adiekmann wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 7:35 am
(For Kerensky
)
---
Well , for my part , it is imaginative . And I likes imagination !
It's not my head - canon though .
As I alluded to , my personal AAR is primarily visual.
Ugh ! Swastika taboos are the least of it . In this brave - new - world - internet you practically need to be a lawyer if you have artistic pretensions.
For example , at the Ebro in Spain I created a new JagdFlieger unit , gave it a British recon camo ( a solid light pink color ) , named it Gloria , and gave it a swan device. I DIDN"T name it Gloria Vanderbilt , and I have never made a dime off of jeans wear , nor plan on doing so.
But , oh well . Such is the way of things.
I can --- sort of --- write though.
Hmm , let's pick a date.
It's now 1963 , and the sun shines on Pax Germania !
Well ....... actually , I suppose , it is more like the sun shines on a creaking , groaning , wobbly , very muddled , Cosmopolitan Reich.
You have our friends the Spaniards , the Italians of course , Bulgarians and Romanians . Virulently anti - Bolshevik Cossack's , our once - again - friends the Turks ,
Anti - Western - Plutocrat / anti - semetic , Arabs , Persians , and Bosnian Moslem's , and I'm just getting started.
In short , the ridiculous pretensions of the SS not withstanding , there are as many black - haired , brown - eyed , swarthy or olive skinned people in the Reich as not.
There is STILL fighting in the east .
But it is work for dark , shadowy police types , not work for white - knight warrior heroes.
Just as big a headache in the east is ; WHO THE HECK wants to trade the delights and conveniences of a Hamburg or a Munich , or a Paris or a Prague either , for Dnipropetrovsk ??
Who wants to work 60 + hours a week on the monotonous steppes , in mud up to your thighs , to grow corn that costs you 5 Reichs Marks a bushel to produce , but which you can only sell for 2 Reichs Marks a bushel ?
And the type that does , typically , go in for that sort of thing ?
--- Is not the conventional , team - player , conformist type. Indeed , like as not , truth be told , they are commonly the down-right Asocial type.
( * Whisper * And your SS betters in RUSHA ? You CERTAINLY WILL NOT SEE
ANY OF THEM chomping at the bit to go dig ditches in the Kuban ! )
As for the West ;
The Wehrmacht is still in occupation in some places , like , for example , the Channel Islands .
Denmark , Norway , Holland , France of course ( Vichy is our friend after all ) , even the British Isles , have already pretty much reverted to local control , and they never miss a trick to basically do their own thing anyway , too.
And it's just as well ; The English complain about the Irish ? !
Well ..... " the apple doesn't fall far from the tree " !
The people of the British Isles are so stubborn and so prideful , so totally full of themselves , that to rape a Brit is like unto pulling out your own teeth with a pair of pliers.
You got Stonehenge , and our beer is still better.
So , yes , leave them to their fish and chips , let them have their island , the Devil help them with it , and good riddance !
---
Hitler died this year . At this point , for those in the know , it was a mercy really. He was a shambling , shaking , half - blind wreck for ten years past. His wife Eva Braun has long been the public face of the Berghof , and that's because you didn't really want to see the reality of the final chapter of the Fuhrer's life.
It is a nice house and grounds though. I have often thought it funny , somehow , though , that he chose to build his house in a peninsula that juts into Austria , and has re - created , in effect , the Austro - Hungarian Empire that he presumably despised , only writ larger , and even more opaque .
Maybe Goebbels could have stepped into his shoes ? And maybe better too ?
But Goebbels was practically a movie director. No real muscle there. Goering was formidable --- when he wasn't high as a kite , and he couldn't kick the habit.
The army was always full , truth be told , of snotty Christian Junker - types with their secret Ivy League handshakes , who looked down on the working class NSDAP.
And today ? It is full of formerly working class people who
WANT TO BE snotty Christian Junker - types with their secret Ivy League handshakes , who look down on the working class.
As for the SS ? As I pointed out , they preach " Blut und Boden " , but you never seem to see their blood on a shovel handle in the Kuban , or on a pick handle in the Urals. I think it was more than trivially symbolic when the SS quit wearing brown shirts , and started wearing white shirts.
And in my view the younger generation are the SS's legitimate heirs ; The Master Race indeed.
That is , everything has come easy for them , and they don't really know it , or don't care . Everything has been handed to them , and they don't really know it , or don't care.
THEY DIDN'T LOSE A WAR. And they perceive those who did as so many products of sour grapes.
They did not have to spend their youths , their beauty , and their fortunes , drinking to the dregs the bitter wine of shame , and eating crow to bursting.
And like that American black woman sang , " It's mighty strange .... without a doubt .... nobody knows you when you're down and out . "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69lFKbO_lqw
They have never lived in a world where one side will shoot you for this reason , and the other side will shoot you for that reason , so you hold your nose , and pick a side , and go out to shoot people you don't know , or perhaps even admire a little , for the sake of people who maybe don't even like you a little , and maybe all because , basically , you are obliged to eat whether you would or no , and you need a new pair of breeches , because the ones you are wearing basically consist of Lice holding hands.
If this generation could get in a time machine and go back and meet a Brownshirt in his prime , it would be like meeting a giant green bug from Mars .
" We are actually related ?! "
The Alter Kampfer ? They are all dead now , on life support , or have long since traded in their lead pipes for golf clubs. And you can't believe half of what they say anyway if you meet one , because in victory everyone re - writes and airbrushes in a pat and pretty back story where there are no ugly ambiguities .
( Except , if you notice , that oddly enough the Red Hordes always seem to have incongruously been a tiny subculture . Do you know anyone who claims one as a relative ? In the narrative are they ever popular ? Do all the pretty girls try to snag them for husbands ? Strange. But , never mind.... )
---
I could work - in your head - canon though.
As I said , there is still fighting in the east. It's bandits and terrorists beyond the Urals no doubt. No negotiating with terrorists though . ( Kruppe Arms might be interested in an arms for hostages deal though.
) My commander is pulling a Ross Perot , and getting together a mercenary commando group to go in and rescue our POW MIA's.
