Kaussist Germany

**Kaussist Germany** (officially **Great German Reich** - **Großdeutsches Reich**), was the German state between 1931 abd 1945. The state was a totalitrian dictatorship with elements of anti-Semitism, ultra-progressivism, chauvinism, collectivism, ultra-nationalism, and murdered many ethnic but also social and economic groups.

### Area

434 584 km² (1931)
519 104 km² (1936; Anschluss)

## Demographics

### Population

74 000 000 (1931)82 000 000 (1936; Anschluss)

### Ethnic groups

Germans (95,15%), Jews (3,23%), Poles (1,62%)

### Religions

Protestantism (55%), Roman Catholicism (43%), Judaism (2%)

## State policy

### Ended in

2 May 1945

Preceded/Suceeded by|  Weimar republic | * British Occupation Zone of Germany
* American Occupation Zone of Germany
* Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany
* French Occupation Zone of Germany

## History

### Formation

Reich Vice-Chancellor Fritz Königmann joined Hans von Kauẞ's Kaussist Party of Weimar republic on December 1924 as general secretary of the party. Hans ran for Reich Chancellor on 30 January 1926 and won. After the Reichstag elections, the party had 540 out of 647 seats. Fritz formed the party's armed wing, the Strafverfolgungskommandos (SG). With the help of SG, they further secured political power. On March 30, 1930, Hans submitted a law to President Wilhelm Hering for the teaching of Kaussism in schools. The President at first refused, but after the siege and lockdown of the Presidential Palace by SG troops on the orders of Fritz Königmann, the President signed the law.

At the end of October 1930 Hans suffered a series of heart attacks and died. Fritz thus became party leader and the new Reich Chancellor, abolishing the post of Vice-Chancellor. Fritz ordered the SG to assassinate the President on March 23, 1931. Two days later, on 25 March, President died from wounds. Fritz immedietaly assumed the presidency and combined the office of president with that of chancellor. A day later, he signed a decree abolishing the Weimar Constitution and changing it into the Constitution of Kaussist Germany - Great German Reich.

## Policy and terror

### Strafverfolgungskommandos (SG)

The Strafverfolgungskommandos (SG) was a paramilitary organisation of the Kaussist party founded by the then only Vice-Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, Fritz Königmann. The SG served as a tool to maintain the political power of the Kaussists in the state, through terror.

### Geheimdienst (GD)

The Geheimdienst (GD) was both a state information service and an associated secret service of the SG. GD's main task was to persecute opponents of the regime, eavesdropping and spying on them. Information about the opponents was subsequently reported directly to the SG which investigated, tortured and physically eliminated the opponents.

### Elitetruppen der Strafverfolgung (ESG)

The Elitetruppen der Strafverfolgung (ESG) were the SG's special armed wing and elite units. They were deployed in combat as elite units.

### Holocaust and death camps

The racist and ultra-nationalist policies of the Kaussists included the mass-murder of Jews, Roma, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, the handicapped, and others. They were sent to concentration and death camps in Germany and the occupied territories, where they were systematically sent to their deaths and some were abused as slaves. More than 6 million Jews were murdered out, roughly 1.5 million Roma, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and the handicapped were murdered. Slavs, mainly Russians, were also murdered.

## Armed forces

*Main article: Deutschswehr*

Accord to the constitutional law of March 30, 1931, the armed forces of the Reichswehr were rebuilt as the Deutschswehr with the supreme commander, the German führer Fritz Königmann. The Deutschswehr consisted of 3 branches: Heer (Ground Army), Wehrmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Forces). Since Fritz came to power, the German economy turned into a war economy, and with the help of Fritz's ultra-progressivist and militaristic plan, the Germany economy rose rapidly and began massive armaments.

By 1935, the Deutschwehr was already among the strongest militaries in the world, along with the Russian Empire, the USA and the Kingdom of China.

## Anschluss

The Austrian president and chancellor, Alfred von Luxenberg, after the serious crisis of the division of Austria into regions, invited the Germans to the Austria and asked Führer Fritz for help on October 15, 1936. Führer Fritz, after thinking, ordered a partial mobilization 3 days later, on October 18, and a day later, on October 19, the Deutschswehr troops occupied all of Austria without resistance. After the occupation of Austria, the Austrian president and chancellor, Alfred von Luxenberg, was arrested by the German SG and accused of breaking up the German nation. He was sentenced to death and executed on October 23 in Vienna.

## German invasion of Czecho-Slovakia

*Main article: German invasion of Czecho-Slovakia*

After attacks on the German people in the Sudetenland by the German Geheimdienst (a false flag operation), Führer Fritz accused Czecho-Slovakia of deliberate provocation and aggression and launched the invasion of Czecho-Slovakia on 10 August 1937. Czecho-Slovakia was eventually completely occupied by the Deutschswehr.

## Administrative division

After the annexation of Austria in 1936, Kaussist Germany was constitutionally divided administratively into 9 federal states: