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The stage is set, the music begins to play. The year is 1936 and trouble has been brewing up in Europe, the peace agreement in Versailles has run its course. For 18 years the German people have been humiliated and Hitler won't abide by it any longer.
Since Hitler came into power, the old Entente, now know as the Allies have been preocupied, does he plan to restore the German Empire to its throne of power? will they be able to struck the Germans down once again if they rise up against the world?
While all of this happened a secret treaty was being brewed between Germany and Italy. Italy was secretly looking to ally itself to Germany, They where deeply disappointed in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles, the Italian people felt betrayed by the Entente because they didn't get the lands they where promised in the aftermath of the war.
With all this said, the players come into their seats and the 2nd concert for Europe begins!
"If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution." - Adolf Hitler
We will start by taking back our rightful use of the Rhineland and station our troops there in spite of what the treaty of Versailles says, the French hold no power over German lands!
With the remilitarization of the German Rhineland, we have assigned General Erwin Rommel to protect the Franco-German border and designated him to plan for a future assault for the recovery of German Elsass-Lothringen!
To further the influence of the German Reich across Europe, i have brought Heinrich Himmler to work directly under me to protect the German nation from outside influences and rally the people to join the military to crush our foes!
On the 20th of May of 1936, the Spanish civil war broke out between the Nationalist Faction, led by Francisco Franco and the Republican Faction, led by Jose Diaz. Francisco Franco united all the conservative and monarchies parties in Spain to fight against the communist influenced Republican faction. As Germany we are interested in Franco winning this war, so we might help him out a bit!
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - George S. Patton
To accelerate the process of bringing the German people into the army, we have made Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel a central piece in our military staff by making him the Chief of the Army!
The left seems to be gaining power quickly in France, this could be bad news for the allies but an amazing opportunity for Stalin to deal another blow to the democracies of the world! Will this mark the beginning of a French civil war? or will Édouard Daladier's government be able to deal with this rise of communism in the nation before it is too late? For us this is a certain sign of French weakness!
Peace of our time! The XI Olympiads have been celebrated in Berlin and they where a massive success! Another victory for the German Reich!
We prepared a small deployment of 2 infantry divisions and 1 panzer division lead by General Erich von Manstein to support General Francisco Franco in his civil war against Republican Spain! The main objective of our small deployment is to aid Franco in taking over the Catalonia region and bringing Barcelona under his control!
Stalin has always been a man full of paranoia and this recent development just makes it show even more, with the purge of the Soviet's high command their military and political leadership will surely stumble! Certainly a exploitable opportunity to further German influence on the continent!
The year is coming to an end and the support of German troops managed to break the republican line of defense and we have managed to almost completely take over the Catalonian region, Barcelona is the last bastion of the Republicans in the north of Spain and we expect they will fall in the upcoming months! They are completely surround by Spanish and German forces and have no way of escaping, they are doomed to die for their wrong beliefs!
And so the first year of the German effort to take control of Europe has ended. With a civil war in the Iberian peninsula and a looming communist uprising in France, what do you think will be the result? Well you will have to wait for the next time to find out what happens!
"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins." - Benito Mussolini
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