Slitherine

With Hitler out of the way, and Himmler in power, the German Armed forces were finally able to freely operate as the generals would like. It's too late to turn back now, and Himmler will play his game...and we will play ours. For the Fatherland!

June 21st, 1941

Field Marshal Walther von Brauchtisch, Army Chief-of-Staff; Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Kriegsmarine Commander-in-Chief; and Marshal Hermann Goering, Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief; and Count Ciano of Italy meet in Berlin to discuss with Himmler the operational plans for the near future. It has been decided:

-Cooperate with Italian, Finnish, Hungarian, and other minor allied forces wherever possible.
-Rebuild and concentrate Naval forces to offset Allied Naval superiority wherever possible.
-Reach Donets, Leningrad, and Moscow by winter 1941.
-Capture Tobruk and drive on Suez.

So it begins...

July 7th, 1941

-Raeder orders Donitz to consolidate U-Boat formations
-Fw-200 Condor in Atlantic and Ju-88 on Eastern Front being transferred to Mediterranean. Bf-109E as well from Russia.
-Tobruk surrounded
-Finland moving to assault Viipuri and Karelia
-Italian fleet under Admiral Angelo Iachino repairing and concentrating.
-Romanian Army under Marshal Ion Antonescu re-occupies Bessarabia
-Soviet air forces are destroyed, many troops surrounded and/or destroyed
-Operation Anton initiates to clear Partisans from Balkans

July 22nd, 1941

-Soviet front destroyed, Axis seize Riga, Minsk, and have reached the Dnieper, and are at the gates of Kiev and Uman.
-Romanians beginning siege of Odessa.
-Operation Anton is success in Croatia.
-Tobruk siege partially broken by British counterattack from the east.
-Heavy fighting in and around Karelia as Soviets retreat and entrench
-Massive Soviet losses in Mink-Biaylstok pocket