wOw. Absolutley stupendous.
Im sad tho as i know it nearing the end within a few post's
Again, incredible work.
Im sad tho as i know it nearing the end within a few post's
Again, incredible work.
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Thanks, guys!
I'm really happy to see a few new faces in here, this close to the end. I thought I'd just see a few bitter-enders.
Alright, so I'll be wrapping this puppy up shortly. If you've got any questions about characters (and before you ask, YES, YES, YOU'LL SEE MORE SKORZENY, DAMMIT ) or about the alternate history, now's the time to ask! Speak now or forever hold your peace!
And hey, if you've been reading quietly up til now, let me hear you out there. Last chance to speak up! I'd love to hear from you. I mean, I don't think thirty guys each racked up a thousand views.
I hope not, anyway.
I'm really happy to see a few new faces in here, this close to the end. I thought I'd just see a few bitter-enders.
Alright, so I'll be wrapping this puppy up shortly. If you've got any questions about characters (and before you ask, YES, YES, YOU'LL SEE MORE SKORZENY, DAMMIT
) or about the alternate history, now's the time to ask! Speak now or forever hold your peace!And hey, if you've been reading quietly up til now, let me hear you out there. Last chance to speak up! I'd love to hear from you. I mean, I don't think thirty guys each racked up a thousand views.
I hope not, anyway.
Ive been here all along, just change my flag almost daily
To tell the truth ive been a lurker at paradox for about two years. I first began posting in your AAR and Mettermeck's crashed AAR. So you two brought me out of, erm, my lurkitude i guess. My post count up to a few moths ago was in the teens
Again super job.
To tell the truth ive been a lurker at paradox for about two years. I first began posting in your AAR and Mettermeck's crashed AAR. So you two brought me out of, erm, my lurkitude i guess.
My post count up to a few moths ago was in the teens Again super job.
Originally posted by Prufrock451
YES, YES, YOU'LL SEE MORE SKORZENY, DAMMIT
Yay!!!
What did Germany lose?
What, not when.
And did you try playing the war?
What, not when.
And did you try playing the war?
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Prufrock - O.K., you got me I've been reading for a while and have not posted so here it is. Great AAR!! Now destroy those damn commies.
TIP: When In France, Be a Guest - Not An Intruder.
Now destroy those damn commies. TIP: When In France, Be a Guest - Not An Intruder.
An excellent question, Faeelin!
*points to blackboard* As you can see here, the Soviet Union expelled several million German civilians after they overran Central Europe. Konrad Adenauer's Germany ratified peace treaties with the Allies (and with the new Russian Federation) which forever renounced all claims to Memel, the Sudetenland, Austria, and nearly all of Silesia. However, the Germans were slower to accept the expulsion of Germans from East Prussia and Danzig. After three years of negotiations and much behind-the-scenes bargaining, Germany and Poland reached the separate Prussian Accords. Poland was allowed to keep East Prussia and Danzig (although some adjustment of the borders with Lithuania and Belarus were made), as an autonomous area. Germany was granted some extraterritorial rights in the former East Prussia.
While we're discussing changes to the map, you may want to examine the Middle East here, to look at the Republic of Israel-Palestine. As you can see, the nation has been divided into a number of cantons on the Swiss model. Several European states, in the wake of the dark revelations about Nazi atrocities, have also taken care to ensure the civil rights of their Jewish minorities. France and her former pupil state of Italy have led the way, with model civil rights statutes that were widely copied, especially by the Ukraine, which along with Israel-Palestine and the United States is a major center of Judaism.
Civil rights- that reminds me. Joe Kennedy, like most of the war hero presidents to come (such as G.H.W. Bush, 1976, and Bob Dole, 1980), ran as a Republican. To pass his sweeping 1963 Civil Rights Act, Kennedy relied heavily on the support of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Senate Majority Leader. Johnson's ambitions for the presidency died in 1963, as the Democrats shattered on the rock of civil rights into northern and southern wings. In 1986, the split was finalized when the New Democrats (the liberal northern wing) merged with the Green Party. The southerners kept the Democratic name, forming a conservative populist party. The Republicans remain pro-business and pro-civil rights, largely because Southern Baptists never bolted the Democratic Party in this world. The Republicans and Democrats each hold approximately 45% of Congress, and the Greens a crucial 10%.
Over here, it hardly need be said, the US never withdrew from the Kyoto treaty.
*points to blackboard* As you can see here, the Soviet Union expelled several million German civilians after they overran Central Europe. Konrad Adenauer's Germany ratified peace treaties with the Allies (and with the new Russian Federation) which forever renounced all claims to Memel, the Sudetenland, Austria, and nearly all of Silesia. However, the Germans were slower to accept the expulsion of Germans from East Prussia and Danzig. After three years of negotiations and much behind-the-scenes bargaining, Germany and Poland reached the separate Prussian Accords. Poland was allowed to keep East Prussia and Danzig (although some adjustment of the borders with Lithuania and Belarus were made), as an autonomous area. Germany was granted some extraterritorial rights in the former East Prussia.
While we're discussing changes to the map, you may want to examine the Middle East here, to look at the Republic of Israel-Palestine. As you can see, the nation has been divided into a number of cantons on the Swiss model. Several European states, in the wake of the dark revelations about Nazi atrocities, have also taken care to ensure the civil rights of their Jewish minorities. France and her former pupil state of Italy have led the way, with model civil rights statutes that were widely copied, especially by the Ukraine, which along with Israel-Palestine and the United States is a major center of Judaism.
Civil rights- that reminds me. Joe Kennedy, like most of the war hero presidents to come (such as G.H.W. Bush, 1976, and Bob Dole, 1980), ran as a Republican. To pass his sweeping 1963 Civil Rights Act, Kennedy relied heavily on the support of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Senate Majority Leader. Johnson's ambitions for the presidency died in 1963, as the Democrats shattered on the rock of civil rights into northern and southern wings. In 1986, the split was finalized when the New Democrats (the liberal northern wing) merged with the Green Party. The southerners kept the Democratic name, forming a conservative populist party. The Republicans remain pro-business and pro-civil rights, largely because Southern Baptists never bolted the Democratic Party in this world. The Republicans and Democrats each hold approximately 45% of Congress, and the Greens a crucial 10%.
Over here, it hardly need be said, the US never withdrew from the Kyoto treaty.
Is this the end, the end my friend? You sure have picked up speed lately and I try to imagine that you're writing about actual gameplay. ("Oh, Ukrainian revolt, that must be a CORE event")
Wow, a mammoth literary work finished in high style. Great job, Prufock, I've truly enjoyed reading your fine work.
Tokarev, Schultz- It is the end! No more commies!
Hey, speaking of major commies-
Ho Chi Minh went back to college after the war and died peacefully in his sleep after his election as Leader of the Opposition in the Indochina Parliament. He was under consideration at the time for a Nobel Peace Prize, for his work in helping to devise the constitutional agreements that prevented the secession of Laos and Cambodia.
Kim Il Sung was arrested by the Republic of Korea and sentenced to ten years of hard labor for his postwar activities with the Communist Party. He was later rehabilitated, standing unsuccessfully for the Korean Congress several times. A month before he died, he was given Korea's highest military decoration for his resistance to the Japanese during the war. (His collaboration with the Soviets was largely forgotten by this point.)
Mikhail Gorbachev was a bank president.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was a crusading newspaper editor, who became a minor international celebrity for his exposes of corruption in the Argentine government and his adamant opposition to the remnants of French influence. His flamboyant appearance and long hair shocked many, and he became a familiar face in America (via satellite television, he was sought after as a commentator).
Hey, speaking of major commies-
Ho Chi Minh went back to college after the war and died peacefully in his sleep after his election as Leader of the Opposition in the Indochina Parliament. He was under consideration at the time for a Nobel Peace Prize, for his work in helping to devise the constitutional agreements that prevented the secession of Laos and Cambodia.
Kim Il Sung was arrested by the Republic of Korea and sentenced to ten years of hard labor for his postwar activities with the Communist Party. He was later rehabilitated, standing unsuccessfully for the Korean Congress several times. A month before he died, he was given Korea's highest military decoration for his resistance to the Japanese during the war. (His collaboration with the Soviets was largely forgotten by this point.)
Mikhail Gorbachev was a bank president.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was a crusading newspaper editor, who became a minor international celebrity for his exposes of corruption in the Argentine government and his adamant opposition to the remnants of French influence. His flamboyant appearance and long hair shocked many, and he became a familiar face in America (via satellite television, he was sought after as a commentator).
Thanks, Mettermrck and SD!
Tulp- I was just getting to that.
Pierre Laval, as already mentioned, stepped down as President of France after ten exhausting years, and died in 1967. He left a personal fortune of nearly a billion dollars. A hundred million went to his family, and the remainder to the World Health Organization's vaccination campaigns. He was a softie at heart.
Colonel Jean Gaspard retired from military service in 1968, following a stint as adviser to Algeria's government during its 1960-64 war with Muslim fundamentalists and the foiling of an assassination plot against Egypt's President Nasser. (He had actually been promoted to General, but was prevented from revealing this for national security reasons.)
Jean Denel broke his morphine habit. His Communist past caused him some difficulty in finding a job at first, but there were more jobs than available men. He ended up marrying a piano teacher and becoming an elementary school principal.
Henri Bacquard ran for local office on the strength of his war record and won. He served two terms in the National Assembly before his election as Mayor of Lyons.
Otto Skorzeny served six years in Spandau Prison. Upon his release, he gave a couple of extremely polite newspaper interviews before disappearing. He later surfaced as an advisor to the government of Bolivia (which had the distinction of being the last Axis nation to surrender), and then disappeared again entirely in 1966. To this day, his final resting place remains a mystery.
Tulp- I was just getting to that.
Pierre Laval, as already mentioned, stepped down as President of France after ten exhausting years, and died in 1967. He left a personal fortune of nearly a billion dollars. A hundred million went to his family, and the remainder to the World Health Organization's vaccination campaigns. He was a softie at heart.
Colonel Jean Gaspard retired from military service in 1968, following a stint as adviser to Algeria's government during its 1960-64 war with Muslim fundamentalists and the foiling of an assassination plot against Egypt's President Nasser. (He had actually been promoted to General, but was prevented from revealing this for national security reasons.)
Jean Denel broke his morphine habit. His Communist past caused him some difficulty in finding a job at first, but there were more jobs than available men. He ended up marrying a piano teacher and becoming an elementary school principal.
Henri Bacquard ran for local office on the strength of his war record and won. He served two terms in the National Assembly before his election as Mayor of Lyons.
Otto Skorzeny served six years in Spandau Prison. Upon his release, he gave a couple of extremely polite newspaper interviews before disappearing. He later surfaced as an advisor to the government of Bolivia (which had the distinction of being the last Axis nation to surrender), and then disappeared again entirely in 1966. To this day, his final resting place remains a mystery.
YEAH!
I bet I know where he is.... he's waiting.... watching.... just looking for his chance......
As it always was...the story was brilliant, the characters you read about felt true and we all formed emotional attachments to them all, and the ending paid off...In several words, I have never read such an engrossing bit of literature that isn't at least 50 years old by now (Hopefully, we'll still be talking about Laval's incredible Presidency for years and years).
I34, RH- Thanks so much for the over-the-top praise. I hope I came close to deserving a tenth of it.
I hope I came close to deserving a tenth of it.