@Kaiser of Brazil
Question here for you. What is the status of Hitler's extended family as of this latest chapter? Which of Hitler's family members are alive, and who are they married to? I'm curious to see the fates of them following the Angriff and Goebbels reign.
They are alive, but following the "Blood Purge" of the Goebbels family, they mostly have been trying to avoid politics in their personal lives.
@Kaiser of Brazil
Hmm... did you have the Second American Civil War since begining of part 1? Or Did it come to your mind later?
It came to my mind when I started writing Hoffa, it wasn't my initial plan for America.
I don't see the Populists... having popular support.
You underestimate just how political fanaticism can be linked to cognitive dissonance. Even Hoover at the height of the Depression had his supporters.
What is Margaret Chase Smith, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, George McGovern, Henry M. Jackson, and Hubert Humphrey doing right now?
They will be included in soon, I can safely say the first three are staunch Republicans, Reagan is a member of the Society for Defense of Liberty within the GOP as well. The others are more akin to the Populist Left that is coalescing around Powell.
@Kaiser of Brazil Is there any hope for this timeline? Everybody involved is either corrupt, incompetent, fantastical, colonized, genocidal, going to war, about to be a war zone or heading in that direction. India is honestly the only country you can somewhat cheer for. All the people in each nation you can like are either dead, useless or about to die. This world is so bleak that I won’t be surprised if it ends with a nuclear blast hitting the world. The end scene being a lonely woman in the winter trying to speak broken German to the ashes of her children. It’s just why? Let there be light please.
Why? Simple, from the first moment when I decided to write a Nazi Victory Timeline I made up my mind about it. I would never want to write some story where one of, if not THE, most twisted, inhumane and cruel regime of the modern age wins and have people read it with a smile. I would never write a reality where around a hundred million people die and have people think "hey, at least things look hopeful, the future will certainly be better". While there may be ups and downs, in general this will be an uncontestedly worse world than the one we live in and I am leaving no margin for people to believe otherwise.
I believe it is a mistake for people to write Nazi Victory stories like, say, Thousand Week Reich, where the Nazis get beaten after a bloody war and the "natural order" is restored. It's basically saying that, despite all the loss, the "good side" will eventually always come back and win when history has repeatedly shown that's not the case.
The Germans might actually pull an America in the sense that things improve as the genocide of the slavs occur leading to greater amounts of security and demands for more rights and goods at times go on.
This Germany is a Nation founded on essentially different, if not opposite, ideals to the United States, even if they arguably used similar methods against those who opposed their Manifest Destiny. Demands for more rights are not an inevitable, we only see that as an essential because we live in a world where these values "won" the Ideological struggle of the 19th and 20th centuries.