Isot 1918

GERMANY 2009 ISOTTED TO 1918
The original introduction, as posted by Prince Charon in August 2009:
A bored ASB ISoTs Germany, as of February 3rd, 2009, to January 31st,

1918. Areas outside of Germany's 2009 borders remain as they are/were
in 1918. 2009 military forces outside modern German borders are also
ISoT'd, but remain at the same geographic locations, while 1918 forces
outside of 2009 German borders are not, unless 2009 forces overlap
them. Foreign military bases and embassies within 2009 German territory
are not ISoT'd, so there are bits of 1918 Germany within 2009 Germany.
Politics is not altered, so, 2009 Germany really doesn't want to be at war
(with anyone!), but also really doesn't want to pay the ruinous war
reparations from the OTL Treaty of Versailles, nor accept yet more war
guilt. Plus, they've got to deal with the Prussians, among others, who are
very unlikely to want to surrender.
So, how does it go?
Well, this is my take on it...
The story snippets within this pdf come from a group of authors, currently - aside from
myself - consisting of Beer, Franks, Neja and Kelenas. If you too want to write stories within
this timeline contact me!
Kato
The thread in which this timeline is discussed can be found here.
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Table of Contents
1918
February 1918.................................................................................................................................... 5
Red Baron....................................................................................................................................13
Bone Mill.....................................................................................................................................30
War Journal: Chapter 1................................................................................................................32
On the Air.................................................................................................................................... 36
March 1918...................................................................................................................................... 38
Crown Prince............................................................................................................................... 44
April 1918........................................................................................................................................ 53
Intrigue........................................................................................................................................ 57
May 1918......................................................................................................................................... 59
June 1918......................................................................................................................................... 65
July 1918.......................................................................................................................................... 67
August 1918..................................................................................................................................... 70
September 1918................................................................................................................................73
October 1918.................................................................................................................................... 76
Wartime Woes: Logistics............................................................................................................ 78
November 1918................................................................................................................................ 79
December 1918................................................................................................................................ 82
1919
January 1919.................................................................................................................................... 84
Wartime Woes: Administration...................................................................................................86
February 1919.................................................................................................................................. 87
March 1919...................................................................................................................................... 89
At All Cost...................................................................................................................................91
April 1919........................................................................................................................................ 96
May 1919......................................................................................................................................... 98
Gametime.................................................................................................................................. 100
June 1919....................................................................................................................................... 104
July 1919........................................................................................................................................ 106
August 1919................................................................................................................................... 108
September 1919..............................................................................................................................111
Modern Berlin........................................................................................................................... 113
October 1919.................................................................................................................................. 116
November 1919.............................................................................................................................. 118
December 1919.............................................................................................................................. 120
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1920
January 1920.................................................................................................................................. 122
February 1920................................................................................................................................ 124
March 1920.................................................................................................................................... 126
April 1920...................................................................................................................................... 127
May 1920....................................................................................................................................... 128
June 1920....................................................................................................................................... 130
July 1920........................................................................................................................................ 131
August 1920................................................................................................................................... 133
September 1920..............................................................................................................................135
October 1920.................................................................................................................................. 137
November 1920.............................................................................................................................. 138
December 1920.............................................................................................................................. 139
Small Troubles: Chapter 1.........................................................................................................140
1921
January 1921.................................................................................................................................. 142
February 1921................................................................................................................................ 143
Language Choices..................................................................................................................... 144
March 1921.................................................................................................................................... 146
April 1921...................................................................................................................................... 148
May 1921....................................................................................................................................... 153
June 1921....................................................................................................................................... 154
Old & New Comforts................................................................................................................ 155
July 1921........................................................................................................................................ 158
August 1921................................................................................................................................... 159
September 1921..............................................................................................................................162
Congress.................................................................................................................................... 163
October 1921.................................................................................................................................. 167
A Quiet Town............................................................................................................................ 168
November 1921.............................................................................................................................. 172
December 1921.............................................................................................................................. 173
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1922
January 1922.................................................................................................................................. 175
African Business........................................................................................................................176
February 1922................................................................................................................................ 179
March 1922.................................................................................................................................... 181
Tedesci Maledetto..................................................................................................................... 182
April 1922...................................................................................................................................... 185
May 1922....................................................................................................................................... 186
June 1922....................................................................................................................................... 188
All Aboard................................................................................................................................. 190
July 1922........................................................................................................................................ 194
August 1922................................................................................................................................... 196
Campaigns................................................................................................................................. 198
September 1922..............................................................................................................................202
October 1922.................................................................................................................................. 204
Uchikoushou: Chapter 1............................................................................................................ 206
November 1922.............................................................................................................................. 209
A Christening.............................................................................................................................212
December 1922.............................................................................................................................. 215
Jiejian.........................................................................................................................................217
1923
January 1923.................................................................................................................................. 219
February 1923................................................................................................................................ 222
March 1923.................................................................................................................................... 225
April 1923...................................................................................................................................... 227
May 1923....................................................................................................................................... 239
June 1923....................................................................................................................................... 241
July 1923........................................................................................................................................ 244
August 1923................................................................................................................................... 247
September 1923..............................................................................................................................249
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February 1918
Feb 2nd - Germany ISOTted from 2009 to 1918
Feb 2nd - German troops in Fort Bliss are captured. The German US/CA Air Command and
the Tactical Air Defense Training Center USA are seized by the US Army. Almost
150 men are taken prisoner.
Feb 3rd - Holloman Air Force Base - what remains of it - is discovered by citizens of
Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Feb 3rd - German aircraft establish radio contact with the Luftwaffe Tactical Training
Center Italy in Decimomannu on Sardinia. The troops there draw back to the base
and start digging in.
Feb 4th - UNIFIL-affiliated ships manage to extract most of the 150 men stranded on
Cyprus. Followed by British ships, these units make their way to Turkey.
Feb 4th - A US Cavalry scout platoon is repelled from Holloman AFB encountering
machine gun fire without casualties.
Feb 5th - In defense of the other ships, a German submarine sinks a British destroyer in the
North-Eastern Mediterranean.
Feb 5th - Germany declares legal State of Defence.

Feb 5th - A first C-160 Transall military transport lands at Decimomannu, departing again
after six hours carrying 68 dependents of German soldiers living in the area.
Feb 6th - 8th Cavalry Regiment sorties from Fort Bliss to Alamogordo.
Feb 6th - A cluster of six German Tornado strike fighter aircraft flying out of Holloman AFB
drops bombs on two of the seized buildings of the Tactical Air Defense Training
Center, collapsing both.
Feb 6th - The small UNIFIL flotilla arrives in Turkey where they are interned onboard their
ships in a port along the Southern Coast.
Feb 6th - Both houses of the German Parliament pass an urgently drawn up law that
changes Germany's wartime legislation; the Joint Committee being allowed to pass
only short-term laws limited till the end of the defense state that do not change
existing laws. Any laws passed in such a way can be vetoed in review by both the
Bundestag and the Bundesrat. Its primary purpose is to provide emergency
legislation for dealing with the war.
Feb 7th - The Joint Committee goes into perpetual session, its 48 members being required to
remain close at hand in Berlin at all times.
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Feb 7th - Bundeswehr starts mobilizing reserve forces, starting with NBC defense,
engineering and armoured units.
Feb 7th - The two ships off the Horn of Africa extract the 50 men in Djibouti via helicopter.
Both ships take to the open sea, with plans to resupply at the Maledives.
Feb 7th - Two Tornados strafe an 8th Cavalry Regiment company 50 km southeast of
Alamogordo, killing 23 men and 31 horses.
Feb 8th - Three Transalls evacuate the remaining troops and some hardware from
Decimomannu.
Feb 8th - Ceasefire on Eastern Front, negotiations with Trotzky continue.
Feb 8th - Multiple small skirmishes occur at the outer perimeters established around
Holloman AFB. 8th Cavalry Regiment sets up posts surrounding the base.
Feb 9th - A trio of B747 passenger aircraft establish contact with troops at Holloman AFB
and subsequently land at the base.
Feb 9th - After gathering all 21 Tornados at Holloman AFB into three hangars, multiple 500
lb and 1,000 lb bombs are set off destroying most of the military hardware inside.
Further bombs set off in other parts of the base selectively demolish some buildings.
Feb 10th - The three B747 depart Holloman AFB bound for Germany with 610 people on
board.
Feb 10th - Attempts to start negotiations on the Western Front fail.
Feb 10th - 8th Cavalry Regiment troops start probing assaults on the base, finding no
resistance any more.
Feb 10th - Several Prussian generals seize the opportunity they see in the general confusion
and the lack of orders from the no longer existant Obere Heeresleitung, and press
ahead in a second attack on Nancy. Due to other generals being more cautious in the
current situation, the front line destabilizes along most of its length.
Feb 11th - Holloman AFB is captured by US Forces.
Feb 12th The Western Front collapses. Over fifty infantry divisions fall back towards
Germany.
Feb 12th - Troops of Army Group Rupprecht start withdrawing from trenches in the area
around Cambrai, heading northeast towards the Belgian border.
Feb 12th - German Forces in Kosovo manage to regain control of their territory. Troops in
Bosnia are ordered to join these forces.
Feb 13th - Delegations of Imperial German army staff and Bundeswehr staff meet in
Saarbrcken to coordinate the crumbling Western Front.
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Feb 14th - The German flotilla is sighted and attacked by two British cruisers near the
Maledives. The German frigate breaks contact and expends two Exocet missiles on
one of the cruisers, prompting both to break off the attack after heavy damage to the
superstructure of one of them.
Feb 14th - German troops start leaving Bosnia in orderly fashion, driving east out of
Sarajevo with plans to meet German KFOR troops around Prizren after a four-day
dirt road march.
Feb 15th - The German EAV training cruise flotilla enroute to South America is ordered to
break in the direction of South Africa to meet up with the other two ships.
Feb 15th - German forces manage to get the four SAR-Lupe radar surveillance satellites
ISOTted to 1918 back under control after two weeks.
Feb 16th - German troops on the Balkan consolidated in Kosovo. Supply flights from
Germany to Kosovo via Austria are resumed.
Feb 17th - German troops overcome French defenses at Toul, opening up the route to assault
Nancy.
Feb 17th - Two German Il-76M chartered from SALIS Ruslan drop nearly 50 tons of
supplies near Prizren to support the remains of KFOR there as well as the inbound
EUFOR Althea troops.
Feb 18th - Two million "old German" soldiers reinforced by two modern Armoured
Divisions start digging in along the Western borders of the old German Empire.
Feb 19th - The EAV training flotilla passes a British freighter about 500 miles west of
Namibia.
Feb 19th - German army engineers start laying minefields ahead of the new lines of defense
on the Western Front using mostly standoff systems such as multiple rocket
launchers.
Feb 20th - The Luftwaffe reluctantly starts making bombing runs on Western Allied forces
pressing into Eastern France, mostly using area denial weapons for now.
Feb 20th - A German delegation in Knigsberg in cooperation with distrustful Imperial staff
starts making preparations for the Eastern Front to fold back well beyond the limits
agreed in the Brest-Litovsk treaty.
Feb 21st - Nancy falls to German troops, with French troops withdrawing south and
spreading out to prevent German troops from using the breakthrough.
Feb 22nd - Riots against the war, a few of which have already been occuring over the last
two weeks, are made illegal in Germany, with police enforcing this.
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Feb 22nd - Negotiations with Trotzky conclude successfully; peace treaty; possible
independence of the Baltics, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine.
Feb 22nd - First probing assaults by Western Allies on the new front. Counter-artillery and
high-mobility reinforcements stop these assaults cold.
Feb 24th - Imperial German troops, under pressure from the high staff seeking a better
consolidated supply situation, are forced to begin withdrawing from Nancy.
Feb 24th - 1.5 million troops start moving back towards Germany on the Eastern Front.
Feb 24th - 3,500 German troops move from British Afghanistan into Russian Uzbekistan to
be extracted by airlift through the German air base at Termez there. Extraction of
troops starts at a rate of 400 per day, to be concluded by the end of the month. Most
heavy equipment in both Afghanistan and Uzbekistan is destroyed in the course of
the evacuation.
Feb 27th - Germany brokers ceasefire and peace negotiations between Russia and Turkey.
Feb 27th - The two flotillas at sea meet up, now consisting of three frigates and two supply
ships. The ships are ordered to move north close to Ascension Island for now.
Feb 28th - Austrian forces refusing to leave the Front are being forced to do so by German
troops, causing minimal losses and creating some animosity on all sides.
Feb 28th - Western Allies "suddenly" agree to negotiations for a ceasefire, while
consolidating their troops on the new front line.
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--- Story Snippet --Author: Kato

Djibouti, February 4th 1918
Kapitnleutnant Heinrich watched the scene through his binoculars. He and his troop had
taken position on a small hill east of the camp three days after "the incident". They still didn't
know what to call it, only knew that suddenly half the base was gone. The troop of five was
watching the eastern approaches to the camp in case the locals got any funny ideas. There
wasn't much to spot for Heinrich - two kids with a herd of goats about half a klick southeast
of their position, and to the north they could see some fishers in a small dinghi a few
hundred meters off the shore.
Their replacements were coming in in about two hours. Heinrich knew the Kapitn was still
trying to reach the ships of Atalanta. Or anyone else with modern radio. So far, as far as he
knew, there had been no reply. A helo had been sent up two days ago to check on the French
camp five kilometers west - the road was gone, after all. And apparently, so was the French
camp over there. The city didn't really look that much different from here compared to last
week - but the helo crew had reported that the port was gone, and the airport, and the few
highrises Djibouti had had.
Djibouti, February 6th 1918
Kapitn Frederichsen was holding a meeting when a Bootsmann knocked and entered,
announcing they had "contact" on the radio. The next three hours where heated. The contact
was with the Karlsruhe, moving in on Djibouti from southeast - with Spessart hot on their
tails. Apparently, the situations for the ships wasn't much different. Suddenly, all contact was
gone. And they had been at the southeast edge of the AOR at the time.
There wasn't much of a choice left. Frederichsen and the captain of Karlsruhe didn't even
need to meet over the decision. The camp would be given up. 47 men here, who'd move to
the ships. The preparations still took all night and the next day. But then they moved,
loading both Lynx helos and the three Sea Kings of the base to the brim on two sorties. It was
actually quite a problem. 20 additional men on the Karlsruhe, a tight fit, and even more so
the even larger group on the Spessart. They took what supplies they could take. And the
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helos presented a particular problem: The Lynxes into their hangar, one Sea King tied down
on the helo deck of Karlsruhe - and, with lots of Chuzpe, tying down the other two 'Kings on
the deck of Spessart. A rather precarious move, considering there wasn't really much space
on the oiler's weather deck. But they worked it.
Coast off Djibouti, February 7th 1918
Shortly after noon, the lookout on the left bow spotted two small gunboats coming close. The
crew had already given up on radar earlier - there were just too many dinghis in the area,
locals looking wide-eyed at the large grey ships near their town, not daring to come close
luckily. But these two gunboats, even if their armament was laughable, presented a new
problem, especially during the move: Fire on them? Wait for them? What were the rules of
engagement in such a case? In the end, the captain solved it the easy way - by having the
two ships move farther offshore. The extra twenty miles were no problem for the helos, but
the small gunships quickly gave up on the chase.
The two ships finished their loading without any more problems. A quick replenishment
maneuver before the two helos were tied onto the Spessart, and Karlsruhe was good for a
few thousand miles again before they'd have to think about what to do about the helos.
Of course, the comms guys were still trying to reach the German command via SATCOM. So
far, not much luck. Apparently, the routines told 'em that the satellites were still there. They
just were stuck in some sort of maintenance software routine. They didn't give up trying.
Indian Ocean, February 13th
The two ships had decided on going east. A leisurely pace, after all they didn't know where
they were headed exactly. Or how long their trip would last. GPS was down, and navigation
was back to the traditional means of maps and compass. At least the younger ones got some
training out of this.
The beep on the radar was rather sudden, and in the middle of a clear, starfilled night. They
hadn't had much contact with other ships in the past week, and had been actively avoiding
those. They were currently off the Maledives; thirty miles southwest of Gan, to be exact. The
beep on the radar soon turned into two. Large targets, it turned out. And they were pretty
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fast. Still gaining, even when the captain decided to head off after a quick one-eighty.
The two ships came into visual range the next morning. Warships, that much was clear.
Warships of an unknown type - at least until one of the junior officers dug into his private
collection, and returned with a book identifying both to be British cruisers, a Topaze and a
Challenger. And sure enough, when they came closer, they could see 'em flying the Union
Jack.
Indian Ocean, February 14th

Although by that time, the crews of Karlsruhe and Spessart had other worries. A six-inch
shell splashed into the water off the stern of Karlsruhe. The decision wasn't hard. Karlsruhe
turned around, positioning herself between the leading Challenger and the oiler which was
running at best speed. The Topaze, lighter armed than the Challenger, was hanging back a
bit. More shells splashed around Karlsruhe, drawing closer as the crew of the Challenger
started sighting in. Karlsruhe turned her turret. The 3-inch gun belched a salvo of three
shots in quick succession, warning shots splashing sea water over the Challenger's bow that
kept pressing forward.
A round scraped the bow of Karlsruhe, and it was time to turn the game up. Spessart had
only gained two miles on the scene so far, nowhere near enough to be safe. The next salvo of
three rounds hit. And it hit hard. One round smashed a gun shield on the Challenger apart,
a second went scrambling into the water just barely far enough off the side of the ship not to
smash through its skin below water, and the third capped one of the three smoke stacks.
That took some heat out of the attack. The Challenger hung back, the Topaze surging
forward with 4-inch quickfire guns at the ready while Karlsruhe circled into a quick 270degree turn to cross the waters between the still running Spessart and the two cruisers. The
Challenger was busy with damage control, as the Topaze put up a guarding screen, but once
the fire around the smoke stack was quickly put out an hour later, the pressure was back on.
Karlsruhe and Spessart had moved off some fourteen miles when the two cruisers decided to
follow. They were just out of visual range, but still had them on the radar. The captain had
enough of that - who knows, next time they might hit something. And if not, he knew that
with the slow oiler this would turn into a cat-and-mouse game.
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Four minutes later one of the missile launchers popped a Harpoon with a loud roar, the
missile turning quickly towards the cruisers' direction, quickly gaining speed to close range.
It took the large missile exactly ninety-six seconds, then it delivered its load precisely,
slamming into the unsuspecting Topaze's aftmost smokestack, the large explosion of the
450-pound warhead deafening to anyone on the top deck, the smokestack immediately
falling over on its side, and smashing a boat and a gun emplacement as it slipped over the
side of the ship into the water; the deck was peppered with fragments from the warhead, the
armoured deck luckily absorbing most. Some fragments slammed into the bridge
superstructure from aft, creating impact holes one could stick their finger through. Men
were wounded; men were killed; some were thrown overboard, and a few unlucky ones
simply vanished in the explosion.
The crews of Karlsruhe and Spessart saw nothing of the devastation. They could imagine it
of course. But all that counted was that the Topaze was floating powerless now, the
Challenger quickly coming to a stop too. And so the two ships went off. Southwest, to the
ocean.
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--- Story Snippet --Author: Neja

Somewhere
near
Elsass-Lothringen,
Five
minutes
before
Rcksprung
Two Eurofighter Typhoons were flying at speed together with four Dassault Rafale in a
joint Franco-Germany exercise, thundering across the greenish French countryside. The
elegant shape of Typhoon together with Rafale made everyone on the ground, seeing the
eight plane cheered and even though the French citizen on the ground knew well that
the three Typhoons was painted with a black Luftwaffe cross, telling directly to them
that the plane was one of the ol' bad Luftwaffe roaming in the French sky at 40s.
Spreading horror and terror to French citizen but consequently also inviting retaliation
from the rest of the world. And that unfortunately suffered the people, the people of
Germany too Well what could anyone expect from war? War, war never changes as
one of post-apocalyptic games made by some famous publisher said.
But anyway, everything that had already happened at that time could not be reverted.
Life could not be restored. Germany will not be the same again and yes the German lost
the war, lost the land in the East and West but it was much-much different nowadays.
The scar, the deep scar was nearly vanished if not cleaned from both the German and
France soil. German economy together with France were booming at speed after the
past recession and crisis, aiming directly towards the sun. Its industries was triumphant
everywhere and its people were in happiness. Everybody enjoyed their own life. But
some of them still had to serve in military and one of them was Oberleutnant
GrafSchrner, sitting on the pilot seat of the leading Typhoon.
Some said that he was one of the descendants of a great but unknown Prussian Ace in
the first Weltkrieg. Graf never believed the story. Adopted by the federal government in
his childhood after he was left alone by irresponsible and drunk father he never
recognized his real family and parents. Little did he knew at that time, that he was just
about to reveal his own history. And Germany will be changed again forever.
Herr Oberleutnant, I did not expect previously that the French pilot will be so able like
now, a voice entered his ear through the helmet built-in headset. That was Ernst, flying
in the second Typhoon, acting as his wingman. Typical young and hyper-active
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idealistic child as Graf thought. Ernst was a new pilot in this Luftwaffes 71st Fighter
Squadron Ritchofen -- one of the Luftwaffe famous squadron, identified already by its
glorious name.
Ernst, youre still new here you will learn more about them as you stay in here. Those
French are a quite capable pilot, Graf replied while glancing at the four Dassault
Rafales, flying in wedge formation just couple hundreds of yards aft the Luftwaffe
Typhoon.
This countryside Herr Oberleutnant, it is so pretty, Ernst commented, admiring the
greenish France countryside.
Indeed Ernst. Graf had to confess to himself that this was the first time he flew directly
on the French territory, previously owned by Germany as the history book in the
academy library stated.
BLITZZ
A flash of light in the sky and everything was white. The previously blue sky turned into
a white, a really white endless space. In all of sudden the plane system malfunctioned
also, the three Typhoon MFDs (Multi-Function Display) that showed everything about
the plane condition, battlefield situation and weather turned into a real mess. Thousand
of white colored snow like disruption littered the MFD Liquid Crystal Display screen
just as the plane was jammed with millions powerful jammer. Without exception the
plane magnetic stand-by compass spun crazily without any control. The same thing
happened with altimeter, airspeed and other instruments.
Mein gott, what is going on Herr Oberleutnant? a panicking voice combined with a
static shrieked across the headset into Grafs ear. It was a surprise to Graf that the radio
still functioned.
I dont know!! Graf replied, trying to be calm. It was not long when he realized that
the plane control still worked seamlessly without any problem but everything outside
the plane was a pure white. Graf felt that he was flying directly into Valhalla. Nobody
knew? Maybe there was a sudden nuclear strike by Iran that the whole Europe turned
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into a hell and he was quickly swept into the heaven?

Graf quickly switched the VHF radio frequency to the headquarter frequency, Base,
mayday, mayday please respond!! he shouted. No reply was given.
BLITZZ
As fast as the white endless space first came it ended and turned into a greenish
familiar countryside again. Okay, all system restored!! Graf could saw the three MFD
screens returned back into normal with the radar screen showing three unknown
contact closing fast into his plane and the altimeter..500 feet. Pull up Ernst, were to
close above the ground!! Three second and he could see the unknown flying object
passed in front of his windscreen. The bloody red painted canvas with a black cross on
it. It was familiar but the two men could not believe their own sight either.
Contact! Unidentified, Graf mind started to come into normal again and he could
interpret the object as a plane, Unidentified plane, but that was No way!
Herr Oberleutnant Ernst said in a tremendous horror, That was he was not
able to move his tongue.
Red Baron?
Graf still remembered one of the lessons at the Luftwaffe Academy and what he just
saw was no mistake. The famous Fokker Dr.I Triplane known also as Red Baron
because of the ace that flew the airplane, Manfred von Ritchofen. But the question was
why the plane could be here in 2009 over the French Airspace abruptly? Well, it could
be him and Ernst anyway who travelled from 2009 into 1918. Remembering that once
upon a time when he was browsing the cyberspace at the base internet caf he once
read an article about the time travel but like most rational people he did not believe it.
Herr Oberleutnant we are under fire!! Ernst shouted again, seeing many anti-aircraft
explosions thundered in the now grey sky trying to shoot the unknown airplane down.
But the Eurofighter Typhoon, a modern state-of-the-art jet powered with two
powerful turbofans easily climbed and evaded the ancient anti-aircraft fire.
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What the hell is happening for goodness sake?! Graf saw that the ground wasnt so
greenish after all and instead he could see that it was covered mainly by black and
dark brownish mud, combined also with a tremendous amount of smoke coming from
the ground. And dug in beneath it was, Graf realized, Why in the name of god I could
see trenches scattered there on the ground? He wondered again, hoping that he was
already in heaven.
Herr Oberleutnant what should we do now?
Try to think rationally Ernst, Graf replied again trying to know what is really
happening with the rest of the world. He was an experienced and trained Luftwaffe
pilot of the German Federal Republic he told himself. The plane had an adequate fuel
to fly for another two hour and thus he had more than enough full to return to
Germany. First, he double checked the plane GPS system and it malfunctioned, the
device could not even find a satellite to establish connection with. Must be because of
the strange interference few minutes ago Graf thought. Moving on, he checked all the
plane critical flight system. All were working smoothly as before. Typhoon flight
system that controlled the plane control surface and engine was made from scratch to
withstand powerful electronic counter measures but the recent interference seemed to
push the system just an inch before its limit and Graf was grateful the plane didnt
crash.
Finishing with the main system now he moved on to the plane radar system, the
Eurofighter CAPTOR. He first switched the radar off and then on. The screen was
quickly filled by multiple unknown low and slow flying bogeys over 160km area. If
that plane was a modern plane it could easily detected CAPTOR radar signature but
this was different. Everything went silent even after he activated his radar into the
most powerful mode. No surface-air-missile guidance painted his plane with infrared
and no...nothing happened. And now to make himself sure that his sight didnt lied to
him he switched the radar mapping system on. Equipped with Synthetic Radar
Aperture technology the Eurofighter CAPTOR radar could easily mapped the ground
beneath the airplane in high resolution mode and then transferred the image onto one
of the plane MFDs.
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The result came up in just few second and it brought Graf into a sudden shock. The
grey-scale high resolution image clearly showed multiple interconnected trench
system complete with barbed wire, machine guns, soldiers and even an artillery guns.
Two complex trench systems faced against each other. On the center of the two
trenches was theno-man lands Scattered with hundreds of huge caliber guns crater
and dead bodies Graf switched the radar twice to make sure it didnt malfunctioned.
The result was still the same.
I think we do have some problem here Ernst Graf said weakly to his wingman.
Have you tried to contact the French Rafales?
No reply Herr Oberleutnant, even they are missing from the radar.
The cockpit Heads Up Display or HUD, just recovered, showed the Typhoons altitude
at 20.000 feet, too high for his own eyes to see anything clearly and of course without
GPS to navigate his way back home. Graf for the first time after the interference
decided to lower the plane down.
Ernst, were going down. Let us see what is really going on down there, he said to his
wingman.
Jawohl Herr Oberleutnant, I have your six.
Slowly Graf pushed the control stick down a little bit. Sending an electric signal over
the plane fly-by-wire system, the fly-by-wire in turns translated the signal and
commanded the plane control surfaces, the elevator at the back of the airplane to
move. The complex electrical movement finished in no time and both Grafs Typhoon
and Ernsts Typhoon were descending at speed towards the ground.
Passing 8.000feet, Graf observed both HUD and Radar screen carefully watching for
an enemy fighter that may come. It came. Two unknown bogeys quickly approached
his plane from the nose side. The unknown bogeys speed were slow as well as the
radar signature it reflected. But this was really different; the plane was much-much
slower than any modern propeller plane may be.
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The bogeys soon appeared and can be seen with the naked eyes, two black dot in the
middle of the sky.
We have visual on the bogey, reported Ernst.

I know, I know, The range soon closed rapidly as the two Typhoons were flying at
nearly eight hundred miles per hour. The dots now transformed into what Graf could
identify as a bi-plane. He could also saw one machine gun on top of the upper wing.
The color of the plane was a dark green.
Should I arm the heat-seeking missile Herr Oberleutnant?
His wingman last question uncovered a big dilemma to Graf that he was about to alter
history and change everything forever. His action will indirectly or directly result a
consequence in the future. Graf was about to think deeper when he saw flashes
coming from the two bi-planes.
Break! Break!!
Graf immediately pulled the control stick upward while pushing the throttle into a full
thrust. Just before his plane climbed towards the sky he could see the surprised look of
the plane pilot and identify the plane as the British Sopwith Camel.
Behind Grafs Typhoon was Ernst, seeing his Oberleutnant under fire from an enemy
plane he quickly took an immediate action. He climbed right, far into the sky and then
he dove straight above the two Sopwith Camel. Just two second before he overrun the
plane he pushed the transmit radio button, Im arming my cannon Herr

Oberleutnant, Im above him now!!
Wait Ernst!
Draatdrat..ddrat!!
It was already too late for Graf to stop his wingman action. Ernst quickly fired a burst
of 30mm armor piercing round straight into the two ancient bi-planes. Hit by that
kind of bullets the wooden structure of Sopwith Camels had no chance. The plane
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structure quickly fractured and the planes spun uncontrollably into the ground. Just
having his first two kills Ernst nearly crashed into the battlefield of the Western
Frontier because of the tremendous speed his plane now travelled. 400 feet above
ground and he was finally able to climb the airplane. Ernst was able to see the very
different flag, the black-white-red German flag waving over the trenches.
What is that kind of thing? A confused German soldier asked to his fellow mates
seeing the delta shaped aircraft up-close. He had never seen that kind of aircraft
before.
That must be the new plane Luftstreitkrfte promised to us!! Another soldiers
answered while cheering at the plane, seeing the familiar Black Cross of
Luftstreitkrfte although it was a little bit different. The strange plane had just downed
two British fighters in matter of second.
Keep yourself down you two fools! Youre exposing yourself to the Brits sniper!! One
officer, acting as the regiment commander shouted. The two soldiers were fortunate
because the British were also aghast.
Ernst, what do you think youre doing? Graf could not believe what his wingman
was doing. Ernst had practically changed the world history by destroying the two
Camels.
Herr Oberleutnant, there are hundreds of men down there needing our help. We
must support them!
No youre not going to change history again Ernst!

What history Oberleutnant? Were now in the first Weltkrieg, I have no doubt, Ernst
disobeyed. Graf could see Ernst dove again in search for a target. Graf could still
observe in his radar that there were still eight bogeys in the air.
No youre not, thats a direct order Ernst!! Graf now could no longer hold his anger
because of Ernst. The kids had done too much damage that he had to be stopped. Graf
maneuver his Typhoon directly behind his wingman tail, locking Ernst with his
CAPTOR radar. You are to pull back or I blow you out of the sky myself Ernst!! Graf
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shouted.
Theyre Germans Herr Oberleutnant, they are our comrades!! Ernst objected.
Graf could not move his tongue to speak a word, what he should say to the young kid?
They are not Germans Germans? What kind of statement is that? Reluctantly Graf
terminated his radar-lock to Ernst Typhoon, allowing Ernst to again dive in search for
another Sopwith Camels. Meanwhile his wingman was several thousand feet below
Graf sat doing nothing in the cockpit. Next ten minutes Ernst had already destroyed
the eight remaining Sopwith Camels patrolling over the German trenches. He did not
know what he should do until his radio sounded.
Attention to All Bundeswehr units, this is an emergency secure broadcast from Berlin.
Recently there has been an unknown interference that caused something un-
explainable to happen. Were doing our best to know what is really happening.
Meanwhile, all Bundeswehr units must return back to Germany at all cost.
Bundeswehr units currently overseas and not in Europe should stay in the current
place until the next order is given. Do not do anything stupid! Broadcast end!
Ernst, Im going back to Germany for sure, if youre going to stay down there until
you run out of fuel then its your choice!! Graf realized that even though the GPS
system had malfunctioned he still had had the Inertial Navigation System working
properly. And nevertheless, Germany was always in the East so its not too hard
finding Germany.
Ernst halfheartedly followed his superior back towards Germany.
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I dont know why but it seems that the interference brought us further north from
our previous position. I believe were now somewhere above Nancy. Graf observed,
recognizing the ground landmark beneath the airplane. The CAPTOR mapping system
again came into handy. He was able to see everything without having to descend like
before again. The three combinations of magnetic compass, real-time mapping and
INS really helped Graf, That explain why we have such an active battlefield down
there. Elsass-Lothringen front in 1918 wasnt all that active like in Northern France.
Herr Oberleutnant, it is wise to help our men down there Ernst still persisted.
Ok you go down there alone Ernst, and let us see if your 30mm could destroy those
concrete bunker and trenches. Oh yes you could destroy a couple of Sopwith Camels
with that kind of gun but those trenches are different. They are built to withstand
furious bombardment from big guns, explained Graf.
Ernst couldnt object his superior last statement.
I tell you Ernst, if you want to help them let us return to the base first. Thats a direct
order from the Federal Government and we should not object it. Ernst moved his
attention again to the radar generated images. What the? On the eastern side of
the image he could see a complex, inter-connected, typical modern highway and fast
railroad of Germany but then on the western side the only thing he could see a vast
empty countryside. The whole highway that in the modern times connected France
and Germany seemed to be stopped just outside the German border and after that
wellan empty landscape. Further west the trenches started to dominate the view
again. Could it be that the whole modern Germany was somehow teleported into
1910s?
The TACANs Herr Leutnant, I can see theyre active too. Graf tuned the navigation
radio so it matched the frequency of the nearest Tactical Navigation station in
Germany. Tactical Navigation were one of the system aircraft used to navigate, it acted
somewhat like a road sign that show direction on the ground and pilot used it to
navigate around the sky. But with the development of Global Positioning Navigation
system which offered unmatchable amount of accuracy, TACANs were slowly left
behind. Graf found it useful because the GPS was now out of order.
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Without waiting Graf quickly searched his mind for a closest airbase. He soon found
one, Fine, were diverting to Saarbrcken. Try to establish contact with the ATC there.
Roger, trying to establish contact with Saarbrcken ATC.
Same as the other anomaly there were no even one TACAN station available in France
and the rest of Western Europe. Only Germany had it. With an adequate navigation
system now acquired Graf easily flew his fighter plane to Saarbrcken and it was soon
revealed that there was also other lost plane he met while approaching the airbase. A
dozen of Tornados lost their way after the interference happened and were struggling
to return to the nearest Luftwaffe airbases. They were lucky though, not having to see
the Western Front.
Ernst, never tell anyone what you just did few moments ago. Graf reminded his
wingman while theyre both approaching Saarbrcken. Nothing changed in

Saarbrcken. Not a thing changed as far as Graf could see. Everything including the
modern
Mercedes
car
and
modern
people
were
still
there.
But
Ernst, believe me, I will make sure that you will shout your mouth, even if I have to
kill you personally, Graf said coldly.
Saarbrcken tower to two Typhoons closing from south, identify yourself! A radio
messages from the tower disrupted the two men conversation. Graf quickly switched
the plane transporder and IFF (Identify-Friend-or-Foe) to the corresponding
Luftwaffes standard.
The answer was not unexpected, Sorry unidentified Typhoons, our radar are
damaged. We could not see your identity.
Saarbrcken this is Red One flight flying from Aurich, were conducting training on
Elssas-Lothringen together with the Frenchy when the things happened. Requesting
permission to land. Graf said to the tower.
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Graf waited for a while until the reply came, Understood, we have you written on the
list. Your identity is verified. And now do you have an urgency to land now Red One?
We have several civilian planes that need to land immediately, theyre the main
priority over the military plane, and so could you wait for another ten minutes or so
for them to land?
Graf could understand the problem well, those commercial jets flying when the
interference happened must had their avionics fried when the interference happened.
We do not have any damage or problem whatsoever. We also have plenty of fuel to
stay airborne for another hour, replied Graf as the leader of the flight.
Allright Red One, maintain yourself at 10.000 feet, clear to enter Saarbrcken
Holding Pattern.
Roger, maintain 10.000 feet, clear to enter Saarbrcken Holding Pattern, Graf
confirmed. He entered the appropriate navigation routes to the autopilot and let the
plane flew by itself as it was safe now. He now turned his attention back to his
wingman, Now, Ernst, he said. Do you understand?
Ja, Herr Oberleutnant.
Ten minutes later Ernst shrieked over the radio, The horizon, I could not believe it!
Graf could see multiple bright flashes sparkling on the western horizon.
Thats typical artillery exchanges Ernst, they did that often here, especially on
Western Frontier, Graf explained.
What should we do then?
Sit tight and enjoy the show!!
Ten minutes later Graf and Ernst were cleared to land. The two small planes landed at
the same time on Saarbrcken large runway. The situation waschaos. T

Graf could not even reach the parking area because the whole taxiway was filled with
either military or civilian plane. One Lufthansa Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet was even parked
on the grassy ground beyond the runway because there was no space available.
Dozens of ambulance, fire trucks and emergency vehicle littered the whole airport
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area creating a never-seen-before traffic jam. Civilians who were just disembarking
from their crippled commercial jets were just left alone wondering on the taxiway and
apron, impressed by the bright flashes on the west.
We need help over here guys?! Ernst who had just jumped off his plane shouted to
the nearby emergency crew. One of the crew was sighted Ernst and ran towards the
pilot.
You two are Luftwaffe pilot right? Just go over there to the terminal!! The emergency
crew wearing red and yellow vest instructed, pointing his hand to the airport terminal.
What about our airplanes then? Ernst asked again.
Just left them in that position Herr Unteroffizier! The both plane were just few yards
after the taxiway that connect the apron and the runway. You see I have to go now!
The crew soon left.
Ernst turned again to his superior, Herr Oberleutnant, what should we do now? he
asked. Graf who had already jumped from the plane also shrugged. I guess we should
go to terminal! One step and another thing happened.
Lord, what plane is that? One civilian standing on the taxiway wondered. Do they
have reenactor flying an aircraft here?
Graf focused his sight towards five black dots in the sky that was now transformed
into a large bi-plane. There was a smoke coming from the tail of the leading bi-plane.
He sighed, Come on not now! The whole civilian present on the airport will without
any doubt saw the airplane.
Then came from the taxiway was a Bundeswehr military jeep. Graf could see an
Oberst sitting on the front seat with a driver. The jeep stopped just in front of the two
pilots. Get in!
What? Ernst couldnt interpret what the Oberst said.

Are you two armed? the Oberst asked.
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Yes we have our own sidearm, Graf answered, reaching for his Hekler & Koch P8
Pistol.
Good, all the security personnel in here are busy handling the overwhelming number
of civilians. Were already mobilizing the rest of the Bundeswehr infantry in

Saarbrcken, but it could take times until they arrived. The oberst glanced at the five
big bi-planes. Were going to face them. Nobody should see the 1918 Luftwaffe Pilot.
Are we really in 1918 now Herr Oberst? Graff asked. He had seen a couple of
evidences but still didnt believe his own eyes.
It seems so Oberleutnant, the Oberst sighed. Now we dont have much time, we have
to capture the pilot before the civilian sees them or else we might have more serious
chaos happening.
The two men nodded and jumped onto the jeep rear seat which directly accelerated a
second after. Graf could see an MP5 sub-machine gun placed on the side.
Use them, the Oberst said.

Herr Oberst, were pilots not infantry, Ernst objected.
Yes I know but youre still Soldaten Offiziere.

BRAAAAMMM
The first bi-plane with the smoke coming from the tail crash landed not too far on the
grassy field in the end of the airports runway. The second, the third followed the
leading plane landing on the grass. The fourth and the five landed directly on the
runway asphalt concrete. All of the bi-planes stopped in a matter of second. Unlike
modern jet planes, their speeds were already very slow.
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Mein gott, here we go, 2000s meet with 1910s, Ernst whispered while cocking his
MP5. The jeep stopped in the front of the leading bi-plane, known also as Gotha
Bomber.
Gentlemen, the oberst said in his Prussian Accent, Welcome to the Federal Republic
of Germany.
Who are you? Graf could hear the Luftstreitkrfte pilot voice shaking. He must be
shocked seeing all the strange stuff like 747 jumbo jets, hell, just seeing the
Bundeswehr uniform must already surprised them much Graf thought.
My name is von Lutjens, Im an Oberst in Bundeswehr, thats the Federal Republic of

Germany armed force gentlemen. Now we need all of you to handover your sidearm.
We will bring you to a secure facility where you will get food, medical care and other
supplies. Graf could see many bruised and wound in the pilot body.
We will not handover our sidearm Herr Oberst. You must be the communist rebel!
The pilot protested. There were dozens of other pilots behind the leading one, each of
them pulled their Luger pistol. Ernst and Graf aimed their sub-machine gun at the
leading pilot. Even Luger can kill someone thats for sure.
Major, theres no need for bloodshed today. Were not a communist rebel, were
members of Bundeshwehr. Now stand down your side-arm.
Two Bundeswehr Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon arrived on the scene. Each of the
Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon unloaded six additional infantry, heavily armed with G-36
Assault Rifle. The two gunners aboard the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagons cocked their 50.
caliber machine guns. Seeing the powerful odd the leading pilot with a major rank
stepped backward, lowering his Lugger. He knew he had no chance against the
firepower of the two monstrous vehicles. Drop your sidearm, the major ordered. The
pilots followed reluctantly by dropping their Lugger onto the ground.
Good decision Major, now ordered your men to board those trucks. The oberst
pointed his finger at one of the trucks that had just arrived. The pilots had no choice.
Without any objection or protest the twenty four men of Luftstreitkrfte entered the
two big trucks which transported them into out off the airport. The whole operation
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took no longer than ten minutes, hardly noticed by any civilian present.
And now what? Graf wondered.
The Oberst sighed. He took his personal binocular away from the jeep and start
observing the western horizon, We have to do something on the artillery fire
What are you going to do Herr Oberst? Graf asked. With all respect, youre not
telling us to alternate history again right? But this time with a more pressing tone.
Are you all blind? We already in history, this is 1918 for goodness sake! Ernst
interrupted.
But forget it Im just wondering, we are not going to do any damage now, not without
permission from the federal government, The oberst noticed the two pilot still
standing in front of him, What is your unit, you two?
Were part of 71st Fighter Squadron based in Aurich, Graf as the highest ranking
officer below the Oberst answered.
The oberst glanced at the two fighter aircraft standing on the taxiway, Your aircraft,
do they have an enough fuel for a trip back to your base at Aurich?
Yes Herr Oberst, we could fly directly to Aurich.
Fine, fly directly to there, it is better for you two to be in your respective base at this
time. Now go!! The oberst ordered.
Both Ernst and Graf gave a salutation to their superior and ran back towards their two
Typhoons. The Typhoons were untouched since they first land on Saarbrucken and the
two pilots quickly started the plane back. Eurofighter Typhoon, jointly designed by
multiple European countries was both sturdy and marvelous to fly.
The two turbofan engines of Typhoon roared when the two aircraft took off from
Saarbrucken, heading north towards Lower Saxony where Aurich Airbase was located.
The sun was already setting on the western horizon and the bright flashes of furious
artillery duel were still can be seen by naked eyes. Another strange view appeared. The
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highway and house lights, many of them from both major and minor villages in
eastern sides were already lit whereas in western sides everything was still a pitch
black. Modern Germany seemed to be brought back in time to 1918. There was no
doubt now.
Herr Oberst, I wonder if I could see my great-great grand parents Ernst said over
the radio.
Maybe not Ernst, our Germany travelled back in time replacing the 1918 Germany.
Its just like switching place only.
But then what will become of us? Shall we fight the allies? Were at war right now,
true?
No we are not at war Ernst, were a legally a different Germany. I could not assure
you if we will fight the allies.
German soldiers on Western Front, dying?
Its hard to explain Ernst. Frankly, I dont know what answer I shall give to you. Ernst
could hear his superior sighing on the radio.
Graf looked upon the cloudless sky of Europe through his cockpit bubble canopy
wondering what will happen next, to the world, and to Germany as the Typhoons
thundered north.
Somewhere on the Western Front, Divisional Headquarter

The plane your regiment saw today, what does it looks like? An officer with a bright
red collar patches asked.
To be honest Herr General, the plane flew too fast that my eyes couldnt examine
them closely, another officer but with lower ranks answered.
Are you sure they are ours?
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Herr General, the only thing I could see at that time was the black cross the plane is
marked with. The rest, I couldnt see. Some of my men said that the planes have had a
delta shapes but Ill take that with a grain of salt, the lower officer explained.
The higher officer, a general, chuckled, Most ridiculous, how could you have a planes
with a delta shapes, do they think this is a fantasy land? He then waved his hand and
shook his head. Nein, nein, nein, that is impossible.
The lower officer shrugged, What could we expect from them Herr General, theyve
been fighting furiously for the previous month when the British attacked with their
new kind of weapons. They call it a tanks.
Anyway that matter is settled, The general stood from his comfortable sofa and
walked to the nearby table behind his sofa. He took one bottle from the table, opened it
and then started to pour a white liquid from it to two piece of glass. Have this drink,
he said, offering one of the glasses to his subordinate.
Ah danke Herr General, the lower officer took the glass from the general hand and
start sipping the liquid inside.
I have just received a message from the Crown Prince few while ago Youre my
very trusted regimental commander that I believe you will keep it to yourself until the
time come. The general said while sipping his white liquid. There will be a new
attack coming in the next few months. This, I believe will be the final battle between
defeat and victory. Crown Prince called it Kaiserschlacht.
Please Herr General Im not willing to know matters that I shouldnt.

Dont worry Im not giving you the detail, its just, there will be a new attack. Be
prepared
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Western Front, February 1918
Suddenly everyone's moving. Our original trench section was east of Verdun. On Sunday, we
got the orders to pull out of our position. We followed the trench line, arriving at St. Mihiel
on Monday. The whole division. Then we went in. Followed the eastern shore of the Meuse
going across the trenches south of St. Mihiel. It was gruesome. Artillery left and right and
Maxims ahead of us. They pushed us, hard. In the overcast sky above we could see dozens,
hundreds of aircraft. By Wednesday we'd broken through. Broken, muddy, and at least fifty
men short in our company. We didn't count, didn't dare. Just stared ahead. Once we'd
broken the line it became smoother.
Followed the Meuse till the field guns in our regiment could go into position to bombard
what the lieutenant said was probably Commercy on the other side of the river. We didn't
dig in. We just laid on the ground - actual grass here - and waited. The rumbling started
thursday. A rolling barrage to our northwest. Not on our side of the river though. There
were other people
arriving. We didn't care by now. We looked away from the carnage. In the distance you
could see a mountain. St. Michel. On friday we were moving again. Those that could. The
others stayed in the grass. We moved to the mountain. Not just us, everyone around us too.
We passed a village on the way. Gironville, the signs said. Some of the buildings were
damaged, having been shelled back in 1915. A sniper took potshots at us from the
churchtower in it. Some dropped, but the mass kept moving. Some field guns from another
unit fired at it. It didn't matter. We didn't look. Just straight ahead. To the mountain. We
reached it by evening. We kept going. Right up the hill. The rain turned the earth beneath
our feet into mud. I slipped. Again. By midnight we'd reached the summit. We dropped to
the ground. Fell asleep. Woke up. We stayed. They were looking for people to dig in the
guns. We didn't move.
On Saturday I sat up. The rain had stopped long ago. And so did the thunder, that constant
pounding that we had been ignoring the last two days. All of it. I got up. I walked around. I
looked to the east. Only now did i see it - a fort. Only a few hundred meters to our east. It
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looked... torn down. Large holes blasted into the sides. I could spot a turret. It looked like it
had burnt. Looked like a flamethrower got to it. Others got up. We all looked east. We
gathered our rifles, thrown to the ground with our packs two days ago. Thirty of us left. Four
didn't move. We shouldered our packs in silence. We marched. To the fort that had
apparently been taken. We reached it in a few minutes. We stopped ahead of a buried stone
structure.
Its top was flat. A small group was standing on it. Officers, all of them. Very clean officers I
noticed. Our own uniforms were caked with dried mud. Stiff. And reeking. They talked, not
deigning to notice us standing not even a stone throw from them. We could make out what
they said, but didn't really listen. Something about Toul, the fortress this bastion was part of.
Something about how the artillery should be positioned next.
We just stood there, in front of that platform. Then all sixteen of us turned without a word.
North. Away from Toul.
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War Journal of Sergeant Paul Winkelbach, 3./II. Btl InfRgt 90, Imperial Army
Entry of February 27th, 1918

It was almost four weeks ago when it all started. With a bright flash in the sky out of
nowhere. We instantly all thought 'artillery' and the whole section took cover, but nothing
happened. We went back to our regular duties, not knowing yet what had really happened
back home. Three days later, that's when we got the message. The fatherland was gone! And
in its place these... new Germans, for lack of a better word. We didn't really understand it
back then. From the message the lieutenant got, it just seemed that probably something like a
coup had happened. Or maybe the Emperor taking back control, and the lines of
communications severed until the hubbub was done. After one week, the rumour mill in the
trenches ran hot. Especially when these and those rumours started filtering forward to us. A
few days later, we got the order to move. Falling back to Nancy, see what's going on, the
colonel told the lieutenant. So we did, under fire, losing eight men in withdrawing - but
most of us made it to the back of the trench system we had been in for the last four months.
We managed the forty kilometers back to Nancy in only three days, arriving in the city
looking like ragtag barbarians in our mud-encrusted long dusters. We made our temporary
quarters in a quarter that had been reduced to rubble by artillery back in '14 already, and i
watched the troops as the lieutenant went with the colonel and the other commanders to the
local HQ. When they got back, the lieutenant took me aside, looking rather flustered. And
that's when he told me - the fatherland really was gone. That first message had been
completely right - it was gone, replaced by some new country. It seemed the lieutenant had
even met a member of their military at the HQ. He told me the man had a weird dialect,
sometimes hard to understand. But the people at the HQ were apparently wooing him, for
whatever reason. I couldn't make much of that.
We spent almost a week in Nancy. Well, at least it wasn't as muddy as in the trenches. On
the fifth day, we saw some of those new Germans. They were driving by our camp in a car.
Probably officers. I only caught a glimpse myself. I used that time in Nancy to think about
what happened. I mean, how was it even possible? And what happened to my family? My
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mother, and my little brother... and what happened dear Emilie back in Braunschweig? And
what would happen to us, and the war? I didn't find many answers to that. We talked about
it a bit among ourselves, the non-commissioned that is. No one really had any idea.
On the sixth day, we got the orders. Move back out the next day. I got the troops ready for
presentation, most looking far better than i'd seen them over the past four months. It was a
short break, it seems, but maybe worth it. We marched southwards out of Nancy, the full
regiment in formation. Not that far, only two days at a leisurely pace until we stopped again
already. We had orders to wait here. I didn't know for what, but apparently the lieutenant
knew already. Six hours later they came. I had seen the enemy's tanks before, and these
vehicles did decidedly look like they could take it up with them - if we put a couple machine
guns on them that is. Three of them were accompanied by some trucks moved into a
position almost a kilometer southwest of us, on the next hill, and then... they got busy
digging! Over the next eight hours, the three "tanks" dug a number of entrenchments into
the muddy ground - enough to put half the regiment in there. They even worked after dark,
with some electric lights mounted on them used to light up the area. Some of the new
trenches looked a bit weird, having wide ramps leading out back and such.
We moved the regiment over to that hill in the morning, the three "tanks" and one of the
trucks having left us. The other two trucks, large vehicles on four axles, stayed along with
six men, and we got to meet these men for the first time. We did for sure have questions.
And it seemed so did some of my men, soon ringing us and these six new Germans... of
course that wasn't to be done, and we sent the men down into these new trenches, ordering
them to start preparing the positions. The guys from these trucks looked at each other, and
one of them - probably their commander? - told most of the others to start unloading. The
lieutenant asked if he needed help, and with some short, a bit awkward conversation, we
detailed a number of men to help them. The two remaining new Germans went with us on a
short tour of the new trenches. We still had questions - i mean, who wouldn't - but having
the lieutenant with us of course made us anxious to start. We did get some conversation
done - the man in command apparently was a Feldwebel like me. From Munich, though he
didn't sound like it. And yes, the fatherland was gone, and now they were there in its place...
the "Federal Republic". It seemed they were... involuntary travellers. From another time.
Matinek asked if it was like in that story by that British author, Wells or something. They
seemed to recognize the name, but told him that no, there was no machine involved. At least
none that they knew of. It was a bit awkward, but we all relaxed a bit talking like this, until
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work called again. I later noticed they never told us what time they came from. Weird.
The group left us later that day. We still had work to do, deploying the rolls of barbwire they
brought us, and cutting down some trees to build a few roofs. We basically just lounged
around for the next two days after that. I of course had the machine gun nest ready, and two
men a bit forward watching the assigned sector for enemies. On the third day, two new
tanks arrived with what looked like a small armored car. The tanks were not like the ones
that had done the digging, these had a small turret on top, with what looked like a machine
gun. Their commander conversed with our officers, and then they moved the two tanks into
the trenches - now we knew what the ramps were for! They barely had anything below that
turret with the machine gun visible above the crest sitting in there like that. The doors at the
back opened, and each tank spilled out five men. I thought they were part of the crew at
first, i had heard that the enemies tanks needed like a dozen men, but it soon became clear
that they weren't. All of them were wielding what was apparently some kind of machine
pistol, i didn't really get a good look. The men took possession of the small trench connecting
the two spaces where these tanks were now parked. The lieutenant ordered us into the
trenches. Apparently the enemy was approaching.
The outposts saw them four hours later. We had good visibility, spotted them from almost
three kilometers away. They were moving towards us. I heard a small howling from above
the trench crest, but behind us. I went and looked, and that armored car was moving
around, a small... turret-like thing at its top swirling around. After a few minutes, it seemed
to still again. I moved back into the trench, telling the lieutenant about it. He put it off, told
me not to care about what they did. Apparently the enemy had noticed us, and we had to get
ready for that. Fifteen minutes later, i heard a howling again. This time it was loud, and it
came from the sky. Ahead of us, somewhere to the north. I chanced it, and looked out over
the crest. There were two... well, they were probably aircraft... in the sky. Moving. And damn
fast, i had never seen anything moving that fast! I saw them moving into a line so that they
would cross well in front of the hill - and that's when i heard what sounded like a series of
explosions.
Little things were dropping from below the aircraft, bombs maybe, hundreds of them. I
didn't see them explode as they hit the ground, but i saw them dropping them in a wide line
across our front. The aircraft moved away again, leaving me to wonder about what they had
done
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there. Half an hour later, the outposts screamed out that the enemy was moving. Towards us.
I screamed at the machine gunner to get ready, and start firing when they'd hit that scrubby
small bush line about 1.5 kilometers away. I shouldn't really have bothered. Five minutes
later, i heard explosions. Soft ones. Maybe some rifle grenades? I chanced it again and
looked over the crest. I saw the enemy, moving towards us... and then, the ground exploded
below their first rank. Lots of small explosions, maybe a dozen, i didn't count. The enemy
never got any closer to us than those nearly two kilometers. They pulled back an hour later,
but stayed in sight. We kept ready.
The artillery would be coming sometime in the next few hours, we knew. Once they get
them into position. We can't do anything about it. And so we wait for it.
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German Communication Center, Konigsberg
It was quite already dawn in Konigsberg and the rest of East Prussia. Two radio operators,
just arriving from their barracks to replace the night-time operators, began to turn their
state-of-the-art, brand new, Telefunken radio receiver on to hear regular military broadcast
from Berlin. The radio used a new and stronger receiver, still secret and available to
Germany only as the leading country in technology and industry. It was not long until they
heard something unusual coming out from the speakers instead of the regular broadcast.
Guten Tag, hello to all listeners, this is the ol Berliners Radio broadcasting back Were a
bit sorry because were off the air for a quite long because of some interference. In the
meantime let us all just listen and chill to this Michael Jackson album Ill play to you. And
then the strange music sung by a strange singer started. The two operators looked upon each
other.
Mein Gott what the hell is that?
Is this the right frequency, Rainier? The more senior radio operator asked. Try to change
the frequency.
The
junior
*CLICK*
radio
operator
began
to
turn
the
frequency
knob
furiously.
the strange light, it began to appear beneath the olden castle but then something
followed. A woman in white
*CLICK*
say hello to baby Barney...baby Barney is happy today kids! Yey!

*CLICK*
Bah! What does the government think theyre doing! I think theyre stupid!
*CLICK*
haven't you heard of a new website about an alternate history?

Thirty second, and he finished. The two were aghast by what they just heard over the radio.
Report to the headquarters immediately! I want a technician and a repairer here also! The
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senior radio operator shouted loudly, attracting attention from the another room.
Do you have the same problem? Other operator asked.
Yes we do, this thing started to broadcast unexplainable transmission. Rainier, start
reporting this to the oberst!
Absolutely!
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March 1918
Mar 1st - A ceasefire along the Western Front comes into effect.
Mar 1st - The German government, under the state of defense, starts enacting several laws
aimed at minimizing resources consumption.
Mar 1st - The first two German reserve battalions, consisting of recently discharged recruits,
are activated.
Mar 1st - First "old" German troops arrive on the borders in numbers. Germany has these
troops stand down within the non-ISOTted Eastern territories. Extraction from
Afghanistan continues.
Mar 2nd - Germany manages to slowly take control of all remaining Imperial German
troops on the Western Front during the ceasefire.
Mar 3rd - The Entente starts using the ceasefire to reposition artillery near the front lines.
Mar 4th - All remaining oil-fired electricity and heating plants in Germany, used primarily
to cap off peak usage, go offline as restrictions on oil usage come in effect.
Mar 4th - Restrictions on petrol consumption come into effect. Germany's chemical industry
lowers production of mineral oil products to a minimum.
Mar 4th - After learning Germany only possesses a standing army of some 100,000 soldiers,
Western allies delay negotiations to get more information.
Mar 5th - The Imperial German staff in Knigsberg begins rallying behind a number of
distinguished generals having arrived from further east, complicating the work of
the modern German delegation.
Mar 6th - Germany starts opening wartime supply stocks to feed the "old" soldiers on the
Western front.
Mar 6th - BASF announces it will have to fire at least 5,000 workers if the petrol supply
restrictions continue for longer than 6 months. Demonstrations against the decision
occur in Ludwigshafen on the next weekend, with nearly 20,000 people attending.
Mar 9th - The Entente starts drawing up plans on how to deal with "new Germany".
Mar 10th - Germany starts cycling out men from the Western Front into Germany, mostly
men considered unable to fight, reducing the Western Front to about 1.6 million
soldiers.
Mar 10th - Imperial German engineers, with technical assistance from modern Germans,
start preparing half a dozen high plains along the border with Saarland and
Palatinate for construction of large camps for Imperial German troops, using an
increasing stream of wood transported to these sites from Germany itself.
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Mar 11th - The German flotilla arrives at Ascension in the middle of a rainstorm.
Mar 12th - Three quarters of the German troops have been retracted to Germany and
Poland, creating a large force pocket north of Austria-Hungary.
Mar 12th - The German flotilla occupies Ascension Island with zero casualties, moving
some 150 men from the ships ashore. A provisionary "castle", a floating supply base
consisting of the two supply ships is built in Georgetown harbour.
Mar 13th - Several Soviets are formed in Ukraine by local groups, with some assistance
from the Soviet Union. These Soviets begin to assemble a "national council" for
coordination.
Mar 13th - Some 200,000 Imperial German soldiers withdrawn from the front lines are
reordered into support units that provide manpower for the supply of the Western
Front from Germany.
Mar 14th - Two of the three frigates in Ascension start patrolling the surrounding area.
Mar 15th - Mass vaccination of the population against smallpox and influenza as
recommended by research institutes starts in Germany.
Mar 15th - The ceasefire brokered for two weeks runs out on the Western Front. Both sides
dig in again. Western Allies start probing attacks easily repelled.
Mar 17th - Germany enters into talks with Czech and Slovakian separatists, bypassing both
Austria-Hungary and the exiled separatists Masaryk and Benes. A week later,
Germany manages to get staff of the Czechoslovakian Legion into these talks. When
Austria-Hungary learns of these talks, animosity towards Germany rises.
Mar 18th - German troops from the various camps in Afghanistan begin assembling in
force at the partially transferred German air base at Termez in Uzbekistan, with
engineer forces from the various camps in Afghanistan assembling an interim field
camp.
Mar 18th - In a show of force, German Tornado strike aircraft make an overflight of Paris,
with Allied forces unable to deny them the airspace, and drop some bombs on
uninhabited farmland outside the city.
Mar 21st - Germany decides to distribute light weapons from Bundeswehr depots to the
"old" units and provide training in their use, re-equipping about a quarter of the
Armies along the Western Front.
Mar 21st - Germany evacuates the last remaining population of two dozen villages in
Lorraine near the newly established defense lines.
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Mar 22nd - In coordination with Russia and Czechs and Slovaks, Germany manages to
convince the Czechoslovakian Legion to stand down in Western Ukraine. Russia
supports this on the basis of the Legion not having any other way out.
Mar 23rd - The Royal Navy starts preparations to send a flotilla of nine cruisers and two
battlecruisers to relieve Ascension.
Mar 25th - Two German U-Boats are picked up about 150 miles northwest of Ascension
and escorted by the frigates to Georgetown to stand down.
Mar 25th - An-124, Il-76 and A310M transport aircraft begin evacuating the nearly 4,000
modern German troops from the ISAF deployment assembled in Termez.
Mar 25th - French propaganda shows an "analysis" that points out that the German Tornado
overflight didn't give the Germans any "new capabilities" compared to previous
airship bombardments.
Mar 26th - A riot among French troops is put down harshly by the Western Allies after two
days.
Mar 30th - The last German troops enter Silesia from the East.
Mar 30th - Imperial generals in Knigsberg rebuff several attempts by the German
delegation to begin a stand-down of forces similar to the Western Front, and assert
their command over the forces within the eastern territories; they do acknowledge
that the living conditions for the soldiers in the crowded Prussian camps need
improvement.
Mar 30th - To improve production, Germany nationalizes the pharma industry, all energy
producers and re-nationalizes mail and railway companies legally under Defense
State Acts.
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War Journal of Sergeant Paul Winkelbach, 3./II. Btl InfRgt 90, Imperial Army
Entry of March 10th, 1918

As we expected, the artillery did come. Two days later. It wasn't a barrage, instead they
apparently concentrated their fire on our hill. Curiously, it was short - only a few minutes,
maybe 20, maybe 30 grenades. Still, it did damage. The trench with the second company
collapsed, burying nearly 30 men. My own company lost five men, a single shell impacting
straight into their section of the trench. The new Germans didn't come away unharmed
either; two of their men were injured, and it seemed the turret of one of those tanks seized
up after being hit by splinters. Altogether, we came away pretty good.
An hour later, a large biplane came, probably to purview the results. The crew of the second
aircraft told us to get back into cover immediately, as one of them hopped on top, and slid
himself into the turret through a hatch. Soon after, that turret swiveled, and half a minute
later, that large machine gun on it let loose. The airplane went down almost immediately,
plowing into the old, slightly overgrown craters at the bottom of the hill.
The man stayed in the turret afterwards. We got back to our own duties. Two hours later, we
heard a new aircraft, unlike any other we had heard before. It looked really strange - a large
box, like those tanks. I couldn't see how it could fly, and for some reason it produced a lot of
loud wind kicking up the ground around us. The new Germans carried their two wounded
to where it landed, and after a short conversation in its back, three new men got off the
aircraft before it went back into the air to fly off. They were apparently doctors, and we were
told to collect our wounded and get them to a covered entrenchment they pointed out where
they set up. I didn't see much of them from there on. The next day, the flying box came back,
taking the doctors and five of our wounded with it.
We didn't get any more artillery from here on. A few days later, the lieutenant announced
that there was a ceasefire in effect. We spent the next week in vigilance. After all, one never
knew, and us noncommissioned knew we had to keep the men in some semblance of order.
The enemy below the hill had withdrawn by about a kilometer. We couldn't really see their
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movement at this distance anymore, but we had a few men watching the ground between
the enemy and us watching for fusiliers that might take potshots. One never knew.
Entry of March 24th, 1918

Our battalion got ready to move a week later. We were told the remains of the fourth
regiment would replace us. We only had some fourhundred men left anyway; nowhere near
full fighting condition. We didn't go back to Nancy. Instead we marched straight east, for
four days. The remains of a cavalry squadron who had apparently been in a similar position
fighting in trenches farther south joined us on our trek on the third day. It went pretty slow,
the men were tired despite the relative rest we had gotton in the last few weeks. On the
evening of the fourth day we reached Colmar. Back in the south of the Empire's crownland,
which was still there. We had had our doubts about that.
We were quartered to the northwest of the town in a tent bivouac. Altogether, it wasn't bad.
There was fresh bread and clean water, occasionally even meat and wine. After a few days,
we were slowly cycled through a medical exam by new German doctors in the town. We
usually went a platoon at a time, using the local train to get into town. Other than that, we
were enjoying the leisure.
About a week later, it got interesting. A convoy of cars, mostly the large kind with many
axles, but also the armored kind, and a few of those tanks arrived in our camp. A few of our
men were then told they would not be going back to the front; five men from my platoon.
They were moved into a separate section of the camp. Following that, the platoons were
assigned men from the new Germans, two for each platoon. For us, that was a bald man in
his 30s, somewhat portly and obviously well-fed, and a young man, barely looking older
than any of my boys, with a weird accent to his speech. We went to the "trucks", those large
cars. There were six large boxes to get from one of them, which we had the men do, then we
moved into a field a bit north of the camp. I saw other platoons do the same around us. The
boxes contained weapons; rifles, not like ours, and not like those the new Germans either.
The portly man, apparently their equivalent of an Officer's Deputy, explained them to us;
they were older rifles that these new Germans didn't use any more, much like we didn't use
the G88 anymore. We got familiar with the rifles. They were interesting. Much like a
machine pistol, and not as long-ranged as our rifles, but easy to handle. What followed were
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three hours of drills with the rifles; later on, we moved to a separate section of the field now
used as a range, and actually shot with them; they weren't that bad, and we spent the rest of
the day with drills and shooting.
We got to keep the weapons; we weren't given any ammunition to take back into the camp,
so they weren't really all that useful. But to some of us, these rifles were a symbol. A symbol
that these new Germans would have a place for us, even if it was only on the front for now.
We still all had a lot of questions regarding our homes. And no one was really answering
them. It left some of the men restless. I still wonder myself. What was the fatherland like
now?
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Bchel Air Force Base
For Valkyrie and Valhalla, do we have any better chopper than this one? One Federal
Defense Ministry staff, better be called the Defense Minister Deputy, cursed, upon climbing
the ugly Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion. Why even I have to be in here now? He asked to
himself, remembering that the Defense Minister himself ordered him personally to meet
with the highest 1918s German Field Commander in Western Front.
Too bad, just enjoy the ride Herr Deputy! The special air force protection soldier chuckled.
He promptly closed the door after the deputy had already entered the chopper. Were good
to go! He shouted to the pilot which, in just two second pulled his collective stick and
floated the chopper off the ground. While few meters behind, two escorting gunship, a
heavily armed Eurocopter Tiger of Luftbewegliche Operationen also known as Heers Air
Division followed their VIP transport helicopter off.
Do you know where the Crown Prince Rupprecht is Feldwebel? The deputy asked again to
the soldiers sitting beside him, buckling himself with a seatbelts.
I dont know, but he must be in Western Front! the Feldwebel shouted in reply because of
the engine loud noises.
For Valkyrie again Leutnant, Western Front ranges over nearly 800km from the North Sea
to the Swiss Border. Do you think we have time to search each town for him?
An officer sitting in front of him, an Oberst answered, Nein, were going to Douai herr
Deputy. Were going to establish communication with the Crown Prince Rupprecht
headquarter and of course escort you there.
Douai? Near enemy lines? Are you crazy?
Theres no need to worry Herr Deputy. We have full support of one Tornado squadron
standing by in case of emergency, fully armed with laser guided precision and cluster
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bombs. Also, behind us we have two gunships that can eliminate and destroy a battalion or
more of British infantry. Just worry that you have to explain the time travelling matter to
him. The rest well handle.
What youre going to do after that?
As you might already know Herr Deputy well establish communication with the rest of the
Western Front through Rupprechts Army Group since the telephone and telegraph line is
gone.
Fine then, The Defense Minister Deputy leaned himself on the chopper seat. He glanced at
the onboard soldiers various weaponry, G36 Assault Rifle, Berret Sniper Rifles, Panzerfaust
and even the MG3 Machine Gun a descendant of the old and dreaded MG42. Theres a
thing that didnt fit tough, no Stahlhelm today, not for Bundeswehr. Ahmaybe I should
suggest it later to bring back Stahlhelm.
Half an hour later
BLAST BOOM!
What is that?! The deputy was awakened from his few minutes nap because of the little
vibration.
Ancient ant-aircraft fire, probably from the British Line, the oberst answered looking
through the window. The deputy followed.
There was nothing else interesting than a typical muddy and grey frontier of Western Front.
Of course instead of black and white like in the old photograph all was colored perfectly.
The chopper soon headed further east toward Duoai, showed by the decreasing amount of
grayness on the ground and instead the familiar greenish landscape of France with a little
bit of white contrast from the winter started to dominate the view.
A question came up in the deputy mind, Oberst, tell me what do you do when you saw a
strange never-seen before flying contraption hovering in front of your headquarter?
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Of course, shoot that thing off the sky! A Feldwebel answered.

Right, but the problem is were in that thing you fool! The oberst barked. The soldiers in
the chopper laughed but soon ended.
We have a company!! The pilot shouted. Three tri-plane with a bloody red paint flew pass
the windscreen. Our gunships are asking permission to shoot the plane down, what should
we do Oberst?
Tell them to hold their fire, the oberst replied, Do they see the cross painted on our
chopper?
Oberst, even though they see the cross that doesnt mean they are not gonna shoot us! The
deputy tightened his seatbelt.
They are on our tail now!! The pilot shouted again. The gunships pilot are screaming and
breaking my ear to shoot the bastard down!
Outside the two maneuverable Eurocopter Tiger looped and broke turning and accelerating
fast. Soon the two choppers were right behind the three Fokker tri-planes, locking them
with a 30mm radar-guided cannon.
Do they have radio? The oberst wondered.
I do not know Oberst, just speed this thing up and land!!
Heeresgruppe Kronprinz Rupprecht v. Bayern Headquarter, Douai
Impressive, totally impressive. The thing outmaneuver and outrun our Fokker Tri-plane
easily, the Field Marshall thought loudly.
Herr Kronprinz, I suggest that we withdraw. The thing seems to be carrying heavy
weapons. I could not say what it is but it looks really powerful for sure, this time it was his
adjutant who spoke, still observing with his binocular. Mein Gott, theyre closing in!
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A battalion of German heavy infantry part of the headquarter security forces rushed in to
the headquarter courtyard. A machine gun post was set up and the infantry quickly
established a defensive position. Herr Kronprinz, I beseech you to withdraw into more
secure location, an Oberleutnant in charge of the battalion reported while the three strange
contraptions approached. The contraptions travelled faster than the German fighter could
pursuit.
The Iron Cross, look at them. They must be a friendly, Rupprecht said calmly seeing the
three things hovering and landing not far in front of him. That warm feeling of seeing a
friendly aircraft landing was never so warmth like this, Rupprecht could felt it personally.
DAAR!!
One nervous soldier abruptly fired his Gewehr 98 rifle toward the unknown plane. Two
followed but soon were stopped.
You fool! What do you think youre doing!!? Rupprecht shouted.
DAAAR!!
The stranger soldier, now jumping out of their things returned a near-miss to the machine
gun post.
Hold your fire!!! A shout from the strangers was heard.

What?! Rupprechts adjutant glanced at his superior hearing that the strangers also spoke
Germans.
I told you Joseph, they are friendly! Rupprecht smiled.

Mein gott Herr Kronzprinz, look at their weapons!
A strange futuristic weapon like in a Victorian fiction novel was seen brought by the
strangers soldiers. The senior officer of the soldiers approached the Kronprinz himself and
saluted.
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CLACK
Both sides cocked their weapons in anticipation to the other side action.
The Kronprinz waved to easy his soldier back and then replied the salute given by the
stranger.
Herr Kronprinz, the stranger paused, seemed to be nervous himself. My name is Walther
von Bock. Im an Oberst in Bundeswehr. There were many things to explain to you right
now if we could find a private room. Together I bring Germany Federal Defense Deputy
Minister Gunther Engelbert to discuss several matters with you.
The kronprinz seeing the blue eyes of the Oberst nodded. Joseph, arrange a private room!
He ordered his adjutant. These infantry battalion must also be withdrawn from mine
headquarter back to its post. We have the situation controlled.
You have many things to explain to me Oberst, the Kronprinz said again, observing the
infantry that came with the oberst and the thing.
Outside of the Headquarter Building, Douai
God, your weapon is nice Joseph, the Crown Prince adjutant commented after he was
told to leave the crown prince alone in the room talking with the strangers. He looked
thoroughly at the German speaking strangers assault rifle. He had never seen that kind of
rifle before in his whole life and even though he had heard once that the army was
introducing a new fast firing rifle called Machine pistole he still didnt believe the rifle that
the strangers carried was that one.
You like it? One of the strangers soldiers replied while smiling. This is called
Sturmgewehr.
Sturmgewehr? Joseph had had to admit that he had never heard the terms before.
Ja, the soldier replied again, he handed the futuristic assault rifle to Joseph, Try it.
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In the moment his hand touched the rifle skin, he can directly felt and observed a real
difference in quality. The weight, it was lighter than the standard Gewehr 98 rifle and he
felt more comfortable carrying it.
Fixed on top of the rifle buttstock was some kind of telescope that looked similar but shorter
than the Gewehr 98 sniper version issued to the German sniper units fighting in the
trenches. He tried to peer through it and saw a bright red dot in the center of the crosshair.
What a marvelous gun you have there! He commented again, handing the rifle back to its
owner reluctantly.
You want to see how this pretty shoots?

Inside of the Headquarter Building, Douai
Do you want a cup of tea? the Crown Prince asked to the two representatives before finally
receiving two head shake and poured the tea for himself. The conversation was already
nearing the end when Rupprecht felt his throat dry. So He said, sitting himself on the
meeting room ornamental chair. The chateau now improvised into the Army Group
headquarter was previously taken from one of the French aristocrat living on the land and
thus contained many decorative and expensive goods left behind from its owners. The
meeting room itself was cherished with dozens of marvelous decoration, ranging from
paintings to statue. Please continue your explanationwhom are you representing?
Gunther decided to start, Herr Kronprinz, as I may already say before we are speaking for
the Federal Republic of Germany
Aha, The Kronprinz suddenly nodded, Germany is a republic in the future? The terms
future was already clear now to the Crown Prince.
Well it is true Herr Kronprinz, Gunther admitted with a blush. We are just arriving from
the year of 2009, he added.
I have to say that Im pretty happy, at least my son wont have any Prussian sitting on the
throne, Rupprecht intruded with an excessively strong message that he did not like the
Prussian. But on the other hand He paused and then lowered his voice again. You say
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that 2009s Germany is minimized in territory and have to accept a shame losing two
wars?
Herr Kronprinz, we all know we can trust you with this information and before we
continue again I want to have your personal guarantee that this will never leak to anyone
except yourself, Joseph tried to say his concern carefully without insulting the Crown
Prince by using the most polite German phrases and words.
Fine, you have my guarantee, the crown prince affirmed, sipping his tea again in a most
aristocratic way as the two representatives observed.
You see Herr Kronprinz, those two wars
One of them is this war Herr Kronprinz, the Weltkrieg, Walther inserted. Germany in our
history lost this war. His voice was clear and firm.
The room fell quiet until the crown prince himself laughed, I know this would happen. The
war, its futile!! He thought loudly.
But Herr Kronprinz, we may have a solution that will benefit both Germany forever,
Joseph smirked.
What is that?
Joseph stood from his chair and walked toward the rooms window. He opened the curtain,
allowing a slight of light to enter the quite already dark room. Herr Kronprinz, he said.
Rupprecht followed his futuristic counterpart and peered through the window.
You have all future Germany Heer, Luftwaffe, and Marine at your service.
Rupprecht face stayed didnt look impressed at all, What can future Germany does to us? To
restore the already futile situation?
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Herr Kronprinz, you can now say future Germany no more. From now we are all the same
Germany. Theres no way for us to return to the future. Were now fighting the same war as
your Germany. Deutschland Uber Alles! Joseph said heroically.
Give us a target and we will show you how Germany will fight!
The crown prince could not believe what he just heard, Allright, our artillery in the front,
Rupprecht stride toward the map table. Theyve been receiving heavy counter battery fire
from the British artillery. The British used reconnaissance plane in the most intelligent way
and they escort it with god knows how many fighters. And so what I want is their artillery
position. Perhaps if you could also the recon plane they have that would be very helpful.
Prepare the Eurohawk here, Gunther whispered to Walther. I want every available
Gepard Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer to be transferred here.
If we can have our infantry equipped with that weapons Rupprecht wondered. He was
now standing behind the window again looking at the courtyard full with impressed
German soldiers seeing the futuristic weapons in action.
Ah the Sturmgewehr Gunther nodded and whispered to Walther again. Do we have a
surplus of that G36 in our arsenal Oberst?
I dont think so Herr Deputy, but we may have other assault rifles standing on the armory
waiting for its destruction.
Such as?
The old G3 is still there, there may be thousands of them sitting on the armory. But are you
sure we want to distribute them now?
Herr Kronprinz, do you have a unit that you want us to prioritize giving the new weapons?
The Stormtrooper, they need the new weapons for the future offensive.
Noted, we could have it delivered as soon as possible.
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Now wheres my intelligent Gunther? Rupprecht inquired in a hurry.

Oberst, you need to go now! Gunther barked.
Jawohl! The oberst directly went out of the room to the courtyard outside where the
choppers were still waiting.
Its been a most embarrassing and unprofessional to request this Herr Kronprinz but,
Gunther reached something under his suit. But could I have your autograph? My son will
be very happy if I could have one of his favorite commander autographs. Gunther placed a
pen and a paper on the map table.
Rupprecht chukled, I see that Im famous he grabbed the pen and started to write his
signature on the paper given.
And if I could have your photograph also, Gunther reached for his state-of-the art Nokia
N86 mobile phone and although the signal was out of service the 8 mega pixels camera
could still done the job perfectly.
How long will it take? The crown prince asked, remembering the last time he was taken
photograph.
Only a second, Gunther answered, posing himself beside the Crown Prince.
OK, Gunther positioned his mobile phone correctly with his hand.
Smile!!
CLACK
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April 1918
Apr 2nd - The German government commissions the building of more solid barracks for the
"old" soldiers both within Germany and in the Eastern Territories. The German
building industry is booming.
Apr 3rd - Western Allies start pulling together armour and heavy artillery to the front, in
preparation of a planned Early Summer Offensive.
Apr 4th - Austria-Hungary reroutes most returning units to Romania and Serbia. Other
units reinforce the Italian front.
Apr 6th - Germany deploys U32, U24 and U17, a Type 212A and two Type 206A
submarines, on a mission to scout British harbours and observe the Royal Navy units
there.
Apr 7th - Drafting of recruits start in Germany in order to ramp up numbers in the
Bundeswehr.
Apr 8th - Several German politicians raise their voice supporting bombardment of Paris and
London as a way to stop the war as soon as possible.
Apr 9th - The German Air Force starts rushing ASSTA 2 upgraded Tornados into service, this
upgrade enabling the aircraft to handle Taurus cruise missiles. Additionally, EADS is
given a contract to examine how to best return some 120 Tornados stored in depots
to service with similar upgrades.
Apr 10th - The Royal Navy flotilla of eleven ships arrives in the Ascension theater.
Apr 10th - The German government takes ten unfinished ships off Eastern Territory
shipyards for relatively small sums, and uses them as barracks hulks for some 20,000
East-German soldiers in Danzig port.
Apr 10th - Half of all German soldiers in the Eastern Territories are demobilized.
Apr 11th The cruiser HMS Glasgow, acting as a scout for its flotilla, is engaged and sunk
by FGS Lbeck.
Apr 12th - Three cruisers of the flotilla are engaged by helicopters about 100 nm from
Georgetown; they manage to shoot down a single helicopter, but suffer one
sunk and one damaged cruiser.
Apr 13th - Imperial German Generals of the Western and Eastern Fronts meet with
Bundeswehr staff and German industry representatives to discuss the ammunition

supply situation on the Western Front which is getting more dire with every day.
Apr 13th - The British flotilla fails to salvage the downed helicopter before its last parts
sink.
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Apr 13th - The German Health Ministry launches a committee to plan for any potential
health or disease problems stemming from the ISOT, assembled mostly from
members of the Robert Koch institute.
Apr 14th - The British admiral in charge decides to barrel in onboard battlecruiser HMS
Inflexible along the undamaged six other cruisers and engage the three German
"light cruisers". One battlecruiser and four light cruisers are burning before the three
German ships run out of missiles, with the second battlecruiser damaged and one
light cruiser unscathed. The fast cruisers manage to critically damage FGS Karlsruhe
in the battle. One battlecruiser and three light cruisers withdraw along with the
earlier damaged one, while three cruisers sink and the remaining two ships lay
burning in the water, in the process of being abandoned. FGS Karlsruhe is towed to
Georgetown after rescue operations finish.
Apr 15th - Ten weeks after the ISOT Germany synchronizes its clocks and calendars with
the contemporary world it has been thrown into.
Apr 15th - Negotiations with Czechoslovakian separatists are stalling on the issue of a
"solution" for all of Austria-Hungary.
Apr 15th - The Royal Navy receives word of the German landing at Ascension, bounced via
the underwater cable from Ascension to South Africa.
Apr 15th - Two provisional armoured divisions have been formed from Bundeswehr reserve
troops. These replace two divisions reinforcing the other two on the Western Front.
Heavy equipment and ammunition is being rerouted from railheads on the border to
the Eastern Territories to the Western Front.
Apr 16th - A preliminary report on the nature of the ISOT event is presented in a closed
meeting of the Joint Committee, calling it an "unexplainable time folding" and
speculating on its physical and metaphysical nature.
Apr 16th - Germany starts talks with Austria-Hungary about oil deliveries from its
Romanian possessions.
Apr 17th - FGS Karlsruhe is scuttled in Georgetown harbour as a fixed defensive

installation.
Apr 17th - An attempted Western raid on one section of the frontline using some 250 tanks
and four infantry divisions fails when over 80 Leopard 2 tanks intercept the troops
and destroy every single tank without suffering casualties.
Apr 20th - Talks about potential oil deliveries and exploitation of new fields start with the
provisional High Soviet of Ukraine.
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Apr 20th - German Tornado Recce aircraft start systematically producing aerial pictures of
the trench systems along the frontlines in order to map them.
Apr 21st - A preplanned attack by several German Strike Wings destroys over 200 tanks
and 600 guns carefully drawn together in one zone behind the frontline.
Apr 21st - Czechoslovakian separatists start planning for an armed "liberation" from
Austria-Hungary based around the Czechoslovakian Legion.
Apr 21st - The Bundeswehr starts assembling two additional brigades from the socalled
Ersatztruppen, reserve units trained on the equipment of deployed soldiers.
Apr 22nd - The decommissioning and scrapping of U206A submarines is stopped formally.
Apr 22nd - The German Air Force begins a concerted campaign against airfields in France,
attacking these primarily through strafing and destroying nearly 1,500 aircraft on
the ground in over a hundred sorties within the next three weeks.
Apr 23rd - Two not-yet-scrapped U206A submarines sitting in the Wilhelmshaven

Marinearsenal are taken back into Bundeswehr service.
Apr 24th - Several "old" German generals get together secretly to discuss a counteroffensive, with the aim to draw the "German Wonder Weapons" into the Offensive.
Apr 24th - In Georgetown sailors from the various German ships using several helos and
occasionally even the cranes aboard the accompanying supply ship begin tearing
down non-essential parts of the superstructure of FGS Karlsruhe, removing in
particular her unneeded RAM launchers and a good portion of surviving electronic
equipment from the mast.
Apr 26th - Some 250,000 soldiers are formally relieved from service in the East-German
Federation despite protests from Army leadership. The unemployed men continue to
be housed in the accomodations that are being erected for the Imperial Army
soldiers.
Apr 29th - German Air Force Maintenance Regiment 1 begins concentrating all current
effort on converting Tornados not entangled at the front to ASSTA 2 standard.
Apr 29th - Three full divisions of Austrian troops in Romania rebel, refusing orders from the
Austria-Hungarian government.
Apr 30th - The Bundesimmobilienagentur - the federal real estate agency - transfers all
former foreign forces bases under its tutelage to the Bundeswehr. Most of these
former bases had been handed back to Germany by US, British, French, Belgian,
Dutch and Canadian troops leaving the country in the fifteen years prior to the ISOT.
The Bundeswehr plans to use these bases and depots to house the planned expansion
of troops.
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War Journal of Sergeant Paul Winkelbach, 3./II. Btl / 90. InfRgt, Imperial Army
Entry of April 23rd, 1918

Haven't had a lot of time to write in the last month. Not much happened either, up until last
week. We've been spending our time around Colmar, getting some rest. Even if i noted that
some people were in fact getting antsy.
Last week, the Entente attacked northwest of Metz. A large move forward, using a full army
of four divisions we've heard. We got a group of men in who'd been in that section of the
front, hence how we got the tales. Apparently, the offensive had been a classic - artillery
barrage followed by the ground forces attacking across the trenches, with a lot of these new
"tanks" that the Entente has been using for the past year present. On the third surge forward,
on the second day, the new Germans were ready with their own such armored vehicles, a
good dozen meeting the slowly creeping forward thrust with their large cannons. It
apparently was a slaughter, for every shot one tank destroyed. Rather impressive.
Since then, we've seen a lot more activity by these "new Germans". Here in Colmar, one of
their armored vehicle units arrived two days ago, and everyone who heard of it went for a
look, lining the streets. About a dozen of them passed by us, impressive, large tracked
vehicles with a turret like on a warship, except flat. Followed by nearly two dozen of those
large six-wheel trucks we've been seeing before. They didn't stay long, just for the day,
before moving west towards the front.
The same night, a series of loud roars woke us. The night was dark as a series of
thunderclaps rose the entire camp, again and again every few seconds for nearly two
minutes. We didn't know then what happened, but i found out later - in the staff meeting
this morning, in which we were informed that they had struck back, attacking Entente
forces about a hundred kilometers west of Colmar. They presented numbers in the meeting
that were hard to believe; using the same kind of airplanes we'd seen before at the hill, they
had struck at a number of Entente camps, destroying the heavy armament arraigned there
by that Army for a likely attack on the southern section of the front.
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Undisclosed location,
April 20th 1918
The light flickered off in the room. With a click, images were projected on one of its walls.
Scenes came to life, showing in full color at a distance four Leopard tanks from behind as
they were climbing over a cratered landscape. A few seconds in, the camera zoomed and
refocused, showing one of the tanks closer as its turret moved, sighting the gun in to a point
off to the left. The camera panned out again and moved, zooming in on the apparent tank, a
Mark V tank slowly slouching across the landscape quite some way away. Some smaller
figures could be seen moving a bit behind it, keeping out of its MG arcs. The camera panned
out again, just as the Leopard tank fired. There was no sound, but the short dust cloud was
easy to spot. The camera moved fast, zooming in on the target again, which wasn't moving
any more. A cloud of black smoke was billowing from its center. The camera stayed on this
shot for a few seconds before the image faded. A new scene came on, this one in black and
white. A fast-moving image, showing a landscape where an army was taking formation.
From the tanks and the horse-drawn carts it was obvious that this was a contemporary
army. The camera flew above them, showing the thousands upon thousands men moving
alongside the carts as small as ants. The view faded, and came on again immediately.
Apparently, this was slightly later. Some fifteen seconds after this new view faded in,
something happened. The camera panned downward, zooming out slightly to show as the
men below looked like they were scrambling apart, moving uncoordinated and without
direction. Then, first one, then a second large explosion ripped the scene apart. More
explosions ripped into the army below, directly hitting tanks and guns with uncanny
precision. The camera kept to the scene for a short time, then the view faded out again. A
third scene faded in, this one in full color again. It was obvious this was not taken on the
front - a large, tank-like vehicle was shown in a static position, its large gun lowered, and
rear doors open. A few men could be seen moving about behind it, getting into it. The doors
were closed, and a short while later the gun raised. From the angle it was obvious this was
an artillery piece. Then it fired, rather suddenly. And again. And again. A full salvo of six
rounds, coming every few seconds. There was a short "Ah" audible in the audience at this.
The scene faded shortly after, and after a few seconds the light came back on, flickering
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from a single old electric bulb.

The audience leaned back. There were six men in the room. One moving to close the laptop
on the table, while the one by the light switch moved back to assume his position by the door
again. The man by the laptop stood, turning to the other four men, all dressed in uniform unlike him. "Well? What do you think?" he addressed the oldest of the four, who didn't
answer straight away, taking a cigar from the open humidor in front of him, carefully
clipping its end. "We'll think about it" as he examined the cigar closely, lifting it to his mouth
as one of the other uniformed men dutifully moved to his side to light it. "Can you guarantee
it?" he asked with a sudden sharp look at the man, who gave a bemused, somehow evil
looking smile at this. "We'll make sure. If necessary, we'll just have to... remove the misguided
from their position. We have the means of course." The old man nodded at this, with some
distaste visible on his face. He sat in silence, smoking his cigar, thinking about the offer.
After a few minutes, he sat the cigar down and nodded again. "I'll talk to them."
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May 1918
May 1918, Pola, Istria:
After a three-month internal controversy regarding the future of the cause they
fought for, clear factions have formed among the Imperial forces of the Submarine
Semiflotilla based at Pola in Istria. Most of the flotilla, almost twenty Type UB and
UC-II coastal submarines and half as many Type UA fleet submarines, forms the first
independent Free Corps of its time - the Adriatic Flotilla Group, immediately signing
a contract with Austria-Hungary to lend the nation its forces in support of a
continued fight against the Entente. Only six crews refuse to join the group, with two
of the submarines successfully setting sail and leaving the bay, one being stopped by
deck gun fire from another submarine and the other three scuttling themselves in the
port after dark has fallen and the crews bail out. Both Germany and the EGF soon
lodge protests with Vienna about allowing this prototype Free Corps to form.
May 1st - The German Navy rushes all five K130 corvettes into full service.
May 2nd - Nearly 100,000 conscripts drafted as a new batch by the Bundeswehr over the
past month start basic training, with almost 70 regular battalions transformed into
field training regiments for this purpose.
May 4th - The Royal Navy decides to blockade Ascension Island after the failed attempt to
retake it.
May 5th - Austria-Hungary starts moving troops to deal with the three revolting divisions
in Romania.
May 5th - DE-CIX in Frankfurt establishes an autonomous root server to bring the Internet
within Germany back into pre-ISOT order.
May 5th - Just days ahead of the planned summer offensive, influenza makes a huge impact
among first American, then also British and French forces deployed along the
Western Front, causing over 40,000 casualties including 2,000 dead within 3 weeks.
The summer offensive is cancelled, and rumours about a "germ weapon" having been
used by the "New German Empire" as it's called by now start.
May 5th - Germany deploys an anti-tank helicopter regiment to Northern Alsatia.

May 6th - Germany opens talks with Marie Adelhaide on the status of German forces in
Luxembourg.
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May 7th - Seven German soldiers stuck in Eritrea and Sudan respectively finally attempt to
contact Germany after making their ways separately to neutral Addis Abeba over the
past two months. As Germany isn't connected by telegraph any more, no contact can
be established.
May 8th - After intense talks on the subject, Germany airlifts General Falkenhayn back into
Romania along with 200 paratroopers as a "personal guard". Germany starts secret
talks with Bulgaria.
May 9th - Rheinmetall announces that it will retool eleven factories of subsidiary companies
to produce "contemporary" ammunition for the Imperial German Army.
May 9th - German surveillance satellites manage to spot GM Lettow-Vorbeck's three

convoys in Mozambique. Heated discussions start in Germany on how to deal with
the situation in East Africa, especially as there are no assets available.
May 9th - Falkenhayn starts negotiations with the leadership of the revolting divisions
considerably before loyal Austro-Hungarian forces get anywhere close to them.
Trying to avoid an internal war within Austria-Hungary, Germany manages to
convince the troops to move out of Romania. All three divisions cross the Danube
into Bulgaria, which keeps the units on armed standdown under observation (a
limited internment) close to the border.
May 10th - The German government starts talks with the governors of the Prussian regions
located east of the Oder-Neisse line regarding their future. Germany, still burned
from reunification, doesn't want to let these areas accede to the federation - at least
not immediately.
May 12th - The "Joint Committee", Germany's wartime parliament, fails to pass a motion
issued by Bavaria to "stop interfering" in Austria-Hungary.
May 12th - Von Falkenhayn's troops stand down in the Ruse area, assigned to them by a
somewhat reluctant Bulgaria.
May 12th - Expatriates living in Germany form the "Foreign Development Advisory
Council", a lobby group pushing for Germany to involve itself politically and
economically in contemporary nations.
May 13th - two German submarines leave Kiel enroute to Ascension with two thirds of their
torpedo load replaced by 30 tons of supplies, mostly food.
May 14th - German forces in Kosovo finally break camp, and move East into Bulgaria
within days. One week later, they link up with the interred Austro-Hungarian
divisions and the German paratroopers.
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May 15th - By a motion in the Joint Committee, all civilian air traffic in Germany is
grounded.
May 16th - grudgingly Germany admits Generalleutnant Groener as representative of the

"old" German troops on standdown in the Eastern Front region to the talks.
May 17th - The German government nationalizes four smaller airlines and transfers their
aircraft to the Bundeswehr to improve cargo capacity.
May 19th - The first four ASSTA 2 Tornados are laterally transferred from EADS' Manching
plant to the Air Force testing unit at the same airfield, with the Bundeswehr
beginning to draw up additional units to transform this test unit into a provisional
long-range strike wing.
May 19th - Germany attempts to starts a dialogue with the Portuguese Consul in Berlin on
the situation in Mozambique, without much success.
May 19th - riots erupt in central Silesia and Danzig when details of the talks - not joining
Germany - come to the light. These riots are put down by Imperial Army forces
within days, leading to several civilian casualties.
May 20th - Six state governments in Germany start assembling information on quarry
reserves due to the large demand for building materials, evaluating the opening of a
number of reserve sites.
May 21st - The gearbox of one of the five K130 corvettes explosively deconstructs itself
while at sea. After analysis, the Bundeswehr decides to rush all five corvettes
through a gearbox replacement in Wilhelmshaven over the next few months.
May 22nd - Johann von Dallwitz, governor of Alsace-Lorraine and a staunch proPrussian, steps down in protest over "new" German politics.
May 23rd - The Ukrainian Union of Soviets reestablishes itself into a semi-federal state,
forming a central government in Kiev and fifteen oblasts governing the various
regions of the country. Following the power vacuum due to the German withdrawal,
the oblasts begin fielding local security forces from their population.
May 25th - light small arms skirmishes across the Danube erupt when loyal Austro-
Hungarian forces arrive. These stop when two Bulgarian river monitors interfere.
May 26th - loyal Austro-Hungarian forces dig in right across the Danube from the interred
forces.
May 28th - German engineers start erecting camps within the area around the camp at
Ruse, and start building a paved airfield for resupply.
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May 28th - The German submarine stuck with the UNIFIL ships manages to make its way
back to Germany, avoiding first Italian, then Royal Navy patrols and taking over six
weeks back to Germany.
May 28th - The German Union Association fails to acquire the necessary majority among
voters for a general strike.
May 31st - Two Taurus cruise missiles are fired at a strategic target on the Western Front in
their first-ever deployment in anger, destroying a British supply camp near Amiens
in France.
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War Journal of Sergeant Paul Winkelbach, 3./II. Btl / 90. InfRgt, Imperial Army
Entry of May 7th, 1918

We got new orders today. We're moving north, to Strasbourg, the capital of the Crownland,
and report to a guard unit for the city from now on. It'll be nice to be in a larger city again.
And another good piece: The Lieutenant told me yesterday that i can expect a promotion
once we're there. Apparently, Sergeant Heinrich will be leaving the company, and i'll become
his successor as the Lieutenant's Vice. That means a bit more money to spend. I also intend to
find out as much as i can about what happened to the fatherland once we get there. There
ought to be some people in Strasbourg knowing more details than i can find out here.
There was also another staff meeting yesterday. Two of those new Germans attended, one
Feldwebel rank like me and an officer. They didn't say much, these two. Both will be attached
to the battalion when we move, and while we'll be in Strasbourg. The officer got me
wondering about whether officers were any special in their army - and society. He wasn't
dressed any different from the Feldwebel, both dressed in a long grey jacket with a flag on
one arm, and an identical emblem on the other. Only their rank insignia on their shoulders
were different, and the two had a number of markers on their chest. Neither was armed, and
the officer wasn't wearing a sword either.
Entry of May 15th, 1918

We assumed our new role last week. So far, it's mostly been boring duty - the company was
assigned to guarding a prisoner of war camp southwest of the city, not exactly what we
expected. Most of the prisoners are french, apparently deserted over the last six weeks. There
seem to have been riots on their side of the front ever since the "new Germans" appeared out
of nowhere. It may give one hope for the future - perhaps the war will be over soon? The
governor of the Crownland, Baron von Dallwitz, inspected the regiment when we arrived,
giving a short speech. Nothing definitive, but that's what you always get from those types.
The company will rotate on to other duties later this month, so i doubt we'll really get all that
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bored. At the camp, we're only there as a reinforcement for the regular duty company.
There have been rumours that some units from the Eastern Front will come here as well.
One of them will likely take over our job at the prisoner's camp. It seems the situation at the
Eastern Front is a lot more relaxed. We already knew that there were negotiations for a
surrender of the Russians, the "new Germans" apparently successfully concluded those from
what we've been hearing.
The lieutenant and two of the others have been spending more time in the city. It seems that
there are a number of the new Germans out and about in Strasbourg these days - not many,
but they're rather noticable, especially the civilians as they seem to be wearing rather
unusual clothes and all manners of strange accessories. I guess it's not that strange that
they're there - after all, we're right on the border, there're bound to be a few coming over
here. I haven't met any of those myself yet as I haven't been in the city much so far. Two
nights at some bar with some of the others, but not much else.
Entry of May 23rd, 1918

Baron von Dallwitz stepped down yesterday. I guess it was bound to happen. It seems the
man didn't agree much with what the new Germans were doing - with all their weapons,
they seem so far to take a quiet approach, not attacking, which is what the man cited on his
final address. I don't really agree with him. The last three months have definitely been far
better to us than the three years before. The company, along with the rest of the regiment,
was moved into town last night. Our superiors are expecting trouble, or so they've said.
Perhaps a few riots. I hope it won't be too harsh.
A few of the men have been getting sick the last two weeks. It's not really unusual, only in
that it all came together at the same time. And a number of the prisoners have been sick as
well. The symptoms don't look like the usual diarrhea as well. Let's hope it's not typhoid.
Anyway, we've been sending them to the military hospital run by the new Germans in the
north of the city, and are a few men short thus.
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June 1918
Jun 1st - Under German pressure, the parliament of Alsace-Lorraine declares its president
Eugen Ricklin as the new state figurehead.
Jun 1st - The Czechoslovakian Legion starts training volunteers from Slovakia in camps in
Western Ukraine.
Jun 2nd - A telegram is handed over to German borderguards at the Swiss border,
informing the German government of the presence of 7 German officers in Ethiopia.
Jun 6th - influenza wreaks havoc among Entente troops, infecting over half the soldiers
deployed along the front by the end of the month.
Jun 8th - The presence of German soldiers in Ethiopia is leaked to the press, finally
publically raising the question of what happened to other German soldiers
throughout the world.
Jun 9th - German communists organize a "dialogue" with representatives of the Bolshevik
government.
Jun 10th - Germany starts earnest negotiations for a reordering of the "Polish territories",
initiating National Councils.
Jun 10th - Austria draws all units of the Austrian Landwehr back to their territory, as well
as some primarily German units of the Austrian-Hungarian Army; they reason this
with a perceived aggression from Germany. Hungary follows with a similar move.
Jun 12th - Eugen Ricklin meets with Bundeswehr and German government representatives,
discussing the "future relationship" of Alsace-Lorraine and Germany.
Jun 14th - Germany starts mass-producing influenza medicines and distributing them
among the soldiers deployed in Alsace-Lorraine, Luxembourg and the territory of
Eupen-Malmedy.
Jun 16th - Ten German reserve military hospitals are activated and deployed close to the
German border with the Western Territories. Strict rules regarding crossing the
border are enacted to counter the "flu threat".
Jun 16th - Some fifteen Imperial German U-Boats have docked in Norwegian ports in the
last three months, running for neutral ports in light of not knowing what has
happened to Germany. Eleven additional submarines make their way down to

Spanish and Portuguese ports.
Jun 20th - Germany starts airlifting equipment for camps for the 12,000 Austro-Hungarian
and 4,000 German soldiers in northern Bulgaria. Bulgaria's aquiescence is bought by
Germany with financial concessions.
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Jun 20th - Several chemical plants commission refractioning equipment to turn coal into
liquid fuel.
Jun 22nd - The two submarines delivering supplies arrive in Ascension.
Jun 25th - Four infantry divisions under the command of staunchly Prussian generals leave
their trenches and start moving on the enemy under artillery cover. The German
government forbids the Heeresleitung reformed in Strasbourg to support the assault

in any way. With some resistance involved, "loyal" troops lifted to the sites in
German trucks stop artillery from supporting the assault within 4 hours of the
assault beginning.
Jun 26th - after 16 hours of fierce fighting on their section of the front, the assaulting
Imperial troops are routed by Entente forces. Less than a quarter of the men manage
to make it back to the German lines, and a good amount of troops are captured by
the Entente. The returning troops are interred, and their generals arrested.
Jun 27th - German Special Engineer troops start erecting field camps in the Ruse region in
Bulgaria.
Jun 28th - Bulgaria starts refocussing troops to the relatively static Macedonian frontier.
Jun 29th - France brings in specialized investigators of the SCR division of Deuxieme
Bureau to question the prisoners of war recently made on details about "new
Germany" and its technologies.
Jun 29th - Three civilian airports close to the Western border are repossessed by the
Luftwaffe.
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July 1918
Jul 1st - the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wrttemberg form trade and
exchange agreements with Alsace-Lorraine, justifying their "independent" action

with Alsace-Lorraine "not being a foreign state".
Jul 1st - The ten German reserve hospitals close to Alsace-Lorraine are used to start a
vaccination program for German and Imperial soldiers on the Western Front.
Jul 1st - The 7 German soldiers stuck in Ethiopia form the first formal embassy of ISOTted
Germany in its new world, nominally being temporarily transferred by Germany
from the Bundeswehr to the diplomatic service.
Jul 1st - Three new states are officially founded in the Northeast: The Polish Republic, the
East-German Federation, and the Baltic Confederation. Poland consists of essentially

the original timeline post-WW1 2nd Polish Republic borders minus the Corridor;
The East-German Federation consists of the pre-WW1 German territories east of the
Oder-Neisse line; and the loose Baltic Confederation consists of the three original
timeline post-WW1 Baltic republics.
Jul 1st - After an ultimatum by Ukraine, the Czechoslovak Legion crosses the border into
Galicia with close to 50,000 men, encountering only limited resistance in the
beginning. Austria is reluctant to send too many forces in light of the perceived
"German Imponderability".
Jul 2nd - The five Prussian generals heading the "coup" are under trial in Strasbourg. The
trial is rather prompt and short, only needing three days.
Jul 4th - Some thirty officers involved in the "coup" are sentenced to between one and five
years of prison for insubordination.
Jul 5th - in line with the negotiations beforehand, Germany starts giving support to the
three new states; this support comes primarily in the form of engineering support for
rebuilding infrastructure and monetary subsidies to the new governments. As a joint
gesture, private investment by Germans in the "Eastern Countries" is legally limited,
while immigration from the "Eastern Countries" into Germany is similarly limited.
Jul 5th - after a short trial in Strasbourg, the five generals involved are sentenced to
Festungshaft (imprisonment). Germany uses communication assets to spread the
news of them incarcerated along with pictures of the down-trodden interred troops
all over the front.
Jul 6th - Germany forms trade agreements with neutral Switzerland and the Netherlands.
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Jul 7th - The "Overseas Taskforce" starts cutting patrols to save fuel. Planning for ways to
get fuel, if necessary by moving the entire taskforce, start.
Jul 10th - pressured by Germany, the East German Federation starts transfers of certain
amounts of military equipment to the other two Eastern Countries, who start
building up independent armies with this equipment.
Jul 13th - Small battles erupt in Galicia between the Czechoslovak Legion and Austrian
forces.
Jul 13th - The Danish minority party in Schleswig-Holstein publicly calls for "a solution for
North Schleswig", and starts independent talks with local governments in the
affected area.
Jul 14th - the Entente organizes a semi-serious counterattack, stopped within 2 days by the
Imperial forces alone (albeit with heavy support regarding communications and
reconnaissance by German forces).
Jul 18th - Germany reopens some regular rail links with the Eastern Countries after
reconstruction, primarily for cargo.
Jul 19th - Entente troops return to their trenches, giving up what little territory was gained
in the offensive five days earlier.
Jul 20th - The Polish Republic sends a Expeditionary Corps of 4 recently formed regiments
into Galicia, occupying the Grand Duchy of Cracow.
Jul 22nd - The Entente commissions the building of eight artillery fortresses along the new
front as strongpoints.
Jul 22nd - civilian air traffic between domestic destinations restarts on a limited scale
within Germany
Jul 23rd - The German naval taskforce leaves Ascension enroute to neutral Argentina after
demolishing the remains of the stranded FGS Karlsruhe.
Jul 24th - with the last planned deactivation of an infantry division, the East-German army
has been downsized to a target structure of 250,000 men. Some one million men
have been let go from the army, a rather controversial move, with most of these men
"stuck" in the East, their original homes and families gone. Almost a third of these
men have been hired by a government agency organizing the buildup of
infrastructure, but the remainder heavily impact the economics of the East-German
Federation.
Jul 26th - small-scale riots erupt in the East-German state of Posen between Germans and
Polish citizens. The East-German government hushes them down in order not to
"anger" Germany.
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Jul 29th - The East-German Federation moves some troops into Posen to curb the riots there,
with at least two dozen people injured in the past three days.
Jul 30th - Closure programs for Germany's nuclear power plants are officially stopped and
put up for a full reviewing, also considering a possible relaunch of domestic uranium
mining stopped in 1990.
Jul 31st - Royal Navy forces "retake" Ascension after being informed of the Germans
leaving.
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August 1918
August 1918, East-German Federation:
Prince Adalbert of Prussia officially abdicates from his incumbent position, leading
to Prince Oscar, fourth son of Wilhelm II, being elected and crowned to the new
King of Prussia, becoming nominal state chief of the East-German Federation. The
East-German Navy is completely revamped, with the decommissioning of half the

fleets major units, leaving the fleet with only two battleships and six light cruisers as
major units. In concert with the German Navy, demining efforts throughout the
Baltic Sea are intensified, with Germany providing technology to re-equip EastGerman gunboats as minesweepers. Poland, having taken control of the Free City of
Cracow, signs a ceasefire with Austria-Hungary, brokered by Germany, and retains

control. Poland and the East-German Federation have started talks on how to deal
with the respective minorities in their countries, with neither side willing to give up
territory.
August 1918, Western Front:
King Albert I of Belgium, after secret talks with the German government sponsored
by the Netherlands, to the surprise of the Entente, signs a Separatfrieden with
Germany. Germany withdraws most of its troops still standing east of the Yser to the
Lorrainen Front through Luxembourg, with a smaller remainder being stationed in
Eupen-Malmedy. The Belgian Army retakes Brussels in triumph. As war reparations,
Belgium retains control of the Rwanda-Urundi territory, albeit as a colony separate

from the Congo. On August 15th, the Belgian Kingdom is officially reinstated and
recognized by Germany, declaring itself neutral. The same day, Luxembourg under
Grand Duchess Marie-Adelheide declares the same. The appalled Entente tries to
pressure Albert into opening up Belgium for a march of Entente forces into the
Rhineland, even threatening occupation. Albert counters with a "neutrality
guarantee" signed by Germany, threatening 2009 Germany attacking any forces

violating the Belgian borders. Marie-Adelhaide receives a similar guarantee.
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Aug 1st - at the behest of the East-German Federation, Germany starts allowing a limited
influx of former Imperial soldiers into Germany, at a maximum rate of 50,000
per month. Spots on the trains west are fought over, leading to occasional riots.
Aug 1st - Alsace-Lorraine is granted an observer seat - no voting power - in the

Bundesrat, and by deference in the Joint Committee.
Aug 2nd - The taskforce arrives near Argentina. The neutral Argentinian government only
allows the barely armed supply ships to enter their territorial waters.
Aug 3rd - Hungarian liberal-left politicians start secret talks with officers of the Hungarian
Army concerning a possible coup.
Aug 4th - Germany sends some 2,000 police into Northern Schleswig to "establish peace",
as there have been minor riots and food problems in the area.
Aug 5th - The two supply ships of the German flotilla refuel in Argentina while the
remaining frigates - anxiously watched by Argentinian patrol ships - remain on the
High Seas.
Aug 10th - The German "Taskforce South Atlantic", having refueled in Argentina - with
some problems regarding fuel grade and amounts - remains on the high seas.
Aug 12th - The German Atlantic flotilla sets sail northwards.
Aug 13th - Czech separatists organize a general strike in Prague and the surrounding areas
Aug 14th - A factory producing influenza medicines starts production in the Netherlands,
just across from the German border.
Aug 16th - Germany starts airlifting some of the troops stuck in Romania, including AustroHungarian troops, into Germany.
Aug 19th - Germany sends "military observers" to the Bulgarian troops on the Macedonian
front, including nearly 500 volunteers from the Austrian and German troops "for
their protection" in Ruse.
Aug 19th - Parts of the German Federal Police are severed from the Police and formally
reestablished as German Border Guard to Wartime Combatant status. This primarily

affects the unarmed civilian coastguard, whose six offshore patrol vessels receive
some light arms from Bundeswehr depot stocks.
Aug 20th - Bulgaria, having regained momentum and a bit more confidence among the
troops, crosses the Struma river into Greek Macedonia and advances towards
Thessaloniki.
Aug 22nd - The taskforce in the Atlantic has a short running battle with a small Brazilian
Navy flotilla.
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Aug 22nd - Germany finishes rebuilding border posts along the borders to the Netherlands,
Belgium and Luxembourg, these having only existed in an interim containerized
fashion over the last six months.
Aug 23rd - Alsace-Lorraine outlaws the by now rampant street prostitution in the
country.
Aug 25th - Brazil, in an unexpected move, declares neutrality.

Aug 25th - Despite some protests, the Border Guard takes control of the Mittelplate oil rig
just offshore from Schleswig-Holstein, citing the platform as producing "warimportant goods".
Aug 26th - The German taskforce in the South Atlantic breaks off eastwards.
Aug 29th - Rumours of Germany surrendering parts of German East Africa to Belgium
reach Lettow-Vorbeck, still on the run in Mozambique. He decides to cross the
border again, and will reach the territory of Rwanda-Urundi after three weeks.
Aug 30th - The German chemical industry cuts over 30,000 jobs, as there is little petroleum
to work with any more.
Aug 31st - Brazil starts recalling its contingents from the Western Front.
Aug 31st - The German Border Guard orders an additional three light patrol boats armed
with light weapons from German shipyards.
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September 1918
September 1918, Belgium:
Following the Separatfrieden with Germany, Belgium begins to build up a military,
being handed "any equipment used by the Imperial German Navy in Flanders" in the
peace treaty. This includes the armament of the German Flanders Marine Corps in
addition to nearly forty submarines stationed in and around Brgge, most of which
are retired by the new Belgian Navy to a laid-up reserve status. The Belgian Army,
seeing strong recruitment numbers among the youths in particular in Wallonia,
boosting its numbers back to pre-war strength within months.
Sep 2nd - Several German extreme right-wing parties hold a conference calling for using
the chance to re-establish Germany to its 1914 borders.
Sep 3rd - Germany reestablishes rail links with Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Sep 3rd - Protests against the planned cuts lead to riots in the cities of Ludwigshafen and
Karlsruhe, host to the majority of the German chemical and refining industry.
Sep 3rd - The front becomes rather static. Entente fortifications near completion.
Sep 3rd - Air transport within Germany relatively quickly consolidates to only half a dozen
companies with bidding wars starting among these, prompting intervention by the
federal cartel agency.
Sep 4th - Germany comes into contact with Greek King-in-exile Constantine I in
Switzerland, who hopes for Germany to support him in regaining control in Greece.
Sep 5th - Via airlift, Germany drops a contingent of volunteers from the Diplomatic Corps
on parachutes into Spain to replace the Imperial German embassy staff there and in
Portugal.
Sep 6th - Two british mining cruisers are sunk by German submarines in the western
Skagerrak.
Sep 9th - Eleven additional soldiers from the UNMIS mission who had gotten stuck in
Sudan arrive in Ethiopia, reinforcing the embassy there.
Sep 9th - Diehl BGT Defence restarts production of Kormoran 2 anti-ship missiles.
Sep 10th - Regular rail connections throughout the East-German Federation, including
across the border into Germany, are reestablished. Plans for regauging a rail link
from Germany through the East-German Federation into Warsaw are published.
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Sep 12th - Two Danish fishing vessels sink in a minefield laid by Germany the previous
year.
Sep 14th - Minor skirmishes ensue again, primarily short artillery duels.
Sep 15th - A German corvette runs into a mine off the coast of Kurland (Latvia), and sinks.
Sep 15th - On the southern edge of the front, the Entente fires an artillery barrage of
chemical shells over the frontline. Casualties are minor. The German Luftwaffe
targets the offending artillery battalion in a surgical strike.
Sep 15th - The German base in Bulgaria is used to airdrop several royalists from exile into
Greece as agitators.
Sep 15th - The last Brazilian forces in France cross the border into Spain, who has allowed
passage for transfer from a Portuguese port.
Sep 19th - Brazil denies docking to a French destroyer enroute to French Guyana from West
Africa, citing its duties as a neutral.
Sep 20th - The Royal Navy and German forces battle near Helgoland, with two British
battlecruisers sinking.
Sep 20th - Germany allows for a number of Imperial artillery regiments to be reequipped
with self-propelled howitzers from German depots to improve counterbattery
capacity.
Sep 21st - Thessaloniki falls to the Bulgarian Army, capturing the main Entente supply port
for the Macedonian Front.
Sep 22nd - After attempts by the Royal Navy to penetrate the Sund into the Baltic Sea with
mining cruisers, Germany allows the East-German Federation to deploy a small
taskforce into its exclusive economic zone to guard the Sund again.
Sep 25th - Turkey allows the three German ships interred there for almost 6 months now to
move up the coast and transition into the Black Sea, where they make for a Bulgarian
port.
Sep 28th - The Czechoslovak Legion moves west against Austrian pressure.
Sep 28th - Entente air defense manages to down a scouting German helicopter for the first
time. Germany rushes to secure the area, advancing across the established front line
for the first time.
Sep 30th - The Spanish Government allows Germany to use the island of Annobon as a
temporary base for Taskforce South Atlantic, also starting to ship some
Germans who fled from Cameroon into the neutral Mbini territory to the island.
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Sep 30th - Concurrent local coups happen in Prague and Bratislava as well as several
smaller cities in the area. Two Austrian Landwehr divisions from Czechoslovakia
mutineer and join the coup.
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October 1918
Oct 1st - Some Entente countries receive large shipments of Flu medicine from the neutral
Netherlands, where Germany has secretly built up a factory producing these.
Oct 3rd - Germany's Reunification Day is barely celebrated anywhere. Small riots happen in
cities where export-oriented companies have fired workers.
Oct 4th - regular rail links between Luxembourg and Germany are reestablished.
Oct 5th - The Heeresleitung on the Western Front establishes a new rotation system, only
giving the men two weeks in the trenches before drawing them back. Germansupplied trucks are used to facilitate this rotation system. This leads to vastly
improved morale.
Oct 6th - Taskforce South Atlantic arrives at its new temporary homeport.
Oct 7th - The Czechoslovak Legion moves into Bratislava.
Oct 10th - A vaccination program for all soldiers on the Western Front against the Spanish
Flu completes. Travel restrictions across the border into Germany still aren't relaxed.
Oct 11th - Austrian and Czechoslovak forces battle west of Bratislava, without either side
able to call it a victory.
Oct 14th - Hungary declares itself neutral with respect to the "Czechoslovakian Crisis".
Oct 14th - Two Imperial U-Boats interred in Brazil are "extradited" to Annobon along with
their crews.
Oct 15th - To improve operations in other European theaters, notably Bulgaria, the
Bundeswehr orders a batch of six A330-MRTT from EADS.
Oct 17th - Germany starts exports of some ruggedized tractors and trucks into the EastGerman Federation, Netherlands, Belgium and Poland.
Oct 17th - Several more small battles erupt between Czechoslovak and Austrian forces over
the next two weeks.
Oct 17th - German troops withdraw back to the front line after combing through the area
where the helicopter was shot down three weeks earlier.
Oct 18th - The first two new French fortresses are completed.
Oct 18th - Austria calls on Hungary to "free" Bratislava.
Oct 20th - The first flu medicine packets are distributed among Entente soldiers, despite
doubts about their origin.
Oct 20th - Royal Navy forces start collecting every single bit of FGS Karlsruhe in the
harbour of Ascension that they can find, including raising the scuttled ship. The
remains are transferred to the UK for analysis.
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Oct 21st - French and German troops settle back into the previous front lines.
Oct 23rd - Germans observe fire trials from one of the new French fortresses through
drones.
Oct 24th - Austrian troops manage to break through to the city limits of Bratislava,
albeit avoiding to enter the city itself.
Oct 28th - Irregular supply runs by German ships from Banana in the Belgian Congo to
Annobon start.
Oct 29th - German communists send a delegation to Lenin.
Oct 29th - The largest battle so far between Austrian and Czechoslovak forces erupts,
battling over the city of Brno.
Oct 30th - The two Imperial submarines extradited by Brazil arrive at Annobon.
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Logistics
Near Ruse, Bulgaria, October 9th

The truck had been stuck for hours. Hours! Damn this middle-age backwater... and the guys
back at the base could really work faster. After all it was them that went without meat if he
didn't get some from that village. He looked over at his driver. Fuck, that guy had the gall to
just sit back and relax. Soldiers. Bah. He got up and manipulated the lever on the hatch
above him. Climbing up, he got his head out into the air. Still couldn't see much beyond the
glistening fields of snow surrounding them. And the tire tracks. The ones where they should
be some sort of tow truck by now. Or one of those recovery tanks. Wasn't that their
purpose?
He climbed back in, closing the hatch as he really didn't want that light snow falling outside
in here. It was cold enough. He'd raised the issue over an hour ago. That... soldier just told
him that the auxiliary heater was on, and that it should get warmer. Then he stuck the
earphones from his MP3 player back in and ignored him as he continued reading that
boobie magazine he'd apparently found under his seat. How the hell was one supposed to
work like this? He was supposed to be sitting in Berlin. Not out here in the snow waiting for
those soldiers to get their asses in gear.
He checked the bag he'd put under his feet. Grabbing out an old magazine himself at least
something to read, even if it was still going to be boring as hell. And cold. Did he mention
cold? At least the meat on the back deck wouldn't rot in this cold. Three tons. Probably
enough for the next week for the entire base. Two weeks if they alternated meat and
vegetarian dishes in the kitchen, which he knew they'd probably would. Damn cheapskates.
They'd paid a fortune for this stuff too. In gold. Probably got screwed in the negotations he
reckoned. Much as they couldn't read or write - those farmers were still crafty. He shook his
head. This place was really still back in the middle ages.
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November 1918
November 1918, Western Front and Belgium
Operations cease on the Western Front due to the oncoming winter. Both German
and Entente soldiers enjoy a bit of quiet. The Entente uses the quiet to reorganize
their entrenched troops around their fortifications, especially pulling back heavy
artillery into the better-protected forts. Each fortress also receives a pair of heavy
long-range railway guns attached to it, to improve counterbattery options. Due to the
precautions taken, Germany sees good chances that the oncoming Second Wave of
Influenza, in OTL spiking in mid-November, at least in those countries directly or
indirectly supported, won't be as harsh. Several 10,000 former Imperial Soldiers are
sent into Belgium to support reconstruction efforts in the battered country. Priorities
are set in construction of a railway connection to Brussels, especially to improve the
continuing distribution of food and amenities to the population donated by Germany.

Some 2,000 German Civilian Engineer Corps members are sent along on a voluntary
basis to support this reconstruction with heavy machinery.
November 1918, Poland
Work on establishing a standard-gauge rail link to Warsaw commences, built by
regular commercial German companies. German companies also manage a deal to

provide several 10,000 trucks to Poland and the East-German Federation within the
next 6 months. Small clashes erupt on the Polish-Ukrainian border, quickly resolved
when the rearmed Polish Army arrives. German and East-German yards start laying
up two dozen hulls for small minesweepers to improve the demining effort in the
Baltic. Through a cleared corridor, sea traffic between Germany and the Baltic
Confederation port of Liepaja (Libau) starts in mid-November.
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November 1918, Overseas

Lettow-Vorbeck, having entered Urundi the last month despite British resistance to
crossing Tanganjika, and negotiating a ceasefire with Belgian troops in Urundi, has
managed to send a group of envoys to Leopoldville, capital of Belgian Congo. These
envoys come into contact with the small German representative office set up by
Taskforce South Atlantic. Germany and Belgium jointly petition the Netherlands to
allow them to secretly send goods towards the Congo on Dutch ships, on the promise
that no weapons would be sent. A first shipment, with the German goods consisting
of some fifty army and airforce engineers with heavy machinery and dozens of tons
of supplies, leaves Rotterdam on Nov 20th.
Nov 1st - Several CH-53 heavy transport helicopters are transferred to the German base in
Bulgaria, having received adhoc additional internal tanks for ferrying over.
Nov 1st - Germany and Bulgaria agree on separating a part of the harbour with the three
German ships as a "security zone".
Nov 3rd - Hungarians among the troops in Ruse approach the local Bundeswehr
commanders requesting a possible transfer into Hungary.
Nov 3rd - Germany starts transferring two Imperial divisions from Alsace-Lorraine to the
Italian Front, doubling the number of German troops on that front.
Nov 3rd - Another short running battle between Royal Navy destroyers and patrolling
German ships erupts in the North Sea, albeit with both sides being cautious, and no
ships being sunk.
Nov 4th - Two German frigates spot a number of suspect underwater contacts heading for
Wilhelmshaven.
Nov 4th - Royalist agitators incite general strikes in several Greek cities, opposing the
government.
Nov 6th - four Imperial German U-Boats approach Wilhelmshaven; the boats are interred,
and the crews disarmed. They report that a lot other Imperial U-Boats in operation
during the year have reached neutral harbours, often scuttling the boats after
evacuation, and they've been spending the last 4 months secretly collecting
information on the crews' locations.
Nov 6th - Austrian forces bombard several villages along the Plzen-Brno line.
Nov 6th - German CH-53s start operations from the Bulgarian base.
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Nov 7th - French troops manage to capture two German armored personnel carriers, both
having been demobilized to prevent hostile use after taking fire.
Nov 7th - Bulgarian Forces, after talks with Germany, entrench east of the Vardar river for
the winter.
Nov 9th - Germany starts overhauling and recommissioning Tornado strike aircraft from its
depots.
Nov 9th - RWE announces it will expand the Garzweiler brown coal mine. Four additional
villages with 4,000 people are added to the list of towns to be relocated as they're in
the path of the planned expansion.
Nov 10th - Oil reserves, even ahead of the winter and despite improvements to domestic
production, are dwindling. Strict rationing of oil and gasoline starts.
Nov 10th - A security detachment of fifty soldiers is airlifted by helicopter from the base in
Ruse, Bulgaria, to the port town where the three German ships of the UNIFIL flotilla
arrived the previous month.
Nov 13th - Trenches are being dug in the contested area between Bratislava and Vienna.
Neither side has artillery with enough range available to threaten the other city.
Nov 14th - Two German chemical plants, dependent on oil, completely halt their operation.
Nov 16th - The last Imperial German troops from Mbini arrive on Annobon.
Nov 17th - Plans of the government to replace several nuclear plants with new reactors
within the next few years are being published, inciting protests from several political
parties.
Nov 19th - Czechoslovak Forces press forward towards the south from the Plzen-Brno
line.
Nov 24th - The German camp near Ruse, Bulgaria, finishes winterization. Helicopters from
that base start dropping volunteers from the Austro-Hungarian forces into Hungary
to make underhand contact with the Hungarian leadership.
Nov 25th - In a decision to improve the mobility of the German Army, the Bundeswehr
orders a service-life extension for nearly 1,400 M113 armored personnel carriers
still in depots. The "NDV3" extension is virtually identical to the "NDV2" program for
M113s last ordered 3 years earlier. As part of the modification, nearly 200 M113 are
also modified into mortar carriers, doubling the German Army's mechanized 120mm
mortar fleet.
Nov 28th - Largescale coal-to-pretroleum refractioning plants are finished in Germany,
after several months of conversions. While their potential production is nowhere

near satisfying demand, they provide some partial relief to the problem.
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December 1918
December 1918, Pola, Istria:
In light of approaching Italian and other Entente forces not just at sea but at land as
well, the Austro-Hungarian Navy decides to move its primary northern adriatic
naval base from Pola to Rijeka, with significant portions of the fleet, including the
Adriatic Flotilla Group free corps, setting sail for the two southern naval bases,
Sebenico and Cattaro. The Adriatic Flotilla Group itself sets sail for Cattaro, already
anticipating an increase of warfare over the Dalmatian coastline.
Dec 2nd - Germany starts a full rotation of the troops stationed in Bulgaria for fresh men.
Dec 3rd - Austria and Czechoslovakia sign a ceasefire after frontlines have been deadlocked
for 3 weeks, and enter negotiations.
Dec 4th - Poland stations several battalions along the border with Ukraine, to "prevent
hostile actions".
Dec 5th - German engineers, having arrived on Annobon, start construction of a large-scale
airport on the island.
Dec 6th - The Entente temporarily demobilizes 20% of its forces due to the consolidation of
positions.
Dec 9th - A provisional government for North Schleswig has been formed, albeit in a state
of "occupation" by Germany.
Dec 10th - The USA decides to cap its deployed forces in the American Expeditionary Forces
at exactly 1 million men. The British Empire follows by capping the British
Expeditionary Force at the same number. France protests both moves, despite this not
really representing a lowering of American and Commonwealth forces on the front
lines.
Dec 10th - Lettow-Vorbeck, with his nearly 2000 men, is allowed to transit through the
Congo to be transported to Annobon.
Dec 10th - A military coup takes place in Greece over the next two weeks, bringing royalist
forces into power in Athens again.
Dec 11th - The East-German Federation commissions its first "tank battalion", consisting of
18 disarmed old Kanonenjagdpanzer casemate tanks delivered from Germany
rearmed with 75mm field guns.
Dec 12th - Lettow-Vorbeck enters Belgian-held territory in Eastern Congo with his troops.
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Dec 12th - Italian forces break through the Austrian front near Treviso. The Italian front
seems to collapse at first, but Austrian forces rerouted from the Czechoslovak border,
as well as fresh Hungarian forces manage to stop the breakthrough before it reaches
Udine and Trentino a week later.
Dec 14th - Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht pays a two-week visit from the Western Front
to Munich.
Dec 14th - Construction of barracks buildings, in anticipation of future expansion, starts on

Annobon.
Dec 17th - The German Airforce, in support of Austro-Hungarian efforts, does several strike
sorties over the Italian front.
Dec 18th - Worried by the buildup, Portugal deploys two 2nd Class Cruisers to Sao Tome
with strict orders not to engage the Germans on Annobon.
Dec 18th - Ukraine sees some street battles between Bolsheviks and Whites.
Dec 19th - Portugal withdraws its forces from the BEF.
Dec 20th - Crown Prince Rupprecht holds a speech in the Bavarian Parliament, contrasting
modern Bavaria with the one he knows.
Dec 20th - The government issues directives on how to save oil for home-owners, such as
lowering the minimum allowed temperature in rental apartments with central
heating.
Dec 21st - Due to increased demand, the A330-MRTT order is increased to twelve units.
Dec 24th - An official christmas ceasefire until the new year comes into effect across the
Western Front.
Dec 25th - On christmas, a first train goes the entire way from Berlin to Warsaw on the
newly opened rail link.
Dec 26th - An Italian amphibious assault lands on Istria, taking the town of Parenzo.
Dec 27th - Germany secretly charters four large contemporary freighters to operate from
the Netherlands.
Dec 29th - Mines sink a German survey vessel in the Baltic.

Dec 31st - Greece officially declares neutrality.
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January 1919
January 1919, Constanta, Dobruja:
The three Type UB Imperial German submarines of the Constantinople Semiflotilla,
having operated in conjunction with the former Imperial German battlecruiser
Yavuz under Turkish command are relieved from defense of the Dardanelles and sail
north for Constanta, where they join the three modern German ships in their small
adhoc naval base, soon after being laid up. Their crews of altogether nearly 120 men
join the easy duty of the land-side forces of the Bundeswehr security detachment
posted to the town two months earlier.
Jan 1st - Germany officially reopens its embassy in Portugal.
Jan 1st - Czechoslovakia declares itself independent.
Jan 2nd - The Polish King pays an official visit to Germany.

Jan 4th - Riots in Eupen-Malmedy are put down by the German Border Guard.
Jan 8th - The Bundeswehr orders an extra 410 PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers from
Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, taking up the original order from 1998
for the Main Defense Forces that was cancelled due to the Bundeswehr being
reduced.
Jan 9th - A coup attempt in Lithuania is struck down after East-German forces support the
Lithuanian government.
Jan 10th - two of the chartered freighters are sent to Annobon to be stationed there.
Jan 12th - Influenza-induced travel restrictions into Alsace-Lorraine are lifted.
Jan 14th - Week-long strikes erupt in Bordeaux, Toulon and Marseille.
Jan 15th - A small German truck assembly plant is opened in the East-German Federation.
Jan 15th - Galicia declares itself independent, under a Menshevik Soviet.
Jan 15th - train lines between Strasbourg and Southern Germany are reopened, leading to a
lot of tourism especially to "vintage" Strasbourg itself.
Jan 16th - Greek Forces bring the last anti-royalist cities under their control.
Jan 18th - Lettow-Vorbecks troops are slowly transferred to Annobon over the next few
weeks.
Jan 20th - Germany starts exporting some more modern machinery to the Netherlands.
Jan 20th - Hungary reinstates the Romanian government as a puppet under its control.
Jan 20th - Artillery duels across the Western Front intensify again.
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Jan 21st - The Bundeswehr orders a new batch of 300 Taurus missiles to replenish and
increase stocks.
Jan 22nd - The first 6 new minesweepers constructed for the Baltic Sea are hastily
commissioned.
Jan 24th - Air- and Sea surveillance around Annobon is transferred to an island-based
facility based around the radar pulled off the Karlsruhe before she was scuttled on
Ascension.
Jan 24th - The base on Annobon is expanded using reconstructed shipping containers
brought in by the two cargo ships having docked there two weeks earlier.
Jan 25th - Ukrainian forces clash with hastily drawn-up Galician militia.
Jan 27th - Polish forces clash with Galician militia, and start advancing on Lviv four days
later.
Jan 27th - With coal-to-oil refractioning in full production, oil stocks start to slowly
stabilize - albeit still with strict restrictions on its use.
Jan 28th - Italy slowly manages to take control of all of Istria.

Jan 29th - Riots erupt in Chicago, with racial strife entering the game after a few days. The
riots are put down by the US Army after ten days.
Jan 30th - Annobon Airbase opens, with a direct flight from Germany.
Jan 30th - Ukraine invades Bukovina.
Jan 31st - Germany officially "leases" Annobon from Spain for 20 years.
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Administration
Annobon, Gulf of Guinea, January 17th

Sheets. Paper sheets. Almost archaic. They couldn't have brought in a computer? This would
have been mere minutes in Excel, but this way... he was looking over his sheets as the phone
rang. Quickly wiping the sweat from his brow, he reached over to the old-fashioned table
unit and picked up the receiver. "Treiber... er, Colonel Treiber speaking", he announced, still
not used to the equivalent rank they'd given him when he got the orders to deploy from his
cushy public servant office in Augsburg. "Yeah, i'm about to finish the papers. Hope we can
start shipping them out in a few days, or we'll have to start stacking 'em in the huts. What? A
new one? Damn, tell me stuff like that earlier, not when the ship's about to spill em on the
beaches. How many?". Checking over his sheets as he made small annotations in accordance
with the numbers, he grumbled and swore under his breath. "Listen... put them in section
four... Yeah, i know. Yeah, that's the one with the big tents. They'll just have to learn to share
for a few days". With a shake of his head he dropped the receiver back on the telephone.
Another hundred? The place would be a mess. Not that it wasn't already one, with all those
Kaiserliche crawling about these days. He checked the numbers... almost two-thousand now.
Shaking his head he looked over at the calendar on the wall. Oh well, at least he'd be out of
here in six weeks. He opened one of the drawers on his desk, unfolding the towel in there
that he'd wrapped his water inside. Half a bottle left. That meant that by lunch he'd have to
stand in line again. Sighing, he took out the bottle and took a swig from the lukewarm
water. They really needed to find a new solution for this. The stuff tasted like someone had
gone and bottled a swimming pool. Bleh. He felt around under the towel. At least he still
had... oh yeah, there it was. Bitter, but at least that stuff gave him a kick. He scribbled a small
notice to get some more of that schnaps. Even if it came at a premium these days.
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February 1919
Feb 1st - After drawn-out negotiations with Switzerland, the road leading to the German
enclave Bsingen is reopened, with the town so far having been supplied by
helicopter.
Feb 2nd - Polish forces take Lviv without much resistance.
Feb 2nd - A general strike puts Ireland in disarray for weeks.

Feb 3rd - Hungary and Romania jointly declare war on Ukraine. After intense negotiations
by Germany, every neighboring nation declares itself neutral in the conflict.
Feb 5th - Germany repeatedly expresses its displeasure about the conflict about to ramp up
with the Hungarian government.
Feb 9th - A revised form of Plan 1919 is published in the UK modified to better accomodate
current German tactics. The new plan focusses on mobilizing artillery, as well as
giving infantry better adhoc anti-armour capability.
Feb 10th - Bulgaria and Greece sign a peace treaty, with Bulgaria withdrawing from
Macedonia.
Feb 10th - Semi-regular flights between Germany and Annobon start.

Feb 13th - The German government orders several hundred light utility helicopters from
German companies, both to spur on the industry and to have a system ready to
replace both the worn-out Bo-105 light helicopters of the Bundeswehr and to
expand air mobility forces. The Bo-105s are retained and reused in other rules.
Feb 14th - Poland stops advancing after having taken nearly half of Galicia.
Feb 14th - Minor riots erupt in Posen, stemming from Polish East-German citizens who
think that "the investments from Germany" do not arrive in their area.
Feb 16th - Ukrainian and Hungarian troops clash for the first time since the treaty of BrestLitowsk.
Feb 17th - Germany donates some 2,000 FK20 20mm automatic guns from depots along
with ammunition as light air defence and anti-tank guns with Imperial troops on the
Western Front.
Feb 19th - Construction for permanent German bases in Eupen-Malmedy begins, intended
to house primarily the Imperial German forces there.
Feb 19th - Germany starts transferring some 20 older 105mm artillery guns from depots to
Annobon, being some of the heavier equipment capable of being transported there by
civilian air freighters.
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Feb 19th - Germany and the East-German Federation agree that a certain percentage of
investments will benefit each of the seven East-German provinces.
Feb 20th - Insurgents in Albania and southern Serbia secretly join forces to fight the
Bulgarian occupiers.
Feb 24th - Alsace-Lorraine is allowed to maintain an independant militia for policing

purposes, drawing 20,000 men from disarmed Imperial forces for the purpose.
Feb 25th - A riot by German settlers in Cameroon is put down swiftly by British and French
forces, with some deaths.
Feb 28th - Germany and the Russian Soviet Republic sign a tentative cooperation treaty.
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March 1919
Mar 1st - The East-German Federation commissions three motorized infantry regiments.
Germany lodges a minor protest over trucks intended for the general economy
having been rerouted to the military.
Mar 1st - Galicia and Poland sign a ceasefire.
Mar 2nd - The Royal Navy Grand Fleet sails in for a large battle with the German Navy.
Despite some heavy losses, including almost a dozen capital ships, the Grand Fleet
persists and sinks nearly half the modern German fleet in the end. The victory is
exploited as "a turning day on the Front" in the Entente press.
Mar 6th - Three German squadrons of Tornado aircraft execute a strike on Scapa Flow,
firing some 140 Taurus cruise missiles at the Grand Fleet; using preprogrammed
targeting information, over 50 ships of the Grand Fleet are sunk or heavily damaged
in the strike.
Mar 7th - Austria comes under pressure on the Italian front again, finally losing Trento to
Entente forces.
Mar 9th - Following the Scapa Flow strike and the North Sea Battle, the Armed Forces
Committee issues a study for possible procurement aimed at combatting the Royal
Navy efficiently.
Mar 10th - The civilian population of Annobon is allowed to form a "provincial
government" similar to Alsace-Lorraine.
Mar 11th - Fighting along the fortifications and trenches on the Western Front reintensifies
for the next two weeks.
Mar 12th - Entente forces perform amphibious landings on four islands on the Dalmatian
coast.
Mar 15th - Poland allows Germany to build and operate a trading and exchange post on the
Polish-Russian border west of Brest. Plans are drawn up to connect this post to
Germany via the rail link to Warsaw.
Mar 15th - Germany starts drawing together reserve artillery units for coastal defence on
the Northern Sea coast.
Mar 18th - Austria is unable to prevent a Entente landing near Zadar in Croatia.
Mar 20th - In light of the recent battle with the Royal Navy, some politicians call for an
evacuation of Heligoland and perhaps other islands closer to the shore.
Mar 21st - After some problems, some of Lettow-Vorbecks troops are moved to Germany.
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Mar 23rd - Germany completes mobilization, having increased the size of the Bundeswehr
to 500,000 men over the last 12 months, with another 200,000 men and women
working in civilian support corps. A further 200,000 reservists are retained for a
potential "full mobilization". Nearly one-fifth of the Bundeswehr is now stationed on

the Western Front in Alsace-Lorraine.
Mar 23rd - Hungarian and Romanian forces regain control of nearly two-thirds of
Bukovina.
Mar 26th - A German frigate on extended patrol sinks a French destroyer between
Cameroon and Annobon in self-defense.
Mar 26th - A gang having professionally smuggled East-German citizens into Germany is
found and prosecuted. The case raises calls in Germany to increase the size of the
overworked borderguard.
Mar 26th - Controversially, Germany drops the scrapping of cluster munitions that has still
been ongoing, with non-scrapped stocks returning to the depots.
Mar 27th - Ukrainian forces cross the Dniestr into southern Bessarabia and take Chisinau,
Cetatea Alba and Tighina.
Mar 30th - In a hastily drawn up plan Germany buys five incomplete Kln class cruisers
from East-German yards for a pittance and starts drawing up plans to outfit them
with a bit more modern weaponry in order to temporarily replace ships lost in the
battle with the Royal Navy.
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At all cost
North Sea, March 2nd 1919

4:30 am GMT
The sea was quiet that day, despite the light rain and the low clouds that, combined with the
thin early morning fog obscured all visibility beyond a few hundred yards. The fleet was
pushing forward fast, at nearly 24 knots, with its units having been specifically selected for
speed. Following their instruments, they passed island by island, just outside visual range,
the line of ships snaking its way along the coast. Could someone have seen the dark, barely
lit fleet they would have been impressed: The six fastest battleships of the navy accompanied
by no less than ten battlecruisers and sixteen large armoured cruisers, dominating a bevy of
smaller ships surrounding them, with the fleet including over twenty light cruisers and
nearly sixty destroyers. Two carriers were even accompanying the line, though both did not
have any aircraft in the air; they had a special mission, one that would require all their
readiness and dedication. The task of each ship was clearly defined; some roles had been
defined in a rather adhoc manner, considering the limited number of ships capable of
sortieing with the quickstrike fleet. Ammunition fit was for the most part accordingly, even
if this was an item not too publicly discussed to dissuade dissention in the several ten-
thousand men that crewed the ships. Despite the rather tight timetable of the operation
some small refitting had even been able to be performed to accomodate the new, previously
not considered dangers in dealing with this enemy. And all the major ships in the fleet lineup had finally been equipped with new fire control equipment, something a number of the
other ships in the fleet still lacked.
The stage had been decided on only through months of intelligence work - what with
previous work virtually destroyed by whatever had brought the wretched New Ones here
new agents had to be inserted, collaborators to be found, maps had to be charted, and the
movement of ships and troops within the target area had to be closely monitored for weeks.
The plan was a deeply examined though not overly complex one. Positions had been set,
with the ships in the fleet knowing which taskgroup they belonged to, and which position
they had to reach at all cost - and that was new too, something so far not an intrinsic
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doctrine: At all cost. Most of the sailors in the fleet didn't really realize the full impact of this
doctrine change. But most officers knew. And kept their thoughts about it to themselves.
5:19 am GMT
The fleet reached its final waypoint close to dawn. From here it would split, and the
taskforces were already forming up as they approached the waypoint, the entrance to the
bay already visible. It was a miracle that the approaching fleet had not elicited a response
from the enemy yet; but that's what the bevy of destroyers was tasked with, drawing out
enemy units and attempting to destroy them in fast strikes. The fleet knew that it was within
range of the enemy's weapons; considering the events of the past year, this was by now a
given, and at least some countermeasures had been taken hours before. Whether those
would prove themselves would have to show itself later.
Some final adjustments were made. Carriers began prepping their planes and already
turned into the wind, ready to launch; the ships stepped up the ready status on their highangle guns, each ship suddenly bustling with action as sailors would now rush to their
positions, taking them up ready to try to take on whatever the enemy would throw at them.
And that's when the enemy was sighted. One of their aircraft, low and thundering along the
bend of the coastline, visibly adjusting its course when it spotted the fleet, breaking away
and quickly gaining altitude in a show of aerobativs none of the fleet's own aircraft could
hope to mirror. The fleet was ready for it. Gaining speed, the destroyers surged forward,
their steam turbines visibly pushing as the six squadrons formed up gained speed. The eight
cruisers that had been assigned and modified the task began taking up positions to the side
of the capital ship line, the line moving forward into the bay at full speed while banking
towards starboard; their destination would be reached in less than fifteen minutes, the
sixteen individual ships already beginning to traverse their turrets to port, their gun crews
already working on preparing the rounds for their first salvo. Fifteen minutes; it seemed a
lifetime to some until their part of the battle would begin. The two carriers hung back; the
first planes were being launched, the nearly twenty aircraft flying from the decks not
waiting to form up but instead
banking to port and staying low over the water, their
pilots made well aware of the dangers that would come with contesting the air that the
enemy controlled even without being seen.
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5:30 am
The destroyers had gone in ahead; and it was them that the enemy first engaged. As they
were approaching their target they were met; sleek small boats, nearly a dozen of them, at
speeds well exceeding even those of the fast torpedo destroyers. They struck fast, and hard
the guns on the round turrets mounted on their forecastles spitting out shells at never before
seen speed, and with a precision none of the destroyers could match as they began firing
their own quick-firing 4-inch guns at the fast weaving and evading boats half their size.
The fire of the small gunboats showed its effects surprisingly early; the impacts fell almost
too fast to count, the first several destroyers already abandoning their tasks switching to
urgently needed damage control within minutes. Then again the numbers were
overwhelming; even if it took hundreds of shells, the first of the small boats to be struck
didn't take long either, the superstructure of the small ship bursting even as its forward gun
kept on firing. The boat reacted; breaking from the combat, it weaved its way out of combat
even as the large launchers on its stern fired in a seemingly last big breath, four brightly
burning stars hurtling away from the ship not towards the destroyers though, but further
out, reaching for the capital fleet that had fallen almost out of view of the destroyer screen.
5:35 am
The capital ships had reached their destination; 15,000 yards to the target, the position
carefully scouted ahead, the guns already laid to open fire on the signal. That signal came
from the lead battleship; a single round shooting away with a crack of thunder, only a
warning for the thunderstorm that followed twenty seconds later as almost thirty ships
opened up with their main battery, with anything from eight-inch to twelve-inch shells
flying their precalculated paths towards the target.
The response did not take long; just after the second salvo had been fired, another almost
two-hundred shells on their way to the target the first two bright lights came virtually out
of nowhere, their path rising before striking one of the battlecruisers at a high angle on its
deck, the twin explosions followed only a minute later by a sharp loud crack in the air, a
giant column of fire rising from the struck magazine of the ship into the air. The second
twin lights struck one of the lighter cruisers; one explosion ripping apart her superstructure
while the second found its way behind the rear pair of funnels, a huge cloud of smoke soon
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rising from the ship.

Within minutes the next lights arrived, even as the cruisers and battleships kept firing. Six
this time, although eliciting less damage from the line than the first two pairs, only one
cruiser being struck this time, with a second receiving some glancing damage as one of the
lights seemed to bounce off its turret armor and the second seemed to miss at it struck the
water just sixty feet from the ship's freeboard. Two of the lights seemed to ignore the line,
striking quickly through it as they continued on out to the sea, straight ahead at one of the
light cruisers that had taken up a picket position between the line and the carriers further
out. Both lights struck the smaller ship head-on from the front in quick succession just
above the water line, the bow of the ship virtually disappearing in the large explosions
visible from the line. Those that continued looking out at the cruiser would swear that the
bow of the ship had in fact disappeared; not that they could take a good look at it, stopped in
place the ships quickly took on water, its bow disappearing under water as its stern tilted up
over the next two minutes, sinking into the cold sea quickly.
5:43 am
The eighteen planes launched from the two carriers arrived over their target several
minutes ago; in fact, rather in front of it, flying at less than a hundred feet altitude above the
water. The scene they were flying into looked erie; a battlefield, a slow artillery barrage
creeping onto the target. The planes came in perpendicular to the barrage, two of the crews
specifically trained for this task already sending back information on its success to the ships
in morse code even though they couldn't see that much of their target or the fire effect yet
due to the clouds of smoke the fire threw up.
They never noticed the first pair of new arrivals. One of them struck down out of the sky,
three of the light biplanes vanishing almost simultaneously as two were consumed in large
explosions and the third riddled in a series of tiny ones. The biplanes broke off; their pilots
unsure where to turn as a screaming sound vibrated through the air around them only
seconds after the explosions. As one more of them vanished in tiny explosions, the other
planes raced for the sea, seeking for a way out of the fiery death. The second of the new
arrivals beat them to their new destination by minutes though, the pair of carriers nearly
twenty miles out; the larger of the two its target, several clusters of small explosions
suddenly opened up on its flight deck, ripping holes into it and damaging the beams
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underneath holding it up. Not much more happened though, the enemy plane going high
and vanishing out of sight beyond the clouds after this single strafing.
The biplanes did not make it far; even as they evaded, hugging close two the coastline, two
of them disappeared in shreds as yet another two new arrivals appeared in the sky, the first
already having vanished from their visual range as suddenly as it came. More and more fell,
some to the limits of their own engines as their evasive maneuvers brought them to close to
the ground or to close to their stall speed. Some tried to defend themselves, observers
aimlessly firing their machine guns into the air above them.
They had served part of their purpose though; the part they did not really know about. The
line had been warned. And even as the sixth of their ships was struck by more missiles, the
line banked to port and steamed for the entrance to the bay, the destroyers meeting them
minutes later and forming up protective screens to the sides of the capital ships along with
the remaining cruisers.
6:29 am
By the time they had met up with the carriers and steamed to the open sea, the fleet had
been whittled down further; both the missiles striking from beyond and the planes taking
their small toll from the air had sunk half the line by now, with half of the remainingships
having taken on damage. It had been a short battle. A painful one. But the target had been
struck, and the fleet would return home. Victorious. At all cost.
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April 1919
Apr 4th - The USA starts lowering its contingent in France to 600,000 men, not having seen
much action in the past year. Instead, the US Navy sends a large contingent to
supplant the ailing Royal Navy.
Apr 7th - German companies manage a deal to sell several hundred agricultural tractors
and machines in Switzerland.
Apr 7th - The Galician government signs a friendship treaty with Ukraine.
Apr 9th - Lufthansa starts buying up B737 fleets of other airlines, placing some 63 own and
124 acquired aircraft in long-term storage for a possible future escalation of
services.
Apr 10th - Russia signs a ceasefire with Japan and China.

Apr 10th - Ukraine and Poland sign a peace treaty, with Poland annexing the occupied
parts of Galicia. The remainder of Galicia remains independent, albeit in a
"Ukrainian sphere of influence".
Apr 12th - In the US senate, the entire "European Adventure" is called into question, the call
for an exit strategy start to arise, especially since there haven't been any attacks on
US shipping in months.
Apr 12th - Tubercolosis breaks out in two camps of former Imperial soldiers in Germany.
Apr 12th - Portuguese warships visit Annobon under close watch by German troops.
Apr 14th - Sponsored by Entente agents, Bosnia declares independence from AustriaHungary.
Apr 15th - Germany's trade post in Poland on the Russian border opens, albeit without
much to do yet.
Apr 15th - Germany starts evacuating Heligoland, under heavy cover by the German Navy
and Airforce.
Apr 15th - Spain starts transferring interred Imperial troops from Bioko to German custody
on Annobon.
Apr 19th - Germany starts importation of tropic fruits from Belgian Congo via Annobon, by
air freight.
Apr 19th - The first US flotilla arrives at Scapa Flow to reinforce the Royal Home Fleet.
Apr 19th - Outfitting of the Kln class cruisers starts in German shipyards on the Baltic.
Apr 19th - Romanian forces force the Ukrainians back across the Dniestr.
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Apr 20th - Using the bridgehead established previously, the Entente starts "liberating" the
entire Dalmatian coast, with little resistance and only a handful battles against
Austrian forces.
Apr 22nd - German "specialists" infiltrate Cameroon by air, and open talks with several
local tribes in Douala, who initially resent them but become more amiable after
Germany baits them with a possible recognition of independence.
Apr 23rd - A small spring offensive from the Entente intended to bring some movement into
the frontline again barely changes the lines, despite the use of large amounts of
tanks.
Apr 24th - The previously issued study on improving naval strike capability is presented. It
recommends the conversion of laid-up civilian passenger aircraft into maritime
patrol aircraft.
Apr 26th - German anti-war protesters firebomb the depot of a Bundeswehr base.
Apr 27th - The tubercolis outbreaks are under control, with less than twenty casualties
among Imperial soldiers.
Apr 29th - Plans for a railway line connecting Germany via Silesia with Poland are
published by private companies.
Apr 29th - Hungarian forces "liberate" the remainder of Bukovina.

Apr 29th - Der Spiegel publicizes a scoop on the "Naval Strike Study", also highlighting
how EADS lobbyists have influenced the study.
Apr 30th - The Armed Forces Committee passes a silent procurement decision based on the
"Naval Strike Study", emphasizing a radical joint-forces approach to intervention
abroad.
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May 1919
May 1st - A US cruiser is sunk in the North Sea by a German Orion patrol aircraft.
May 1st - Eupen-Malmedy is made a part of Germany.
May 3rd - A police raid on brothels in some twenty German cities yields over eighty
prostitutes trafficked in from the East-German Federation.
May 4th - A first completely paved road from Germany via Danzig and Knigsberg to
Lithuania is opened.
May 5th - On the first Monday, May Day, Irish rebels set off several bombs in English and
Welsh towns.
May 9th - Belgian and French troops have a minor clash on the Congo.
May 10th - Austrian and Hungarian troops establish a defence line from Rijeka in Istria to
Karlovac, stopping Entente troops.
May 12th - Opposition parties form a "anti-war bloc" in the German parliament.
May 14th - A US taskforce runs into a large German minefield laid northwest of Heligoland,
losing several ships.
May 15th - France increases its naval contingent in the southern ports of French West
Africa.
May 15th - Eupen-Malmedy becomes a "special district" of Northrhine-Westfalia.
May 17th - After a second group smuggling foreigners into Germany is found, the German
government allows for construction of border surveillance posts along the OderNeisse line.
May 19th - Repeated attempts by the Entente to cross the "Rijeka line" are stopped by
Austrian forces.
May 20th - Travel between the East-German Federation and Germany is restricted to a set
of eight border posts.
May 20th - Vittorio Orlando, prime minister of Italy, is voted out of power, with Giovanni
Giolitti replacing him. Debate about the war starts in Italy again in light of Giolitti's
anti-war position.
May 23rd - Doualan "insurgents" free several hundred German settlers in British and
French custody and hand them over to German troops.
May 25th - Germany and Ukraine announce an agreement regarding a German state
company drilling for oil in the Dniepr area.
May 26th - Calls in the Bundestag to end the State of Defense get louder.
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May 28th - French opposition politicians and German representatives meet in Switzerland
in inconclusive talks about possibly ending the war.
May 29th - German special forces come under fire northwest of Buea, Cameroon, but
manage to still break off and extract with one dead and two injured.
May 29th - The German settlers from Cameroon are transferred across the border into
Mbini, with insurgent militia clearing the path for the treck.
May 30th - An emergency shutdown in Biblis Block B, Germany's oldest nuclear plant, goes
critical when seveal hundred liters of mildly radioactive secondary coolant spill into
the Rhine.
May 30th - Austria-Hungary and the Entente negotiate a temporary ceasefire on the Italian
and Croatian fronts.
May 31st - Without much choice Austria-Hungary accepts the independence of Bosnia
formally, on the condition of neutrality. The same day, Austria-Hungary formally
acknowledges Czechoslovakia and opens diplomat relations.
May 31st - Germany, Poland and Ukraine meet to discuss plans for a possible extension of
the transport network into Ukraine.
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--- Story Snippet --Author: Beer

Walter-Simon-Platz, Knigsberg, East-German Federation
Emil and Rike Hochweg were happy. When the bloody war was over Emil came back from
the Baltic front unharmed. Their daughter had her daddy back, Rike her husband. Something
many other families could not say. Even the weirdness that happened to the western portions
of the Reich could not diminish the happiness of all who got their men folk back.
Right now, Knigsberg was part of the East German Federation or informally and a bit joking
Rest of Prussia. Politically the situation was full of rumours. Most people in the East-
German Federation wished for a unification with the strange, but incredibly advanced
Federal Republic. Not only for the things right out of fiction novels they possessed, but they
were Germans too. Weird boys and girls, but they still were Bavarians, Saxons, Rhinelanders
or Swabians, Holsteiners and Palatinians.
Then there were some groups which were opposed to joining the other Germans. Some of
their ways were truly alien and the East-German Federation should carry on the shield of the
old Empire, they said.
But today was not a day for politics; it was a day of festivity. The national football teams of
the new Germany were coming for a friendly against selections of the East-German
Federation. Emils father Rudolf was a member of the DFB, the german FA, well the old DFB
at least, since the new imperial Germans one was the DFB too. When this event was in the
planning, one day during a shared dinner, Rudolf told that the FA was a bit puzzled why the
other Germans were sending 2 teams. Maybe some future thing at work, he thought. It was
hard, but the East-German association succeeded in raising two good teams. The matches
would be played at the home stadium of the VfB Knigsberg, the Walter-Simon-Platz.
Not only the stadium was packed to capacity, but the streets surrounding were lined with
rows of spectators, wanting to see the bus convoy with the other Germany teams and their
fans coming. The new Germans FA was helpful and to prevent a chaos in the cramped
conditions of the centuries old parts of the city, a bunch of conditions were developed. Only
1000 new german fans would be in the stadium, to give more East-German citizens a
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chance to see the matches on site. And all modern German fans would be coming with the
teams or by train on the day of games, so the city could plan a mass event in numbers they
never had before. In addition to several thousand, maybe ten thousand fans and tourists
from the New German Empire as they were referred to consistently now in other nations,
tens of thousand spectators from all East Prussia were expected too.
Meanwhile the city centre was prepared for a big party after the games so that both sides
could mingle further and celebrate. To make it more of a football event, the new DFB, in
close cooperation with the old one, erected several public viewing points throughout the
city. For people from the beginning of the 20th century, that was a spectacle itself. Another
screen was erected in the stadium, so that the people there could see the arriving busses.
Emil and Rike were a bit awed by the busses they saw on that screen. Nothing like the busses
the East-German Federation or any other nation had. Goods from the other Germany were
becoming more widespread in the East-German Federation any day, but still the difference
was wow. Someday it would be normal, but it would take the world more time than this
handful of years since it happened.
Suddenly Rudolf came down from his seat at the VIP area to the couples seats. He looked a
bit haunted.
Father?
Someone handling the post made a mistake! When he read about a womens national team,
he believed it an error made by the other DFB. So he briefed us about two mens teams
coming. This idiot! We kicked him out immediately, but the damage is done. While we dont
know what to think about womens football, we need a team in, he locked on his pocket
watch,4 hours! The other DFB understands what happened and their women team is
willing to play against our second team, but can you imagine the impression made! So we
are gathering any female player we know of in the local area, not that we have so many to
begin with. Rike, I know you play sometimes for fun, since both our families are close to
football, and from what I saw, you have potential. Will you come and play this evening for
the Eeast-German Federation?
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Rike was stiff as a stick from shock. II will, but we are players for fun and those and we
dont have Jerseys to represent.
Dont worry. Their womens team has enough change clothes and they are prepared to
lend you some. Ill get you after the first game. Thank you , Rike!
Rike and Emil stared at each other. They even knew the others thoughts: What a day!
Rudolf Hochweg leaned back against the stadium office wall, hanging up the phone. It was
done! Prussia had a women team for the evening game now. Even Gunda Schiller, one of the
few female players he had heard of, came from Breslau. The DFB had done anything they
could to arrange express transportation for the women coming from further away, like
Gunda. But what counted was that they now had a team, however loose the term. Rudolf, like
many, even most of the men of his time, did not think much about footballing women. He
had nothing against them playing for fun, he had seen that some like Rike possessed talent,
but a national team was another matter. A much more serious and hard fought matter!
Nothing for the fairer sex.
But whatever the case, the new Germans had a women national team and Prussia, the EastGerman Federation, would meet them on equal terms. Anything else was unacceptable!
Rudolf looked at his watch. It was very late or very early, depending on the viewpoint, when
he, Emil and Rike arrived at the 2-Families-House they lived in. It had been a long day, but
the party in the city-center was still on. These new Germans could celebrate like the
Hungarians! On the Green, it had been a black day for the East-German Federation. The
new Germans played like from another star. So in the second half the mens game
transformed more into a training game for both sides. But it did not stop the good mood, the
other Germans tried to be cheery for everyone and got several parties, the biggest in the city
center truly going. By the time the womens game was started, all of Knigsberg was in a
festive mood.
For the East-German citizens, the other Germanys women team was a surprise in more than
one way. Rudolf Hochweg as a DFB (old) member, had seen directly that it was not some
improvised team to make some statement, but a real one. And they were good! Physically
they might not be able to stand up to men, but technically the other German women were
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great! Like the mens match before, the second developed into a training match as well.
Then the party really started.
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June 1919
Jun 1st - The Joint Committee introduces a very unpopular "defense tax".
Jun 5th - A movement in the Alemannic western parts of Austria calling for secession causes
some civil and political unrest.
Jun 6th - The Bundeswehr orders an initial batch of 48 A319-MPA maritime patrol aircraft.
Within six weeks Elbe-Flugzeugwerke Dresden starts conversion of A319-100
aircraft bought from Lufthansa on one of its two conversion lines. The maritime
patrol aircraft are intended to improve the German chances in the North Sea against
the Royal Navy.
Jun 9th - German civil engineers start rebuilding Eupen-Malmedy extensively to bring its
infrastructure to modern levels.
Jun 10th - Mutinies raise among French and some US troops, crippling the Entente armies
for a few weeks.
Jun 12th - A third batch of six A330-MRTT multi-role tanker/transport aircraft is ordered
for the German Air Force, with the first batch delivered and the second batch in
conversion currently.
Jun 14th - The two Imperial U-Boats at Annobon are allowed to leave Annobon to support
anti-French and anti-British operations.
Jun 15th - Austria-Hungary and Italy start peace talks.
Jun 15th - construction of a railroad into Ukraine starts
Jun 18th - To appease anti-war activists in parliament, the Joint Committee drafts an
agreement to initiate peace talks with any willing opponent.
Jun 18th - The last bridge from Germany into Austria destroyed due to the ISOT 18 months
earlier is reopened.
Jun 19th - The UK increases their contingent in France despite starting civil unrest on the
islands.
Jun 21st - Three US destroyers surrender to German ships in the North Sea after a short
battle, going against higher orders.
Jun 21st - Germany, the East-German Federation and Russia agree on an exchange of maps
of minefields laid in the Baltic Sea.
Jun 23rd - Talks between French opposition and German officials in Switzerland restart.
Jun 23rd - The three mutinous US destroyers are allowed into Bremerhaven port under the
suspicious eyes of half the German Navy.
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Jun 24th - German special forces withdraw from Cameroon into the Spanish Mbini
territory.
Jun 27th - Croatian renegades sponsored by "patriotic" Austrians start an insurgent

campaign against Entente "occupiers".
Jun 28th - German civilian engineers tap several large oil deposits east of the Dniepr.
Jun 29th - Austrian patriots start smuggling weapons from the Austrian Army into Croatia,
creating weapon caches there.
Jun 30th - Ioseph Jughashwili is injured and captured in a mutiny by renegades near
Tsaritsyin.
Jun 30th - The two U-Boats attack and sink three small French ships near the Ivory Coast.
Jun 30th - The US Navy withdraws most of its naval contingent to Scapa Flow, fearing
further "desertions".
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July 1919
Jul 1st - The German Army orders 500 additional new heavy self-propelled howitzers,
intending to form new coastal artillery and long-range artillery units with these. A
design mating the AGM armored gun module developed from the PzH 2000 to a
heavily rebuilt GTK Boxer wheeled carrier chassis is chosen.
Jul 3rd - A French cargo ship is captured by the Imperial submarines off the coast of
Abidjan, sending the ship with a prize command towards Annobon.
Jul 4th - Germany creates a first POW camp on German soil, hosting the crews of the three
captured destroyers in the port town of Bremerhaven.
Jul 5th - A bolshevik group influenced by Russia sets up a red government in Galicia.
Jul 6th - The mutinies among Entente troops start to peter out.
Jul 6th - An attempt to retrieve Jughashvili by Soviet forces fails near Tsaritsyin, the
mutinous soldiers vanishing into the forests.
Jul 9th - The Federal Borderguard starts operations fielding three patrol boats on Lake
Constance.
Jul 10th - General strikes cripple the British economy.

Jul 10th - Germany delivers six coastal minesweepers to Russia.
Jul 12th - Several ten-thousand Imperial soldiers are allowed a short-term vacation at Baltic
Sea beaches.
Jul 15th - An armed Bantu group attacks a British patrol northwest of Douala.
Jul 15th - Austria starts calling on ethnic Germans to increasingly settle in the northeastern
parts of Trentino.
Jul 16th - A formal peace treaty is signed between Austria-Hungary and Italy, withdrawing
Italy from the Entente, with Austria grudgingly granting parts of Istria and Trentino
to Italy.
Jul 19th - Lithuania starts exporting natural goods, such as mushrooms, to Germany in
small amounts.
Jul 20th - German police shuts down a smuggling ring from Germany into Belgium through
Eupen-Malmedy.
Jul 21st - The French opposition forces its way into the government, preventing further
strikes and mutinies for a while.
Jul 22nd - Bulgarian and Entente forces clash in central Serbia.
Jul 23rd - Over a thousand Galicians, secretly entering Bavaria from Czechoslovakia jointly
apply for asylum, presenting the German government with a peculiar problem.
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Jul 26th - The first refitted Kln class cruiser, rearmed with equipment salvaged from
German Navy ships damaged in the larger battle earlier the same year is
commissioned.
Jul 28th - Small clashes erupt in New Cameroon on the border to Belgian Congo and French
Equatorial Africa between armed insurgents and British and French troops.
Jul 29th - The French government announces a temporary moratorium on artillery strikes
across the front by French troops. British and US officials denounce the step.
Jul 29th - German companies start exporting machinery into Switzerland on a large scale.
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August 1919
Aug 2nd - A French fishing vessel sails too close to Annobon and is interred.
Aug 2nd - The British government uses the Army against striking staff at a factory in
Liverpool. Four men are killed.
Aug 3rd - Several hundred Turkish citizens in Germany form a secret pro-Turkish group
aiming at toppling the Ottoman Empire.
Aug 4th - Soviet forces retake the entire area around Tsaritsyin, eliminating all "renegades"
found. Ioseph Jugashwili remains "lost" however.
Aug 7th - small battles erupt along the "Rijeka Line" between Austrian and Entente forces.
Aug 9th - A fact-finding team having gone over salvaged parts of FGS Karlsruhe at
Ascension for six months presents some vague results to a dissatisfied Royal Navy
board.
Aug 9th - Granting some financial aid, Germany deports the resisting Galician asylum
seekers to Czechoslovakia, citing that the neighboring state is a "safe third nation".
Aug 9th - the "Croatian Patriots" destroy a Entente supply depot
Aug 11th - A British scout seaplane flying in low drops a few hand grenades on Annobon,
causing little damage.
Aug 12th - The red Galician government is toppled in a coup.
Aug 12th - Ukraine and Romania come to peace talks, with initial results settling on a
border along the Dniestr river.
Aug 13th - A development council is installed at the new German embassy in Athens,
forming the nucleus for evaluating German investment in the recently reinstalled
kingdom.
Aug 14th - The Joint Committee passes a motion that Germany will rescind the "Defense
Case" and go back to peacetime policies if the three Western Entente sign a peace
deal.
Aug 14th - France fields its first full regiment of superheavy breakthrough tanks.
Aug 15th - Hungarian forces reenter Austria, reinforcing the Rijeka Line.
Aug 15th - Italian aircraft begin dropping bombs on military positions outside Zagreb,
seeking to disrupt supply for the Rijeka defense line.
Aug 16th - A pro-Hungarian "national directorate" is installed in Galicia consisting

exclusively out of ethnic Hungarians. The "national directorate" soon invites Hungary
to send troops to their territory.
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Aug 17th - In an exhange of forces two Austrian line divisions are stationed west of
Voivodina near Vinkovci and Brcko, entrenching with heavy artillery support to
prevent Entente forces from advancing along the Save river into the Danube valley.
Aug 18th - Germany sets up two more "trading posts" in Eastern Europe, this time in
Lithuania and Northeast Poland.
Aug 18th - France starts moving troops from Chad and Equatorial Africa into Cameroon.
Aug 20th - Two British scouting aircraft are shot down over Southwest Germany, with one
of them making an emergency landing and the two crew members disappearing
before the German Army makes it to their landing spot.
Aug 21st - The German government asks the parts of EADS that remain in Germany to
develop a long-range transport aircraft with 20 tons capacity based on A400M
experience.
Aug 21st - The Royal Army and British protester clash in Manchester, leaving two dead.
Aug 22nd Three Soviet river monitors on the Wolga bombard the shipyard of
Krasnolobodsk on the opposite side of the river to Tsaritsyn, following yard workers
in the recently freed city claiming that the yard's halls were being used by
counterrevolutionaries to prepare for a counterattack on Tsaritsyn.
Aug 23rd - Entente forces push forward to take all of Serbia west of the Danube and
Morava rivers.
Aug 25th - French forces assault and take Tuzla, with the defending forces withdrawing
towards Brcko.
Aug 25th - A German fishing fleet gets into a small altercation with Danish ships near
Bornholm, resolved when German Border Guard patrol boats arrive on the scene.
Aug 26th - US officials use French government contacts to "feel" for a possible solution to
the "stalemate" with German officials without all that many results.
Aug 27th - Several hundred Italians living in Germany go to their home country on a
dispensation that they would be allowed to return to Germany in the future. The
government grants them financial support.
Aug 28th - Spain starts deploying 300 troops from the homeland to Mbini.
Aug 28th - The newly founded Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences applies
with the recently reorganized German embassy in the country to be allowed to send
a fact-finding team to Germany, primarily to evaluate the applicability and effects of
modern technology to current engineering technology.
Aug 29th - Entente forces take Podgorica, capital of Montenegro, after the few remaining
Austro-Hungarian forces with Bulgarian reinforcements retreat southeast.
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Aug 30th - An exchange of fire between protesters and the Royal Army leaves four soldiers
and nearly two dozen civilians dead. Following this exchange the Royal Army
reinforces its troops in the cities and starts assisting police in enforcing peace with
some unpopular measures such as a curfew after sundown starting on September
1st.
Aug 31st - Germany transfers several disassembled helicopters by airlift to Annobon.
Aug 31st - An italian ammunition freighter explodes in the port of Sibenik, leaving nearly
sixty dead and four-hundred injured, including dozens of local civilians. In the
aftermath, the Croatian Patriots fess up to having committed the action, explaining it
as another strike at the Entente occupation forces and declaring the injured civilian
port workers to be collaborators, at the same time celebrating the sacrifice of the
three-man team who had successfully infiltrated the port and executed the strike.
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September 1919
Sep 2nd - Poland and the East-German Federation, after long hesitation, sign a treaty
promising cooperation in cross-border infrastructure projects.
Sep 4th - A second Kln class cruiser is commissioned.

Sep 4th - Germany re-opens its embassy in Rome.
Sep 6th - Multilateral talks concerning the future of the "Imperial Territories" are held in
Berlin, resulting in lots of hot air and little dedication.
Sep 7th - Entente forces make an amphibious landing near Tirana, quickly taking the city
against little resistance.
Sep 9th - Romania and Ukraine sign a cautious peace treaty.
Sep 9th - The skirmishes along the Rijeka line come to a standstill again.
Sep 12th - A German helicopter crashes on a sand beach of a tiny island off the coast of
Douala in a storm.
Sep 13th - The USA withdraws its soldiers from the frontmost trenches.
Sep 13th - More and more public transport companies in Germany start switching to busses
running on natural gas.
Sep 15th - A study by DIW expects inflation in Germany to reach nearly 10% until the end
of the year.
Sep 15th - France discovers Belgian and Imperial German weapons among Cameroonian
insurgents. Belgium manages to dodge the bullet, claiming a supply depot in Congo
was raided.
Sep 16th - Bulgarian forces start slowly retreating from Albania and Kosovo.
Sep 17th - South-Galician separatists announce the formation of a exile government for
Bukovina seated in Ukraine.
Sep 19th - The "Turkish Union" aiming to support Attatrk in the future is found out,
declared a terrorist group, and goes underground after being outlawed.
Sep 19th - A British cargo ship is sunk only 30 miles off the shore of Douala.
Sep 19th - Several thousand Indian soldiers of the Commonwealth Army mutiny, crippling a
front section near Nancy.
Sep 20th - The Entente controls all of Montenegro now and starts pushing into Albania from
the north.
Sep 21st - The German Border Guard and a vessel of the Danish Navy get into a short
shooting match later played down by both sides.
Sep 22nd - Several dozen Indian soldiers are the first to defect to Germany.
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Sep 23rd - Belgian officials secretly propose a plan to Germany to expand Belgian territory
by absorbing the French-held parts of Congo. German officials refuse the plan.
Sep 24th - The Indian mutiny in the trenches is put down bloodily. Nearly 500 Indian
soldiers desert across the trenchline.
Sep 28th - France increases its troop presence in New Cameroon along the Congo river.
Sep 30th - Anti-British riots erupt in India.
Sep 30th - The Bundeswehr, in order to enlarge slightly, decides to hire nearly 50,000 of the
former Imperial soldiers that have been trickling into Germany from primarily the
East-German Federation, but also Alsace-Lorraine.
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--- Story Snippet --Author: Kelenas

What really hit home, Fritz Reimert thought, actually wasn't the differences, but the
similarities. Without them he could at least have pretended that he was in a foreign city an
incredibly strange foreign city, admittedly rather than the city he lived and grew up in
before and during the war, until he had been conscripted.
To come here after his discharge had been somewhat of a snap decision; there wasn't really
anything for him here since his elder brother had been killed during the war, and his
parents and his two younger sisters had vanished in the strange event slightly more than a
year ago. Thankfully, unlike many of his comrades he still had relatives elsewhere, who had
invited him to stay with them on their farm in West Prussia, but on his way there he simply
had to see what had happened to his home with his own eyes.
He already caught a few glimpses how different things were on his journey here on the
train, which had looked almost nothing like those he'd been used to, either from within or
without, but it had hardly prepared him for what would await him in the German capital
city.
After Fritz made his way through the downright gigantic Berliner Hauptbahnhof, where he
noted that its exterior walls were apparently made of glass Glass! What kind of crazy idea
was that!? - he quickly found that his knowledge of the city wasn't quite as useful as he
thought it would be, and in the end had to resort to buying a map, like some kind of tourist,
before he could back to exploring this Berlin.
His first stop had been his old address, where instead of the small apartment complex his
family had lived in, he found some kind of office building with a similar glass-and-steel
exterior as that of the Hauptbahnhof, which was apparently rather popular, as he'd seen it
often on his way through the city.
Afterwards he had backtracked his way a bit to rent a bed in a youth hostel, and then set out
to have a closer look at the rest of the city.
His first stops had been to several of Berlin's most notable landmarks, like the Brandenburg
Gate, the Berlin Cathedral, or the Zoological Garden. Whether he did so because he wanted
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to see how they might have changed, or if they even still existed in the first place, or
something else, he wasn't completely sure.
He actually ended up spending the rest of the afternoon in the latter, sitting down on a
bench with a small meal he'd never heard of before (Currywurst, the vendor had called it,
which had turned out to be a simple sausage cut into pieces with a special sauce) he simply
watched the simultaneously familiar and foreign scene.
While the sight of families walking along the paths and watching the various animal
reminded him of the times he'd visited the Garden with his own parents and siblings, their
appearance was a completely different matter. Many people were handling small devices of
some sort or another which they pointed here and there, and their clothes were quite
commonly of bright primary colours and unfamiliar cuts, often showing an amount of skin
that would have given his parents cause to cover their children's eyes.
So much, in fact, that Fritz found himself staring dumbfound at a small group of girls with...
skirts, he guessed? ...that left their entire legs bare and shirts doing the same for their arms,
shoulders and stomachs, right until one of them walked over and snapped at him. Faced
with this blatant verbal assault in public, he did the only thing he could think of and blurted
out an apology, which seemed to mollify the girl enough for her to take a closer look at him,
culminating in the question if he was one of the Imperials.
Next thing he knew, he had spent the better part of an hour answering the questions she
bombarded him with, while getting in a few of his own, and agreeing to meeting her later in
the evening when she suggested it. That particular bit, when he consciously realized it,
actually made him stop dead in his tracks in the middle of the due to the fuel rationing
thankfully little-used street. He might not have had much experience with girls before
he'd been drafted, but he was pretty sure that it was supposed to be the other way around.
And yet here it was just another facet of the new Germans' weirdness.
When he later met up with the girl Erika it was past sundown, which had surprised him
when he noted how bright Berlin was at night, with various artificial lights everywhere.
From their meeting place, Erika first led him to an establishment she called a Disko, whose
main purpose, as far as Fritz could deduct, was to blast its visitors with loud, unceasing noise
and flickering, changing lights, while people 'danced' with no to him - discernible rhythm
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or pattern.
Frankly, he found the entire thing more confusing and disorienting than anything, but
thankfully they didn't stay too long. Instead they moved on towards the Potsdam Square,
entering the Sony Center where he gaped a bit at the the bright, colored lights on the inside
of the roof, before they spent the rest of the evening exploring the various shops and
restaurants many of them serving foreign food and finally watching a movie in one of
the cinemas before he escorted her home for the night.
The next morning he had a few hours time before he continued on towards West Prussia,
and decided to use the time to visit the Reichstag building, whose exterior was more in line
with a style of architecture he was familiar with, though the black-red-gold republican
flags and the glass dome on the roof of the building certainly weren't part of the Reichstag
building he remembered. And while he'd never seen it from the inside before, he guessed the
same could be said for most of the interior, at least what he saw of it during the tour he
participated in.
Sitting in the train towards Danzig a few hours later, Fritz tried to sort through the
impressions he got on his stay in the city. In many ways they seemed completely different
from what he knew; the way they looked upon their military as a necessary evil, rather than
a source of pride and strength, or Erika's casual self-confidence when she made decisions,
rather than leaving them mostly up to him, and the many obviously foreign words they
used, like computer, handy, okay, or cool.
But there were also plenty of traits he recognized, so he didn't completely feel like he was in
some kind of foreign country.
Well, for the moment it didn't matter too much anyway; he had to get to his relatives and
then find a way back into civilian life, but maybe he'd visit the city again at a later date. The
note in his pocket certainly offered some encouragement to that effect.
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October 1919
Oct 2nd - The Royal Navy sends a dozen destroyers and gunboats to port towns of
Cameroon.
Oct 3rd - Germany abolishes reunification day as a national holiday 20 years after the
reunification effective from next year.
Oct 3rd - Russian Soviet forces push through to the Black Sea.
Oct 4th - German engineers in the Dniepr marshes are attacked by local farmers who see
the oilfields as a destruction of their base of living.
Oct 6th - A hungarian-sponsored coup attempt in Romania fails.

Oct 6th - Artillery duels across the front intensify in some sections.
Oct 7th - A car bomb explodes in front of a Bundeswehr base in Nrvenich, NorthrhineWestphalia.
Oct 10th - A German transport helicopter is shot down over Southern Alsace.
Oct 11th - American, French and British "future" citizens hold a demonstration in Frankfurt
demanding immediate peace talks.
Oct 13th - After an internal squabble between German Air Force and German Navy the
Bundeswehr orders a batch of 48 A320-MPA maritime patrol aircraft, the A320
being chosen as it offers the Navy control of all European waters including a
potential support of Greek Forces in the Mediterranean. Due to internal competition,
these aircraft assigned to the Navy are not equipped for strike roles.
Oct 16th - Germany and Denmark hold talks concerning a redistribution of economic areas
in the Western Baltic Sea.
Oct 18th - Eastern Slovakian separatists declares independence from Czechoslovakia as the
"Tatry Republic".
Oct 20th - The talks between Germany and Denmark regarding Baltic Sea Economic Zones
come to a standstill, with Denmark demanding a continuous zone between Sealand
and Bornholm.
Oct 23rd - A british vessel runs on a mine just outside the harbour of Lagos, Nigeria,
blocking the port for nearly two weeks.
Oct 23rd - The US Army tests a secret new anti-aircraft weapon in Texas.
Oct 25th - During the weapons tests in Texas, the new weapon manages to hit an
unmanned tethered ballon flying at 15,000 feet.
Oct 25th - The Belarussian Soviet Republic holds a referendum endorsing union with
Russia.
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Oct 25th - A Bundeswehr supply train is bombed by anti-war activists.
Oct 26th - EADS Elbe-Flugzeugwerke starts the rebuilding of its Hamburg plant for
conversion of aircraft.
Oct 27th - Czechoslovakian Forces start moving on to the "Tatry Republic".
Oct 29th - A foreign-sponsored separatist movement pops up in the Russian Far East,
attacking a Red Army post there.
Oct 30th - The German and American ambassadors hold secret meetings in Rome.
Oct 30th - Soviet forces put down the last resistance in Krasnodar province along the Black
Sea coast, taking the city of Sochi, near the edge of the Caucasus.
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November 1919
November 1919, Thorn, EGF:
Polish, Baltic and Imperial East-German officials sign a treaty outlining a set of initial
bilateral infrastructure projects to be constructed during the year of 1920. These
include rebuilding the Memel bridge at Hrodna and regauging railways north of this
point to reestablish railway services between Poland and the Baltic Federation
through central Lithuania, a German-sponsored high-voltage electricity line
connecting Danzig and Warsaw, and beginning to improve the shipability of the
Vistula between Bromberg and Warsaw.
Nov 1st - Two "terrorists" of an anti-war group are killed by police in a shoot-out in
Cologne.
Nov 2nd - Riots following the shoot-out in Cologne result in over one million Euro in
damage as well as dozens of injured.
Nov 3rd - An ammunition transport explodes in Halifax, killing several hundred people.
Nov 4th - One of the now four Annobon-based Imperial U-Boats is sunk off the Nigerian
coast.
Nov 4th - The Entente declares the Republic of Albania in Tirana with the 1912 borders
despite Bulgarian forces holding fast especially in the east of the country.
Nov 5th - Indians working in Germany hand in a petition to the government asking for a
clear public statement on decolonization.
Nov 5th - The Polish Army does a partial mobilization in light of the trouble brewing with
the "Tatry Republic" on its southern front.
Nov 8th - Greece declares the Republic of North Epirus in South Albania. The Greek military
immediately occupies the area for "protection".
Nov 9th - Germany opens a "military office" in Mbini with the consent of Spain.
Nov 10th - Irish insurgents kill over two dozen British soldiers in a coordinated attack on a
Army marching line.
Nov 12th - Russian Forces enter Georgia.
Nov 15th - Germany fields its first brigade composed primarily of retrained Imperial
soldiers.
Nov 15th - Hungary reinforces its presence in Bukovina.
Nov 16th - A German helicopter crashes into the sea east of Annobon.
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Nov 16th - Two new long-range artillery pieces make their first appearance in the artillery
duels on the front, easily outranging the counterbattery fire of German howitzers.
Nov 18th - A Luftwaffe attempt to destroy the new long-range artillery pieces fails as both
are withdrawn into fortress shelters.
Nov 18th - Civil Unrest starts in several Belarussian border towns with a large Polish
minority.
Nov 19th - Czechoslovakia takes the "Tatry Republic" capital in Poprad. The government
flees and reconstitutes itself in Hungary.
Nov 24th - A "revolutionary cell" performs a bomb attack on a pump station for the NATO
Central European Pipeline Station, reminiscent of similar actions in the 1980s.
Nov 26th - Hungary dissolves the government-in-exile of the Tatry Republic.
Nov 27th - The Entente declares Croatia part of the Republic of Bosnia effective as of 1st
December.
Nov 27th - Germany lifts several dozen Imperial and Bundeswehr soldiers into Cameroon to
support insurgents in training.
Nov 27th - Following an artillery strike hitting a military hospital 30 km behind the
frontline by chance, the Luftwaffe okays a sortie by Tornado aircraft using cluster
munition dispensers over a Canadian Army camp behind the front, destroying it
entirely.
Nov 29th - The Far-East separatists take Vladiwostok. Russia starts taking forces off the
Southern Front and moving them east.
Nov 29th - Several dozen Ukrainian settlers cross the border from Bukovina, claiming that
they were expulsed by the Hungarian Army.
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December 1919
Dec 1st - North Schleswig signs a treaty accepting that some 20,000 former Imperial
soldiers settle there to work on upgrading the infrastructure of the area under
German leadership.
Dec 2nd - Czechoslovakia regains control of the entire "Tatry Republic".
Dec 2nd - Spain throws the British ambassador out of the country after he urges and
threatens the Spanish government to rethink their strategy and enter the war on the
Entente side.
Dec 3rd - With more public housing being made available, the ten barracks hulks in Danzig
port owned by Germany and housing some 3000 soldiers are deactivated. Several of
the ships are subsequently towed to German Baltic Sea ports, in particular Kiel and
Rostock.
Dec 5th - The Baltic Confederation accepts food assistance from Germany.
Dec 6th - A six-division commonwealth army attacks on a small front section near
Mulhouse, and is thrown back after six days of intense battle with severe losses, but
also causing nearly 5,000 losses on the German Imperial and Bundeswehr side.
Dec 6th - Four French soldiers die in a shootout with insurgents in Croatia.
Dec 7th - A Croatian-sponsored "anarchist group" attacks the government of Bosnia, killing
4 ministers in a single raid in which all members of the group are killed.
Dec 9th - Two Bundeswehr soldiers are killed in a French attack on a discovered insurgent
camp.
Dec 10th - Four anti-war activists are arrested in Germany on dubious evidence.
Dec 12th - Entente forces crack down on Croatian insurgent suspects.
Dec 12th - The Luftwaffe fires six cruise missiles at a Commonwealth base in Essex,
completely surprising the British High Command.
Dec 13th - Belarus forms a "volunteer" corps to fight alongside the Russian Soviet Republic.
Dec 14th - The US Army grudgingly reinforces the diminished Commonwealth Army on the
Southern Flank of the front.
Dec 15th - Four british destroyers heading towards Annobon are headed off by German
helicopters with anti-ship missiles, with one of the ships suffering two hits and
severe damage.
Dec 18th - EADS presents a first design for the future standard long-range transport
aircraft.
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Dec 20th - Austria, after lots of begging, receives six semi-modern towed howitzers from
Germany for evaluation.
Dec 20th - A third Kln class cruiser is commissioned, the first to be stationed in the North
Sea.
Dec 23rd - Russia clashes in a cavalry battle with Buryats, allied with the separatists.
Dec 24th - A one-week Christmas ceasefire goes into effect on the Western Front.
Dec 25th - The military commander at Annobon inquires urgently on the possibility of
receiving fuel from Germany, with both aircraft fuel and ship diesel on the
two supply ships running low.
Dec 27th - Heavy snow disrupts electricity lines in Niedersachsen state for a week.
Dec 28th - The Buryat Republic, centered around Ulan-Ude, declares itself independent of
Russia.
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January 1920
January 1920, Kassel, Germany:
Domestic anti-war terrorists attack the local plant of major defence company
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, rehashing a 1996 Provisional Irish Republican Army
attack on a British base in Osnabrck by hiding several home-built mortars on
trucks in places near the compound and then firing them on remote control at night
into the plant producing tanks and self-propelled artillery, damaging two production
halls severely. Two of the mortars fail to fire off their grenades, in one case exploding
the truck and lightly injuring two passerbys and damaging several cars. The action
causes police to virtually close down the city, erecting road blocks and instituting
random checks of passerbys on the streets within several kilometers of the plant.
Jan 3rd - The Entente holds a week-long strategic meeting in London, bringing together
diplomats from the Commonwealth, France and the USA.
Jan 7th - The Dutch Ambassador to the Commonwealth inquires to speak at the London
Meeting, presenting a previously undisclosed offer from Germany there the next day
- holding diplomatic talks in the Netherlands.
Jan 8th - Commonwealth forces enter Central Anatolia.

Jan 10th - A secret mission airlifted into the French West-African desert starts building a
base several 100 km east of Agadez.
Jan 10th - Germany ships several hundred tons of infantry weapons from disarmed
Imperial German forces to Belgium.
Jan 11th - Germany opens secret negotiations with Brazil regarding fuel deliveries to
Annobon.
Jan 14th - Two Italian spotting aircraft are shot down over Friaul by Austrian forces.
Jan 14th - Following the preference of conversions over newbuilt aircraft, the Bundeswehr
requests a new design for the "standard long-range transport" using converted
aircraft from EADS, at the same time also doubling payload requirements.
Jan 15th - Croatian insurgents shell a harbour used by Entente forces for resupply, scuttling
one ship successfully in the process.
Jan 16th - Austria-Hungary orders 36 howitzers from Germany to reequip some of its
forces.
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Jan 16th - A demonstration by ethnic Greeks is violently dissolved by British occupation

forces on Cyprus.
Jan 18th - Japan moves nearly twenty divisions into Vladivostok harbour and Sakhalin,
quickly securing the surrounding area of the Far-East Republic.
Jan 20th - Germany starts withdrawing all remaining forces from Austria-Hungary.
Jan 20th - Two Unionist Party representatives are killed in an attack by Irish Nationalists.
Jan 21st - Czechoslovakia arrests nearly a dozen German nationals in Prague. The Germans
are accused to be part of a human trafficking ring supplying German brothels.
Jan 22nd - Insurgents raise Greek flags over half a dozen towns near Milas on the Anatolian
peninsula.
Jan 23rd - A "revolutionary cell" fires three mortar shells at a Bundeswehr base in Bavaria,
killing two soldiers.
Jan 25th - German and US negotiators come to a secret agreement establishing an exit
strategy from the war for the USA; this exit strategy has a timeframe of nearly 18
months, and includes a number of concessions from Germany to the USA.
Jan 27th - Germany commissions two further Kln class cruisers.
Jan 28th - The Rhine is finally declared open for shipping along its entire length along the
ISOT line. Previously, shifting sediments along the underwater ISOT line created
lots of hazards to commercial shipping.
Jan 28th - An expansion project for Annobon Airport starts.
Jan 29th - The Eastern German Federation buys two dozen new armed prop trainer aircraft
from Germany.
Jan 30th - Danish and Imperial German soldiers clash on the land border between North
Schleswig and Jylland.
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February 1920
Feb 2nd - Two Brazilian tankers deliver enough fuel to Annobon to just about refill the
tanks of supply ship Frankfurt am Main.
Feb 4th - Entente and German negotiators meet in Rotterdam, opening negotiations again
for the first time in years.
Feb 11th - In a security incident at the meetings in Rotterdam, two German police officers
guarding the negotiation meetings are shot by unknown terrorists. The talks continue
despite that.
Feb 11th - Russian and Commonwealth forces meet and clash in Armenia.
Feb 12th - Agadez Base opens in the Eastern Sahara, a simple hardened airfield with fuel
bunkers protected by a full battalion of troops, including air defense and artillery.
Feb 13th - Insurgents attack a Royal Army company out on an exercise east of Douala in
Cameroon.
Feb 14th - Several French units mutiny against the increasingly worse food supply situation
in the northern Artois region, crossing the border into Belgium and surrendering
there.
Feb 15th - Diplomats from the Eastern German Federation and Austria-Hungary are
admitted to the Rotterdam negotiations.
Feb 18th - Building upon the first brigade formed in November, Germany inducts seventeen
Imperial Army divisions and forms seventeen new combat brigades from these.
Feb 18th - Denmark moves two divisions of troops to the border with North Schleswig.
Feb 19th - Commonwealth forces take Ankara and Corum province in Anatolia.
Feb 20th - The Rotterdam negotiations are made public, creating both hope and outrage in
some Entente countries.
Feb 20th - A Danish fishing vessel and a German police patrol boat crash into each other
after the Danish boats refuses to be boarded, with both ships sinking after the crash.
Feb 21st Beloussian forces destroy a "partisan base", killing some six-hundred civilians.
The German government fails to censor these news in time, causing outrage at "the
Government's Consorts" among the German population
Feb 22nd - Germany ferries six Tornado strike aircraft along with a refueling tanker to
Annobon, using Agadez Base.
Feb 22nd - The USA withdraws its troops from the immediate frontline in France.
Feb 23rd - The first aircraft conversion line at EADS Elbe-Flugzeugwerke Hamburg opens.
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Feb 25th - Germany sends half the troops stationed in Bulgaria - some 5,000 men forming
four regimental combat groups - into Turkish territory, alongside three times that
number in Bulgarian troops. These forces are stationed on the European side of the
Marmara Sea with Turkish consent.
Feb 26th - A local nomadic tribe clashes with German forces at Agadez Base, leaving 6
tribesmen dead.
Feb 27th - Work on the first A320-MPA conversion is started at the Hamburg plant.
Feb 28th - An unlimited ceasefire comes into effect on the Western Front.
Feb 28th - The Rotterdam Talks take a two-week break, intending to reconvene in midmarch.
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March 1920
Mar 1st - Imperial German forces exit the "combat zone" and withdraw past the 1914
border to France.
Mar 1st - Japan annexes parts of Inner Manchuria, creating a land bridge between Korea
and Vladivostok.
Mar 2nd - Greek forces land in Milas, occupying the immediate surrounding region. Only
minor clashes ensue.
Mar 3rd - Tornado aircraft start patrols within a 250-mile zone around Annobon.
Mar 4th - As agreed previously, French troops have waited 3 days till moving forward to the
border.
Mar 5th - Britain deports 200 German settlers from Tanganjika.
Mar 6th - Soviet Russia retakes Ulan-Ude, forcing a surrender from the provisional
government of the Buryat Republic.
Mar 6th - German troops start manning new trench systems and activating strategic
minefields along the border between Alsace-Lorraine and France.
Mar 8th - Greek troops raise their flag in Milas.
Mar 8th - In a large-scale prisoner exchange following secret negotiations, some 112
Bundeswehr soldiers are mixed in with 8,000 Old German POWs traded for some
5,000 captured US soldiers on the Franco-Belgian border. Some 34 German soldiers

remain in US custody.
Mar 13th - At the Rotterdam Conference, Belgium declares itself "neutral to the ongoing
hostilities".
Mar 14th - The Rotterdam Talks reconvene, now including representatives from Bulgaria,
and an observing envoy from Lenin. The Osman Empire remains notably absent.
Mar 23rd - Soviet Russian and Japanese Forces clash in repeated classic cavalry charges
along the northern coast of the Amur river.
Mar 23rd - The 200 deported German settlers from Tanganjika arrive in India by ship.
Mar 26th - A military coup overthrows the scant remains of the Osman Empire.
Mar 27th - Turkish troops seize control of key government facilities.
Mar 29th - The Spanish King visits Germany, coming in via Italy.
Mar 29th - Japan reinforces its troops on mainland Asia.
Mar 30th - An indigenously staffed Annobon Defence Force is formed, albeit only 120 men
strong.
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April 1920
Apr 1st - The Commonwealth advance in Anatolia gets stuck in fierce counterattacks by
Turkish troops.
Apr 3rd - Spanish King Alfons XIII opens a Spanish-German business relation office close
to the Thiele-Winkler Palace, the Spanish embassy that replaced its future
counterpart in the same place.
Apr 4th - Danish King Christian X dismisses the government during the Easter holiday
recess, installing a new conservative cabinet.
Apr 4th - The negotiations in Rotterdam culminate in a "treaty on suspension of hostilities"

signed today - not a peace treaty yet. However this treaty is limited to the territories
of France, Belgium and Austria-Hungary - less than Germany hoped for.
Apr 6th - In accordance with the treaty, Germany starts withdrawing "security troops" from
Belgium.
Apr 6th - Japanese troops start besieging Ulan-Ude, held by nearly 5,000 Soviet soldiers.
Apr 7th - Austria withdraws from the former crownland of Croatia.
Apr 10th - The Commonwealth draws back from the frontline in France.
Apr 12th - Nearly 150 German settlers from the British occupied territory in Tanganjika
start trekking into the Belgian occupied parts of the country.
Apr 13th - Clashes in Cameroon between British troops and insurgents continue.
Apr 16th - The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Alsace-Lorraine re-sign the 1868
Mannheim File regulating jurisdiction and customs on the Rhine. The coordination
offices remain in Mannheim.
Apr 16th - Protests against King Christian's decision are squashed severely.
Apr 20th - Turkish troops make small advances against Commonwealth resistance.
Apr 22nd - A "Royal Envoy" from King George sets up in Berlin.
Apr 23rd - Nearly 300,000 soldiers on the Western Front are demobilized and transferred
into a state-owned contractor company that supports the military - both Imperial
and Bundeswehr - in Alsace-Lorraine. Most of the affected troops are the "security
troops" previously stationed in Flanders.
Apr 25th - Several Danish Social Democrat members of parliament go into exile in Sweden.
Apr 26th - Japanese forces arrest and summarily execute several dozen accused bolsheviks
in Wladivostok.
Apr 27th - Japanese troops "liberate" Ulan-Ude from Soviet Russia.
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May 1920
May 1920, Turkey:
The new Turkish government plans unusual steps towards curbing the Greek
takeover in Milas while not committing significant forces to this theater while the
threat of Entente forces within Anatolia endangering the new Turkish Republic isn't
thwarted: Several ten-thousand ethnic Greeks in territory under Turkish control is
uprooted and driven towards the relatively small area on the Western Coast under
Greek control. The internally-given intention of this is to overtax Greek supplies and
ensure they can not expand from their current positions. The first treks of ethnic
Greeks enter the Hellenic area around Milas by the end of the month.
May 1st - Demonstrations on May Day throughout Europe see strong numbers calling for
an end to all hostilities.
May 3rd - The German government promises to end the State of Defense once a peace treaty
is signed.
May 4th - The Emirate of Bukhara declares itself independent from the "Russian Empire".
May 6th - After ten months construction and considerable testing, a first squadron equipped
with eight A319-MPA/B is officially commissioned and ready for combat duty.
May 6th - French politicians start demanding reparations publicly.
May 9th - Alsace-Lorraine demobilizes 16 divisions on the Western Front.

May 11th - A french politician holds a speech in parliament declaring that "there can never
be true peace with the Boche", taking applause from the plenum.
May 12th - Soviet and Ukrainian forces clash on the border in several minor incidents.
May 14th - Small border clashes erupt between Austria and Italy for a few days.
May 15th - A first convoy of ships directly from Germany arrives in Annobon.
May 16th - The USA starts shipping back part of their Expeditionary Force from France.
May 19th - Soviet forces enter eastern Anatolia.
May 21st - Troop ships with soldiers of the American Expeditionary Troops start arriving in
Newark, their reception being rather sedate.
May 22nd - Greek forces bring everything within 50 km of Milas under their control.
May 25th - Western Turkmenistan declares itself independent.
May 26th - Germany deploys four brigades to Eastern Ukraine to protect German workers
on the oilfields in the Dniepr marshes.
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May 28th - The Khanate of Chiwa declares itself independent.
May 30th - The first forward troops of the four German regular brigades arrive in the
Ukraine by rail.
May 31st - Persian and Soviet forces clash on the Persian-Azeri border.
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June 1920
Jun 1st - A conservative thinktank presents papers on a loose "German Confederation"
including Germany and the former Imperial territories to the press.
Jun 1st - Brazil opens an embassy in Berlin.
Jun 2nd - Commonwealth forces push a bit further towards Istanbul.
Jun 5th - Germany quietly starts dismantling Agadez Base in the Sahara again.
Jun 5th - Britain and the USA start exchanging debt bonds, spreading debts owed to the
USA to nearly 20 original debtors of Britain.
Jun 5th - Two German frigates set sail for Annobon.

Jun 8th - Strikers in Cyprus call for the British-occupied island to be transferred to Greece.
Jun 10th - After repeated skirmishes with Wahhabite Saudi troops, Britain integrates Kuwait
into the Mesopotamian protectorate.
Jun 13th - Soviet troops provide weapons to the "Black Army" operating on Crimea, as
Trotzky considers an amphibious invasion of Crimea an overextension of Soviet
Forces at present times.
Jun 13th - The "Baltic Confederation" dissolves, with its three members becoming fully
independent.
Jun 14th - The insurgency in Cameroon starts spreading into French Congo.
Jun 17th - The Soviet Union sends an expedition into the Transcaspian Region to deal with
the unruly provinces there.
Jun 17th - Greek forces land on Lesbos.
Jun 19th - Public surveys among the German population reject the "German Confederation"
by a large margin, citing mostly financial reasons.
Jun 19th - Two Tsarist battleships in the Black Sea bombard Sochi.
Jun 20th - A coup in Tehran overthrows the Qajar dynasty.
Jun 22nd - Dismantling of Agadez base completes, with the Bundeswehr estimating that
sandstorms will hide any traces within the next 6 months.
Jun 29th - An expedition into Persia sets out from India to reinforce British troops there.
Jun 29th - Soltan Ahmad Shah, the last Qajar king, flees into exile to France.
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July 1920
Jul 1st - Lenin publicly opposes Trotzky on support for the Black Army in front of the
General Bureau.
Jul 2nd - German frigates Nordrhein-Westfalen and Hessen visit Brazil on a detour while
deploying to Annobon to replace units there.
Jul 4th - A new spanish flu wave starts in the USA.
Jul 5th - An East-German dreadnought engages and sinks a Danish patrol boat in EastGerman waters south of Bornholm.
Jul 7th - British troops start pushing into the Caucasus, taking Baku.
Jul 7th - The East-German Federation and Poland come to an agreement regarding a
"limited land exchange".
Jul 8th - Germany takes up the originally cancelled option for a fourth Sachsen class airdefense frigate again in order to compensate for the loss of one of her sister ships
during the war.
Jul 9th - Czechoslovakia sees riots in Eastern towns by local Roma minorities.
Jul 12th - A Turkish offensive pushes Commonwealth troops back and recaptures Ankara.
Jul 13th - Denmark officially issues sharp protest notes towards the East-German Federation
and German governments.
Jul 14th - Former Imperial Grand-Admiral Tirpitz is hired to become an advisor to the
German Navy.
Jul 14th - Following a six-month study EADS presents a new design for a standard longrange transport aircraft, converting existing A340-300 aircraft. The design, claimed
to be a "Multi-Role Transport A340" alluding to a simple conversion similar to that
of A310 fifteen years earlier is actually an indepth reconstruction, equipping the
aircraft with aft clamp doors and a large cargo cabin and increasing the allowed
landing weight considerably. The aircraft is planned to be able to carry a 40-ton

payload over 12,000 km range.
Jul 15th - Germany signs official peace treaties with Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and
Greece in Berlin. Greece signs a peace treaty with Bulgaria at the same meeting.
Jul 15th - Bulgaria signs a "cessation of hostilities" with the British Envoy in Berlin.
Jul 15th - Germany starts construction on the first of a series of nine Meko A200 frigates to
serve as a replacement of units destroyed during the war.
Jul 18th - Commonwealth troops bring Tehran back under their control.
Jul 20th - A bolshevik coup overthrows the government of Estonia.
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Jul 22nd - Denmark starts reactivating fortress garrisons and deploying troops to Bornholm
and Christianso.
Jul 26th - US troops finish reducing their Expeditionary Force in France to the target
number of less than 20,000 men.
Jul 27th - Germany starts commercial imports from Brazil.

Jul 29th - Belarus becomes part of the Soviet Union.
Jul 31st - Italy and France sign a secret treaty on "interest zones" in the Balkans.
Jul 31st - Commonwealth troops start withdrawing from Bosnia, being shipped to Southern
Anatolia.
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August 1920
Aug 1st - Entente, German and Austrian officials meet in London to start discussions on a
possible peace treaty.
Aug 3rd - The talks in London start faltering after French and British officials start
demanding reparations, but continue despite that.
Aug 4th - Japanese forces entrench near Lake Baikal. Attempts by the Soviets to dislodge
them fail.
Aug 6th - Insurgents in Cameroon and French Congo capture the mutual border town of
Ouesso.
Aug 7th - A coup overthrows the King of Montenegro, reinstalled by occupation forces in
the meantime; Italian forces rush to restore order.
Aug 8th - Occasional riots start erupting in Muslim parts of India protesting
Commonwealth action against Persia and Turkey.
Aug 11th - The Soviet Expedition to the Transcaspian gets stuck after securing
Karakalpakistan north of the Emirate of Chiwa.
Aug 13th - Serbia and Austria surprisingly sign a Separatfrieden in London, on the
condition of reparation payments to Serbia.
Aug 14th - The London talks conclude with no result for Germany; disagreement over
reparation payments was widespread.
Aug 16th - Insurgents sink a French river monitor on the Sangha south of Ouesso using a
pom-pom gun captured in Cameroon earlier.
Aug 17th - Germany signs a treaty with Belgium to expand port facilities at Banana in the
Belgian Congo.
Aug 20th - Attempts by French and Italian occupation forces to install a government in
Bosnia fail to produce much due to local rejection.
Aug 22nd - The German commerce minister steps down after the press publishes plans he
supposedly drafted privately with two industry giants to move factories into Eastern
Belgium to save on labour cost.
Aug 23rd - Alsace-Lorraine starts standing down another ten divisions.
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Aug 25th - Germany buys three additional cruisers from the East-German Federation; the
six-year-old Magdeburg-class light cruiser Stralsund, the 11-year-old Knigsberg Iclass light cruiser Stettin and the one-year-old Knigsberg II-class light cruiser
Nrnberg. These three cruisers, together with three other light cruisers who came
into German ports from the North Sea form a new provisional cruiser squadron for
the German Navy. All six cruisers are subsequently slightly rebuilt, receiving in
particular unified armament and all new propulsion.
Aug 25th - The German government buys up ten used civilian cargo ships, six light tankers
and four dry cargo transports.
Aug 27th - Poland and Lithania sign a "cooperation treaty" with the East-German
Federation.
Aug 30th - Germany begins issuing tourist visa to citizens of Alsace-Lorraine at "foreign
offices" - not consulates - in Strasbourg and Metz.
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September 1920
Sep 3rd - The Bundeswehr orders a batch of 24 A340-MRT aircraft from EADS. Conversion
starts at Elbe-Flugzeugwerke Dresden within three months.
Sep 4th - Hourly train connections between Metz, Strabourg and Germany resume.
Sep 6th - A Danish scout aircraft fires its MG at a East-German cruiser while passing over it,
injuring one soldier.
Sep 7th - France begins demobilizing over 30 divisions.
Sep 9th - In a surprising move, the United Kingdom announces it has unilaterally signed a
peace treaty with Germany, with "discussions on reparations pending".
Sep 10th - Germany, controversially, restarts uranium mining in the East of the country.
Sep 11th - Socialists pull off a coup d'etat in Portugal, replacing the First Republic.
Sep 12th - The single remaining Pillau-class cruiser originally built for Russia but
confiscated by the Empire at the start of the war, is sold to Belgium, with Germany
picking up the tab.
Sep 13th - Germany exports a first batch of 100 trucks and heavy machinery to Brazil.
Sep 15th - An East-German cruiser becomes the first "Old World" ship to use the German
canal between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
Sep 15th - The USA bargains with Japan for transfer of several thousand prisoners of war
taken in 1914 in Quingdao.
Sep 17th - Italian and Austrian officials agree on some minor corrections of the border in
Friaul and Venetia.
Sep 18th - Romania and Bulgaria officially sign a peace treaty, Romania still being under
Hungary's thumb.
Sep 20th - Germany sells 30 old Marder infantry fighting vehicles to the East-German
Federation.
Sep 21st - Commonwealth troops repeatedly shell Ankara in a heavy artillery siege.
Sep 23rd - Czechoslovakia, under slight pressure from German private interests, awards the
Northern border region towards Germany between Reichenberg and Eger a "special
autonomy status".
Sep 24th - British and Soviet troops battle for three weeks over Tbilisi.
Sep 26th - After the turmoil in Portugal, the Indigenous League in the portuguese colony
Sao Tome sees its chance and organizes contract workers and indigenous locals into
a bloody coup d'etat overthrowing the colonial rule. Several hundred people die in
the process.
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Sep 29th - Ethiopian immigrants in Germany found an organization calling for abolition of
slavery in the Oromo region in the Ethiopian Empire.
Sep 30th - The Austrian and Hungarian double kingdom transforms into a nominal
federation of three kingdoms, with Slovenia forming the third, and two oligarchically
ruled states, Siebenbrgen and Galicia.
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October 1920
Oct 1st - Soviet forces launch a large counteroffensive against Commonwealth troops into
Georgia.
Oct 3rd - Germany celebrates its 3rd reunification day after the ISOT event.
Oct 4th - A Croatian shadow government working out of Austria declares Croatia an
independent occupied nation.
Oct 6th - Germany, Prague and Bratislava are reconnected by regular rail traffic.
Oct 9th - A German ferry on the Baltic runs into a remaining mine, sinking with over 200
people dead.
Oct 11th - France and Italy sign a treaty on "mutual defense against German aggression".
Oct 12th - French occupation forces start cracking down on Croatian insurgents.
Oct 15th - A general strike in Switzerland is dissolved using military forces.
Oct 16th - Germany and the British Empire start discussions on what shall happen to
German colonies occupied by the Commonwealth.
Oct 17th - The Turkish Front around Ankara starts getting tied down into trench warfare.
Oct 18th - During the talks on colonial issues, British envoys demand a permanent German
withdrawal from all African territories.
Oct 19th - Sao Tome declares itself independent.
Oct 19th - Following the end of the war, conscription is enacted in Germany in order to
keep
up numbers in the Bundeswehr, initially set at a 18-month conscription time

yielding about 240,000 serving conscripts.
Oct 20th - The USA declares unilaterally that it withdraws its declaration of war to
Germany.
Oct 20th - London calls on France and Italy to sign peace treaties with Germany.
Oct 21st - A Sao Tomese militia lynches two Portuguese government employees.
Oct 23rd - German survey boats start covertly exploring the North Sea to check whether oil
deposits are where they're supposed to be.
Oct 24th - Belgium and Luxembourg sign into a customs union.
Oct 26th - The USA starts withdrawing its last 20,000 men from France.
Oct 27th - German survey boats start test drilling in the Fulmar Sandstone, some 200 miles
east of Scotland.
Oct 29th - A Portuguese expeditionary force arrives in the Gulf of Guinea.
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November 1920
Nov 2nd - Talks between Germany and Britain on the future of the German colonies stall,
citing the co-occupation of these territories by other countries not involved in the
talks.
Nov 4th - Portuguese ships in the Gulf of Guinea are intercepted by a German battle line. A
short standoff ensues.
Nov 5th - German and Portuguese captains negotiates, resolving in the Portuguese ships
being escorted to Annobon for a "friendly visit".
Nov 7th - The German ambassador in Portugal calls on the Portuguese government to meet
for "emergency negotiations".
Nov 10th - The Soviets and the Commonwealth battle each other in mountain warfare in
the Caucasus throughout the onsetting winter.
Nov 11th - The Commonwealth starts shipping another 200,000 soldiers into Turkey.
Nov 14th - Portugal agrees to not have its forces land on Sao Tome yet, after unknown
German concessions.
Nov 15th - In line with France, Italy demands reparations from Austria.
Nov 16th - The Portuguese fleet moves to Principe on the other side of Sao Tome from
Annobon, with a German ship stationed north of Sao Tome.
Nov 18th - Germany deploys a modern division combat group into the European part of
Turkey, allowing Turkey to shift more troops to the front.
Nov 19th - The Imperial Army in Alsace-Lorraine is reduced to less than 250,000 men at
this point.
Nov 22nd - Chancellor Merkel announces that the Bundestag should declare the State of
Defense over within two weeks.
Nov 23rd - Germany orders a new series of 12 large frigates to be built over the next two
years.
Nov 25th - Austria-Hungary allows its five substates more sovereign rights, transforming
itself further into a sort of confederation.
Nov 28th - Germany sends envoys to representatives of the insurgents on Sao Tome.
Nov 30th - The East-German Federation gains a permanent non-voting observer seat in the
Bundesrat.
Nov 30th - The Bundestag lifts the state of defense, also voting on new elections to be held
within six months.
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December 1920
Dec 1st - Germany demobilizes 20% of the enlarged Bundeswehr, now standing at nearly
800,000 men remaining.
Dec 3rd - Britain deports a further 500 Germans from Tanganjika, holding them in India.
Dec 5th - General Mustafa Kemal takes over the leadership in the Turkish military
dictatorship in the remaining Osman Empire.
Dec 6th - The German Left Party accedes formally to the Third International.
Dec 8th - Switzerland starts deporting over 1000 "communists", mostly to France.
Dec 9th - German industrials start mass importing Swiss textile goods, restabilizing the
Swiss luxury clothes industry.
Dec 12th - In rather tense talks, Germany convinces Portugal to accept a referendum on the
future of Sao Tome, to be held within one year.
Dec 13th - A group of nearly 200 former soldiers seize the national assembly in Paris,
demanding a "resolution to the state of the nation". Paris police storms the building
and arrests the "insurgents".
Dec 15th - The Netherlands accede to the customs union of Belgium and Luxembourg.
Dec 18th - Britain forms the "Mesopotamian Protectorate" out of the Osman villayets Basra
and Baghdad.
Dec 19th - France "orders" Switzerland to stop sending "subversive elements" across the
border.
Dec 20th - Slovakia votes on independence from Czech-dominated Czechoslovakia.

Dec 22nd - Germany formally protests Britain's "deportation policy" in Tanganjika.
Dec 23rd - Germany commissions two large, modern oil-drilling platforms to be built for
the North Sea.
Dec 25th - An outbreak of pneumonic plague wreaks havoc among troops of Chinese
warlord Zhang Zuolin in Manchuria.
Dec 29th - Germany and Belgium sign a treaty regarding a handover of Rwanda, Burundi
and the Belgian-occupied parts of Kigoma and Tabora back to "German authority" in
exchange for expanded German rebuilding help. Germany prepares to send envoys
to the two occupied kingdoms.
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--- Story Snippet --Author: Franks

Somewhere on the road to Saarburg
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! I cannot get a fucking reception! Come on you piece of shit, just one bar,
one tiny bar.
Captain Torsten Makievski was running up and down the road, yelling at his cell phone.
Fuck! This shit always happens to me and just in the middle fucking nowhere.
He had been on his way to Saarburg, the new home of the 3rd Armored Reconnaissance
Battalion when his new VW Passat broke down.
He took a look at his watch.
Shit.
The army had rented him a small apartment close to the barracks, a new complex with all
the luxuries a modern German Army base offered. Even a large shopping mall had opened
up just a week ago, complete with an IMAX cinema and a large food court. The government
of Alsace-Lorraine had already bought time on major channels to advertise the region and
distributed flyers presenting themselves as a quickly modernizing, tourist friendly country.

But just like the border regions during the Cold War, developing the area took a lot of tax
payers money and it wasnt always successful. The danger of a French invasion was
omnipresent in the region, Alsace-Lorrainian and Federal German military forces were
present throughout the country and the modernized infrastructure was designed with a
conventional military conflict in mind. Straight and wide autobahn sections, bridges that
were rigged for demolition charges and narrow mountain roads further south could be
blocked by giant concrete blocks.
Yeah, one bar. Even two bars.
Makievski was standing on top of a hill keeping his cell phone as high as possible while
stretching his neck.
Hello! Hello! Can you hear me?
This is the ADAC hotline, how may I help you, Sir.
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Yeah, Im stuck somewhere on the road to Saarburg. My car aint doing shit.
May I have your name and membership number first, Sir.
Yeah, of course. My names Torsten Makievski and my numbers 6743893.
Could you give me a more exact description of your location, Mr. Makievski?
Yes, about five to six kilometers south of the Windhof, thats a roadhouse. But I dont have a
clue on what road I am. I dont have a real map, just some stupid flyer.
He tried to describe his location.
Okay, Mr. Makievski. A service vehicle is on route to you. But it could take up to two
hours.
Ill wait. Thank you.

Your welcome and have a nice day, Mr. Makievski.
The line went dead. No bars.
He wouldnt make the appointment with the battalion commander and as far as he knew the
man insisted on punctuality.
Fuck my life!
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January 1921
Jan 4th - Soviet and Chiwan troops fight several drawn-out battles in Karalpakistan.
Jan 6th - France and Italy divide "Illyria" into occupation zones mirroring the earlier
"interest zones", with Italy occupying Montenegro and Albania, and France
occupying Croatia and Bosnia.
Jan 8th - Germany and the USA sign a peace treaty reaffirming the "status quo ante".
Jan 11th - Tanger becomes a regular waypoint for German convoys to Annobon and Brazil.
Jan 12th - Ukraine, under German pressure, declares the Dniepr marshes an autonomous
"special commercial zone".
Jan 14th - The Netherlands and Germany sign a treaty on German-sponsored development
of the Groningen gas field and Ameland oil field under Dutch territory.
Jan 15th - Britain allows a German ship to sail the Suez canal for the first time since World
War 1.
Jan 18th - The East-German Federation founds its first public broadcasting agency,
producing news shows shown in cinemas rapidly equipped with new technology in
the past months that feature full synchronized sound.
Jan 19th - Japan, the USA and Britain meet on dividing the German colonies in the Pacific
among themselves. The talks quickly establish a law of adverse possession, the
colonies being taken by those that occupy them.
Jan 22nd - Following a series of strokes, Lenin visits Germany unofficially to have some
late consequences of an assassination attempt in 1918 treated.
Jan 24th - A wave of insurgencies runs through "Illyria", insurgents in all four states
attacking the occupying forces and demanding a withdrawal.
Jan 25th - The German envoys for East Africa sail from Annobon to Kongo, along with a
taskforce composed of over a thousand former imperial soldiers and a similar
number of Bundeswehr soldiers.
Jan 27th - Trotzky uses Lenin's absence to introduce the "New Economic Policy" in the
Soviet Union against his own doubts - albeit in a modified version, implementing
some ideas from German advisors.
Jan 30th - Talks between Germany and Britain concerning the former colonies in particular
in Africa keep stalling.
Jan 31st - France and Italy sign a formal mutual defence pact.
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February 1921
Feb 3rd - The Cameroonian and Congolese insurgents start widening their influence zone
around Ouesso slowly, soon controlling the entire Sangha and Boumba-et-Ngoko
districts.
Feb 5th - Japan "grants" Germany a "declaration of peace", signing a cooperation pact with
Britain the same day.
Feb 6th - German envoys arrive in Kigali, Rwanda, after travelling down the Congo and
Lualuaba by ship, then by railway from Kabalo to Albertville on Lake Tanganyika.
Feb 8th - France and Germany exchange a large number of POWs.
Feb 10th - Greek and Italian troops clash near Gjiroskastra in North Epirus.
Feb 11th - The election date in Germany is officially set to April 17th.
Feb 12th - The German Federal Navy reevaluates the need for twelve new frigates stated
several months earlier, and comes to the conclusion that in order to properly offset
war attrition rather more ships are needed. The original twelve-ship requirement is
expanded into a sixteen-ship requirement, with procurement planned to be starting
within a year; additionally a class of "large corvettes" is envisioned, primarily for
anti-submarine warfare and general patrol duty in peacetime.
Feb 13th - Germany allows resettlement of Heligoland, first allowing all 1300 former
residents to return.
Feb 15th - Austria grudgingly commits to paying token reparations to Italy, after having
seen little political support from Germany in that regard.
Feb 16th - The Bolshevik Republic of Estonia accedes to the Soviet Union.
Feb 18th - Eupen-Malmedy and North Schleswig become part of the Federal Republic of
Germany, being integrated into Northrhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein
respectively.
Feb 19th - German troops start setting up six forward operating bases in Rwanda, Burundi,
Kigoma and Tabora.
Feb 21st - Britain renames the parts of Tanganjika occupied by it to Zanj and brings them
under formal sovereignty of Sultan Khalifa ibn Kharub of Zanzibar.
Feb 22nd - Chinese intellectuals force a general strike in Qingdao, protesting Japanese
occupation; the Japanese military reacts harshly.
Feb 23rd - Germany signs a memorandum transferring legal control of the Pacific
territories as demanded.
Feb 26th - Belgian occupation troops start withdrawing from Rwanda and Burundi.
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Suppressing a yawn, Peter shut his textbook, satisfied with his work for today. It wasn't the
vocables he actually should learn, but to be honest he had pretty much given up on learning
French. He'd never had much talent for it to begin with and had only picked it as his second
foreign language because it sounded a good deal more useful than Latin, but that had been
before the world had gotten all weird after some idiot divided the universe by zero... or
whatever had gotten Germany dumped almost a century into the past.
Now France and its allies were as hostile as could be, and French suddenly didn't seem all
that useful anymore, at least to someone who considered looking for work in foreign
countries. He wasn't sure if Germans could even travel into France now, even if the war was
officially over, much less find work there. English, at least, retained some use; while the UK
was just as hostile as France, there was still the US who seemed far more willing to make
nice with the guys with a 100-year tech-lead. Too bad that the two countries weren't
exactly neighbors.
So, rather than wasting his valuable time and brainpower (which he didn't have much to
spare of to begin with, according to his sister) on a language he'd probably never end up
actually using, he'd started to look for alternatives. Spanish would've been an idea, though
unfortunately the countries where it would come in hand where either on the other side of
the Atlantic, just like the US, or behind a row of hostile nations (the Triple Ducks' Tea, as
one of his classmates called it in a poor attempt at humour). So he'd taken a look at what laid
on the other side of Germany on Europe's map, and after some deliberation picked
Romanian, since he figured they'd see the most business with their oilfields, though he'd also
gotten some books on Polish and Hungarian as well on his father's advice. It never hurts to
keep your options open, he had said, and Peter had to admit (however reluctantly) that
there was some point to it.
More than a few of his classmates thought that what he was doing was completely
unnecessary, and that in a few years there'd be more than enough work to be found in
Germany itself when everyone would want shiny new toys like televisions, computers,
microwaves or refrigerators that modern technology could deliver, but Peter didn't just want
work, but also to see a bit of the world as it was now, and a few of his friends had similar
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ideas. Tobias wanted to go to Sweden (which had the hottest babes in Europe, according to
him), Michael and Jennifer wanted to find work together in Greece, and Jens, with his
interest in Anime, was dead-set on working in Japan (completely ignoring that comics or
cartoons didn't even exist, yet).
In the end, Peter had to admit that it was simply a matter of personal preferences; no matter
whether one stayed in Germany or went abroad, there'd be plenty of work, especially for
people with technical training which Peter intended to get.
Now if only they'd manage to get their French teacher, Frau Eckner, off their case...
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March 1921
Mar 2nd - The Irish Free Republic declares itself independent.
Mar 5th - Rif Republic insurgents clash with Algerian French border forces in the
easternmost parts of the Rif.
Mar 6th - Italy and France formally acknowledge Greek control of North Epirus.
Mar 7th - The East-German Federation states a "right to Silesian territories still under Czech
control" in a memorandum to Germany.
Mar 8th - Lenin officially signs off on Trotzky's New Economic Policy.
Mar 9th - Germany signs new protection treaties with local tribes in Rwanda, Burundi,
Kigoma and Tabora.
Mar 10th - Surveys for the upcoming elections in Germany show a remarkable swing to
extremist parties.
Mar 12th - Albanian insurgents clash with Greek forces in North Epirus in several hotspots.
Mar 12th - The last resistance spots of the Quingdao general strike are squashed by
Japanese forces.
Mar 12th - British forces take Ankara again against fierce Turkish resistance.
Mar 13th - The USA declares Haiti a protectorate.
Mar 14th - Latvia joins into a military alliance with Lithuania, Poland and the East-German
Federation to counter Soviet pressure.
Mar 17th - The first German base in Rwanda goes into operation.
Mar 18th - The Rif Republic, supported by expatriates from Germany having silently moved
into the area previously, declares itself independent.
Mar 19th - Third International member parties hold a conference on the future of
internationalist policies in Narach, northwest of Minsk. The Belarussian Soviet

proudly shows off the town, which has been extensively rebuilt in the five years
since the last battle there.
Mar 20th - A new-built 220 kV electricity line between Vienna and Germany is completed.
Mar 20th - Britain declares the former Osman vilayet of Mosul a "special administration
zone", a direct colony as opposed to a protectorate.
Mar 23rd - The last Belgian soldiers cross the border into Costermansville Province.
Mar 24th - Britain announces the formation of the Hashemite Grand Kingdom of Syria,
under British protection, encompassing the Osman vilayets Dimashk, Beyrut,
Deirez-Zor and Aleppo.
Mar 27th - Germany sends a diplomatic team to Japan to set up an embassy.
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Mar 28th - Riots erupt in Egypt against the British Empire protection authorities, which is
still maintaining the State of War in the country.
Mar 31st - Hungary absorbs the oligarchy of Galicia, reducing the Austro-Hungarian
Federation to four states.
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April 1921
Apr 1st - The Orient Express resumes operation on its original eastern-most route via
Vienna, Budapest and Bukarest to Istanbul, although terminating in Germany in

Munich.
Apr 4th - A German government delegation, consisting entirely of Muslims out of

consideration for cultural sensitivities, visits the Hijaz.
Apr 7th - The British Governor of Cyprus is assassinated.
Apr 9th - Commonwealth troops push Turkey away from the southern Coast, linking up all
the way to Greek-held territory near Bodrum.
Apr 10th - Spain refuses invitations by France offering to form a joint taskforce to deal with
the Rif Republic.
Apr 12th - Britain reorganizes its South-African colonies, integrating North and South
Rhodesia as well as Njassaland and Bechuanaland with the South-African Union

Dominion; the South-African Union transitions into a federation. Administration of
occupied German South-West Africa is temporarily assigned to the Dominion.
Apr 17th - Elections in Germany show a rise of extremist parties on either end; a coalition of
nationalist parties enters the parliament for the first time, polling close to 7%, while
on the left end, post-communists poll over 15%.
Apr 18th - Coalition talks begin in Germany, with a new Grand Coalition under CDU lead polling only 54% combined - being the most likely outcome yet.
Apr 19th - British forces arrest the supposed perpetrator of the April 7th assassination, a
Turkish Cypriot.
Apr 21st - Cheap radio receivers become the new top export item to the Netherlands, with
soon nearly one million units sold.
Apr 23rd - Portuguese and local officials supported by German envoys begin a census of the
population of Sao Tome.
Apr 25th - The High Soviet passes directives enabling a number of infrastructure projects to
be constructed to "bring the communist state forward"; also among them are
directives allowing the use of the resocialization camps for political prisoners for
their manpower in largescale infrastructure projects.
Apr 26th - The Persian King is forced to cede the Emirate of Arabistan - Khuzestan province
- to the control of the Mesopotamian Protectorate.
Apr 28th - Coalition talks in Germany are finalized, with the SPD losing several cabinet
seats in a future Grand Coalition.
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Apr 29th - Germany starts delivering diesel locomotives to the Soviet Union, after most of
the country's stock is broken down in disrepair.
Apr 30th - Germany starts supplying electricity to the Austrian cities of Vienna and Graz.
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Kavalleriekaserne Army Barracks, Saarburg
Captain Makievskis company had been activated just a few months ago and just like the
battalion it was part of some sort of social experiment: a mixed timers unit. The old
commanding officer had done a not so perfect job in forming a cohesive fighting unit out of
the main battle tank equipped company. Both old and new Germans kept to themselves
and tried to avoid any off duty contact, then the commanding officer had been reassigned to
some staff position with the Ministry of Defense and Makievski was offered the position. He
had jumped to the chance to command his own company, instead of teaching new soldiers
how not to shoot themselves or that one should not get himself piss drunk before a 24 hour
march. He was one of the old breed, as those professional soldiers were called who had
served before the Rcksprung and was deployed to Afghanistan during the winter of 2008.
He had been IEDed, shot at with everything from old carbines to mortars and then wake up
in an early 20th century version Kunduz. A few weeks after the Rcksprung, he found
himself observing a strangely different version of the First World War unfolding and
directing artillery and air strikes at Entente positions with the push of a button. He was soon
rewarded with a promotion but was also transferred to a training center for joint fires
controller and then a recruit unit where he spent the remainder of the war and most of the
peace until a few weeks ago. He then retrained at the armor school and finally got his
company command.
Hauptfeldwebel Oettinger, what is this?
What, Sir?
This!
Makievski pointed at the Sergeant First Class paunch that was badly concealed by the
Nomex overall.
Fuck you!
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Makievski stared at the man as mean as possible, harnessing all his energy to let loose at his
subordinate. Then he could no longer hold it and started to chuckle, then laugh. Its good to
see at least one familiar face, Paul.
Oettinger joined in. Its been a long time, Torsten.
Since youre my company first sergeant, I must assume your career is going well, so hows
the family?
Dont ask. My wife and the kids are living in Saarbrcken, Im a damned weekend
commuter. What about you? Thought you were in a happy relationship back then.
No. No. My girlfriend got herself laid by some fucking Imperial cavalry officer baron
asshole.
Well, now you can try to even the score. There are hundreds of pretty, young ladies in
Saarburg. But dont tell Claudia. Shes like the Stasi, only worse.
I know. You told me only about that a thousand times back then in A-Stan.
So what do you think of the company?
Ive not yet seen a real company. I read that one of the Imperials tried to rape one of our
female comrades?
The bastard had some trouble accepting orders from a woman and came to blows with her
more than a few times. Then one night he got himself piss drunk and kicked in the door of
her
room. He ripped off her shirt and tried to pull down her trousers. Then two of our guys
intervened and prevented worse. This piece of scum wont do that again. We made sure of
that before the police arrested him.
Yes, but some Imperials tried to make the victim drop the charges. They told her that
nothing bad happened and she should just suck it up.
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Listen, Torsten. I gave my best, but that wasnt enough to get these people together. Most of
our people think the Imperials are a bunch of caveman and the Imperials outright reject our
modern values and beliefs. Theres a lot of tension and I seriously don't want to call the
military police more than once a month. Most of this shit takes place off duty and I can't do
anything about it, but inform the local police.
Im not blaming you, Paul. I know youre a good NCO. But well have to work something
out. Can I count on your support?
Anytime, Torsten.
Good, now show me my tank!
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May 1921
May 2nd - The new coalition government takes power in Germany. Merkel remains
chancellor.
May 3rd - The Touareg dissolve the 1917 peace treaty with France taking up arms again,
with their resistance centering around the Djanet oasis.
May 9th - Returning indigenous former British soldiers form a Free Corps in British
Honduras demanding independence.
May 10th - Controversially, Germany acknowledges the Irish Free Republic.
May 14th - The Tuareg tribes centered around Djanet form a confederation with those
around the Ghat oasis, still independent from Italy.
May 16th - Germany deploys a first oil platform in the North Sea drilling the Hanze oil
field, cautiously watched by British ships at the horizon.
May 21st - Britain recognizes the Kingdom of Yemen under Imam Yahya bin Muhammed.
May 24th - Touareg forces attack and take Tamanrasset.
May 27th - Lenin orders the building of an airport near Moscow, having been impressed
with the technology in Germany.
May 30th - Touareg forces lay siege to Sabha.
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June 1921
Jun 3rd - Elena Stasova becomes Soviet ambassador to Berlin.
Jun 6th - The new German government signs a treaty with Ukraine on hosting German
troops for protection of German national capital - in the form of the oil exploitation
in Ukraine's East.
Jun 8th - France transfers an army group of twelve divisions from the mainland to Algeria.
Jun 10th - Soviet troops recapture Ulan-Ude.
Jun 13th - The East-German Federation sells hundreds of contemporary howitzers and field
guns to Turkey.
Jun 15th - Using the long-range contemporary airship L59, Germany for the first time
delivers modern technology, supplies and additional men to the German embassy in
Addis Abeba, impressing Empress Zewditu with the operation.
Jun 18th - Trotzky convinces the Belarussian and Estonian Soviet Republics to introduce
the
modified New Economic Policy as well.
Jun 20th - French Prime Minister Aristide Briand visits Washington, unsuccessfully trying
to gain support for a harder stance against Germany.
Jun 23rd - Tuareg troops control the whole province of Fessan.
Jun 24th - Zinoviev and Kamenev heavily lobby against the NEP in a Politburo meeting.
Jun 26th - The Commonwealth withdraws some troops from the Caucasus front to "finish
the Anatolian campaign".
Jun 29th - Ahmed ash-Sharif returns undercover to Bengasi.
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Air conditioning was undoubtedly humanity's greatest invention, ever, at least as far as
Hauptgefreiter Erich Tillmann was concerned, and the refrigerator came as a close second,
once the beer had had the time to reach proper drink-temperature. Though his priorities
would probably change again once he'd become more used to their new-old situation again
after roughly three years of near-total technological abstinence.
Y'know, if you come down sick with pneumonia from sitting there, that's not going to look
good on your resume for the next promotion...
Ah, Herr Leutnant! Erich exclaimed surprised and moved to render a proper greeting, but
sat back down when Leutnant Hermann Grner just waved off tiredly. Briefing's already
over? he asked instead.
Hardly, Hermann replied, carefully stepping over a number of loose cables as he entered
the room and made his way towards the seats. The new ambassador and his staff are just
going through our papers for the last few years, so I'm on a break for the moment. No doubt
they'll have even more questions for me later, though.
With a sigh he sat down in an armchair slightly to the side, where the cold air from the AC
wouldn't hit him directly, and took a look around the half-finished room. Like most of the
building, there were distinct signs of light construction work visible, ever since the Zeppelin
had arrived two days ago with equipment, workers, and new staff. Including an actual
ambassador, Ernst Kaminski, who had almost immediately requested a detailed briefing
about affairs within the country, how the German presence was seen, and whatever else he
could think of.
Where's the rest of the men? the officer asked to take his mind off the extended Q&Asession, wondering if this how the target of a police interrogation might feel like.
Let's see... Jan, Klaus, and Daniel are busy packing their things and filling out the
paperwork for their transfer back to Germany to their wives and girlfriends and whatever,
Erich began counting on his fingers. Willi grabbed one of the laptops and his notes and ran
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off somewhere to start writing.

That book he was talking about? Hermann asked. About us getting thrown back in time,
and traveling here, and whatnot?
The very same. Said he didn't want to wait 'till they were done installing the generator and
solar panels to hook up one of the normal computers. Bernd is off on a date somewhere in
the city, and of the rest of the guys, most are off with the StUffz, raiding the marketplace for
the party Hauptfeld Bremmer is organizing which I'm gonna miss 'cause I have to stand in
front of the entrance looking pretty - with the rest helping out with the work around the
building.
And you're just lazing around here? the officer asked, eyebrows raised.
I'm on guard duty this evening, starting in a bit more than half an hour. Not really enough
time to pick up how things work and actually get anything done as well, Erich replied,
hands raised defensively.
The explanation seemed sufficient for the Leutnant, who accepted it with a nod and then
sunk deeper into the chair, closing his eyes to relax. The conversation apparently over, Erich
stood up and grabbed something to read, the silence between them only interrupted by the
occasional work noise.
Herr Leutnant? Hauptfeldwebel Bremmer stuck his bearded face into the room. Herr
Kaminski requests your return to the conference room, he told the officer, then frowned
and took a look at his watch when he saw Erich. HG Thalman? You were supposed to relief
HG Stiegmann eight minutes ago!
The soldier in question threw glance at a clock on the wall and then jumped out of his chair,
eyes wide. I'm sorry, Hauptfeld! I'm on my way now, won't happen again! he shouted as
he rushed past, hastily trying to bring his uniform in order.
Lazy ass, Bremmer grumbled under his breath. I have half a mind to have him serve his
full watch shift, rather than cutting it short when the party starts.
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What's that about cutting his watch short? asked Hermann. Unlike Erich, he took his time
getting up and straightening out his clothes.
A lot of 'entertainment supplies' movies and the like came with the Zeppelin, and I
thought it would be a good idea to give the men the next few days off, starting with the
party this evening, so they can enjoy themselves, and get to know the new arrivals better,
Bremmer explained, earning a thoughtful nod from the Leutnant.
Sounds reasonable. But make sure there's still a few people ready in case something comes
up, he ordered, getting a rather lax salute in return, before he left and made his way
towards the conference room.
Bremmer quickly left as well, his mind already running to figure out how he'd pick the guy
or guys - who'd have come running in case someone wanted to deal with the FRG's
embassy, as unlikely as it was.
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July 1921
Jul 2nd - Germany and the USA form a "Devolution Council" to handle Imperial German
property in the USA in succession of the Alien Property Custodian.
Jul 3rd - US Forces retreat from the Japanese-controlled Far-East Republic.

Jul 5th - Lenin finally expulses Kamenev and Zinoviev from the Politburo, citing their
opposition to the Armed Revolution in 1917, banishing them to the Siberian Front.
Jul 7th - Germany and Sweden sign a contract on Sweden delivering iron ore, starting with
two million tons in 1922. As part of the contract, it is agreed that Germany will build
two new deep seaports near Goteborg and Helsingborg.
Jul 8th - A French patrol in a small town in Croatia is attacked by insurgents, leaving over a
dozen men dead on both sides.
Jul 11th - Soviet Russia signs a peace treaty with the "Turkish Republic".
Jul 14th - Heavy monsuns and following floods kill almost 100,000 people in Bihar
province in India.
Jul 15th - Stalin suddenly resurfaces in Kureika, the place where he lived during his last
exile before the revolution.
Jul 17th - Japan strikes a cooperative treaty with anti-bolshevik White Admiral Kolchak
operating to the north of the Far-East Republic.
Jul 19th - Germany starts importing copper from Argentina.

Jul 23rd - The East-German Federation sponsors a "Free Army" of former soldiers
reinforcing Turkey.
Jul 24th - French troops defeat a Touareg advance on El Golea.
Jul 26th - The US return about 40 ships confiscated in 1917 to German control.
Jul 29th - After a short offensive, Russian and Turkish troops link up on the Black Sea Coast
near Trabzon.
Jul 31st - Danish separatists hold a number of rallies in North Schleswig.
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August 1921
Aug 3rd - Hapag-Lloyd relaunches regular passenger ship tours between Hamburg and
New York.
Aug 4th - Denmark formally annexes Greenland.

Aug 7th - In a surprise move in what the British thought was already pacified territory, the
French Armenian Legion declares Cilicia an independent state centered around
Mersin - the Armenian Republic of Cilicia.
Aug 9th - A wave of Spanish Flu runs through central China.
Aug 10th - With the activation of a "protection force" in Reichenberg in Sudetenland, nearly
150,000 former Imperial soldiers now serve as mercenaries in various Free Corps
throughout Europe.
Aug 11th - The first regular Hapag-Lloyd passenger cruise ship arrives in New York.
Aug 12th - Norway issues a protest note on Denmark's annexation of Greenland.
Aug 12th - Ahmed asch-Scharif raises a anti-Italian insurgent force in Cyrenaica.

Aug 15th - A Greek destroyer "accidentally" sinks an Italian gunboat.
Aug 16th - Italy unilaterally declares a number of cities on the Dalmatian coast "Free Cities"
against Bosnian and Albanian protests.
Aug 19th - Japanese and Kolchakian troops push back into Siberia, retaking control of
everything east of the Sayan Mountains over the next three months.
Aug 21st - The Triumvirate of Kamenev, Zinoviev and Stalin meet up in Krasnoyarsk.
Aug 23rd - Germany and Belgium start planning a railway line going around the Northern
shore of Lake Tanganyika.
Aug 23rd - Asch-Scharif's insurgent force commits its first attack on an Italian police
station.
Aug 24th - Spanish troops start invading the Rif Republic.
Aug 27th - Riots erupt in India on the third anniversary of Montagu's declaration to transfer
India to home rule, with rioters demanding the declaration of a Dominion.
Aug 28th - The Triumvirate starts collecting followers in the city of Krasnoyarsk, soon
taking control of the local Soviet through middlemen.
Aug 28th - In a change of mind reevaluating the strategic situation, the British High
Command starts supporting Cilicia.
Aug 30th - The riots in India take a violent turn in several cities, with the British soon using
the Army against rioters.
Aug 31st - Nearly 80 million Chinese are by now infected with Spanish Flu.
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Major James Bishop, USMC (ret.), shook his head in disbelief. The beach assault was not
going exactly as planned. Instead of fighting the company guarding the shore, the two
Jaeger platoons fought with the mud. He looked at his workstation in the back of the bulky
armored fighting vehicle. At least the helicopters were on time. Just one minute later, six
mighty CH53 thundered towards the landing zone. Once the helicopters had touched down,
infantry hustled down the rear ramps and spread out.
"Lieutenant, your government hired us to draw up an amphibious warfare training concept

and implement it. But we cannot do that until you give us additional LCUs and amphibious
vehicles. We barely have landing crafts to transport a light infantry company.", Bishop told
the young Kapitnleutnant of the just recently reactivated Amphibische Gruppe, who acted
as their liaison officer to the German Amphibious Warfare Training Center.
"I know Sir. The Army said they will push Rheinmetall to speed up the BvS10 production,
but we won't see them rolling out before June. The new LCU model is still being tested."
"Still?!", Bishop exclaimed, "You've been testing that landing craft since last December for
Christ's sake. Listen Lieutenant, I want those guys to be ready for full-sized amphibious
assaults against a prepared enemy. I'm talking going up against battalions of entrenched
infantry and coastal artillery pounding them into the dirt. The LHDs will be commissioned
in three years and I want these guys to be ready. Not Army ready, Marine Corps ready. You
get it?"
"Yes, Major."
"Any news from General Dynamics?"
"They'll probably abandon the EFV project. Instead they've struck a deal to supply more
engineering equipment."
"Okay. It's eighteen hundred. I think we'll call it a day, Lieutenant."
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"Aye Sir."
A month before the Incident occurred, Bishop had taken his family on vacation in Germany.
Tried to show them their new home for the next couple of years, while he was serving with
Marine Corps Forces Europe in Bblingen. So unlike his fellow brothers and sisters in arms
that were stationed in Germany he was thrown back in the year 1918 along with other US
citizens residing in Germany and US soldiers currently on vacation. He spend the next
months trying to figure out what the hell he should do, sabotage a German aircraft plant, try
to flee to the United States, stay and wait or join up with the German Armed Forces.
Then in 1921 he and about twenty other military personnel traveled to the United States and
offered to rejoin armed forces. Bishop was offered a commission in the Army in an all black
unit, but was refused to join the Marine Corps.
"Never!", the Commandant had said. Bishop had served his country in two wars, highly
decorated, educated and experienced. But he should have know it, it would take another
twenty years and a world war until the first African American would receive a commission
in the Marines.
So he returned to Germany. His kids didn't mind it, they were happy to keep twittering or
watching videos on youtube once the Net was up again.
Then one day a Master Sergeant Gerhardt, he had been some sort of a clerk in the US Army,
called him and offered him a job as an advisor with the German DoD. He accepted gladly
and later they even offered him a commission at his old US rank in the German Navy or
Army.
He refused. He still felt as an officer of the United States Marine Corps, heck, even wore
MARPAT and his old utility cap with the Eagle, Globe and Anchor.
In just a month he had assembled a team of Marines and Squids and opened up the Training
Center with him practically in charge of the whole training. His family moved into a nice
house in a suburb of Eckernfrde and everything was coming back to normal, well, apart
from the fact that they were stuck in the early 20th century.
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September 1921
Sep 2nd - Japan starts deploying entire survey battalions into the wide-open Siberian tundra
east of the Lena.
Sep 4th - A flu outbreak on Samoa has killed over 15 percent of the population over the last
three months.
Sep 6th - Lithuania and Poland sign a limited mutual defense treaty.
Sep 7th - The Slovakian government collapses, bringing the country into a state of limbo.
Sep 8th - British troops shoot nearly 200 rioters near Mumbai.
Sep 9th - Turkish, Soviet and Free Army troops start pushing back the British towards
Cilicia.
Sep 12th - Zinoviev remains in Krasnoyarsk while Kamenev and Stalin travel on to to
Omsk.
Sep 13th - Turkey declares Bursa on the Marmara Sea its new capital.
Sep 14th - The Tsarist Black Sea Fleet scuttles itself at Sevastopol to prevent use of the ships
by the advancing Black Army.
Sep 15th - The Black Army takes control of Sevastopol, not having much success further
north inside Ukraine.
Sep 16th - The Indian riots transfer to the Portuguese colony of Goa.
Sep 17th - Britain places Mosul under the administration of the Mesopotamian protectorate.
Sep 19th - British-supported white troops take control of the Northern port city of
Murmansk.
Sep 20th - Hungarian forces cross the border to Slovakia.

Sep 22nd - A German fishing trawler is brought up in Danish waters and the crew arrested.
Sep 23rd - Bratislava is taken by Hungary.
Sep 25th - Kamenev and Stalin arrive in Omsk.
Sep 26th - British Petroleum signs a deal with the Mesopotamian Protectorate to get
exclusive rights to oil there.
Sep 27th - Japanese troops reach the mouth of the Lena, linking up to the North Polar Sea
for the first time.
Sep 28th - An impromptu government forms in Martin in central Slovakia.
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Hambacher Schlo, Neustadt/Weinstrae, Germany
and Long live Germany and all her friends and allies! With his speech ended and the
crowd applauding frenetically, Gnter Koch, MdB (Member of the Bundestag) went back to
his chair.
The applause still ongoing, Gnter had the time for a little internal looking back. Three years
ago his whole life, like everybody else in Germany, changed. Everything that was taken for
granted went puff. Suddenly Germany was thrown back 90 years in time and assailed by
nations, former friends, out for blood. Like so many of his compatriots, Gnter went on
with his life, first shocked, then gaining with time something resembling normalcy. He was
always politically interested, but never thought he would go into politics.
But the Temporale Rcksprung as the scientists called what happened to Germany, without
being able to answer why, changed that. Living in Kaiserslautern, Palatinate, his home was
relatively close to the western front.
Before the change, Gnter never thought he would become a member of a right-wing party,
since he considered himself rather liberal-minded, but like many Germans living in the
southwest, he was appalled at the peace at all costs some groups blabbed about. Gnter
wanted peace too, but not a farce like Versailles had been.
The people of Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wrttemberg could see easily the
blood toll Bundeswehr and imperial Army had to pay for their safety. And more, the Entente
nations wanted to gut Germany as they did before in the time that never was, even if
Gnters Germany never did anything to them and wanted peace!
Chance had it, that in 1919 the mid thirties Palatinian met a group of like-minded men and
women, both new and imperial german. Several of the imperial Germans were wealthy
members of the Alldeutsche Verband, one of imperial Gemanys most nationalistic and
imperialistic NGOs. While some of their goals were not really palatable to modern german
tastes, they had the money for a successful voting campaign. And so after a months long
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haggling over political goals and positions, one of the first true mergers of old and new
Germany was born, the Alldeutsche Liberale Partei(Pangermanic liberal Party), short ALP.
The ALP was a truly new type of political stance. Spanning and bridging the radical
Liberalism of the 1848 revolutions, the nationalism of the Victorian/wilhelminian Age with
the ideas of the early 21th. Century. Especially interior policy was deeply influenced by
modern ideas, interestingly the imperial Germans were far more receptive than thought
beforehand.
Even more social security than the revolutionary bismarckian reforms and equality,
emancipation , other small and great freedoms modern Germans took for granted, to name a
few points were taken in stride by the Imps. Even accepting the black-red-gold flag by the
imperial part of the party.
Clearly imperial ideas were only found in the foreign policies. Expansion of the armed
forces and military research, reaffirmation and enlargement of the Central Powers alliance.
Unification with the East-German Federation to restore Germany in her antebellum borders
and every willing region which were at least once german. Regaining the colonies and
exporting Germanic culture. No holding back if a CP nation is attacked. Opposing the
Entente and their lackeys. Not openly acknowledged, but the end goal of both new and
imperial german party members, is the rise of the Central Powers to economic and political
hegemony in Europe and later worldwide.
This mixture of Liberalism and Nationalism appealed not only to Gnter Koch, but to others
as well, especially in the light of the continuing hostile stance of the Entente nations. The
ALP went into the 1921 elections as part and leader of the national coalition, the voting bloc
formed by several nationalist parties. Of the seven percent the bloc gathered, 5.4% came
from the ALP. While in many eastern parts the party got weak results, due to being wedged
in between the Grand coalition parties and the PDS, in the Southwest and the coastal regions
the ALP sometimes hit 20%. Not bad for a newcomer.
Rather early the ALP absorbed the other parties of the national coalition and began moves to
establish itself as a new power in the german parliament.
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Gnter Kochs time in the spotlight came, when in a political talkshow his passionate
explanation and defense of the ALP goals culminated in coining of the phrase Aufgeklrter
Nationalismus(enlightened Nationalism).
The man from the Palatinate saw himself more of a second row type, hardworking, while
not so visible, but his sincerity and picturesque language made him popular in Germany
and set him into the leadership circle of the ALP.
Now he had spoken as one of the drawing cards for the January 1923 state election in Hesse.
That this summit took place at the Hambacher Schlo made him proud. The democratic
tradition of this place was well known and before the Change it would have been difficult
to arrange a summit here for a right-wing party. But the ALP was democratic and patriotic,
nothing like the distorted picture the leftist dreamers tried to paint on them.
And the people of Germany saw through this smokescreen, the ALP was on the rise, several
thousand came to the Schlo that day. They saw and felt that Germanys hand, outstretched
in a real peace and friendship offering, was rejected without reason, by the greedy and
hateful Entente. The ALP was one of the few parties who knew that in this hostile
environment only steely resolve helped.
The arrival of Anke, a good friend he made in the party, interrupted this short hindsight.
You were really good today, Gnni, as most times. She smiled.
Thanks for the flowers, Anke! The people feel it, that Germany needs to firm up more in this
mess our land was dumped into. How are we holding up?
After the speech from the coming French government our campaign got even more speed.
Statewide were at 19%! Nationwide we come in at 13,9%.
Gnter gave Anke a hug. I think its save to say, that you can talk with Roland Koch about
the groundwork for a possible coalition. Baring some disaster, the CDU and we should get
enough votes to dethrone the SPD together.
Yes, I spoke with her last Thursday for an initial talk. It could be good. Many of our
positions are compatible. There are some stickling points, but nothing too serious. Now, if
only the election goes halfway right.
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Hey, hey, Anke! Dont sell yourself short. You make a terrific campaign here. I might be in
Berlin normally, but the Palatinate is our home and if you become a minister even in Hesse
after the vote it is in good hands. But I know this feeling of uncertainty only too well.
But what can go wrong?, an impish smile was on Gnters face, even the French help us
with their idiotic declaration! I dont get. We never did anything to France or England. We
try for a real peace and friendship like back home in 2009, but they still try to humiliate and
break us like they did before. That they would not hug us within a short time, yes, but this
hate is irrational. We are not the same Germany, but it doesnt matter to them. They simply
want to quarter us. But not again! This time around we will show them what Germany can
do. My dream is: When our grandchildren are born someday, the Entente will look at the
Central Powers green with envy for our achievements. And we the ALP can help lay the
foundation today. A crooked smile shot across Gnters face, seeing thee impish joy at his
rant on Ankes face. And I should definitely stop this campaign talk now. How about a little
snack after the closing?
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October 1921
Oct 1st - The referendum in Sao Tome surprisingly turns out in favour of Portugal, with
German media blaming exclusion of parts of the population.
Oct 4th - Germany, Ukraine, Poland and the East-German Federation finalize plans for a
1800 km long oil pipeline from Eastern Ukraine to Germany.
Oct 6th - The Turkish-Soviet advance pushes through to the Mediterranean southern coast.
Oct 7th - Austrian forces reinforce the Hungarians in Bratislava.
Oct 9th - The Armenian Legion declares that Cilicia will continue to support the British
against Turkey.
Oct 10th - A train carrying German oil from the Dnepr marshes derails in a small village
near Kiev, the ensuing fire killing over twenty people.
Oct 13th - Stalin and Kamenev start building up a network of "national communists" in the
area around Omsk.
Oct 15th - While drawing down in the North, separatist riots continue holding fast in South
India.
Oct 17th - An East-German-sponsored Free Corps takes control of the heavily industrialized
region of Moravian Silesia around the city of Opava in the Czech Republic.
Oct 19th - The portuguese prime minister is murdered in a military coup in Lisbon.
Oct 20th - A German company wins exclusive rights from Hungary to exploit the bauxite
reserves north of the Balaton.
Oct 22nd - The supreme Field Marshal of the Czech Army and acting head-of-state is
assassinated near Brno.
Oct 23rd - The Czech Army puts the whole country under martial law and a "state of siege".
Oct 25th - White troops now control almost half of the Kola peninsula.
Oct 29th - Anti-greek pogroms in Western Anatolia result in Greece reinforcing its forces in
the occupied territory in Anatolia, as well as some naval posturing in the Aegean
Sea.
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--- Story Snippet --Authors: Kelenas & Kato

Franz Josef Square, Troppau (Opava)
October 4th, 1921
The two men were sitting on a bench. One was reading a newspaper. The other seemed
more hurried, every few minutes pulling out his pocketwatch to check the time. He could be
seen looking down the street, apparently checking whether the tram both were waiting for
would arrive. They were dressed like any middle-class men; suits, jackets and bow ties,
neither of them wearing a hat in the late autumn heat. Both would politely nod to the officer
walking the street when he comes near.
Across the street was a pair of young men in somewhat dirty work clothes, looking like any
of the dozens of farmer boys who were looking for work in the town nowadays. Muscles
straining visibly, sweat on their brows, both seemed to be having a problem pushing their
small cart forward along the street, one lifting the cart by its handles, the other pushing
against the apparently heavy load on it. The two earned quite a frown from the police
officer; by the third time he'd walked his round in front of Merchant Hall he'd nod over to
the second officer standing with his long rifle in the booth next to the Hall's entrance and
cross the street, engaging the two young men in a stern voice and telling them to get their
loaded pushcart out of the way. The two men at the bench would look at this from their
seats; the hurried one with a slight nervous edge to his face, the other calm and relaxed as
he slowly folds his newspaper and lays it next to him.
There were few other people out on the street this late morning. Another man had come by
on a bicycle earlier, earning a frown from the police officer as well for recklessly driving
when coming by the cart and the two young men. There had been two boys, barely teens,
and two other men who'd boarded a tram earlier. There was a young couple who'd strolled
by. And there was a single man in dirty and ripped clothing who lacked his left arm and
who the police officer had immediately spotted and ripped into, sending the beggar away.
The square never really was all that busy at this time of the day, usually only picking up in
the afternoon and early evening.
Soon the bells of the nearby provost church are ringing; signifying eleven ante meridiem.
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The calm man runs his hands down his lapels, picks up his paper and stands. He looks
across the square, at the houses on the other side, a quick scan over their white and brown
fronts and drape-filled windows. Then, with a sharp nod to the other man, he turns and
starts walking towards the Merchant Hall, pushing his left lapel open to stuff the folded
paper into the interior pocket of his jacket. The second man gets up as well, checking his
pocket watch again. He turns to the cart with the two men and the officer before placing the
watch in the pocket of his vest again; then moves to seemingly follow the other man who is
already a few dozen paces ahead of him.
The two workers stop dragging the cart, despite the officer's tirades; the man holding onto
the wagon's load steps slightly aside, and calls the officer over to his side of the cart, telling
him in a rather loud and slightly accented voice that the wheel on his side broke. After the
second of the young men moves to help his friend the officer steps around the cart to take a
look, muttering under his breath about the two and their cart.
Walking by the guard booth, the calm man slows down, seemingly waiting for the other to
catch up to him. Across the square, a slightly rotund man in the clothes of a travelling
businessman watches the scene below from his window while smoking a cigarette,
occasionally relaying some of it in heavily accented German to the second occupant of the
room; a lean man in similar attire, who only offers few half-hearted comments in return as
he reads his Czech newspaper.
The smoker takes another drag on his cigarette when his eyes fall on a trio of men leaving
the Merchant Hall; two of them conversing with each other, with the third trailing a few
steps behind, still slipping into his jacket. A surprised intake of breath ends in a cough as he
hurriedly brings a pair of binoculars to his eyes and sharply barks at his companion, waving
him over with a free hand.
Contrary to his hectic companion, the lean man calmly puts away the newspaper and drags
his chair over to the window, briefly picking up something from underneath the table on
the way. He throws a short look through the binoculars offered by his partner, and then
arranged the chair so he can sit down and brace the object he picked up earlier, a wornlooking Steyr-Mannlicher M95, on the windowsill.
Pressing his cheek against the wooden stock he looked down the sights and takes careful aim
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at one of the three men below. Drawing in a last, deep breath, he pulls the trigger, and the
sharp crack of his rifle shot echoes over the square.
While the lean sniper is more concerned with reloading his rifle as fast as possible, rather
than paying attention to the results of his shot, his partner rapidly switched back and forth
between watching the square with his binoculars and without.
Stone-faced, the rotund man observes how the first of their three targets hit the ground
limply and how his two companions, along with a number of other men, threw themselves
to the ground barely a moment later likely war veterans who recognized the rifle shot for
what it was. The police officer by the cart fumbles for his service pistol and tries to use the
vehicle for cover, but one of the young men the cart belongs to pushes him with an angry
shout.
On the opposite side, the second officer has his rifle already in hand and peers out of his
guardhouse in search for the shots' origin, but before he could, the sniper fires a second shot
at another of their targets, though this time his aim is hastier and less precise, leaving the
target on the ground, clutching his stomach and writhing in pain. The sniper quickly
reloads his rifle for a third shot, but before he can fire the glass of the open window beside
him shatters, causing his own shot to go wide as he winces and impact the cart, drawing
angry shouts from both the officer and the two youths seeking cover behind it.
While the sniper gnashes his teeth to prepare another shot, his companion bites out a curse
as he is showered in broken glass and helplessly watches as the officer with the rifle
disappears back into the cover of his guardhouse to reload his weapon in safety. A task made
more difficult when the nervous man with the pocket-watch also seeks cover in the
guardhouse, grasping the officer's uniform and pleading for protection.
The sniper releases a fourth shot at the last target, now running for the safety of the
Merchant Hall. Rather than hitting the target directly, however, the bullet impacts the
ground and showers his legs with shrapnel from the stones, making him stumble and fall to
the ground.
Rapidly the sniper reloads his rifle for his last shot, but then has to duck beneath the
windowsill when another shot whips through the window frame and impacts the room's
ceiling, showering the sniper and his partner in splinters, this time earning curses from both
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of them. More shots follow in quick succession, and the sniper risks a quick peek to see the
second officer firing in their direction with his handgun. Since the last target was just
stumbling through the doorway he and his companions had left through barely a minute
earlier, the sniper instead snaps off his last shot in the direction of the firing officer, then
drops the rifle and turns around to flee, finding his partner already waiting at the door of
their room, cuts from glass or wood bleeding on his face, with one hand on the doorknob
and the other on the pistol hidden in his jacket. With a few hurried steps the sniper is
besides him, grasping his own hidden pistol, and after exchanging a terse nod, the two open
the door and leave, pushing past a few other people on their way out of the building.
Down on the plaza, the calm man finally stands up from where he'd thrown himself to the
ground earlier, when the first shots had fallen, and looked back, where one man was lying
on the ground, near-motionless, and a second was curled up around himself, groaning in
pain. The latter was suddenly joined by the nervous watch-looker, when the rifle-armed
guard pushed him out of the guardhouse and then smashes the butt of his rifle into the
man's stomach, afterwards moving to cover the first officer, armed with only a pistol, as he
moves towards the house where the rifle shots had come from.
Finding himself unobserved by the police officers, he quickly moves over to the two men on
the ground and briefly examines them. The first one looks unlikely to survive for much
longer; he's barely moving any more as he lies in a slowly-expanding pool of his own blood.
The second one has only been hit somewhere in the stomach area, though, and has decent
chance to get through alive if help arrives soon.
Half-heartedly shouting that he's going to help the man, the calm one bends over the body,
hiding most of it from view, and firmly clasps his hand over the wounded man's nose and
mouth. Pressing his own body down to keep the other from trashing around too much, he
whispers an apology, and then observes, with occasional glances towards the two
policemen, as the wounded man's struggling slows, and finally stops altogether.
Another quick glance shows him that the rifle-armed guard has joined the officer in the
pursuit of the sniper, and after a short moment of hesitation, he runs over to pick up the
nervous man and the two hurry to leave the square. The two youths and their wooden cart
are likewise nowhere to be seen.
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November 1921
Nov 2nd - A group of young Czech officers storms the Hradzin in Prague, declaring a "new
republic".
Nov 3rd - The USA are offered the opportunity to send a force to Tianjin joining the
international garrison, but refuse. Tianjin remains held by forces of the FrancoItalian and
British-Japanese
alliances
along
with
some
White
Russian
representatives.
Nov 6th - After several days of riots and stand-offs between the Army and civilians, the
Czech acting field marshal steps down.
Nov 8th - Estonia fields a Corps to "support its brothers in Russia", the unit being primarily
used against the Whites on the Northern Front.
Nov 11th - Ericsson Germany buys up its former parent company in Sweden, setting a
precedent for such a merger.
Nov 12th - The Slovak Republic surrenders to Austria-Hungary on the condition of

remaining a sovereign country.
Nov 15th - The new Czech field marshal - the third within three weeks - promises a
transition to a civilian-led republic.
Nov 16th - The government of Alsace-Lorraine steps down after complaints of being
"unable to work with military interference".
Nov 19th - British troops use chemical weapons in Anatolia.
Nov 20th - Greek troops shell a resistant village in Western Anatolia, killing 26 people.
Nov 21st - Italy starts creating cordons sanitaire around the "Free Cities" on the Dalmatian
Coast, moving the population out of villages against their will.
Nov 24th - Continued revolts in Egypt make Britain actively think about leaving the
country.
Nov 24th - Italy starts demolishing cleared-out villages in the Dalmatian Free Cities.
Nov 25th - Denmark holds a show trial with the arrested German fishermen, creating a
media outrage in Germany but not much of an official response.
Nov 27th - Britain trades France the occupation zone of Western Togoland for the province
of Northern Cameroon.
Nov 28th - Slovakia is forced to join the Austro-Hungarian federation as a fifth state after
tense negotiations in Vienna.
Nov 30th - The Black Army now controls half of the Taurian Soviet Republic on Crimea
against haphazard Russian- and Ukrainian-sponsored resistance.
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December 1921
Dec 2nd - Under Soviet pressure, Ukraine agrees to a referendum for possibly transferring
the Russian-populated Luhansk Oblast on its Eastern border.
Dec 3rd - The short three-year formal independence of Iceland - in personal union with
Denmark - is ended, the country being incorporated into Denmark again against
some local protests of the small population.
Dec 5th - The Czech Field Marshal calls for the formation of "regional councils". In these
councils, the military will have a fixed one-third of all seats, with one-third going to
workers and the remainder to the remaining population. The formation of parties
within these councils is made illegal.
Dec 8th - Airbus publicly celebrates the first flight of a hydrogen-powered airliner.
Dec 10th - Greece occupies several islands in the Aegean Sea against little Turkish
resistance.
Dec 11th - A national-conservative alliance wins elections in Denmark by a scant majority.

Dec 14th - Germany deploys eight battalions of the Federal Police to Alsace-Lorraine to
restore order.
Dec 15th - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India.

Dec 17th - A Danish court sentences the six arrested German fishermen to two years in
prison.
Dec 18th - Further riots erupt after Mahatma Gandhi's arrest is publicized.
Dec 19th - Members of the Italian Syndicalist Union USI meet with members of the small
German anarcho-syndicalist group FAU in Switzerland.
Dec 21th - The ALP, in a move to consolidate into a "bigger" party, founds a charity, the
Knuppe-Tirpitz-Stiftung, akin to the Adenauer and Ebert charities of CDU and SPD.
Dec 22nd - Hungary tries to convince Austria to let its puppet state Romania accede to the
Austro-Hungarian Federation as a sixth member state, something denied by Austria

due to fearing a shifting of powers towards the Transleithanian parts of the
Federation.
Dec 23rd - A coup attempt by a handful Danish separatists on the island Remoe - with a
total population of perhaps 500 - is quickly put down within hours by Imperial
soldiers from the Island Guard supporting German police.
Dec 23rd - Denmark deploys troops to Iceland.
Dec 25th - Turkish troops use chemical shells against British troops for the first time.
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Dec 27th - In Berlin the Russian Art Exhibition presents contemporary Soviet constructivist
art.
Dec 28th - Czech troops in a concerted effort wrestle most of the province of Pilsen from its
partial Free Corps control.
Dec 31st - A joint Trust Agency held by the German and US governments goes into being,
known in Germany as the "Neue Treuhand". This Trust, estimated worth over 500
billion Dollar, will sort out claims on German possessions in the USA and US
possessions in Germany, as well as administrate companies in the meantime.
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January 1922
Jan 4th - The White Army on the Northern Front is pushed back during the harsh winter.
Jan 5th - In response to the joint US-German Trust Agency, France formally nationalizes all
previously seized German assets in the country.
Jan 7th - Italian fascist paramilitaries shoot six workers while "liberating" a factory from the
"bolshevists" that have seized it.
Jan 9th - Sony Germany, essentially only consisting of a research and development center, is
bought up by Siemens.
Jan 10th - The "Taurian Soviet Republic" collapses, the Black Army quickly expanding
across the peninsula.
Jan 12th - Denmark buys 50 FT-17 light tanks from France.

Jan 12th - Spain buys 300 used FT-17 from France in an effort to modernize its military.
The deal raises some discussion in France over "equipping a supporter of Germany",
but such doubts are aquiesced by the opinion of "trying to foster better relations with
a neighbor".
Jan 15th - Based upon Article 135 of the German Constitution transferring Prussian public
property to the German government in 1949, the German government starts taking
formal control of public infrastructure in Alsace-Lorraine.
Jan 16th - Germany buys certain rights to Kivu province from Belgium, with a treaty
making the area effectively a condominium.
Jan 18th - Denmark outlaws all "bolshevist activity", arresting several dozen union activists.
Jan 19th - Anti-Czech pogroms occur in some towns in "German Bohemia", the semiindependent region around Reichenberg.
Jan 21st - Denmark buys all ten Yarrow M class destroyers from Britain.
Jan 22nd - Ukraine allows the establishment of a "Taurian Government-in-Exile" in
Cherson.
Jan 23rd - Britain signs the Anglo-Irish treaty, giving Ireland the status of a Dominion
within the Empire. Irish separatists denounce the treaty.
Jan 24th - Denmark starts building fortresses on the islands of Bagoe and Mandoe.
Jan 28th - Germany opens the first new nuclear plant built since the 1980s.
Jan 29th - The Black Army now controls almost all territory south of Armijansk.
Jan 31st - Switzerland buys nearly 100 turrets based on the new French Tank armed with
138.6mm guns for use in fortresses. France plans a second production line of these
naval guns to satisfy future demand.
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Downing two dry aspirin, Reiner Simek leant back in his seat and began to massage his
temples lightly. He'd always been susceptible to headaches, and the heat here in Kigali
certainly didn't do him any favours in that regard, so he'd decided to take a little break from
his work.
He, along with a number of others, had been hired to compile a report about possible
investment opportunities in the Federal Republic's recently acquired African territory,

especially for smaller and mid-sized companies.
The area encompassing Rwanda, Burundi, and roughly a third of Tansania certainly held
plenty of potential, both in mineral wealth and natural resources.
In addition to large gold deposits in the Tansanian area, Rwanda held deposits of metals
such as tin, coltan and tungsten, and in Burundi uranium, nickel, cobalt, copper, and
platinum could be found, all which were of interest to the German industry. Although the
most promising deposits were already being eyed by various larger mining companies, there
were still plenty to make this a worthwhile area of interest.
In renewable resources the area could count on the biodiversity one would expect from
Africa to provide numerous exotic plants and animals for export, either as luxury items or
other goods, such as tropical woods, or fruits which had been somewhat scarce during the
war, drawing more than one dry comment from Frank, a colleague from the former GDR,
how neither of them had any bananas now or as attractions for tourists, and of course the
climate was well-suited for cultivation of traditional cash crops like coffee, tea, or sugar.
Likewise the abundance of mountain streams and lakes, predominantly in Rwanda and
Burundi, translated into a large potential for hydroelectric power. Now that he thought
about it, it might even be possible to cover most of the area's electricity needs via renewable
energy sources from the very start. The Greens would certainly be all over the idea, and
Reiner quickly jotted down a few notes regarding this particular idea.
However, for all its potential, there were two great obstacles.
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One was the non-existent transportation infrastructure; the area was, in essence, a lot of
wilderness with a few footpaths, although work to remedy this was already under way; an
airport was under construction in Burundi, on the northern shore of Lake Tanganjika, and a
railway was being built from the Congo river towards the same area. Nevertheless it would
still take years until the area as a whole was even on the level of contemporary European
countries, much less that of modern Germany.
The other was the lack of a skilled and educated workforce. Of the two million Africans
living in the area roughly 750.000 each in Rwanda and Burundi, with another 500.000 in
the larger but more sparsely populated part of Tansania the vast majority were subsistence
farmers, and the few Europeans were too small in number to have any real impact; less than
5.000 according to recent sources, most of them were either settlers from the former
German colonies like Southwest Africa, or the British-occupied parts of Tansania, or former
Imperial soldiers.
This issue had barely even entered a planning stage, as far as he knew, though if Reiner
were to take a guess actual work at education and training of the people here would start
here in Rwanda, which had the closest thing to a centralized government in king Yuhi V
Musinga to coordinate the efforts.
Taking all these things into account as much as was possible with his head throbbing in
tact with his heartbeat he could see several promising areas of interest.
Agriculture, construction, mining, and transportation were the areas where investment
could start almost immediately, and which should generate profit within a relatively short
timespan. With all that had to be done, construction was especially attractive as an
investment with a long lifespan and rather low risk, while agriculture would hopefully
help the transition from subsistence farming to more efficient, modern variants, freeing up
people for other work.
The next areas were light consumer goods clothes, furniture, beverages, and the like
electric power and the pharmaceutical industry. Most of them required either a skilled
workforce which currently wasn't available and would thus have to be imported from the
homeland, or would rely strongly on domestic demand here in Africa, and thus only start
being profitable when more Africans had the necessary financial means, meaning
investment into these areas would require some time to bear fruit.
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With a groan and a mumbled curse, Reiner began to arrange his notes and start writing.
There was probably tons of stuff he overlooked or hadn't taken into account, yet, but it
should be enough for a preliminary draft at least, and he could take another look at it later,
when his head didn't feel like it was about to explode.
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February 1922
Feb 2nd - The East-German Federation, under German pressure, abolishes capital
punishment.
Feb 3rd - The Turkish-Soviet advance reaches the Cilician borders.

Feb 5th - A German charity organization raises money on TV to build a network of health
clinics in Brazil.
Feb 6th - The Black Army takes control of the last tsarist resistance spots on Ukraine.
Feb 6th - General da Costa and Bernardino Machada agree to jointly head a new provisional
government in Portugal.
Feb 6th - Pius XI is elected as the new pope, succeeding Benedict XV.
Feb 9th - The autonomous Reichenberg district in the Czech Republic adopts the Euro as a
secondary currency.
Feb 11th - Ukraine starts building up a new Black Sea Fleet headquartered in Odessa.
Feb 11th - Riots in Goa intensify again, putting heavy pressure on the Portuguese colonial
administration.
Feb 13th - The Ukrainian Army starts digging trenches along the border to the Crimean
peninsula.
Feb 14th - France ceases mass production of FT-17 light tanks at 31,000 units produced
since 1917. The FT-17 has become a standard infantry fire support vehicle and
artillery tractor in the French Army, with nearly 16,000 serving in some 120 French
divisions in 1922. Production since late 1920 was geared towards export to Italy and
the USA, delivering nearly 12,000 units to those two countries.
Feb 17th - The East-German Federation forms a naval infantry "marine corps" consisting of
20,000 men.
Feb 18th - German paleontologists start a large-scale uncovering of fossils in Patagonia, in

some places finding more than uncovered before the ISOT.
Feb 20th - The Neue Treuhand sells some minor assets to interested US parties in an auction
for a total return of almost 10 billion Dollar.
Feb 21st - A new branch office of the Goethe Institute opens in Brussels.
Feb 22nd - Luigi Facta is appointed prime minister of Italy.
Feb 24th - Kurt Tucholsky publishes his first post-war book sponsored by the charity named
after him, a reflection on the war and increased militarism in Germany from an
external perspective.
Feb 26th - In a second wave, Denmark arrests nearly 100 "bolsheviks".
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Feb 27th - Germany and Belgium sign a treaty on reparations, to be paid primarily in the
form of technical assistance, infrastructure buildup and deliveries of goods to a
certain amount, to be paid off over a period of 12 years, finishing by 1930.
Feb 28th - The first guns are mounted at Bagoe fortress.
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March 1922
Mar 1st - A dike in Breslau breaks under the pressure of accumulating ice, flooding the city.
Germay deploys several helicopters to support East-German Federation assistance
operations.
Mar 3rd - 51-year-old Rosa Luxemburg resurfaces as a political figure in Poland, being
elected to general secretary of the Social Democrat Party she helped founding there
20 years earlier.
Mar 6th - Germany orders a new series of warships; sixteen ships based off the hull of the
F124, with reduced electronics, for a price of 5.9 billion. These ships are intended
to replace Imperial light cruisers in service, and supplant the remaining frigates.
Mar 8th - The Soviet Republic of Transcaucasia, erected by political officers behind the
frontlines, becomes part of the Soviet Union.
Mar 9th - Insurgents kill the Italian governor of Lybia using hand grenades.
Mar 10th - The referendum in Lukhansk Oblast turns out with a 56% majority in favour of
the district joining the Russian Soviet Republic.
Mar 14th - The Soviet Union withdraws all troops in Transcaspia north of the Aral lake.
Mar 15th - A national council in Alsace-Lorraine approves a new state constitution
closely mirroring the Basic Law and the constitutions of other German states.
Mar 17th - In state elections in Bavaria - set back by two years due to the war - the Left
Party enters the state parliament for the first time, polling nearly 8%.
Mar 17th - During the parallel state elections in Hamburg, someone on the party list of the
Left Party whose name hadn't really caught on during campaigns makes it into
parliament - 36-year-old Ernst Thlmann.
Mar 18th - Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to 6 years in prison for civil disobedience and
inciting violence.
Mar 20th - The USA commissions its first aircraft carrier, USS Langley.
Mar 22nd - The Black Army declares a "Crimean Freestate".
Mar 23rd - A revolt against harsh work conditions on French plantations in the
mountaineous area of eastern Oubangi-Chari.
Mar 26th - Britain sells six older predreadnought battleships to Brazil.
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Palazzo Chigi, Rome, Italy
The move of the foreign ministry to a new location meant a lot of workers crawling around,
making everything fit for a government building, even if already in use. On the second floor
the work force was highly amused. They sniggered and joked about an obscure
inauguration ritual or those wacky Milanese in response to the frequent swearing coming
out office 5.
Inside, Luigi Fuchiotti had no idea that he and his 4 subordinates were so amusing to the
workers outside, but it was doubtful if he would have cared. For several weeks now, several
times every hour, he cursed the Tedesci and several former Prime Ministers.
Luigi, a member of the foreign ministry for two decades, had been given the task of
researching how to handle the strange new Germany, which had turned the world upside
down. After lots of phone calls, mountains of newspapers and dossiers, even interviews with
some of these strange Italo-Germans vacationing in Italy and still no end in sight, Luigi had
his first opinion and enough of the task.
The new Germans were absolutely infuriating! Their behaviour, according to the dossiers,
was utterly alien, but at least some glimpses of the Germany he knew were still there. The
way they made compromises for instance, was the same he knew. Obscure, arcane and
totally overcomplicated to anybody not german, they saw it as the most obvious, logical and
just way. And the Germans wondered why nobody understood them!
He was no friend of Germany, they had sided with the Austro-Hungarians, when it came to
the possession of ancestral Italian soil, like the Alto Adige. If the Germans there did not want
to life in Italy, their loss, then they should make room for Italians and go. But no, Berlin and
Vienna insisted that the Germans in northern Sdtirol, as they called the region, were the
clear majority there and the whole of Tyrol had been german for more than a millennium,
so no way Italy would get anything north of Salurn. This was non-negotiatable
So when the Great War broke out, Luigi was on the side of Premier Salandra, who favoured
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the Entente, unlike Luigis direct boss, foreign minister Count Castello, who wanted to
honour Italys treaty obligations to the Central Powers. The Entente had promised them big
gains, e.g. the whole of South Tyrol, more of the Adriatic coast and a fast, quick end to the
war.
When 1918 began, the war was still in the balance, but with the US on their side, time was
limited for the Central Powers. Luigi guessed, if the Germans broke through in the spring
they would win, if not Italy and her allies would win. He was looking forward to it, even if
the way Italy entered the war on the Entente side left a bad taste in his mouth. Luigi Fuchiotti
disliked the Prussians and the Habsburgs because they did not give Italy territories which
should belong to Bella Italia since roman times, not because he disliked the people.
The way Prime Minister Salandra and a small clique had literally circumvented the other
government departments to ensure Italy came on the Entente side, was a bit distasteful. That
the Central Powers called them turncoats and backstabbers was not nice, but
understandable. Had it happened to Italy, that a treaty nation first slipped through a
loophole to not fulfil the treaty and then even changed sides, he would have been angry too.
He even read the Germans had invented a name for the Italians, a name, the new Germans
still recognizing it too: Treulose Tomate translating to cheating tomato.
Well, this could not be helped. And it would not be so serious had the plan of the Entente to
humiliate the Central Powers no matter what, functioned. But then IT happened. The
arrival of this strange new Germany. When the german armies fell back near the
antebellum borders in France, Italy had hoped that the victory was close, but then the new
Germany made herself known, by stopping the allied advance with ease. They had wonder
weapons, but were weak in spirit, which gave the Entente the chance to take most of the
Adriatic coast.
Now the war was over for 2 years and Luigi, especially after learning more about the New
German Empire, was sure that it had not been truly worth for Italy to cheat the CP. Instead
of the destroying of Germany and Austria, with Italy getting lots of Austrian and Hungarian
territory, they only got some bits of Austria, which Italy could have gotten by negotiations
with Vienna, too. And their new possessions from the Hungarian part of the Double
Monarchy brought prestige, yes, but they were a pain in the ass to administer with Austrian
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backed resistance.
Italy had paid for this with blood, lots of blood, enduring even disasters like the Battle at
Caporetto. Without this new Reich coming it would have worth the costs, but now
He cursed the idiots who, after peace came, went straight ahead into an alliance with
France. Had the CP really entertained the notion of a punishing attack against Italy for her
deeds, they would have done so before the peace. It might have been possible, with the
idealistic doves of new Germany in it, to repair the damage done to the relations with the
Central Powers. But now, with being in the boat of France and the new German Empire
showing teeth on the diplomatic floor and her hawks gaining ground, the bridges to the
Central Powers were irrevocably burned.
Luigi had read about the Budapest summit in May and as a career diplomat knew the jargon
of the statements. The german doves had stopped being fulltime doves and it was clear from
the declarations that Germany would share her wonder technologies only with nations who
were friends. From the 1860s, for decades Italy was counted as such by Berlin. But not
anymore Only 8 years had been sufficient for this.
And nowand now even the motherfucking Bulgarian outlanders would get an earlier look
at the fantastic knowledge the Germans had, instead of Italy, one of the cradles of culture in
Europe! Maybe Castello had been right; honouring your treaties pays out more in the long
run. Italy now had no choice but to stand with France. We made the bed, we have to lie in it.
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April 1922
Apr 4th - Egypt is declared an independent kingdom, although British hegemony remains in
the former protectorate.
Apr 6th - France and Monaco sign a treaty aligning mutual international politics under
French hegemony.
Apr 7th - With sales having dropped to next to zero due to prohibition, the Neue Treuhand
closes six breweries owned by the trust agency in the USA.
Apr 10th - The insurgency of local tribes in French Congo and Cameroon reaches Gabunian
territory.
Apr 11th - An East-German general is shot by a Polish separatist during a visit in a border
town.
Apr 11th - Germany extends the Boxer GTK order to 800 vehicles, after deliveries for a first
extension to 400 vehicles are supposed to be concluded in June.
Apr 13th - Leonid Trotzky becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
Apr 16th - The Rif Campaign for Spain turns to counter-insurgency operations.
Apr 17th - Kemal Attatrk abolishes the Osman Sultanate and Califate.
Apr 19th - Portugal allows the four major commercial operating companies in Mozambique
to use "guard troops" within their territory.
Apr 20th - Bennito Mussolini barely survives an assassination attempt with a hand grenade
in Milan, being gravely injured. Several 10,000 Fasci react with several anticommunist pogroms in the Po valley area, watched helplessly by Italian police
officers.
Apr 22nd - Republicans in Catalonia oppose the military draft for the Third Rif War with a
general strike lasting two weeks.
Apr 24th - The modern Austrian company OMV's assets in Germany - five refineries and
400 gas stations - are bought up by BASF and integrated into their Wintershall
subsidiary.
Apr 24th - As a new step to the modified New Economic Policy, the High Soviet focuses the
introduction of "farmer markets" in cities, obligating farmer collectives to sell 20%
of their produce at these markets at fixed prices.
Apr 26th - The British Empire forms a collective colony out of the protectorates of Kenya,
Uganda, Tanganjika and Zanzibar.
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May 1922
May 1st - Following the referendum six weeks earlier, Lukhansk Oblast is transferred to the
Soviet Union. Several thousand citizens move west into Ukraine.
May 1st - The basic law is extended to include Alsace-Lorraine, effectively making the
territory a new state within Germany.
May 3rd - Railway workers in the East-German Federation strike for higher wages,
eventually granted by the government.
May 6th - A conference on economic politics is held in Budapest, with representatives from
Germany, the East-German Federation, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Austria-Hungary,
Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Ukraine attending.
May 6th - The General Strike in Catalonia ends without any concessions from the
government.
May 7th - Germany and Sweden agree on setting up an underwater cable underneath the
Baltic Sea to connect the two countries better.
May 8th - France integrates Togoland into its colony of Dahomey.
May 9th - Alsace-Lorraine elects a new government, a center-right coalition of the

Alsatian-Lorrainen Zentrum Party (ELZ) and Liberal Democrats winning. Josef
Wirth becomes prime minister of Alsace-Lorraine.
May 10th - Persia is forced to cede control over the entire coast east of the Street of Hormuz,
including its hinterland, to Britain.
May 10th - The three American destroyers that switched sides to Germany three years
earlier are donated to the Netherlands.
May 11th - Romania, Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary during the Budapest conference
announce plans to jointly strategically increase oil production in the Danube delta,
and improve transport routes from there.
May 12th - Following the pogroms in the Milan area and the lack of reaction from the
government, Vittorio Emanuele sacks Luigi Facta.
May 13th - The Budapest conference ends with the Treaty of Budapest, promising German
investments in Austro-Hungary. A side treaty formalizes "friendship agreements"
between the nations involved.
May 15th - Soviet forces take control of Lukhansk Oblast two weeks after the transfer of the
province, as agreed in previous talks.
May 15th - Germany officially introduces an airship wing in the Luftwaffe, using more than
twenty Imperial Zeppelins for auxiliary transport duties.
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May 18th - The modified New Economic Policy gives a rise of power to decentralized
worker councils, with some of these increasingly protesting some High Soviet
decisions.
May 19th - A new polar expedition ship is commissioned in Germany, a 20,000 ton
icebreaker succeeding the ship Polarstern which was lost in the ISOT.
May 20th - Germany donates 300 former Imperial aircraft to Belgium.
May 20th - BASF, E.on and BEB relaunch a Gazprom project in Germany, building giant
subterranean gas storage sites in Brandenburg and Sachsen-Anhalt for nearly 10
billion cubic meters of natural gas, increasing total German storage capacity by 50%.
The German government subsidizes the project as preparation for possible future
supply shortages.
May 21st - Austrian Emperor Karl I dies in Vienna. His successor initially presents a
problem - his designated successor, his son, can not take the throne for another six
years as he is still too young. Karl's wife Zita of Bourbon-Parma, on the basis that
she wouldn't be accepted by the population due to her Italian providence. After a bit
of searching, the new Emperor of Austria is chosen to be Archduke Franz Salvator, a
grand child of Franz Joseph I and, during the war, the Lord-Protector of the Austrian
Red Cross.
May 24th - Two Soviet gunboats sink a Persian sail corvette on the Caspian Sea.
May 26th - A Luftwaffe Zeppelin crashes during a training exercise, killing 18 soldiers
onboard.
May 28th - Germany sells over 300 former Imperial aircraft to Poland.
May 29th - Franz Salvator is crowned Emperor of Austria in Vienna.
May 30th - The ELZ merges itself with the CSU, a number of former Bavarian soldiers now
active in the party pushing in that particular direction.
May 31st - Persia formally declares war on the Soviet Union.
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June 1922
Jun 2nd - The Communist Party of Brazil is established.
Jun 3rd - After a rapid expansion more than 500 commercial radio stations operate in the
USA by now.
Jun 5th - During Dhu al-Hijjah 1342 A.H., some 700 pilgrims are the first to make the Hajj
from modern Germany, travelling through Greece and across the Mediterranean.
The
British administration in Egypt grudgingly allows the passage of their ship through
the Suez canal.
Jun 6th - Hungary begins to invest significantly more into her tourism infrastructure. The
first batches in 1921 led to obvious increases in tourist numbers, especially from
Germany. Schwerpunkt is now the Budapest area with some contemplation done
about the Carpathian Bow. Like the Carpathians, the Balaton Lake, Tokay, Szeged and
the Danube between Pressburg (Bratislava) and Budapest are thought about as areas
which should get upgrades in the future. There were quite a number of re- and
inquests about these regions of Hungary and should this trend continue, Hungarys
government would react.
Jun 7th - The Royal Navy starts widely introducing Quad 2-pdr mounts for air-defence on
ships.
Jun 10th - Marc Chagall enters the Berlin high society.
Jun 13th - German telecommunications companies start installing a mobile phone network
throughout the Netherlands.
Jun 14th - Japan starts resettling almost 2 million Chinese from occupied territories in
Manchuria into the Far-East Republic by force.
Jun 16th - A US engineer demonstrates the first domestically-built helicopter to the US

Army.
Jun 17th - After two years of building, the first full concrete road from Germany to Eastern
Ukraine is finished.
Jun 20th - US Censorship Offices ban the display of a wide range of cinematic movies from
Germany due to "immoral acts being displayed".
Jun 22nd - British Field Marshall Henry Hughes Wilson is assassinated by IRA activists.
Jun 25th - Lithuania founds its first university, incorporating a technical college supported
by German industrials.
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Jun 26th - For the first time a company of over 1,000 employees in Germany is bought by its
workers, who administrate it through a directly elected work council. The change
makes waves in German media with right-wing media suspecting a connection to
the Soviet Union.
Jun 29th - Erich von Falkenhayn dies in Constantinople at age 61 from natural causes.
Jun 30th - A follow-on side treaty to the Budapest Agreement comes into effect, tieing the
currencies of the East-German Federation, Poland and Lithuania together at fixed
exchange rates.
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Zeppelin Anchorage, Frankfurt/Main Airport, Germany
Klaus Ebert was 54 years old and had worked for decades at the various passport control
stations all over the airport. Ebert, whose hair was styled like a typical opera conductors
would, had experience in spades and was as such a prime candidate for chief of the new
passport office in the south of the airport. While he was a modest fellow, he prided himself
to recognize most nations just by the way the different passports were shaped and felt like,
before even looking at them.
The small building with a passport control, waiting room and a bistro was for Frankurts
newest (or better oldest) addition in air travel. The ISOT nearly snuffed Lufthansa, the main
german airline. The necessary ban on civilian air travel in the first months after the
Rcksprung was the end for many airlines. Only major ones, like Lufthansa, survived and
then barely. At the end of the war passenger travel by plane had to be restarted from bottom
up. With the other Central Powers nations and friendly neutrals like the Netherlands it was
relatively easy. While it was still improvised in many fields, e.g. in Vienna, Amsterdam,
Knigsberg or Budapest airports were build which could handle jet plane take off and
landings. So at least small or medium sized birds could travel there. But in many other
nations and especially overseas, there was and would be for years to come no adequate
landing spots for long distance jetliners. So Lufthansa took a page out of the Luftwaffe book
and commissioned a eight Zeppelins, with several more worked on in Liegnitz and
Schneidemhl in the East-German Federation, for overseas travel. With modern upgrades
for the hull, unignitable hydrogen-helium mix and lighter, stronger engines the airships
could travel with over 300 km per hour.
It worked, so for a time long distance air travel would be made by Zeppelin. Since Airships
were big things, with their own specific needs, Lufthansa and Fraport, the airport operator,
decided to build facilities at the southern edge of the airport. Now 2 Zeppelin halls, like back
in the thirties, well the thirties which never were, a multifunction building and a tram to the
main facilities had been erected in a few months.
Ebert sat in his office, on the table before him two flight plans. One was the actual, the other
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was from home, a 2009 plan. Klaus had to grin how life could change. Time travel was
something out of science fiction books, theoretically possible, but nothing more. Now the
over 82 million inhabitants of Germany had the evidence that there was more to time travel
than believed.
Back in 2009, nearly every halfway major place on earth could be reached via Frankfurt
and now? Inner german traffic stayed roughly the same, only frequency changed and
Alsace-Lorraine now counting as Germany again.
There was a sharp decline in frequency and location around the Mediterranean. Not only
were the existing airfields too primitive for most passenger planes, most tourist destinations
were not advanced enough for mass tourism. And even more important, with the exception
of Spain, austro-hungarian Kstenland, Turkey and up to a point Greece, all territory there
was in the hand of Entente nations. With France full of mistrust, Great Britain and Italy only
slightly less so, they were keen on keeping the number of places few, where the new
German Empire could unleash more of her technological Abominations with impunity and
stopping the spread of her cultural depravity to quote several French newspapers.
Not really balancing the scales, but tilting a bit was that the governments in Madrid,
Konstantinopel and Athens saw the potential of tourism after repeated inquests by various
german groups. While far from 21th. centurylike, e.g. in Spain many people laughed at the
foolishness of the capital for building Spains second airstrip after Madrid on hinterland
isle Mallorca, in all three nations investions for tourism were made.
The big change was in Middle and Eastern Europe. Not in frequency of flights, but locations
connected. With the Central Powers nations and the countries influenced by them able to
get a better look at what is possible with airplanes compared with many others, Austria-
Hungary, East-German Federation, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and the Netherlands began to
think big about air travel. The new airstrips build in western Europe, allowed smaller
modern planes starts and landings, but not much more. They could service contemporary
aircrafts, but logically not modern jets. And considering the hostile attitude of e.g. France,
there were no german ground crews to stop espionage before it could begin and planes
were ordered to depart immediately after passenger transfer. In friendly Spain it was more
relaxed, but a real service for modern aircraft, nope, only small things.
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Opposite this, all over the Central Powers new aerodromes popped up, build with an eye
towards new Germanys aircraft. In the most important cities, like Breslau, Knigsberg,
Budapest, Sofia or Vienna, true airports were built. Naturally on a lower level than modern
airports, but with growth potential. Combined with an extensive railroad network (back
then railroads were more extensive than today) Germanys tourist streams began to change.
Looking over the actual plan, Ebert shook his head in amusement. Had someone said to him
before the ISOT Bistrita in Romania would get regular connected to Frankfurt, he would
have laughed. But now Bistritz in the hungarian part of the Danube monarchy became a
rallying point for mountain hiking in the Carpathians. Without WW2 there was a sizeable
ethnic german population there, making tourism easier with no language problems. And
this was just one example of many. With many traditional holiday places like France hostile
and ill-equipped for modern german tourists, tourism to destinations under control or
influence of the Central Powers and neutrals like Scandinavia or the Benelux was on the
rise. At first, these nations were as ill-equipped as the others for modern mass tourism, but
the politicians and people there were not stupid. If these strange new Germans wanted to see
an undamaged Knigsberg or strolling along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast en masse, well, it
would be made possible.
Tourism was one sector with big growth rates in the CP, even Germany, with a lot of people
wanting to see the old Alsace-Lorraine and many foreign persons wanting to walk in
future Germany.
And the New World was getting into focus again. With the war over, people wanted to see
what these nations were like in the past. So the Zeppelins were always full in both
directions. One rotation was flying to New York, another one to Toronto, others to Rio,
Buenos Aires and Asia was represented by Frankfurt-Tokyo.
Ebert was filling out the usual hill of paperwork, when the outside speakers announced:
LH-112Z from Toronto has anchored. Dear Passengers, Welcome to Germany! We wish
you a wonderful stay!.
Klaus, as chief of the offices here, wasnt required to do grunt work, but he liked to still be
doing it several times a week. He wanted to show his colleagues that he was one of them and
to keep his instincts sharp. So he left his office, went over to the passport station and took a
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seat. Before the first passenger of his line reached him, he spared a look at the majestic
Zeppelin outside the window. Airships always were impressive. Their pleasing linesHe
saw one side rudder painted in black-red-gold and the white-blue hull with a several
square meters big stylized Crane on it, the symbol of the Lufthansa.
Then the first passenger stood before him and Klaus once again tried his old game. He was
now even accustomed to many old style passports.
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July 1922
July 1922, Germany:
After long, drawn-out internal discussions, CDU and SPD members barely manage to
pass ratification of a treaty in the Bundeswehr acceding Germany to become part of a
newly founded "Confederation of Independent Nations". A week later, German

president Khler along with the Ruandan King Yuhi V, Burundian King Mutaga IV
and Chief-elect of the Nyamwezi and Sukuma Isembe I. The Confederation Treaty
acknowledges the independence of its constituent nations while providing a

framework for further cooperation; in particular it provides for a joint tariff and
currency zone between its constituents, and levies the German Bundeswehr with the
defense of the Confederation.
Jul 3rd - Portugal defaults on several international debts.
Jul 3rd - France announces that it will have to raise taxes considerably to combat its rising
deficit.
Jul 5th - Liechtenstein renews the customs union with Austria.

Jul 8th - Striking miners in West Virginia are arrested under use of the US Army.
Jul 9th - Walt Disney Motion Pictures Germany branches out internationally and hires Walt
and Roy Disney.
Jul 9th - Tafari Makonnen visits Germany.

Jul 11th - The Bundeswehr absorbs the last eight active divisions of the Imperial Army on
the Western Front in Alsace-Lorraine, transforming them into more of their own
combat brigades.
Jul 12th - Civil-war-like scenes erupt in Milano between communists and fascists.
Jul 12th - A consortium of six German metalworking tool producers patents a number of
systems in the USA. Most of these systems were originally developed in the 1940s
and 50s, among them EDM eroders and waterjet cutters.
Jul 15th - Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann jointly win a bid to provide a new
armoured combat vehicle for the German Army with an order of 3,000 units,
replacing Marder, Leopard 1 and Fuchs vehicles partially, as well as providing a new
base armoured vehicle for other purposes.
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Jul 16th - Royal Dutch Shell Germany buys the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, and
announces it has merged with ExxonMobil Germany. The Federal Cartel Office
allows the merger as the German government bought a stake in Royal Dutch Shell
effective the same day.
Jul 17th - Eight mining companies in the East-German Federation merge under a single
holding, financed by German investment.
Jul 18th - Britain tests new torpedo bomber aircraft, incorporating some changes
implemented after the late war naval battles with Germany.
Jul 19th - Karl Valentin does a series of cabaret shows in Berlin.
Jul 20th - Tafari Makonnen signs a cooperation treaty with Germany in Berlin during a sixweek visit.
Jul 22nd - Japan commission British shipyards to build six new G3 battlecruisers for the
Imperial Japanese Navy.
Jul 23rd - Belgium, with German help, starts buying up Portuguese debts, primarily from
Britain.
Jul 25th - The King of Afghanistan, Amanullah Khan, in an unorthodox move declares his
"protection" over the Russian oblasts of Buchara, Sarmarkand and Fergana, both
outside Soviet control. Expeditions are sent into these countries. The British advisors
in Kabul eye these operations suspiciously.
Jul 27th - Afghan cavalry units cross the border to deploy to the capitals of Buchara,
Samarkand and Fergana.
Jul 31st - Nearly a quarter million people have left unstable Portugal over the last six
months, most moving to Brazil or across the border to Spain.
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August 1922
Aug 2nd - Fergana and Samarkand form an anti-Afghan coalition.
Aug 3rd - The East-German Federation starts building a railway from Silesia to the Czech
autonomous area of Troppau.
Aug 5th - Knigsberg, swelling in particular with former Imperial soldiers, hits a new
population high of 400,000 people.
Aug 5th - Touareg fighters manage to capture eight French howitzers intact, giving them
their first artillery.
Aug 6th - The BBC starts a regular radio program in London.

Aug 6th - Japanese emperor Taisho issues an Ukas denouncing socialism, a rare public
exposition.
Aug 7th - IRA insurgents cut the only ocean cable link between the USA and Europe.
Aug 10th - Belgian troops occupy the Portuguese protectorate of Cabinda.
Aug 11th - Sweden buys 100 old M113 APCs from Germany.
Aug 11th - The Netherlands buy nearly 100 Fuchs APCs from Germany.
Aug 13th - During repressions in Japan nearly two dozen socialists and anarchists are
murdered.
Aug 14th - Two French soldiers in Dahomey are shot and decapitated.
Aug 15th - A German company starts constructing of a new massive Plattenbau settlement
east of Knigsberg, planned to house nearly 50,000 people.
Aug 15th - The Spanish CNT leaves the Third International.
Aug 16th - Afghan and Bucharan forces clash near the Tajik town of Qurghonteppa.
Aug 18th - Bayer spends a record 25 billion Euro to buy back its former patents and other
assets from the Neue Treuhand.
Aug 19th - France orders a new heavy tank design as the Char 2C is considered
"inadequate". The new design is a 50-ton casemate tank mounting a naval 5.46" gun
in a turret-like sponson with limited traverse. The vehicle uses engines imported
from Switzerland, where Sulzer has closely examined older German trucks in the
past two years; with these new engines, the tank can cruise at a top speed of over 30
km/h, making it the fastest contemporary tank.
Aug 20th - Portugal reacts sharply to the Belgian occupation of Cabinda.

Aug 22nd - Someone fires on a Border Guard post in North Schleswig with a machine gun.
A "Danish Independence Movement" later takes the blame.
Aug 22nd - Some 400 Japanese arriving by ship are rejected asylum in Hawaii.
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Aug 23rd - A German film crew tours the USA for the first part of a documentary movie
series on contemporary life on other continents.
Aug 25th - Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania meet in a small conference
in the Black Sea port of Constanta.
Aug 26th - Portugal, on the verge of declaring war on Belgium, is convinced to give up by
Spanish advisors and a personal emissary from the Spanish King.
Aug 29th - Under German guidance and Austro-Hungarian pressure caused by a want for
better relations, Romania is forced to agree to a referendum for the territory of
Bazargic, taken from Bulgaria in the 1913 Second Balkan War.
Aug 29th - ProSiebenSat.1 Media and the BBC agree on the production of a number of
audio stories and a single movie in the Doctor Who universe, to be broadcast on
BBC.
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Near Constanta, Romania
The houses of Constanta became constantly smaller, the soft hum of the engines made the
mood tranquil, Luftwaffe Zeppelin 1 was on course homeward, to Germany. Chancellor
Angela Merkel sank back deeper in her seat, her thoughts still focused on the last 3 days.
Unlike the meeting in Budapest in May, where most members of the delegations were
economy experts and NGOs with a modest number of government officials for the treaties,
the small summit at Constanta was for the politicians. Beside government members, the
german contingent had delegations from all Bundestag parties: Die Linke (the Left,
communist leanings), die Grnen (the Greens, environmentalists centre-left) SPD (Social
Democrats), FDP (Free Liberals), CDU/CSU (the Union parties, centre-right) and the ALP
(liberal Nationalists). The governments of Austria-Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria had sent
full representations, too. Beside some foundation laying for the political cooperation, the
summit was mainly for getting to know each other. In that it was a full success.
All sides had mingled and some results were soon obvious. From the Union over to the
greens on the spectrum all parties had made inroads. The Left was fighting an uphill battle
and not really winning. The other 3 delegations stayed frosty and it would hinder the Left in
the coming elections. Germany needed the other Central Powers nations and these nations
showed what they thought about the Left, very little. Communist leanings were like a
deterrent to even the most open members of the other Central Powers nations.
But what mattered more at the moment in the chancellors mind was the reception the ALP
on the other side had gotten. In their handful of years existing, the ALP had an impact on the
after-Rcksprung Germany. The ambivalence of the ALP program made them hard to peg.
On one hand they were staunch defenders of democracy, modern ideas and the social state,
on the other hand they were proponents of militarism and nationalism.
Angela Merkel did not become chancellor by being stupid. She was sure the Alldeutschen
were no danger for the german democratic system and equally sure that the aims of the ALP
in foreign matters were far more wide reaching than they let on.
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But it seemed that their outlook on foreign policy made them able to relate to the nations
present far better than most other modern Germans. It was obvious after the second day that
the ALP had made a good impression on them and even connected on a personal level with
the Austro-Hungarians at the least. Interesting, since some of the ALP positions on e.g. social
security or personal freedom could not have gone down well with the conservative parts of
the other delegations. Nothing illustrated the good connection made by the Alldeutschen
better than the scene the chancellor herself stumbled over one evening.
She and her husband went down to the Hotel-Restaurant for a well-earned nightcap after
hours of conference and at one of the larger tables a mixed group had settled before. Most of
the group were Austro-Hungarians and ALP members, among them Gnter Koch and Gyula
Count Andrassy, and a scattering of Bulgarians, CDU-, SPD- and unusually 2 Greens
members. But the important point was that while politics were grazed several times, the
main topic was a rather jestful discussion about the best coffee houses in Vienna and
Budapest!
And here began the dilemma for her. The ALP would be a good coalition partner after the
next national elections. The other two options, the FDP and the Greens, beside the unloved
Grand Coalition, were not as promising. The FDP would normally not get enough votes in a
6 parties parliament to assure a win and with the Greens there was the same problem in
addition to the different goals in several portfolios.
If both the Union parties and the ALP would hit anywhere halfway close to the predictions
made, it would be enough to form a government. Not with as many seats as the Grand
Coalition now, a small but stable majority. The problem for this scenario was the sister party
CSU. From all parties in the Bundestag the CSU was the most similar to the ALP. So there was
a natural rivalry over a portion of the voters, despite being friendly on a personal level. Any
coalition had to be balanced and fine tuned to the utmost. But it could and would be done,
only the work to invest...
Angela, Love, what is it? her husband leaned over, whispering in her ear.
Oh, nothing, just the realisation I have some long and arduous talks with Seehofer and an
ALP representative in store for me. But it can wait until we are home. How about we just
enjoy the voyage?
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He pressed a quick kiss on Angelas temple. Sound good to me!

Luftwaffe Zeppelin 1, over Hungary
Only one compartment away from the chancellor and her husband, Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, foreign minister and main leader of the SPD, made similar thought experiments.
Like the Union parties the SPD had thought the ALP would be a short-lived phenomenon.
But in hindsight it was clear why the ALP was flowering. Parts of Germany had seen the
blood toll the war took and the enemies, who wanted nothing more than to rip apart
Germany and her allies. The ALP promised to oppose the Entente, so many voters preferred
them to the doves. Steinmeier regretted that Berlin in the first few months after the
Rcksprung tried to deal with the other nations in modern fashion, leading to more than a
few backlashes, but the situation was so unprecedenced and no one, well some, thought that
the other governments could behave this irrational. The ALP used this mistake to establish
their image as the single party to be tough enough for this new age. In addition to that the
ALP had wealthy benefactors, making them able to campaign in big fashion. And able to
embellish even the smallest deeds they were involved with, he grudgingly admitted. They
had surprised the established parties at the media front. As a Bundestag party the
Alldeutschen were part of many important councils and they made sure the voters knew the
ALP was not window-dressing there. They were not dumb, had admittedly several good and
logical ideas what to do in some fields and became more successful with the time.
No one in political Berlin doubted that the ALP would come out of the next national
elections as the third largest faction after the Union parties and the SPD. And with that many
seats in the Bundestag, the Alldeutschen could make a coalition with either the Union or the
SPD to create a new government. Steinmeier knew without doubt, that Angela Merkel
thought about such a scenario and knew he thought about that too.
Steinmeier took a sip from his coffee on the table before him. He savoured the taste, leaned
back and made several scenarios. His SPD was at a disadvantage in so far, that the ALP was
closer in thought to the Union parties than the Social Democrats. While there were some
portfolios, like the Social Area, where SPD and ALP were close, selling the nationalism of the
ALP to the SPD left-wing would be a Sisyphus work. It meant gifts, lots of gifts, to both the
ALP and the left-wing, if a coalition should work. On the other hand, lots of gifts might
swing the ALP onto the SPD side. He doubted that it could be so easy to do, their overall
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outlooks so different, but unlikely partners were nothing new in politics.

Angela Merkel will try to do the same, bringing the ALP on her side, no doubt. Both Angela
and he himself followed the old proverb of keeping the enemies closer. The ALP had
changed the political landscape and looking back it had been a bit lazy to think that such a
cataclysmic event like the Rcksprung would not bring new political parties about.
Now a new competitor for the votes was born and a charismatic one at that. Neither
Merkel nor he believed as some of their colleagues did, that the ALP would vanish in short
time. There was too much talent there. No, the ALP was here to stay for a long, long time and
if you cant beat them, join them. Or better make them join you. In 1925 it would be known
who won the competition, if Angela or he would rule with the help of the ALP.
With that in mind, he went to the panorama window compartment, where his wife would
meet him for Dinner.
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September 1922
September 1922, The Netherlands:
A national council installed by Queen Wilhelmina starts reviewing possible
administrative changes to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with the goal of drafting
a proposal reorganizing the relations of the Netherlands and its colonies and
neighbors, in particular with the former member states Belgium and Luxembourg.
The council is attended by an observer from the German foreign ministry
encouraging such steps towards administrative modernization and interstate

integration for its neighbor.
Sep 2nd - Britain starts scrapping older monitors and the nearly 180 A-,B-,C-,D- and E-
Class destroyers, all over 20 years old. Their 12-pounder guns are used to rearm
some 400
Mark VIII tanks, with the guns mounted in a turret. To replace the older
destroyers
some 45 additional Admiralty W-class destroyers are ordered.
Sep 3rd - Dornier sells 80 Seastar flying boats to the Luftwaffe for expeditionary use, using
blueprints still existing in the company, and receives a contract for developing an
enlarged cargo version.
Sep 5th - The insurgency in the Congo spreads far enough to split French Equatorial Africa
into two separated entities.
Sep 6th - French troops press forward against the last Touareg resistance into Southern
Lybia.
Sep 6th - Britain and Egypt agree on separating the Northern and Southern Sudanese
provinces into two separately administered states. South Sudan largely remains as it
did before the protectorate began.
Sep 8th - Bulgarian troops land on Samothraki and Thasos, occupying the two islands
disputed with Greece.
Sep 9th - A Danish airplane is shot down by a East-German destroyer close to the island of
Kasibor on the sea border between the East-German Federation and Germany.
Sep 10th - Irish Free State troops under Michael Collins take Cork City as the last major
rebelling city on Ireland, with the Republicans switching to guerilla warfare.
Sep 10th - Turkish and Cilician forces start employing scorched earth strategies around the
frontline area.
Sep 12th - A joint company founded by Germans and Austrians starts oil exploitation in
Romanian Bessarabia, in the Dniestr valley.
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Sep 13th - The Soviet Union sets up an enlarged Armenian-Kurdish Soviet Republic in
Eastern Anatolia within the area it controls.
Sep 14th - Finland and Sweden sign a treaty on demlitarization and neutrality of the
autonomous Aland islands.
Sep 14th - A German company starts operations of the first modern regauging system on the
border between Poland and Belarus.
Sep 15th - The National Bloc wins elections in France. The designated new prime minister
gives a speech in front of journalists calling for "punishing reparations" from
Germany.
Sep 15th - A German survey boat starts mapping oil fields off the coast of Cabinda.
Sep 16th - Britain commissions its fourth through-deck carrier.
Sep 18th - Michael Collins, commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State, is killed in Ireland.
Sep 22nd - France renews martial law in Tunisia, citing anti-French sentiments especially
among local intellectuals.
Sep 23rd - A bomb explodes in a almost exclusive Danish-populated town in North

Schleswig. Tensions on the border rise.
Sep 23rd - Chief-of-staff of the IRA Liam Lynch meets with East-German Free Corps
contacts in Norway, trying to commit them to the Republican cause.
Sep 24th - During elections in Brandenburg state the Left Party scores almost 40%,
becoming biggest party in parliament.
Sep 25th - Lithuania ratifies its first constitution.
Sep 26th - The Kivu special economic zone is expanded to include the Tanganika district
south of it, as well as the rest of Costermansville Province.
Sep 28th - Eight parliament members of the Italian Blocchi Nazionali are assassinated in
their homes on the same day.
Sep 30th - Italy declares three port cities in Albania "Free Ports" similar to developments on
the Croatian coast.
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October 1922
Oct 1st - The first woman joins the US senate.
Oct 2nd - Japanese forces attack outposts of the Fengtian Army.
Oct 3rd - Politicians from Saxony in the Bundestag raise the issue of increased illegal
immigration and human trafficking across the border from the autonomous
Reichenberg territory.
Oct 4th - The Netherlands call in a Portuguese debt, fully knowing Portugal can't pay it.
Oct 4th - France tries to court Alexander of Greece during a visit to Paris.
Oct 6th - The German states of Saarland and Alsace-Lorraine sign a treaty on creating a
joint
development zone encompassing Saarland and Lorraine.
Oct 8th - A general strike in southern France against the new national government cripples
the region for a short while.
Oct 8th - Poland starts building its first airport with concrete runways.
Oct 9th - Ahead of the winter, Soviet forces start fortifying positions in the Southern
Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia.
Oct 10th - A German company buys a significant stake in the American Metal Company
managed by the Neue Treuhand, a move deeply opposed in US media.
Oct 11th - Portugal defaults on the Dutch debt.
Oct 14th - The Bundeswehr reinforces the Border Guard in North Schleswig by deploying
three brigades to the region.
Oct 16th - A series of small bomb attacks on police stations wreck havoc in Germany.
Oct 19th - Two German shipping companies open offices in Tanger.
Oct 20th - The new Austrian Emperor Franz Salvator visits Berlin as a first state visit after
his crowning.
Oct 21st - The Soviets start fully retreating from Transcaspian territories.
Oct 22nd - A member of the new National Bloc government in Paris is killed in an explosion
in his home.
Oct 24th - Dutch troops invade Portuguese Timor, following a Dutch-sponsored three-day
rebellion against the Portuguese government.
Oct 24th - The Goethe Institute opens branch offices in Warsaw, Amsterdam and Budapest.
Oct 25th - In elections in Poland, the Social Democrats under Rosa Luxembourg become
the leader of a new coalition government.
Oct 26th - France starts mobilizing nearly 15,000 colonial troops in Chad and Gabon for
operations against the Congolese insurgents.
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Oct 28th - Several hundred German colonists from South-West Africa arrive in the port of
Cabinda in a convoy of sailing vessels.
Oct 29th - A notable German industrial is shot and killed in Luxembourg.
Oct 30th - French forces take the Djanet oasis, sending Touaregs fleeing further south into
the desert.
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Japanese Garden, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Autumn began to make itself known this late in the year. The leafs began to change colours
and a chill was in the evening air, but the Event Pavillon in Europes largest Japanese
Garden was heated to a nice temperature. Considering that it was ISOTed 90 years back in
time, it might actually even be the largest Japanese Garden outside Japan at the moment.
A Sensei was making a full Tea Ceremony for the people seated here: Chancelloress
Merkel, Foreign Ministers Steinmeier and Uchida, ALP members Koch and Stegner, CSU
member von Guttenberg, FDP member Koch-Mehrin and the Greens Roth and Kuhn all as
party representation and the Japanese Entourage.
A tea ceremony is not only about tea, its meant as a time for meditation or to think
something through. And Count Uchida, Japans foreign minister, knew and was happy to get
this quiet time to regain his equilibrium. His visit to the New German Empire had rattled
him more than any situation in his life before. Not only the stories about the omoshiroi
Doitsu-jin (interesting Germans) were true, but the mixture of charm and haggling was
unlike any mix he saw in his time in politics.
He was shown some of the technological marvels the Germans possessed. For the trip to
Kaiserslautern, first they flew with one of these strange aeroplanes to Frankfurt and
travelled on with an awesomely fast train. But for him an equally nice surprise was the
garden. Over the years Uchida had seen many attempts at Japanese-style gardens in foreign
lands, most of them failures. This was one of the few successes he ever saw. He had a feeling
like at home. He liked the garden, a rather large one at that, on the spot. Both delegations
took a leisurely stroll through it.
After two hours, with several stops like at the Zen-area, they went into the main Pavilion.
On an intellectual level, Uchida knew the Germans tried to put him in very friendly mood,
but he admitted to himself that to some extent, they were succeeding. What kind of surprise
could they plan?
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Uchida had anticipated many ideas, but nothing like what he heard when Chancellor
Merkel began the talk about hard topics.
Dear Count Uchida, both our nations can have a great future ahead, if we work together.
Nihon and Deutschland (Japan and Germany) had friendly relations since the Meji-time.
The Great War and your alliance with Britain, should be no obstacle to a friendship. The
german government has a proposal for his imperial Majestys government
Even now Uchida was stunned a bit. The proposal was 100% backroom diplomacy. Not
that was something new to him, quite the contrary. Tokyo had attained his position as a
major power by a very flexible course of action. The declaration of war against Germany in
the Great War was such thing. The relations were good before the war, but the opportunity
was too tasty. Britain had made good promises to Japan for a war entry, but in the end Japan
had no real connection to the Entente. Tokyo just saw a chance to conquer something in
what they considered the own backyard.
And these new Germans had pegged this, distracters would say opportunistic, behaviour of
Japan perfectly. Both Japan and Germany had things the other could use. And unlike Great
Britain or the United States, the German delegation explained, Germany had own interests
only in few areas of Japanese Interest.
Like Tsingtau, the Kiautschou Bight and parts of the surrounding province of Shandong. For
returning Tsingtau, acknowledging the german sphere of expansion in China, ending the
alliance with Britain as soon as possible, Germany would look the other way as far as the
rest of China was concerned, accept several contingents of Koreans annually and would sign
an economic treaty, so both nations could get needed raw materials and produced goods.
If Japan would sign an addition to the proposed treaty, that an understanding about
military cooperation on the high seas would be reached, Germany might consider raising
Japans standing closer to friendly as far as technological help was in concern.
As a gift for the start of their cooperation, if Tokyo signed, Germany would give Japan
Information how to save many Japanese lives not too far in the future.
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It was seductive. Both sides would get some tasty morsels. Germany would get a possession
back, re-establish a foothold on the Chinese market, could put more pressure on Britain in
the dispute of returning the colonies, get via his fatherland raw materials from China easier
and more security in maritime operations.
Japan would get more leeway in handling China, could send bothersome and/or emigrating
Koreans to once again german Tsingtau or Germany proper, getting them out of the way in
Cho-sen, trade on a larger scale than non-treaty nations with such an advanced state, would
give Nihon an advantage against her opposition. Not to speak of the potential use of the
military cooperation and technology. Germany would surely putting in some safety
measures in the final treaty, after Japans turn in the Great War, but by Izanagi, even such a
treaty would be worth more than Japan would loose or had to swallow. Germany did not
even want all of her colonies in Japanese hands back!
He contacted the Prime Minister and the Tenno stanta pede. Now it was in the hands of
Tokyo. It was impossible not to feel the elated mood of the Germans. Well, they would profit
too, but was there more to it? But then again, even if the Germans pulled Japan a bit over the
table, the sure gains would be worth it. The german delegation was happy that Uchida
seemed to like the proposal, if made, it would be a major success for Merkel and Steinmeier
as government leaders and the ALP, who had made sure, that some of the laurels would
come to rest on the ALP, if a treaty would be made.
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November 1922
November 1922, Germany:
The state election in Lower Saxony ends with a political drumbeat. With the memory
of the unprovoked attack on Wilhelmshaven still fresh in the mind of the Lower
Saxons, the ALP scores her first big Hit. 20.2% is a victory for the young party on all
counts and brings her into the government as the junior partner of a CDU/ALP
coalition.
Nov 1st - Deutsche Welle starts AM radio broadcasts in Polish, Dutch, Czech and French.
Nov 3rd - Norway and Germany sign a treaty dividing fishing rights in the North Sea
between themselves, acknowledging an undeclared British exclusive zone but not
accomodating similar rights for Danish-annexed Greenland.
Nov 6th - Belgium agrees to temporarily house the German settlers in Cabinda there.
Nov 7th - France starts cracking down on purported "enemies of the state", targeting in
particular union leaders.
Nov 7th - CL Cargolifter presents the first flight of a serial production version of its "CL80"
model, the design improved through previous tests with contemporary airships. The
CL80 is capable to transport payloads of up to 80 tons over a range of up to 12,000
km.
Nov 8th - A press scoop reveals that some 300 German Kurds have been successful in
travelling to Cylicia in order to combat the Turks over the past six months, a
photographer accompanying them providing German tabloids with picture series of
warfare on the Anatolian peninsula. The use of chemical weapons in the battlefield
in the theater is particularly highlighted.
Nov 9th - Riots erupt between German Turkish and Kurdish youths in Berlin, Dsseldorf,
Mannheim and Stuttgart, resulting in nearly two dozen people injured. Some Kurdish
groups weigh in on the Turkish side, citing the establishment of the Soviet
Armenian-Kurdish republic, against which Cylicia is effectively positioned as well.
Nov 9th - Fighting in the Caucasus is suspended for the winter, with both British and Soviet
troops entrenched in their positions. Minor clashes still occur on the Persian front
line.
Nov 10th - A German conglomerate starts building airports near Banana in Congo and on
the northern share of Lake Tanganjika as a "fast connection" to the former colonies.
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Nov 11th - Four communist activists are gunned down in Lyon.
Nov 11th - A bomb explodes at a transformer station supplying one of the new German
bases in Schleswig.
Nov 13th - In the Polish Sejm, Rosa Luxembourg calls for abolition of the "Regency
Kingdom", the monarchy that has survived in Poland after being reinstated by the
German Empire of old in 1916.
Nov 14th - Austrian Emperor Franz Salvator continues his round tour of state visits by
travelling on to Den Haag, Brussels and Luxembourg over the next two weeks.
Nov 15th - Britain retires 650 remaining Mark IV tanks from the forces without
replacement, selling nearly half of them to Japan.
Nov 15th - The Rwandan territory is restructured along modern German administrative
"standards", forming the three states of Rwanda, Urundi and Kigoma-Tabora, each
encompassing a population of about 1 million people and on average twelve
administrative districts. Districts are laid out to accomodate local tribal structure.
Nov 16th - Belgium stations over 1000 soldiers in Cabinda and Banana to prevent possible
Portuguese incursions. Germany contributes nearly 150 military observers to the
force, most coming from Annobon.
Nov 18th - Sun Yat-sen holds a speech in Beijing calling for a unification of all Chinese
against Japanese incursions and "foreign influences", calling in particular on the
Beiyang government to "secure the northern borders".
Nov 20th - Canadian forces, in a deployment suggested by the King, land in Nowo-Mariinsk
and several surrounding villages on the Western Coast of the Bering Street.
Nov 21st - With the support of the German RWZ Rhein-Main company, large farming
cooperatives are founded in Lithuania and Latvia, providing nearly 1000 initial
members with logistics, technology and training from six newly built supply centers.
Umbrella organizations structured along Raiffeisen principles are set up in both
states. Attempts are made to relaunch the International Raiffeisen Union, initially
encompassing the German DGRV, Austrian RV, Belgian CERA, the Dutch NCR and
the two new organizations.
Nov 21st - France starts deploying several thousand troops to Pointe-Noire in the Congo, as
well as deploying the two Dunois class corvette-sized destroyers for river patrol and
nearly 200 aircraft to the region.
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Nov 22nd - The Reichenberg autonomous province holds elections, electing Franz Jesser as
"president". Prague does not acknowledge the results, claiming the elections
excluded a number of ethnic Czech citizens. In his inauguration speech, Jesser

exclusively uses the name "Sudetenland" for the province.
Nov 23rd - Congolese Rebels capture a French supply shipment, including nearly three
dozen machine guns.
Nov 23rd - The second autonomous soviet republic within the Soviet Union - after Belarus is founded in the form of the Saamid-Votyak Republic, located in the Northern parts
of the Ural mountain range and incorporating the territories inhabited by the Nenets
and Komi people not speaking Russian. The local Soviet of the Republic is
administered by Russians though, with local tribes having little to say in political
matters.
Nov 26th - Rosa Luxembourg visits Berlin on an official state visit as new Prime Minister of
Poland.
Nov 27th - The British Empire deploys three old monitors and half a dozen destroyers to the
sea of Guinea.
Nov 27th - Germany unveils the first of a class of new heavy armored cruisers being
launched, a secret project having been worked on for the past two years. The launch
at the Blohm & Voss yards in Hamburg is accompanied by several thousand
protesters being kept from the scene by a nearly equivalent number of police.
Nov 29th - Troops of Admiral Kolchak and the Imperial Japanese Army remove the last
vestiges of the Anhui Clique from Mongolia, their Chinese powerbase already
having been destroyed in the war with the Zhili clique.
Nov 30th - The first functional prototypes of the "Char 3A vhicule blinde anti-char" are
presented by FCM.
Nov 30th - The German Luftwaffe formally declares its first Missile Wing armed with
Technex short-range ballistic missiles ready for duty. The Technex missile, the
project having been revived secretly from 1980s plans in 1919, was originally meant
as a deep-strike asset succeeding Germany's interim armament with Pershing 1A
missiles. As a successor to those, it's technical specifications mirror and exceed those
of the Pershing, giving the missile a range of nearly 800 km while delivering a halfton payload of single or multiple terminally-guided warheads on its target.
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Blohm & Voss Shipyards, Hamburg, Germany
Even by the standards of the North-German port city the 27th November 1922 was an
unusual foggy day, but the forecast did not predict a change for several days, so the launch
at Dock Elbe 17, the largest of Blohm & Voss and one of the largest worldwide, went ahead.
Gregor Hinerksen, chief supervisor at Dock Elbe 17, was both proud and a bit rattled. He
and his team had all reason to be proud. They had built the new pride of the Marine fast and
within strictest quality guidelines. The 238m long ship was as large or larger as any enemy
design. After the launch the team would complete the rest to be done.
What rattled Gregor were the persons standing beside him. He was at the VIP stand as one
representative of the workers, but only a few years before would never have thought that he
would be standing beside his Great-Grandfather and Grand-Admiral i.R. Tirpitz at a launch.
Both had not been in the ISOTed part of Germany when IT happened. Uwe Hinerksen, who
had been on a Torpedo-Boat test run as part of the yard crew, had been shocked when they
returned. All his life and family was gone, but his Great-Grandson, who was the same age
as he was, and his family had taken him in. It was strange at first, but with time it became
more normal.
And Tirpitz had been at a rally for his Vaterlandspartei (Fatherlands Party). Now Tirpitz
was a MoP for the ALP; his Vaterlandspartei having fusioned with the ALP. In addition,
Forkbeard was an important advisor for the Bundesmarine. Indeed, having seen some of
the flaws in his planning up to 1916 now with hindsight, Tirpitz had corrected them. Well,
that the war started too early for the HSF, Tirpitzs plan in 1900 had been made with at least
17 years to build up, while the war began in 1914, was not his fault, but others, not many,
were.
Tirpitzs new plan, even at his age he had been like a child in a toy store with all the new
ship types, had convinced the critics as well. His mixture of new and old style ships was
better than any plan the modern day planners had come up with! It took into it the
advantages of Germanys modern ships with the easiness and speed to build upgraded oldstyle types for a large and impressive fleet.
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Another point was a certain secrecy to camouflage Germanys growing Hochseeflotte,

Tirpitz had being unable to not use that name in his plan. The public launch of Derfflinger,
to be named in honour of the ship lost in the ISOT, Germanys new flagship was pushed in
the newspapers to conceal other works going on a bit. Like that her sister ships were nearing
their launch unknown and undisturbed at the two largest roofed drydocks in the world, at
the Meyer Werft in Papenburg. Or several submarines worked on, both new 212 and
upgraded U-Kreuzer (Cruiser) types from Projects 46/47. The public would see them early
enough, but that the Entente would not see them before that time was important.
After the losses on sea during the first time in the past, Germany needed a lot of new
armaments, not only on sea, but on land and in the air as well.
Derfflinger herself was a battleship, incorporating all the lessons learned from 90 years of
history. Not only was she a lot faster than all contemporary design, she had better armour,
optics, not even to speak of electronics and could launch missiles, be it anti-ship or others.
Indeed, the main weaponry, even before the 38.1cm Heavy Artillery turrets, was a ballistic
missile launcher system, called after its not built antecedent Technex. The system could
send different types of warheads and multi-warheads capacity was found as well. Not
advertised was the fact that Technex missiles could be armed with special payloads if
needed. Including nuclear, biological and chemical warheads in theory. There had been a
lot of meetings about the ship class, why build a battleship, even if far more flexible than
any other, at all?
But it was clear that Germany needed a flagship which could impress on sight, something
far more important in the new old time than at home in the 21th. century. And while even
the military hardliners under the politicians were not that happy at the optional nuclear
capacity, Germany needed every trump. To appease the few doves in the know a bit, the
discussion led to a faster development in the Air-Fuel-Bombs research, which by near equal
destructive potential were a lot less dangerous to handle.
Either way, Alfred von Tirpitz would be the one to christen the German fleets newest
addition in style. And Hinerksen saw how much it meant to the old Admiral to be the one to
start Germany s most ambitious naval armament plan since, well, since Tirpitzs first plan.
Tirpitzs elation could be felt by anyone nearby, when Gregor Hinerksen gave the Admiral
the Champagne bottle. He threw the bottle with the traditional: Ich taufe Dich auf den
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Namen Derfflinger! (I christen you with the name Derfflinger)

The launch, while extremely difficult for the TV crews due to the weather, went without
hitch.
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December 1922
Dec 3rd - German shipping companies start expanding their routes to regularly include
ports in Uruguay and Argentina, after recently measures have been taken to improve
port infrastructure there.
Dec 5th - Belgium buys 80 Dornier Seastar amphibious floatplanes, becoming the launch
customer for serial production.
Dec 11th - Germany influences Turkey and the Soviet Union to call a moratorium on
Chemical Weapons usage on the Cilician Front.
Dec 12th - Denmark holds a "Nordic Conference" in Copenhagen with Norway and Sweden,
asking for "coordination in exporting to other states" - a demand rebuffed outright by
Sweden and politely denied by Norway.
Dec 13th - Annual exports from Germany to the three Benelux states exceed one billion
Euro for the first time.
Dec 13th - The first Turkish aircraft production plant opens in Tekirdag, west of Istanbul,
producing a light multi-role fighter derived from the Dutch Fokker D.XI and the
future C.V with some reluctant German help.
Dec 14th - The German Luftwaffe starts introducing the new HOPE heavy penetrator bomb
in small numbers, a weapon capable of slamming through the thick reinforced
concrete armour of French fortresses.
Dec 16th - Tensions with Denmark relax somewhat, with both Denmark and Germany
agreeing to stand down troops on either side of the border.
Dec 19th - A first modern oil refinery sponsored by Germany is opened in the Netherlands,
intended to supply the expanding Dutch market with petrol and gasoline.
Dec 21th - Britain supplies thirty older Mk I female tanks to the Guangxi clique in an effort
to lure them further away from current central Kuomintang policies.
Dec 22nd - A small German fleet enters the port of Bangkok, where envoys meet the
Siamese king Rama VI, to formalize a peace treaty between Siam and Germany. Part
of the formalities are that Germany acknowledges the "wrongness" of several treaties
Siam was forced into by European powers during the last 60 years.
Dec 28th - The Nizam of Hyderabad outlaws "loyalty to rioters" with a strict police regime,
fielding a newly drawn 2000-man special police force for the purpose of enforcing
this.
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Dec 29th - An Italian army depot in Savoy is attacked and raided by a group of nearly fifty
men, killing two guards and wounding fourteen others. The attackers escape
successfully.
Dec 30th - Belgium starts construction on a railway line from the port town of Banana via
Muanda Airport to the port of Cabinda, connecting the three important
infrastructure assets in the Congo mouth region.
Dec 31st - In Germany election campaigns for the "Super Election Year" 1923 start, with no
less than six state parliament elections planned.
Dec 31st - US troops land on the Azores. A statement published by President Harding
justifying this action as a settlement of Portuguese war debt is slammed in the
European press as an attempt to appease his citizens.
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Royal Palace, Bangkok, Thailand/Siam
"Frohe Weihnachten, Papa! Und komm bald wieder heim! (Merry Christmas, Dad! And
come back home soon)", was the simultaneous greeting from his son and daughter through
the telegram.
"Werde ich, ihr Zwei! (I will, you two!)" He sent back. Then Ludger Eigenwohls little
children went back to play with their Christmas gifts (as his wife texted in the next
telegram) and Ludger telegraphed for some more minutes with his wife Diana before ending
with a last love greeting.
The only up point in this improvised Christmas "call" was that the ministry allowed the
people on this diplomatic mission Christmas telegrams home and paid for them.
Ludger did not consider himself old-fashioned, but he had to admit to himself that in his
book Christmas in 1922 Bangkok lacked. Not only because he was away from his family, not
even a telephone available, food could only be eaten aboard the ships (too much risk in
eating locally except the Palace and that could only be done twice weekly) and he was busy
wiping off sweat with a handkerchief as well. It was 30C hot and with a humidity of 81%
for a European the weather was only good for relaxing, not working.
But work had to be done. Sometimes being the "most qualified person" was a curse. Ludger,
like nearly everyone in the Foreign Ministry had wanted to get assigned for the prestigious
Japan-Mission, which would start soon on January 2 1923.
But it went differently. Since he had often dealt very well with the Thai officials in PreRcksprung Berlin, he was the one selected for the peace treaty negotiations with Thailand.
While there was no fighting, on paper Germany and Thailand were still at war.
Yes, this assignment would give him a sizeable boost to his career if successful, still the
voyage to Japan was the more glamorous one.
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So in late 1922, he had boarded F 219 "Sachsen", the flagship of the German flotilla which
would sail to Thailand for a state visit. When they arrived in Bangkok, Ludger Eigenwohl
was surprised by the government and King Rama VI. with a very specific demand. For a
conclusion of peace, Germany should acknowledge the wrongness of several treaties Siam
had been forced to sign in the last decades. While not really problematic for Germany, since
most of these unfair treaties had been made by other powers, the diplomatic fall-out of such
an acknowledgement could be problematic, especially with the strained relations to some of

these others.
Inconveniencing e.g. France was actually even good, but what about neutral nations? Ludger
estimated that the delegation would need around a week longer for building a treaty which
slipped by this diplomatic minefield. So New Year in Bangkok was a given as well. But at
least on the German ships there was a Christmas party going which had something to do
with a "proper" Christmas. He decided to stop formulating new treaty parts for the evening
and join his fellow nationals on Sachsen for a Punsch.
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January 1923
January 1923, Germany:
The government of Rhineland-Palatinate fails under the strain of the Rcksprung
events. So an early election had to be done. At the election Sunday, the ALP, esp. with
one of their main leaders coming from RLP and the closeness to the fighting during
the war, brings an even stronger showing. At 23.1% they become the Knigsmacher,
getting coalition talks with both reigning PM Kurt Beck of the SPD and opposition
leader Julia Klckner of the CDU.
February 1923, Dili, East Timor:
A group of Portuguese officers in East Timor attempts a coup in the colony of their
still economically and politically downtrodden homeland, stemming partly from
discontent with lowered and irregular pay. The group seizes key positions in Dili
including the Palacio de Lahane. Naval infantry arriving three weeks later onboard
two gunboats sent from Macao in concert with loyalist police and army elements put
down the insurrection quickly and bloodily.
Jan 1st - Moscow opens its airport which started building in 1921, with both Lenin and
Trotzky attending the occasion alongside German chancellor Merkel. Lufthansa
restarts daily flights between Frankfurt and Moscow.
Jan 1st - Conscription in Germany is reduced to 12 months.
Jan 2nd - Several Danish industrials launch plans for an industrial whaling fleet, a
preliminary outline calling for the rebuilding of used cargo ships which have been
on the market aplenty since the end of the War.
Jan 4th - Subsequent modification of the new French Char 3 tank project under direction of
the French Army leads to the Char 3C model.
Jan 5th - Front lines in Cilicia harden after the onset of heavy snow, with the cold causing
casualties on both sides.
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Jan 7th - Austria-Hungary and Germany sign a deal promising economic assistance in
building up infrastructure in Austria, in particular modernizing rail lines between
Munich and Vienna and Salzburg as well as Austrian subsidies to companies
developing industrial sites in the country. The details of this deal had been hashed
out during Franz Salvator's state visit three months earlier.
Jan 8th - France orders nearly 1,000 FCM Char 3C to improve its mechanized forces.
Jan 9th - ALP sponsoring of social events and activities reaches new heights, root work for
new members in the future and influencing public opinion. This begins to make its
impact felt, with the ALP gaining more ground, solidifying the position as Germanys
third strongest party.
Jan 10th - The Italian government tries to pass a motion to declare a state of martial law in
North Italy, citing attacks on military personnel as well as the general security state
in the region. King Vittorio Emanuele III denies signing off the motion.
Jan 11th - Protests arise in Hungary with rallies in Budapest criticizing the deal with
Germany for leaving out development of the Hungarian parts of the Empire.
Jan 13th - Britain starts restricting non-British ships from sailing the Straits of Hormuz,
posting several older monitors in the area to enforce searches of ships.
Jan 13th - The contract to cast the lightened turrets for Derfflinger and her sisters goes to a
conglomerate representing German armour specialist IBD and the little-known EGFbased "Union-Giesserei" iron foundry.
Jan 15th - The Danish government tentatively starts stretching feelers in Washington
regarding a possible alliance, something not really received well with several more
isolationist senators.
Jan 16th - Derfflinger is moved to an outfitting quay. Most of the systems designed for
installation on the ship are not built yet, in particular her massive twin 381mm gun
turrets.
Jan 17th - Four Italian cabinet members leave the government in protest over Vittorio
Emanuele's actions.
Jan 18th - France defaults on war debt to the USA, leading to the seizure of several French
assets in the USA over the next few weeks.
Jan 19th - Saudi-Arabia lodges an official protest note with Britain about the Hormuz
restrictions, largely ignored in the Empire.
Jan 21st - French troops start getting a handle on the insurgency in Equatorial Africa,
sending several 10,000 people fleeing into Belgian Congo in the process.
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Jan 22nd - India passes the Official Secrets Act, outlawing any espionage not only to the
benefit of enemy states, but also to the benefit of "any group threatening the British
Raj".
Jan 22nd - All five K130 corvettes of the Bundeswehr are "temporarily decommissioned" to
find a solution to their heavily faulty gearboxes. The problem is escalated due to the
original producer of the gearboxes - outsourced to a Polish company pre-ISOT - no

longer being available.
Jan 23rd - In a first annual press release of its kind the "Groningen-Ameland Fossil Fuel
Company", a joint German/Dutch enterprise, reports that production during 1922
has exceeded initial expectations at over 80 billion cubic meters of natural gas, the
company alone nearly bringing gas imports to Germany back to 2008 levels. The
company also supplies Germany with some 300,000 barrels of oil per day, about 1%
of German consumption in 2008. Total oil production of North Sea oil by Ameland
and RWE Dea exploiting offshore fields approaches 35% of 2008 consumption,
while Ukrainian and Romanian oil fields supply another 20%.
Jan 23rd - A bomb exploding in Marseilles is used by the French government to crack down
on union activity in the Southern coastal metropolis, especially surrounding the port
and shipyard industry.
Jan 24th - Poland holds a - successful - referendum on abandoning the regency of its King,
in a move instigated by the Social Democrats under Rosa Luxemburg.
Jan 26th - A Soviet regiment concludes a three-day artillery duel with a British unit near
Mount Ararat.
Jan 30th - TUI launches regular cruise line operations from Hamburg to Brazil, using two
AIDA cruise liners that were anchored in German ports during the ISOT.
Jan 30th - Several Indian states start outlawing the Swarajya independence party formed the
previous month, citing the Official Secrets Act.
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February 1923
February 1923, Munich, Germany:
Bavaria declares the former US forces military training sites of Grafenwhr and
Hohenfels regional parks off limits to development. Both sites became old German
enclaves during the Rcksprung, Grafenwhr bringing with it a camp with nearly
20,000 Entente prisoners of war that is now being refurbished into a memorial site
by a private charity. Both sites also include almost thirty authentic old German
villages and farmholds as an enclave with nearly 5,000 old German citizens, now
being refurbished as touristic sites. The two sites together encompass almost 400
square kilometers of Bavarian territory.
February 1923, M'banza-Kongo, Angola:
The throne accession ceremony for Dom Pedro VII, Manikongo, succeeding Dom
Alvaro Nzinga, is attended by both Belgian and German delegations including
Mwami Yuhi V Musinga of Rwanda, facilitated by German air transport. In
consultations during the week following the ceremony, separate from the European
delegates, Musinga advises Dom Pedro on how he used the last 25 years of his
kingship to assert his authority while using in particular the five years in the "new
times" to restrain European aspirations, both collaborating and using them to his own
ends.
Feb 3rd - Based upon detailed historical information from before the Rcksprung in
combination with the Reclamation Service's Falls-Davis report presented the previous
year, US Congress authorizes building the Boulder Dam in the Black Canyon five
years earlier than originally.
Feb 5th - Ukraine founds a state-controlled conglomerate supporting private farms on the
basis of Raiffeisen principles.
Feb 6th - The Bundeswehr orders an additional 300 PzH 2000 howitzers to replace the
Imperial leFH16 105mm towed howitzers currently used by its forces, bringing the
number of armoured mobile artillery guns used by the Bundeswehr to over 1800
pieces.
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Feb 8th - A Soviet committee proposes a massive mining project using modern technology in
the Ural mountains, with the aim of supplying both the Soviet Union and its allies
with the necessary materials to prosper.
Feb 10th - Germany starts importing coffee from Colombia on a regular, large-scale basis.
Feb 10th - Denmark signs off on a contract procuring modernized artillery guns from
France.
Feb 11th - Portugal hangs nearly sixty men arrested during January's coup in East Timor,
the rather public display being covered by a Dutch newspaper drawing some small
but outspoken protests in Western European countries, in particular in Germany.
Feb 15th - The Dominion of Ireland declares itself independent from the British Empire.
Feb 16th - After several negotiation rounds with both SPD and CDU, the ALP in RhinelandPalatinate decides a coalition with the CDU. Julia Klckner becomes first female PM
of the Federal State.
Feb 17th - Vittorio Emanuele pushes a slight reform for Luigi Facta's Italian government,
bringing two army generals into positions of political power, a move opposed by
Facta himself.
Feb 18th - Sweden, with German assistance, starts a major rebuilding of Gteborg port into
a modern deep-sea port with the first computer-controlled cargo terminal outside
Germany.
Feb 21st - Spain intervenes in Portugal, sending troops across the border which seize Lisbon
and Porto as well as other cities.
Feb 23rd - Italy becomes the first contemporary country to introduce an enclosed singlewing fighter aircraft with an all-aluminium hull. The aircraft called the Breda
Metallico is suspected to be developed from hardcopy aircraft data left by Germany
in the remains of the Luftwaffe Tactical Training Center at Decimomannu. The
unusually large 2-ton aircraft with a pair of British-sourced Bristol Jupiter copies for
engines outperforms any contemporary fighters at a top speed of nearly 450 km/h.
Feb 24th - The French Bloc National passes a law perpetuating the wartime union sacre,
outlawing strikes by defining them as "attacks against the patriotic nation".
Feb 25th - A Boeing 747 makes the first official direct flight from Germany to the newly
christened Muanda Airport in Congo.
Feb 26th - Turkish troops push forward to the Tigris river in eastern Anatolia, widening the
corridor held between Turkish and Soviet territory.
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Feb 26th - As springtime looms several Danish companies get ready to build several
permanent whaling stations along the southern and eastern coast of Greenland with
government support.
Feb 27th - Two French military reconnaissance aircraft are shot down northeast of Crete.
Feb 28th - A Dutch company buys 12 Dornier Seastars for passenger and cargo operations
in Indonesia.
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March 1923
March 1923, Siberian Republic:
Japan presses the White Russian government of the Siberian Republic to declare
several areas along the Pacific Coast "strategic exploitation areas", granting Japanese
state-owned companies exclusive access rights at the same time. Japanese companies
present plans to build the necessary infrastructure to exploit the Kondyor Massif as a
"priority one" area, including roads and a railroad to a deep-water harbor to be newbuilt at the Sea of Okhotsk.
March 1923, Paris, France:
Pierre de Coubertin, president of the International Olympic Committee,
acknowledges the right of Germany to send a delegation of sportsmen to the 1924

summer olympics, slated to take place in Paris. The move draws criticism in
particular from French politicians, and is presented in French tabloids as
interchangably either "treason" or "appeasement".
Mar 1st - German nuclear powerplants operate at full capacity again for the first time since
1918.
Mar 4th - The Italian government crumbles. Vittorio Emanuele bypasses parliament and
announces a new government to be formed under Luigi Facta.
Mar 5th - Sun Yat-sen signs a formal peace treaty with Germany in Shanghai, following a
German Navy flotilla arriving in port there. The Shandong Problem is explicitly not
mentioned in the treaty.
Mar 6th - Small skirmishes erupt between the West-African Frontier Force and French
Colonial troops at the border between Nigeria and the French Niger Military
Territory. The conflict initially raises tensions, but both Paris and London quickly
downplay this as "tribal feuds" between various Hausa tribes on either side of the
border.
Mar 7th - The USA sign a trade pact with the Kuomintang, primarily with trade between the
Philippines and the coast in mind.
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Mar 8th - Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, the three semi-allied nations surrounding the
Aegean Sea, sign a secret document stating their intentions to jointly deal with the
Dodecanese Islands. Turkey expresses its interest to have the important Entente naval
base acting as a thorn in its side removed, while Greece intents to occupy the islands.
The document also outlines Bulgarian assistance to Turkish efforts against the
Entente, with Greece formally ceding Samothraki and Thasos to Bulgaria. The
document explicitly does not deal with the future of the Macedonian region,
currently divided between Greece and Bulgaria.
Mar 11th - Antimonarchist riots take place in Warsaw, Cracow and Lwow, instigated by
local Social Democrat parties.
Mar 14th - The German Air Force decommissions its last F-4F fighter aircraft, with nearly
100 aircraft having served throughout the war and beyond.
Mar 18th - Lufthansa launches weekly flights to Muanda airport using B747 aircraft that
have been modified to accept generous amounts of cargo in lieu of half their
passenger capacity.
Mar 19th - Greece begins the fielding of a series of over sixty motor torpedo boats as a new
staple of their navy, aimed at providing both dispersed patrol and concentrated antishipping capabilities in the Aegean sea.
Mar 21st - Spanish troops occupy the remainder of Portugal, dethroning the military
regime. Former portuguese king Manuel II, dethroned in 1910, travels to Madrid on
the invitation of Alfons XIII.
Mar 22nd - A Soviet commission visits German open-pit mines in Northrhine-Westfalia,

paying particularly close attention to the large-scale equipment used in strip mining.
Mar 25th - National Communists in the Soviet Union start building militia chapters in
Nowosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk and other larger Siberian cities.
Mar 30th - The first of a future planned four Technex missile sites goes into operation, a
socalled Doppelstellung accomodating sixteen missile launchers in prepared
positions protected by four Gepard with twin 35mm anti-aircraft guns.
Mar 31st - TUI announces plans to build and operate several airports near tourist sites in
Greece as vacation destinations subject to the end of hostilities in the Eastern
Mediterranean.
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April 1923
April 1923, Brazil:
Increasing German and Dutch investment into Brazil slowly begins shaking up the
consolidated balance of the Republica Velha. In particular the oligarchs of poorer,
rural states like Bahia start gaining influence on federal junta levels, a development
viewed rather closely with a critical eye by the established coronelismo dominated by
the landed gentry in the southern states of the republic.
April 1923, Makoua, French Congo:
The civil war in French Congo heats up again, with the rebels in an unprecedented
move using a pair of artillery guns to bombard a french airfield near the village of
Makoua in the sparsely settled jungle region of Cuvette. At the same time the last
French officials manage to flee from the now entirely rebel-held western part of the
province. French counter-attacks mostly using wartime SPAD S.XIII operating from
the Congo basin and several dispersed small impromptu airstrips do not have
sufficient range to reach rebel positions, resigning themselves to report or interfere
in "suspicious activities" by locals, occasionally resorting to simply strafing suspected
rebels.
Apr 1st - On the anniversary of the transfer of the Virgin Islands, the ruling Danish
nationalist party issues a statement questioning the sale of the islands to the USA
seven years earlier.
Apr 3rd - A large joint German-British expedition begins exploring the Valley of the Kings,
beginning by carefully uncovering the gravesite of Tutankhamun.
Apr 6th - The first two of a total of nine F126 frigates - modified Meko A200 frigates - are
commissioned into the German Navy concurrently after 16 months of construction

and only eight weeks of sea trials in order to replace losses of the German Navy
during the war.
Apr 8th - Soviet and Turkish troops start their spring offensive against Entente forces, with
Soviet forces pressing their main assault against Van and intending to widen the
advance along the Tigris river. Turkish forces set out for pressing ahead towards
Konya in order to starve off the Entente troops in Central Anatolia.
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Apr 9th - The French and Italian governments announce joint procurement of nearly a
thousand Breda Metallicos for their air forces, replacing obsolete wartime aircraft in
fighter roles.
Apr 10th - Volkswagen begins building up dedicated sales divisions for car sales abroad,
focussing first on the Netherlands.
Apr 11th - Turkey begins fielding three motorized infantry divisions using German trucks.
Apr 14th - Spain deploys a token force of 500 men to Cylicia, keeping them well-back from
the fighting in Antakya in Hatay Province.
Apr 15th - The Neue Treuhand trust fund announces that a conglomerate of eight US
companies will be buying virtually three in four of the factories it holds on US soil
from it to the tune of 4 billion dollars, an enormous sum for the time.
Apr 17th - The Bundeswehr orders conversion of 420 Bergepanzer 2 recovery vehicles - on
Leopard 1 chassis - into Pionierpanzer 2A2 Dachs armoured engineer vehicles,
adding to the 120 Dachs currently used that had been converted between 1988 and
1992. To replace the aging Bergepanzer in service some 600 new built lighter
recovery vehicles based on armored combat vehicle hulls are ordered, with nine
vehicles assigned to each logistics battalion in the army.
Apr 19th - German shipyards sell four modern "factory" fishing vessels to a British company
newly investing in modern technology.
Apr 23rd - British troops invade Goa, citing reasons to believe that the disfunctional
Portuguese colony is harboring Indian insurgents. Inofficially however the move is
widely assumed to take advantage of the situation before Portugal would restabilize.
Apr 25th - Turkish troops enter Antalya and take the town after three days of intense
fighting, leaving half the town in ruins.
Apr 27th - The Spanish King Alfons XIII in a joint message with Manuel II denounces the
occupation of Goa, calling it a clear act of aggression against the established status
quo.
Apr 29th - Over 600 old German settlers currently in Cabinda are transferred by air to
Rwanda, using Mwanda Airport in Congo.
Apr 30th - Following the commissioning of the two new frigates last month Germany
decommissions all old German destroyers except for the five heavily modified
Cologne class missile ships.
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Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan
Ryoko Hashinata was at least a little shocked for a second time that day. After a startling
revelation she had earlier in the Kyujo, when she had led part of the German delegation on a
tour through Japans biggest Castle, now for the first time in her life she met Sessho Hirohito
in person. An extraordinary day for an, in the eyes of her boss and several others,
extraordinary woman. Ryoko with 1.74m was tall, esp. for a Japanese woman of the early
20th. century, very attractive and intelligent, which had made her an important member of
the Japanese Secret Service, when she had been recruited. That she was able to converse in
German made her a natural addition to the welcome committee for the German delegation.
Like all people of that group she had been briefed for the meeting with the Doitsujin from
the future, but due to security reasons only an much as needed. She had known before how
important this meeting between the German and Japanese Governments was, but it was only
made more obvious by the fact that the Crown Prince and de facto Head of State for his
incapacitated father, attended this strategy session with people far below his station, thereby
breaking the strict court protocol.
One by one the reports were given to the future Tenno, his aides and the government
officials. It was a sign of respect how all persons were treated, no matter their position in the
Japanese hierarchy. Soon a consensus in opinion about the first impression made by the
Germans before beginning the consultations tomorrow, was formed:
1) The Germans seemed to be really wanting to do a treaty
2) They definitely and unsurprisingly held some trumps back
3) The stories about them being unwilling travellers from somewhere, as unbelievable as it
sounded, were true.
4) Their behaviour was even stranger than was normal for European gaijin.
5) A treaty as long as Japan at least halfway profited, would be extremely important.

Especially for the future. How Italy and France squandered the chance to make some kind of
deal with the advanced New German Empire was seen as a stupid move of the highest order.
Something Japan should not emulate, while still keeping some pride. It would be far from
easy, but doable.
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Something about no common opinion could be formed was if Germany truly knew about
some disaster to befall Japan, as they had hinted at in Kaiserslautern several months earlier
or if it was a ruse for the negotiations, made believable by their fantastical arrival.
It was then, when Ryoko voiced her hunch after much deliberation. "Sumimasen, SesshoSama, this humble servant of Nihon is sure that the Doitsujin know something."
"Why so? Speak openly." Injected the Director of the Secret Service, after a nod from the
stately listening Crown Prince .
"I led 9 persons of the German delegation on a tour through Kyujo and the outer Castle. It
was pleasant, but logically they kept their fan close to the chest. Mostly small-talk and some
doses of earnest conversation. 3 of the Germans, one woman, two men, were even more
interested in Japan than the rest and it was nice to talk and discuss with them. Since we
walked close together, I overheard a snippet of private conversation between two of those. It
was either an overlooked slip-up, since the conversation moved on or just a slip-up, since
the topic changed a bit. But I remember clearly what the man said: 'I, before the Rcksprung
happened, would never in a million years had thought we could walk in Castle Tokyo, Japan
s biggest old fortress. Seeing it in all glory, not the few ruins of 'Home'.' There was tiny
pause, then the conversation went on and soon in another direction as we reached on of the
gates. He might have recognised his slip, but looking back, considering the circumstances, it
could be a deliberate indiscretion as well, just to let us know there is something. The 'few
ruins' got to me. Only a major disaster could reduce the Kyujo to some random ruins."
"Good work, really good work! Either the Kami smiled on us or the Germans dipped their
hand knowingly. It would be a grave mistake to underestimate them, considering we know
so few things about the new Doitsu. We will operate from the assumption that they leaked it
knowingly. Anything else could lead to a similar folly the Italians made....Hmmm, then it is
of utmost importance to learn about that knowledge. This will be very tough negotiations for
the proposed treaty, knowing the stakes now, but nevertheless fostering better relations will
be very important as well. Ryoko, can you keep close to the group from today? They will
know you, which will make everything easier."
"It should be no problem. While it is far too early to say something definite, there is at least
some basic sympathy between us. The people Germany sent are here for the negotiations,
but they are truly interested in us as well. That much is clear from our conversations and the
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questions."
"Then we have our work cut out. Prepare for a haggling unlike anything Japan ever faced,
but Amaterasu will be with us!"
Imperial Guest House, Tokyo, Japan

Less than 3 kilometers from the strategising Inner Circle away, the 79 heads strong German
delegation had their quarters. 4 EGF members, the "Prussians" as the other successor of the
Second Empire, were here as well as honorary spectators. In a certain sense, the German
delegation had an equal problem to the Japanese. This was old Japan, truly old Japan. Heaps
of books about the land and the rulers in place had been consumed and worked through by
all delegation members, but seeing it, really seeing and experiencing it was different.
The German Inner Circle, 11 men and women from all Bundestag parties, (in addition with
a honorary member from the EGF) since this were vital negotiations, was preparing for the
next days as well. That the negotiations would be long and arduous was clear for anybody.
They knew that Japan knew how isolated and alone the "New German Empire" was, which
would raise the price Japan could ask for.
On the other hand, Germany had some "goodies" in her bag Japan would literally die for to
get them and had some "secret" foreknowledge about history and the Japanese leaders. With
time it would get progressively unreliable, but parts (e.g. natural catastrophes) would stay
actual and for still some time to come until the changes accumulated more, the knowledge
base was relatively accurate. This was a big plus for Germany, but it had to be mediated with
the Japanese need to "save face and standing" in East Asia, which was an important factor.
The general plan of action was already fixed and accepted, but one topic was still debated.
The hint, given in form of a fake slip-up by a member of the foreign ministry staff, divided
the assembly. Some saw it as a sign of weakness, others as a sign for Japan that Germany
meant business and knew what she spoke about. No matter if their hosts considered it a slip
or an obfuscated hint, nobody believed that the Japanese would miss it.
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Another bone of contention was the fact that the ALP had lobbied much for this treaty
proceedings. Not only in the other opposition parties, but in the Grand Coalition as well,
there were voices grumbling over the fact that the ALP, backed by newspapers and powerful
NGOs, with each passing month got more influence on the foreign policy of Germany.
In the case of the Greens and PDS, despite teeth grindingly conceding that the ALP seemed to
have a knack for handling foreign policy in this age, the Ideals and Points of View were
partly so different from the ALP that animosity in principle was a given.
The CSU, part of the ruling factions, had few problems with much of the ALP agenda, but
the rivalry over an important chunk of the German voters made clashes unavoidable. The
ALP detachment silently was thankful that at least their real plan, a bold, but honest
proposal to Nippon, already been cleared with the highest echelons of German executive,
had been accepted by the rest of the delegation with not too much fuss. If only since
variations of it would be made to selected other nations as well.
Still, more than one of those eleven went to bed with part of the discussion replaying in their
heads: "My God, this proposal has your ideas written all over it! Nationalism, Domination,
Great Power politics...and this draft would encourage the Japanese more, since we more or
less openly would help them. Beside this, we call for too much, the Japanese will never
accept."
"You truly dont get it that where we are now, the rules are different, do you? In this Age,
friendly nations are defined in that they do kick each other less than their enemies. This is
not a time for well-fed wingchair revolutionaries, preaching water, but drinking wine, no,
this is a time where Germany has to use the chance Fate has gifted us. Germany can change
the world to a better place, but to do so, we must prevail against the Entente. We will take
the hands of a selected few, who have the potential to become real friends and go forward.
Only if we stand tall, others will follow our lead.
And we have to claim so much, because we need negotiation mass and second, the Japaner
would question our motives and sincerity if we underpriced."
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German-Japanese Consultations, Tokyo, Japan

The first 2 negotiation days had been "slow" in the Kunai-sho, the Imperial Court ministry,
where the talks commenced. Smaller things were settled like more diplomatic exchange or
extended landing rights for German Zeppelins and Airplanes.
The free time was used to make a good impression on the other. All knew that from day 3 on
it would be about the Big Picture. Both sides tried to get a feel for each other, with Germany
having the advantage, that they knew a lot of the long-time goals and personalities of the
Japanese delegation.
The opening moves had been made on the third day and it seemed to be another productive,
normal talk. But only until Gnter Koch, who had been selected for his figurative language,
had conquered the stagefright to deliver the "bomb". It was a bold gamble, since Germany
made a proposal which went beyond what had been hinted at in Kaiserslautern last autumn.
Koch, who liked to talk, had been a bit pleased to be the one to give this particular speech,
but was understandably frightened by the stakes. Still, even the Greens in the delegation
said: "For such a proposal to make impact, we need someone who can show conviction and
sincerity and you have shown this often enough. Too often for our liking, but you do."
Now his nerves reigned in, Gnter Koch was good to go. He thought: "Wow, this was a real
stagefright, Rarely I have something like this, but the risks were seldom this high. A last
catching breath and OK. I stand fully behind our proposal, I can and will do this."
He nodded to the Interpreters to get ready, then he turned to Hirohito, talking in Japanese:
Sessho-no-miya-Heika, honorable delegation members, my Nihongo is not so good (actually
GKs Japanese was roughly acceptable, but far from able to get such a speech right) so the
interpreters will take over soon, but first let me thank you in all our names for the
wonderful welcome we got coming here. And the chance to see old Tokyo through your eyes
with the help of the excellent assistants we had the honour to meet."
If Gnter recognised the effect talking about 'old' Tokyo had, he did not let it show, but the
Japanese were once again reminded in a roundabout way that something would happen to
the capital.
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Switching to German, Gnter continued: "When forces unknown brought us here in 1918,
so much changed in the blink of an eye." He went on about how their hand of friendship
had been rejected by those of small spirit. How Germany decided to only help those who
showed honour and worthiness.
"On first look, Germany and Japan are very different, living different lives. But in spirit we
are close, far closer than several of our direct neighbours. Proximity does not make close
minds. A Japanese friend of mine, who I lost in the Rcksprung, once said to me: 'I never
thought before coming here that the Germans were so similar to us Japanese. You value
order, honesty, honour, industriousness like we do. As well as other similarities not open at
first.' We invite you all to come to Germany and see what he saw in us, if you wish to do so.
Now, where do we go from here? We could shake hands and become distant friends. We
could go on closing the deal on the proposal we gave your foreign minister. But there is so
much more we can do! We admit openly that the proposal from Kaiserslautern was made to
wake your appetite."
Gnter Koch nodded to two delegation members, who went to the Japanese delegation with
several folders.
"For the Security of both our nations that proposal was neither complete nor were all points
'correct', to mislead eventual prying eyes from nations adverse to us. Now we give you the
draft of the treaty Germany wants to conclude. We know you will need time to look it over,
take as much as you need, before we come together again for further talks. Germany
extends her hand of friendship to Japan. We can walk into the sunrise of the future together,
hand in hand. Into a very, very long sunrise. Now the choice rests with you.
As a gift, a sign of friendship and earnestness in wanting to build a relationship for the
future, we give you an Information of utmost importance, no matter your final choice. On
September 1., two minutes before Noon, an earthquake will hit the Kanto region, inflicting
damage of epic proportions, if you not prepare for it. One of the folders has explicit
Information to help you sway off the worst."
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Kunai-sho, Tokyo, Japan
2 days later
The Germans new proposal had come quite as a shock. Soon after the third day meeting
closed unsurprisingly early, furious activity broke out on the highest state level of Japan.
Military, Industry, the Administration all pulled out records, started strategy sessions to
evaluate the German draft.
And even more so the folder about this big earthquake. The government was horrified when
they read through the report. More than 140,000 dead and the infrastructure damage
equally horrendous. Naturally, there was doubt if this was a forgery to get Japan to sign the
treaty, but the Sessho himself quieted these voices.
"Why would the Germans use a date so close, only 6 months away, if this is a bluff? No, the
Germans believe this quake to be coming. I talked with some of out experts, the reports,
photos, statistics are too precise to be a ruse. Where ever these Germans came from, it
happened there. We will prepare for September!"
In the case of the treaty proposal at first everyone thought the Germans were crazy in their
ideas and just as crazy in their outrageous demands. But piece for piece, the Japanese
arrived at the opinion that this was a shrewd draft. Many of the points would stay secret for
several years to come, which was very good and both sides would profit much. Enlightened
self-interest paired with a genuine try for a lasting friendship. It was Tai-sa (Colonel)
Yamashita, an aide of the Crown prince, who first said it: "While there are some points we
need to negotiate over with the Germans, we would be incredibly stupid not to accept in
general! If only a fifth of what the Germans speak about comes to fruition, we will become
the unchallenged leader of East Asia. Not tomorrow, but soon.
Considering what they bring to the table, their demands are moderate with one exception.
But even that would not be problematic, since we gain so much. Actually I would be sceptic
about the Doitsujin had their demands been less."
"Correct Tai-sa! We call the Germans in for another negotiation round, then we will sign it.
This can and will be the beginning of a wonderful friendship."
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Another 2 days later, the Treaty of Tokyo was signed by Germany and Japan. The main
points stayed secret for several years. On the outside, it was just a simple economic and
friendship treaty. The exchange of land between Germany and Japan in East Asia, which
would put more pressure on the Entente nations in regard of the occupied German colonies,
was only one important feature of the Treaty. Work on a follow-up treaty had already
begun, Altogether 3 "Addendum-treaties" were made in the next years, covering the military,
economic and cultural spheres in great detail, counting as part of the original, "provisorical"
one.
All 4 treaties were divided in an open and a secret section. For one treaty the Netherlands
were brought "aboard", but Den Haag did never know the full extent of the Treaty of Tokyo.
Some articles of the Treaty of Tokyo went in operation the moment it was signed, others
became active over a phase of several years. This was made to give both nations time to
know each other and to not overburden the capacities, since the effects were so farreaching. For instance, Germany took over the reigns of her new colony step by step over
seven years.
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From the Treaty of Tokyo
Preamble
We, the Japanese Empire and the Federal Republic of Germany have come together in Tokyo
to conclude a treaty of Friendship between our nations. We are committed to strive for more
mutual understanding, harmony and peace in East Asia and Europe.
Article 1
(a) The Signatories shall accede to a common treaty of economic cooperation subject to
removing any hindering treaty obligations.
(b) The Signatories shall jointly work towards mutual technological and economic
advancement and stability and peace within and outside the Japanese sphere of interest as
laid out in Annex A.
(c) The Signatories shall work towards a strong mutual cultural exchange.
Article 2
(a) The Empire of Japan shall cede to Germany the full sovereignty of the island of Formosa
together with all fortifications, arsenals and public property.
(b) The Empire of Japan shall acknowledge all German claims to territorial possessions
outside the Japanese sphere of interest as laid out in Annex A.
(c) The Empire of Japan shall award the signatories Most Favoured Trade Partner status.
(d) The Empire of Japan shall provide four fifths of the funding for the German-Japanese
Hokkaido Development Group.
Article 3
(a) Germany and the EGF shall renounce all claims to territorial possessions within the
Japanese interest sphere as laid out in Annex A.
(b) Germany shall enable the transfer of citizenship of Japanese residing in Formosa to
German citizenship.
(c) Germany shall provide one fifth of the funding for the German-Japanese Hokkaido
Development Group.
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Article 4 (Addendum treaty)

(a) The Kingdom of the Netherlands shall enable and support operations of the DutchJapanese Oil Management Company.
(b) The Kingdom of the Netherlands shall receive a guarantee concerning Dutch extraEuropean possessions by the signatories.
(c) The Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Japanese Empire have an understanding about
their mutual spheres in East Asia laid out in Annex A2.
(d) The Kingdom of the Netherlands receives the Palau-Islands
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May 1923
May 1923, France:
In the beginning run-up to the May 1924 elections the political situation in France
heats up. Right-wing government party representatives begin publicly claiming that
the Cartel de Gauches would introduce Bolshevism and, pointing at the Soviet Union,
would turn La Grande Nation into a nation ruled by the mob and dominated by
Germany. Open antagonism against Germany as well as "those monarchist Belgian

traitors" becomes a focal point of the campaign of the national bloc.
May 3rd - British Indian Forces assume full control of Portuguese India.
May 5th - France deploys a first battalion of Char 3C to Eastern Anatolia, having been
hastily cobbled together by FCM.
May 7th - Four British ships bombard suspected Turkish and Greek positions on the
coastline west of Antalya, breaking off the attack after two days when Greek ships
arrive in the area.
May 10th - In a highly controversial move Italy starts "resettling" considerable parts of the
population of the Free Ports on the Dalmatian and Albanian coast farther inland.
May 11th - A number of German Free Corps troops in Ukraine hire on with the betterpaying Turkish government, shipping out from Odessa over the next two months.
May 11th - A strike by miners at a German pitchblende mine in the Czech Republic is
broken up by Czech paramilitary units, resulting in several dozen wounded.
May 12th - Left-wing terrorist bombings and arson flare up again in Germany,
concentrated in the industrial Ruhr region.
May 14th - The Swiss Canton of Basel starts importing electricity from Germany.
May 15th - Germany sells two of the modified Imperial destroyers decommissioned the
previous month to the Netherlands, the 5,200-ton former SMS Wiesbaden modified
with spare German Exocet missiles and the 7,100-ton former SMS Emden, rebuilt
into a carrier ship for three medium helicopters.
May 18th - British troops start laying fallback defense lines in the mountaineous areas south
of Lake Beysehir to the southwest of Konya to protect the strategic port of Antalya
taken by Entente forces three years earlier.
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May 20th - Poland votes in general elections, with surprising results: The previously ruling
social democrats only garner some 32% of the ballot, while neoconservatives take a
respectable 19% for a second place. The remaining 49% of the ballot is split between
eight parties entering the Sejm, the largest among them being the communists at
11%.
May 21st - The first Polish airport opens near Warsaw.
May 23rd - Greek coastal artillery sinks an Italian ship attempting to enter the Aegean Sea
off the southern tip of Kythifa island.
May 24th - Bulgaria starts deploying almost one fifth of its army to Turkey, significantly
bolstering the strength of anti-Entente forces there.
May 31st - France and the United Kingdom establish a jointly redefined border between
their puppet states Cylicia and Kurdistan, running along the fertile Euphrates valley.
This new division is deeply opposed by Cylician nationalists as it severes considerable
parts of the Vilayet of Aleppo, formerly under French and Cylician control, from their
state.
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June 1923
June 1923, Corfu, Greece:
Two Corfiot Italian owned shops in Corfu are attacked with hand grenades thrown
inside, injuring three people. Italian irredentists under Mussolini begin calling for
repatriation of the island group into the Italian Kingdom, rallying the patriotic fasci
youth among both the Corfiot Italians by proxy as well as Italy at large.
June 1923, Germany:
The Bundeswehr announces Heeresstruktur 1925, a major restructuring of the Army
reestablishing divisions as basic combined-arms combat commands. Heeresstruktur
1924 draws from war experience in rearranging the Bundeswehr's current 44
brigades into six similarly-structured armored corps with the socalled Operational
Intervention Command leading eight independent brigades structured to provide in
particular initial entry capabilities in support of the other corps commands.
Establishment of the new armored corps commands is planned following the

introduction of new equipment, with the now four to five decade old Marder
infantry fighting vehicles, Leopard 1 tanks and M109 howitzers retired to central
depots to form an additional four reserve armored corps following the same basic
structure as the active units. Some analysts soon criticize that the planned structure
is rather light on armored reconnaissance forces, with the new divisions only
holding a pair of light recce companies supplanted by armored reconnaissance
battalions in half of the IOC brigades, while the operational separation of artillery
units from brigades and the generally mechanized-infantry centric approach of the
structure is also admonished.
Jun 2nd - Regular EGF troops slowly start replacing Free Corps troops in the Czech
autonomous province of Opava.
Jun 5th - Germany starts deploying two frigates and a number of support units to Athens,
for "joint maneuvers" with the Greek Navy.
Jun 6th - Four mortar shells fired from a truck hidden outside the premises explode in the
Thyssen-Krupp shipyard in Hamburg where Derfflinger is being built.
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Jun 9th - Spanish Armada ships start doing "ocean patrol runs" towards the Azores,
disregarding US claims of sovereignty over the area, and occasionally veering
dangerously close to US ships in the area.
Jun 10th - The first modern coal plant in the East-German Federation goes online.
Jun 11th - Breguet pushes the Armee de'l Air for the adoption of its Breguet 19 light bomber
and observation plane, currently in trials, citing the obvious need for its combat
range of up to 400 km and the suitability of its armament with flexible machine gun
mounts and a bomb bay for "secondary fronts" such as the developing civil war in
central French Congo, hitting just the right spots with French generals.
Jun 12th - Partisan attacks against Commonwealth and French troops along the coastal
areas of Cylicia and Antalya start increasing, with neither Entente power getting a
real handle on the situation.
Jun 15th - Austrian Emperor Franz Salvator meets with the Ukrainian president and
Romanian king Ferdinand I. in Chisinau, with the three signing a treaty settling the
Dniestr as the western border of Ukraine and the Eastern border of AustroHungarian and Romanian interests between the Polish border and the Black Sea. The
river had already been the defacto border since the end of hostilities.
Jun 16th - Alstom starts construction of four modern coal plants in the EGF, after long
discussions on technology export with the German government.
Jun 18th - France announces the beginning of the conversion of four Normandie class
battleship hulls into aircraft carriers. The hulls of the originally planned battleships
Normandie, Flandre, Gascogne and Languedoc had been left incomplete in Lorient
and Brest during the war due to financial problems. The fifth Normandie class hull,
Bearn, with work suspended since early 1918 at only ca 15% complete, converted
into a carrier in the original timeline before the Rcksprung, was launched in 1921
to clear her slip and scuttled in 1922 as an armed breakwater protecting the
strategically important port of Lorient.
Jun 22nd - A German company starts mining for pitchblende in northern Sweden as well as
the Czech Republic, taking over significant parts of the lead mining industry in
Pribram. The Czech government welcomes the German investment, considering it an

initial move towards better relations with its neighbor.
Jun 22nd - Japan starts deporting politically active ethnic Han chinese living in cities on
Taiwan from the island, sending them to mainland ports.
Jun 24th - The Dutch National Team beats the German team 3:2 in a friendly soccer match
in Amsterdam.
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Jun 25th - Sweden fields the first "mechanized" combat brigade outside modern Germany,
using the armored personnel carriers sold to them by Germany for this purpose.
Jun 28th - Following the delivery of nearly 2,000 obsolete French light tanks by ship to
Cylicia German and Turkish authorities strike a deal for an equal number of light
jeeps with modern 40mm grenade machine guns.
Jun 30th - Persia deploys nearly 100,000 troops to Kurdistan at British insistence, joining
the Commonwealth troops there already mostly consisting of Indians.
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July 1923
July 1923, Italy:
Luigi Facta's second government in Italy collapses, formed only four months earlier.
King Vittorio Emanuele III, drawing upon old contacts, presents a proposal for a new
government to be spearheaded by early-war prime minister Antonio Salandra
presiding over a conservative-fascist right-wing alliance, with the Fasci receiving a

strong ministerial post in Benito Mussolini becoming the new Minister of the
Interior. The appointment results in gunfights between fascists and unionists over the
control of local governmental buildings in several northern italian cities, with the
unionists only being successful in the local port worker council shortly holding onto
the city hall in Genoa for a scant two weeks.
July 1923, Central Africa:
The German CDU-related Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and its SPD counterpart, the
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung begin to reestablish their worldwide presence by opening
side-by-side country offices in new locations in Kigali, Ruanda and Kinshasa, Kongo,
offering political education courses and supporting German NGOs in reaching out to
the local population.
Jul 1st - Unemployment in Germany falls below six million for the first time in five years.
Jul 2nd - The two traditional shipbuilding cities of Bremen, Germany, and Mikolayiv,
Ukraine, become twinned in an effort sponsored by the shipyard industries in either

city.
Jul 3rd - A pair of German C160 Transall aircraft, having launched from an airfield in
northeast Rwanda, land on an improvised airstrip near Addis Abeba, the first aircraft
to ever land in the country, and a switch away from airship operations over Africa
for the German Air Force. While such modern operations and their efficiency
impress the attending regent Tafari Makonnen, the Negiste Negest Zewditu publicly
dissuades him from allowing the construction of more permanent facilities on the
grounds of these modern ideas being just passing fancies and unhealthy for her
people.
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Jul 3rd - French troops nearly depopulate a village in eastern Cylicia using an artillery
barrage of chemical weapons after tracing a partisan group that had been attacking
Entente troops in the area to the village. The Cylician puppet government does not
protest this move, although it markedly does not welcome the attack by its French
sponsors either. After news of the attack reach the larger towns of the small nation, a
protest movement begins forming centered around anti-kemalist muslim circles in
Adana.
Jul 7th - German companies begin large-scale exploitation of bauxite deposits in Boeotia in
central Greece, the investment in the rural area being very welcomed by the young
nation.
Jul 8th - Some 80,000 Indian troops relieved by the arrival of Persian troops in Kurdistan
reinforce the trenches along the front line in Anatolia.
Jul 9th - Due to the situation in Italy, the tensions between the US and Spain and the
ongoing fights in Kurdistan and Mesopotamia keeping the attention, very few take
notice of Japan declaring Formosa and Hokkaido "Special Development Prefectures".
Jul 10th - Paul Painleve, former French Prime Minister, an open critic of the Bloc National
and one of the leaders of the Cartel de Gauches, is arrested based on dubious charges
of planning a general strike and suspicions of potential treason due to contact with
the Ministry of War of the United Kingdom.
Jul 12th - Construction of the F125 frigate class begins in Germany based upon pre-ISOT
contracts, albeit in an enlarged fashion adding two hulls modules that stretch both
hangar space and flight deck of the four ships to provide a miniature helicopter
carrier and multipurpose ship for long-term deployments.
Jul 14th - A Spanish cutter and a US Navy ship collide in the central Atlantic. Though
neither ship is seriously damaged and no injuries were sustained in the accident, the
press in either nation begins exploiting the incident as a possible prelude to
hostilities.
Jul 15th - Troops of the Persian Fifth Corps break through Soviet front lines into Azerbaijan
and begin laying siege to Baku.
Jul 19th - Several dozen ethnic Germans living in Denmark request asylum at the border,
citing a general anti-German atmosphere in the country.
Jul 22nd - Guggenheim Bros. sell the Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile to the Germansponsored American Metal Company, the group outbidding Anaconda Copper.
Jul 26th Turkish troops come within artillery range of Antalya.
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Jul 28th - The German-Indonesian Council, a group formed by some of the over twelvethousand modern Indonesian nationals living in Germany and supported by local
initiatives and several mid-ranking politicians, begins a six-week exhibition in Berlin

publicly denouncing the Dutch Ethical Policy caste system as applied in Indonesia,
instead calling for a fully equal approach to education and nationality in the
archipelago. The notion is rejected by the Dutch Crown, which highlights its policy
as already far more liberal than that of other colonial powers.
Jul 29th - The Kuomintang begins consolidating its control of several south-chinese warlord
territories, in some cases with the conflict erupting in open hostilities.
Jul 31st - Two Frenchmen are arrested in Fayetteville, USA, after being reported to military
police for posing suspicious questions to local military personnel from Fort Bragg.
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August 1923
August 1923, Germany:
After a one-year waiting period the treaty on the Confederation of Independent
Nations becomes active, introducing the Euro as currency in Rwanda, Burundi and
Kigoma as well as, in a formal ceremony, having the mostly ceremonial guards of the
three kings of the territories stand down and re-badge as Bundeswehr security and
protocol units. In a speech in Berlin, German president Khler announces that in
negotiations with the three kings, they have identified a further candidates for
joining the CIN in the Congolese semi-autonomous province of Kivu to which
Germany has bought certain rights from Belgium.
August 1923, Okahandja, Southwest Africa:
Britain allows a German delegation to attend the burial of Samuel Maharero in
Okahandja, Namibia. Hosea Kutako, new leader of the OvaHerero, during the burial
formally allows a public apology from two modern German members of the von
Trotha family for the 1904 genocide order of Lothar von Trotha, as well as from
Lieutenant General Ludwig von Estorff, former German South-West African
Schutztruppe commander during the Herero war, having moved back to Africa after
being relieved from the EGF forces over disagreements with generals of the ruling
military regime a year earlier.
Aug 2nd - US President Harding dies from undisclosed causes. His vice president Coolidge
succeeds him in office.
Aug 3rd - The Royal Navy deploys six of its new G3 battlecruisers along with three older
battleships, a carrier and nearly two dozen other ships to Cyprus.
Aug 8th - The oil and gas fields in Dutch territory, located at Ameland and Groningen,
reach their full operational capacity, now securely contributing a majority share of
Germany's oil and gas supply.
Aug 10th - The last Free Corps organization in the Opava autonomous province stands
down, leaving only EGF military in place in the small territory.
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Aug 11th - The Bundeswehr buys Grn, a giant storage depot on an island in the Rhine,
from Daimler-Benz in order to use it as a storage site for demobilized military
vehicles, intending to turn it into one of multiple Corps mobilization depots in the
future.
Aug 14th - A first shipment of nearly 300 tons of raw uranium ore arrives by train at the
Gronau enrichment plant for processing, after several delays due to protesters along
the route.
Aug 15th - The Indonesian Volksraad is re-established as a legislative body for the colony,
with its limited ability to pass laws patterned after those of the parliaments of
German federal states.
Aug 20th - As part of Heeresstruktur 1925 half of all M113 NDV3 in service with the
Bundeswehr are rebuilt into mortar carriers, with the other half being retired and
the 50-year-old vehicles stored for possible further sales abroad.
Aug 21st - Just before entering japanese-occupied Port Arthur on a port visit, two Sea King
helicopters take off from the German ships and fly almost 600 km to Xinzhou in
Shanxi to deploy a twelve-man diplomatic and advisory team to the government of
warlord Yan Xishan, with first contacts having been made through undercover
agents almost a year earlier.
Aug 25th - German and EGF forces begin a two-week trial maneuver series at the Munster
training site in North Germany, held at a division-level scale, mostly concerned with
keeping Bundeswehr soldiers up-to-date regarding the human wave attacks
combined with massive artillery that had been experienced during the War.
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September 1923
September 1923, Germany:
EADS Germany begins shutting down their Eurofighter production plants in
Augsburg and Manching. After delays stemming from rearranging production of

several sections of the aircraft, the final assembly plant and its twin built in 1919 had
been pushing out Eurofighters averaging at two planes per week over the past five
years, with nearly 480 planes delivered to the German Air Force during that time.
September 1923, Germany:
After a string of strong results in the super state election year for the rising ALP, the
state election in Brandenburg sees another main winner, the Linke (Left Party). Like
at the federal elections in 1921, the ALP struggles, being wedged in by the Linke and
the big parties CDU and SPD. The ALP just barely jumps over the five percent hurdle,
while the Left repeats her extremely good 1921 result, if with some smaller losses.
Ensuring a "red" Prime Minister.
Sep 1st - Despite long discussions with the German ambassador the Spanish King announces
that Spain will join the Franco-Italian mutual defense pact.
Sep 9th - Three further F126 frigates are commissioned into the German Navy. At the same
time, construction on the Derfflinger large cruiser and her sisters restarts in earnest,
with the first of her planned two superfiring turrets for Derfflinger being delivered
to Hamburg from the EGF after long delays.
Sep 13th - Neue Treuhand, the German government trust fund in the USA, reorganizes its
assets into nearly four dozen separate companies in which it continues to hold
majority stakes.
Sep 15th - The Polish regent-king abdicates without naming a successor, taking his leave to
Knigsberg with his entourage.
Sep 21st - The Taurian Nation is formally acknowledged by the Soviet Union, with the
Ukrainian government quickly issuing a statement that will continue to support the
Taurian government-in-exile.
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Sep 23rd - The Sejm in Poland votes on using the opportunity of a monarch-less nation to
transform the country into a republic, with the assembly voting in favour by a large
margin after several speeches by Rosa Luxemburg and other members of the Polish
Social Democrats.
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Kobayashi-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
Smoke from fires was in the air, several sharp aromas assaulting the nose. Sirens were
blaring, still, Sessho Hirohito and the rest of Japans leadership were as pleased as one could
be under the circumstances. The Germans had been right, at 11.58 a.m. on 1th.September,
the predicted earthquake had hit Japan. The information the Germans had given them had
been worth everything. The last months had been spent to prepare in all secrecy. Ships and
factories (as much as that was possible) had been moved, waterpipes in critical areas
strengthened, people moved and send inland or to secure quarters and dozens of small and
large preparations done. All as much away from foreign eyes as possible. One had to save
face and it was highly doubtful, if the Germans were free-giving with such hints to others.
EGF or the Austrians yes, but Britain of France? Rather ludicrous. If the other Great Powers
learnt as less as possible about the circumstances of the officially "building measures and
work programs", all the better.
Nippon had been prepared and the Doitsu-jin had sent help crews as well over the last 2
months. The THW (Technical Relief) was in Kanto in strength, with roughly a thousand men
and women with their modern equipment, especially Yokohama. Actually, Japans
leadership was at the place where the Japanese and German crews coordinated their efforts,
to lend their moral support by being there and observe the operations.
For Xaver Hallhuber, the chief of the THW contingent in Japan, a truly unique experience.
Giving summaries directly to the Japanese Crown prince, no matter if new or old, was not
something what a "Gai-jin" would do often under the strict court protocol. But it was a
honour nevertheless.
"We, your and our people, have the fires under control in all of Tokyo and Yokohama as
well, except the area just north of the harbour there. There is too much damage to the
waterlines in that quarter and the Taifun is fanning the flames everywhere, but in all other
areas we are in control. Your fire-fighter commander Kanitagu-San assumes that we will
have killed the fires around 9 in the evening, except as said that one quarter in Yokohama.
There we think we will need until early morning.
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My people and the troops you assigned to us are busy pumping out buildings, keeping the
waterlines running and saving people from the debris. Until now we could dig out 1241
people. The provisorical dykes we erected hold for now, even the critical one in Ginza. We
keep on plugging sandbags in there, but the water pressure is very high. Still, time works for
us in this case. In the last hour the water level sunk 3 centimeters, in the last 15 minutes
additional 2.6 cm. The high point of the flood is over, if the levels keep on sinking at this
rate, the dykes will all hold. Considering the power of the earthquake, Flood and Taifun we
fight against, predicted damages can be called 'light'."
Then the interpreter answered after delivering the first translation: "His imperial Highness
thanks you in the name of Nippon for the help Doitsu (Germany) sent and gave us in this
time of need. The damages incurred are nothing like what would have been without your
warning. Japan is accustomed to Earthquakes and we know how extraordinary this quake
was. Kanitagu-Dono informed us, that he estimates the lives lost at around 1700 people,
Mostly people unwilling to leave and stayed after the order to go came.
We will have to rebuild quite some houses and factory buildings, but the population and the
important parts escaped destruction. Japan will not forget your honourable conduct and
help." Neither the Crown Prince, the interpreter or THW commander Hallhuber could really
estimate how far-reaching the changes for Japan and Germany would be over time, by this
bond that had begun earlier and was now smitten amid a relief operation. And by extension
for Europe and East-Asia.
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GERMANY 2009 ISOTTED TO 1918

The original introduction, as posted by Prince Charon in August 2009:

A bored ASB ISoTs Germany, as of February 3rd, 2009, to January 31st,

The thread in which this timeline is discussed can be found here.

Feb 5th - Germany declares legal State of Defence.

Feb 8th - Ceasefire on Eastern Front, negotiations with Trotzky continue.

--- Story Snippet --Author: Kato

Indian Ocean, February 14th

--- Story Snippet --Author: Neja

into a hell and he was quickly swept into the heaven?

We have visual on the bogey, reported Ernst.

plane he pushed the transmit radio button, Im arming my cannon Herr

No youre not going to change history again Ernst!

Ernst halfheartedly followed his superior back towards Germany.

wingman while theyre both approaching Saarbrcken. Nothing changed in

the same time on Saarbrcken large runway. The situation waschaos. T

What? Ernst couldnt interpret what the Oberst said.

of civilians. Were already mobilizing the rest of the Bundeswehr infantry in

Use them, the Oberst said.

Yes I know but youre still Soldaten Offiziere.

My name is von Lutjens, Im an Oberst in Bundeswehr, thats the Federal Republic of

Somewhere on the Western Front, Divisional Headquarter

Please Herr General Im not willing to know matters that I shouldnt.

--- Story Snippet --Author: Kato

--- Story Snippet --Author: Kato

Entry of February 27th, 1918

--- Story Snippet --Author: Neja

say hello to baby Barney...baby Barney is happy today kids! Yey!

haven't you heard of a new website about an alternate history?

--- Story Snippet --Author: Kato

Entry of March 10th, 1918

Entry of March 24th, 1918

--- Story Snippet --Author: Neja

Of course, shoot that thing off the sky! A Feldwebel answered.

Hold your fire!!! A shout from the strangers was heard.

I told you Joseph, they are friendly! Rupprecht smiled.

You want to see how this pretty shoots?

Now wheres my intelligent Gunther? Rupprecht inquired in a hurry.

Bundeswehr staff and German industry representatives to discuss the ammunition

Apr 17th - FGS Karlsruhe is scuttled in Georgetown harbour as a fixed defensive

Apr 23rd - Two not-yet-scrapped U206A submarines sitting in the Wilhelmshaven

--- Story Snippet --Author: Kato

Entry of April 23rd, 1918

--- Story Snippet --Author: Kato

April 20th 1918

from a single old electric bulb.

May 5th - Germany deploys an anti-tank helicopter regiment to Northern Alsatia.

May 9th - German surveillance satellites manage to spot GM Lettow-Vorbeck's three

May 16th - grudgingly Germany admits Generalleutnant Groener as representative of the

--- Story Snippet --Author: Kato

Entry of May 7th, 1918

Entry of May 15th, 1918

Entry of May 23rd, 1918

happened to Germany. Eleven additional submarines make their way down to

Jun 22nd - The two submarines delivering supplies arrive in Ascension.

government forbids the Heeresleitung reformed in Strasbourg to support the assault

exchange agreements with Alsace-Lorraine, justifying their "independent" action

East-German Federation, and the Baltic Confederation. Poland consists of essentially

Festungshaft (imprisonment). Germany uses communication assets to spread the

East-German Navy is completely revamped, with the decommissioning of half the

Cracow, signs a ceasefire with Austria-Hungary, brokered by Germany, and retains

Belgium retains control of the Rwanda-Urundi territory, albeit as a colony separate

guarantee" signed by Germany, threatening 2009 Germany attacking any forces