“If you need me I'll be at the bar trying to work out Thurmats last theorem or something a little more tricky like how on God's toast did you become leader of the country”.
WIP!
De facto former,
de jure still-Reichsführer Gerhard Suhlener after being
de facto couped out of power by the Wehrmacht in 1942, in the midst of an alternate World War II. The recipient of this statement, general and leader of the coup d'état, Peter Maier, rued his decision to
de jure keep Suhlener in office.
Suhlener had Peter Maier arrested by loyalist forces, but instead of a quick power struggle, a full-blown civil war broke out in Germany which cost them a probable victory and allowed France to retake Alsace, for communists to take at least temporary control over Berlin under Ernst Thälmann and Günther Jäger. In 1944, Germany had to unconditionally surrender. The nation was divided up by France, Poland et al. with the help of the US, the USSR and Great Britain. Poland regained not only the Polish Corridor, but parts of Hither Pomerania and more of Silesia beyond the Odra river. France regained Alsace.
When the communist government of the German Democratic Council Republic - which had gained control over the Ruhr area and major cities in Northern Germany as well as mining-dominated regions of Saxony and Silesia - was recognised, several more parts seceded. The secessions of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria were recognised by France and, to many people's surprise, former Oldenburg and areas west and south of it, including all of the Münsterland, seceded as the Republic of Germany, recognised by Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Many thought that this new divided Germany was stable. However, by 1949, the USSR, overtaxed from World War II, struggled to support its network of communist nations around the world - and the first domino to fall was the German Democratic Council Republic (DDRR) under Günther Jäger and Ernst Thälmann. From September 17, 1949, Berlin first fell into a power struggle after the premature death of Ernst Thälmann. Soon after, the DDRR fell into civil war and within months, the USSR was unable to stop a renewed ultraconservative reactionary quasi-fascist government (imagine
Stahlhelm more than Nazi Germany) under former coup d'état leader Peter Maier from taking power of a new
German Republic.
In 1953, a pro-German revolt in the newly-Polish parts of Hither Pomerania saw intervention of Germany, which started World War III. At first, it seemed like the Allies would once again win comfortably, but then, a certain Iosib Bessarionis dze Dzugashvili was found dead - most communists still claim he was poisoned - and the USSR would fall into a power struggle. Though no civil war broke out, the USSR under its new leadership, again dominated by the party, became more and more isolationist as well as a pariah state. Thus, the USSR could not intervene on the side of Poland. The German Republic invaded Poland once again - and this time, Germany won. In 1961, after a nuclear weapon destroyed the centre of Paris and more nuclear weapons destroyed Liverpool and Portsmouth, Britain, Poland, France et al. sued for peace and a rather harsh treaty was imposed on
them. Among many other changes, Germany regained 1914 borders all around as well as annexing Austria.
Further to the east, Poland and the Baltic States fell under Germany's influence, as did Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania. The USSR slowly, but surely collapsed, already showing signs of political stagnation and lingering discontent in the late 1950s.
"Pay attention! Here is Section 284 of the Criminal Code: ... - and we will incorporate it into the verdict if applicable!"
