German Empire (Central Victory)

Role in the First World War
Germany was the most industrious nation in the war. Although blockaded early by the British fleet in the North Sea, she had a number of other ships scattered across the globe linked by wireless to Berlin. Combining all these scattered ships Germany engaged the British and destroyed the High Sea’s fleet, opening her sea routes. In the East, Germany drove back Russia from East Prussia and pushed all the way back to the Ukraine by 1916. With help of German spies, Russia fell into civil war and pulled out of the war, relinquishing her east European territories. Germany created many puppet states in these territories and believed Russia destroyed, today the German government regrets aiding in the Russian Revolution.

In the west it was more difficult, France had managed to stop the German advances just 30 miles from Paris and pushed them back another 100. That line was held for 3 years. But with British troops limited and not being able to get help from other colonies because of the German fleet, France was unable to hold them off. But the British invention of the tank enabled them to nearly drive Germany out of France completely, but Germany was able to double the production rate for her tanks and pushed back all the way to Paris and on November, 21st, 1918 France surrendered to the Central Powers, the following day Britain did as well.

The German fleet did encounter some problems in shipping her supplies when Portugal entered the war, but the German U-boats managed to (barely) maintain a blockade of Portuguese ports.

Interwar Years
Wilhelm II lead Germany into many years of social, and military prosparity. But some in Germany shared the aging Kaiser's opinion that unification was not complete. One night after hearing about his exploits, the Kaiser invited a young veteran to the Berlin Palace. And after talking with him Wilhelm II convinced the young man to leave the German Workers Party in favour of the German National People's Party, aka the Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP). The young man accepted and was apointed Reich Chancellor in 1934.

The man's name was Adolf Hitler. And with the Kaiser's full support and blessing, Hitler began rapid reformations in Germany that dismantled Prussia. And nearly caused the Kaiser to dismiss him. But Hitler followed by dethroning all the other monarchs of Germany accept the Kaiser. All Prussian provinces were incorperated into a New Sacred Germany Hitler called it. At first these forced abdications caused civil unrest but the people in the end accepted this policy. Then Hitler issued Prussian uniforms to all the individual armies in Germany and they were ordered to serve Germany not the German states. And then Hitler increased the Army's technology budget that expanded on the creation tanks and artillery weapons.

Hitler also increased the German Navy budget all around, commissioning the construction of Air Craft Carriers, expecting the first two ships to be completed by 1943. Finally, Hitler ordered the creation of the Luftwaffe. With the German military rapidly building again, many of the communist nations feared they were in danger of war with Germany and began building up their own Armies.