were appointed. The Senate proved an effective tool, given that it's ranks were by appointment, filling the positions with loyal Fascists from across Italy, as well as placing loyal aides from Tripoli and Misrata in power in the new government, while the rabble could scream at the high seated judge with the ultimate decision. This began what some would call Limited Franchise, a new theory in managing nations. In 1975, at the time of the start of the Second World War, South Africa and Algeria were governed by a populace that only amounted to 25% and 3% of the possible franchise. In Burma 1% of the population was considered "civilized" enough to vote, even though there was an additional 4% that were of British descent, 5% Anglo-Indian and 14% Eurasian, who were given no say in the governance,  and 81% of the population who constituted the majority of the country, even though the "Burmsese" were in reality a patchwork of different tribes and ethnic groups, all sharing the same border.

 Limited franchise came of common usage and was used a promoted concept for the Democrats in the United States, and was commonly sued by South African diplomats and was presented as better than the oppressive tendencies of Strasserism and Communism. This culture war proved to be the real irritant in the German, French and Soviet high circles. Coupled with a deep sense of national pride and racial unity, the NSE government of Germany aspired to annex Austria and the Sudeten, leaving a Czech puppet in the sense of Poland. They wanted to hold the line in Poland, working extremely hard with Polish government agents to capture and root out Ukrainian Nationalists and the Second Republican Army, the title assigned to the loyalists to the government of the Second Polish Republic, and in 1974, the Nationalumstürzlerischdruck, lead by Erhard Wulle, took their forces into Poland , occupying the nation, albeit with blessing of the Third Republic of Poland. They began to run counterterrorist actions against the UNO and the Home Army, the self appointed name of the Polish loyalists. Wulle turned a blind eye, as Joachim Peiper and his Nachtwache troops captured any and all Jews or suspected Communists, rebels or nationalists, and executed them en masse before burying them in mass graves. Afterwards, they would wait a week, and three or four would return with a handful of Polish "laborers" and force them to dig up the bodies. Following a cleaning period, and a series of bleaching, a number of skulls would be converted to cups, one group of Nachtwache members, took the wearing the face's of skulls over their own as masks, finding that it inspired terror in their night time raids.

 Nationalumstürzlerischdruck (NSD, or National Revolutionary Force) soldiers patrol the Czechoslovakian-German border.

  In perhaps a parrot of these actions,  where the Italian government was under the control of Il Duce Italo Balbo's internal council, as the dictator had retired to seclusion in his home. Italo's son, Giuseppe Balbo, aged 42, had managed to take control of most of the government, with dissent rampant among the former political forces of Northern Italy. The Free Army, as it became known, became active in Italy, was allied with the French nationalists fighting Italian troops in the the Rhone del Est, and stood against the government in staged protests, and collusion with Communists to begin a bombing campaign against the Italian government. As a result, Gisueppe Balbo, Il Duce in all but name, Giuspeppe Balbo ordered the MVSN and ORVA to act against the political dissidents, and had dozens of teenage activists brutally murdered for standing against the government, earning him the derisive nickname the Shadow Ras.

 However, brutal acts were common amongst the French revanchists in the Rhone-del-est who left the heads of Italian soldiers on spikes lining the roads, and fed the meat of Italian soldiers to Italian troops stationed there. Mimicking the actions of the Moroccan and Libyan Mujahideen, they took to slaughtering so called interlopers and would kill any man, woman or child they caught speaking Italian. As such, the Italians sent troops to counter their actions, only to be caught chasing the guerilla's back into France. One particular force was captured and for all intents and purposes enslaved in a form of public humiliation. In response, the Italians threatened war. In April of 1975, Bulgaria declared neutrality in the conflict and retracted it's troops from the Rome Pact. This was perceived as a break, but was actually a plot to keep Soviet intervention into the war at a minimum, knowing that violating a nations neutrality, would force American intervention, where as the Konigsberg Accords nations stood a chance of winning American support in the next election, or at least being ignored by the Americans. German forces began to hustle around the Austrian and Czechoslovakian border, causing a state of high alert in Austria and the Czechoslvak Republic.

 The Kingdom of Hungary, the Republic of Croatia, Albania, Yugoslavia and Algeria pledged a combined force of 80,000 troops to serve for Italy in the upcoming conflict, while maintaining their own more marginal forces. The Italian Army began to fully mobilize, bring a force of over a million to bear, thanks to heightened birth rates and conscription. Libyan youths by the hundreds of thousands were shipped off to the Italian Peninsula and the Balkans. The Italians planned to remain defensive on the Rhone River, while striking out against the Germans from Austria. The Soviets, in light of Bulgarian neutrality, planned to push most of their troops through the Albanian-Greek border, while launching amphibious assaults on Italian Rhodes and Cyprus. The French had planned a full frontal assault across the Rhone, hoping to occupy all the territory they could, with the help of Strasserist rebels.

 Following a few weeks of tense looking, the Germans and French launched an assault on April 22nd, 1975, starting the shooting and the Second World War. Three days later, the Soviets launched their assault into Albania. By January of next year, the fronts had extended, as newspaper headlines were dominated by war in the Punjab, China, Italy and Albania. And in the Kalahari Desert, inside the Commonwealth of Botswana, 130 scientists, with origins from American, Polish, German and even to Korean, along with Afrikaner, saw the fruits of their labor, when they dropped over 10,000 pounds of Atomic weaponry on Human soil for the first time in human history. It was a weapon that would come to define the Second World War.

 
 The First Atomic Bomb, 1976, Tshane Base, Union of South Africa

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 [SIZE="3"]Building An Army[/SIZE]

 Shortly after the Willow Meeting in 1965, the Traditionalist faction began to grow from a small cabal, to a full fledged movement. The opinions of most of the British Army, was that the duty of the armed forces was to serve the British people in defending their nation. Support for the new government was a divisive issue within the military, with the ceasefire in India being a huge bone of contention, especially after the newly established Republic of India fell to Communists. The decade of conflict and resulting deaths caused many to see the ceasefire as a sign that their comrades had died in vain and that the British Empire was being forfeited. This was not a majority view, but certainly engrained in the opinions of the people of Great Britain. The Conservatives found ever more and more reason to support this line of thought, and following the Saint George's Day Coup, much of the Conservative heartland would take the side of the new government.

 After some meetings with top financial officials in London, who were outright enraged at the prospect of losing the massive cheap and usually free labor force in the African colonies, that were forced to do business with the British as they were still colonies of the United Kingdom, Mosley and the NSBWP-Labor government had made promises to dissolve the Empire in support of self-determination, many in the elite began to support the hypothetical concept of a regime change, that would restore the Doddies to full power and keep things running on schedule. And as a result were more than willing to assist in terms of financial support. In the south of Britain, a paramilitary force composed of conservative veterans of the Indian War, known as the League of Saint George began to organize rallies in coalition with the Conservatives echoing the moral ineptitude of the governing bodies to rule over Britain. The concept that an International Communist Conspiracy, funded by Jewish bankers was in the process of taking over the United Kingdom. While no Conservative MP said such things outright in Parliament, they were more than willing to endorse the opinion to the masses. In the Highlands, the Conservatives began to campaign on the prospect of self determination and autonomy from the Jews in Edinburgh and the Catholics in Glasgow. Scottish officers in the British Army coalesced around Colonel Richard O'Connor of the Cameronians. The Cameronians had seen heavy losses at the Fourth Battle of Delhi in 1963, during the Anglo-Pakistani retreat in the face of the newly organized Nehruist-Communist coalition, but had achieved great fanfare for their actions during the Offensive of 1959 and 1960. O'Connor was a member of the Church of Scotland and vastly against the current anti-religious government in place, seeing the National Socialists as heretical for advocating the separation of Church and State.

 While the Traditionalists began to grow, especially in the barracks of Lanark and Aldershot, they found a hotspot of support in Northern Ireland. While the rest of Great Britain had sent their children off to war as a result of conscription, Northern Ireland, due to the presence of a virulent nationalist minority in support of unifying with the Irish Republic, was exempt from this fact of life throughout the Commonwealth. Even though there was no official conscription, between 1953 and 1964, somewhere in the area of 100,000 men volunteered to join the British Army. The vast majority of these soldiers were from the Protestant community in the North, but close to 15% were from Catholic families, regardless of which side of the border they would rather be on, the British Army provided a nice pay check to any Irishmen willing to join. Although unrelated in the grand scheme of things, 4,000 men from the Republic of Ireland fought in India for various regiments through this time, only to receive a cold hearted reply from the general populace on their return.

 Sectarian violence erupted in 1965, following the return of the majority of those who had fought in India, and the long held back promises of ending the monopoly on power held by the Unionists, who were only challenged in the slightest by Independent Unionists and Labour, as the Nationalist parties were gerrymandered into having the smallest potential influence, which, considering they boycotted the Northern Irish Parliament, was almost unnecessary. The returning veterans, imbued with new patriotic fervor, found the protesting Catholic's who had "shirked their duty" to serve King and Country, demanding what many saw as special treatment, and were angered. Also on the minds of many of the returning veterans, was the rise of attacks by the Irish Republican Army, who, influenced by Socialist literature, were in favor of a true Irish Republic, even more so than the established Republican government in Dublin. These returning veterans would become the basis of the Ulster Volunteer Force, an irregular paramilitary group that was sworn to defend the Protestant and Loyalist community of Northern Ireland, while actually engaging in terror tactics against the suspected supporters of the IRA. For the large part, the majority were caught between violent minorities all around them, with the Ulster Constabulary doing little to assist in any positive way, often due to corruption and bias.

 The Northern Irish Unionist sentiment would also help the Traditionalists find a completely loyal territory, thanks to the Ulster Unionist monopoly power in Stormont, as many in the UUP were against the overtures of socialism and anti-church attitudes. The NSBWP did have a following in some of the North's more grab areas such as Belfast and Londonderry, but not enough to even control those voting areas and had only one member of Northern Ireland's Parliament. By 1966, the plotters of the Coup had achieved a blessing of sorts from the ailing King Edward, who was terrified of a communist takeover of Britain, who stated he would support a return to power of the Conservatives. The Conservatives, were kept largely in the dark, to avoid a scare in Westminster. That being said, the Coalition government had it's doubts as to the military's political ambitions.

 In light of this, much of the Labour Party relocated to Edinburgh, with the NSBWP moving from London to Manchester and York over a period of several months, all in preparation for an event that no one desired, but few had any answers to solve the political incapability of the old conservative base and the new progressive leftist-nationalist alliance.


 
 Traditionalist Tanks in London, April 25th, 1966

 On April 23rd, the League of Saint George assembled a massive spontaneous rally across England, in the Holland region of Northern England, all of Southern England excluding Sussex, and the Southwestern Wales, as well as several isolated areas of Wales, the League of Saint George attempted to portray the revolution to come as one of England, as Saint George slaying the Red Dragon, representing what they perceived as the Communist alliance between the Natties and Labour. In Scotland, the Church of Scotland, lead by General Richard O'Connor, well known for his actions in the Bengal against superior forces, as well as how command of the Cameronians in the last Pakistani offensive of the war. The conservative highlands were rather against the new racial makeup of Scotland, with African-Britons * making up 12 % of the Scottish regional populace in 1966, largely due to veteran rights of transit to Britain, a title granted to all of Britain's former colonies, by the new government during the peace process in India, allowing a massive movement of Indians from the new Republic, and largely to communities created in Northwestern Australia, and slums in Ceylon and Kenya. However, the 100,00 Indians who did arrive in England, caused a massive culture shock to the entrenched English middle class. And so, in order to absolve themselves of this dilemma, following two days of festivity, tanks rolled into London and across Southern England and Northern Scotland, as well as Northern Ireland, creating a new government for England. Prime Minister Mosley escaped to Birmingham, as a new Conservative led Parliament was established. On April 25th, the British Civil War began in earnest.

 *- A term created to designate all those who came from "Commonwealth Africa".

 

 Front Lines British Civil War, 1966.

 Map by Ares96.

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All the World's a Stage


Female members of the German Revolutionary Force on the front lines in Austria

The expansion of the Second World War was rapid and quick. The Soviet Union began the invasion of Albania in late April 1975. By May the front lines had extended across Europe with Germans occupying swathes of Austrian territory and the French facing a torrent of resistance in a slow but steady advance into the Italian Rhone-del-Est. Comintern forces, comprising 60,000 Soviets, 150,000 Greeks and 300,000 Turks, as well as assisting contributions from Mongolia, Kurdistan and even China. The First Battle of Albania, a name that betrays the later actions of the war, would last until 1976, when Comintern forces entered Tirana and orchestrated the Albanian Socialist Republic's rise, but began with horribly cramped hill fighting between a massive Communist force and well distributed and trained defenders, with Croatian, Yugoslavian, Italian and Albanian troops doing their best to stop the massive force from occupying Albania and giving the Soviets a foothold into the Balkans.

The Italian Dodecanese, and the small fleet that defended them, were isolated and faced little chance of relief in case of a Turkish invasion. The Dodecanese were known for harboring members of organizations who fought against both the Turkish government and the Peoples Hellenic State, and as such were marked for occupation by the Comintern High Command in Istanbul. On April 27th, a flotilla of the Aegean Fleet of the Joint Greco-Turkish Navy was dispatched to take the islands, the people of the Italian Dodecanese took flight, with over 10,000 ethnic Italians fleeing in personal boats and any other form of transport they could get and fled after the Italian Navy to Cyprus, although only 3,000 would make the trip, with most falling behind or being captured by Turkish raiders, who were proceeding to seize all Italian, and Rome Pact ships that sought trade in the Levant and other areas. The Dodecanese were unceremoniously occupied and annexed to the Worker's Republic on May 3rd, and the Italians began to regroup in order to defend their hold on Cyprus, which was under assault by Soviet and Turkish forces in the North. However, due to the new attitude of mercantile warfare by Turkey and the USSR, tensions began to be raised between the states of the Levant and Egypt. In Egypt, the Pharaonist state of Egypt, under Gamel Nasser, and the Republic's of Palestine and Syria, all third way and neutral, began to face harassment from the Soviet and Turkish ships who were in the process of war. Thus began the entrance of the Republic of Syria (May 11th), the Republic of Palestine (May 13th) and the State of Egypt (May 24th), into the growing conflict known today as the Second World War. The actual war itself is referred to in the Middle East as a separate war against Soviet incursion on each state's independence. Actual conflict was limited, with most of the battles occurring at sea, with Comintern High Command prioritizing the Middle East after Europe, a theatre which would never come.


Taha Hussein: Autocrat of Egypt: 1962-1973, Predecessor to Nasser

As German troops assaulted down the Danube on a course for Vienna, the war seemed to devolve into a series of slow, bloody, bone grinding events of carnage, with the new advent of jet aircraft adding to the death toll, thanks to a policy of total war evoked by the Konigsberg Accords states, civilian targets in Italy, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia were facing terrible tolls. The Rome Pact were clearly on the retreat, and in the first initial months, many thought that the war would be over soon. However, events would not be so serendipitous. In June of 1975, after a period of heated cables between the Indian government in Hyderabad, and the Pakistani government in Karachi, a massive attack began on the subcontinent, with the Republic of India launching a massive invasion of Gujarat and the Kashmir. As war erupted in India, the war continued to spread, with the USPRC invading the Peoples Republic of China on June 17th, and betraying the Soviets, who were forced to enter into conflict in Asia on a mass scale, transporting troops to assist their allies in Asia against their former ideological ally. By August, German forces had captured Vienna and the Imperial government had fled to Klagenfurt, where the mountainous Alps were providing a mountain redoubt from which to defend against the mechanized assault of the German army under Ehrhard Wulle, and were beginning to make their attempt at conquering Bohemia in earnest, as the Battle of the Sudeten had yielded halting success. The French had taken or liberated Marseilles, depending on the reporter, and the campaign to seize the highlands from the grip of the Italians was going well. Albania remained mired in death, and new fronts continued to open, with even the oddest of regions entering conflict.

In North and South America, the Organization of American States had passed a boycott on trade with the states of the Konigsberg Accords on a matter of enforcing a continental neutrality. However, due to pre-existing blockades on trade, this left the Comintern-aligned Colombia of General Moreno completely isolated. As a result the people of Colombia were forced to rely on a steady stream of goods smuggled out of those countries who followed the OAS motion. Most of this smuggling was in the Caribbean islands of Colombia, with the small island of Bajo Nuevo Bank proving to be the spark plug in North America. On September 16th, 1975, as German forces entered Prague and the Czechoslovak government capitulated, a smuggler of Jamaican rum was being pursued by three coastal ships in the employ of the West Indian government, when it crossed into disputed waters de facto under the control of the Colombian government, after capturing the ship, the ships were themselves captured and imprisoned by Colombian ships, who proceeded to imprison the sailors in San Andres City, as the West Indian government demanded their return. On September 23rd, the Federation of the West Indies went to war with the Republic of Colombia and, due to a rather hollow declaration of war two days later, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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[SIZE="3"]Bumps On The Road To Revolution[/SIZE]
 
 Günther Rall, Marshall of the Reichluftstreitkrafte 1957-1970

 In 1969 after Holzknecht gained control of the German government, head his lieutenants set out to reform the armed forces of the German Republic. The Reichsmarine proved the largest bastion of reactionary support, with the memory of Heydrich still present, even with the former president in exile in Denmark. Erhard Wulle, leader of the NSE-Aktion, fought to dismantle the current three separate wings, with an overarching national force led by the NSE and not the plutocratic Prussians who still ran much of the Reichswehr. Of all the military wings, the Reicshwehr and Reichsmarine were considered to be the most dangerous, which is why the fall of 1970 would prove so surprising. The leader of the Reichsluftsreitkrfate (RLSK), Günther Rall, watched warily when the December purge of 1969 killed off the opposition and gave the National Socialist government supreme control over the government. With the promised reorganization the RSLK was surely to be included in any orchestration by the government against the current system of military, and with it's relative separation from the government, the RLSK looked towards a new position.

 The Reichswehr, in February of 1970, was shocked when 135 officers were killed in training exercises and replaced promptly with new officers, raised from the ranks of the infantry by the government. In March, after Erhard Wulle was declared the leader of the Reichswehr, the Reichsmarine attempted to act. On March 14th, two ships fired on Hamburg, while others scrambled to capture Danzig. The Marineputsch was a unsubstantial failure, uncoordinated and relied heavily on civilian groups joining in a popular rising that never came. Communist riots in Chemnitz were squashed and the NSE government used the excuse to gut the Reichsmarine, leaving only the RLSK. The heroism of Rall during the World War made him and the RLSK almost untouchable by the new government and whatever reactionary elements remained, began to rally around the air commander. With the Reichsmarine and Reichswehr all but compromised, they relied on the yet to be disbanded Stahlhelm, who remained in a much quieter capacity, despite the ban on private paramilitaries by the government in January of 1970. With around 30,000 troops on the ground, and a base in the East, where the RSLK had won their greatest victories, Rall was assured that he could force a stalemate that would bring the National Socialist government to it's knees and provide Germany with a true democracy, or at least a sane government. Proceeding with plans carefully, Rall used his adjutant Erich Hartmann, a war hero in his own right, to make contact with foreign militaries to seek support. His biggest mistake was when in August of 1970, he made contact with the Polish underground, attempting to orchestrate a general uprising that would confuse the government and bring about their downfall. The man who made contact with the air commandant, was actually a member of the Stabswache secret service, designed to protect the leadership at all costs. As Joachim Peiper, head of Security for the new government, and leader of the Nachtwache and Stabswache began to gather evidence to bring down the war hero, unable to arrest Hartmann, who fled to Sweden on August 31st.

 On September 3rd, as the government made its move, the RLSK struck first. 100 planes took the air, and rained an attack down on Berlin, while Stahlhelm troops marched into a slaughterhouse. After the bombing, and the attack on the capital, Günther Rall was declared Reichspraesident and entered Berlin to a firestorm. However, two days later, they were overrun by the Reichswehr led by Erhard Wulle, who restored Holzknecht to power, and used the excuse to finally unite the forces of the nation into the National Revolutionary Force under his control. Following the Rallputsch, slightly less than 90,000 former military men fled the country for the West, many of whom would find work as mercenaries during the Second World War, and in Africa, notable for their actions in the South African Bush War (1960-1990) in particular. Following this, the NSE was able to solidify control over Germany, as squabbles began to arise internally between Erhard Wulle and Joachim Peiper, fighting for the favor of Holzknecht, the newly declared Fuhrer of the German Republic.

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Map by Diforto

 Europe by December of 1976.