Tausendjahriges-Reich
18-02-2008, 08:25
September, 1945, Berlin
It was now more than one and a half years since RAF Bomber Command dropped 2,300 tons of explosives on the capital of the Reich in a single night and the United States' bomber forces opened the wide-ranging big week offensive, and, day by day, it was becoming increasingly hard to tell that anything had happened. That was, of course, unless you remembered historic Berlin and noticed that the city today was virtually brand new, raised almost over night and full of triumphal monuments hailing great victories over the Bolsheviks in the east and the Allies in the west.
The last Western Allied regular forces in continental Europe were marching into captivity, a handful of Canadian troops captured in northern France while awaiting an evacuation that would never come. The skies of Europe buzzed with helicopter blades and screamed with rocket motors. Britain laboured under a strengthening blockade carried-out by new all-electric U-boats launching torpedoes guided by accoustic homing technology, and her cities burned once again as flying wings coated in radar-absorbant paint and propelled by jet engines dropped remotely guided bombs on industry and government in an attempt to induce capitulation from the island nation. Even New York lay in ruins after intercontinental bombing raids and the stunning arrival of submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
Even in the Far East the fortunes of Germany's ally, Japan, were reversed by the arrival of high-altitude fighters and radio-guided surface-to-air missiles from the Reich, which made short-work of even the Americans' new pressurised bombers. For every raid on Tokyo, the Luftwaffe launched a fresh assault on New York. Dropping the bomb on Germany was an unthinkable measure given the presence of many hundreds of thousands of British Empire and Commonwealth, Free French, and American POWs, who were now scattered around the Empire that was built to last for a thousand years.
After last year declaring, "Der Führer ist tot, Der Kampf geht weiter!" the new post-Nazi military government of the Reich was prepared to issue a fresh statement.
Reichspräsident Ludwig August Theodor Beck, flanked by controversial Reichskanzler Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and Generalfeldmarschall Job-Wilhelm Georg "Erwin" von Witzleben, appeared at the Reichstag, backed by the inscription Dem Deutschen Volke to announce simply that, For Europe, the war is over!
Masters of a new empire, the constituents of a so-called provisional government invite the world to recognise their triumph and pursue normal relations with the Reich.
It was now more than one and a half years since RAF Bomber Command dropped 2,300 tons of explosives on the capital of the Reich in a single night and the United States' bomber forces opened the wide-ranging big week offensive, and, day by day, it was becoming increasingly hard to tell that anything had happened. That was, of course, unless you remembered historic Berlin and noticed that the city today was virtually brand new, raised almost over night and full of triumphal monuments hailing great victories over the Bolsheviks in the east and the Allies in the west.
The last Western Allied regular forces in continental Europe were marching into captivity, a handful of Canadian troops captured in northern France while awaiting an evacuation that would never come. The skies of Europe buzzed with helicopter blades and screamed with rocket motors. Britain laboured under a strengthening blockade carried-out by new all-electric U-boats launching torpedoes guided by accoustic homing technology, and her cities burned once again as flying wings coated in radar-absorbant paint and propelled by jet engines dropped remotely guided bombs on industry and government in an attempt to induce capitulation from the island nation. Even New York lay in ruins after intercontinental bombing raids and the stunning arrival of submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
Even in the Far East the fortunes of Germany's ally, Japan, were reversed by the arrival of high-altitude fighters and radio-guided surface-to-air missiles from the Reich, which made short-work of even the Americans' new pressurised bombers. For every raid on Tokyo, the Luftwaffe launched a fresh assault on New York. Dropping the bomb on Germany was an unthinkable measure given the presence of many hundreds of thousands of British Empire and Commonwealth, Free French, and American POWs, who were now scattered around the Empire that was built to last for a thousand years.
After last year declaring, "Der Führer ist tot, Der Kampf geht weiter!" the new post-Nazi military government of the Reich was prepared to issue a fresh statement.
Reichspräsident Ludwig August Theodor Beck, flanked by controversial Reichskanzler Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and Generalfeldmarschall Job-Wilhelm Georg "Erwin" von Witzleben, appeared at the Reichstag, backed by the inscription Dem Deutschen Volke to announce simply that, For Europe, the war is over!
Masters of a new empire, the constituents of a so-called provisional government invite the world to recognise their triumph and pursue normal relations with the Reich.