Albert Speer - What if?

This alternate history describes the events that could have happened if Todt would have died in 1938 instead of 1942 and Speer was appointed sooner. Only Italy not entering the war until later would not be affected by Speer's appointment.

1938 - Speer Gets a New Job

 * During July 1938, Todt, head of armaments, left for Berlin from Vienna. While his car was driving to the airport, a group of people against the Nazi annexation of Austria ambushed his car killing him and his driver, Hans Düsseldorf. Hitler gets word of Todt's death and quickly appoints a new minister. Hitler picks a young architect named Albert Speer to head armaments. Speer has no experience in this field before and tries to settle in as fast as he can to his new job. Germany has bigger plans than just the annexation of Austria, the control of central and eastern Europe. A few weeks after Speer is appointed, Speer learns of the German plans for the annexation of the Sudatenland from the Czechs.


 * Speer works on getting German manufactoring to produce more panzers and weapons a month than before. In September at the Munich Conference, Germany is given the Sudatenland without a single shot being fired. Hitler is pleased to have yet another 'oppresed' German people saved. But even more jubilant than Hitler is Speer himself. Speer sees the Sudatenland as a chance to expand German industry even greater. Speer uses the Sudatenland to a great extent and also the rest of Germany and by July 1939, a year after taking his job, has German military production increased by double from the July output of '38.

The Campaigns in Poland and the West

 * During the Summer of '39, the German General Staff has been working at a new operation, the invasion of Poland. The invasion of Poland, Case White, will use more motorized and panzer divisions than planned in the Spring of '39 due to the increase in German production. Germany now has 5 panzer divisions composing of 50% panzer II, 35% panzer III and 15% panzer IV. Germany also has 8 motorized divisions. The German plan is for an armoured thrust starting in East Prussia to strike at Warsaw while the infantry armies push from the eastern border of Germany.


 * September 1st, 1939 the plan is set in motion. 5 panzer divisions are used in the thrust from East Prussia and the divisions are under the command of Heinz Guderian, the father of blitzkreig. The assualt is a success reaching Warsaw within 5 days. The infantry armies are pushing the Polish armies towards Guderian's panzers and the Polish armies are getting destroyed. By September 16th, all of western Poland is under German control, including Warsaw. The Polish sue for peace on September 18th after the Soviet Union declares war and invades eastern Poland. The generals and Hitler are pleased with this victory. But the war isn't over yet. On September 2nd, France declared war on Germany. The UK hesistated and did not declare war on Germany. France now is standing alone against Germany.


 * In the winter of '39 and '40, the general staff plots it's invasion of France and the Low Countries. While Speer slowly increases production, Germany faces it's first air raid of the war. France bombs the Ruhr and cuts Ruhr production in half for the next few months. Hitler is furious with Goering for letting this happen. Hitler orders a retaliation attack on France. Pairs is bombed. This bombing run is a wake up call for Speer and Goering, if German industry is going to stay productive the factories are going to need good air protection. Speer begins construct of Flak towers to be garrisoned by Luftwaffe troops.


 * In the spring of '40, the Germans launch their blitzkreig against the West while also invading Denmark and Norway. When German troops cross the Belgian border however the UK declares war against Germany. The Germans use a panzer strike through the Ardennes which by-passes the Maginot Line. The Germans are victorious and the West falls within a month. Britain never had a chance to send the BEF so the British do not lose many weapons and men in the Battle of France. In late June, Hitler takes some of his general staff and ministers, including Speer, in a tour of Paris. Hitler's next goal is to force a peace between Germany and Britain who's new Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, proclaims the British will never surrender.

Battle of Britain

 * The air war over Britain began in July 1940. Hitler ordered Goering to defeat the Royal Air Force to gain air supremacy over the English Channel and the British Isles for Operation Sealion. Goering in cooperation with Speer puts bomber production as the utmost importance. Speer believes this is a mistake. Speer's engineers have inspected captured British fighters used in the Battle of France and realizes that the German Me 109 is inferior to the new British fighters. Speer starts secret developments of new fighter aircraft behind Goering's back with Hitler's approval. Hitler approves this because of his now distrust of the Reich Marshall since the bombing of the Ruhr in the winter.


 * The Luftwaffe begin to bomb British factories and airfields. The war of attrition starts out in favor of the British. The British are producing more fighters in the months of July and August than the Germans. But Goering's Luftwaffe has the British on their last leg. The British have enough planes but not enough skilled pilots let alone pilots themselves. The Germans shift some of their bombing campaign to terrorize London and other major cities. This gives the British time to rebuild their fighter fleet.


 * In the month of September the last days of good weather for cross channel landings is over. Hitler is furious with Goering for not being able to defeat the British sooner. The general staff sighs a sigh of relief. A cross channel attack would have been a difficult feat. Due to the Kreigmarines weakness in the sea, the number of transports would be large and the Kreigsmarines didn't have enough gathered even if the Luftwaffe had air supremacy in August as wanted by Hitler. Operation Sealion is suspended for the winter of '40 to '41.

Future Plans and Politics

 * The year 1941 started with the Luftwaffe licking it's wounds from the defeat during the Battle of Britain. Speer finally reveals his new fighter designs to Goering. Goering is inraged and yet satistified. The Luftwaffe is ordered to build up for a new air offensive in April. Code named Operation Eagle, the plan is going to do the final blow on the British Isles. The Germans plan on both bombing airfields and cities simulatanously. The Luftwaffe are going to need 1500 bombers and 2000 fighters for this operation which Germany already has 689 bombers and 789 fighters.


 * The ground war is going good for Germany at this point. With the conquest of all of Western Europe and Poland. Germany's southern flank could be in threat though. Mussolini's Italy hasn't gotten in the war yet. Hitler asked for Italy to declare war in '40 but Mussolini rejected. Mussolini's excuse was that Italy isn't going to be prepared for war until 1942. Hitler is secretly infurirated over this but will not show his frustration to his only ally in Europe. Italy has invaded Greece but the Allied powers ignore this. Britain wants Italy to join the war on the side of the Allies as in World War I. Italy's entry in the war could alter the outcome either way.


 * As the war in Europe insued in 1940, the Soviet Union stood idle. The USSR realizes that the German industry is very well advanced. Stalin has read 'Mein Kampf' and knows Hitler's views towards the communists and Slavic people. The only thing that is keeping war from breaking out between the two major powers is that both, unknowningly, are afraid of each other. A war between the USSR and the Third Reich would lead to a disaster for both countries. Hitler decided early in '39 that he is going to avoid a two front war at all costs. Hitler plans on invading the Soviet Union after Britain is out of the war. Hitler is slowly gathering allies in the Balkans. Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary are all afraid of communism and will side with Nazi Germany in the future war of extermination.

Operation Eagle

 * Speer's industry has meet the demands for the Luftwaffe. The Luftwaffe has all the bombers and fighters it needs and then some. Speer has changed German industry drasticly. German production is five times that of September 1939. The Luftwaffe has a 2:1 ratio to the RAF in fighters and a 4:1 ratio in bombers. Within two weeks after the start of the offensive British cities and airfields are destroyed. British industry has dropped down 75% due to the bombing of factories. Churchill still states Britain will never surrender, but his generals and admirals are planning something of their own.


 * May 14th, 1942 the British generals and admirals do a military coup. Ousting Churchill from office and locking down Parliament. The leaders of the coup quickly declare martial law and send peace feelers to Berlin. Hitler is willing to make peace with the British under reasonable terms. Britain is to pay reparations to Germany and ceded Gibralter, Malta, Cyprus, Suez Canal zone and large parts of the Middle East to the German Reich. Britain agrees and a peace between the new Fascist controled British Union and the Third Reich begins.


 * A month later, Italy joins the Axis and invades Egypt and Greece. Hitler sends the Afrika Korps headed by Rommel with seven Panzer divisions to help in Egypt and sends his now idle armies through Yugoslovia to Greece which is still standing strong against the Italian invaders. Bulgaria, Romania, Nationalist Spain and Hungary join the Axis.

Second Half of 1941

 * With the Axis dominating all of mainland Europe, North Afrika, and the Middle East. 75% of Germany's divisions are stationed in Poland and Romania. The German Afrika Korp is in Turkey, which now has joined the Axis. Ever since the British surrender, the Soviet Union has been planning a pre-emptive strike against the Axis in Europe. Hitler has also been planning his own attack of the Soviet Union. By September, tensions are high all along the Eastern Front. Two large armies face each other just waiting for their final preprations and orders to attack. Nazi Germany has 150 divisions in Poland and Romania and 25 divisions in the Middle East. Germany has 25 fully equiped panzer divisions ready for the attack. There are 48 minor Axis partner divisions in the Balkans and 79 Italian divisions in the East and 10 divisions in the Middle East. Many minor Axis partners are using mainly German equipment. Germany has produced excess guns, panzers, and aircraft and has given the equipment to the minor nations in an Axis form of the Lend Lease program. All German divisions are fully equiped with full manpower. Germany is facing a manpower shortage though. Speer has presuaded Hitler to let women work in the factories until after the war is over. Which relieved some men for the front. Speer's work force comprises 75% forced labor while 25% are women. But with new factories opening every month, more women will be put to work in factories for a pay while forced labor are paid but not to much or most of the times not at all.

The German Plan

 * The German plan was going to be to seize the Soviet's vital cities and resource points. The plan called for four army groups. Army Group North will attempt to seize the vital port city of Leningrad and gain a land connection with the Finnish troops, Finland has joined the Axis. Army Group Centre will strike at Minsk then advance to Smolensk and then on to Moscow. Army Group South will strike toward Kiev then towards the oil fields of the Caucasus and link up with Army Group B which will be striking from it's launch point in Turkey.The operation is entitled Operation Vaterland. Hitler and the general staff want to have the war over by November at the latest. Hitler believes the Red Army is weak because of the Red Army's failed attack on Finland in 1940. The commanders for the Army Groups are as follows: Army Group North is commanded by Field Marshal von Leeb, Army Group Centre is commanded by Field Marshal Bock, Army Group South is commanded by Field Marshal von Rundstedt and Army Group B commanded by Field Marshal Rommel.

Operation Vaterland

 * Operation Vaterland started on May 19th, 1942 at 6 am. The operation started with an intense artillery barrage for fifteen minutes then the assualt troops launched. The assualt intially was a success. Some Russian units stood their ground while others folded causing gaps in the line. Many of the Russian defenses on the frontier where surrounded by the end of the first two weeks. Stalin ordered no ground is to be given up. This order lead to many disasters for the Red Army. Many Russian armies where surrounded in Minsk. Most of the Army Groups made a steady advance in the next month. Army Group B had problems in the Caucusus due to the mountains. Rommel couldn't do the blitzkreig he did in Africa so his troops got bogged down by bitter Soviet resistance. The Soviets knew they couldn't hold the German advance. The Germans had more tanks and men in this sector of the front than the Soviets had. So the Soviets started doing a tactical withdrawal against Stalin's wishes. In their withdrawal, the Soviets burned all the oil fields and anything esle the Germans could use. When the Germans arrived, the Germans arrived at burning oil fields. Even though Stalin eventually agrees to this tactic of scorched earth, Stalin still ordered the executions of all the officers in command of the divisions.


 * The German advance was doing quite well. The Germans reached Smolensk on July 25th. The Soviets did a massive counter attack against Panzer Gruppe Guderian which failed. Army Group South reached the outskirts of Kiev on August 17th. A massive seige battle ensued. This would hold Army Group South up for weeks, which required Army Group Centre to send it's two panzer gruppes to aid Army Group South. Army Group North captured Leningrad on September 1st with it's panzer units. The infantry still lagged behind the panzers but the commander tried for a bold move which Hitler approved of. By September all of the Germans short term objectives where held. The capture of Leningrad, Smolensk, Kiev and the oil rich regions in southern Russia. Only two objectives remained: capture of Moscow and the push to the A-A line.


 * The offensive to capture Moscow is launched on September 15th. The Germans quickly break through the outer defenses of the Soviet capital. The Germans reach within 25 miles of the capital within the first two days. All heads of government begin to evacuate the capital. Stalin states that he is going to stay in the capital because Stalin is faithful in the defenses surrounding the city. Many Soviet divisions defending the city are under strength and poorly supplied. The Red Army has no divisions in reserve along the entire front. In an attempt to relieve pressure on the capital, Stalin orders his southern armies to launch an offensive against Army Group B around the city of Stalingrad.

Operation Winter Fury

 * The Soviet offensive consists of 15 understrength divisions, 5 of them armoured divisions. Army Group B consists of many understrength, battle-hardened divisions resting on this sector of the front due to it's relative quietness. The German divisions in the area where the spear head of the assualt is going to be launched, Stalingrad, is the I SS Panzer Korps which consists of the 5th SS Wiking panzer division and the 1st SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler panzer division both crack SS divisions. The 5th Infantry division is also close enough to interfer as well.


 * The Soviet assualt begins at 5 am on September 20th. The Soviet troops quickly begin crossing the Volga river in many locations. The I SS Panzer Korps begins sending it's troops to defend Stalingrad and the surrounding area. When the Germans arrive, most of the Russians are still crossing the Volga and the troops already on the beaches are annihlated or taken prisoner. So the Germans begin to destroy the Soviets crossing the river in their defenseless boats. Some PT boats of the Red Navy try to save the assualt troops but are destroyed by the panzer division's concealed 88s in the city and surrounding country side. The Soviet assualt is stopped in it's tracks at the gates of Stalingrad. In some areas of the front, however, the Soviets establish small beachheads but can't advance any further and will eventually be destroyed.


 * Rommel ordered the I SS Panzer Korps to launch a counter attack. The Germans crossed the river on September 21st under absolutely no fire. The Germans quickly push east and quickly establish a sizable beachhead on the other side of the Volga for the eventual assualt on the A-A line. Stalin is infuriated with his generals that lead the offensive. Stalin orders the execution of all division commanders and the front commander.

Battle of Moscow and Drive to the A-A Line

 * While the Soviet offensive was taking place on the Volga, the Germans continued to assualt the Soviet capital. The Germans where making amazing break throughs but with every break through Soviet resistance was stiffing. Six days after the start of the offensive, the Germans are within ten miles of the city centre. Stalin is in an underground bunker under the Kremlin. The Soviet leader has completely lost it. Stalin is ordering the deaths of every division that falls back. Hitler is very satisfied on how his eastern legions are destroying the heart of the USSR.


 * The first German troops beginning entering the suburbs of the capital on September 21st. Two Panzer Armees where sent around the flanks to surround the city and the spear heads meet on the 22nd and incircled the capital. Roughly 200,000 Soviet soldiers with 1200 tanks are surrounded with around 15 generals and Stalin himself. Most of the government has fled to the Ural mountains. With the incirclement complete, Hitler orders Army Group North and Army Group B to push towards the A-A line while Army Group Centre and South will capture the Soviet capital. The fighting in the capital is fierce. The Soviets don't give up any ground without a lost. The Germans have numbers on their side, around 500,000 Germans with 5000 panzers and total air supremacy are assualting the Soviet stronghold.


 * On the flanks, Army Group North and B are making great progress. Many Russians are surrendering or retreating. The Army Groups reach their respective objectives on the 26th of September. Some minor Russian counter attacks are launched against Army Group North and are beaten off. The Soviet government in exile in the Urals is contemplating surrender and is willing to give up the Soviet capital and Stalin himself. Stalin learns of this and orders the deaths of all government officials, but there is no one willing to carry out the order since Stalin's most fanatical followers are in the capital with him.


 * On October 1st, the Soviet capital is captured, and Stalin is found dead outside the Kremlin. At first the Germans thought suicide, but when the Germans demanded the Russian surrender and Stalin refused, a few of his own general's killed him and surrendered the capital to avoid more deaths. Army Group Centre and South now push towards the A-A line and reach their objectives on October 4th.

Treaty and Aftermath

 * After the fall of Moscow, the Germans have taken their positions on the A-A line envisioned by High Command. The Germans could easily over run the Ural mountains but Hitler desires not too. Hitler believes everything east of the urals is undesirable. So Hitler sends Riddentrop to give the Soviet government a ceasefire and peace treaty. The treaty states that the Germans keep all west of the A-A line and the Soviets will become a vassel state of the Germanic Reich and will receive all the people expelled from the newly acquired territory so German people can begin settling the new lands. The Soviet government agrees and signs the treaty on October 16th. After the signing of the treaty, however, the people have now become anti-communist and have started a revolution to oust the communists. After a week of fighting the communists are ousted from the government and the Russian Federation is born.


 * The German loses for the campaign against the USSR are quite high. 756,969 Germans and 58,560 minor Axis allies lose their lives. 6,946 panzers are knocked out. Over 2,000 aircraft are taken down. But German industry easily replaces many of these casualities. Speer has now gotten the industry output rate at over 2,500 panzers and 1,000 aircraft per month. The hit on German manpower is not replacable however.


 * With the conquest of the USSR, the Germanic Reich now reaches from the Atlantic to the A-A line and from Austria to Norway. The Greater Germanic Reich is now one of the leading super powers along with America, who has defeated Imperial Japan and occupies the Japanese home islands. The two countries now enter a cold war with each other.



The Final Solution and Resettlement

 * After the conquest of the western Soviet Union, the Nazi party began to relocate many slavic populations to the Urals into the new Russian Federation. Belorussia and the Ukraine are depopulized during the months of Janurary and Feburary of 1943. The people are forced marched through occupied Russia into the Russian Federation which is allowed under the treaty. Over 7.3 million people perish during the force march. The Germanization of Poland is completed in March of 1943. All of Poland is annexed into the Greater Germanic Reich along with Belorussia, the Ukraine and the Baltic states. No one is relocated in the Baltic states but the Baltic states come under German rule. The Ukraine and Belorussia is Germanified by the end of August 1943. The German population of the world is at 150 million people. By the end of 1950, estimations are that the German population will be 300 million after the colonization of European Russia and the complete Germanization of the eastern territories.


 * By 1943, over 4 million Jews and other undesirables have been killed in concentration camps. The Final Solution began in January 1942 and has been running along smoothly. The heads of the Final Solution are Heinrich Himmler and Reinhart Heydrich. Heydrich was killed in a partisan attack in Czechoslovakia in May 1942. With the final defeat of the USSR, the Nazis now instead of killing Jews and other undesirables ship the Jews and other undesirables to the Russian Federation. Over 10 million people are taken by train from camps in Germany and Poland to the Ural mountains. Many people would die on this train ride but the exact numbers are not known. By the end of July 1943 this process is done and the Greater Germanic Reich is untermensh free.

Life in the Greater Germanic Reich and Occupied Zones.

 * Life in the Fatherland is grand. The German economy is booming after the war and many Germans are moving east into the new territories. Many German cities are being transformed into wonders of the Nazi Regime, Berlin being the greatest and most renovated. Berlin's new name is Germania and is ordered transformed by Hitler after the defeat of the USSR. Speer is appointed into leading the renovations. The great wonders that Hitler has built are completed in 1949 for Hitler's 60th birthday. Over 500,000 workers died in finishing the wonders. Some of the wonders include a gigantic arc, a doomed great hall able to fit 150,000 people, and a new chancellery for Hitler. Many homes where destroyed in the rebuilding of the city, many of them Jewish owners. A new fortress like mansion is built for Hitler in his home city of Linz in 1945. Also many museums have been built in Linz to show the victories of the Nazis and German people throughout history.


 * Each German man between the ages of 17 to 30 must serve 3 years in the Wehrmacht and then may leave the service or continue being in the Wehrmacht. Many of these men are put on the eastern border with the Russian Federation due to the lack of trust with the new Russian government. Some are sent to occupied France and Belguim. In June 1943, the Netherlands and Luxemburg are annexed into the Greater Germanic Reich.


 * In the occupied zones of France and Belguim, life is slowly returning to normal since the German take over in 1940. The Germans have set up military governments to control the various cities and military governments to control the country sides. The German Wehrmacht has since 1941 been building an Atlantic Wall on the coast of France and the Low Countries. The building of the Atlantic Wall has made employment rise in the occupied zones. German leaders eventually want to make France and Belguim puppet states but Hitler disagrees. Many of the French and Belgians do not want to be annexed by the Reich and are secretly thrilled. Some partisan actions do occur in France and Belguim but are quickly crushed by the Wehrmacht.

The Bomb

 * In June of 1943, the Germans begin construction of a new deadly weapon. Speer under direct orders from the Führer orders the development of an atomic bomb. Scienctists have been trying to figure out ways how to split an atom and cause an explosion. Work begins right away in northern Germany. Spies from the United States discover that the Greater Germanic Reich has begun construction of an atomic bomb a month after Hitler gives the orders. President Roosevelt orders American scienctists to begin an atomic program of their own.


 * By Septemeber 1944, Germany detonates their first atomic bomb in Northern Germany followed two months later by the USA's first atomic detonation in Nevada. Both countries now begin construction stockpiles of this new deadly weapon of war. The United States has more resources available to produce nuclear weapons than the Greater Germanic Reich but a country only needs atleast ten nuclear weapons to destroy another country, which Germany is capable of producing.


 * The Italian Empire and the British Union, former United Kingdom, begin their own projects to develop nuclear weapons in September 1944 and November 1944 respectively. By 1946, both countries develop nuclear weapons and begin the mass production of them. By the year 1947, Germany obtains 35 nuclear weapons, USA controls 50 nuclear weapons, Italy develops 5 nuclear weapons and the British Union creates just 3 nuclear weapons.


 * The world now has developed a new deadly weapon to destroy each other with. But what country will use their new deadly weapon first? The year of 1947 shall decide that....

Political Crisis of 1947

 * On the evening of May 31st, 1947, the British dictator, Niles Buckingham, gets a telegram from the military commander of India. Buckingham reads the letter which states that many revolts are taking place in India. The cities of New Dehli, Bombay, Surat and Calcutta have fallen under rebel control within a few minutes of the beginning of the revolution. The entire colony is revolting against their British overseers. Buckingham orders a British bomber with an atomic weapon to the island of Sri Lanka.


 * The bomber with it's deadly payload arrives on the island on June 5th. Over 100,000 British soldiers have already died trying to put the uprising down. This angers many British officers and the dictator himself. Buckingham gives an ultimatum to the Indians, stop the revolt or else. The Indian revolt leaders do not reply. The revolters are being supplied by the United States which Buckingham is informed of shortly after the ultimatum is issued. After Churchill was over thrown and the democracy was turned into a dictatorship, the monarchy was keep for reasons to appease the people but the monarchy holds little to no power, relations between the United States and the new British Union have faded. The German Reich and Italian Empires just watch the crisis from the side lines. Neither side has no reason to intervenue.


 * On June 6th, Buckingham sends a private telegram to President Truman, President Rossevelt died in 1946 due to Polio. The message states that the United States should stop giving aid to the rebels. If the United States doesn't stop, the the British Union will see it as an act of war and declare war on the United States. Truman realizes that the British Union obtains very little nuclear weapons, does not stop sending aid.


 * In an act to show the power of the British Union, Buckingham orders the atomic bomber in Sri Lanka to drop it's payload over New Dehli. On June 7th, the city of New Dehli is obliterated by an atomic bomb. The bomb kills over 5 million people. President Truman, horrified by the first use of an atomic weapon, stops giving aid to the rebels. Within a week of Truman withdrawing aid and the atomic bombing of New Dehli, the rebellion is crushed. Over 6 million Indians die due to the war and 3 million will die over time due to radiation sickness and 1.5 million British soldiers have fallen.

British Union: Decolonization and Collapse

 * After the atomic bombing of New Delhi by the Fascist government under Buckingham, many learned men throughout the British Union's Empire begin to plot revolution against their overlords. Buckingham hoped to put fear into the hearts of any revoltionaries that would plot against his government but he did the exact opposite. The people of the Empire know that the Fascists only have a small stockpile of atomic weapons and with the backing of the United States, the plotters believe that freedom can be achieved. But the plotters are divided politically and geography wise. In 1948, the British Union is in possession of or allied with the following: India, Malaysia, Sudan, Pakistan and some small territorial holdings in South America. Britain lost most of it's Empire after the peace with the Axis in 1942. Even in the British Isles, people in Scotland, England and Wales are wanting to break away from the Fascist government.


 * The final straw that broke the camel's back occured in March of 1948. Buckingham ordered the invasion of Ireland to bring the Irish back into the fold of the British Union's Empire. Since Buckingham has been in power, however, has been ordering the deaths of many Irish in Northern Ireland. Later many Western historians would call this the 'Mini-Holocaust'. Around 100,000 Irish are killed between the years of 1943 to 1948.


 * The British troops quickly over take Ireland and form a military government until the Fascists can decide how to goevrn this new possession. During this time many Irish leaders flee the Ireland and go to South Africa. The Irish are fully aware of the dissent that has fallen upon much of the Empire. So the Irish leaders call together a secret meeting of all leaders of each Commonwealth nation to meet in Garies, South Africa.


 * The meeting begins on April 12th and ends on April 17th. The Fascists never find out about this meeting due to the poor showing of their secret police force throughout the Empire. Delegates from India, New Zealand, Sudan, Pakistan, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Scotland, Wales, Malaysia, South America and even England attend the conference. Representatives for the American government also are present. What is decide at the meeting is an Empire wide revolt against the Fascists. The revolution will be supplied by Washington. The revolt is to take place on May 14th, 1948, to coincide with the Fascists taking power in 1942.


 * The Third Reich and Italian Empire are fully aware of the dissent and weakness of the British Union. But with these two empires trying to consolidate their own power in their newly acquired territories, much cannot be done to help the British Fascists. Hitler and Mussolini, however, do meet at Linz, Hitler's birth town, in Austria and discuss what their actions would be if the British Union dissolves. The Germans agree that occupation of the British Isles would be necessary to prevent America from filling the power vaccum. Also the Italians should launch attacks into Pakistan from Persia. An Italian invasion of the Sudan would also have to occur with the help of German forces to attain air bases in southern Sudan to launch atomic strikes against South Africa if necessary.


 * On May 14th, 1948, the rebels strike all over the Empire. Canada, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia remove themselves from the Commonwealth and declare war on the British Union. Australia and New Zealand send troops to Malaysia to establish a new government there. In Ireland, armed attacks against the British occupiers occur all over the countryside and in the urban centers. Dublin sees the worst street to street fighting since the conquest of Moscow. New governments are established in Scotland, Wales and England even though the rebels control little territory. In London itself, fighting occurs between Fascists and the revolutionaries. Buckingham's private estate just outside Manchester is attacked by a force of 5,000 men and woman with weapons supplied by the Americans. Buckingham and his followers are captured and executed on spot. Buckingham's successor is Harry Richardson, British army general who was one of the few who over threw Churchill in 1942.


 * One week after the intial assualt by the rebels. Ireland, Sudan, Malaysia (with Australian and New Zealand help)and the territories in South America have declared their freedom from the British Union's oppression. Pakistan and India are still attempting to vacate all British troops from their lands. Within two days of the rebellion, Italian troops entered Pakistan and gradually made their way to western India. The rebel's cause in Pakistan is looking bleak. The Axis invasion of Sudan is also going under way and fierce fighting is taking place on the border of Sudan and Egypt. Scottish rebels have 80% of Scotland under their control. In Wales the rebellion was crushed by the Fascists and a new capital was set up in Cardiff under Richardson's regime. London is ruined due to the heavy fighting that is taking place. The great building of London are mostly destroyed. German troops began to land on the coast of southern England on the 19th of May. German panzers and panzergrenadiers quickly raced to London to aid the Fascists. The Kreigsmarines have blockaded the British Isles to the west and have submarines patroling the Atlantic for supply convoys to the Isles. This would be reminiscant of 8 years earlier during the Second World War. A naval fleet consisting of Canadian ships are detected heading for Plymouth in England. U-boats harass the naval fleet as it moves across the Northern Atlantic. The Kreigsmarines positions their surface fleet's capital ships to engage the enemy just before the Canadians reach their destination.

Revolution Triumphants and Defeats

 * The Canadian Fleet finally arrived near Plymouth on May 25th. The engagement began at 6am with the German capital ship Bismark II engaging the approaching Canadian destroyers leading the fleet. Quickly all German ships broadside and begin opening fire on the Canadians. Admiral Raeder is leading the fleet directly from the Tripitz II which by this time was heavily modified from the original built in 1939. The Canadians swiftly reacted and began to turn broadside. The German fleet had 8 capital ships, 15 cruisers, 30 destroyers and 19 u-boats which harassed the Canadians during the struggle. The Canadians were at a severe disadvantage. The Canadians had 3 capital ships, 9 cruisers, 23 destroyers, numerous transports loaded with men and equipment and no submarines. But the Canadians did have 1 aircraft carrier which had a compliment of 50 torpedo bombers. The Germans had air support from the local airfields near Plymouth which consisted of 90 fighters, 75 dive-bombers, and 45 level bombers.


 * The winner was never in doubt but the Canadians fought bravely for 6 hours. Many, many troop transports were sunk by German aircraft and submarines. During the battle, a shell hit the bridge of the Tripitz II killed Admiral Raeder. Raeder would be the highest German general killed during it's history up to this point. But the Germans carried on and routed the Canadians. The Kreigsmarines lost 1 capital ship, 3 cruisers, 10 destroyers and 2 u-boats while totally annihlating the Canadian fleet. The Canadian aircraft carrier attempted to escape but was hunted down by a wolf pack and destroyed somewhere in the Northern Atlantic three days after the battle had ended.


 * On May 30th, the Canadians sent peace feelers to the Axis empires. Also on May 30th, all of Scotland was controled by the rebebls and declared a new free state from the British Union. England was still being hotly contested but with German aid the Fascists were having high hopes of victory. 15 German divisions where fighting in England, 4 of them where panzer divisions. By this time only Wales was under full control of the Fascists. With the crushing defeat of the Canadians, little outside help could now be given to the British Isles. But in India and Pakistan, the Americans were supplying the rebels secretly with arms. The situation in Pakistan was grim and by the 25th of May, the rebellion was finally crushed with the help of the Italian army. The Italian navy was being sent to the Indian Ocean via orders from Rome to stop the supply line from Australia that gave India supplies. Australia and New Zealand saw how Canada was decimated by the Kreigsmarines and felt that the Italian navy may be just as strong. But the Australians and New Zealanders help fast to their allies in India. The Sudan was a completely different story than from the other places. The Axis troops could not advance from northern Sudan because the roads where horrible. The Italians launched attacks against Sudan from Ethiopia and tried pushing from the east but they too where stalled due to poor roads.

Conclusion of the Revolution

 * On 14th of June, a month after the revolution began, London feel to the combined power of the Germans and British Fascists. Quickly German panzers raced toward the border with Scotland. Now Hitler contemplated an invasion of Scotland but this was over shadowed by events that would happen in India.


 * On the 22nd of June, Communist China invaded northern India. Hoping to fill the power vaccum that would be left if the British Fascists were pushed out of India. Mussolini gave word to his divisions in Pakistan to halt and pull back to the Indus river. Mussolini wanted to avoid conflict with the Chinese. Only months before were the Nationalist Chinese ousted by Mao and his communist forces. Mao wanted to use this invasion as a way to show that the Chinese where a force to be reckoned with. Also the Chinese invaded Burma, which was under British rule but did not join the revolution and the Indian revolutionaries hoped on annexing Burma after the rebellion was won. Chinese forces made slow advances into India. Hitler ordered that Mussolini send 5 nuclear weapons to Pakistan to use tactical against the Chinese forces if the Chinese where to invade Pakistan aswell.


 * German panzers pushed into Scotland beginning in July and quickly over ran the new country. By July 10th, all of Britain was declared under Fascist rule again. There was now only Ireland. But what to do with Ireland? Richardson met with Hitler in Germania on July 17th. Hitler told Richardson that the German navy would help the British get across Irish sea but the British would have to use their own men and tanks to invade Ireland. The date of the invasion was going to begin on August 1st.


 * In India, on July 15th, Australian and New Zealand troops landed and began to push into the country to help support the rebels. The Australians encountered the Chinese first and large battles began to occur between the rebels and Australians verse the Red Chinese. The New Zealanders pushed towards the Pakistani border and wheere thus spared of fighting the Chinese. Mussolini's men where dug in on the Indus river and had 4 of the 5 atomic weapons in place for use against the Chinese or New Zealanders. The Italian navy intercepted a naval fleet from Australia that was sending more men to India in the Bay of Bengal and quickly routed the Australians. The Chinese pulled back toward the Bangla river and built defensive positions all along the river. Over 700,000 Chinese troops where in India and around 2500 out-dated tanks. The Australians and New Zealanders had a total of 250,000 men and 4000 tanks. The Italians had 360,000 men and 3700 tanks in Pakistan with 306,000 men and 2500 tanks in reserve in Persia. India has become a three way battlefield.


 * Back in Europe, the British invaded Ireland with the help of the German navy and the Luftwaffe. Some 300,000 British troops backed by 3000 German-built tanks and quickly over ran the beach defenders. The new Irish country only had only 190,000 untrained men with 900 tanks. The British broke from their beachheads and quickly over ran the countryside. The die hard British Fascists took revenge on the Irish and began to burn villages all across Ireland. Richardson ordered that when Dublin was to captured, the entire city was to be leveled. On August 15th, all of Ireland fell to the Fascists. Some 300,000 people where slaughtered by the Fascists in their invasion of Ireland as payback for instigating the Empire wide revolution. Dublin was leveled in October of 1948 and some 500,000 people where killed.


 * In the Sudan, Italian and German troops began to make progress and over ran the country on August 30th. Sudan was annexed into the Italian Empire which already controled all of North Africa and Ethiopia. South Africa, fearing that the Axis might move down to their country, sent peace feelers to Germania and Rome. Hitler and Mussolini accepted the ceasefire. In India, the Italians and Germans where technically not at war with the Chinese. Hitler and Mussolini decided that India should be given up and attempting to take India out of the hands of both the Chinese and Australians/New Zealanders would be to costly. The British Union gave India it's freedom under pressure from Hitler and Mussolini. It was a bitter sweet victory for the rebels because India was still torn by war. Australia and New Zealand made peace with the Italians and Germans on September 18th.