State of German-Baltenland

The **State of German-Baltenland** [German: Staat Deutsches-Baltenland], **German-Baltenland**, or simply **Baltenland** is a German settler state in the baltic region of Europe. It is a corporatist one-party state under a Stahlhelmist, Military-Monastic regime. Baltenland is ruled by a land-owning German settler population, while the Latvian population has been pushed onto reservations and made into a settler class. The Estonian ethnic population has been removed alltogether, being deported to what remains of Estonia in the tradtional northern Estonia region. Baltenland was founded in the wake of the German invasion of the Baltics in early 1939, which was part of the German Reich's larger invasion eastward in the Polish War, waged against both the Second Polish Republic and the Nazi Reich in Prussia in the Baltics. In 1935, the Nazi remnant state which had seized control of East Prussia in the wake of the movement's defeat in the German Civil War invaded Latvia and Estonia as part of an effort to realize the movement's dreams of creating *lebensraum* (a belief held by others on the German far-right) or living space for German settlers. Nazi troops were successful in taking control of the entirety of Latvia and a large portion of Estonia before the Soviet Union threatened war if they did not stop their advance northword. In the Treaty of Riga (1935), the Nazis and the Soviets agreed to a buffer state of Estonia in the northeastern portion of the region, around the city of Rakvere. The Nazis ruled the region with an iron fist, and tragically began a genocidal campaign against the local population of Jews. The Latvians and Estonian populations were made into slave labor, and were placed into ghettos and reservations across the region.

Later, when the Nazi Reich was invaded by the German Reich as part of their Polish invasions, a German army was sent north to conquer the Nazi regions in the Baltic. Nazi forces here held out for 4 months, with SA units waging a guerrilla war against Wehrmacht troops going into the summer months of 1939. The German Wehrmacht were supported by local Baltic-German aristocrats who had been unfond of Nazi socialist policies, and the Latvian and Estonian populations, who were treated brutally by the Nazi regime. On November 3rd, 1939, the last army of SA troops were defeated in the city of Saldus, in the south of the country. As the capital of the Nazi Reich, Hitlersberg (formerly Königsberg) had been taken in July of 1939, the defeat of the SA army in Saldus signified the end of the Nazi Reich. While many Latvians and Estonians may have hoped the German troops were liberators, the occupying German forces instead began to established a new German regime in the region. Replacing the Nazi regime was a new fasco-conservative government, with its capital in Riga. This new government was to be dually ed by both imported military rulers and the newly returned Teutonic Knights, who were to become the new paramilitary force of the Baltenland, based on the role Der Stahlhelm played in the Reich. The Teutonic Knights were to transform however from their orginaly intention as a monastic brotherhood, and instead to be the place of service for veterans of the (newly created) Baltic Guard (*Baltisches Landeswehr*) who had completed their service, just as Der Stahlhelm did for the Reich's Wehrmacht. And just like Der Stahlhelm, the Teutonic Knights were to act as the military police of the state.

The new regime coopted the Nazi system of rule, and established themselves as a land-owning elite (that was to grow thanks to immigration from the Heimat) over a Livonian lower class, who were still regulated to reservations. Estonians were deported en-masse to the Estonian remnant state to the north