Civil War on Third Reich

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The POD
On 13 march 1943 Operation Spark -a plan designed by German anti-Nazis officers Colonel Henning von Tresckow and Lieutenant Fabian von Schlabrendorff- succeeds and Adolf Hitler dies when a bomb destroys his aircraft. Hermann Göring becomes the new Führer. He wants to reach an armistice with the Allies, but when he knows the notice SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich -who has survived his 1942 assassination in Czechoslovakia in this timeline- wants to continue the war "until the last breath", and claims Göring is a traitor.

A civil war in the Third Reich is coming.

The timeline
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Hermann Göring - Führer of the Third Reich

14 march 1943 - In a radio speech broadcasted to all Germany, Führer Hermann Göring announces a suspension of hostilities. At the same time, Wehrmacht troops assault the SS and Gestapo headquarters in Berlin, arresting or killing many of its officers.

16 march 1943 - Three days after Hitler's death the Bohemia-Moravia Reichsprotektorat, led with iron fist by SS-Obergruppenführer and Reichprotektor Reynhard Heydrich, the General Government -which includes the part of occupied polish territories separated from Great Germany-, the nazi occupied Baltic States, Norway, Sweden, Belarus and Ukraine declares its independence from the German Third Reich and becomes a new country: the Fourth Reich.

After the Berlin incident Heydrich SS troops replies with a series of bloody skirmishes in the Sudetenland border. This causes the Third Reich declares war to the Fourth Reich. In the Russian front the Red Army launches Operation Siegfried, the invasion of all nazi occupied Eastern territories.

17 march 1943 - Italy and Japan recognise the Fourth Reich as an independent nation and break their relationships with the Third Reich.

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Reynhard Heydrich - Führer of the Fourth Reich

27 march 1943 - Guernsey conference - A German delegation led by Germany foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop comes to the island of Guernsey, in the coast of Normandy, to initiate peace conversations with representatives of the United Kingdom (former british Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who is still alive in this timeline) and the United States governments (the United States ambassador to Britain, Joseph  P. Kennedy). The Göring's plan is manage to prevent and Allied invasion of western Europe in order to reunite his forces to defeat the Fourth Reich 2th and 3th SS Panzercorps, wich are concentrating in the Third Reich South and East borders. The 4th SS Panzercorps are deployed along the polish border to stop the Soviet advance.

31 march 1943 - Pact of Guernsey - The United Kingdom, the United States and Germany reaches a peace agreement. Germany agrees to return to 1938 borders. The National-Socialist party is banned and all its representatives are expulsed of the Reichstag. All the prisoners of the concentration camps must be returned to their respective countries. An international tribunal is stablished to judge the responsables of the Final Solution. In the following months the German government must celebrate free elections and begin the return of German troops stationed in France, Italy and all the occupied territories formerly under the control of the Third Reich. Now, without the restraints of a two fronts war and with the Allies appeased, Göring can send his army to South and East Germany borders, where Fourth Reich forces are concentrated.

23 april 1943 - The Hague Trials - The International Tribunal for War Crimes is opened in The Hague to trial over 300 German war criminals. This included some of the attendees at Wansee Conference, where the plans for the Final Solution were approved.

9 may 1943 - A surprise massive air attack realized by Luftwaffe bombers against the oil fields of Romania causes a serious fuel shortage to the Fourth Reich troops.

12 may 1943 - Churchill dies - Following a plan designed by SS-Hauptsturmführer Otto Skorzeny, an IRA terrorist infiltrates in the tunnels beneath British House of Parliament to hide a large amount of explosives the night before Prime Minister Winston Churchill gives and speech in the House of Lords. The bomb explodes when Prime Minister Churchill has finished his speech, destroying the House of Lords and killing him and many of the Parliament members who were in the building at that moment. He is replaced by his foreign secretary, Anthony Eden.

17 may 1943 - The situation in the Russian Front becomes clearly insostenible for the Fourth Reich. Without fuel, the major part of its panzer units and supplies convoys are unable to advance. The shortage of food causes that some SS troops recur, in their desperation, to canibalism. Führer Heydrich launches Operation Gertrude, a plan originally designed by Adolf Hitler to invade Turkey and, trough Siria and Egypt, gain control of the Suez Channel and the rich oil fields of Arabia. The first step of the plan consists in the invasion of the estrategic island of Malta, the principal british enclave in the Mediterranean.

28 may 1943 - A Japanese fleet led by admiral Boshiro Hosogaya attacks and destroys an american air base in Adak Island (Japanese forces are stationed in Attu and Kiska, the most western Aleutian Islands, since were invaded in June 3, 1942, and in this timeline never were recaptured by the US forces). His orders are to use Adak as a bridgehead to invade Alaska and seize its vasts reserves of oil and coal.

1 july 1943 - Turkish Front - The Allies begins to support kurdish and armenians partisans by weapons and supplies to overthrow the nazi puppet regime in Ankara.

9 july 1943 - Operation Husky - The Allies begins Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicilly.

18 july 1943 - Operation Tannenbaum - One of the primary objectives in Heydrich's campaign against Germany is the occupation of Switzerland. When the invasion of Turkey succeeds he orders to reactivate Operation Tannenbaum. In 1940, after France surrendered, the Wehrmacht drawn up several plans to invade the Swiss Confederation. Operation Tannenbaum was the name gived to the third and most detailed of these plans. Although Hitler's military staff had planned the invasion, he never gave his aprobation by unclear reasons. Apparently, Hitler didn't consider Switzerland as a threat. Other reason could be he hasn't the effectives Operation Tannenbaum needed, because in June 1940 a large number of troops were moved to the West to support the inminent invasion of Britain, and to the East to enforce the Russian Front.

Heydrich doesn't want to make Hitler's same errors. He orders a massive production of assault rifles to equip his infantry, specially Sturmgewehr MP 43 rifles (one of the reasons why Hitler didn't invade Switzerland in 1940 was his troops would have had to cop with a well trained militia formed in its major part by Swiss civilians, equiped with the Schmidt-Rubin repeating rifle, at that time a firearm as good as the best German automatic weapons).

2 august 1943 - Kennedy dies - Commander John F. Kennedy dies when his ship, the torpedo boat PT 109, is fired upon by the Japanese navy near the Solomon Islands.

17 september 1943 - Mussolini dies - Riots in Rome. The Duce Benito Mussolini and his wife are killed by italian partisans when they are trying to escape trough the albanese frontier before the american troops arrives.

28 november - 1 december 1943 - Tehran Conference - Joseph Stalin, the Premier of the Soviet Union, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President of the United States and Anthony Eden, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, meet together in the Soviet embassy in Tehran, Iran, to design a joint strategy for the war against the Fourth Reich and its ally, Japan.

2 february 1945 - The Horten 229 first test flight begins in Oranienburg. The Ho 229 is a stealth jet fighter plane, able to avoid the radar and inflige serious loses in enemy air forces. Heydrich plans to use widely in Operation Sealion, the invasion of Britain.

1 june 1945 - Operation Valhalla - The allied invasion of western Europe.