Resistance: Fall of Man - An Oral History

[Strategos' Risk]

Anyways, it's all idle speculation on my part, but I just thought that if the pre-Chimeran history of the world is better (outside of Russia), with the lack of a Great Depression, no fascism, a much much earlier European Union, and presumably a better League of Nation, then perhaps Latin America would be better off. So by the time the Chimerans appear, they could (not that necessarily would) send an expeditionary force to Europe to help in the evacuation.

Besides, someone's got to rescue the Pope and his cardinals! Not to mention all of the treasures of the Vatican...

 

[Pzt_Dragoon47]

Oh yeah, it's a big wall lol, it looks like the walls of Mordor in Lord of The Rings but made out of metal lol. The rest of the Americas are just as isolationist, but they didn't go as far as to build a wall. Still, the wall was broken and the Chimera are going to go "AHHHH MOTHERLAND!" all over the United States soon.
Plus, to answer about the expeditionary forces, once Germany fell, the entire defense of Europe fell apart, you could call them a delaying force as many civilians left through France, but the Germans couldn't hold long enough for much of anyone to make it out...sad really, there really wasn't any way to evacuate the entire European populace out lol.

 

[VILenin]

Awesome AAR TreizeV! The oral history style is a particularly good fit and allows for some very poignant and moving moments.

 

[TreizeV]

The Battle of Germany - Part 4​

Buenos Aires, Federation of Argentina​

[South America’s largest city, thanks to an influx of German and other European refugees, is bustling with activity. The latest results in the election show the socialist reform party leading by a landslide. With both United Nations and Argentinian soldiers presiding over the election, the air is thick with both tension and excitement. I meet Otto Von Reich at a street side café. Though he is only twenty years old, the strains and wounds on his face show a man aged beyond his years.]


With the assumption of power by the National Socialist Worker’s Party, Germany essentially fell into chaos. Not only because of the Chimeran advance, but also because the Nazis, as you call them, essentially cut off the head of the former German leadership. Most of them were liquidated in Berlin, many of their prominent supporters merely ‘disappeared’. Not only that, but the Nazis sought to counteract every order to evacuate, calling the army to halt its tactical fighting withdrawals to the west. The Fuhrer denounced it as ‘shameful and cowardly’ and ‘not worthy of the German race’. Some units, mostly those with Waffen SS planted within them, obeyed this order, heading to reinforce Berlin. Others, with more stout Weimar officers in them, continued the march westwards. Because of this, the country fell into a state of civil war overnight as a series of proxy battles broke out around the country. A division would fight another for control of a choke point, while a tank division defending a bridge leading to the west may be assaulted by both German soldiers and civilians, eager to get away from the Chimera.

The Fuhrer must have planned everything in advance, as I look back on it, he had his fanatical SS units posted at every bridge crossing and road to the west, while the Loyalist forces, those immediately in front of the Chimeran advance, had to choose between getting devoured by the Chimera or shot in the back by the SS divisions. Most choose the latter route. The rest of the UED leaders meanwhile, panicked at seeing one of their allies fall away so swiftly, and there were rumors of a French planned attack on German soil to destroy the Nazis.

Of course, there was no way I would have known all of this was happening. Since I was in Berlin, and we only had the now government controlled media to pay attention to. The Fuhrer set about halting the evacuation of Berlin, reasoning that to show fear in the face of the Chimera would only serve to cause panic and a mass stampede to France.

I was one of the refugees from Danzig you see, one of those ‘lucky’ ones who had been evacuated to safety before the entire region fell to the invaders. What they didn’t tell you was how poorly we were treated after that. Most of the medical supplies and food had fallen swiftly to the invader’s advance, and more and more supplies were essentially directed to the front as the Chimeran advance got more and more intense. We were scared, pissed, tired and hungry, little surprise most of us paid attention when the National Socialists claimed the war was being run by incompetents who would retreat until there was no more Germany.

At this point, I was willing to believe anything they told me. I had spent the last few weeks with barely adequate food, sleep and clothes. I was still wearing the same flea ridden jacket I brought with me from Danzig. I don’t think anyone else in my crowd thought differently, even as the party leaders threw some quips about how we were a ‘superior’ race, and how we must act to rid Germany of all the weak ones that were damaging our war effort. We had no business defending Poland, they shouted at us, no reason to waste good German lives defending a bunch of people who didn’t deserve their own country. It was venomous, yes, but it really got our blood worked up as we helped dig the trenches and fortifications around Berlin. We would show those cowards at the front what real soldiers did.

And that was how you started out as part of the Volkssturm (People’s attack force)?

There was no reason not to really back then. We were all scared and angry at the fact that we couldn’t control our situation. Participating was what got us to release most of our pent up frustrations. We not only felt like we were doing our part to defend the Fatherland, but they fed and clothed us too, I cannot tell you how many people this won over.

But the front line units retreating from Oder, what happened to them?

The Fuhrer granted safety to those who would join us in the defense of Berlin, and a few did, but most of them under Generals Guderian and Manstein opted to decline the Fuhrer’s offer. We essentially wrote them off. They were not ‘true Germans’, the government told us.

What was the Nazi government’s stance on the Chimera?

We heard the grand pronouncements of the Fuhrer everyday, sometimes we suspected it was on a voice recording, how we would ‘throw the subhumans back into the depths of Asia.’ And that for every German who died against them, we would ‘kill a hundred more’ of them. Boastful pronouncements, and the population, we…. ate it all up, happily working in sheer ignorant bliss even as the Chimera completely broke through the Oder line within the next few days.

No, they told us, the real enemies we had to focus on first were the ones that undermined the German army from the start, even as early as the Great war, then we can start fighting as a united front against the monsters. They did it slowly at first, little by little so we wouldn’t notice. But certain people would be plucked out of their work areas, and they would simply disappear. Political dissidents, handicapped personnel, and other ‘traitors’. We didn’t find out what happened till after, how they were all sent Eastwards, exiled out of the city to meet their fates. The Fuhrer essentially planned to have several ‘fortress’ cities set up in the East, filled with these refugees. His reasoning was that for each hour these strongholds held out, we would have more time to prepare the defenses of Berlin and the rest of Germany. What he neglected to mention was that these ‘strongholds’ barely had enough weapons, fuel and food to last a week on itself, let alone under constant attack by the Chimera. No, I think we realize now what his true goal was.

Didn’t anyone protest or even question what was happening?

Who had time to? When we were all scheduled to work fifteen hours stretches digging trenches and constructing barricades. Besides, we were told that the Fuhrer was doing all he could to rescue the German nation from destruction. We choose to believe him…

[Otto pauses for a moment, as if he were in deep contemplation. Then he continues]

We were assigned streets to defend. By this time the Chimera had already attacked our first units on the Eastern villages close to the city.

The first cracks in our Fuhrer’s judgment were starting to appear at this point. We spent the better part of a week digging trenches and foxholes around the city on his orders, but what happens after we finish? We find that we’ve dug too much, and that we don’t have enough troops at all to fill all of them! Then again, the Fuhrer never paraded the army in front of us, or more accurately, the part of the army he controlled. There were literally miles of empty trenches and foxholes around the city limits! Our defensive line was nothing more than a line on a map.

The first firefights started breaking out. Not between us and the Chimera, but between the SS divisions and the fleeing UED and German troops! At this point, even the most ardent supporters of the current regime started questioning the wisdom of shooting our own people when the real invader lay at our doorstep. It didn’t take a military genius to figure out which was the bigger threat, but to us, it seemed like the Fuhrer was more concerned with taking revenge on his past rivals than focusing on his current enemy. The first of my group began deserting, civilian conscripts leaving their posts and following the UED units as they fled west.

Didn’t you feel the urge to go with them?

To be honest, I did. But what can I say? I was a different person back then. Let the cowards run I scoffed at their lack of will. Hated them for it. If these men had declared for the UED I wouldn’t have mind, they would at least have been honest to themselves. No the way I saw it, they deserted twice. Once to their former command, and now to their own conscience. It was every good German’s duty to defend their fatherland to the death. Honest to god, I truly believed that.

The Fuhrer gave us one last speech even as the last of the German tanks started fleeing into the city, followed closely by a large black mass we saw stretching to the horizon.

“Not one step back! Proud men of the German army! We shall throw back no matter his numbers! Let us not be afraid of the subhuman, for he is nothing more than a wild animal! He attacks blindly, thinking his ferocity can offset his natural lack of martial prowess as a soldier, but they have picked the wrong people to attack. The German people have been champions waging war for over two millennia! So let them come! We will show them the true meaning of what it means to be a soldier! To fight and die with honor!”

We cheered at the speech, which continued on for the better part of ten minutes. At that point I forgot everything, the gloomy attitude of the veterans, the lack of troops and the unused foxholes. I literally felt my heart burst with pride as he spoke. Finally! We have a leader who would give us a great victory over the invader. Finally, Salvation had come for Germany in her hour of need!

The first shells of the Chimeran army landed straight after that, covering the city in a shroud of dust and flame. It all happened so fast, like a rude awakening, and I was snapped out of my euphoria.

Holding my Panzerfaust by my side, I waited next to one of our machine guns, looking at the distance as the wave of invaders grew larger and larger….

The battle for Berlin had begun in earnest.

To be continued​

 

[ColossusCrusher]

You said Westwards.
Did you mean Eastwards?
Great update, of course.

 

[Enewald]

Grear work nazis... o
So Berlin is full of citizens, some SS there and there, some Volksturm, and they are shooting their own army?

great!

 

[Kurt_Steiner]

When is von Stauffenberg when one needs him?

Shit. That Adolf never changes... That idea of the Festungen... mmmh... as if to provide the Chimera with more "cannon fooder"... so... odd.

 

[KanaX]

I doubt this battle of Berlin lasts as long as the one in OTL.

 

[unmerged(51002)]

Wow. Hitler really is insane. There can't have been stress from the war to crack him up, as that didn't happen, so does Hitler in this timeline have syphillis/Parkinson's to make him so crazy?

 

[Edzako]

Wow. Hitler really is insane. There can't have been stress from the war to crack him up, as that didn't happen, so does Hitler in this timeline have syphillis/Parkinson's to make him so crazy?

No he just have positive thinking

 

[stnylan]

Poor idiot that he was then.

 

[unmerged(85800)]

nazis messing up everything again. tsk.

He attacks blindly, thinking his ferocity can offset his natural lack of marital prowess as a soldier

did you mean martial prowess? or was hitler saying the chimera are bad because they are crap at marriage? :rofl:

great update by the way

 

[unmerged(87106)]

And so the battle for Berlin is coming...

This should be good!



asd

 

[TreizeV]

ColossusCrusher Yep i did mean eastwards corrected. haha thanks!

Enewald Bound to be a very chaotic battle indeed

Kurt_Steiner Well considering that the only alternative is to retreat west, into the arms of the UED he really had no other alternative

KanaX Haha nope, the soviets never had spire missiles

Alexus Prlly just delusion. I mean, WWII never happened, great depression never happened, he sulked in opposition for almost two decades to get power, and now that he has, he's one pissed off mofo

Edzako Thats one way of putting it

stnylan Indeed, lol

BritishImperial Well obviously, i mean, imagine being married to a Chimera! that marriage would last the time it would take for it to devour the unfortunate person lol spelling corrected.

asd21593 Look forward to it thanks!

 

[elbasto]

Wow... I've just read throw it. Great job!

I can't wait to see you taking over the allied nations (or the US alone) and try to defeat the juggernaut you've just created...

Good luck!

 

[VILenin]

What a stroke of bad fortune! As if the Chimeran invasion weren't enough the German defense plans thrown into chaos by a Nazi takeover and the military incompotency that follows.

 

[Ksim3000]

Ah-ha! The Nazis strike! Excellent, excellent.....I didn't expect them to play such a major role on this AAR but I am glad they are doing so! Now to see if Hitler stays in his bunker 'till the end....

 

[unmerged(47288)]

Are you planning on continuing this into when the actual game is being played? Great story by the way, I never thought I would like this kind of stuff so much.

 

[unmerged(51002)]

Alexus Prlly just delusion. I mean, WWII never happened, great depression never happened, he sulked in opposition for almost two decades to get power, and now that he has, he's one pissed off mofo

So quoted

 

[unmerged(93964)]

Will Hitler become an Angel tactical leader of the Chimera or a Chimera Servant?
Or will he just be killed?