Don't you hate reloading issues... All orders' timers are reset to zero and the AI breaks off all his ground attacks. Those images do not respond entirely to reality, but I can't do otherwise.
In Flames
0000 June 21st 1944
Outskirts of Warsaw
To much surprise of German local defense, the Polish population arose once again against its oppressors, duplicating that very same Warsaw uprising happened just one year ago. Two militia divisions were formed and set the city free. Von Sponeck would deal with them, though it would take him two days to reach Warsaw. One Tactical Bomber wing was hastily retrieved to assist him to quell the rebellion as quickly as possible.
0000 June 21st 1944
Foreign Ministry. Reichtstag, Berlin.
On a slightly brighter note, the Hungarians offered the blueprints of Early Marine Division to Germany. Not that it could be of much help, but von Ribbentrop still accepted the deal in sign of accepting the gratitude of Germany's long standing allies.
After one intense and bloody day of fighting, however, Speer realized there was one more thing to worry about: Oil stockpiles.
Von Ribbentrop quickly arranged some deals with Romania and Bulgaria. Those were costly deals, but it gave Germany another 10-15 days of Oil autonomy; if he had not arranged such deals, German troops would become like sitting ducks in less than ten hours.
On the same day, von Ribbentrop received a detailed report from Germany's Japanese ally, depicting the status of their Armed forces and their ground situation in China. It did not look good.
Japanese industry was fairly good. They forgot to include within the report details about their stockpiles, but von Ribbentrop knew for sure they were short on Energy.
"How on Earth can those fools manage that?" thought von Ribbentrop when looking at the map. Some Chinese militia could bring a lot of trouble to the IJA by simply capturing one small piece of territory.
The Japanese envoy did want perhaps to show the pride of his nation by handing a not-so-bad, in paper, report about the Japanese Armed Forces. They did not look that bad afterall, but once again von Ribbentrop knew many of those ground divisions were understrenght. Airforce was, on the opposite, quite good, while the IJN was a mere shadow of its former self and he doubted it would enter 1945 with the same number of vessels. He could only hope they would enter 1945.
0000 June 21st 1944
3. Panzerarmee, Polotsk, Russia
Field Marshall Kesselring knew it was coming. His fourteen understrenght divisions would not stand much against twenty-five Soviet divisions. He was retreating to Swieciany anyways, so it was everything according to plans, and so he issued the retreating order once again. Similar orders were issued by General Straube in Mozyr.
0100 June 21st 1944
1. Armee Headquarters, Lyon, Southern France
A messenger informed General Burgdorf about a strange event "Herr General, we received a report showing enemy troop movement East to our position!"
"What are you talking about? Did the Allies land in Marseille...? Hand me over the report!" General Burgdorf looked at the paper: one entire French militia division appeared from nowhere in Grenoble.
"How on Earth could they... Ah well, tell our soldiers they are going to have some target practice today." Burgdorf dismissed the messenger.
0100 June 21st 1944
Armeegruppe Südukraine, Iasi, Romania
The Soviets had broken off their attack on Ismail. Von Weichs was not going to fight an enemy in such circumstancies, and even if he could win this battle, he was not going to waste precious lives against an useless objective. He received soon after authorization from von Manstein to stop the attack, and so he did.
Things looked grim, but they could've been much worse.