The Curse of Valkyrie: Hitler Dies, NAZIs Thrive.

German Führer Adolf Hitler succumbs to his injuries and dies in the massive "Valkyrie" plot on July 20, 1944. But in the post-assassination chaos, the conspirators of Operation Valkyrie fail to secure power. Only Martin Bormann, Hitler's personal secretary and President of the NAZI Party, is able to successfully evade scrutiny from both sides and eventually garners the support to expose the plot and consolidate power. Bormann, by secret directive from Hitler, declares himself Acting-Führer. He makes a number of executive moves to replace military leadership.



Bormann orders an immediate retreat of German forces and recall of German citizens from France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. He moves most of the excess troops to a defensive position along the Rhine river and also dedicates a small number of units to a last-ditch invasion of Scotland which is repelled but successful in devastating British resources. Through his actions, Bormann is able to extend the war into October 1946. The extension of combat leads to a massive peace negotiation in Cape Town, South Africa. Germany is allowed to keep most of Eastern Europe, Japan is allowed to keep Korea, and The Allies recieve hegemony over the rest of the world. Because Russia feels so excluded they refuse to sign and eventually Germany and Japan conquer and divide the country. Russia's population is almost wholly erased, its countryside used as killing fields, and its cities turned into wastelands. China is also invaded by the Japanese empire.

Because The United States is able to maintain Force Projection capabilities and develop nuclear weapons, and because its population does not support a re-entry into war, it allows the aggression. It maintains no formal relations with the Axis states and refers to all other parts of the world as "The Aligned Free States." The two worlds, Free and Axis, are drastically different in response to one another. Civil rights and liberalism blossums in the free world as democracy and secularism spread through Africa and the Middle East. The Axis world is severely more totalitarian, homicidally racist, and fully policed.