Socialist Republic of Germany (Let's Kill Hitler)

The Socialist Republic of Germany (German: Sozialistrepublik Deutschland, abbriev. SRD) is a single-party communist regime located in north-eastern Germany. It was formed in November 1939 after a communist revolution spearheaded by the Communist Party of Germany overthrew the ruling National Socialist government of Germany after the assassination of Adolf Hitler earlier that month. The Nazis fled Berlin and moved their capital to Munich. The SRD and the Greater German Reich (Großdeustches Reich, GDR) are currently embroiled in a decades-long civil war for control of Germany. While the SRD claim sovereignty over all of Germany, it only has definitive control over Berlin, East Prussia and Westphalia. The Nazis have jurisdiction over Bavaria, Württemberg and Austria. This division of Germany is such that the two German governments' de facto territories are referred to as North and South Germany respectively.

Governments around the world most often recognise only one of the two states as the only Germany. The supporters of the SRD include the Soviet Union, United Kingdom and France. The UK and France back the SRD mainly because of its anti-Nazi attitudes. Some of the countries that believe the National Socialists in the south are the true German state are Italy and Slovakia. Others such as the United States maintain neutrality, recognising both the Socialist and Nazi governments, or none of them. The Scandinavian states for example, only recognise the government of the old Weimar Republic, although it no longer exists.