Greater German Reich/Situation

## History

### Pre-WWII Germany (1920-1939)

Germany emerged from the first world war a defeated nation, her army beaten on the field and her allies collapsing under the strain of four years of unrelenting war. In the economic chaos that followed the war, the far-right National Socialist German Workers' Party led by the charismatic Adolf Hitler gained massive popularity.

The NSDAP soon gained members such as Martin Bormann, Albert Speer, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, and many others. The Nazi Party gained more and more popularity until the failure of the attempted Beer Hall Putsch. The party soon surged afterwards and with the start of the Great Depression, the NSDAP's ideals of a return to glory and revenge were more popular than ever. In 1933, President Paul Von Hindenburg chose Adolf Hitler to become chancellor.

Following Hindenburg's death, the NSDAP assumed full control of Germany. The NSDAP transformed Germany into a one-party totalitarian regime and persecuted Communists, Socialists, Jews, and other "undesirables". In 1936, Germany made it's first move towards expansion when it re-militarized the Rhineland. The French and British failed to stop them. In 1938, the Federal State of Austria was peacefully annexed following a pro-Nazi coup.

During the "Sudetenkrise", the NSDAP used pan-German sentiments to spark conflict with the First Czechoslovak Republic. The primary goal was the unification of ethnic Germans living in Czechoslovakia with those living in the German Reich (at the time, ethnic Germans made up 90% of the Sudetenland and 20% of the whole Czechoslovak state). To settle the matter, the Munich Conference was held and Czechoslovakia was forced to give up the Sudetenland to Germany. The next year brought about the annexation of the rest of Czechoslovakia (which the Allies could only protest). It was at this point, Britain and France declared their support of Poland in case of a German invasion.

Germany demanded to annex the historically disputed Danzig Corridor, that separated East Prussia from the German mainland. Upon Poland's refusal, an invasion occurred, in which, both Germany and the USSR invaded Poland. To ensure Polish sovereignty, England and France declared war on Germany, sparking World War II.

### The Second World War (1939-1945)

Germany quickly overran the Polish and turned north. Denmark and Norway were easily defeated in 1940, and the German army turned west, invading Belgium and the Netherlands. German forces successfully surrounded and destroyed the British Army at Dunkirk and forced the French to surrender.

After the fall of France, Italy joined the war, and the British fleet was trapped in the Mediterranean, when German Paratroopers seized Gibraltar and the Italians overran Egypt, capturing the Suez and cutting off the British supply lines to Africa.

The next year German forces launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The disorganized and demoralized Red Army was easily destroyed and the nation collapsed, with Germany taking all the land up to the Urals and dividing it into several Reichskommisariats: Ostland, Ukraine, Moskowien, and Kaukasus.

Around this time, the Empire of Japan attacked the Americans in Pearl Harbor, bringing the US into the war. Within a year England had been conquered, and Europe was completely under Nazi Domination. In 1944, a German plane launched from a Japanese carrier conducted a nuclear strike on Pearl Harbor, the first of its kind in history. The Americans soon signed an armistice and the war ended.

### The post-war era (1946-1962)

With the war over, Germany enacted several of its ambitious plans for Europe. The most successful of which, was the rebuilding of Berlin into Germania, and the Atlantropa Project, which ruined the economies of all the Mediterranean countries, leading to them abandoning Germany and forming the Triumvirate.

It was around 1950, when the German economy collapsed in on itself in a spectacular fashion. The German economy took the rest of Europe with it and led to the 1950s being a decade of chaos. Different factions within the Reich came up with different ways to solve the crisis.

Speer and his reformists wanted to reform the Reich and liberalize. Himmler and the SS believed the opposite, in that National Socialism hadn't gone far enough. They created their own ideology, the Burgundian System. Goring and his militarists recognized that the root cause was that the economy was fueled by conquest, and that the Reich just needed to start conquering again to fix the economy. Bormann's conservatives stated that some reforms were needed.

Tensions built up until an attempted SS coup, led to the establishment of the SS State of Burgundy and the separation of the SS into the German and Burgundian SS.

Just as order was seemingly restored, Hungary's government collapsed and Germany struck a deal with the Romanians and Slovakians to allow them to invade Hungary in exchange for economic assistance. After the Transylvanian conflict, another flared up in RK Moskowien. A united front of partisan forces attacked the Germans and forced them to abandon the Arkhangelsk–Astrakhan (A-A) line. The war was long and brutal, but the Germans eventually defeated the partisans at great cost, largely in part to General Hans Speidel.

After the war, which would be known as the West Russian War, the economy finally stabilized when those who were considered degenerates were used for slave labor instead of extermination. The entire German economy soon became based on slavery. As the slave dependency grew, so did the risk of revolt, a fear that many Germans had.

As the economy recovered, the military stagnated and the young people, with no need to work due to slaves, became interested in black market American Music, Italian Cinema, and forbidden literature. This lead to the rise of a new generation of students discontented with the Reich's government.

### The status of Germany in 1962

As 1962 begins, Germany soon announced the first good news for the nation, seemingly in decades. Its space race with the United States and Japan, at least according to German authorities, had come to an end. German Raumsonauts have landed on the moon. Despite this, Japan and the United States both have claimed the space race is not yet over, and have pushed the boundaries, claiming they will achieve things such as the first space station, Lunar colony, and satellite around Mars.

As the celebrations at this victory began in Germania, however, and Germany seemed to face a brief lull in its woes, an assassin struck at Hitler. While the Führer has survived, it seems that the Reich may be facing its greatest challenge yet.

### German Civil War

Soon after the assassination attempt on Hitler, he names a successor for when he dies. The successor can be: Albert Speer; a reformist, Martin Bormann; a conservative, Hermann Goring; a militarist or Reinhard Heydrich; a Burgundian System advocate. All of these men are personally close to Hitler himself in some shape or form whether it's Speer as the Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production and his role in the conversion of Berlin into Germania, Bormann serving as the Reich Parteiminister, Goring as the Reichsmarschall, or Heydrich as an important leader in the SS. The next year, Hitler dies and despite Hitler's clear designation of a successor, the country descends into civil war.

## Politics

### Overview

The German Reich operates under a National Socialist dictatorship, led by the Führer Adolf Hitler. As of 1962, the German Reich is considered the most powerful country in Europe, and possibly the world, achieving total dominance over the majority of Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

When the German economy collapsed in 1950, different factions formed with different ways to solve it. Speer and his reformists wanted to reform the Reich and liberalize. Himmler and the SS believed the opposite: National Socialism hadn't gone far enough, and so they created their own ideology, the Burgundian System. Goring and his militarists recognized that the root cause was that the economy was fueled by conquest, and that the Reich just needed to start conquering again to fix the economy. Bormann's conservatives stated that some reforms were needed.

Tensions were built up until an attempted coup by the SS and Hitler directly ordered the SS to be split into the German and Burgundian sections.

When an assassin struck at Hitler. He survived, but it seems like the Reich may be facing its greatest challenge yet. In 1962, it is clear to most that his days are numbered, and once he dies the competition between factions in the NSDAP could possibly tear the Reich he spent his life creating apart.

### Foreign relations

The Greater Germanic Reich leads the Einheitspakt, which is a military and economic alliance that consists of the Greater Germanic Reich's puppets, clients and allies. Its key objective is to maintain Germany's sphere of influence, while also preventing rival factions from expanding such as the Organization of Free Nations and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

The Germans have tense relations with the United States after the war ended due to the latter supporting separatist movements within the Unity Pakt in an attempt to diminish Germany’s global power projection.

Germany and Italy used to be allies with each other until 1950 when it left and formed the Triumvirate after the war due to the Atlantropa disaster caused by Germany. The Gibraltar dam caused the sea level to drop by hundreds of meters, with disastrous effects for all Mediterranean countries, and especially Italy, who had the longest coastline.

This new political course had unforeseen, but positive consequences, which greatly helped Italy to recover from the Atlantropa disaster: Japan, already at odds with Germany, restarted trade relationships with Italy, especially oil trade, and even the USA opened diplomatic and trade channels with the Triumvirate, whom they considered a force of moderation, in an increasingly dangerous Europe. Also, by separating the German and Italian economies, Italy managed to narrowly avoid being hit by the German economy's crash in the 1950s.

German and Japan used to be allied with each other, until after the war ended in 1945. The two countries shortly became rivals afterwards.

### National spirits

* Production Efficiency Cap: **-25.00%**
* Annual GDP Growth Factor: **-50.00%**

The Revolution of the Common Man incinerated the decadence of yore, tearing everything and more down, fuelled by promises of a fuller life under the Better World Order of National Socialism.

* Stability: **-25.00%**

**The Reich's survival hinges on the Fuhrer's.**

The NSDAP sought to be the party with a true ideology - and the one and only power in Germany. By these principles, the Party fought and won, securing itself a stranglehold over the now most powerful empire on Earth.

* War Support: **-25.00%**
* Research Speed: **-15.00%**
* Academic Base Monthly Change: **-2.00**
* Poverty Monthly Change: **-2.00**
* Industrial Expertise Monthly Change: **-2.00**

Endsieg, the ultimate victory over the Jewish capitalist old order, came after years of bloodshed, bitter fighting and sacrifices. With this victory came the New Order with National Socialism as the guiding gospel to the god the Reich had become; a new life awaited the Germans, one of settlement in the East, one of destiny fulfilled.

* Recruitable Population Factor: **+25%**
* Daily Command Power Gain Multiplier: **-25%**
* Counter intelligence: **-2.00**
* Army Professionalism Monthly Change: **-2.00**
* **Cannot train units, disband units, or edit unit templates.**

Like an unstoppable wave guided by the righteous destiny of the Aryan, the Wehrmacht stormed over Europe in the Second World War. The lowly were subjugated, the Germanics elevated, and the Reich's rightful territories conquered. For a while, it seemed as though nothing could stop the German god of war.

### Cabinet

* Daily Political Power Gain: **+0.10**
 Walther Hewel | Foreign minister
* AI Modifier: Desire to be in or expand a faction: **+10**
 Albert Speer | Economy minister
* Production Efficiency Cap: **+3.00%**
 Hermann Göring | Security minister
* Daily Political Power Gain: **-0.15**
* Construction Speed: **-5%**