There were before mine and Beladriels post 4 votes for Heuss, you didn't count one of them.
So Heuss actually won already I think.
So Heuss actually won already I think.
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final standings:
Heuss: 6
Adenauer: 5
Meissner: 3
(didn't see Beledriel's vote)
Heuss wins, polls closed. Update in progress
final standings:
Heuss: 6
Adenauer: 5
Meissner: 3
(didn't see Beledriel's vote)
Heuss wins, polls closed. Update in progress
The 1947 Election
Oskar Meissner had lead Germany for almost a decade and a half. He had saved her from the Nazis during the Civil War, reinstated the Kaiser, preformed an economic miracle in the late 1930s before beginning a phase of semi-peaceful expansion that saw Austria, the Sudetenland and half of Poland come under German control. Then with the dawn of the 1940s things changed as his attempts for a ‘peaceful co-existence’’ with the mighty Comintern collapsed with the Soviet invasion of Germany in the Autumn of 1940. At the low point of the war he made a famous speech in Essen, facing the French positions across the Rhine and vowed to enact ‘’a terrible vengeance’’ upon the enemies of the Reich, within one month Metropolitan France was entirely German. After this victory the war shifted irreversibly in Germany’s favour and after the most brutal conflict in history, over the vastness of Russia, the Soviet Union surrendered in the Summer of 1942. yet only months before Japan had escalated the war by attack the US and Soviet Union and the British Empire, by virtue of the German alliance with Britain the Reich was pulled into the Great Asian War. It would take two bloody years of conflict before the Japanese finally surrendered and by this time an ultimate peace seemed to have been secured with Britain, Germany and the US united under the Bombay pact. However it was form here on when Meissner’s star, which had shone so brightly for so very long, finally began to fade. He appeared stingy and too German-centric for the huge ethnic minorities of the Reich proper, he understood little of Asian politics and was largely responsible for the Korean Crisis and Chiang’s dictatorship in China, he seemed antagonistic towards the Americans as he blatantly encroached on their sphere of influence through his courtship and subsequent offer of alliance with several South American states and finally his political dominance over his own party was ended following the dismal Nuremburg Bill which lead to Heuss leading a break-away party form the GGDC into the 1947 election. Meissner’s only hope of retaining power would be to play on national pride and conservatism once more and promote his anti-Communist stance, a naïve and ultimately doomed policy in an ever more liberal Germany.
Konrad Adenauer was the head of the United Liberals (Germany’s second party) and also of the Liberal Alliance (a political bloc that rivalled the GGDC) and before Heuss began his campaign in earnest many saw him as the most likely successor to Meissner. Adenauer stood as a firm supporter of minorities as he eyed their millions of votes yet his undying support for them seemed to alienate him form many would be supporters in the German core lands. He also looked to push back the Kaiser’s advance into political power by restricting the frighteningly large Imperial Party and lessening the Kaiser’s powers in both the Reichstag and military. But Wilhelm III was an extremely popular monarch and even the German liberals loved him, although maintaining his power in the Reichstag he rarely used it disruptively as made sure to listen to his people before proceeding down any political path. Nether the less Adenauer seemed like a powerful candidate for the 1947 election, even more so after the Minority Rights Party opted to join the United Liberals in late August.
Heuss was a late arrival in the election race, he had long led a large group of rebellious GDDC MPs but had previously hoped only to reform the party rather than oppose it. But as Meissner drifted further and further to the right he decided that there was little choice but to rise up in an open rebellion from the Party and the Free German Democratic Party (FGP) was born. Heuss quickly began a mass recruitment campaign of not only voters but new Party members who could stand for elections. Heuss’s nationalism and support for the Kaiser combined with his liberals ideals and promise of progress allowed the young upstart party of German politics to secure vote from both the traditional GGDC and United Liberal supporters. Heuss was an emphatic speaker and unlike his two main rivals he seemed to have a vision of how Germany would progress, he promised to end the constant rivalry with the Americans (by any means possible) and to build a new society within Germany. He felt that the Reich was still yet to fully adapt to the reality that there existed millions of subjects, many of whom were non-German and had done little to adapt itself for these peoples of the Reich proper. However he remained quite happy to continue the exploitation of the people’s of the German colonial Empire both overseas and in the far east of Europe. Fifteen years of Meissner was just too long, the German people wanted change, the German people would have it.
In October 1947 the world was stunned as Theodor Heuss rode into power with a stunning 40% of the popular vote, annihilating Meissner had is former colleagues in the GDDC who were left with just 23%. Heuss’ position as a moderate liberal also stole a large portion of Adenauer’s support and left the United Liberals with 21% of the vote, still a 5% increase on 1943 but disappointing considering the pre-election expectations. Meanwhile the GDDC’s strongly conservative stance saw the Conservative party drop from 10 to 3% of the vote and the Imperial Party fell from 9 to 7%. Elsewhere the Christian Centre Party were seen as an uninspiring choice with such a hotly contested elections and saw a minor fall in their already small vote as they became the smallest meaningful Party in the Reichstag. The United Welfare Party (the remnants of Germany’s once mighty Socialist movement) fell dramatically from 10 to 6% but their supporters did not go to another party with similar views rather than just move on as the socialist cause seemed to get less appealing by the day.
In the wake of the election Heuss was named Chancellor and agreed to a loose coalition between Adenauer’s United Liberals and his own Free German Party, the two both had very similar views on the majority of issues and between them they held a whopping 61% of the vote. Yet on issues where they disagreed (mainly to do with the wider Empire and foreign policy) he would likely garner the support of the Imperial Party and Conservatives, if not the CCP and some GDDC rebels as well. Despite lacking an absolute majority in many ways this was an even more secure government than the GDDC ever was.
Whilst Heuss instantly began his domestic program of reform and the creation of ant-corruption measures much more significant acts took place behind the scenes. At the start of November he delivered an ultimatum to President Truman demanding the end of the embargo against the Berlin Pact lest he wish to suffer ‘’terrible consequences’’ following the inevitable refusal Heuss organised a secret meeting between: himself, the Chief of Staff (Manstein), the Head of the Army (von Blomberg), the Head of the Luftwaffe (Ernst Udet), and the Head of the Kriegsmarine (Raeder) and the Kaiser Wilhelm III. Here he informed the present parties that war was now clearly unavoidable, Germany could keep the Berlin Pact going for another year or two but with the NAPTO embargo their economies would ultimately fail, the US military build-up also meant that the gap between the Reichswehr and US military was all but closed, if Germany didn’t go to war soon then victory would be impossible. He gave the military chiefs one year to prepare for the war to end all wars, a war between the two mighty world alliances, the first war that would involve a nuclear power, a war so terrible that it would completely overshadow the previous two Great Wars of the century, The Third World War.
Oskar Meissner had lead Germany for almost a decade and a half. He had saved her from the Nazis during the Civil War, reinstated the Kaiser, preformed an economic miracle in the late 1930s before beginning a phase of semi-peaceful expansion that saw Austria, the Sudetenland and half of Poland come under German control. Then with the dawn of the 1940s things changed as his attempts for a ‘peaceful co-existence’’ with the mighty Comintern collapsed with the Soviet invasion of Germany in the Autumn of 1940. At the low point of the war he made a famous speech in Essen, facing the French positions across the Rhine and vowed to enact ‘’a terrible vengeance’’ upon the enemies of the Reich, within one month Metropolitan France was entirely German. After this victory the war shifted irreversibly in Germany’s favour and after the most brutal conflict in history, over the vastness of Russia, the Soviet Union surrendered in the Summer of 1942. yet only months before Japan had escalated the war by attack the US and Soviet Union and the British Empire, by virtue of the German alliance with Britain the Reich was pulled into the Great Asian War. It would take two bloody years of conflict before the Japanese finally surrendered and by this time an ultimate peace seemed to have been secured with Britain, Germany and the US united under the Bombay pact. However it was form here on when Meissner’s star, which had shone so brightly for so very long, finally began to fade. He appeared stingy and too German-centric for the huge ethnic minorities of the Reich proper, he understood little of Asian politics and was largely responsible for the Korean Crisis and Chiang’s dictatorship in China, he seemed antagonistic towards the Americans as he blatantly encroached on their sphere of influence through his courtship and subsequent offer of alliance with several South American states and finally his political dominance over his own party was ended following the dismal Nuremburg Bill which lead to Heuss leading a break-away party form the GGDC into the 1947 election. Meissner’s only hope of retaining power would be to play on national pride and conservatism once more and promote his anti-Communist stance, a naïve and ultimately doomed policy in an ever more liberal Germany.
Konrad Adenauer was the head of the United Liberals (Germany’s second party) and also of the Liberal Alliance (a political bloc that rivalled the GGDC) and before Heuss began his campaign in earnest many saw him as the most likely successor to Meissner. Adenauer stood as a firm supporter of minorities as he eyed their millions of votes yet his undying support for them seemed to alienate him form many would be supporters in the German core lands. He also looked to push back the Kaiser’s advance into political power by restricting the frighteningly large Imperial Party and lessening the Kaiser’s powers in both the Reichstag and military. But Wilhelm III was an extremely popular monarch and even the German liberals loved him, although maintaining his power in the Reichstag he rarely used it disruptively as made sure to listen to his people before proceeding down any political path. Nether the less Adenauer seemed like a powerful candidate for the 1947 election, even more so after the Minority Rights Party opted to join the United Liberals in late August.
Heuss was a late arrival in the election race, he had long led a large group of rebellious GDDC MPs but had previously hoped only to reform the party rather than oppose it. But as Meissner drifted further and further to the right he decided that there was little choice but to rise up in an open rebellion from the Party and the Free German Democratic Party (FGP) was born. Heuss quickly began a mass recruitment campaign of not only voters but new Party members who could stand for elections. Heuss’s nationalism and support for the Kaiser combined with his liberals ideals and promise of progress allowed the young upstart party of German politics to secure vote from both the traditional GGDC and United Liberal supporters. Heuss was an emphatic speaker and unlike his two main rivals he seemed to have a vision of how Germany would progress, he promised to end the constant rivalry with the Americans (by any means possible) and to build a new society within Germany. He felt that the Reich was still yet to fully adapt to the reality that there existed millions of subjects, many of whom were non-German and had done little to adapt itself for these peoples of the Reich proper. However he remained quite happy to continue the exploitation of the people’s of the German colonial Empire both overseas and in the far east of Europe. Fifteen years of Meissner was just too long, the German people wanted change, the German people would have it.
In October 1947 the world was stunned as Theodor Heuss rode into power with a stunning 40% of the popular vote, annihilating Meissner had is former colleagues in the GDDC who were left with just 23%. Heuss’ position as a moderate liberal also stole a large portion of Adenauer’s support and left the United Liberals with 21% of the vote, still a 5% increase on 1943 but disappointing considering the pre-election expectations. Meanwhile the GDDC’s strongly conservative stance saw the Conservative party drop from 10 to 3% of the vote and the Imperial Party fell from 9 to 7%. Elsewhere the Christian Centre Party were seen as an uninspiring choice with such a hotly contested elections and saw a minor fall in their already small vote as they became the smallest meaningful Party in the Reichstag. The United Welfare Party (the remnants of Germany’s once mighty Socialist movement) fell dramatically from 10 to 6% but their supporters did not go to another party with similar views rather than just move on as the socialist cause seemed to get less appealing by the day.
In the wake of the election Heuss was named Chancellor and agreed to a loose coalition between Adenauer’s United Liberals and his own Free German Party, the two both had very similar views on the majority of issues and between them they held a whopping 61% of the vote. Yet on issues where they disagreed (mainly to do with the wider Empire and foreign policy) he would likely garner the support of the Imperial Party and Conservatives, if not the CCP and some GDDC rebels as well. Despite lacking an absolute majority in many ways this was an even more secure government than the GDDC ever was.
Whilst Heuss instantly began his domestic program of reform and the creation of ant-corruption measures much more significant acts took place behind the scenes. At the start of November he delivered an ultimatum to President Truman demanding the end of the embargo against the Berlin Pact lest he wish to suffer ‘’terrible consequences’’ following the inevitable refusal Heuss organised a secret meeting between: himself, the Chief of Staff (Manstein), the Head of the Army (von Blomberg), the Head of the Luftwaffe (Ernst Udet), and the Head of the Kriegsmarine (Raeder) and the Kaiser Wilhelm III. Here he informed the present parties that war was now clearly unavoidable, Germany could keep the Berlin Pact going for another year or two but with the NAPTO embargo their economies would ultimately fail, the US military build-up also meant that the gap between the Reichswehr and US military was all but closed, if Germany didn’t go to war soon then victory would be impossible. He gave the military chiefs one year to prepare for the war to end all wars, a war between the two mighty world alliances, the first war that would involve a nuclear power, a war so terrible that it would completely overshadow the previous two Great Wars of the century, The Third World War.
It took me an hour and 1/2 to write this so I really hope you like it. Sorry about the cheesy/crapness of the last sentence but I'm sure you get the point.
So an unexpected and interesting turn of events but there is still a few things I need to sort out before the war can begin:
the fate of Stalin (just remembered that I never sorted that out)
the Italian Monarchy (can't say any more than that)
Kriegsmarine expansion is comepleted (revel in my shiny new ships)
Force comparision update/updates (I'm not sure wether to do lots of little ones or one enormous one)
So an unexpected and interesting turn of events but there is still a few things I need to sort out before the war can begin:
the fate of Stalin (just remembered that I never sorted that out
)the Italian Monarchy (can't say any more than that)
Kriegsmarine expansion is comepleted (revel in my shiny new ships)
Force comparision update/updates (I'm not sure wether to do lots of little ones or one enormous one)
Really,really great update! I like these politics updates .. And your event updates! (Like the one when Iraq got couped)
Now we just have to wait for the war to begin!
.. And your event updates! (Like the one when Iraq got couped)Now we just have to wait for the war to begin!
The Sultanate went downhill after Suleiman married the Ruthenian, probably some disposition to mental disorder in the family and the whole business with the Cage didn't help.
Just realised something ... 50,000 VIEWS!!!!
WOOHOO!
Thanks for all the support from the readers, its the reason I keep on writing
Hopefully this can get to join the truly elite roup of 100,000+ views before I'm done.
WOOHOO!
Thanks for all the support from the readers, its the reason I keep on writing
Hopefully this can get to join the truly elite roup of 100,000+ views before I'm done.
I liked the update and didn't find it cheesy at all.
Stalin should just be allowed to fade away into ubscurity, while the Italian Monarchy should most likely survive with popular support.
Kreigsmarine expansion is great, I still think you should have buitl Battleships instead but it is your AAR, a force comparison would be great.
Stalin should just be allowed to fade away into ubscurity, while the Italian Monarchy should most likely survive with popular support.
Kreigsmarine expansion is great, I still think you should have buitl Battleships instead but it is your AAR, a force comparison would be great.
Don't worry about cheesiness. Just kill!!! KILL KILL KILL!!!!
Sorry...I get a bit carried away sometimes.
Sorry...I get a bit carried away sometimes.
I think Meissner is about to die anyway so it's good you replaced him. You've encouraged me to do my own revision of GER files making many more people available for non-Hitler options. I like the whole AAR--a war of national self interest with the stigma removed from Germany.
On another note I think you should give yourself Edward Teller as a tech team, removing him from the USA in the savegame, and waking him. He would not have left Germany in your timeline.
On another note I think you should give yourself Edward Teller as a tech team, removing him from the USA in the savegame, and waking him. He would not have left Germany in your timeline.
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Thanks for all the positive comments, I'll answer one or two questions:
@ Maj von Mauser: your slightly wide of the mark with both Stalin and the Italians ...
Forgot to mention that this last expansion is the construction of ''the Grand Battleship Fleet'' when I first made my CV fleets I had never done much naval combat in my games and so went to play a bunch of naval focused games as all the big powers. It is now my favourite part of HoI 2 and I actually pushed the whole war back just so I could have time to build some BBs :d
@nomonhan: I didn't actually do any editing for this AAR but rather usd a bunch of acceptall coups (I dind't even know about the cheat freedom when I started). My one and only attempt at editing came after Wilhelm II died as hitler became HoG. I then dleted him but Goering took over, I had to delete every single Nazi HoG and chnage the start date for Wilhelm III for the sake of getting a screenshot, so I'm afraid I won't be going near those scary editing tools for some time.
@ Maj von Mauser: your slightly wide of the mark with both Stalin and the Italians ...
Forgot to mention that this last expansion is the construction of ''the Grand Battleship Fleet'' when I first made my CV fleets I had never done much naval combat in my games and so went to play a bunch of naval focused games as all the big powers. It is now my favourite part of HoI 2 and I actually pushed the whole war back just so I could have time to build some BBs :d
@nomonhan: I didn't actually do any editing for this AAR but rather usd a bunch of acceptall coups (I dind't even know about the cheat freedom when I started). My one and only attempt at editing came after Wilhelm II died as hitler became HoG. I then dleted him but Goering took over, I had to delete every single Nazi HoG and chnage the start date for Wilhelm III for the sake of getting a screenshot, so I'm afraid I won't be going near those scary editing tools for some time.
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photobucket doesn't seem to be working (I can't access the site for some reason) so you'll have to wait.
and yes this update is about stalin
and yes this update is about stalin
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The Ascent of Evil – Stalin’s Memoirs are Published Following His Assassination
Ever since he turned himself into the German authorities in 1942 Josef Stalin, once undisputedly the most powerful man on earth, had been forced to live, imprisoned, in a large house a few miles from Wilhelmstadt (formerly Stalingrad). Here he was kept under a close guard by the German Imperial Authorities and was not allowed to leave the house through half a decade of imprisonment. In this time he took up the opportunity to write his memoirs and a complete history of the rise and fall of socialism, from the October Revolution to the fall of Ankara.
It seemed likely that the former dictator would simply live out the rest of his days in the peace of his imprisonment yet all would not be so simple. Over the years as the atrocities of the Stalinist regime were unveiled and the once oppressed liberated an ever growing force began to plan revenge against Stalin.
Through 1946 and 1947 the Army of Heavenly Vengeance (AHV) made it its goal to eliminate Stalin once and for all. By obtaining munitions from the US under the guise of an anti-German guerrilla movement the small but elite group trained 3 dozen warriors for one great mission. They received finding from many of Russia’s Orthodox hierarchy and other religious organisations who had been oppressed by the Communists. They had received the Church’s blessing for one, and only one operation, the assassination of Josef s Stalin.
On January 9th 1948 36 AHV commandoes approached Stalin’s redoubt. It was defended by 15 Reichswehr guards under direct orders not to let their prisoner escape or be killed. When the first AHV soldiers began firing upon them the German commander assumed these were Communist rebels coming to release Stalin.
The two sides fought for one bloody day in which the entire German force was killed along with more than half the AHV troops and of course Stalin himself. The house where he had been imprisoned was largely destroyed in the fighting but once German reinforcements arrived (all too late to save their comrades) they discovered in a safe hundreds of pages of text that made up Stalin’s memoirs.
Theodor Heuss saw this as one last opportunity to smear Stalin’s name whilst also making a significant income for the national purse. They were released under the title ‘’The Ascent of Evil’’ and followed the rise and fall of Stalin’s Empire as Communism spread throughout Europe in the 1920s and 30s and then clashed with Britain and Germany (and subsequently Japan) in the 1940s. He then continued to write about his life through his incarceration and the brief but unsuccessful forays of his ideology in the Far East before going on to talk about South American Socialism. In the final chapters of the book (finished off by German government ‘ghost writers’) the brief Turkish People’s Republic was discussed and identified as the last hurrah of the International Revolution. The book was an instant best seller as millions flooded in to read about the most spectacular tyrant in modern history, Stalin was a figure of hatred throughout most of the world and where he was not hated he was loved. Never before had there been such a detailed account of the Communist Revolution of the 20th Century from the eyes of someone at the heart of it. Heuss also felt relieved to have rid the government of the ‘Stalin issue’ when he was first offered asylum most of his regime’s crimes had not been uncovered and many throughout the Empire and indeed the world criticised Germany’s protection of him but now only a few months into Heuss’ reign the problem was gone and Russia could finally begin to move on from Stalin and look towards the future.
Ever since he turned himself into the German authorities in 1942 Josef Stalin, once undisputedly the most powerful man on earth, had been forced to live, imprisoned, in a large house a few miles from Wilhelmstadt (formerly Stalingrad). Here he was kept under a close guard by the German Imperial Authorities and was not allowed to leave the house through half a decade of imprisonment. In this time he took up the opportunity to write his memoirs and a complete history of the rise and fall of socialism, from the October Revolution to the fall of Ankara.
It seemed likely that the former dictator would simply live out the rest of his days in the peace of his imprisonment yet all would not be so simple. Over the years as the atrocities of the Stalinist regime were unveiled and the once oppressed liberated an ever growing force began to plan revenge against Stalin.
Through 1946 and 1947 the Army of Heavenly Vengeance (AHV) made it its goal to eliminate Stalin once and for all. By obtaining munitions from the US under the guise of an anti-German guerrilla movement the small but elite group trained 3 dozen warriors for one great mission. They received finding from many of Russia’s Orthodox hierarchy and other religious organisations who had been oppressed by the Communists. They had received the Church’s blessing for one, and only one operation, the assassination of Josef s Stalin.
On January 9th 1948 36 AHV commandoes approached Stalin’s redoubt. It was defended by 15 Reichswehr guards under direct orders not to let their prisoner escape or be killed. When the first AHV soldiers began firing upon them the German commander assumed these were Communist rebels coming to release Stalin.
The two sides fought for one bloody day in which the entire German force was killed along with more than half the AHV troops and of course Stalin himself. The house where he had been imprisoned was largely destroyed in the fighting but once German reinforcements arrived (all too late to save their comrades) they discovered in a safe hundreds of pages of text that made up Stalin’s memoirs.
Theodor Heuss saw this as one last opportunity to smear Stalin’s name whilst also making a significant income for the national purse. They were released under the title ‘’The Ascent of Evil’’ and followed the rise and fall of Stalin’s Empire as Communism spread throughout Europe in the 1920s and 30s and then clashed with Britain and Germany (and subsequently Japan) in the 1940s. He then continued to write about his life through his incarceration and the brief but unsuccessful forays of his ideology in the Far East before going on to talk about South American Socialism. In the final chapters of the book (finished off by German government ‘ghost writers’) the brief Turkish People’s Republic was discussed and identified as the last hurrah of the International Revolution. The book was an instant best seller as millions flooded in to read about the most spectacular tyrant in modern history, Stalin was a figure of hatred throughout most of the world and where he was not hated he was loved. Never before had there been such a detailed account of the Communist Revolution of the 20th Century from the eyes of someone at the heart of it. Heuss also felt relieved to have rid the government of the ‘Stalin issue’ when he was first offered asylum most of his regime’s crimes had not been uncovered and many throughout the Empire and indeed the world criticised Germany’s protection of him but now only a few months into Heuss’ reign the problem was gone and Russia could finally begin to move on from Stalin and look towards the future.
Ach, Siberia is full of, erhm, local prisons?
And there was never an famine in Ukraine I believe. Nor anywhere else.
Just blame the troskyists...
Oh, what did I say just.
What Trotsky? There was never any Trotsky.
So Heuss wins. Just as I said.
Ein Krieg alle Kriege zu beenden.
Kampf der zwo Germanischer Staaten und Sprachen.
Nur einer kann überleben.
Nie mehr ein Bipolarer Welt.
Time for the Final Showdown.
For König or for President.
And there was never an famine in Ukraine I believe. Nor anywhere else.
Just blame the troskyists...
Oh, what did I say just.
What Trotsky? There was never any Trotsky.
So Heuss wins. Just as I said.
Ein Krieg alle Kriege zu beenden.
Kampf der zwo Germanischer Staaten und Sprachen.
Nur einer kann überleben.
Nie mehr ein Bipolarer Welt.
Time for the Final Showdown.
For König or for President.
Awesome stuff once again. I just hope that I would have that much of imagination too . Anyway, one evil man less. Who will be next, Truman?
. Anyway, one evil man less. Who will be next, Truman?
Yay! I'm Post 1000. Nice update I liked the way that you tied up the Stalin issue.