Greater Germanic Reich

The Greater Germanic Reich, commonly known as the German Reich, Nazi Germany, or just Germany, is a sovereign state which extends from Eastern France to the Ural Mountains. Its currently in a Cold War with the United States Of America, but it also seeks to improve relations between the two countries.

## History

The Greater Germanic Reich was first established in the year 1933, with Adolf Hitler Führer of the country. The newly elected NSDAP (commonly known as the National Socialist, or Nazi (to foreigners) party), immediately began to promote economic recovery in the country (as a propaganda effort to make the NSDAP more popular among the German people. The German Reich began to reconnect its cities with more improved roads, known as the ReichsAutobahn, and also began a project where German Workers would be able to afford a car, which would later be known as the Volkswagen.

Relations between the British and French tensed during the 1930s as Germany began annexing Austria (Now known Östmark) in 1938, Germany would later sign the Munich Agreement, where Czechoslovakia was forced to cede the Sudetenland (A German-Majority region between Germany, Austria and Czechia) to the Germans. Germany would later break the agreement and invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia, partitioning the country with Hungary and annexing Bohemia while establishing a puppet state in Slovakia.

Germany attacked Poland on September 1st, 1939, prompting France and Britain to declare war on Germany. German Forces would advance through Denmark and Norway, while conquering the Low Countries and France in 1940. The evacuation of Dunkirk was a massive failure, and a majortity of Britains weapons, troops and equipment were left behind. On July, The German Luftwaffe emerged victorious in the Battle Of Britain, and the German Wehrmacht landed on the shores of Southern England, The UK would later surrender on 1940, as a majority of England has fallen under German control. German Forces would then start a large invasion of the USSR, where they would later surrender in 1944 after a bloody conflict and a long bloody war between the German and Soviet Forces. The US would later surrender to Germany after a V2 Rocket detonated above New York City (but they managed to defeat Germany’s ally in the Far East, Japan), the war would later conclude in 1945.

## Society

German foreign policy concentrates on ending the Cold War. Hitler has taken some steps to soften his image over the years and now usually wears civilian clothes, instead of the party uniform. Nonetheless, no substantive changes have taken place in the regime's basic character. The Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act of 1933, the legal basis for Hitler's dictatorship, remain in effect. The press, the radio and the television are tightly controlled.

The bedrock of Nazi ideology is still the policy of blaming subversive and minority groups for Germany's economic and social problems. Christianity is still permitted in the German Reich. However, homosexuals are sent to labour camps, and Judaism is totally suppressed. Propaganda has previously depicted the United States to be corrupt, degenerate and poor. However, the imminent diplomatic meeting between Hitler and Kennedy forces German propaganda to shift to a more positive image of the United States and its people.

Despite its ideological and moral decline, Germany has a high standard of living. European satellite states export high-quality consumer goods to Germany (noted imports are domestic electronics from Britain) and also provide services, such as an SS academy in Oxford and imported domestic staff. Hitler's personal tastes in art and music remain the norm for German society.

Military service remains compulsory, as Germany is still at war with a rump Soviet Union east of the Urals. As the first generation of Nazi leaders who founded the party and came to power alongside Hitler begins to die off, Nazi officials are increasingly well-educated technocrats in the mould of Albert Speer. The police force (the *Orpo*, or uniformed police, and the *Kripo*, or criminal investigation bureau) is integrated with the SS, with police officers having honorary SS ranks.

According to the main characters, however, German society in the early 1960s is becoming more and more rebellious. The younger generation has no memory of the instability that paved the way for Hitler's rise to power. American and British cultural influence and growing pacifism have taken hold among German youth. Jazz music is still popular, and the German government claims to have come up with a version which is free from "Negroid influence". In spite of the general repression, the Beatles' real-life Hamburg engagements occur in the novel and have already been denounced in the state-run press. Germany is periodically attacked by resistance terrorists, with officials assassinated and civilian airliners bombed in-flight. Universities are centres of student dissent, with opposition movements such as the White Rose being once again active.

Nazi organisations such as *Kraft durch Freude* still exist and fulfil their original roles such as providing holidays to resort areas under German control. German citizens are still encouraged to contribute to the Winterhilfswerk. A sprawling transport network covers the entire Reich, including a vast autobahn and railway network in the manner of the real-life proposed *Breitspurbahn* system, which carries immense trains