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The Rise of Tyranny

After the signing of the Treaty of Versailles the world was ready for peace of course the world would reach upon another, dark and trying time. After the relative boom of the 20s the U.S economy was the first to feel the pain on October 29th 1929 or "Black Tuesday" as it is now famously named. The Roaring Twenties, the decade that led up to the Crash, was a time of wealth and excess, and despite caution of the dangers of speculation, many believed that the market could sustain high price levels. Shortly before the crash, economist Irving Fisher famously proclaimed, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.". It came as a surprise to many foolish share holders when share prices on the NYSE collapsed. Stock prices fell on that day and they continued to fall, at an unprecedented rate, for a full month.

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Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, a famous Depression Era image


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Crowd outside the NYSE

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NYSE plummets, the world is soon to follow


The rest of the world felt the effects by Friday (Also known as "Black Friday"). The Colombian Caracas Stock Exchange (CSE) fell like a boulder off a cliff, losses in France and Britain reached thousands of dollars. Germany, already beaten and battered, was hit the worst already losing the resource rich Alsace-Lorraine and the demilitarized Rhineland, along with most of East Prussia. Not only was stock market plummeting but the German economy was facing hyperinflation. by the early 30s the newly founded Wiemar Republic was under heavy attack by both left wing and right wing extremists.

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Many families in Colombia were displaced due to "power farming"

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A man goes to "bed" in Quito, Colombia

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Building a road in Medellin, not one boy was over the age of 17 when the picture was taken

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1923-issue 50 million mark banknote. Worth approximately $1 US when printed, this sum would have been worth approximately $12 million, nine years earlier. The note was practically worthless a few weeks later due to continued inflation.


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1 Million Mark notes, used as note paper, October 1923​

Most notably however, was a short stout with a funny mustache named Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist party. Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor on the morning of 30 January 1933 in what some observers later described as a brief and indifferent ceremony. By early February, a mere week after Hitler's assumption of the chancellorship, the government had begun to clamp down on the opposition. Meetings of the left-wing parties were banned and even some of the moderate parties found their members threatened and assaulted. Measures with an appearance of legality suppressed the Communist Party in mid-February and included the plainly illegal arrests of Reichstag deputies. The Reichstag Fire on 27 February was blamed by Hitler's government on the Communists. Hitler used the ensuing state of emergency to obtain the assent of President von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree the following day. The decree invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution and "indefinitely suspended" a number of constitutional protections of civil liberties, allowing the Nazi government to take swift action against political meetings, arresting and killing the Communists. Hitler and the Nazis exploited the German state's broadcasting and aviation facilities in a massive attempt to sway the electorate, but this election yielded a scant majority of 16 seats for the coalition. At the Reichstag elections, which took place on 5 March, the NSDAP obtained 17 million votes. The Communist, Social Democrat and Catholic Centre votes stood firm. This was the last multi-party election until the end of the Third Reich twelve years later and the last all-German election for fifty-seven years. Hitler addressed disparate interest groups, stressing the necessity for a definitive solution to the perpetual instability of the Weimar Republic. He now blamed Germany's problems on the Communists, even threatening their lives on 3 March. Former Chancellor Heinrich Brüning proclaimed that his Centre Party would resist any constitutional change and appealed to the President for an investigation of the Reichstag fire. Hitler's successful plan was to induce what remained of the now Communist-depleted Reichstag to grant him, and the Government, the authority to issue decrees with the force of law. The hitherto Presidential Dictatorship hereby was to give itself a new legal form. On 15 March the first cabinet meeting was attended by the two coalition parties, representing a minority in the Reichstag: The Nazis and the DNVP led by Alfred Hugenberg (196 + 52 seats). According to the Nuremberg Trials this cabinet meeting's first order of business was how at last to achieve the complete counter-revolution by means of the constitutionally allowed Enabling Act, requiring two-thirds parliamentary majority. This Act would, and did, lead Hitler and the NSDAP toward his goal of unfettered dictatorial powers.

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Adolf Hitler, 1934

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Members of the Communist Roter Frontkämpferbund marching through Berlin-Wedding, 1927

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Hitler and Mussolini in Venice, 1934 (anyone else find the expressions on their faces funny?)

As much of the world struggled so did Latin America. Brazil. Argentina, Uruguay, and Peru fell under right wing fascist dictatorships following Mussolini's example, although it would take several years for the fascists to consolidate their power, as communist uprisings occurred almost daily in said countries, they remained strong. Although very good at crushing revolutions on the home front, Peru's diplomacy was, lacking, to say the least, although most of its economy was in shambles it continued to fund right wing dissidents in Colombia, creating tensions for the two countries that peaked on August 23rd 1935 when both nations met to blows after a short border skirmish went to all out war. But the war was not to last, Colombian forces surrounded Peru's capital Lima in a matter of weeks using veteran troops from the Great War who had been participating in wargames for months in the jungle and forests of central and southern Colombia. By November 15th Lima was surrounded and only a few garrisons were left and on November 17th the port was blockaded, by noon Colombian soldiers moved in on the city three days later the government, still in the city, signaled their surrender. The Peruvian Dictator was sentenced to life in exile along with some of his cabinet. A new democratic government, loyal to Colombia was installed with elections to occur in January. Although the governments of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay protested at the League of Nations and to the Colombian government they were ignored. A quasi-Cold War had begun in South America, with Colombia being supplied by Britain and France and the Fascists by Germany and Italy. Colombia, Peru, and the isolationist Chile were the last bastions of Democracies in South America.

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Colombian Army making maneuvers to counter a Peruvian attack.​

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Okay this should be the last update until the actual game so I may update later today.

@ColonelIronBoot- Thanks nope but will probably do so later on in World War II
@Kovan09- Thanks!

Also what since war is practacly inevitabltale between Colombia and the South American fascists what do you guys think should trigger it?
 
A great series of posts. None of the events seem really implausible.

On the South-American war, I can see several scenario's, depending on when you wan't to go to war:

I think Colombia's intervention in Peru gives a direct course of action, while a fascist coup in Chili might cause Colombian intervention.

If you wish to tie Colombia's entry to WW2-events you can either let Brazil invade the Guyana's during the German blitz (giving Colombia a reason to intervene) or have German submarines hit Colombian freighters (oil) hard.
 
Chapter 1: Awakening the Giant


Bogota, Colombia January 1st 1936


President Alfonso Pumarejo woke out of bed, he seemed to still be phased from last nights party, celebrating his inauguration as president. It was the start of a new year, time to start fresh but all that remained was last years baggage, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay along with the Peruvian government-in-exile currently residing in Brazil, were calling for the elimination of the new democratically elected government. Now was horrible time, it seemed as though everything had fallen upon President Alfonso, the Colombian economy was recovering but still heavily debilitated and the new tensions along the border seemed to make stock holders jumpy. In Europe, a continent that had only two decades ago had experienced one of the most destructive wars in human history was falling into the abyss, as Hitler showed no end to his campaign for "the betterment of the German people". In Asia war between the Chinese and the Japanese seemed inevitable as tensions over Manchuria rose and the Chinese Civil War dragged on and on. It seemed that while 1936 was a new year it was only bringing more of the same. War.
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The Re-militarization of the Rhineland had occurred on March 8th 1936 was a, as many say, a pivotal event that served as a catalyst for the rest of Nazi Germany's actions in the Interbellum period before World War II.

Under Articles 42 and 44 of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles—imposed on Germany by the Allies after the Great War—Germany was "forbidden to maintain or construct any fortification either on the Left bank of the Rhine or on the Right bank to the west of a line drawn fifty kilometers to the East of the Rhine". If a violation "in any manner whatsoever" of this Article took place, this "shall be regarded as committing a hostile act...and as calculated to disturb the peace of the world".

The Locarno Treaties, signed in 1925 by Germany, France, Italy and Britain, stated that the Rhineland should continue its demilitarized status permanently. Locarno was regarded as important as it was a voluntary German acceptance of the Rhineland's demilitarized status as opposed to the diktat (dictate) of Versailles.

The Versailles Treaty also stipulated that the Allied military forces would withdraw the Rhineland in 1935, although they actually withdrew in 1930. The British delegation at the Hague Conference on German reparations in 1929 (headed by Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and including Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary) proposed that the reparations paid by Germany should be reduced and that the British and French forces should evacuate the Rhineland. Henderson persuaded the skeptical French Premier, Aristide Briand, to accept that all Allied occupation forces would evacuate the Rhineland by June 1930. The last British soldiers left in late 1929 and the last French soldiers left in June 1930.

As the German Wehrmacht entered the Rhine only formal protests were sent by Britain and France, the Age of Appeasement had just begun and so had Hitler's plan for Europe and the world.

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40 miles for Medellin, Colombia July 17th 1936

"Honey wake up! Your father needs help in the fields!" Yelled Mrs. Caballero
The 14 year old boy slowly rose out of bed and put on his working clothes, getting ready for another long day in the fields.

"I'm 14 years old and yet I work as if I were a man of 40, when is it going to be time for me to go be a kid maybe even go to school damnit." Said Humberto Caballero

Although only 14 Humberto had been out of school for 4 years as his family had been hit hard by the Depression and found they could not find the money to pay for his education. At the age of 14, Humberto had been a working "man" for three of them.

After ten minutes Humberto rushed downstairs and ate his breakfast two scrambled eggs and a quarter of a glass of milk. Half because his father had already drank the rest.

"What a moron," thought Humberto
"He could have at least left some for mom."

Humberto left his milk alone and told his mother to drink it.
"No Humber its fine drink it yourself." She said plainly while smiling but Humberto new that the heart reveals what the smiles betray; in other words she wanted the milk
"No its fine" said Humberto after he finished his eggs
"You'll need your strength today" Said his father
"No its okay she can drink it" Humberto said coldly

Most of Humberto's problems with his father stemmed from the fact that he was the town drunk and had last night arrived drunk from the tavern his family earned so little and half of it was squandered in booze. Not to mention the man was an asshole, plain and simple.

"Boy didn't you hear me, drink the milk" said Mr. Caballero
"No, I don't want any, thanks, mother can have it." replied Humberto without breaking his stride for the door, big mistake.
"LOOK AT ME WHEN I TALK TO YOU!" yelled Mr. Caballero with such a fury that the house shook

Humberto payed no attention and went and grabbed the newspaper, something that always saved him his father had the attention span of a squirrel when he had the news paper.


It read in big bold letters


SPANISH CIVIL WAR


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Somehow I guess we'll see the Caballero's again. Good update.
 
@KaiserMuffin- Nope Argentina is in the Axis fold, for now anyway ;)
@FlyingDutchie- Thanks! And yes you'll be seeing a lot from them. ;)

Note: Okay guys this barbarity of an update to me as of 11:30 PM EST and considering I cannot sleep (despite being exhausted ) there may or may not be inconsistencies, grammar, spelling, or punctuation mistakes so please bare with me ;).

Chapter One: If its a Fight They Want.....

In order to understand my countries current state in the world, one must go back and know the events of the 30s and realize why we chose our path, why we sent so many to die on the streets, why countryman had to kill countryman.

Alfredo Iguita, Famous Argentinean Author


For many the Argentinean Revolution was one romance and the will of freedom, for many others that same struggle was one that later evolved (or devolved) into persecution, censorship and violence. The Revolution began after the public execution of one of the Partido Comunista de Argentina's (Argentinean Communist Party or ACP) leaders. Instead of becoming an "example" of which would inspire fear into the hearts of dissidents of the current Autocratic regime, it became a catalyst, the door to Pandora's Box hadn't just been opened, it was broken off and thrown around.

Within days riots began all over the country, thousands took to the streets, all with there own political agenda. All political parties had been banned when the Fascists took power but the strongest met clandestinely, in alleyways or in homes far from Buenos Aires. The ACP was the strongest of these parties as many in their frustration with the current extreme right regime fell to the arms of the Far Left. The Seven Day Civil war which raged from December 6th to December 13th was much shorter than the Colombian Thousand Day War or the Spanish Civil War recently won by the Republican forces, but had almost as much casualties as each. Finally at noon on December 14th, ACP troops stormed the Casa Rosada (or Pink House) and executed President Justo in his office. Change had come to Argentina with a new communist government officially guaranteed by the Soviet Union, only time would tell if the change was positive or just a new dictator under a different party.

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New Argentine Cabinet

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La Casa Rosada​

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Okay, relatively short update, and this idea just came to my head so again excuse me if it isn't 100% elaborated

Also I would like to say that I'm putting something personal if you could put it that way, my grandfather is Humberto Caballero (The kid in the last update) and most of the things I wrote were true (except the deadbeat dad he'll come to be more important later in the story) I did this to make the aar have more of a feel to it, also it keeps me into it so overall win/win.
 
Chapter One: If Its a Fight They Want..... Part Two


December 15th 1:24 A.M. Casa de Nariño Bogota D.F. Colombia

The Presidential Conference room was in a state of complete and total commotion. Aides and secretaries scuttled bringing President Alfonso Pumarejo intelligence reports from Argentina.

Many reports signaled the army had risen up against the new Communist regime, while others said the army had in fact orchestrated the coup. Nothing was certain or concrete, nothing was truth and nothing was a lie.

"Its great to know that despite all the money we have invested in intelligence we cannot get a single fact out of the Argentine Situation." Said the President with a sly look at his Chief of Intelligence, who was looking very embarrassed.

"Sorry sir, I will get to the bottom of the lack of information as soon as possible..." the Chief said with a look of embarrassment, he could lose his job for this.

"Just make sure it does not occur again" Replied Alfonso with a cool look upon his face,
"What else is there to review, I have a to take an early flight in the morning." He continued

Everyone in the room looked at Alfonso strangely, there had been no record of his trip in anything.

"Not to worry, its something personal, my wife and I will be meeting President Roosevelt of the United States tomorrow for dinner... we'll be back the same day...." Said Alfonso, the words hanged in the air.

Awkward silence, lots of it.

"Well since there is nothing else to discuss than I might as well return to bed, good night." He said while rising with a smile.

After he left an aide was heard saying....

"Well then, anyone want to remind me why the people voted for a madman for office!"


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Alfonso went to his long time friend's dinner in order to congratulate him on his Election Victory, though the topic of the situation was not touched at the dinner, Latin America was one of the head topics at the State Dinner several months later.​



August 18th 1937


REPUBLICAN VICTORY IN SPAIN


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Humberto read the caption on the newspaper, the picture was of the Spanish President Manuel Azaña holding a similar newspaper upon the balcony of the Presidential Palace in Madrid amongst cheering crowds.

Humberto continued walking towards his grandfathers house, which was only a mile away. He saw his grandfather as the only man he could truly call father, he always gave him sweets as a child and always thought it hard to believe that he and his father were even related much less father and son. He normally visited his grandfather on Sundays, after mass of course, but today he had a different pretense. He had recently found a journal in the attic on Thursday, it was his fathers. He learned something very hard to swallow, his father was a veteran of the Great War, amazing! He had been part of the Colombian Expeditionary force, and had been part of one of the last Allied offensives, his father a patriot! Unbelievable!

He approached his grandfathers home and knocked on the door, where his grandmother greeted him and offered him the usual an arepa con tomates, which he promptly declined as he wasn't hungry. He asked if he could see grandpa and went out back to see that he was playing cards with an old army buddy (Humberto's grandfather was a veteran of the Spanish-American War so when it says old I mean OLD) he asked if they could have a private talk.

"What do you want to know, Mijo?" began grandfather

"There's something I found recently and I was wondering if you could set some light on it?" Humberto told him all about the journal and what he found out about his father's history."

"Well, you got me there Humber, what could I tell you that I am very proud of your father, my son, for standing for his country and for his people, should I tell you that I am disappointed at what he has become. You know he wasn't always like this, a pompous jackass that is known only for his drunkenness and coldness, the son I knew was a great example of a man with a future, a man who knew what he wanted and would stop at nothing to earn it, friends, women, grades, you name it. But his story is a tragic one, war changed him, he might have survived the war without a scratch, but he died on that battlefield as well. You see Humber, there are some wounds that never heal. I don't know what he saw during the war, but inside he died and became the man he is today. That's all I'm willing to tell you Humberto, and I apologize, but somethings are best left unspoken."

"Of course, gramps I understand." Said Humberto with a tone of sadness for having put his grandfather through such a painful situation.

Afterwords he left and headed home, to a father that wasn't really his father, just a shell of a man that once was.
 
Good updates. Think the Caballero-parts are a good addition.

Is commie Argentina part of the Comintern?
 
Who knows. What we do know is someone is loading up as other sides then messing with their sliders! :eek:o

Yeah it's a lot faster than an event, does this cause a problem at all? Because it can easily be fixed;)
 
@KaiserMuffin- Well, I had an event go off for Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina called "Mobilization" we all receive infantry, tanks, transports, more resources and every country but Colombia received some navel units. :D





Fascist Consolidation Part 1


Colombian Presidential Elections

After guiding the country through the Colombo-Peruvian War of 1934 President Alfonso Pumarejo once again faced elections in May 1938 against Conservative candidate Joaquin Fernandez, a staunch anti-communist who believed that "Colombia! Revel in Your Glory ". Fernandez was seen by the opposition as a man with dictatorial tendecies as was evident to many by the way he ruled the Province of Bolívar (Ecuador, Colombia), as a king, and creating a much stronger central government. At the Conservative Convention held in Quito he openly excepted his nomination with a short speech on January 31st 1938



"My fellow Colombians, for four years we have suffered a great loss in our national pride, four years too long! But no, no more, no more Communist "Social Reconstruction Programs"! For too long has our government been in bed with the socialists and communists, we the conservatives will bring upon a new dawn for our glorious nation.

I must ask the many who have come to Quito, to witness this new dawn to take to the polls this May. Help me save our country from the evils of Socialism!

Colombia! Revel in your Glory!"






Fernandez was openly critical of the President's "Social Reconstruction Programs" (SRP) , which was based off of the United State's "New Deal" program, led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was a close personal friend of President Alfonso Pumarejo who studied in with him in Harvard University. He deemed the SRP to be the "grooming of Colombian society for Communism".

Come May most surveys indicated that Pumarejo had the lead, historians believe that Fernandez was "too radical" to win, and despite the constant attacks from him, Pumarejo acted as many believed a "gentleman" and simply smiled and continued on the discussion.

And on May 14th at midnight the election results were released with clear victory for Alfonso Pumarejo winning a 63% of the vote.



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Colombian Cabinet 1938​



Austrian Anschluss



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On the morning of 12 March, the 8th Army of the German Wehrmacht crossed the German–Austrian border. They did not face resistance by the Austrian Army – on the contrary, the German troops were greeted by cheering Austrians with Hitler salutes, Nazi flags and flowers. Because of this the Nazi invasion is also called the Blumenkrieg (war of flowers). For the Wehrmacht this invasion was the first big test of its machinery. Although the invading forces were badly organized and coordination between the units was poor, it mattered little because no fighting took place. It did, however, serve as a warning to German commanders in future military operations, such as that against Czechoslovakia.

Hitler's car crossed the border in the afternoon at Braunau, his birthplace. In the evening, he arrived at Linz and was given an enthusiastic welcome in the city hall. The atmosphere was so intense that Göring, in a telephone call that evening, stated: "There is unbelievable jubilation in Austria. We ourselves did not think that sympathies would be so intense."
Heldenplatz, "Day of the Austrian legion", 2 April 1938

Hitler's further travel through Austria changed into a triumphal tour that climaxed in Vienna, on 2 April 1938, when around 200,000 Austrians gathered on the Heldenplatz (Square of Heroes) to hear Hitler proclaim the Austrian Anschluss. Hitler later commented: "Certain foreign newspapers have said that we fell on Austria with brutal methods. I can only say: even in death they cannot stop lying. I have in the course of my political struggle won much love from my people, but when I crossed the former frontier (into Austria) there met me such a stream of love as I have never experienced. Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators."


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The Anschluss was given immediate effect by legislative act on 13 March, subject to ratification by a plebiscite. Austria became the province of Ostmark, and Seyss-Inquart was appointed Governor. The plebiscite was held on 10 April and officially recorded a support of 99.73% of the voters.
Voting ballot from 10 April 1938. The ballot text reads "Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Reich that was enacted on 13 March 1938, and do you vote for the party of our leader Adolf Hitler?"

Hitler's brutal methods to emasculate any opposition were immediately implemented in the weeks preceding the plebiscite. Even before the first German soldier crossed the border, Heinrich Himmler and a few SS officers landed in Vienna to arrest prominent representatives of the First Republic such as Richard Schmitz, Leopold Figl, Friedrich Hillegeist and Franz Olah. The plebiscite itself was subject to large-scale propaganda.

While historians concur that the result itself was not manipulated, the voting process was neither free nor secret. Officials were present directly beside the voting booths and received the voting ballot by hand (in contrast to a secret vote where the voting ballot is inserted into a closed box). In some remote areas of Austria the referendum on the independence of Austria on 13 March had been held despite the Wehrmacht's presence in Austria (it took up to three days to occupy every part of Austria). For instance, in the village of Innervillgraten a majority of 95% voted for Austria's independence.
 
@KaiserMuffin- Well, I had an event go off for Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina called "Mobilization" we all receive infantry, tanks, transports, more resources and every country but Colombia received some navel units. :D

Typical! How will Columbia save the Czechs from the Jaws of Germania! :rofl:
 
Do I smell a possible Ecuadorian rebellion?
 
Fascist Consolidation Part II: The Amazonian Crisis​

At the start of the first six months of Alfonso Pumarejo's second term in office the situation became critical as Brazil and Uruguay joined the Axis Powers in November of 1938. Overnight this changed the Colombian foreign policy and sent the military into high alert as the latest intelligence reports showed a worrying increase in supplies and rare materials being brought in from Germany to the new South American Axis.


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Brazilian Troops moving to the Colombo-Brazilian border​


This only worsened when in January 513 billion barrels of technically recoverable heavy oil are in Colombian Venezuela Orinoco Oil Belt.

This area contains one of the world's largest recoverable oil accumulation. And with war seeming unavoidable as the Treaty of Munich and the Czechoslovakian territorial cessation of the German speaking Sudetenland, not to mention of the recent rumors of a closer political relationship of the USSR with Nazi Germany the oil stocks were of the highest importance to the Axis.

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Location of the Orinoco Petrol Belt (OPB)​

Hitler's clever scheme was to keep Colombia out of the war by allying itself with Brazil and Uruguay, and should Colombia join the Allies than Brazil could quickly take Venezuela, or so he thought.

In February President Pumarejo flew to London to meet with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and was even granted a special audience with George VI. Pumarejo and Chamberlain met to assure cordial relations and signed a pact, that later signed by the Colombian Congress, included Colombia as a "Affiliated Nation" to the Allies, essentially Colombia would receive special trading rights and a special clause included that the nations of Britain and France would help Colombia exploit in the new Orinoco Petrol Belt, as it is now called. Of course due to the heavily isolationist stance in the Colombian public, the pact was met with a hugely negative response and mass demonstrations were held in all major cities from Quito to Caracas, with an especially large one in Bogota outside of La Casa de Nariño.

The crisis peaked in April as Brazil made another public denouncement of this agreement. A week later Brazil mobilized its forces and moved them north to the Colombian border. President Getúlio Vargas of Brazil stated that



"The Colombian meddling in South America has served to only further there pervasive plan to divide and conquer our nations, now is the time to say no more! We are not above total war for the advancement of the Brazilian people!"​

When later asked to comment on the Brazilian head of state's speech President Pumarejo remarked

"We all know what they want, the oil. And all I must say is this, Getúlio, if you want it come and get it."​



White Flag Warriors

Come March 1939 when Germany invaded the "rump" of Czechoslovakia tensions went to an unprecedented high in Colombia, despite the event happening across the Atlantic in Europe many believed that if Colombia remained in any way affiliated with the Allies war would than spread to the Americas. Thus one of the most famous Anti-War groups began in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia began. The White Flag Warriors led by Emiliano Lopez preached isolationism and pacifism. Their motto was "We'd rather make our children martyrs than murderers! We'd rather make our children White Flag Warriors! On June 8th 1939 over 6,000 men, women and children packed the streets of Bogota dressed in white and chanted "Do what you want to our courage! Ask us what you will! Demand from us a sacrifice! But do not make us kill!


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Anti-War Rally outside of Caracas Stock Exchange

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The White Flag Warriors in Action