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The Third Reich


Third Reich 1925
Population: 80 million, tech level 5.5
Territory: Greater Germany, Austria, Slovenia, upper Dalmatia, Sudetenland, Croatia
Colonial territories:
Pacific territories: Resources 1, food production 2, population 2 million (tech level 0)
German Equatorial Africa: Resources 3, food production 5, population 2 million
German Southwest Africa: Resources 1, food production .5, population .5 million
German Morocco (Rabat, Agadir and Tangier): Resources 1, food production 1, population: .75 million
German Indian possessions (Former French Islands): population 100,000, Resources 1, food production 1

Production Centers: 72
Koln 5, Dusseldorf 5, Hamburg 5, Berlin 8, Essen 5, Munich 4, Breslau 1, Leipzig 1, Stettin 1, Frankfurt 1, Strasbourg 1, Chemnitz 1, Hanover 2, Bremen 1, Nuremberg 4, Stuttgart 4, Poznan 2 , Danzig 1, Kiel 1, Erfurt 2, Halle 1, Dortmund 1, Bonn 1, Saarbrucken 1, Breslau 1, Brunswick 1, Augsburg 1, Dresden 3, Vienna 4, Zagreb 2, Tangiers 1

Commerce
194 shipping units, 10 ocean liner units 4 Zeppelin airline units

Food production: 64


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1925 budget
72 production centers (normal spending) x 4 = 288 points
Commerce – 21.4 points
Resources – 3.5 points
Total available – 312.9 – 1% for corruption = 308

Military maintenance – 138.5 points
Intelligence service – 5 points
Level III social services – 24 points
Total maintenance – 167.5 points
Growth – 2% of 141.4 (3 production centers including excess from last year) – 1 each for Chemnitz, Zagreb, Breslau

Spending
Convert naval bases at Bremerhaven (Bremen), Stettin into naval yards, build naval yards at Hamburg and Danzig – 84 points
Dam construction (4 resources) – 36 points
Build 1 destroyer flotillas - 10 points
Build 1 submarine flotilla – 10 points
Build 1 motor torpedo boat flotilla – 1 point

Third Reich 1926
Population: 80 million, tech level 5.5, Socialist Market economy
Territory: Greater Germany, Austria, Slovenia, upper Dalmatia, Sudetenland, Croatia
Colonial territories:
Pacific territories: Resources 1, food production 2, population 2 million (tech level 0)
German Equatorial Africa: Resources 3, food production 5, population 2 million
German Southwest Africa: Resources 1, food production .5, population .5 million
German Morocco (Rabat, Agadir and Tangier): Resources 1, food production 1, population: .75 million
German Indian possessions (Former French Islands): population 100,000, Resources 1, food production 1

Production Centers: 75
Koln 5, Dusseldorf 5, Hamburg 5, Berlin 8, Essen 5, Munich 4, Breslau 2, Leipzig 1, Stettin 1, Frankfurt 2, Chemnitz 2, Hanover 2, Bremen 1, Nuremberg 4, Stuttgart 4, Poznan 2 , Danzig 1, Kiel 1, Erfurt 2, Halle 1, Dortmund 1, Bonn 1, Saarbrucken 1, Breslau 1, Brunswick 1, Augsburg 1, Dresden 3, Vienna 4, Zagreb 3, Tangiers 1

Commerce
184 shipping units, 10 ocean liner units 4 Zeppelin airline units

Food production: 70

1926 budget
Income (National Effort) production: 450 – 25% = 337.5 points
Resources: 8 – 50% = 4
Commerce: 39.4 – 75% = 9.85
Subtotal: 351.35 – corruption penalty 1%
Total budget: 347 points

Military maintenance – 142 points
Intelligence service – 5 points
Level III social services – 24 points
Total maintenance – 167 points
Growth: 181 x 1% = 2 production centers (1 each Frankfurt, Bremen)

Dam construction (4 resources) – 18 points
Build 2 destroyer flotillas - 10 points
Build 2 submarine flotilla – 10 points
Build 2 motor torpedo boat flotilla – 1 point
Armored Division research – 20 points
Modernize 10 heavy cruisers – 10 points
2 air depots (navy) Kiel, Danzig, - 6 points
4 Heavy Zeppelin units - 40 points
4 medium bomber units – 24 points
4 heavy bomber units – 32 points
2 cavalry divisions – 6 points
2 armored brigades - 5 points

Available manpower 1925
Maximum size: regular forces 2,400,000, reserve forces: 5,600,000 colonial forces: 225,000 (plus 225,000 Germans)

Regular forces mobilized: Army 1,175,000 + Luftwaffe 72.000 + Navy 236,000 + Colonial 225,000 = 1,708,000 (692,000 men available)
Colonial manpower mobilized: 220,000 (5,000 men available)
Reserve manpower mobilized: 2,931,000 (2,669,000 men available)

Wehrmacht
Regular forces 1,175,000 men maintenance 32.75 points
10 motorized infantry corps, 1 armored brigade, 11 infantry corps, 2 static infantry corps, 2 mountain divisions, 2 garrison divisions, 4 marine brigades, 10 engineer brigades,

Colonial forces 445,000 (50% German) maintenance 9.05 points
5 Garrison units, 4 fortress corps, 1 motorized HQ, 1 HQ, 1 coast defense division, 2 light infantry divisions, 3 light infantry brigades,

Reserve forces 2,931,000 men, maintenance 37.5 points
55 infantry corps, 4 motorized HQs,1 motorized supply unit, 1 HQ, 2 fortress corps, 4 seige artillery brigades, 4 artillery divisions,

other Wehrmacht expenses maintenance: 27 points
4 ammo stockpiles, 4 chem stockpiles (3 x level 3, 1 x level 1),
Seigfried Line (fortresses Kiel, Bremen, hex west of Bremen, Essen, Dusseldorf
Gothic Line (fortresses hex southwest of Munich, southeast of Munich, Trieste, Pola, hex northeast of Trieste, fortress at Cape Verde islands

Total costs: 106.3 points

Deployment:
Balkans Army
Garrisons: 1 garrison unit each Ploesti, Albania (from Regular Army)
Colonial Army
Army of Morocco
Tangiers: 1 garrison unit, 1 fortress corps, 1 HQ, 1 light infantry division,
Rabat: 1 garrison unit
Cape Verde: 1 fortress, 1 coast defense division, 1 light infantry brigade
Army of South Africa
Luderitz: 1 fortress corps, 1 motorized HQ, 1 garrison unit, 2 light infantry divisions, 1 light infantry brigade
Reunion Island: 1 fortress corps
Comoros Islands: 1 fortress corps
Army of West Africa
Cameroon: 1 garrison unit,
German Equatorial Africa (modern day Congo-Brazzaville): 1 garrison unit

Home Army
All other forces

1925 changes
large number of units are made into reserves, and 6 infantry corps are converted into 15 light infantry divisions and 3 light infantry brigades. The divisions are converted into mountain divisions, and the brigades begin training for amphibious landings (basically as follow up units for the Marines)

Luftwaffe (part of the Army)
Air depots Breslau, Dresden, Leipzig, Vienna, Berlin, 5 fighter units, 8 light bombers
72,000 men, maintenance 6.1 points
Deployment:
Breslau: 1 fighter unit, 2 light bomber units
Dresden: 1 light bomber unit
Leipzig: 2 light bomber units
Vienna: 1 light bomber unit
Berlin: 2 fighter units
Luderitz (Southwest Africa: 1 fighter unit, 1 light bomber unit
Tangiers (German Morocco) 1 fighter unit, 1 light bomber unit

Kriegsmarine Air Service
Stettin: 1 naval bomber unit

Kriegsmarine 1925
Kriegsmarine (Imperial Navy renamed after the unification)
236,000 men
Total maintenance cost of Kriegsmarine: 24.2 points

Naval Yard: Kiel, Bremen, Stettin, Lubuck, Danzig
Naval Bases: Wilhemshaven, Tangiers, Reunion, Luderitz, Cape Verde, Truk, Ulithi, Trieste
Other major ports: Hamburg, Danzig
Maintenance cost: 8 points

Battleships maintenance cost: 7.5 points
Bayern, Baden, Hannover, Wittelsbach, Wettin, 15 inch guns, 30,000 tons,
(game rating 4-5-4-3)
Kaiser Friedrich III, Kaiser Wilhelm II, 15 inch guns, 33,000 tons
(game rating 4-6-4-3)
Frederick de Grosse, Kaiser Friedrich III, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kaiser Barbarossa, 15 inch guns, 36,000 tons, (game rating 4-6-4-4)
Mackenson, Gneisnau, Scharnhorst, Blucher 15 inch guns, 41,000 tons, (game rating 4-5-6-4)

Aircraft carriers: maintenance cost: 6.5 points
Blucher, Von Der Tann, Moltke, Goeben, Seydlitz, 20,000 tons, 50 aircraft (game rating 0-2-6-4, airstrike 2)
Adler, Cormoran, Condor 10,000 tons, 24 aircraft (game rating 0-1-7-5, airstrike 1)

10 heavy cruisers maintenance cost: (all cruisers) 2.5 points
Seigfried, Hertha, Freya, Vineta, Hansa, Nymphe, Thetis, Ariadne, Amazone, Medusa,

15 Light cruisers
Bremerhaven, Rostock, Mainz, Coln, Konigsburg, Kolberg, Stettin, Stuttgart, Munchen, Breslau, Nurnburg, Leipzig, Emden, Dresden, Karlsruhe,
(game rating 1-0-6-5)

1 tech level 5.5 SSK2 flotilla
2 tech 5 sub flotilla(Long Range)
1 tech level 5.5 DD2 flotilla
6 DD1 flotilla
2 MS Flotilla
2 Transport Group
10 light transport groups
1 PT flotilla
maintenance all other ships: 4.3 points

Naval Air Service (part of Navy) 8,000 men, maintenance cost: 1.5 points
Air Depot Stettin, 1 naval bomber

Deployment:
South Atlantic Fleet (based at Luderitz, German Southwest Africa)
CA Ariadne, Amazone, CL Nurnburg, Leipzig, Emden, Coln, Konigsburg, Rostock,
CVL Adler, Cormoran, 1 DD1 flotilla, 1 MS flotilla, 1 SSK1 flotilla
Mediterranean Fleet: ships from the High Seas fleet (on rotation), making port calls at Tangiers and Trieste
CA Medusa, CL Kolberg, Stettin, CVL Condor, 1 DD1 flotilla

Pacific Fleet:
1 DD1 flotilla based out of Truk and Ulithi

High Seas Fleet
Scouting Force: BB Mackenson, Gneisnau, Scharnhorst, Blucher, CV Blucher, Von Der Tann, Moltke, Goeben, Seydlitz, CA Seigfried, Hertha, Freya, Vineta, Hansa, Nymphe, Thetis
Battle Force: BB Frederick de Grosse, Kaiser Friedrich III, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kaiser Barbarossa, Kaiser Friedrich III, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Bayern, Baden, Hannover, Wittelsbach, Wettin CL Bremerhaven, Mainz, Stuttgart, Munchen, Breslau, , Dresden, Karlsruhe, 3 DD1 flotilla,
1 minesweeper flotilla
1 SSK1 flotilla
2 transport groups
10 light transport groups
1 naval bomber

1925 changes
Germany will have 5 new naval yards, and gets 1 destroyer flotilla, 1 submarine flotilla and 1 PT boat flotilla

To what extent does German influence in Albania still exist?

Kaiser Wilhelm II announced plans to gradually turn over Germany's colonies to self rule and promised that within ten years at least of half of all colonial administrators will be native personal and that until the colonies are liberated, all members of the colonies would be granted citizenship with the same rights and liberties as those living in Germany proper.

Kaiser Wilhelm II also announced the creation of a committee to investigate long standing rumors of abuses by colonial officials and he called on all other nations to create similar committees with the same goals for their colonies.

To what extent does German influence in Albania still exist?

ooc:
is this a ooc or ic question? if ooc please label as such and try your best not to post pure ooc posts in this thread in order to keep it clean.


IC:
Germany continues to maintain forces in Albania to help its struggling government maintain order and Germany plans to do so until it is satisfied the nation is able to stand on its own and able to defend itself from outside enemies.

Greece petitions for the Third Reich to help Corfu return to its rightful owner. It is suggested that compensation could be paid to Albania.

Greece petitions for the Third Reich to help Corfu return to its rightful owner. It is suggested that compensation could be paid to Albania.

Greece is told not to interfere with Albania and to go back to the corner and play with itself. Any attempts by Greece to continue its dreams of regaining its lost empire, indeed if one ever existed, at the expense of Germany's allies will not be looked favorably on by Germany.

Greece is told not to interfere with Albania and to go back to the corner and play with itself.

OOC - Eww.

IC - Greece enquires as to when Albania became Germany's ally, or were they simply bought? Greece can offer hefty compensation to regain Greek land and people.

Germany hereby infroms the Greek government that a payment of 100 points payed to the Albanian government would recieve the full support of Germany. In exchange, Greece would recieve the island they so desire.

Kaiser Wilhelm II announced plans to gradually turn over Germany's colonies to self rule and promised that within ten years at least of half of all colonial administrators will be native personal and that until the colonies are liberated, all members of the colonies would be granted citizenship with the same rights and liberties as those living in Germany proper.

"Propaganda and Fantasies", declares André Tardieu, the French Foreign Minister. The French press seconds his opinion.

Kaiser Wilhelm II also announced the creation of a committee to investigate long standing rumors of abuses by colonial officials and he called on all other nations to create similar committees with the same goals for their colonies.

The French Ambassador to Germany remarks that the Kaisers intentions are good, but Germany is 17 years behind France (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11777861&postcount=43).

For his part, the 66 year old Socialist Jean Jaurès writes in L'Humanité that his report touched upon the Cameroons and was made available to the German Government "but they just did not care." He also casts doubt on Wilhelm's intention to actually end abuse in the German colonies.

"He describes the most ghastly crimes, the recreation of the Leopoldian System in the Cameroons, the brutal suppression of countless rebellions against the rubber terror, and the extermination of the Hereos, the butchering of 60,000 people!, as rumors, just rumors... It amazes one, the idea that he was not aware of what was happening. He knew; he had to know!"

Jaurès reprints the extermination order issued by Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha in 1904:

"Within the German boundaries every Herero, whether found with or without a rifle, with or without cattle, shall be shot...
Signed: The Great General of the Mighty Kaiser von Trotha."

Jaurès ends his article questioning whether the German Government can even carry out such reform. "I wonder…can a Government that has slaughtered so many of its own citizens in the streets and imprisoned so many others actually improve the condition of its colonials? The Kaiser's army shot down striking German workers, is he capable of treating the Africans any better?"

The Kaiser, in a series of speeches around the nation, with the speech on German's need to deal with its inglourious colonial past being one of them, also announces the granting of men's and women's sufferage to all those eighteen and older, the granting of citizenship and all the rights promised therein to all people in the German Empire as well as the colonial holdings. The Kaiser also announced that those living in Germany's Equitorial holdings, the largest of Germany's colonies, would now be able to elect voting repersentatives to the Parliment and Germany's other colonies are now able to chose a non-voting repersentative as well to voice their opinions.

Kriegsmarine 1925
Kriegsmarine (Imperial Navy renamed after the unification)
180,000 men
Total maintenance cost of Kriegsmarine: 20.7 points

Naval Yard: Kiel
Naval Bases: Wilhemshaven, Bremerhaven, Stettin, Lubuck, Tangiers, Reunion, Luderitz, Cape Verde, Truk, Ulithi, Trieste
Other major ports: Hamburg, Danzig
Maintenance cost: 6 points

Battleships maintenance cost: 7.5 points
Bayern, Baden, Hannover, Wittelsbach, Wettin, 15 inch guns, 30,000 tons,
(game rating 4-5-4-3)
Kaiser Friedrich III, Kaiser Wilhelm II, 15 inch guns, 33,000 tons
(game rating 4-6-4-3)
Frederick de Grosse, Kaiser Friedrich III, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kaiser Barbarossa, 15 inch guns, 36,000 tons, (game rating 4-6-4-4)
Mackenson, Gneisnau, Scharnhorst, Blucher 15 inch guns, 41,000 tons, (game rating 4-5-6-4)

Aircraft carriers: maintenance cost: 6.5 points
Blucher, Von Der Tann, Moltke, Goeben, Seydlitz, 20,000 tons, 50 aircraft (game rating 0-2-6-4, airstrike 2)
Adler, Cormoran, Condor 10,000 tons, 24 aircraft (game rating 0-1-7-5, airstrike 1)

10 heavy cruisers maintenance cost: (all cruisers) 2.5 points
Seigfried, Hertha, Freya, Vineta, Hansa, Nymphe, Thetis, Ariadne, Amazone, Medusa,

15 Light cruisers
Bremerhaven, Rostock, Mainz, Coln, Konigsburg, Kolberg, Stettin, Stuttgart, Munchen, Breslau, Nurnburg, Leipzig, Emden, Dresden, Karlsruhe,
(game rating 1-0-6-5)

2 tech 5 sub flotilla(Long Range)
6 DD1 flotilla
2 MS Flotilla
2 Transport Group
maintenance all other ships: 2.7 points

Naval Air Service (part of Navy) 8,000 men, maintenance cost: 1.5 points
Air Depot Stettin, 1 naval bomber

Deployment:
South Atlantic Fleet (based at Luderitz, German Southwest Africa)
CA Ariadne, Amazone, CL Nurnburg, Leipzig, Emden, Coln, Konigsburg, Rostock,
CVL Adler, Cormoran, 1 DD1 flotilla, 1 MS flotilla, 1 SSK1 flotilla
Mediterranean Fleet: ships from the High Seas fleet (on rotation), making port calls at Tangiers and Trieste
CA Medusa, CL Kolberg, Stettin, CVL Condor, 1 DD1 flotilla

Pacific Fleet:
1 DD1 flotilla based out of Truk and Ulithi

High Seas Fleet
Scouting Force: BB Mackenson, Gneisnau, Scharnhorst, Blucher, CV Blucher, Von Der Tann, Moltke, Goeben, Seydlitz, CA Seigfried, Hertha, Freya, Vineta, Hansa, Nymphe, Thetis
Battle Force: BB Frederick de Grosse, Kaiser Friedrich III, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kaiser Barbarossa, Kaiser Friedrich III, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Bayern, Baden, Hannover, Wittelsbach, Wettin CL Bremerhaven, Mainz, Stuttgart, Munchen, Breslau, , Dresden, Karlsruhe, 3 DD1 flotilla,
1 minesweeper flotilla
1 SSK1 flotilla
2 transport groups
1 naval bomber


in 1925, the Kreigsmarine announces plans to build sufficient submarines to meet its treaty limits, as well as destroyers, motor torpedo boats, minesweepers and light transport ships. Plans are also made to modernize the battleship and cruiser fleet, and convert all naval bases on the North Sea and Baltic coasts into naval yards.

The Kaiser, in a series of speeches around the nation, with the speech on German's need to deal with its inglourious colonial past being one of them, also announces the granting of men's and women's sufferage to all those eighteen and older, the granting of citizenship and all the rights promised therein to all people in the German Empire as well as the colonial holdings. The Kaiser also announced that those living in Germany's Equitorial holdings, the largest of Germany's colonies, would now be able to elect voting repersentatives to the Parliment and Germany's other colonies are now able to chose a non-voting repersentative as well to voice their opinions.


The Ultra Right spokesman, Adolf Hitler, points out in a radio address that surely His Majesty just means those of European descent, as not even the English have granted such rights to their Black African subjects. He goes on at length naturally about German racial supremacy and general European supremacy over the colored races.

Even newspapers in the United States and Britian have little to say to criticize his point (ooc: remember what decade this is after all)

Available manpower 1925
Maximum size: regular forces 2,400,000, reserve forces: 5,600,000 colonial forces: 225,000 (plus 225,000 Germans)

Regular forces mobilized: Army 1,175,000 + Luftwaffe 72.000 + Navy 180,000 + Colonial 225,000 = 1,652,000 (748,000 men available)
Colonial manpower mobilized: 220,000 (5,000 men available)
Reserve manpower mobilized: 2,931,000 (2,669,000 men available)

Wehrmacht
Regular forces 1,175,000 men maintenance 32.75 points
10 motorized infantry corps, 1 armored brigade, 11 infantry corps, 2 static infantry corps, 2 mountain divisions, 2 garrison divisions, 4 marine brigades, 10 engineer brigades,

Colonial forces 445,000 (50% German) maintenance 9.05 points
5 Garrison units, 4 fortress corps, 1 motorized HQ, 1 HQ, 1 coast defense division, 2 light infantry divisions, 3 light infantry brigades,

Reserve forces 2,931,000 men, maintenance 37.5 points
55 infantry corps, 4 motorized HQs,1 motorized supply unit, 1 HQ, 2 fortress corps, 4 seige artillery brigades, 4 artillery divisions,

other Wehrmacht expenses maintenance: 27 points
4 ammo stockpiles, 4 chem stockpiles (3 x level 3, 1 x level 1),
Seigfried Line (fortresses Kiel, Bremen, hex west of Bremen, Essen, Dusseldorf
Gothic Line (fortresses hex southwest of Munich, southeast of Munich, Trieste, Pola, hex northeast of Trieste, fortress at Cape Verde islands

Total costs: 106.3 points

Deployment:
Balkans Army
Garrisons: 1 garrison unit each Ploesti, Albania (from Regular Army)
Colonial Army
Army of Morocco
Tangiers: 1 garrison unit, 1 fortress corps, 1 HQ, 1 light infantry division,
Rabat: 1 garrison unit
Cape Verde: 1 fortress, 1 coast defense division, 1 light infantry brigade
Army of South Africa
Luderitz: 1 fortress corps, 1 motorized HQ, 1 garrison unit, 2 light infantry divisions, 1 light infantry brigade
Reunion Island: 1 fortress corps
Comoros Islands: 1 fortress corps
Army of West Africa
Cameroon: 1 garrison unit,
German Equatorial Africa (modern day Congo-Brazzaville): 1 garrison unit

Home Army
All other forces

The Army announces in 1925 that plans are underway to modernize the Army

1925 budget
72 production centers (normal spending) x 4 = 288 points
Commerce – 21.4 points
Resources – 3.5 points
Total available – 312.9 – 1% for corruption = 308

Military maintenance – 138.5 points
Intelligence service – 5 points
Level III social services – 24 points
Total maintenance – 167.5 points
Growth – 2% of 141.4 (3 production centers including excess from last year) – 1 each for Chemnitz, Zagreb, Breslau

Spending
Convert naval bases at Bremerhaven (Bremen), Stettin into naval yards, build naval yards at Hamburg and Danzig – 84 points
Dam construction (4 resources) – 36 points
Build 1 destroyer flotillas - 10 points
Build 1 submarine flotilla – 10 points
Build 1 motor torpedo boat flotilla – 1 point

Deciding the Navy needs modernization urgently, and lacks the infrastructure to do so, the budget favors the Navy exclusively this year, but promises are made that next year the Army will get a large chunk. The government is also determined to become as energy independent as possible, and to relieve growing unemployment, public works efforts (Dams) are funded.

Pressure to go to deficit spending and other emergency measures (national effort) beginning in 1926 also develops.

The Army also converts a number of infantry corps to light infantry divisions, and shifts some forces around to the colonies (see Army post). The growing expense of the Army forces a large number of units be made into reservists.

With a large amount of slack in the shipping industry because of reduced demand, and needing the ships in any case, 10 shipping units are bought by the Navy (free purchase) and made into light transport units.

On Behalf of his Majesty, Czar Boris III of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Czar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria,

We Send our most cordial greetings and well wishes to our esteemed friends, truly our mutual relationship has been very dear to us as we have much to owe to your steadfastness during times when vile barbarous knaves threatened the very fiber of his Majesty's noble and proud realm.

We have striven to repay this immense service by aiding the cause of your and our friends -the Poles, the Balts, the Finns and the Ukrainians- in their struggle against the same dreaded nature which threatened the kingdom. What effort we put into this struggle we hold in high pride and deep honor. Since then we have striven to resume our policy of mutual benefit with much great success,

However, now that the Bulgarian people have completed a crucial phase of their nationhood, it is thought that it is time to focus on internal and nearer spheres of interest, while we will remain a good friend of Germany and a great supporter of any just causes Germany strives to accomplish, as well as a good trading partner and an associate in the mutual economic relationship between our nations, we feel that a moderation of our mutual full alliance is in order.

We hope that we can absolve Bulgaria of any unnecessary responsibilities, with recognition that the Third Reich is fully capable of handling any such of these responsibilities should they call for it, this we hope can be accomplished by the dissolution of the respective terms of our agreement.

We remain even more hopeful that the venerable Third Reich can continue to guarantee our sovereignty and independence as a fellow nation and a friend of the German people.

On Behalf of his Majesty, Czar Boris III of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Czar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria,

We Send our most cordial greetings and well wishes to our esteemed friends, truly our mutual relationship has been very dear to us as we have much to owe to your steadfastness during times when vile barbarous knaves threatened the very fiber of his Majesty's noble and proud realm.

We have striven to repay this immense service by aiding the cause of your and our friends -the Poles, the Balts, the Finns and the Ukrainians- in their struggle against the same dreaded nature which threatened the kingdom. What effort we put into this struggle we hold in high pride and deep honor. Since then we have striven to resume our policy of mutual benefit with much great success,

However, now that the Bulgarian people have completed a crucial phase of their nationhood, it is thought that it is time to focus on internal and nearer spheres of interest, while we will remain a good friend of Germany and a great supporter of any just causes Germany strives to accomplish, as well as a good trading partner and an associate in the mutual economic relationship between our nations, we feel that a moderation of our mutual full alliance is in order.

We hope that we can absolve Bulgaria of any unnecessary responsibilities, with recognition that the Third Reich is fully capable of handling any such of these responsibilities should they call for it, this we hope can be accomplished by the dissolution of the respective terms of our agreement.

We remain even more hopeful that the venerable Third Reich can continue to guarantee our sovereignty and independence as a fellow nation and a friend of the German people.


The Third Reich as well as the German people are over joyed that the Bulgarian people, long allies to Germany and its allies in the fight for a peaceful Europe wish to remain allies even as they deal with matters that are understandably closer to home. Bulgaria will recieve German protection and its friendship as long as Bulgaria so desires as it has always been and always shall be. Germany wishes Bulgaria that its future continues to be bright and that one day, Bulgaria may once again join Germany in helping protect the world from danger.

The Kaiser responded viciously to the rumors, and outrage, that continue to swirl around his seemingly sudden decision to grant women's sufferage. The Kaiser officially stated that it was part of his effort to advance Germany into the modern age and that "those who continue to support denying women the right to vote are not deserving of a vote themselves."

Several sources close to the Imperial Family however informed this newspaper that it was a two part effort not only to court American favor and to prove to other neutral nations of Germany's peaceful intentions but also to reduce the rapid success of the right-wing groups that continue to gather increasing support of the German public. The sources stated that the Kaiser hoped that women voters, which he believes will support more moderate or traditionally minded groups, would help end the rising calls by extremist groups to reduce his powers in the favor of the right-wing lead Reichstag.

Currently SPain wishes to affirm it's NAP with Germany, and the peace and friendliness that SPain and Germany have enjoyed since the Great War. At this time, Spain is curious if Germany would wish to purchase iron or any other important metals that Spain has to offer.

(Hitler yummed up Spanish iron during the Spanish Civil War and during the Second World War.)

Currently SPain wishes to affirm it's NAP with Germany, and the peace and friendliness that SPain and Germany have enjoyed since the Great War. At this time, Spain is curious if Germany would wish to purchase iron or any other important metals that Spain has to offer.

(Hitler yummed up Spanish iron during the Spanish Civil War and during the Second World War.)

Germany will continue to honor all its NAP's, Spain's included. As to the matter of Spanish metals, Germany shall leave industries to decide which countries to purchase metels from.

ooc: not sure how the metels would work in game terms hence the vague answer

(I believe that it just means I can build a shipping unit or 5 so that I can start trade with Germany.)

The American press notes that Russia is in violation of the Washington Naval Treaty, having 16 battleships, including those in mothballs, when it is supposed to have only 12 and that the Ukraine is violating the moratorium on new battleship construction, which includes ALL battleships

The German press picks up this story, and a flood of accusations from the center and right wing press, and the right wing political parties issues forth

In March the French Ambassador to Germany approaches the German Foreign Ministry about a possible visit from President Aristide Briand and Foreign Minister André Tardieu later in the year (probably August). During their visit they would discuss with their respective counterparts (the Kaiser and the German Foreign Minister) relations and the significant changes that have overtaken Eastern Europe since 1920.

In March the French Ambassador to Germany approaches the German Foreign Ministry about a possible visit from President Aristide Briand and Foreign Minister André Tardieu later in the year (probably August). During their visit they would discuss with their respective counterparts (the Kaiser and the German Foreign Minister) relations and the significant changes that have overtaken Eastern Europe since 1920.

Germany is always willing to open dialogue with its nations about stablity on Europe.

With a change of power in the Netherlands, Prime Minister Troelstra informs that the Alliance between the two countries regretfully has to be broken.

In Germany, Nazi thugs begin attacking Jews regularly, as well as Communists and Socialists, and a number are killed. Frequently the local Police will interfere only to keep property damage to a minimum. Street battles occur between the Nazis and Communists on a regular basis, and the police always join in on the Nazi side. Jews are rarely killed, although frequently injured, but Communists and Socialists are frequently killed in the fighting.

Several strikes in the Ruhr are brought to an end as industrialists pay the Nazis to break them up violently, and pay the police to ignore the situation.

Meanwhile, a very secret memo (OOC no one outside of Germany will be aware of this yet) passes around in the halls of the German government. It points out that expelling the Jews would allow the government to seize their assets, and also points out that many of the leaders of the Socialists and Communists are Jews, and therefore dangerous.

In disgust, and concerned, many leading Jewish scientific minds, including Einstein, move to Switzerland or North America to take jobs at universities where their physical safely is less likely to be threatened.

On the floor of the Assemblée Nationale, Prime Minister Blum (ooc: who is Jewish, albeit non-practicing) speaks out against “the rising tide of backwardness” and violence in Germany and Eastern Europe.

“Once again the Jews of Europe, a loyal, peaceful, prosperous people, are being accused of putting Black Death in the water.”

In 1925, in the Reichstag, efforts to get unemployment insurance passed fail. However, some of the unemployment problem is dealt with by large work projects, as well as increasing the call up (by enlarging the army and navy) and increased employment created by large orders from the army, navy and air service branches of the Army and Navy.

August 1925: President Aristide Briand and Foreign Minister André Tardieu make an official state visit to the Berlin and meet with Kaiser Wilhelm II and the German Foreign Minister. The conciliatory Briand is hopeful that compromise and better relations can be achieved. The hard-line Tardieu is less hopeful, remarking to a Parisian newspaper, "I expect very little progress to be made in that capital of autocrats, demagogues, and militarists."

Many topics are discussed during the meeting, among them French-German relations, German-Russian relations, how the formation of the Reich will affect the renegotiation of the Washington Naval Treaty, the growing violence against German Jews/Socialists/Leftists within the Reich ("lawlessness," remarks a disturbed Briand), and the status of the former Serbian Royal Family (still under house arrest in Vienna). Of the Serbian Royal Family, Briand politely suggests that Germany allow them to assume a dignified exile in France, the French State will insure they remain non-political.

August 1925: President Aristide Briand and Foreign Minister André Tardieu make an official state visit to the Berlin and meet with Kaiser Wilhelm II and the German Foreign Minister. The conciliatory Briand is hopeful that compromise and better relations can be achieved. The hard-line Tardieu is less hopeful, remarking to a Parisian newspaper, "I expect very little progress to be made in that capital of autocrats, demagogues, and militarists."

Many topics are discussed during the meeting, among them French-German relations, German-Russian relations, how the formation of the Reich will affect the renegotiation of the Washington Naval Treaty, the growing violence against German Jews/Socialists/Leftists within the Reich ("lawlessness," remarks a disturbed Briand), and the status of the former Serbian Royal Family (still under house arrest in Vienna). Of the Serbian Royal Family, Briand politely suggests that Germany allow them to assume a dignified exile in France, the French State will insure they remain non-political.

German political observers from both sides of the political condem France's vist as useless so long as its politicans show themselves unwilling to see past unfair generalizations while condeming all Germans for the acts of a minority of German citizens. Several politicians call it "the actions of one who wishes only to appear to be fighting for peace while truely wanting nothing of the sort.

ooc: I believe the Serbian royal family was in Budapest actually, meaning its Hungary's problem.

Having accomplished absolutely nothing, President Aristide Briand and Foreign Minister André Tardieu return to France disappointed by the fruitless meetings and negative press. President Briand later comments on how "disturbed" he was by his trip. The opinion that Germany is dangerous only hardens further.

With the signing of the Warsaw pact the Hungarian government officially informs the German Reich that due to changing foreign policy that the Hungarians are officially withdrawing from the Alliance between the 2 nations.

With the signing of the Warsaw pact the Hungarian government officially informs the German Reich that due to changing foreign policy that the Hungarians are officially withdrawing from the Alliance between the 2 nations.

While Germany is exremely disaponted with the ending of the alliance between Hungary and itself, it wishes Hungary the best of luck in its endevors in the future.

ooc:
The views expressed below are not those of this RP'er and are views that this RP'er finds most vile and disgraceful to the entire human race. This is a actual pamphlet from Nazi Germany that is being used to give historical accuracy to this RP and only for that reason.

IC:
Zionism
by Arno Schickedanz

Through Karl Marx-Mordechai, Jewry overcame the problems and difficulties that came with industrialization and the transformation of ownership resulting from the development of the fourth estate, falsifying their justified demands in a way that served Jewry's interests. With his assertion of constant exploitation based on his materialist view of history, Karl Marx created a front that ran through all nations, stamping it with "internationalism" and the Jewish spirit. His doctrine ripped nations apart. Their resistance to outside forces collapsed as parties struggled bitterly with one another. It is surprising that few have noticed that Karl Marx-Mordechai's doctrines were Jewish in nature. He believed that he could take the materialist view of history and the exploitive nature of the Jewish people and apply them to all the other peoples.

The claim of "constant exploitation" removed the parasitic lifestyle of the "chosen people" from the center of attention of other nations as well as of the class claimed by Marxism. But it continued to reign as the leader of speculative finance capital, bound to no territory or national community. It also led the Marxist organization that spanned all boundaries of land and ethnicity, just as "Jahwe" rules over the universe.

The growing wealth of the Jews, along with the increasing influence that their wealth gave them led to a certain loosening of Jewish cohesiveness. Increasing numbers went from the Mosaic to the Christian faith purely to gain further advantages. There was a certain "assimilation," and a "liberal" Jewry also developed that accepted those precepts of Jewish doctrine that were pleasant and comfortable, but rejected those that caused discomfort, without however leaving the Jewish faith. Karl Marx-Mordechai's doctrines were even reflected in the Jewish organization "Paole Zion" among the poor Jews found only in the East who had not accomplished anything.

Zionism resulted from thinking about the position of the Jews within their host peoples and from knowledge of their financial and political power. It was an attempt to balance these facts and combat the spiritually divergent tendencies in Jewry. Its founder Herzl spoke more or less openly in various places in his diaries: "Where it exists, one can no longer abolish the legal equality of the Jews. This is not only because it goes against the modern mind, but also because all Jews, rich and poor, would immediately be forced into revolutionary parties. There is really nothing they can do to us. In the past one took their jewelry from the Jews; can one today take their movable wealth? The impossibility of getting at the Jews has only strengthened and embittered hatred. Anti-Semitism grows daily, even hourly, in the population. It will continue to grow since its causes continue to exist and cannot be eliminated." (Th. Herzl, The Jewish State). "I do not wish to write about the history of the Jews. It is familiar. I must mention only one thing: In our two thousand years in the diaspora, there has been no unified leadership. That is what I think is our primary misfortune." To overcome this "misfortune," Herzl founded political Zionism.

Non-Jewish observers and writers on Zionism, who see political Zionism only as an attempt at "national renewal" rather than an effort to establish a unified Jewish leadership as well as Jewish rule over the world, are therefore incorrect. The confusion of political Zionism with Palestine can be understood only through the Jewish prophecies in which Jewry is assured of control over all the goods of this world. Knowing that the time was near, and would culminate in taking possession of Palestine, Zionism developed the nonsensical notion of an "historic claim" to the "promised land," to which Jews "without any outside pressure" would gradually emigrate.

In the ideology of political Zionism, Palestine fulfilled the role of an indispensable part of prophecy, just as certain rules are the guarantee for success in the magical ceremonies of primitive peoples. Political Zionism never intended Palestine to be the destination of all Jews, but rather it merely wants to make Palestine the center of Jewish world policy. That must naturally be protected by a strong Jewish population. The Zionist publication Jüdische Rundschau wrote: "No one at any time has proposed that all Jews today should emigrate to Palestine." Nah um Sokolow, Weizmann's colleague and current chairman of the Zionist Committee, said it clearly in 1921: "The Jewish people wants to return to Palestine; the Jewish people will have its center in Palestine. Large parts of Jewry will live as a Jewish periphery in the world. They must be cared for; their dignity and their national rights must be assured."

That provides a correction to the idealization of Zionism, which springs from a different race. From a political standpoint, it would be in the interests of the whole world, of all the host peoples, if the Jews now scattered throughout the whole world were to voluntarily emigrate to some habitable territory. If political Zionism were not interested in such a solution to the Jewish Question, it would be in the interests of the host peoples to point it in that positive direction. The only question would be whether Palestine is the proper gathering place, which no one would likely maintain. Palestine is not able to absorb all the Jews in the world, entirely aside from the fact of increasing Arab opposition to Jewish infiltration. The Arabs are, after all, the undisputed owners of the land. But what other territory would be appropriate? And at the instant Palestine ceased to be the goal of Jewish emigration, political Zionism would collapse, since Palestine is seen as a means for the fulfillment of prophecy. Without that, the whole enterprise would lose its point. Jewry itself would make the most passionate and bitter attacks, and before long any undertaking that ignored Palestine would be crippled by Jewry itself. Palestine incorporates for Jewry its special position. Ignoring this would be ethnic suicide for Jewry, since political Zionism also has as a goal maintaining and strengthening Jewry's special situation.