Fourth Reich

The **Fourth Reich** (German: **Viertes Reich**) was a continuation of the destroyed Nazi Germany beyond the Gate. It was formed by Helga Mörder and her cabal of former Waffen-SS and Schutzstaffel after recieving permission to remain on the other side of the Gate.

Like with Hitler, power was centralised in Helga's person and her word became the highest law. Racism and Nazi eugenics were restored with the regime. The Germanic peoples were considered by the Nazis to be the master race, the purest branch of the Aryan race. Education focused on racial biology, population policy, and fitness for military service. Those in the Fourth Reich who were natives, non-human or German settles who didn't fit the strict Aryan purity laws were either treated as sub-human (Untermensch), forced into labour or were outright exterminated as per their ultimate goal of claiming the entire planet as their own.

## Overview

The Nazis are a fascist nation centred in the former German administration of Arthursland under the leadership of the surviving Nazi leadership from the German Civil War after leadership was handed down to Helga and Erwin Rommel and his army pulled out to join the Second World War. However, they maintain their precense primarily in Germania. Their population at it's maximum extent was at 550,000, made up of entirely people from Germany who were either former Waffen-SS veterans, former loyalists, civilians who hold Nazi sympathies and political leaders who were forced by the Kaiserreich to the other side on the requests of Oberst Helga. This was significantly larger than both Werner's population of just 90,000, including the Third Unit, Freikorps and Schutzmannschaft, and Himmler's Black Order, leading to both sides having to rely on native support.

### Ideology

The Fourth Reich operates under a National Socialist dictatorship, led by the Führer Helga Mörder. Helga's idea with the Fourth Reich was that the Reich was supposed to remain on the other side of the Gate forever, leaving behind the old world in order to enact Lebensraum on an entire planet rather than a continent upon a technologically-inferior foe. This plan ultimately got her at odds with many of their own, primarily Heinrich Himmler, who wanted to use the world as a staging ground free from the watchful eyes of the German Empire in order to retake Germany by attacking Berlin directly, which Helga had no interest in. Thus, the Fourth Reich became at odds with Himmler's Black Order.

## Military

The soldiers of the Fourth Reich are made entirely of veteran Waffen-SS survivors from the civil war and later conscripts from the population of Germania, equalling to a size of 85,350 soldiers when the war began. They seem to have a more efficient command structure and grasp of military tactics because of the militaristic nature of Nazism, but also an apparent preference of quality over quantity when it comes to troops. This doctrine is also most likely practiced out of necessity, given the relatively low population of the Fourth Reich. Due to their xenophobic political beliefs causing hostility towards any non-Nazis regardless of their faction, their hatred for outsiders and "shoot first, ask questions later" policy severely limits recruitment from outside the Reich as it is impossible for new volunteers who sympathise with their cause to join their ranks, which is more common with the other factions, including Himmler's Black Order.