Greater Germanic Reich

The **Greater Germanic Reich**, officially the **Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation**, also known as the **Third Reich** and the **Thousand Year Reich** then later called **The Fourth Reich**, is a totalitarian superstate and is the world’s sole superpower. They occupy about 75% of the worlds land area and its ruling and only legal political party is the **National Socialist German Workers Party**, commonly referred to as the NSDAP.

## Background

### 1946-present day: Global Dominance

By 1960, Hitler's Third Reich is a world spanning empire, which includes all of Europe, the majority of Eurasia, much of North Africa and a vast military operation dedicated to the conquest of the Africancontinent, the United States, possibly portions of South America, and territories in Manchuria and Korea. Very few nations remained independent from the Greater Reich including it former allies; Japanand Italy were turned into vassal states for the Reich, while South Africa remained nominally independent as of 1960. Controlling a claimed 75% of habitable territory as their "Lebensraum" (in itself a virulently racist term used to sanction any atrocity to expand controlled territory), the Reich was the undisputed master of the 1950's. Having run out of Earth to conquer, the Reich has set their sights beyond Earth and colonies on the Moon and Venus have been established to effect the spread of the Nazi ideology across the inner Solar System and beyond.

In the most grandest irony of all human history, all this technological achievment was made possible by cracking the secrets of Da'at Yichud, a Jewish sect of master creators, whose achievements were used by Deathshead and his successors to develop highly advanced robotics, anti-gravity vehicles, directed energy weapons, crack genetics, attempt climate control, and, as mentioned, begin large scale colonization of the Solar System. While these technologies would create an utopian reality in saner hands, the Nazis used it to impose their twisted, horrific ideology on the world, carrying out genocide on an unspeakable scale and erecting their concrete edifices on the bones of the peoples ground into dust. Jews were the first to be targeted, and many more followed them into the ovens by 1960.

Adolf Hitler, following his victory in World War II, was elevated to a godlike status in Nazi propaganda. While Hitler has actually retired from the public eye due to ill health, leaving the day-to-day functions of the Reich to various subordinates such as the Überkommandants and notable figures in powerful ministerial positions such as Wilhelm Strasse. Below him are paramilitary groups such as the Schutzstaffel, which appears to have been merged with or had outright replaced the Wehrmacht, judging by the SS runes that appear on most German soldiers. The SS became the single most powerful organization within the structure of Nazi Germany, absorbing other organizations outright or maintaining control of them (like the Gestapo). Other newly created governmental positions such as the Ministry of Advanced Research are also mentioned to be active within the Reich. The Wehrmacht does still exist in some case (like the africa front) but has mostly been controlled by the SS or by deathshead altogether.

for the rest of the 20th Century, the Greater Germanic Reich would colonise the rest of the Solar System, and emerged victorious against remaining countries known as “The Resistance”, led by South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In the 21st Century, the Greater Germanic Reich would absorb the Reichskommissariats in Eastern European, completing their Germanisation programs becoming new Reichsgaus. Using newly accessed Da’at Yichud technology, Mars and Venus has been successfully terraformed for over 50 and 70 years respectively. Neu-Paris has become one of the Reich’s most popular resort cities, and the Siegturm and the Brothers would dominate the cities skyline.

## Ideology

Central to the Greater Germanic Reich is the idea that the German people, and by extension, the Aryan race are chosen by God himself, and are inherently physically and intellectually superior to all other races, with various other races often relegated to slavery by the Reich at best (in the case of the African-American population of the American Territories), or mass extermination in concentration camps at the worst (in the case of the Jewish population worldwide). By 1961, the idea of German culture being inherently superior to all others has taken an extreme turn, with cultural assimilation projects being undertaken by the Reich. These range from subtle influencing, such as in Korea, where locals are supposedly prompted to abandon all aspects of Buddhist and East Asian culture in favor of Germanization and the technological advancement it brings, or outright enforcement, such as in the American Territories, where plans to enforce mandatory speaking of the German language in public under pain of re-education or death are being undertaken. Food across the world has been gradually Germanized, local staples such as fish and chips in Britain are denigrated and dismissed as being inferior, while select 'foreign' food such as the hamburger are fused with German ingredients. Traditional 'authentic' German food is now required to make up at least 50% of the menu at any American establishment. Super Spesh bitterly calling it "the age of sauerkraut".

With regards to race, the Reich has deemed a variety of other ethnicities and groups of people as "Untermensch" (subhuman). While the prime target of the Reich's aggression has been the Jewish population in Europe (which later extended to a global genocide, with death camps existing as far as New Mexico in the former USA), other races have received varying treatment by the Reich. Slavs are seen to be tolerated to the barest minimum in occupied Europe, contrary to the original plans for supplanting Europe's Slavic populace with German settlers, most likely by exterminating the former.

Asians are also tolerated to an extent, particularly those of Chinese Japanese or Korean ancestry, with Koreans in particular often encouraged to adopt German culture and China and Japan still existing as puppet states . Africans have, on the other hand, been at the receiving end of a good portion of the Reich's most brutal practices--ranging from the mass relocation and extermination of Africa's population as part of the Wehrmacht's campaign to conquer the continent, to the re-imposition of chattel slavery for African Americans in the American Territories. Native Americans are also shown to be under extermination with the existence of death squads in South America dedicated to purging the local native tribes of Peru.

Conversely to the immense racial discrimination on the part of the Reich, many white populations in territories occupied by the Reich are (at least in propaganda) supported and encouraged by the Reich to be proud of their race, and to be thankful to the Germans (at least in America) for having secured an era of "prosperity" for whites. White supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan in America, as a result, have been drawn to becoming allies with the Reich's government, while gaining tremendous power and influence. Ironically, the Germans tend to view their racial allies with a mixture of contempt and derision, with German soldiers often bullying and making fun their American counterparts.

The Reich also places extremely stringent regulations for personal fitness, with obesity seen as an impediment and disfigurement, with strict dieting and hygiene encouraged in Reich propaganda. Euthanasia centers exist across the Reich, likely an official continuation of Aktion T4, the program intended to weed out incurable illness and mutation in civilians (including children) through mass-murder. This appears to no longer be a clandestine program. Irene Engel freely admits she had considered having her only daughter euthanised due to her weight. It is implied that the Reich's "strength through joy" program has been expanded in the wake of their victory in the Second World War, with recreation centers and resorts being built across the Mediterranean coast. Those who suffer from mental illness and birth defects, ranging from dementia to physical deformities, are destined only for one of two fates, experimentation or extermination. The Reich's standards on human perfection are indiscriminate and extreme, emphasised in their closure and "cleansing" of an asylum in Poland, and the murder of Klaus Kreutz's son for having a club foot.

With regards to society and interaction, the Reich promotes heterosexual relationships and stringent family planning for many of its citizens, with would-be newlyweds forced to undergo processing at ministries dedicated to enforcing familial regulations, only those of demonstrable non-Jewish, Aryan ancestry could marry, to avoid *Rassenschande*, the 'dirtying' of pure Germanic blood. It is likely that the Reich's conception of a patriarchal society has been maintained by the 1960s, however, the rise of General Irene Engel to the top brass of the Reich suggests some liberalisation in terms of gender equality, provided, of course, that women adhere to the Nazi ideology. Indeed, Engel's gender appears to be a non-issue amongst the Nazis and is greatly admired during her career and long after her death. Despite this, most of the German Wehrmacht remains predominantly male as of 1960-1961. By 1980, the Wehrmacht appears to have partly liberalized in terms of gender equality. It introduce the all deadly female special ops troops known as *Jägers* can be seen working alongside regular male soldiers of the Wehrmacht, although they actually serve Lothar Brandt, who is far more pragmatically minded than his colleagues in Berlin.

Homosexuals, interracial individuals, and those considered "deviant" on the other hand, are routinely demonized and subject to cruel punishments and extermination by the Reich with the people ostensibly compelled to report infractions such as cross dressing, as symptoms of deviation from the Reich's mandated family planning. They are often scapegoated by Reich media and propaganda, in particular, Ingo Kramer's alternate-history propaganda novel, which depicts an Allied victory during the Second World War, portrays a biased, warped version of an anti-Nazi world run by "Jews, homosexuals, and degenerates".

## Science and Technology

The Greater Germanic Reich has made various technological discoveries and leaps in the 12 years following the end of the Second World War in 1948, thanks to the Reich's (extremely ironic) discovery of the technology caches maintained by the Jewish secret society known as the Da'at Yichud. While the Reich has discovered only a fraction of these various advanced technologies in vaults located in Cairo and Roswell, it has led to aggressive leaps in technological development on the basis of their clumsy reverse-engineering of Da'at Yichud technology.

Aerospace technology has advanced with the discovery of anti-gravity, with aircraft such as the massive Ausmerzer and high speed spaceships such as the Haunebu-V making use of powerful anti-gravity engines, in part maintained by the massive "Die Glocke" devices. This has proven pivotal to the Reich's exploration of space, which in real-world terms is nothing short of astounding. The Reich has conducted a moon landing as early as 1951, and by 1961, is in the process of colonising planet Venus, one officer dismissing it won't be habitable for (only) years.

Advances in physics and chemistry have also been made, with developments in energy weapons such as lasers and Tesla-based technology being furthered by the Reich, ranging from laser and plasma weaponry to the eldritch and poorly understood Ubergewehr weapon, as well as super weapons such as the V-3 Rockets (although is a vehicle rather than a Missile), or the infamous Sonnengewehr (Sun Gun), a massive orbital mirror that can annihilate potential threats to the Nazis while minimizing collateral damage. The ultimate expression of the Reich's technological development would have been their development of the atomic bomb; the Reich secured victory against the United States in 1948 with the destruction of New York City by the German-developed nuclear weapon known as "Der Bestrafer" (The Punisher), the most powerful bomb of its type ever built. It is implied that the Nazis sabotaged the Manhattan Project to achieve the bomb first.

Robotics, computing, and artificial intelligence have also advanced at an incredible rate, with robots and automatons in common use across the Reich, in both civilian and military capacities. These range from mundane protocol, cleaning, and mail-sorting robots to weapons of war, ranging from the nimble Übersoldat units to even larger mechanized monstrosities, such as the Autoturrets and Guard Robotunits in Europe, the Zitadelle units in America, the iconic Panzerhund robots, and outright weapons of terror like the London Monitor and the prototype Zerstörer robots. Personal computing has seemingly advanced as well, with computer terminals and reel-to-reel machines ever ubiquitous across the Reich. Many appliances, domestic, industrial and military, are fully automated, if not always reliable.

Lastly is the Reich's capacity in developing advanced genetics and biological splicing, most passionately promoted and advanced by the notorious General Wilhelm Strasse. These new medical and genetic technologies allowed the Reich to create ghastly monstrosities such as the Super Soldier, lumbering, vat-grown Frankenstein-esque monsters crafted out of the mutated and deformed bodies of captives or "volunteers". Other technologies based on these highly unethical experiments have been developed, such as the Kampfhund, guard dogs modified by cybernetic augments and injections of various chemicals. Wilhelm Strasse's ultimate goal, however, was to create a merger of the "power of the human brain with the efficiency of the machine", specialised robots known simply as "Machine Men", containing disembodied human brains as central processing units. This nightmarish merger was very possibly Strasse's vision for all of humanity. However, due to the actions of William J. Blazkowiczand the Kreisau Circle, these prototypes were destroyed.

By the 2010s, the Reich's technological development has slightly stagnated. Having lost a genius like Deathshead and much of their territories worldwide, the remnant territories of the Reich in Europe have been forced to consolidate their remaining resources and technology, resulting in budget-cutting measures such as the complete cancellation of the space program that sent the Reich to the Moon and Venus along with the expeditions to discover more Da'at Yichud tech vaults, and the continued use of 1960s-era robots and equipment in the Wehrmacht, which, while not exactly obsolete, have clear weaknesses that have been taken advantage of by their enemies. Some minor tech developments have occurred in the nineteen years following the liberation of the United States: A primitive analogue to the Internet within Nazi territory known as the *ReichNet* (though mostly used by the military) was developed, and the Reich Television Network for TV programs, and floppy disks such as the Laserflop and VHS-style cassettes known as *UVK Tapes* are ubiquitous in modern day Europe, available to civilians. However, they did manage to invent and mass-produce a communications device known as the “ÜberPhone”, which later models would project Holographic displays by using reverse-engineered Da’at Yichud technology.