Gentlemen, welcome to the Reichstag. Fortunately, I have more good than bad news today. If you ignore the fact that we are on the brink of war with the Arab League and that there are approximately one million Syndicalist soldiers stationed near our borders, things are looking pretty good!
First things first, production. As ordered by the Ministry of Defence, our military was expanded yet again. Over 22 new infantry divisions have been trained since the new government came into office, now adding to a grand total of 90 divisions or roughly 860.000 armed personnel at home, and another 24 divisions abroad.
The Namibia deal was closed, to much protest of the opposition. As promised, South-Africa underwent a federal restructuring after receiving control of the new territory, granting broad autonomy to the German settlers there. As a gesture of goodwill, they appointed Otto Weissman, a former of our colonial soldiers and veteran from the Weltkrieg, as Governor of the Namibian State of South-Africa
But as it soon became clear, the South-Africans got more than they had bargained for. Namibia's inclusion in the Muller plan and the general idea that a European superpower is now openly backing independence for the peoples of Africa has led to a massive continent-wide national reawakening. The chain of events that followed were rapid, and had far-reaching consequences.
For one, the African reawakening sparked a wave of protests in the occupied cities of National France, and reports are coming in the Algerian and Tunisian natives are forming separatist movements aimed at driving out the French. These African freedom fighters call themselves the 'Tuareg Confederation'. They are great in numbers, although they lack organisation and it is still to be seen what they can accomplish in the future.
Unfortunately, the government's final decision to push through the Muller plan and the trial of Goering going on at the moment flooded the bucket of the French in Africa: The Royalist Entente have now officialy broken all ties with us and our allies, and as we speak the French and Canadian embassies are being closed down in Berlin. Ah well, it's not like those leftovers of states we defeated had anything we needed, isn't it?
After this, Our foreign ministry confirmed that South-Africa indeed revoked the military access of the Canadians. We did not now back then the breaking with the Entente and the African reawaking were shaking the country to it's core in a matter of days.
I could give you an intricate report on how the so-called 'Tulips revolution' in South-Africa went through, but it is a complex multi-ethnicity matter that dates back many years and took a 180 degree spin in just a few days. Explaining this to you would take days, if not weeks, so let's just keep it to the basics: The Africans have now claimed democratic sovereignity over the nation, broken with it's former colonial masters -Being the Royal British, the Canadians- and South-Africa has joined our alliance.
Besides that, our new colonial governor has arrived in Mittelafrika and is beginning the democratisation process as we speak. If the Muller plan goes well, we hope to have Mittelafrika transformed into a federal sovereign African republic under an African Prime Minister in four years time, by 1940. And of that rat Goering, well, let justice decide over his fate.
Report on the Abwehr. As you gentlemen undoubtedly now, this is secret information that should not leave the Reichstag under any circumstances. Our foreign agents have laid contacts with the Indonesian separatist movements and are uniting them in a nationwide movement under the anti-colonial partisan Muhammed Hatta. The original plan was to go with Sukarno, but he was distrusted by the DNVP members of the government. Aside from that, the anti-syndicalist Dutch colonials there seem willing to cooperate with our cause, if of course we hold our end of the bargain: Autonomy for them, allowing them to maintain their economic monopolies, and free evacuation to our Singapore territories for any tradesmen that wish to leave the country. If everything goes well gentlemen, with arms we will supply, Colonial money and the plight of the Indonesian separatists, we will be able to spark a revolution to throw the Syndicalists out of Indonesia and establish a German-Friendly regime there.
Aside from that, we have stationed 30 divisions near our border with the Netherlands, which should be ample to overrun the country with support of Flandern-Wallonien in the South. If the Dutch find out our plans and decide to intervene, we attack.
new allies. By decree of the Foreign Ministry, The Italian union and the Ottoman Empire have both joined our alliance and are safe from Syndicalism. I think you all know what this means: By siding with the ottomans we are now directly facing the Arab League. The rest of the Internationale, luckily, remains silent on the matter after their condemnation of the League.
Following to the government's ordered intervention plan in case of a war with the Arab League, Hochseeflotte A, led by the SMS Boelcke, has arrived in Crete carrying with it 100.000 soldiers ready for a possible invasion of Egypt. Besides that, dozens of Ottoman divisions are currently crossing the Suez channel and lining up against the border with Egypt. Let us hope everything goes well...
To close off, a strange chain of events to our East.
By inquiry of the government, several Abwehr operatives were sent into the Soviet Union to judge the strength of the White opposition there and the possibility for funding a counter-revolution against the Bolsheviks in the future. But, as we soon came to find out, it wasn't even nessecary.
The constant uprisings of White generals in the Siberian area loosened the grip of the Soviet Union on that area severely. In response, the military regime in Japan promptly launched a full-scale invasion of the Soviet Union in order to claim Siberia for it's own. Our ministries were in panick, but before anyone was able to send any order the intervention was already over.
We are still trying to figure out what the hell happened there, but the basic information we have right now tells us the Soviet government showed up in Tokyo only a week after the start of the invasion with surrender documents. With a small army stretched all over Russia and basically no fighting force at their Pacific Coast, Stalin took the bitter decision of surrendering the entire area immediately, to great joy of the Japanese who are now enthousiastically routing out the White uprising they inherited in their new Northern Resource Territories.
What does this mean for us? Well, unfortunately none of this is good news. What we have now is a resurgent Japanese Empire with access to Siberia's resources in order to fund it's war machine, and the burning desire to destroy our Qing friends in Asia and take the continent for themselves.
The Soviet Union is beaten and humiliated, but far from defeated. In fact, they had little IC in Siberia and still have ample resources to spend so despite the massive territory loss, they haven't weakened much. The surrendered territories housed most of the White opposition which are now being exterminated by a much stronger Japanese counterinsurgency force, and the USSR has managed to take control of it's remaining lands, so there is no hope for overthrowing the regime now. Our agents in Moscow inform us the USSR has started a massive military expanse plan intent on raising the largest infantry army the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, very little has changed: Russia is still very big, very armed, and very angry.
My last report is even more depressing. Syndicalism has struck within our Austrian allies to the South. The economic recession has now hit Vienna hard, and Syndicalist movements seem to be popping up from everywhere contesting the government's rule and vowing to exterminate the royal family and establish - how else? - a state of the workers. We have been unable to open contact with the Austrian government because in a panic move, they sealed off their borders tight, breaking all relations with all outside states.
The situation is bad. With Austria in shambles, the balkan nations afilliated to it are experiencing problems aswell: Yugoslavian pan-nationalists have risen up in Croatia and Serbia and are defeating the weak governments every step of the way. Hungary, on it's part, decided to act autonomously from it's Austrian masters and just kicked all Austrian forces out of the Magyar Empire while heavily guarding the borders with Austria. Hungarian diplomats have arrived asking for Germany's support and protection if things in Austria go bad. The situation is chaotic, so I am afraid I have no more info on anything: Strength of the government, size of the partisan forces, nothing.
Austria is a fortress, I could give you a more detailed report on the moon right now.
That is all gentlemen. As you might have noticed, there are no files on your desks at the moment as we will stall sending you new issues untill we have more information on the ongoing situation. There is still the matter of Goerings trial, and the usual debates between the opposition and the government.
I call this meeting adjourned. Long live the Kaiserreich!
