The Undead World in 1943

Part 1: The Beginning
11th December, 1942. Stalingrad.

It was the dead of winter. The Battle Of Stalingrad was in full swing. Several corpses were in the medical tent at a Soviet camp about 2 miles outside the city. 3 hours later, they were not there. soon, German scouting parties were seen roaming the streets, covered in blood and scratch marks. then, entire German camps were found with half-eaten corpses littering the snow covered ground. subsequent scouting parties to the same areas found no corpses at all. soon Soviet camps were overrun, and by the 20th of December, Stalingrad was a dead zone, although no-one knew it. then German bases in the Soviet Union began disappearing. whole companies, whole battalions. when 1943 came, the dead numbered well over 250,000. still, the war continued. It only ended, at least unofficially, when frantic radio broadcasts came in from somewhere near Kursk from a Soviet radio operator. the transmission consisted of panicked shouting in both Russian and German, moaning and screaming, and shooting. after 14 minutes, the tranmission was transformed from this cacophony of mayhem into hundreds of thousands of moans. from then on, unofficial truces continued across the Russian front, although official hostillities continued. as the undead spread across the Russian front, the battle became more and more desperate. however, the Germans and Soviets had one, massive advantage: the abillity to deliver supplies via airdrops. as the undead had no anti-aircraft capabillities, the militaries were able to carry out fire missions on the undead with absolutely no danger whatsoever. however, on the ground, the undead had the advantage. the army had the ranged capabillity, but it was no use when over three-quarters of the soldiers were not properly briefed on how to stop the undead human. the month of January in 1943 was marked by major defeat after major defeat: Smolensk, Moscow, and the worst of them all, Leningrad. the city was ready, but not for the great hordes that were further swelled by the humans killed in the previous defeats. it was 2,500,000 Soviet and German defenders versus over 5 million undead. the result was a horrific massacre, with all but 120,000 people escaping, the rest transformed into ravenous, flesh-eating monsters. after this, the truce became official, with the remainder of the now unified Soviet and German armies retreating west. as February began, the undead then started to follow the army west. then, the army made one last stand against the undead along the Polish border. the undead were expected to arrive around March. this gave the army time to prepare for what would surely decide the war against the undead. By now, the British and Americans had heard of this truce, and were considering sending troops to the Polish border to help the Soviets and Germans to fend off the enormous horde that was surely headed their way. by the time they had actually agreed to send troops, the horde was less than 3 days away, and it would take at least a week for the troops to arrive. even so, they were sent to the front. when the horde hit, the casualty rate was high. tens of thousands died within the first hours of the battle. however, now the army was more prepared for undead warfare. the soldiers, for the most part, had been briefed on how to dispatch the undead. but disaster was about to strike, and, sure enough, the army group at the north part of the border collapsed, with over 70% of the men in the group dead or undead, the remainder ran west, to the Fatherland. however, many of the retreating men were already bitten, unleashing the infection onto Poland...