The People's Reich - A German Democratic Republic AAR

Jape said:

The start of Atomkrieg is a truly frightening prospect. A lot of people are going to die.

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Indeed it is. It's about to get really hectic from here on out. Stay tuned, comrades, for today we took Africa. Tomorrow, we take the world.

The Indochina Front​

Senior Sergeant Mikhail Kalashnikov, 24th Tank Regiment, 108th Tank Division​

At a field hospital in Mozambique was a young Soviet soldier by the name of Mikhail. Mikhail was seriously wounded during the fighting in South Africa late last year and had been recovering. While there, he overheard some of his fellow soldiers complaining about their issued rifles. Many parts of the Red Army were still issued old Mosin-Nagant rifles used during the Great War and even before. Others were giving the semi-automatic SVT-40, the recently adopted SKS carbine, or even a PPS or PPSh sub machine gun. A few of the soldiers there, Mikhail included, were part of the test regiments issued the German MKb-42 back in 1942. They loved the rifle, and were very cross about how Germany kept the newest model, the StG-44, mostly for themselves. The Sturmgewehr design wasn't shared with other Comintern countries, with some small exceptions like the British Free Corps being allowed to keep theirs when they were transferred to the English army, as Germany was doing the majority of the fighting and decided that it would be useless to give away a top of the line rifle just so it can go unused. This gave Mikhail an idea. He still had his MKb-42 prototype, and decided he would make his own rifle based upon it. Mikhail was sent back to the Soviet Union in early December after the South African government surrendered to better accommodate for his condition. There, he began work on his weapon. In April of 1947, he submitted his design to an ongoing contest. It was found to be simple and reliable under a wide range of conditions. In June, several of the new rifle, named the Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947, or AK-47, were ordered for army testing. Mid-June, German troops were being prepared to be sent to Indochina to establish a base from which they could attack Australia. Several Soviet units were volunteered to be sent with them, armed with Mikhail's new rifle, to see how reliable it really was.

In late June, on the way to Indochina, German troops first stopped at Malaya. Currently possessed by the Dutch, the island of Singapore would make a good in between area for troops and ships to stop off before landing in Indochina. After securing the peninsula, a few divisions were left behind to guard the shores while the rest of the force continued on. On June 23rd, the force landed at Phnom Penh. Conditions there where exactly what the Oberkommando had feared: dense jungle, and poor infrastructure, just like in Africa. While the NVA had much experience fighting in the conditions, it would still be a long fight. Much of the month of August was spent trying to maneuver through the terrain. On September 2nd, the United States dropped a second bomb on Dili. This confirmed German suspicions that the Americans definitely have more bombs. They would have to get into Australia soon.


On September 21st, the African Committee granted independence to Sudan, the last remaining colonial territory in Africa.


On October 12th, an American force was able to establish a beachhead at Ipoh, Malaya, and push back the German garrison. The troops in Singapore were sent north to assist and push the Americans back out to sea. By the time they got there, however, it was already too late. By November 30th, the garrison at Ipoh had been pushed into Alor Setar and surrounded. Canadian and Australian reinforcements had already come ashore and were quickly retaking the area. The force at Alor Setar were told to stand down, while the others at Kuala Lampur were ordered back to Singapore to be evacuated.


On January 10th, 1948, with Australian troops in hot pursuit not too far behind them, the remaining German troops in Malaya arrived at the port in Singapore. With every last person accounted for, they boarded the fleet and set off to reinforce the group in Indochina.


The fight in Indochina was not going well. Despite having numerical advantage, the colonial Indochinese troops were a lot more effective at fighting in the dense jungle. The original landing site at Phnom Penh was quickly lost, and the force had relocated to Saigon on March 24th. Now bolstered with the troops from Malaya, a group was sent south to secure Can Tho on April 6th while another pushed north into Da Nang.


On May 1st, Soviet reinforcements arrived in Saigon. The troops in Can Tho were pushed back into Saigon, while the troops moving into Da Nang were halted. Two divisions sent northeast into Lumphat were quickly turned around by an Indochinese counterattack. On the 24th, the front at Da Nang was broken through again and German troops moved into the city. This wouldn't last long as another counterattack would push them right back into Saigon.


Operations were halted until July so reinforcements and supplies could be delivered and stockpiled. On the 16th, a diversionary attack was launched on Lumphat while a force moved through Can Tho into Phnom Penh, with a seperate attack launched at Da Nang. From Lumphat and Phnom Penh they attacked Siem Reap, and continued through into Battambang on August 10th.


On August 15th, the third battle for Da Nang was won, along with Pakxe and Battambang. Now having the upper hand, German forces began an aggressive push north. On the 26th, a group of Soviet frogmen were landed at the Indochinese capital of Hanoi. The Indochinese quickly caught on and were able to surround and round them up.


On September 15th, the Soviet Union dropped a second bomb on Stornoway, in an attempt to dislodge the troop encampments there. Fire was exchanged across the Minch, but no major operations occurred. After getting the Indochina situation under control, in December, the forces there where gathered back into Phnom Penh and loaded onto the transport fleet on the 14th. Before heading to Australia, they were going to retake Malaya and rectify the mistake of allowing the Americans to get the upper hand.

Battle bunny said:

This is simply ridiculous. Perhaps you could try to convoy hunt around Stornoway to try and starve the capitalists out?

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Soviet Union is really trigger happy with nukes. I would change it if I knew how to. This is actually going to play a part in some future Comintern political deveopments.

On the 29th of December, a contingent of the Indochina group landed at Kuantan in Malaya. Expecting fierce resistance, they were only met by two Australian divisions. Over the next two months control was quickly regained and on February 25th, 1949, a friendly government was put into power in the newly formed Malaysia.


On April 25th, the troops from the African campaigns arrived at the port in Bizerte, Tunisia. New transport fleets were formed to take them to Toulon, France, and return to Germany from there. On May 5th, the divisions in South Arabia and Oman were forced to dissolve due to lack of supplies. The region had poor supply lines and they weren't able to receive enough to function.


In August, the Soviets dropped a third bomb on Stornoway. This seemingly didn't affect the Allies at all, as they absolutely refused to vacate the island. Any attack sent over the Minch was quickly repelled by the constant Canadian naval patrols going through. It was decided that they had to be forced off very soon. Eighty-seven German divisions sit in Inverness to prevent an Allied force from making it's way back into Scotland. Those divisions were desperately needed elsewhere. On the 19th, the Volksmarine was stationed inside the Minch, and Germany dropped it's own bomb on Stornoway.


Once the bomb hit, all 87 divisions were ordered across the strait. The Volksmarine were able to hold off the Canadian fleets, but they weren't faring well. The remnants of the much larger Royal Navy were put under Canadian command and they were ripping the German fleet apart. On the 9th of September, the last two remaining ships, the Deutschland, the Leipzig, and what remained of the 5. Torpedobootsflottile were eliminated by an aggressive Canadian offensive to get into the Minch. At that point, however, too many German and English divisions had made it across. On October 3rd, the English IV Corps arrived first and dealt with what remaining Allied divisions remained. Overall, the battle was deemed a failure. The entire offensive capability of the Volksmarine was lost for a small, irradiated, uninhabitable island. Grand Admiral Bettenhäuser and much of the fleet staff were found by a passing Yugoslav patrol sent to locate any survivors and returned to Germany. Within the month, new hulls would be laid down to build a new fleet. Until then, however, all the remained were the transport fleets.


With the taking of the island did, however, complete the conquest of Great Britain. The Communist Party of Scotland was put into power in Edinburgh, and the nation of Scotland was granted independence.


Back in Germany, however, the mood was very different. Late in the afternoon of the 3rd, Ernst Thälmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany, passed away in his residence in Berlin at the age of 63. The day before he left a meeting of the Chamber early, complaining of feeling very ill, and headed home. The following day, he was discovered by his wife, Rosa, to have passed in his sleep. The cause was currently unknown and being looked into. Chairman of the State Council Emil Barth took the opportunity to retire from his position, and in his place appointed Wilhelm Pieck. Chairman of the Council of Ministers Richard Müller ascended to a position on the Central Committee. In his place, Foreign Minister Walter Ulbricht was appointed, with Georg Derlinger to take his former position. Minister of National Defense Andres Hermes was replaced by Wili Stoph. A day of national mourning was declared for Thälmann, and communist parties from within the Comintern and around the world sent their consolations. Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Communist Party, took the time to personally write a letter to the Communist Party of Germany, remembering Thälmann for the support sent over the years in their fight against Japan. Josip Broz Tito said that while they had their disagreements, Thälmann did help them secure power. Many forgot their was still a war on, though, and all events had to be put aside until it's conclusion. In the meantime, a monument was commissioned and set in Berlin.


On October 21st, the Soviets dropped a bomb on Ohka, possibly to stem any American advance into Sibera. On New Years' Day, January 1st, 1950, the recently formed I. Spartakus-Panzerkorps, II. Spartakuskorps, and a regular army division, were sent to deal with the rebel state of Iceland. The operation, named Unternehmen Wiking, was to secure the breakaway parts of Denmark and restore Comintern control. With support from the Danish, Albanian, Spanish, Polish, and Dutch navies, the task force fought off the two militia divisions guarding the coast and arrived in the city of Reykjavik on January 14th.


The following day, on the 15th, SK troops rounded up and arrested key government officials, and dissolved the rebel government. On the 23rd, the Danish government decided against reintegrating Iceland, and allowed the state to have independence. The People's Unity Party was put in charge, and was awarded one of Denmark's seats in the Executive Committee of the Communist International.


While the negotiations over Iceland were taking place, the II. Spartakuskorps was already on it's way to Greenland to commence the second phase of Unternehmen Wiking. SK troops landed in the regional capital of Nuuk and violently repressed the uprising. On February 14th, control was reestablished and returned to Denmark.


In May 14, the SK was sent to deal with the former British colony of Ceylon, now under Canadian administration. On the 25th, the force came ashore and defeated the Canadian garrison at Colombo. By August 1st, the entirety of the island was taken from Canadian control, and Ceylon was granted independence under the Communist Party of Ceylon.


With communist power further extended, and some small loose ends dealt with, the time began for the invasion of Australia. Troops boarded the fleets in Toulon, and set of for Dili.

The Australian Campaign​

On September 5th, the first of the new fleet finished production. The new cruisers VMS Rostok, VMS Berlin, VMS Halle, and VMS Karl Leibknecht were stationed at Wilhelmshaven Naval Base under Grand Admiral Bettenhäuser in the new Volksmarine.


On the 15th of November, the United States attempted an amphibious assault of Belfest, Northern Ireland. It was a rather pathetic attempt. Very few were involved in the attack. Even fewer even made it to shore at all. It was very odd. What made it more confusing was that they tried several times. A small assault force would be sent ashore, exchange fire with German and N. Irish troops, and returned to the ships. The ships would sail away, and more would arrive and repeat the process. Comintern officials couldn't at all determine what the Americans were attempting. They certainly weren't attempting to make any gains. Overwhelming reinforcements were only hours away in Dover, England, currently being taken across the channel into France. On the 27th, the Soviet Union began an invasion of the Philippines. The assault was preempted with a nuclear strike at the capital of Manila. GRU forces stationed in Hong Kong embarked on the Soviet transport fleet set off to launch the assault.


On the 12th of January, 1951, the English army reported an American force attempting a landing at Dover. They also report forces landing and leaving at much the same rate as in Belfast. On the 17th, a force attempted to land at Norwich, again, doing the same thing. The Volskmarine was sent into the channel to locate and sink the offending transports.


On the 19th, forces were finished amassing at Dili. Transport fleets had spent the last few months dodging Allied fleets at every turn to get those troops to Dili, so only the best were chosen for this invasion to insure that it was successful. On the 23rd, the word was sent to begin, and the full force of the SK set of from Dili and headed towards Darwin in Australia. An assault force was sent first to take Melville Island just north of Darwin. From there, the rest of the force continued. Eight divisions arrived on the shore guarded by three Australian divisions. The Timor Sea was incredibly dangerous for Comintern forces, with large American and Australian naval patrols very close nearby, so this landing had to work, or they would be picked off and stranded there with no way home any time soon. In addition to the amphibious assault force, two fallschirmjäger divisions flew in, and a tactical bomber division was sent to drop a bomb on Australian forces.


On the 30th, the United States was still launching their attacks at Dover and Norwich, this time both at once. A Dutch group of destroyers had located the American transports of the coast of Norwich and was in pursuit. In the Strait of Dover, the Volksmarine, with a Danish fleet, encountered and sunk a Canadian carrier and two destroyer groups. On February 2nd, the SK and FJ were able to secure Darwin. The SK panzers and motorized infantry were sent west along the coast to secure the port at Collie to allow more troops to be brought in. One division was left to guard the city while the fallschirmjäger were sent east into Katherine and towards the capital of Canberra.


On the 9th, a group of American troops landed at Monrovia and dissolved the communist government. Any officials who were able to escape made it into Sierra Leone. The American troops were immediately set upon by the Sierra Leonese and Ivorian armies from the east and west. On the 12th, new destroyers finished production and were added to the Volksmarine.


On the 21st, German troops had reached Broome and Katherine. Once again the German army found itself in a logistical nightmare. Much of the interior area of Australia was undeveloped desert. The panzers were able to move west with relative ease. But the soldiers moving east on foot weren't having an easy time. They were moving at vastly different speeds, and arriving at much different times. Organizing large assaults on enemy positions was difficult, as they would collectively move from city to city several weeks to a month apart from each other. By the 26th, a group had reached Alice Springs.


On the 28th, the American force at Monrovia was eliminated and Sierra Leonese troops were moving in to restore order and the friendly government. By April 25th, troops were struggling to get into Cairns in the east. The fight there was constant back and force. German troops defeat Australian troops and move in, to be defeated by more Australian troops who move in, who are defeated by German troops and so on. In the west the situation was the complete opposite. The panzers had made it all the way to Geraldton and were still going. The defense on that side of the country was miniscule. A single division put constantly on the run by the panzer division.

May revealed just what the Americans were up to. Throughout the war, the United States gave minimal support towards the war effort. A few divisions were spotted in France, Italy, and Scotland, and the American presence in the fighting was nonexistent. The incursion in England had the Comintern convinced that the United States was militarily incompetent and the war would be over within the year. Until now. The seemingly feeble attempt to land at Dover had attracted much of the Comintern's naval power to the Strait of Dover to find and sink the American transports. Not only were the transports never found, the African Committee reported a large American fleet of transports off the coast of Angola quickly making their way towards land. It very suddenly dawned on everyone that the whole thing was just a ruse. The hunt for the transports turned everyone's attention away from Africa. The Americans seized this opportunity to land a massive armored force in the unguarded Angola. They had spent the entire war building up their forces, waiting and watching for the perfect time to strike. Nobody had realized this until the 26th, when Angola was already annexed by the United States, and their forces had already advanced into Equatorial Africa and Congo-Kinshasa. On the 30th, American forces annexed Congo.


On June 16th, a force landed at Lobito to attempt to slow the American advance. On the 24th, the Soviet Union dropped a bomb on American forces at Pointe-Noire to do the same.


On July 2nd, the battleships VMS Kurt Barthel, VMS Friedrich Engels, and the VMS Karl Marx finished production and were added to the Volksmarine, just in time to counter any further American advance. On the 30th, the Americans forcefully disbanded the Equatorial African government.


On August 8th, the Soviet Union rallied Comintern forces together and launched a counteroffensive into Cameroon. English, Scottish, Italian, Soviet, and Arab divisions came ashore at Yaounde and intercepted the American armor divisions. On the 11th, the East African Union fell to the American advance.


On September 11th, the United States landed a group in Kuwait and annexed the area. A large force of infantry also landed in Glasgow, Scotland, and had already spread to Fort William. German troops in Dover currently waiting to go home were sent back up north to deal the problem.


The Soviet Union dropped yet another bomb on American forces at Fort William to stem the advance. Stalin's liberal use of nuclear weapons was beginning to anger many of the member states, as every Soviet atomic bomb has so far been dropped on friendly territory, or territory that would eventually become friendly. But all comments were kept to themselves, as at the moment they couldn't afford any kind of split within the Comintern. On October 4th, another group defeated the Soviet garrison at Dili and took over the base.


On the 13th, Rhodesia & Nyasaland fell to American armor. On November 19th, a second German force landed at Mombasa. An offensive was launched into Garissa to link up the forces in Somalia, where together they would push back west to meet the force in Angola and trap the Americans.


On the 30th, the Soviet-led counteroffensive was failing. Troops were retreating from Libreville with American troops right behind them, and the rest were backed into a corner in Bata. Over in Australia, the fight was going a little better. German troops had reached Rockhampton, Mount Isa, and Port Augusta, and were advancing into Wagga Wagga. The SK had since taken Collie and were on their way east to meet up with the main group and advance on Canberra.


On January 8th, 1952, Sudan fell to the Americans, who were now at the border of Egypt in the Arab Federation. In Scotland, the battle was at least going in the Comintern's favor. American troops there had been pushed into Inverness and were quickly being surrounded.


On the 11th, the Soviet Union dropped another bomb on American forces in Scotland. This time anger within the Communist Party of Scotland had reached the boiling point. Over the course of the war, six atomic bombs had been dropped on Scottish land. Stornoway was no longer inhabitable, and the cities of Fort William and Inverness were practically destroyed, all by friendly nations. The Scottish communists told Stalin that if one more bomb landed on their soil, they were going to seek peace with the United States and leave the Communist International. Stalin warned them if they ever dared negotiate with the capitalists, there wouldn't be a Scotland left to leave. The Communist Party of Germany asked for everyone to remain calm and tried to appeal to both sides: The bombs were necessary to defeat the United States. However, it wasn't at all necessary to use them at the rate that the Soviets were using them. The English took the side of the Scottish, saying they would leave as well, as light radiation was beginning to make it's way down into England. Many nations within the African Committee that have had bombs explode on their land took the same position. Many began to fear that the Comintern was going to break apart soon. Something had to be done to defeat the Americans soon.

The Communist International had effectively divided itself into two opposing sides: the more radical Stalinists who had rallied behind Stalin and were justifying his use of nuclear weapons to defeat the American capitalists at any cost, and the less radical Leninists and socialists who had collectively denounced the Soviet Union for it's usage of nuclear weapons on friendly territory, and were threatening to leave the Comintern. Meetings of the Executive Committee all devolved into very heated arguments and shouting matches, even almost escalating to the point of physical confrontation. A group of neutral communists from the various parties were able to calm things down and propose a solution that everyone could agree to. All matters concerning the use of nuclear weapons were to be put to a vote by the Executive Committee. Weapons to be dropped on enemy territory required a majority vote. Weapons to be dropped on friendly territory under occupation required a unanimous vote. The Communist International Executive Committee Resolution 157 was issued: all nuclear weapons currently possessed by a Comintern country property of the Executive Committee, and any currently in production or planned to be as well. All German and Soviet bombs were relocated to Denmark for safe keeping, and could only be used with Executive Committee permission, who would also appoint a specific country's air force to carry it. While peace was restored amongst the communist parties, it was obvious to everyone that it was only temporary. German strategists were hard at work on developing a plan to defeat the United States and end the war soon, before an opportunity presented itself for the Comintern to break apart.

The 19th of February began with the offensive to take back Mozambique. German forces arrived just in time to push back the American troops that had taken Beira and had split the country in two.


On March 5th, Germany used it's power as a senior Comintern nation to assume control of the Czechoslovak People's Army. Africa and Australia were tying up all of Germany's available units, and the current amount wasn't sufficient for what the Oberkommando had planned.


On the 16th, an American group annexed Senegal. All that stood against them was the small Mauritanian army. Germany would attempt to put a force together to deal with it. On the 26th, English tanks entered Manila as the Soviet Union annexed the Philippines and claimed another valuable naval base from the United States.


On the 29th, a force of four divisions arrived in American-occupied Senegal in an attempt to surround and eliminate American forces there before they could advance into Mali. Back in Australia, on April 5th there was a push back into Port Augusta. The advance into Wagga Wagga had failed and an Australian counteroffensive was successful in pushing German troops out of Port Augusta. The SK panzers had arrived from the west and led the troops in a push back in. On the 29th, a native revolt had sprung up in Papua New Guinea.


In May, troops from Guinea, who was also at war with the United States, opened fire at German positions in Bissau and Tambacounda. The KPD consulted with the African Committee on waging war with independent African nations outside of Comintern influence. The Committee had determined that since Guinean troops had acted first, that retaliation wouldn't go against Committee policy. On May 5th, German troops were instructed to engage any Guinean troops spotted in Senegal. On June 9th, the French landed at Port Harcourt in Nigeria and had attempted to move inland. They were, however quickly intercepted by American troops and forced to retreat.


On the 11th, German troops had entered the capital of Guinea and captured key government officials. An interim government was put under control of the African Committee until Germany could put together a proper investigation to find out who authorized the army to fire upon German troops. On the 15th, American troops in Senegal broke out of the attempted encirclement and annexed Mauritania.


On July 28th, the Communist Party of Germany met with the Japanese government in secret. Germany would give the Japanese a deal on plans for top of the line ships to keep them ahead of the United States, in exchange for a sum of money and a guarantee that Germany, with a majority presence in the Executive Committee, would veto any proposed Comintern action against Japan. The deal was signed, and the exchange was made. On August 23rd, German panzers rolled through the streets of Canberra, Australia. The Australian government signed the annexation of the nation over to Germany, and with it another valuable Allied naval base came under communist control.


On August 30th, Niger fell to the American advance. On September 10th, the Communist Party of Australia was put at the head of a new Australia, and officially welcomed into the Communist International. In accordance with Resolution 109, the current flag of Australia was banned, and they were told to present a new one for review. A flag was proposed with the Union Jack simply removed and the Federation Star moved into it's place. This was accepted by the Executive Committee, and become the new flag of the People's Republic of Australia.


On September 19th, Abyssinia fell to the American advance, who were quickly closing in on Somalia. At this point, German troops had made little to no gains in east Africa against the Americans, and the Oberkommando had determined the fight a lost cause. All German troops in Garissa were to be extracted. The Soviet Union was advised to do the same. The next day, Benin-Sahel also fell.


By now, almost all of central Africa was now under American control. They were quickly expanded east, north, and northwest. South Africa, while being unable to push back, was at least standing firm. Murmurs could be heard in the different parties about possibly seeking a treaty with the United States. However, German strategists had now developed a plan. The Communist Party of Germany called for an emergency session of the Executive Committee. If successful, this plan was going to be the ace in the hole that they had been so desperately looking for. The United States would rue the day they decided to meddle in communist affairs.

Disregard the German-controlled New Zealand and Papua New Guinea in the second Australia picture. I went back later to retake that picture with the new flag.

500Artichoke said:

Well, things are devolving into absolute chaos. America basically swept over a continent in a few months. (Logistics? What are those?) That, and Stalin is probably going to have to be dealt with; he's uncharacteristically being a loose cannon and the constant use of nuclear weapons is undoubtedly a boon to American propaganda efforts.

Still, annexing Australia as Germany is obnoxiously awesome.

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How they were able to spread so fast was baffling to me. Probably because they had a lot of tanks corps.

And as for everyone telling me to watch out for Stalin, I'd just like to give a remainder that it is 1952. Wink nudge.