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Kaiser's Victory is an alternate timeline that explores another world, where the Central Powers win the First World War, dominating continental European affairs throughout the 20th century. Unlike Central Victory, Central World and other related timelines, this timeline will not see Adolf Hitler rising to power, or other batshit crazy things, instead following a more realistic and slow approach, creating the modern-day world in this timeline.
Point of Divergence[]
SMS Magdeburg in 1911
On 26 August 1914, early in the morning, the German light cruiser SMS Magdeburg crashed into the island of Osmussaar in the Baltic Sea, and was unable to be freed before the Imperial Russian Navy seized the ship and all of its resources, including the German naval codebook; this book was passed to the British, allowing the Royal Navy to prevent any significant attacks by the German Navy in the battles of Dogger Bank (1915) and Jutland (1916), maintaining the blockade on Germany. In this alternate timeline however, SMS Magdeburg doesn't crash into Osmussaar, preventing the German naval codebook from falling into Allied hands. This consequently allows the Germans to deal small blows to the Royal Navy in the Battle of Dogger Bank, and significantly weakens the blockade in the Battle of Jutland. This prevents the German Navy from launching unrestricted submarine warfare, and also helps bring renewed morale to the German population, who are now beginning to be fed[note 1].
Consequently, the lack of unrestricted submarine warfare doesn't force Germany to seek an alliance with Mexico[note 2], therefore not dragging the United States into the war in April 1917. The rushed-Ludendorff Offensive of OTL isn't made due to it being primarily a response to the OTL US entry into the war; instead, after Soviet Russia signs a peace agreement with the Germans in March 1918, the Oberste Heeresleitung begins preparations for a grand offensive to deal a full blow to the Allies, while the Royal Navy barely holds onto the blockade as German naval forces start continuously attacking parts of the Grand Fleet. In October 1918, the "great offensive for Paris" is launched, finally causing France to collapse into civil war[note 3], with three main factions emerging: the Third Republic loyalist government who flees to Lyon, the Kingdom of France led by the Action Française, and the Worker's Commune of France led by the General Confederation of Labour who now rejects the "Sacred Union".
The Germans also send a large shipment of weapons to the Irish Volunteers like they had promised a year prior[note 4], much larger than what they shipped prior to the Easter Rising of 1916; the Dublin Uprising breaks out, disrupting the British war effort. Following the collapse of France into civil war, Britain withdraws its forces from the Western Front, not wanting the elimination of its forces, and despite plans to continue the war on the Middle Eastern front, public opinion against the war forces David Lloyd George to resign in favour of H. H. Asquith, who had previously served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916, and now decides to sign an armistice on 2 January 1919, ending British involvement in the war. Soon after, the Allies collapse, with a determined but weak Italy being the last in Europe to end fighting on 19 January.
The peace treaties signed formally end the war. The Treaty of Lille, signed between the Central Powers and the French Commune, ended the state of war between France and German, gave the Empire much of the French colonial empire, and granted Germany free reign in the Benelux; as for said region, in line with Flamenpolitik, Belgium is reorganised into a federal puppet kingdom with Prince Bernhard of Lippe becoming King[note 5]. The Treaty of Munich only forces the United Kingdom to recognise Irish independence, and grant Germany and its allies some financial compensation. Essentially, a new European order is here, as Mitteleuropa, the idea for an economic union between Germany and its puppets, is created, and the Central Powers effectively collapse over territorial disagreements.
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Notes[]
- ↑ The German population was severely starving thanks to the blockade, with ersatz being used as substitutes for different foods.
- ↑ The Oberste Heeresleitung believed that without breaking the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare was required in order for an offensive against the British and French to succeed, and they feared that unrestricted submarine warfare would result in the United States entering the war.
- ↑ French morale barely existed by 1918, so without US entry into the war, French morale would've continued to tank, and would've most certainly completely collapsed in the event of a German successful offensive with no chance of counterattacks.
- ↑ Following the Easter Rising, the Germans and Irish were in talks for a larger supply of weapons for another uprising in 1917, but were delayed and consequently never happened in OTL
- ↑ In the Septemberprogramm released in 1914, the Germans planned to turn Belgium into a puppet, and there was reasonable support by Germany for a federated Belgium state, dividing the nation into separate administrative zones following Flemish and Walloons ethnic lines.