Berlin November 1941
The command staff once again comes together to discuss the future of Germany. Hitler sits at the head of the table contently sipping his hot chocolate as the other engage in quiet banter.
Hitler: Ah, what a wonderful day it is! Sweden annexed, programmers captured, infantry crushed by Panzers. I think it’s safe to say that Operation Sea Monkey was a smashing success.
Ribbentrop: Indeed sir. Field marshals von Mastein and von Kluge are to be commended for their service.
Von Mastein: T-thanks… (he replies shakily)
Von Kluge: It-It was nothing…
The two field marshals look haggard and quite exhausted.
Rommel: It must have been hard at the front.
Von Kluge: Even harder on the rear. (mumbles. He winces sitting on his chair)
Hitler: Don’t I know it… (mumbles)
Von Masten: (whispers to Kluge) Now I know why he lets her call him Pookums.
Hitler: Anyway on to other things. Ribbi, What is happening with the rest of the world?
Ribbentrop: Things are quiet along the Western Front, sir. After Sea Monkey are borders are fairly secure and I believe that the most important agenda we have now is preparing for the war with Russia.
Hitler: How about those programmers. They better be a cracking with that new simulation. We can’t play the Axis and Allies simulation anymore because someone ate the pieces.
Georing: I was hungry and the little plastic infantrymen looked so yummy.
Hitler: Oh for the love of sauerkraut!
Ribbentropp: Ahem, to continue, the programmers have are currently beta testing their simulation as we speak. They say that the escape date for it will be sometime in December.
Hitler: Well, they better not push it back. It gets on my nerves when programmers keep pushing back the escape date for their software. What are they calling this simulation anyway?
Ribbentropp: It’s nothing definite but I think it might be named Buns of Steel or Iron Lung.
Hitler: Sounds interesting. Who’s next? Raeder what have you got for me? What’s new with the navy?
Raeder: Nothing really new. We’re ported back and Hamburg twiddling our thumbs. I guess I’ll go out fishing again since the last time I checked, the Russian navy was even more pathetic than ours.
Hitler: Well, someone is grumpy again now that operation Sea Monkey is over. Hermi what is the status of Lufwaffa?
Georing: Mein Fuhrer, 10 squadrons now patrol the English Channel shooting down anything that doesn’t have a Swastika or an I LOVE THE FUHRER bumper sticker pasted on it’s wing. The German people are once again safe from having burning wreckage or dead airmen crushing them from the air. As for out Tactical bomber wing, we not have 12 squadrons at the ready with more in line on the production queue. When we finish researching the improved models, they will come with bucket seats and a cd player built in. And I’ve put in a requisition to build two more paratrooper divisions with their own transport fleet. Expensive but useful. People have a tendency to wet themselves when they see grunts falling out of the sky shooting at them.
Hitler: Make it so, Hermi! Guderian how are the next generation of tank brigades coming along?
Guderian: Quite well mein Fuhrer. Our first line of heavy tanks will begin production shortly. An improved Heavy Tiger with a 100mm gun mount. She’s one hell of a panzer, amazingly built! Sleek, seductive, sexy, I’m going to drive her brains out!
Rommel: I call sloppy seconds!
Von Mastein: Damn! Beat me to it.
Guderian: Currently our total number of tank divisions number at 36. With those being the Advanced Panthers. I recommend we begin constant production of panzer divisions up to and well into the war with Russia. The only way we have a chance of compensating for their hoards of infantry is to field more armor. On the open plains of Russia I am confident that our tanks will overcome all.
Von Mastein: I’ll have to agree with Guderian. After all he did write to book on Panzer warfare.
Rommel: He did?
Guderian: (Holds up a book titled:
Achtung-Panzer! ) Hello!
Hitler: Guderian, your recommendations are noted and approved. Start immediate production on the new tank divisions! Now who’s next, ah, Kluge. What is the status on the infantry?
Von Kluge: Our garrisons along Northern France have held strong with coastal fortifications constantly being improved! You’d figure that the Allies would have realize by now that charging through a mine ridden, obstacle encrusted beachhead toward a concrete pillbox spouting machine-gun-fire, mortars and artillery rounds, isn’t really such a good idea.
Hitler: (shrugs) At least the seagulls will be eating well. How about the other fronts?
Von Kluge: Basra and Kuwait are secure as is the Suez. Gibraltar is shut tighter than a frigid nun’s legs! We are in good shape! I recommend though that we create more mountain divisions to supplement our fodder infantry divisions. Mountain men are just so much rougher and tougher than regular infantry. Most of them were lumberjacks you know.
Hitler: Lumberjack? Why I once though of becoming a lumberjack!
Von Kluge: Really sir?
Hitler: Yes, but I realized that I had a different calling in life.
Ribbentrop: Oh? And what was that sir?
Hitler: I wanted to be someone able to strike fear in the hearts of my enemies. To delude the populace with my forked serpent tongue and blinding charisma. With loyal henchman at my side!
From the wings of government!
To the rise of the worker’s party!
Usurping the authority of government under Nazi rule!
I wanted to be… I wanted to be…
The Fuhrer!
Hitler:
I’m a Fuhrer and that’s ok,
I sleeps all night and I heils all day.
Command Staff:
He’s the Fuhrer and that’s ok
He sleeps all night and he heils all day.
Hitler:
I oppress the weak, opposers I crush,
And laugh out loud with glee.
On Mondays I go a warmongering
And before me they all flee.
Command Staff:
He oppresses the weak, opposers He’ll crush,
And laughs out loud with glee
On Mondays he goes a warmongering
And before him all will flee.
Command Staff:
He’s the Fuhrer and that’s ok
He sleeps all night and he heils all day.
Hitler:
In my car I ride, through waving crowds,
Them cheering as I go
Cause if they don’t I’ll get pissed off
And call the Gestapo!
Command Staff:
In his car he’ll ride, through waving crowds,
Them cheering as he goes
Cause if they don’t he’ll get pissed off
And call the Gestapo!
Command Staff:
He’s the Fuhrer and that’s ok
He sleeps all night and he heils all day.
Hitler:
My armies march, through countries pass
With Swastika flags unfurled.
It’s all part of my master plan
To conquer the free world!
Command Staff:
It’s us who’ll will march, through countries pass
With Swastika flags unfurled.
It’s all part of his master plan
To conquer the free world!
Command Staff:
He’s the Fuhrer and that’s okaaaaaaayyy.....