1-6/1936
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1936 would've been an interesting year for one Theodore Hoffmann. Not only did he receive his long-awaited promotion to Captain in the Heer, was also given his first assignment to a regular army unit, the 23rd regiment of General Von Niebelschutz's 11th Division. Hoffmann's letters clearly evoke a mild excitement at being assigned to the same grounds as his famous Uncle when he helped humiliate the Russians in 1914.
Hoffmann's own father flew with the squadron of a certain Goering, but the man himself was never comfortable flying and chose to join the rapidly-expanding Heer. As an officer, he would hear of more than just common knowledge regarding new factories from Krupp, Henschel, and others in the large-scale program of expanding the army, or the government's favor of long-term investments for the year and how they might inevitably circle back to aiding rearmament.
Rumors came that the Berghof in the Alps was being renovated, now with bomb-proof chambers and flak emplacements. More noteworthy were claims that the government had completely overhauled it's foreign agenda. They were reaching out covertly to similar parties in Europe; Belgium, Holland, even Norway was supposedly under consideration. If not the coming elections, than the ones afterwards would surely be impacted.
Meanwhile, the Luffwaffe was undergoing it's first major expanasion of administrative personnel around the same time as the SturmAbteilung underwent a shake-up of it's own. Of the Brownshirts, Hoffmann had mentioned little, aside from the doubt he expressed at their potential combat effectiveness for so much manpower involved.
As for the German government, there was some minor drama over news that the cabinet was being altered with Rudolf Diehls and Carl Schubert being brought in to handle Security and Intelligence respectively. Diels was put to work rooting out "dissidents" and Schubert helped refine the general R&D program of the Reich.
Hoffmann's family would've gotten the news of this change on radios like this.
A former athlete in school, Hoffmann devoured news of the Olympic games that year, between observing with curiosity that the economic cooperation program with Chiang-Kai Shek's China had been cancelled. Knowing how tensions were growing in the region, there was only one other nation that might take China's place for partnership, and it's possession of a proper navy did seem to be one factor in it's favor.
Later on, the government vocally shot down the idea of funding a revanchist group called the "Reichskolonialbund". The money instead went to the sprawling Reichslufthartministerium.
(Cropped this image upon noticing the partially obscured Swastika making up the logo for the RRG)
Overseas, odd reports were coming in from America of some rogue Catholic priest putting in a good word or two for Germany and Italy while scorning his own President. Hoffmann is known to have pondered how such a man's popularity might be "useful" insofar as keeping the US out of the next war-for one was certainly part of the plan.
More importantly relating to the matter of war, the German Army also commenced it's latest "Welle" program for mid-1936. The 25th, 26th, 33rd, and 34th infantry divisions were all called up. Plans were also made to overhaul the 3 half-motorized infantry divisions already present.
How the 10th division trained in the field. On it's own, photos like this might fool the observer into thinking it was from 1915.
The Germany army of 1935/36 was not much of a leap from the Reichswehr.
What comments can one offer in favor of the Panzer 1? It was certainly a good foundation to work off of after the Leichtraktor and Grossetraktor of the prior government. But with 3 divisions of Tanks all possessing 2 brigades each of this "foundation", German industry would be catching up with the Heer's armament needs for a long time.
Germany's primary recon armored car had a better main gun (20mm) than the panzer 1 and it's 7.92mm machine guns, a fine example of how the Heer was still flailing forward in 1936.
A/N: Finally got around to playing the BIce 10.33 campaign with all the submods like I'd planned. I chose Germany and decided to write an AAR for it. My Goal was not so much to win as to experience the full breadth of events offered in mods like TRE and GGA. How did that turn out? Well...
This will be partially based on events from the game with some changes to work around the more gamey aspects of Hoi3.
Thedore Hoffmann is of course not real, merely a representation of the PC unit's presence on various key fronts.
1936 would've been an interesting year for one Theodore Hoffmann. Not only did he receive his long-awaited promotion to Captain in the Heer, was also given his first assignment to a regular army unit, the 23rd regiment of General Von Niebelschutz's 11th Division. Hoffmann's letters clearly evoke a mild excitement at being assigned to the same grounds as his famous Uncle when he helped humiliate the Russians in 1914.
Hoffmann's own father flew with the squadron of a certain Goering, but the man himself was never comfortable flying and chose to join the rapidly-expanding Heer. As an officer, he would hear of more than just common knowledge regarding new factories from Krupp, Henschel, and others in the large-scale program of expanding the army, or the government's favor of long-term investments for the year and how they might inevitably circle back to aiding rearmament.
Rumors came that the Berghof in the Alps was being renovated, now with bomb-proof chambers and flak emplacements. More noteworthy were claims that the government had completely overhauled it's foreign agenda. They were reaching out covertly to similar parties in Europe; Belgium, Holland, even Norway was supposedly under consideration. If not the coming elections, than the ones afterwards would surely be impacted.
Meanwhile, the Luffwaffe was undergoing it's first major expanasion of administrative personnel around the same time as the SturmAbteilung underwent a shake-up of it's own. Of the Brownshirts, Hoffmann had mentioned little, aside from the doubt he expressed at their potential combat effectiveness for so much manpower involved.
As for the German government, there was some minor drama over news that the cabinet was being altered with Rudolf Diehls and Carl Schubert being brought in to handle Security and Intelligence respectively. Diels was put to work rooting out "dissidents" and Schubert helped refine the general R&D program of the Reich.
Hoffmann's family would've gotten the news of this change on radios like this.
A former athlete in school, Hoffmann devoured news of the Olympic games that year, between observing with curiosity that the economic cooperation program with Chiang-Kai Shek's China had been cancelled. Knowing how tensions were growing in the region, there was only one other nation that might take China's place for partnership, and it's possession of a proper navy did seem to be one factor in it's favor.
Later on, the government vocally shot down the idea of funding a revanchist group called the "Reichskolonialbund". The money instead went to the sprawling Reichslufthartministerium.
(Cropped this image upon noticing the partially obscured Swastika making up the logo for the RRG)
Overseas, odd reports were coming in from America of some rogue Catholic priest putting in a good word or two for Germany and Italy while scorning his own President. Hoffmann is known to have pondered how such a man's popularity might be "useful" insofar as keeping the US out of the next war-for one was certainly part of the plan.
More importantly relating to the matter of war, the German Army also commenced it's latest "Welle" program for mid-1936. The 25th, 26th, 33rd, and 34th infantry divisions were all called up. Plans were also made to overhaul the 3 half-motorized infantry divisions already present.
How the 10th division trained in the field. On it's own, photos like this might fool the observer into thinking it was from 1915.
The Germany army of 1935/36 was not much of a leap from the Reichswehr.
What comments can one offer in favor of the Panzer 1? It was certainly a good foundation to work off of after the Leichtraktor and Grossetraktor of the prior government. But with 3 divisions of Tanks all possessing 2 brigades each of this "foundation", German industry would be catching up with the Heer's armament needs for a long time.
Germany's primary recon armored car had a better main gun (20mm) than the panzer 1 and it's 7.92mm machine guns, a fine example of how the Heer was still flailing forward in 1936.
A/N: Finally got around to playing the BIce 10.33 campaign with all the submods like I'd planned. I chose Germany and decided to write an AAR for it. My Goal was not so much to win as to experience the full breadth of events offered in mods like TRE and GGA. How did that turn out? Well...
This will be partially based on events from the game with some changes to work around the more gamey aspects of Hoi3.
Thedore Hoffmann is of course not real, merely a representation of the PC unit's presence on various key fronts.
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