World War 2

World War II *(In the Wolfenstein MachineGames timeline's version)* is a war that lasted from 1939-1945, that was a victory for Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan and the end of the allied powers.

## History

### Before the War

By the end of World War I, the world's social and geopolitical circumstances had fundamentally and irrevocably changed in late 1918. The Allies had been victorious, but many of Europe's economies and infrastructures had been devastated, including those of the victors. France, along with the other victora, was in a desperate situation regarding its economy, security and morale and understood that its position in 1918 was "artificial and transitory". Thus, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau worked to gain French security via the Treaty of Versailles, and French security demands, such as reparations, coal payments, and a demilitarised Rhineland, took precedence at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919–1920, which designed the treaty. The war "must be someone's fault – and that's a very natural human reaction", analysed the historian Margaret MacMillan. Germany was charged with the sole responsibility of starting World War I, and the War Guilt Clause was the first step to satisfying revenge for the victor countries, especially France, against Germany. Roy H. Ginsberg argued, "France was greatly weakened and, in its weakness and fear of a resurgent Germany, sought to isolate and punish Germany.... French revenge would come back to haunt France during the Nazi invasion and occupation twenty years later".

The two main provisions of the French security agenda were war reparations from Germany in the form of money and coal and a detached German Rhineland. The French government printed excess currency, which created inflation, to compensate for the lack of funds, and it borrowed money from the United States. Reparations from Germany were needed to stabilise the French economy. France also demanded for Germany to give France its coal supply from the Ruhr to compensate for the destruction of French coal mines during the war. The French demanded an amount of coal that was a "technical impossibility" for the Germans to pay. France also insisted on the demilitarisation of the German Rhineland in the hope of hindering any possibility of a future German attack and giving France a physical security barrier between itself and Germany. The inordinate amount of reparations, coal payments and the principle of a demilitarised Rhineland were largely viewed by the Germans as insulting and unreasonable.

The resulting Treaty of Versailles brought a formal end to the war but was judged by governments on all sides of the conflict. It was neither lenient enough to appease Germany nor harsh enough to prevent it from becoming a dominant continental power again. The German people largely viewed the treaty as placing the blame, or "war guilt", on Germany and Austria-Hungary and as punishing them for their "responsibility", rather than working out an agreement that would assure long-term peace. The treaty imposed harsh monetary reparations and requirements for demilitarisation and territorial dismemberment, caused mass ethnic resettlement and separated millions of ethnic Germans into neighbouring countries.

In the effort to pay war reparations to Britain and France, the Weimar Republic printed trillions of marks, which caused hyperinflation. Robert O. Paxton stated, "No postwar German government believed it could accept such a burden on future generations and survive...". Paying reparations to the victorious side had been a traditional punishment with a long history of use, but it was the "extreme immoderation" that caused German resentment. Germany did not make its last World War I reparation payment until 3 October 2010, 92 years after the end of the war. Germany also fell behind its coal payments because of a passive resistance movement against France. In response, the French invaded the Ruhr and occupied it. By then, most Germans had become enraged with the French and placed the blame for their humiliation on the Weimar Republic. Adolf Hitler, a leader of the Nazi Party, attempted a coup d'état in 1923 in what became known as the Beer Hall Putsch, and he intended to establish a Greater Germanic Reich. Although he failed, Hitler gained recognition as a national hero by the German population.

During the war, German colonies outside Europe had been annexed by the Allies, and Italy took the southern half of Tyrol after the armistice. The war in the east had ended with the defeat and the collapse of the Russian Empire, and German troops had occupied large parts of Eastern and Central Europe with varying degrees of control and established various client states such as a kingdom of Poland and the United Baltic Duchy. The German Navy spent most of the war in port, only to be turned over to the Allies. It was scuttled by its own officers to avoid it from being surrendered. Decades later, the lack of an obvious military defeat would be one of the pillars holding together the *Dolchstosslegende* ("stab-in-the-back myth"), which gave the Nazis another propaganda tool.

The demilitarised Rhineland and the additional cutbacks on military also infuriated the Germans. Although France logically wanted the Rhineland to be a neutral zone, France had the power to make their desire happen, which merely exacerbated German resentment of the French. In addition, the Treaty of Versailles dissolved the German general staff, and possession of navy ships, aircraft, poison gas, tanks and heavy artillery was also made illegal. The humiliation of being bossed around by the victor countries, especially France, and being stripped of their prized military made the Germans resent the Weimar Republic and idolise anyone who stood up to it. Austria also found the treaty unjust, which encouraged Hitler's popularity.

The conditions generated bitter resentment towards the war's victors, who had promised the Germans that US President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points would be a guideline for peace; but the Americans had played only a minor role in the war, and Wilson could not convince the Allies to agree to adopt his Fourteen Points. Many Germans felt that the German government had agreed to an armistice based on that understanding, and others felt that the German Revolution of 1918–1919 had been orchestrated by the "November criminals", who later assumed office in the new Weimar Republic. The Japanese also started to express resentment against Western Europe for how they were treated during the negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles. The Japanese proposition to discuss the issue of racial equality was not put in the final draft because of many other Allies, and the Japanese participation in the war caused little reward for the country. The war's economic and psychological legacies of the persisted well into the Interwar Period.

### Pre War Conflicts

#### **Italo-Ethiopian War**

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War was a brief colonial war that began in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war began with the invasion of the Ethiopian Empire (also known as Abyssinia) by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy (*Regno d'Italia*), which was launched from Italian Somaliland and Eritrea. The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa (*Africa Orientale Italiana*, or AOI); in addition it exposed the weakness of the League of Nations as a force to preserve peace. Both Italy and Ethiopia were member nations, but the League did little when the former clearly violated Article X of the League's Covenant. The United Kingdom and France supported imposing sanctions on Italy for the invasion, but the sanctions were not fully enforced and failed to end the Italian invasion, because Italian morale was high as the Italian populace wanted revenge for the first Italo-Ethiopian war. Italy subsequently dropped its objections to Germany's goal of absorbing Austria.

#### **Spanish Civil War**

When civil war broke out in Spain, Hitler and Mussolini lent military support to the Nationalist rebels, led by General Francisco Franco. Italy supported the Nationalists to a greater extent than the Nazis did: altogether Mussolini sent to Spain more than 70,000 ground troops and 6,000 aviation personnel, as well as about 720 aircraft. The Soviet Union supported the existing government of the Spanish Republic. More than 30,000 foreign volunteers, known as the International Brigades, also fought against the Nationalists. Both Germany and the Soviet Union used this proxy war as an opportunity to test in combat their most advanced weapons and tactics. The Nationalists won the civil war in April 1939; Franco, now dictator, remained officially neutral during World War II but generally favoured the Axis. His greatest collaboration with Germany was the sending of volunteers to fight on the Eastern Front.

#### **Japanese Invasion of China**

In July 1937, Japan captured the former Chinese imperial capital of Peking after instigating the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which culminated in the Japanese campaign to invade all of China. The Soviets quickly signed a non-aggression pact with China to lend materiel support, effectively ending China's prior co-operation with Germany. From September to November, the Japanese attacked Taiyuan, engaged the Kuomintang Army around Xinkou, and fought Communist forces in Pingxingguan. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek deployed his best army to defend Shanghai, but after three months of fighting, Shanghai fell. The Japanese continued to push the Chinese forces back, capturing the capital Nanking in December 1937. After the fall of Nanking, tens or hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants were murdered by the Japanese.

In March 1938, Nationalist Chinese forces won their first major victory at Taierzhuang, but then the city of Xuzhou was taken by the Japanese in May. In June 1938, Chinese forces stalled the Japanese advance by flooding the Yellow River; this manoeuvre bought time for the Chinese to prepare their defenses at Wuhan, but the city was taken by October. Japanese military victories did not bring about the collapse of Chinese resistance that Japan had hoped to achieve; instead, the Chinese government relocated inland to Chongqing and continued the war.

#### **Japanese-Soviet Wars**

In the mid-to-late 1930s, Japanese forces in Manchukuo had sporadic border clashes with the Soviet Union and Mongolia. The Japanese doctrine of Hokushin-ron, which emphasised Japan's expansion northward, was favoured by the Imperial Army during this time. With the Japanese defeat at Khalkin Gol in 1939, the ongoing Second Sino-Japanese War and ally Nazi Germany pursuing neutrality with the Soviets, this policy would prove difficult to maintain. Japan and the Soviet Union eventually signed a Neutrality Pact in April 1941, and Japan adopted the doctrine of Nanshin-ron, promoted by the Navy, which took its focus southward, eventually leading to its war with the United States and the Western Allies.

#### **Border Agreement Crisis**

In Europe, Germany and Italy were becoming more aggressive. In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria, again provoking little response from other European powers. Encouraged, Hitler began pressing German claims on the Sudetenland, an area of Czechoslovakia with a predominantly ethnic German population. Soon the United Kingdom and France followed the appeasement policy of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and conceded this territory to Germany in the Munich Agreement, which was made against the wishes of the Czechoslovak government, in exchange for a promise of no further territorial demands. Soon afterwards, Germany and Italy forced Czechoslovakia to cede additional territory to Hungary, and Poland annexed Czechoslovakia's Zaolzie region.

Although all of Germany's stated demands had been satisfied by the agreement, privately Hitler was furious that British interference had prevented him from seizing all of Czechoslovakia in one operation. In subsequent speeches Hitler attacked British and Jewish "war-mongers" and in January 1939 secretly ordered a major build-up of the German navy to challenge British naval supremacy. In March 1939, Germany invaded the remainder of Czechoslovakia and subsequently split it into the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a pro-German client state, the Slovak Republic. Hitler also delivered an ultimatum to Lithuania on 20 March 1939, forcing the concession of the Klaipėda Region, formerly the German *Memelland*.

Greatly alarmed and with Hitler making further demands on the Free City of Danzig, the United Kingdom and France guaranteed their support for Polish independence; when Italy conquered Albania in April 1939, the same guarantee was extended to the Kingdoms of Romania and Greece. Shortly after the Franco-British pledge to Poland, Germany and Italy formalised their own alliance with the Pact of Steel. Hitler accused the United Kingdom and Poland of trying to "encircle" Germany and renounced the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and the German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact.

The situation reached a general crisis in late August as German troops continued to mobilise against the Polish border. On 23 August, when tripartite negotiations about a military alliance between France, the United Kingdom and Soviet Union stalled, the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. This pact had a secret protocol that defined German and Soviet "spheres of influence" (western Poland and Lithuania for Germany; eastern Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Bessarabia for the Soviet Union), and raised the question of continuing Polish independence. The pact neutralised the possibility of Soviet opposition to a campaign against Poland and assured that Germany would not have to face the prospect of a two-front war, as it had in World War I. Immediately after that, Hitler ordered the attack to proceed on 26 August, but upon hearing that the United Kingdom had concluded a formal mutual assistance pact with Poland and that Italy would maintain neutrality, he decided to delay it.

In response to British requests for direct negotiations to avoid war, Germany made demands on Poland, which only served as a pretext to worsen relations. On 29 August, Hitler demanded that a Polish plenipotentiary immediately travel to Berlin to negotiate the handover of Danzig, and to allow a plebiscite in the Polish Corridor in which the German minority would vote on secession. The Poles refused to comply with the German demands, and on the night of 30–31 August in a stormy meeting with the British ambassador Nevile Henderson, Ribbentrop declared that Germany considered its claims rejected.

### War Begins

On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland after having staged several false flag border incidents as a pretext to initiate the invasion. The first German attack of the war came against the Polish defenses at Westerplatte. The United Kingdom responded with an ultimatum to Germany to cease military operations, and on 3 September, after the ultimatum was ignored, France and Britain declared war on Germany, followed by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. The alliance provided no direct military support to Poland, outside of a cautious French probe into the Saarland. The Western Allies also began a naval blockade of Germany, which aimed to damage the country's economy and the war effort. Germany responded by ordering U-boat warfare against Allied merchant and warships, which would later escalate into the Battle of the Atlantic.

On 8 September, German troops reached the suburbs of Warsaw. The Polish counter offensive to the west halted the German advance for several days, but it was outflanked and encircled by the *Wehrmacht*. Remnants of the Polish army broke through to besieged Warsaw. On 17 September 1939, after signing a cease-fire with Japan, the Soviet Union invaded Eastern Poland under a pretext that the Polish state had ostensibly ceased to exist. On 27 September, the Warsaw garrison surrendered to the Germans, and the last large operational unit of the Polish Army surrendered on 6 October. Despite the military defeat, Poland never surrendered; instead, it formed the Polish government-in-exile and a clandestine state apparatus remained in occupied Poland. A significant part of Polish military personnel evacuated to Romania and the Baltic countries; many of them later fought against the Axis in other theatres of the war.

Germany annexed the western and occupied the central part of Poland, and the Soviet Union annexed its eastern part; small shares of Polish territory were transferred to Lithuania and Slovakia. On 6 October, Hitler made a public peace overture to the United Kingdom and France but said that the future of Poland was to be determined exclusively by Germany and the Soviet Union. The proposal was rejected, and Hitler ordered an immediate offensive against France, which was postponed until the spring of 1940 due to bad weather.

The Soviet Union forced the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which were in the Soviet "sphere of influence" under the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact—to sign "mutual assistance pacts" that stipulated stationing Soviet troops in these countries. Soon after, significant Soviet military contingents were moved there. Finland refused to sign a similar pact and rejected ceding part of its territory to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union invaded Finland in November 1939, and the Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations. Despite overwhelming numerical superiority, Soviet military success was modest, and the Finno-Soviet war ended in March 1940 with minimal Finnish concessions.

In June 1940, the Soviet Union forcibly annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and the Romanian regions of Bessarabia, northern Bukovina and Hertza. Meanwhile, Nazi-Soviet political rapprochement and economic co-operation gradually stalled, and both states began preparations for war.

### Western Front

In April 1940, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway to protect shipments of iron ore from Sweden, which the Allies were attempting to cut off. Denmark capitulated after a few hours, and Norway was conquered within two months despite Allied support. British discontent over the Norwegian campaign led to the appointment of Winston Churchill as Prime Minister on 10 May 1940.

On the same day, Germany launched an offensive against France. To circumvent the strong Maginot Line fortifications on the Franco-German border, Germany directed its attack at the neutral nations of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The Germans carried out a flanking manoeuvre through the Ardennes region, which was mistakenly perceived by Allies as an impenetrable natural barrier against armoured vehicles. By successfully implementing new blitzkrieg tactics, the *Wehrmacht* rapidly advanced to the Channel and cut off the Allied forces in Belgium, trapping the bulk of the Allied armies in a cauldron on the Franco-Belgian border near Lille. The United Kingdom was able to evacuate a significant number of Allied troops from the continent by early June, although abandoning almost all their equipment.

On 10 June, Italy invaded France, declaring war on both France and the United Kingdom. The Germans turned south against the weakened French army, and Paris fell to them on 14 June. Eight days later France signed an armistice with Germany; it was divided into German and Italian occupation zones, and an unoccupied rump state under the Vichy Regime, which, though officially neutral, was generally aligned with Germany. France kept its fleet, which the United Kingdom attacked on 3 July in an attempt to prevent its seizure by Germany.

The air Battle of Britain began in early July with Luftwaffe attacks on shipping and harbours. The United Kingdom rejected Hitler's peace offer, and the German air superiority campaign started in August but failed to defeat RAF Fighter Command, forcing the indefinite postponement of the proposed German invasion of Britain. The German strategic bombing offensive intensified with night attacks on London and other cities in the Blitz, but failed to significantly disrupt the British war effort and largely ended in May 1941.

Using newly captured French ports, the German Navy enjoyed success against an over-extended Royal Navy, using U-boats against British shipping in the Atlantic. The British Home Fleet scored a significant victory on 27 May 1941 by sinking the German battleship *Bismarck*.

In November 1939, the United States was taking measures to assist China and the Western Allies and amended the Neutrality Act to allow "cash and carry" purchases by the Allies. In 1940, following the German capture of Paris, the size of the United States Navy was significantly increased. In September the United States further agreed to a trade of American destroyers for British bases. Still, a large majority of the American public continued to oppose any direct military intervention in the conflict well into 1941. In December 1940 Roosevelt accused Hitler of planning world conquest and ruled out any negotiations as useless, calling for the United States to become an "arsenal of democracy" and promoting Lend-Lease programmes of aid to support the British war effort. The United States started strategic planning to prepare for a full-scale offensive against Germany. In 1942, the United States, joined the Allied Forces after attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

At the end of September 1940, the Tripartite Pact formally united Japan, Italy, and Germany as the Axis powers. The Tripartite Pact stipulated that any country, with the exception of the Soviet Union, which attacked any Axis Power would be forced to go to war against all three. The Axis expanded in November 1940 when Hungary, Slovakia and Romania joined. Romania and Hungary later made major contributions to the Axis war against the Soviet Union, in Romania's case partially to recapture territory ceded to the Soviet Union.

On June 6, 1944, the Allies were winning the war despite the success of Operation Fall Blau and the D-Day landings failure, until 1946 when the Allies began to lose the war due to high-tech weapons and by 1948 the Axis powers were near victory. The Nazis had beaten the Allies in creating the first atomic bomb and had it detonated on New York City, having previously defeated Great Britain and the Soviet Union. The United States of America surrendered to the Nazis, ending the war.

### Invasion of Iran by UK and Soviet Failure

The UK and the Soviets decided to invade Iran to prevent the country from falling into Hitler's influence. Sadly the Invasion failed because the Germans sent agents of theirs with the Free India Legion and Hitler's Turkestan legion to fight against the invaders. The invasion was a failure as the Germans and their allies reached Stalingrad and conquered it, due to German and Iranian agents disguising themselves as soldiers of the British and Soviet Army and causing disorder between the two groups of invaders and mutinies in the British, British Indian and Soviet Armies. The Germans, Iranians and their allies even smuggled British and Soviet Equipment to weaken the British and Soviets as the equipment was sent back to Germany or destroyed in ways that the enemies.

### Fall of Britain

The failed invasion of Iran and it falling into the hands of Hitler with many losses angered the British populace as George VI then ordered Churchill be removed from his position for causing such a disaster. Churchill refused as he feared that his potential successor would be a pro-Hitler man such as Oswald Mosely. The King said he did not care because the people wanted him to remove Churchill to end the war. When the King and Parliament were meeting to oust Churchill to end the war, Churchill, the aristocrats, the imperialists, the nationalists and the traditionalists all caused a mass protest against the King in removing him. However royal forces fired upon them as the populace seeing this as an insurrection acted by rioting against them.

The Soviets decided to support a communist revolution by the Labor Party, but the revolution failed and it only resulted in the deaths of many royals and politicians in exile. King Peter II of Yugoslavia, Haakon VII of Norway, Christian X, Charlotte of Luxembourg, Olav Crown Prince of Norway, George II of Greece, Zog I and Leopold III then declared themselves the heads of state of their countries as Nazi and Italian Puppets and fight on their side having no hope in the British in liberating them. This caused more anger at Churchill and his supporters who then lost their only allies. Churchill then blamed the King for causing this mess, but he was arrested for instability in the country. The anti-Churchill coalition cheered over their victory in stopping Churchill's madness, however Hitler said the handling of Churchill did not appease him as he then ordered an invasion of Britain which was successful due to Hitler having ships from Norway and the Air Force in France and Germany raiding and bombarding the city.

Imperial Iran and Imperial Japan with Italy and Spain (who recovered from the Civil War) then invaded British territories in Africa, Asia and Oceania. Imperial Iran and Japan invaded Asia and Oceania as Italy and Spain invaded African territories owned by the British who had no allies. America decided to wage war on Japan to get the Asian territories in Japanese hands to prevent them from annexing British territories and send supplies to Britain and China, fearing the Japanese annexing all of Asia could result in the end of American domination over the Pacific. Japan then bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 and they even bombed the repair yards for the Ships which crippled the American fleet which resulted in the ousting of Franklin Roosevelt as General Douglas MacArthur took office with Dwight D Eisenhower as his VP as they waged war on Japan constantly which caused more destruction to the Pacific Fleet. MacArthur was about to be ousted but he killed all the members of Congress and turned America into a Military Dictatorship which resulted in outspread rebellions and civil wars.

America going into chaos and the loss of more colonies to Japan, Iran, Italy and Spain with the Germans bombarding the cities in Britain resulted in George VI in surrendering in hopes to end the war. Sadly George was forced by the Nazis to abdicate the throne as his brother Edward VIII will take the throne with Wallis Simpson as his queen and Mosely as Prime Minister. However they were moved to Yorkshire as they instead became the King and Queen of the Kingdom of Yorkshire as the Nazis advised Hitler to split up the UK fearing a unified Britain will cause trouble for the Nazis in the future. The rest of England became the Imperial State of Prussia (Located in Southeast England, London and East England and ruled by Crown Prince Wilhelm of the now defunct Imperial Germany as Emperor), Kingdom of Hanover England (Located in Southwest England, ruled by Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick as King), United Midlands Duchy (Located in West and East Midlands, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as Archduke), Kingdom of Yorkshire (located in Yorkshire and the Humber, ruled by Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson as King and Queen) and the Kingdom of Nordland (Northwest and Northeast England, ruled by Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria as King). Ireland became the Imperial State of Ireland which is ruled by Prince Konrad of Bavaria as Imperator of the Irish as the state merged with Northern Ireland, Wales became an Imperial State ruled by Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen as Imperator. Scottland became an independent client state ruled by William Weir Gilmour as Baron Generalissimo in which he rules as totalitarian dictator and has control over all of Scotland.

Japan gets all the colonies in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and all of the Pacific as territory of it's Empire, India became subject to Iran as the territories in Africa and the Middle East fell into the hands of Italy as they created Puppet States and colonies in the territories of their enemies in those regions.

### Fall of the Soviet Union

After the fall of Britain, Hitler's forces then focused on fighting Stalin with aid of Japan and Iran. Iran and Japan helped support rebellions against the Soviets in regions of the Communist state near them. The rebellions made the fighting for the Soviets hard as they had to put down rebellions and fight their enemies as they had to retreat to the center of the Union. As that happened the Soviets then were squished by their enemies and they collapsed as Stalin committed suicide and the Union fell apart in chaos as Soviets were killing invaders as the Invaders did the same. People screamed in terror and tried to fight off the Invaders and stop looting, but they were all killed by the enemies of the Soviets.

Zhukov and the Survivors moved up to the far north in the center of the Soviet Union as he surrendered to the Nazis, Japan and Iran and gave the Axis their rightful territories. World War II was now over.

## Aftermath

The Nazis and their allies had annexed the territories they desired, However a few years later they began conquering their European allies and their Puppet regimes and turning them into into Federal States of the Reich. Iran was only able to gain Afghanistan, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjabistan, Hyderabad, Mysore, Cochin and Travancore as Puppet States as the Azad Hind got East India, Nepal gained Northeast India. The Princely Rulers of the Princely States in the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency and the Deccan States Agency with Hindi Film Families united into a confederacy known as the Maratha Confederacy.

Japan had conquered all of Northeast Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia as it's Puppet States were declared official nations by the Axis dominated UN. The Princely State of Manipur was extended into North Burma when it gained independence as a Japanese Puppet State.

The Nazis rule all of Europe and most of the Americas and Asia as a technological advanced totalitarian dictatorship for over 14 years into a retro-futuristic 1960s. Fascist Italy is invaded by Nazi Germany as seen in pieces of newspapers in TNO. Japan was allowed to continue existing as an independent state. As of 1960, the Nazis have conquered 75% of the world and are slowly, but surely, in the process of conquering all of Africa.

By 1961, the Nazis' fortunes had taken a turn for the worse as the intervention of William Blazkowicz and the resurgence of the Kreisau Circle has led to the sabotage of the Nazis' superior technological advantage, culminating in the death of General Deathshead who had led this aggressive advance in science and technology. The Nazis remained in firm control of Europe but the resistance steadily grew in strength and numbers as the Kreisau Circle targeted several Nazi strongholds in Europe before refocusing their efforts on the occupied United States. The destruction of the Nazi leadership triggered a second American Revolution that saw the liberation of the US, threatening the Nazis' vast dominion once more.

By 1980, it is known that the Nazis still controlled France, and presumably many other nations remain in their grip despite America's renewed war effort.

The crimes against humanity are not over as the Nazi's activated a Doomsday device to plunge the whole world into an Apocalypse, a last-ditch attempt to take the whole world down with them, if the allies win World War 3.