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Would people prefer smaller screenshots? I always hate the really small ones some aars have were you can barely see them.

Also the concervative choice was the roleplayig one, not sure how I would have explained the other :rofl:
 
Yay! 1000 views! :D

ps that Technate things looks kinda wierd :eek:
 
I think the size of the pictures are great.:cool:
 
The Meissner Program

By March 1937 Meissner was being hailed as Germany’s savour, the Anti-Monarchist Party had lost most of its support and many major members were considering disbanding it and Germany was now more stable than at any point since 1914. This was all largely due to Meissner’s Economic reforms. The mass ‘conscription’ into worker groups had all but eliminated unemployment whilst also rebuilding the damage done to Germany by the Civil War and improving infrastructure. But now with Germany’s economy booming once more Meissner hoped to transfer workers from Government projects into the Reichswehr. With the Communist Coup in Spain it was now painfully clear that the Communist forces in the world would not rest until they had brought the whole world into their control. If Germany was to remain free it needed to be able defend itself. So on March 14th Meissner announced the end of the large scale construction of public works and offered employment to any made unemployed by the move in the Reichswehr. However smaller scale constructions were kept going in order to keep as many people as possible in employment. Soon hundreds of thousands were signing up for military service whilst many more began work in Germany’s factories that would soon shift towards the mass production of military equipment.

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By now Erich Ludendorff, who had been the effective supreme commander of Germany’s military since the death of Von Hindenburg, was bed bound. Now new influences in Germany strategy were taking hold, and just at the right time. Generals such as Heinz Guderian and Erich von Manstein were encouraging the mass production of Panzers to form the backbone of the modern Reichswehr. The influence of the two Generals was considerable as they had masterminded the swift offensive that had devastated the Nazi army during the Civil War. But whilst Ludendorff was still in charge the army would focus on more ‘reliable’ infantry based tactics. The initial military expansion also had to get as many Germans in a uniform as possible and this would best be achieved by the mass recruitment of infantry, not through the training of specialist soldiers to operate Panzer and other new technologies.
 
Might get another (smaller) update in later tonight. Just a couple more and Germany will be expanding again ...
 
The Anti-Communist Law

As the fear of Communism continued to rapidly increase in Germany many called for the complete outlawing of the Communist Party. Meissner realizing that a significant portion of his people had actually voted for Germany’s Communist Party in the election less than a year ago was unwilling to put even more restriction than were already in place. However when the Kaiser himself called for the Party to be outlawed Meissner could no longer hold back the pressure and decided to put it to a vote in the Reichstag. By now the Popular Front alliance had completely dissolved as the illegal activities undergone by Communist Paramilitaries had discredited the Communist Party whilst Meissner’s economic successes had pulled many of the more moderate factions of the Popular Front away towards Meissner’s own alliance. In the end a surprisingly eager Reichstag agreed to outlaw the entire Communist Party with a 68% majority. Elections were soon held in areas previously held by Communist representatives, 70% of these seats would go to various Socialist Parties however Meissner’s own political Party the Greater German Democratic Party (GGDP) took around 15% of seats whilst the rest would be spread amongst various other parties. Most of the Communist leadership fled abroad to nations of the Comintern but those who stayed joined the more radical Socialist groups, most to the German Laborers Party which, with the fall of the Communist Party was now the largest of the parties that used to make up the Popular Front.

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Hope you enjoy coming up next will be the death of the beloved Ludendorff. Hero of Tannenberg, mastermind of the Western Front and the saviour who defeated the Nazis in the Saar. :(
 
I wont be able to attack everywhere at first obvioulsly as I'll hve 3 fronts. But I will be making an offensive during the start of the war.

Also there is going to be one conflict that Germany will fight before the real thing kicks off.
 
Nice updates.

Too bad Ludendorff is sick.
 
The Death of Erich Ludendorff

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On September 22nd 1937 Germany Radio revealed to the world that Erich Ludendorff was dead. The great war hero had become a cult figure in Germany, sometimes called the ‘saviour of the Reich’, he also held near total control of the army and allow not officially in any position of political power Meissner would require his blessing for any major reform undertaken. Germany had lost one of their greatest sons.

Ludendorff had gained his fame for his great generalship during the Great War. After the colossal Russian invasion of East Prussia Hindenburg was called from retirement and Ludendorff from action on the Western Front to defeat this threat. At the two great battles at Tannenberg and Mansurian Lakes the Russian army was decisively beaten and German troops would soon invade Russian controlled Poland now rolling back the beaten Russians. By 1916 he and Hindenburg had taken almost complete control of Germany as they focussed it towards the war effort. The pair would command Germany’s armies until the last, but in 1918 the Germany military machine collapsed and the following year the extremely harsh Treaty of Versailles was drawn.

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Hindenburg and Ludendorff planning military strategy

After the war Ludendorff began to support Adolf Hitler and the Nazis but as time passed and he delved deeper into Nazi ideology and Hitler’s mind he would attempt to prevent them coming to power the best he could. And in his famous telegram to Hindenburg in January 1933 Ludendorff was able to convince the German President to keep Hitler from office. This action however would plunge Germany into a bloody Civil War. Hindenburg would make Ludendorff the Chief of the Reichswehr and put Ludendorff in command of the largest single army group of the Reichswehr which was ordered to defend the Saar and Rhineland from a massive Nazi attack. But despite being outnumbered more than three to one Ludendorff was able to halt the SA forces and even push them back across the Rhine. He would also take part in the great offensive of May 1934 (the first ever Blitzkrieg) capturing the City of Stuttgart and over 100,000 SA troops. After the surrender of the Nazi Ludendorff would put all his support behind Meissner, the man dedicated to rebuilding Germany and saving the economy. But less than a year after the end of the Civil War Hindenburg died and at this crucial moment Ludendorff actually rejected a proposal of taking control of Germany himself in favour of putting the support of the military behind Meissner. This move not only saved Meissner’s career put also Germany as the reforms put in place by Meissner would bring Germany from the brink of collapse to a strong force in all fields by the time of Ludendorff death.

But his death may have been a blessing in disguise as after Germany military expansion would shift its focus from infantry to more mobile forces, most notably Panzers. This change in focus would greatly suite the new tactics of Generals such as Heinz Guderian and Erich von Manstein.

But for now the nation was in sorrow and a national day of mourning was proclaimed by Meissner as the people of the German Reich remembered the ‘saviour of the Reich’.


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I'm sad.

Hopefully a good replacment is found. Guderian and von Manstein are not ready to lead the army.

Maybe someone like von Rundstedt?
 
You've got to admit Ludendorff is looking exceptionally pissed in that last picture. Still if my hat was that inferior I'd be angry and ashamed as well.
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The Austrian Question

Many had believed that after the defeat of the Fascists in both Italy and Germany the ideology would quietly die away. However now 3 years on since the death of Mussolini the ideology had become the dominant political force in central Europe. The least extreme of these were the three Baltic dictatorships; they maintained strong anti-Communists positions and wished to form an alliance to stand up to the Soviet Union, so far they had only managed to form a Baltic alliance. Poland had been one of the earliest Fascist powers as the Polish Fascist Party seized power from Pilduski, during the mid 1920s. The government had remained unpopular since then and many in Poland wished to have it removed entirely. Czechoslovakia had slipped slowly away from democracy as its democratically elected President Jan Kroly slowly assumed more control over the state until he dismantled the entire democratic system during the German Civil War having declared a national emergency. Finally Austria had fallen to the Fascists in the early days of the German Civil as Italian armed Fascist Paramilitary forces had overthrown the Austrian Government and managed to remain in power even after the loss Mussolini’s aid. A ‘Fascist Belt’ now existed between the Soviet Union and Germany. Their current position was obviously precarious and both Meissner and Stalin were eager to see this ‘belt’ disappear.

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Meissner believed the first step would be to incorporate the ethnically German state of Austria into the Reich. He had made an agreement with Stanley Baldwin, at the Bremen Talks, that Great Britain would support Meissner in a proposed unification with Austria on the condition that it would be achieved peacefully. Shortly after Neville Chamberlain took over from Baldwin he had sent a telegram promising that all agreements made in Bremen still stood whilst he was in office. Now the Austrian government was in the midst of a massive policing program to root out ‘enemies of the state’, thousands had already been arrested and several hundred executed. The Austria economy lied in ruins the calls amongst the populace for unification with Germany were now greater than ever before. Meissner was eager to make this a reality for the Austrians and on February 22nd he publicly offered a union to the people of Austria via a radio broadcast. The Austrian authorities responded angrily and completely refused to even meet with the German government whilst a series of desperate pleas for help were sent to the Czech, French and Polish governments. The Polish government responded by mobilising their forces and promising Austria support on the condition that the French do likewise. Several tense days past and it appeared that Meissner’s gamble to force the Austrian government into a union by using provoking their people had failed. But on the 5th of March the Austrian armed assassinated the Austrian Führer in his Vienna Palace. The Government would incredibly completely fall apart within the space of a day and the Head of the Austrian Army had taken over by March 6th. The first thing he did was meet with Meissner in Vienna and after just an hour of negotiations the Austrian State was dissolved and absorbed into Germany.

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The fallout from the unification on Europe was considerable. For the second time Throrez had been held back from attacking Germany by Josef Stalin and a split amongst the Comintern was now forming as Thorez looked to style himself the head of ‘Western Communism’. Poland was made to look like a belligerent state ruled by warmongers and a threat to European Peace. And Meissner made a public announcement in a speech in Vienna promising that he would bring all the Germans into one single state. With Europe now near boiling point Meissner decided to call a Summit between Britain, Germany, France, Poland and the Soviet Union at Munich to find an ‘alternative’ to the now clearly defunct Treaty of Versailles.

In Germany Meissner was now being hailed as a national hero. The man who had made Germany proud once again and it was in this tirade of national pride that the, ‘German messiah’, Meissner announced that there would be an election in three months time. He hoped win a big enough majority with his Greater German Democratic Party that he could dissolve his current ruling alliance and gain even more freedom to pursue his international ambitions.
 
Can I ask the readers wether they would like an update or just an add on to the soon to be created Election update? Or should I just carry on without it?

Also I'll give you a choice of what you want next because it doesn't make much difference to me either way: an update regarding the split in the Commintern or the elction update?
 
Both.
 
The readers/reader has spoken! I'll try t get you both but the Communist one will be first and both will probably be quite short.

I do hope that this isn't too great an indication of how many readers thereare :(
 
Not at all. AARs tend to need a while to build up a loyal readership, and many people prefer lurking.