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So now Graf Robert von Ulrich shows what is behind this betrayal! For his own lust for power has he split this nation in two and hurled us into the carnage of war. He aims to crown himself despot of our great cultured nation, and thus reduce us to the level of the Asiatic hordes! Do not permit him to do so, Germans! He does not care for you, he does not hear your pleas. He is, for his power hunger, accepting all casualties that will arise from this conflict. He apparently does not treasure the lifes of his supporters and of the frontline soldiers, for if he did, would he have risked putting thousands upon thousands of them in the grim reaper's palm? If he did, would he have split this great nation of ours, would he have separated brother from brother and father from son, a crime of the direst degree, knowing all the time that under his leadership all ordinary Germans would not be better off than they are now and than they were before he stabbed his bloody dagger into this nation's pure heart? If he indeed cared for the German people and their well-being, would he have risked destroying their livelihoods, knowing full well that his hope of victory is but a slim sliver on the horizon, and that our victory is as assured as the sun's rise in the east?
I will not shield you from the truth, my highly honoured countrymen. There may be dark days ahead, and many a time may we face a temporary setback before we can march on to victory. There may be great tragedies waiting for us in the mists of time, hidden from view as of yet but revealed as we approach and confront them; great men, and honest and honourable men that find themselves on the wrong side of this conflict may fall in defence of their Kaiser. Indeed, many will fall if the so-called Confederation continues on this path of madness, and many homes will be destroyed if the rebels continue in their lunacy. But we will fight for König and Kaiser, we will fight for the German Empire! And as God is with us, as he had been with the Old Fritz in the dark hours of 1759 and 1762, we will prevail. We will prevail! For how can you fall with Old Fritz's ghost to guide your sword, and Barbarossa's strength to reinforce your shield? How can you fail when Karl der Große aids you, and how can you fail when Fürst Hermann and Widukind strengthen your armour? How can we fail, good Germans, in this most unnatural struggle of all, thrown upon us by the French-controlled rebels, when the greats of the past aid us? We cannot fail! We cannot fail, and therefore I say: March with me! March with me unto the gates of Königsberg! March with me, sons of Germany, and we will prevail!

-Generalmajor Herzog Karl Heinrich von Falkenberg
 
People of Germany, the leader the rebel government is trying to mislead you! He supports a military dictatorship modeled after the worst of the South American Juntas wherein the people are deceived into believing they have a voice, only to have their voices crushed under the jackboot of the military!

The very criticisms of tyranny, intolerance and oppression leveled by the rebels are in fact the hallmarks of the rebel government! It is a military junta in the guise of a civilian coup. Who brought chaos to Germany? I say it was these vile men who started this civil war. Did they try diplomacy? No, they seized power and imposed their monstrous vision upon Germany. One that will destroy the very things that make this nation great!

Their claim that Kaiser is pushing for absolute monarchy is ridiculous and a blatant lie. The Kaiser has responded to the will of the people and has agreed to empower the people greatly. He has decided to invest the power to veto legislation in the people, except on constitutional matters. The chancellor will be selected by the people and be given imperial assent! And henceforth, the Imperial Guard of the Reichstag shall be placed under the control of the Reichstag so as to prevent the events that led to this national tragedy. Are these the actions of a monarch who merely wishes to aggrandize power? I say NO! These are the actions of a man who loves his country more than personal power, something that cannot be said of the rebels!

I must ask the leader of the rebels, would the Kaiser have ordered his arrest had it not been for the attempted coup? Would the nation be facing its current predicament had the rebels not take route of violent revolution? Would brother fight brother, son fight father and father fight son if not for this rebellion?

Their leaders puerile attacks on my honor and ability are troubling, for the rebel cause. For my statements were grounded in fact. He accuses me of radical centralism, I ask what that is? Does it mean that I stand against those that would destroy Germany? Does it mean that I will do all in my power to protect the people of our nation for threats from both the right and the left? If so then yes, I am a radical centrist!

I must also note that, I was only backed for the chancellery after the military intervened. And it is true, I had decided to form minority government based on fears of radicalism. Fears that now appear well justified following this rebellion, a rebellion supported the most radical elements of the SPD and the militant reactionaries of the Reich Party! It is laughable that these parties claim to work for the good of the people when they are within the clutches of the oligarchs and Junkers.

They claim to be working for the people, but what have they done other than propose bills to aggrandize power, like true oligarchs? While the government has only sought the betterment of our nation for all Germans, not a select few!

The incompetence of the rebels is rife! They are lead by a man that claims he will aid the development of Germany by imposing tariffs and raising prices for the consumer and making jobs more scarce, so that all may be poor and destitute. He is supported by men who want to raise the price of food for all, so that all may go hungry! He supported by men who claim the Kaiser lead a military coup, when they are firmly in the pocket of the traitorous General Staff!

I ask my fellow Catholic to rise up against this new tyranny, a tyranny that will claim the lives and freedoms of many. Forget not that these rebels will only seek to oppress those that do not share their values! Forget not that these are same individuals who backed the Kulturkampf of the past! Forget not their distain for you!

I ask the workers of Germany to strike against those oligarchs that would seek to oppress you! I ask for the people of Germany to mobilize to defend their homes and their beliefs. I ask all that remain loyal to the Empire to join me in a unity government, a government to stand against these gross abuses of power and one that fights for the nation and its people!

I call on those fighting or leading the rebels to return to the Empire! You will be given full amnesty.

~Chancellor Reinhart von und zu Birkenfeld
 
Germans! The rebels say they have your support, they say that they are the leaders of the people of Germany yet they send you out to fight and die while remaining safe in Konigsberg. They say that I am unfit to rule yet I am the one fighting on the front lines, not they. They say that the people of Germany must fight for freedom from their "tyrannical" Kaiser yet they do not. Do they not believe they are Germans? or do they simply believe that they are too important, too "special" to be risked on the front. They say I believe in a "divine right to rule" yet it would seem that it is they who believe that.

People of Germany you must see these rebels for what they are, cowards, traitors and liars. They will surrender Germany to the foreign powers and all the work of Bismarck, Moltke and Roon would be undone. Germany will be divided and, as it took 1,000 years for us to unite after we were cruelly divided, so again there will be 1,000 years of suffering for the German people until we are again united. I cannot allow that, Germany cannot allow that! People of Germany we must hold, we must fight back this menace! Deutschland über alles!

His Imperial and Royal Majesty, Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia
 
Tell me people of Germany, what kind of military dictatorship fights for Liberty and Justice? Helmuth Von Moltke is the leader of the German Confederation, not a military dictator. He is the one that protected the reichstag, he is the one that protected our rights, not the one that tried to storm the reichstag and destroy all the rights we have worked so hard for!

We did not start this civil war! We are defending Germany against the scourge that is Wilhelm II! He dismissed Bismarck all those years ago, and since then he has steadily grown more unstable, more unreasonable, and he has brought Germany down with him! He plans on creating a chaotic germany that could never stand up to the great powers of europe! Under Von Moltke, we WOULD BE the great power of Europe!

These people claim this kaiser is giving up powers, but how long will it be until he reclaims those powers? How do we know those powers that are now invested in his lackey the Chancellor won't simply be used at his whim anyway? He has acted like an Absolute Monarch and clearly aspires to the roles of power shown by those in France just before the french Revolution! He stormed the Reichstag, attempted to arrest innocent people simply because they were part of a political party, and then he attacked the army unprovoked who attempted to protect us innocents from the tyranny of the kaiser!

There was no attempted coup! My men have uncovered evidence in the days since the plot, and all this evidence points to a plot made by the kaiser, giving him what little excuse he needed to arrest an entire political party that he disagreed with! HE was the one that sent those men to attack the armory in order to bale my party and I! Listen to me, does it make sense that if I was planning on coping the government with the army, that the army would shoot men belonging to me down at the armory? NO!

My government is in the works of supporting legislation that will clear all doubts as to whether or not we are truly in the pockets of oligarchs and under a military dictatorship. We will put to rest, once and for ALL the claims of the kaiser and his lackey,s the poisonous lies they spout. bear with us Germany, and soon we will be free of their tyranny!


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I propose to the German Confederation the following bills:


Voting Laws Bill​

To ensure that the voice of the people is heard, anyone who joins the German Confederation's armed forces is eligible to vote, as well as any male over 21, or any female that is over 21 and has ownership of land property.


And:

Freedom of Religion Bill​

This bill hereby affirms the rights of all to worship as they wish whether they be Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or some other faith. They have a right to worship and choose their religion as they see fit, in public and in private, without interference by any government or any harassment by another person, and discrimination based on religion is now to be punished by heavy fines and possible impressment into the military.

I vote YES to both!
 
I vote Yes to both of the Voting Laws Bill and the Freedom of Religion Bill.

OOC: I assume that Fry is going to be von Moltke with regards to signing bills, correct?
 
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I hereby refuse to recognise either my former party member von Urlich, or the former Chancellor von und zu Birkenfeld. Both these men are guilty of fell treason against the Reich, the German people and against the ideals which are held dear in our country's tradition.

Von Urlich would have us do away with the traditions of German Monarchy, and would replace it with the abomination of a Republic. They would cut the tap root of Eden and do away with our honour. Von und zu Birkenfeld would have us prostituted in front of Krupp, he would betray the common German man, the common German soldier. The man who gives his lifeblood to defend our blessed Reich, to feed our people, to pour the steel which fuels our industrial might.

I ask of you all, why would you back these men? Would you have your nation enslaved by regicidal dictators, or whored out to a man whose greed knows no bounds, by a Chancellor who outright refuses to help the honest, hard working German people? Will you be drowned in a sea of blood and violence, only to reemerge with your honour shattered, your body broken and the men you installed to power ready to stab you in the back at the first possible opportunity? Why should either of these groups hold your trust, your service and your lives at their beck and call!?

It is time for a new way. A third alternative to the corruption and filth which will choke the life from the Reich. I propose that the Monarchy be kept, along with much of the existing order. However, many changes must be made. We must look across the sea to our Anglo-Saxon brothers, and take inspiration from them. We must adopt a system of their style, although with some changes, a system were all German people have their say in Governance, a system were the great traditions and heritage of Germany is unspoiled by the ravenous hatred of the Republican movement! We must also bring about sweeping social-economic reform, helping those who would help themselves and ending the stranglehold Krupp has over the Government, Reich and hence the people!

I call upon all true Germans, be you soldiers, sailors, workers, farmers, noblemen or capitalists, rise up in arms and protect the Reich and her people! Let us be like the Freikorps of old, let us take their colours, let us emulate their spirit, let us march forward under the black banner of defiance! Lützow did not allow Germany to be raped by the Frenchmen, and neither did his soldiers, now it is up to us, the German people to rise and defend our Reich, defend our honour and above all defend our people!

I hereby declare myself to be in open rebellion against both of the current Governments, and ask that you all rise with me in forming the National Progressive Reich Front.

RISE FOR YOUR HONOUR! RISE FOR YOUR NATION! RISE FOR YOURSELVES!​
 
The "Reich Party" were no innocents, this is clear. I for one fully supported their attempted arrest. The traitors' memory at best hazy and at worst clear revisionism, as it was the corrupt soldiers, in the pay of the Reich Party, that shot the Kaiser's men.

~H.C.A
 
"The Imperial Guard were the ones that tried to lawfully arrest the members of the Reich party, who were suspected in an attempt to overthrow the government. The General Staff acted aggressively and murdered all of the Imperial Guard in cold blood. Their names can be bought with money. If their names can be bought with money, they are no men, they are cowards and liars.

They seek to enslave our Germany under an oligarchy - a military junta - where all are pawns in the game of this oligarchic military dictatorship. Our system was fine before. The Reich party, however, sought more power, more money for themselves, to weigh their pockets down. All of their names were bought at the price of some gold; if that is possible, they are not acting in the interests of the people or the Reich, they are acting in the interests of only themselves. They are bloodthirsty cowards that have unlawfully risen up against the one true Reich, with the intention of destroying this great Reich and putting in its place an oligarchy that has supreme control over the military. They will use the military to solidify their control over the people and they will become rich off of their own profits. Our great nation will be led to ruin with disuse with the Reich turned into this military junta, a police state run by not Germans, but traitors acting in their own interests.

The so-called German Confederation - the so-called lawful government of Germany - is nothing but a facade placed in the great city of Konigsberg, acting as the liberators of the German people. This is a lie. These men have no other goals in their minds other than to destroy our great Germany and install a brutal dictatorial government that will enslave the people. The pockets of the General Staff have been lined with the gold offered by the Reich party, and now they do their duty not to the Reich or to the German people, but to their puppet-masters.

The great men that have stood by the side of the Kaiser are among the heroes of this great nation. They are putting their lives on the line for not only the Kaiser and the Reich, but the people of Germany, the ideals and traditions of our nation. I ask any German - thought willing - to stand at our side. We have at our disposal the majority of the Reich's population centers and industrial regions. We can out-produce and out-number the rebel Confederation. The rebels believe that, because they have the General Staff backing them, that they can easily secure victory. They believe that, because the Kaiser is not God, they can get away with this rebellion. They believe that, because they have received support from the diluted and confused Socialists, they can spill the blood of their own fellow Germans to secure their petty victory. This cannot and will not happen. The strength of the German people, the true German people, and the true German government, will outshine and outlive the pathetic Reich party's attempts at seizing power and destroying what we all hold so dearly at our hearts: the everlasting Reich, our Germany.

So come together, children, brothers, and fathers of Germany! Wives and mothers and sisters, as well! We shall defeat this Confederation not because we have to, but because we must! It is our God-given right to rule justly over this Germany. The Kaiser has relinquished powers that he has given to the Chancellor and the Reichstag. The accusations of a dictator-Kaiser are false and irrational. Together we will triumph! Gott min uns! Es lebe das Reich! Es lebe der Kaiser! Deutschland über alles!"

~ Friedrich von Weiss
Royalist
Naval Ministry
Commander of the Kaiserliche Marine
 
Von Moltke is a military dictator, just as the juntas of South America, he cloaks himself in civilian robes after using the military to seize power from the legitimate government. He was the one who ordered the execution of men carrying out their duty without further explanation!

You say did not start the rebellion? Who bribed the General Staff? Who instigated rebellion? Who hired paramilitaries?

He claims that the Kaiser will simply recall the powers he has so graciously relinquished. Such a statement could not be further from the truth. These powers no belong to no single person to but the nation as a whole!

The bills presented by the rebels, though of laudable sentiment, are laughable in execution! The Freedom of Religion Bill is spurious as Germany already guarantees freedom of religion, but I must note that it was the Junkers and oligarchs of the areas they hold that supported the Kulturkampf and worked against this freedom. For the voting law, I feel I must point out the Three-Class Franchise System of Prussia that makes this argument invalid... ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_three-class_franchise))

But the most important item I must speak about is this continued fracturing of the rebels. The new rebellion by Drachenstein only reveals how the lust for power that drives these rebels. They care not for the people nor the nation but for their own power and wealth.

Cast down these charlatans! Rise up and defend you nation and your beliefs!

~Chancellor Reinhart von und zu Birkenfeld
 
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STATEMENT BY THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE

Nations of the World, we have seen here today that the so called "German Empire" has little control over it's land, and has watched as different forces have occupied parts of their country. We, acting with our great ally the Russian Empire, do hereby declare that a state of WAR exists between the French Republic and the three "German" states. We shall begin to move our forces momentarilly, and call upon all good nations of the world help to crush this belligerent and evil power, and help vanquish it from the Earth! Vive la France!
 
Following the declaration of war by the vile nation of France, we call upon Austria-Hungary, Italy, the Ottoman Empire, Romania and Bulgaria to honour our alliance and come to the defence of Germany.
 
I feel I must speak out about the deplorable actions of the nation of France. Did our nation not seek war in the previous crisis? Is you honor such that you may only backstab others? You shall be defeated and the people of Germany shall be triumphant!

I reiterate my colleagues calls for our allies to honor our alliances. I also call on the nations of Europe to aid us against these vile invaders. If we do not stand against them succeed, they will only seek to expand at your expense your nation is weak tomorrow!

I also reiterate my previous offers of amnesty. To all who are in rebellion, return to the Empire and fight for the nation that you love, protect it from the vile Frenchman, the treacherous Russian, and the rebellious fifth column!

~Chancellor Reinhart von und zu Birkenfeld
 
((I'm gone two days, and Germany is in a state of civil war, and at war with France... interesting...))

I firmly stand by the Emperor, the true Chancellor, and the members of my party in this dark time for Germany. It seems now the task ahead of us is growing much more difficult; the corrupt 'government' led by the Reich Party, and the French dogs who seem to relish the fact that the greatest force on the continent is suffering from great internal strife, are both now at the footstep of the German people. We must repel these attacks!

This war with France is nothing but hte fault of this 'Confederation,' an unlawful body that must and will be brought back under proper Imperial control.

We must stand for the Kaiser! We must stand for the proper German government! We must stand against tyranny!

FOR THE FATHERLAND!
 
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A Statement by His Majesty's Government

It has come to His Majesty's attention that the French Republic and the Russian Empire, both nations which whom we have held excellent relations with, has declared War upon the German Empire, a nation that we find it much able to work with diplomatically rather than settling it with warfare. We see that the German Empire has done nothing wrong to the French, and we hereby declare that we recognize German Sovereignty over Alsace-Lorraine, and we shall act in defense of this nation, and shall come to her in her time of need. As such, we announce that hostilities between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and all of His Majesty's Dominions and Colonies, and the French Republic. While we have seen the French and the Russians as our allies only a few short years ago, we cannot tolerate a war-mongering nation that threatens one of the United Kingdom's vital partners in Europe. Our Navy has been put on high alert, and will begin to seek out the French Navy where ever it may hide.
 
I would like to thank the British Empire for their stalwart support for the Reich. I hope this will be the beginning of a great friendship between our two nations.
 
With the British Empire on our side, there's no way we can possibly be defeated! The French, Russians, and traitors will all be crushed, and German unity shall be restored! Gott mit uns!
 
I must thank our stalwart partner in the United Kingdom for coming to our aid this, our darkest hour. May this mark the beginning of a new era of cooperation between our nations!

I will once again implore the rebels to surrender with full amnesty. United we can stand at the pinnacle of nations, Divided we shall be cast into the pit.
 
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I Siegfried Von Wolf declare my support for National Progressive Reich Front. It has become clear to me that the German Empire and the German Confederation are evil and corrupt governments who seek only to rape and pillage our once great nation. Death to the German Empire and the German Confederation. Death to the German Conservative Party. Long live the National Progressive Reich Front.
 
CABINET:
Chancellor: Graf Robert Von Urlich (arya126)

Vice Chancellor: Hermann Schmidt (Thandros)
Justice Minister: Herbert von Browshiz (OConner)
Colonial Minister: Helmut von Jagow (Warluster)
Post Master General: Peter Bauder (Mr. G)
War Minister: Hermann Schmidt (Thandros)
Interior Minister: Erwin Schmidt (Gradiant)
Treasury Minister: Count Otto Vorbeck (LeeroyJenkins)
Foreign Minister: Graf Robert Von Urlich (arya12)

In the German Confederation the Chancellor shall have the ability to overrule in times of crisis and to take over in times of absence the posts of the Cabinet. (OOC: I, the Chancellor, can take over as a minister if they are inactive or if an on the spot decision is required and they are not on, and will have their full power and authority in such times)

I accept this position. Let us now put our political differences aside and fight as brother in arms for our nation!

OOC: I will come back with more things later today