Great African Bush War

The Great African Bush War is sometimes described as the largest and most bloody insurgency ever in recorded history, spanning the entire continent of Africa and lasting between 1948-2000, the war technically ended in a Nazi defeat and the freedom of Africa, but was achieved at the cost of tens of millions of lives and the absolute devastation of a continent.

### Context

As WW2 progressed, the allied powers began to loose their grip on Africa, with the invasions of France, Britain, and Portugal putting pressure on their colonies to retain their power as independence groups began to rally and call for greater freedoms and less restrictions. Near the end of the war, many colonies began to slip from European control, such as the Congo and Angola, where guerrilla movements began to rise to prominence. Once the war ended and the world divided up between the victorious powers, the Nazi government set their sights on suppressing and controlling their new found Territory, The largest region to subdue was Africa, with the Germans getting the lions share of the continent, with Spain allowed to get minor gains via Portuguese colonies and parts of Mauritania. The new states that were established were as follows:

* Reichskommisariat NordenAfrika: A vast state encompassing the vast majority of Northern Africa, the state’s first Reichskommisar was Erwin Rommel, who was considered best to lead the lands he had conquered himself. Protectorates: Egypt, Oran.
* Reichskolonie Mittelafrika: The largest ‘state’ ever to exist in Africa at any time in history with massive resources and population, the states first Reichskommisar was Herman Göering, chosen by Hitler to remove him from his power base in Germany. Protectorates: Südwestafrika, Katanga, Leopaldville, Kamrun, Östafrika, Viktoria.
* AutomonZüstland von SüdAfrika: A state in Southern Africa run by the Boer Nationalist Party, officially ‘endorsed’ by the reich, they ran a segregation system known as Apartheid, which the Germans used to model their own African colonial polices with, albeit to a much more extreme extent. Protectorates: Southern Rhodesia.
* SS Madagaskar Gebeit: A ruthless state run directly by the SS, wherein absolutely industrial killing factories were established and genocided hundreds of millions that were shipped across the Nazi Reich to the island.

The rest of the States that existed within Africa were either old administrations that had been expanded and or redesignated in some capacity, including Italian East Africa, Spanish Morocco, and the former Portuguese colonies.

### Major Events:

* 1948: The war officially starts with German troops flooding into Africa to takeover the roles of British, French, Italian, and Belgian administrators, the troops that are sent to commit to garrison duty mostly consist of the German Army Reservist units that consisted of older and less combat ready men due to a vast overstretch of troops across 3 continents. SS panzergrenadiers handle rural pacification efforts, to terrible effect, causing the first conflicts to begin sporadically.
* 1952: Herman Göering enacts the construction of the ‘Große Mauer’, a massive Dam across the Congo river at the preexisting Inca Dam, intended to provide power to all of Mittelafrika forever, along with powering the vast factory complex’s planned by Göering to maximise labour efficiency therefore to produce cheap products for the Reich. A bonus would be the flooding and drowning of hundreds of isolated villages within the Congo rainforest.
* 1958: More African men have to be force conscripted as organised resistance continues to put pressure on German garrisons, some major cities like Leopaldville and Stanleyville have been attacked by concentrated rebel fighters. Göering begins to use greater amounts of aerial bombings using Zyklon B and Napalm to clear out suspected insurgent strongholds, he also begins to innovate by using helicopters with troops in them to patrol the skys over dense jungles to further expand his control. Meanwhile German settlers become less attracted to Africa as many become sick and many suffer from guerrilla raids. By this point around 5 Million Africans have already been killed, though only about 600,000 Germans have immigrated to Africa in the last 10 years, over half concentrated in Südwestafrika along with another 5-10% returning to Germany.
* 1962: The conflict expands to the relatively peaceful South Africa, wherein guerrilla forces begin to properly organise and coordinate thanks to experienced rebels from Mittelafrika training insurgents to deploy into what was known as Southern Rhodesia, Bechuanaland, and northern parts of Transvaal. Expanding and escalating the conflict. In response the South African government labels any blacks caught collaborating and/or being an active part of any resistance groups as traitors and gives death penalties to any caught. Furthermore, the government begins to reinforce Apartheid laws, with the Bantu reservations being bordered up and any blacks caught moving outside of them without permission being executed.
* 1965: The All-African Liberation Alliance is formed by all major resistance groups during a secret meeting within the jungles of Katanga, with the alliance agreeing to coordinate and cooperate more formally and organise themselves effectively. This announcement stuns the Germans, who never expected such organised resistance to be formed. In response, Herman Göering begins a build up of forces to counter this new threat, which begins to start more frequently attacking garrisons and even boldly taking a couple of cities, though said cities are recaptured swiftly. A major part of this buildup is the purchasing of the recently produced Stahlsoldat combat robot, as a way to replace the unreliable African Askari conscripts, with him also acquiring the licence to produce the robots locally.