* Just Hitler dreaming about talking with
Guy from the future *
- Hitler : " I wholeheartedly thanks you for saving Germany"
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Guy : " It's not over yet. German will inevitably lose by July 15th 1945. That's when United States of Obesity made the first Atomic bomb."
- Hitler : " What is an A-bomb?"
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Guy : " It's a big bomb that makes much bigger bang than your biggest gun and kill 40000 Japanese in an instance in my history."
Hitler is then shown the aftermath of Hiroshima.
- Hitler : " Then why don't we conquer them first?"
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Guy : " That's what I'm about to say."
- Hitler : " Right on."
Chapter II : Literal Battle of Britain
Part 1 : Prelude
After having continuous vision dreams, Hitler decided to do something completely different. A stalemate is impossible as sooner or later the Allies will have the Atomic bomb first which is the end game for Germany unless Britain is taken out of Europe. Her navy and air force cannot be beaten one on one so military's attention must be diverted everywhere just to give the invasion force a change as nation is still ran by men and men's mentality cannot process everything at once. So, the plan is to divert the Allies attention everywhere, but more than just intelligence. This time it is for real. So instead of pretending to be a nice guy in Europe. Germany will deliberately become the baddie of Europe by a spontaneous invasion of neutral Switzland on 19th of August 1944. And mobilisation of the army along Franco-Spanish border.
After that, the Allies starts to worry about the possibility of the invasion to other neutral states such as Spain, Turkey, Sweden and also other Axis' members. All of while a renewed operation Sea Lion was kept hidden in plain sight.
So what force is being concentrated in this context? The answer is the Luftwaffle.
Bewegungskrieg (maneuver warfare) cannot be obtain if field-intelligence is not yet obtained. And field-intelligence cannot be obtained if air superiority has not yet met. By completely controlling our skies and theirs, the Heer can control the chaotic nature of the operation and dictate the enemies movement. However, a suitable ratio between the Heer and the Luftwaffle must be met. Too much knowledge is useless if no decisive action being carried out and too much action is useless if we don't know what we are doing eventually.
This one talk of the plan of invading Britain just schooled Manstein into
Hitler's Vader. Now, July's miracle were not just miracle, they were the work of one man himself. Anyway, since July 1944, Manstein has become the de-facto
Overall Chief of Staff and Co-Chief of the Army (as OKW-OB West HQ is gradually made less important than the OKH HQ) and
Foremost Prioritised Army General along with many other unexpected
Prioritised figures like Raeder, Paul Hausser, Kesselring,.... Hitler also employed a new rotating system in August 1944 so that
Prioritised Generals such as an Army General can be switched place with division commander so that they can obtain more tactical experienced and vice versa.
--- Further internal reorganisation
Politics within the Reich changes more than just diving German into Total War. Hitler became more open in the old semi fascist-monarch system. As such, he wishes to revive the German monarchy since the Empire and the Junkers. But official titles are still solely for the government, of which only people
within the same organisation can elect their peers. For example, only Oberstgenerals (Colonel General) of 7th Armee and 15th Armee can elect their peer to Generalfeldmarschall of the Heeresgruppen B only Generalfeldmarschalls can elect their peers to command the OKW. The Fuhrer can override this election to appoint someone. This also applies in appointing his successor(s). And usually within the first 3 months in the office, it is the Fuhrer's job to appoint 2-3 of his successors
openly albeit they will still resume their current jobs. If a successor hasn't been designated then a semi general election will be held between the Ministers. Hitler also wants to loosen up his current strict ideology requirement so that the Conservatives or Fascists or Moderate Liberal can join bureaucrat although the base line is that applicants must support a party. Only one Liberal Moderate party can be formed after the War. In summary, this is not particular a democrat because there is no
General Government but in each bureaucrat level exists a mini democratic government that only the Fuhrer can override the election but there are tons of them happening at any time so it's not an ideal task to micromanage.
Economic-wise, Hitler makes sure that Goebbel's Total War does not reduce the proficiency of Speer's production. He also told Speer personally that a he wants an overhaul in logistical system (mechanical parts for the tanks, planes, artillery, machine gun, more trucks,...) rather than just producing more Panzers or Planes. If a Tiger's transmission is broken down then a replacement transmission is a lot cheaper than abandoning the Tiger only to build another Tiger. He also ordered development of diesel engine for the next generation trucks and
Entwichlung Panzers.
If Germany cannot make more fuel than the Allies then she should spend less. Costly air missions on front line are abandoned in favour for a more local superiority at homeland and occasional large and short campaign like Italian campaign. All U-boats are ordered to ceased all current tasks to preparation for the
Big Event. With over ~2000 Planes defending the homeland, the Allies' raid decreased, easing the production while the Fuel consumption drops as front line becomes static on the East.
To even further re-branding Germany to legitimise the aggressive foreign policies later on. A project to revive the Roman Empire of the aryans is initiated. On 17th August 1944, Hitler Directive No.17 issued that the Great German Reich will be renamed into Roman Fuhrerreich. To make it more serious, he marched the Wehrmacht in Geneva to broadcast it internationally while burning the Geneva Convention for his future son,
Valefisk. There were some serious talks about the possibility to relocate Mussolini's Pizza Republic into Southern Italy once Allies is out of Italy so that the German can annex North and Central Italy. Despite such provocative attitude, Mussolini was specifically ordered to be kept alive to ensure a Italian Revolution would not happen and giving the unhappy people in the annexed regions a scapegoat;
a cornered animal is the most dangerous animal
To hide nature of invasion force, training for landing and creating beachheads without the support of Luftwaffle were extensively done at several Danish straits while an invasion of Sweden was thought to be from Konigsberg to Malmo. All of while the majority of the real army, (organised as militia People's Army - Volkssturm Army) is trained within the wood and only appeared at Kiel on the eve of landing day. So let's take a summary cause the timeline is confusing. Around beginning of the December, these major events are currently happening:
1) counter-attack Romanian front
2) Finnish front
3) invading Spain
4) Chasing the Allies in Italy
5) About to invade Sweden and Occupation
6) Kriegmarine were ordered to
" enjoy the Big Event". The renewed Sea Lion, code name Underlord goes like this.
7) Air battle of Dover Strait
Anyway, operation Underlord goes like this:
where the numbers are the priority of battle. 1 cannot happen if 0 is not yet succeed and repeat til the last number. Criteria is varied for different mission zones. For example 0 (submarine), 1, 4 are determined by the duration on field and casualties of being inflicted while 5, 3 ,2 are literally time table which can only be accurately coordinated by Hitler's wisdom - monetised by the
Guy from the future.
But despite all of that. The landing was tough
And excuse me WTF?