For new readers:
- Norway and France still stands
- Japan never joined the Axis
- Soviet union is at war with the Axis, as well as the Allies
- Italy has surrendered to the Allies
- Sweden, and Finland has also joined the Allies
- Hitler and Mussolini are dead
8 - 15 January '41 - 150 miles from Berlin
"We aren't going to sit around and wait!"
- General Roger Evans, January. 1941 -
(London)
So General Roger Evans is a mad bugger, the Germans are ready to surrender, and the Soviets are not too happy about it. 1941 is turning out quite differently than what I had thought a year ago. But as we have our enemy on the ropes, cracks are starting to emerge within our own foundation. I am worried, dear friend. The fires that fuelled this war has not been put out. The conflict has not been resolved. We could be looking at an armistice to last another decade and then right back into the flames.
Grab a chair, old boy, and let's have a look at the war report for the week.
COUNTER-ATTACK ON TRIER:
Allies wounded/captured/killed: 35 000
Axis wounded/captured/killed: 40 000
Last week we believed the battle of Trier to be finished. The French had secured the town and were readying for another push. Well the Germans had other plans. Reinforced by troops from the
Siegfried line The Huns launched a large counter-attack on the province last night. It's looking to be another gruesome battle with 40 000 casualties this week alone! General Dill is attempting to hold the British posts. The French aren't happy about the situation. This new government has brought the as much death and suffering as the last, and now that they might beat the Germans early the Russians will be waiting for them.
This is where the war will be won. At 12:00 today, General Alan Brooke secured the victory by pushing back General Rommel's North army. A lesser known General Roger Evans, of the 1st armour division, used this opportunity to make a mad dash towards Magdeburg. With incredible speed and vicious tenacity General Evans have pushed through Hannover and his men are now a mere 150 miles from Berlin. He is now having to fight alone against the the German army on the west, as Rommel himself is moving in from the South. General Alan Brooke is now hurrying to catch up. Whatever the folly, we are closing in on Berlin.
THE BLOODY IRONSIDE LINE:
If the Germans are showing signs of weakness in this war it is not possible to spot it in Italy. For weeks General Busch has waged his own personal war against our own Ironside. He seems to pay little attention to the central command and has time and time attempted to breach the Italian line and taken Milan, Parma, or Bologna. We have lost a lot of lives keeping them out. And It is accumulating fast. Italy is quickly turning in to another new western front.
REDEPLOYMENT TO THE AUCHINLECK LINE:
As the ships in Halifax are returning, retrieving yet another Canadian motorised infantry division, 7 Allied divisions landed in Ålesund this week and have been diverted to transports that will take them to the
Auchinleck line in the North. They should be there on the 24th, and hopefully in the nick of time. For the Russians have already reached our border, and I fear very soon the war for Scandinavia will erupt.
OSTFRONT:
Soviet wounded/captured/killed: 50 000
Axis wounded/captured/killed: 30 000
The war on the East has not gone as well as the Russians hoped it would. Stalin has had a whole year to equip his men. to build tanks and planes. But the Soviets do not think the same way the Germans do. The Huns move independently. They are quick, flexible, and cunning. The Reds however, they're scared, clumsy, and their generals are fat fools who have made their way to the top by kissing party leaders in the arse! excuse my Scottish there, chap.
But they have the manpower, and the German people are close to breaking, the Nazi war has proven to be their worst mistake and they want out of it.
GOERING WILL STEP DOWN:
Intel's in concerning the German government and their handling of Goering's leadership. We have all the reasons to believe Goering looks to be replaced by a more Allied friendly figurehead as the Nazi party makes its last attempt to salvage the nation. We do not have a name for this new leader, but we can already see a denazification occurring within the reich. So we believe it will be a more composed and understanding figure. One who can bring the fascist and the more liberal and anti-war folk together.
FRANCE WILLING TO SIGN ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY:
They have won every large battle, and they have bled with us. But the French are tired and war weary, and it's a miracle they made it this far. The New French government did not turn out to be what the French people wanted and there are concerns from Bletchley Park that a leftist coup might occur within the year. There is but one way they can prevent it. If the French people want peace, then by signing an armistice with Germany they can prolong a land war with Russia for another year.
The next 2 weeks will be bloody, but it might appear that come February the war with the Axis, with Germany might be over.
England Expects.
