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Great work, Mettermrck and Prufrock.:cool: About time I do something as well, update coming up!
 
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American campaign, September 20-October 11

The late September battles - the front shatters
As September progressed, the German lightning advance continued while the military situation of the United States deteriorated steadily. On September 21st, von Paulus launched his 6. Armee against the Indianapolis pocket. The commander of the pocket, General Decker, had seven divisions at close to full strength but was terribly short on every kind of supply, the most critical lack being insufficient ammunition. Despite of this, his troops fought valiantly throughout the night to the 22nd, but collapsed the next morning as ammunition stocks ran out. Decker surrendered to avoid useless bloodshed, and another 100.000 US troops marched off into captivity, joining the 1,2 million POWs held in German Stalags throughout New England.

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Surrendering US troops, Charleston pocket, late September 1943

On the 26th, von Manstein himself led his 4. Armee in an assault from the north on the Charleston pocket, while Rommel’s 3. Panzerarmee attacked from the south. The pocket was held by the remnants of some 40 US Army and Marine Corps divisions commanded by Eisenhower himself, but these were so battered and exhausted that they were able of presenting only the most symbolic resistance. The GIs surrendered en masse, almost with relief that the war was over for them at least although some diehards (notably the Marines) put up a bitter resistance. Nevertheless, the pocket officially surrendered at dawn of the 28th, when some 450.000 US troops laid down their arms. The German catch was less impressive this time, giving an idea of the depleted state of the US troops – 250 guns of all calibres and 50 worn out tanks was the extent of the booty.

At the gates of New Orleans
While these mop-up operations took place in the North, the advance continued relentlessly in the South. Hausser’s 1. SS-Panzerarmee cleared North Carolina together with the Tigers of the XXVI. Heavy Panzer Korps under Lt. General Meyer. This was pure overkill, since it soon became clear that no organized resistance was being offered, so while Meyer continued the push south by himself, Hausser swung west into Tennessee. On the 25th, he decisively routed 5 American and 3 Canadian infantry divisions that had tried to form a perimeter around Nashville. They just barely made it across the Mississippi before Guderian arrived on the scene.

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Second phase of German exploitation offensives, September 19-30th, 1943

“Hasty Heinz” had cut a swath through the scattered US forces along the course of the Mississippi river, Blitzed through Tennessee and reached the Gulf of Mexico just north of New Orleans on September 29th. Thus, south-eastern United States, including the States of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, were cut-off from the rest of the country. The military significance of this was however slight, since almost no regular troops remained in these areas, only some air force units had stayed behind.

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German advances until September 30th


Partisan warfare on the American front
On September the 29th, Hitler arrived in Washington to take stock of his conquests so far, decorate his most successful soldiers and do some sightseeing. On the 30th, soon after promoting Rommel to Generaloberst and awarding him the Knight’s Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, Hitler was informed that the Gauleiter for New York, Erich Koch, had been kidnapped by resistance fighters. This made clear that the civilian resistance in America was not to be trifled with – there had already been many minor incidents reported, where German soldiers had been ambushed, sniped or even blown to pieces by improvised land mines. So far, the Wehrmacht’s only response had been to hunt for the perpetrators with less than sterling success, but the capture of Koch brought matters to a far more serious and tragic level of confrontation. An enraged Hitler ordered a massive rescue operation to liberate Koch, but the manpower for it wasn’t available. Hardly had transport planes started to disgorge SD-, Gestapo and Allgemeine-SS troops brought in for the operation when Koch’s tortured and mutilated corpse was dumped in front of his headquarters at Empire State building, with a highly insulting note from the Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky to the Führer attached.

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Meyer Lansky became the most wanted man of German-occupied America

The news of this caused a phenomenal burst of rage in Hitler, who immediately ordered the most draconic reprisals imaginable. He placed SS-Standartenführer Reinhard Heydrich (recently recovered from serious wounds received in an attempt on his life by Czech resistance fighters the previous year) in charge of the “pacification” of the occupied areas of North America, under the guidelines that “a lack of numbers for actual control of the ground must be made up with intimidation of the populace through sheer terror”. As a general rule, 50 American civilians would be executed for each German soldier killed.

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SS-Standartenführer Reinhard Heydrich was the tool of Hitler’s vengeance on America

Heydrich’s first measures in New York were to extract a vicious vengeance for the death of Koch; during the first week of October, 10.000 New Yorkers – men, women and children - were hanged with piano string in Central park, with the promise that another 1.000 would be hanged each day until Meyer Lansky was captured. Most of the victims were taken from the Lower East Side and Little Italy areas, meaning that a large proportion were Jews and Italians. Using the dual approach of carrot and stick, Heydrich also offered a reward of 5 million Reich Mark for Lansky's capture. Even under these conditions, he evaded the Gestapo for a full week, until one of his lieutenants had his entire family taken away by the SS. The desperate man betrayed his boss to the Germans in an attempt to save the life of his loved ones.

Suffering bestial torture by the Gestapo, Lansky gave away some of his associates. They joined him as he was hanged in Central Park on October 11th, 1943.
 
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I have a feeling that Al Capone won't be as easy to silence. Or remove.....
 
I think he's in jail already, and declining quickly into syphilitic madness...
 
Damn...what happened to Lucky Luciano?
 
Still at large... they don't call him Lucky for nothing! :)
 
While we were marching through Georgia has taken on a whole new meaning, I guess.
 
is argentina and brazil in your allience? when you get to dallas don't forget to roll over mexico:D
Kick the canadians ass! I never get the chance to repay them when they interfer with my plans for world domination(except thos ocasional mass slaughters of divs:rolleyes: ).


can we see whats left of the world to take?
 
Re: American campaign, September 20-October 11

Originally posted by The Yogi
Heydrich’s first measures in New York were to extract a vicious vengeance for the death of Koch; during the first week of October, 10.000 New Yorkers – men, women and children - were hanged with piano string in Central park, with the promise that another 1.000 would be hanged each day until Meyer Lansky was captured. Most of the victims were taken from the Lower East Side and Little Italy areas, meaning that a large proportion were Jews and Italians. Using the dual approach of carrot and stick, Heydrich also offered a reward of 5 million Reich Mark for Lansky's capture. Even under these conditions, he evaded the Gestapo for a full week, until one of his lieutenants had his entire family taken away by the SS. The desperate man betrayed his boss to the Germans in an attempt to save the life of his loved ones.

Suffering bestial torture by the Gestapo, Lansky gave away some of his associates. They joined him as he was hanged in Central Park on October 11th, 1943. [/B]

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Brilliant :D

Last time I had so much fun reading about a Nazi victory scenario must date back to Fatherland
 
Viiiivaaaa!

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This AAR is now the most viewed Paradox-AAR ever! A huge big thanks to all of you for reading this!

<scurries off to indulge in a champagne binge>
 
Great update! :D

The end seems to be near, is there anything left to do besides mopping up?
 
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The Ten Day Capital

St. Louis was the capital of the United States for precisely ten days, from September 6th until September 15th, 1943. After his departure from Washington, D.C. on the 2nd, President Roosevelt had initially been flown to Atlanta, where he paused for a day in order to contact General Eisenhower in Washington, D.C. Hearing of the collapse of the Washington Perimenter, FDR ordered Eisenhower to defend the city strongly but not to lose his army doing so. FDR was then flown westward to Chicago, arriving on the 3th. He spent two days conferring with Mayor Kelley about his recent arrests of hundreds of German-Americans and their worries about a revival of the German Bund in the Midwest.

Finally, on the 5th, the President's plane took off for St. Louis, landing at Lambert Field early on the morning of September 6th. The citizens of the city were delighted at his arrival, reassured that the government had not forgotten them. They lined the streets as the President was driven from the airfield to his new 'White House'. The federal government offices had been set up in the Old Courthouse Building on the riverbank, the same building where the Dred Scott case had begun back in the 1850's.

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The Old Courthouse Building in St. Louis, home of the federal government for 10 days

The facilities in St. Louis were crude and ad-hoc, but promised to house the executive branch after some work was put in.

For Roosevelt, however, St. Louis only sharpened his decline. Lack of sleep and the hectic schedule and stress of a losing war had begun to seriously aggravate Roosevelt's already handicapped condition. His skin paled, his hair began to thin, and his appearance aged years almost overnight. Yet he continued to work, trying to keep his government together and maintain armies in the field to defy the Germans.

As he took up his duties in St. Louis on the 7th, the bad news began to pour in. Washington was under heavy attack. MacArthur had given General Bradley permission to surrender his forces in New York, and the Germans threatened to break out of the Northeast. And it didn't end there.

On that same day, a German aerial attack on the Pentagon that shattered the newly constructed building, causing many casualties and decimating those government and military high officials who had chosen to remain in the District of Columbia. Among the deaths were those of Secretary of War Harry Stimson and Chief of Staff General George Marshall. In one blow, FDR had lost his closest military advisors.

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George Marshall and Harry Stimson

The loss of Stimson and Marshall struck FDR hard, for with them went the best men for liaison between the civil and military authorities. As if to emphasize this new reality, General Douglas MacArthur, having been promoted from his army command in the Northeast, arrived in St. Louis. Now, on the morning of the 8th, the two conferred and Roosevelt immediately promoted him to 5-star general and the new Chief of Staff of the United States military. With Marshall, Bradley, and soon Eisenhower lost, FDR turned to the man he deemed competent and confident enough to turn defeat into victory.

Yet MacArthur's impact would have to wait, for on the 10th, word arrived of the fall of Washington, D.C. A stunned St. Louis took the news as best they could, some openly denying the reports, others moved to tears. For the first time in this Midwest city, the war had become very real.

More reports flooded in during the next few days. The German crossing of the Potomac, panzers in Richmond, Eisenhower's retreat into the Shenandoah, the rumored execution of American generals in prison camps, Bund rallies in Cleveland and Cincinnati, and much more.

By the afternoon of the 13th, it had been decided that St. Louis was no longer fit as a federal capital. It was now in an exposed position to the distant German advance, and indeed, the Old Courthouse was right on the riverbank, and would be exposed to German bombardment from the earliest.

The decision was made to leave the city and establish the federal government in California, either Los Angeles or San Francisco. Congress had long since departed for the West and was indeed clamoring for FDR to join them in Los Angeles. Most of the country was still free of the German army and had to be governed - and rallied. When General MacArthur insisted on staying in St. Louis to meet the German advance, Roosevelt refused and ordered him to the West Coast. He would not lose another Chief of Staff.

The President and his party departed St. Louis on the morning of the 15th, with General MacArthur following a few hours later. It took twelve flights by C-47 Dakotas to move all of the staff and files which had accompanied FDR. In the course of seven hours, St. Louis had gone from the center of the country to a forgotten bywater.

As October approached, the federal government of the United States was on the West Coast, over a thousand miles from the front lines, and almost completely separated from any divisions still in the field. The separation of the military and the civilian government, having begun with the German assault on Washington, began to worsen as the weeks progressed.

As for St. Louis, it's ten-day sojourn as a national capital did little to protect it . Indeed, when German paratroopers landed in Illinois and the first German guns began to rumble in the distance, St. Louis became an even more inviting target because of this brief fame. And the citizenry would pay dearly.

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St. Louis, November 1943, after the first serious bombardments by German artillery - NW corner of Maryland and Whittie Streets
 
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