The year is 1914, June 28th, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary is assassinated by Serbian Nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Only a month later, Austria-Hungary retaliated and declares war on Serbia. At the time, Austria-Hungary made a treaty of Alliance with the German Empire, whilst the Serbs had the Imperial Russian Empire for support. Russia mobilizes troops to begin their war with Austria-Hungary, and Germany does the same against them. Only four days after the powder-keg went off, Germany declares war on Russia.
On the same day, Italy had announced its neutrality and Germany signed a secret Alliance with the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
The next day, on August 4th, German troops invade Luxembourg and come into skirmish with the French at Joncherey. Another war is declared by Germany on France, and then immediately invades Belgium in an attempt to outflank the French forces. Britain then declares war on Germany out of the Fatherland's violation of Belgian Neutrality.
August 7-September 13th, the Germans fight a series of battles with the Belgians, French, and British Expeditionary Force, gaining several victories but being halted by the Belgians. On the eastern front, Russia begins its invasion of Eastern Prussia, but was utterly defeated on August 30th at Tannenberg. For the next couple of years, the Allied and Central powers engaged in trench style warfare, occasionally emerging and attempting an assault on the enemies' lines, most of the time proven unsuccessful.
The war stretched across the globe, from Europe to the Middle East, and lasted until armistice on November 11th, 1918, at 11 a.m.
The story that this introduction leads to is only based on historical events of the war through information provided by Wikipedia and other reliable internet sources. It in no way criminalizes any country or individual during this time period and in no way is it attempting to offend anyone from their respective European countries.
The characters in this story are purely fictional, based off of new age Disney characters that are implied to be from Germany or other parts of Middle or Northern Europe, and in no way represent real life people nor do they represent Germans accurately (considering they are speaking English in this story for better understanding.)
Historical inaccuracies will likely be present, so don't complain to me like a kid on YouTube who thinks they know more than professional historians. This story is also not an action story, more of a drama/romance with scenes of the war as witnessed by the fictional characters. Parts of the story will be told through POV in letters between the characters on the battlefront and the homefront, along with journal entries.
There is a crossover between Frozen/Tangled in here, though the story is being put under the Frozen section. All characters involved are Hans Westergard (main), several of his brothers, as named by me (Kurt, Franz, Johan, Frederik and Dirk.) Their father, Nikolaus, and mother, Hanna. Sisters, Anna and Elsa Schnaidt; father Arnold, and mother Helga. Rapunzel von Kessler, and Godmother Gothel Ziegler. Eugene Fitzherbert (I know what you're going to say, the last name is Irish. The wiki said that he was German, so I decided to make his father Irish and his mother German.) Kristoff Bjorgman, and several others.
Full Extended Summary: In Germany, 1914, war has plagued over Europe and all the young men are being called to fight. A story about a group of young people from a small village, and their relationships with one another from the battlefront to home: Anna and Elsa Schnaidt are sisters, looking to help out at home anyway they can; Kristoff, Eugene, and Hans along with five of his twelve brothers are recruited into the German army; and Rapunzel lives with her Godmother, Gothel. After living a life of being ignored, Hans decides that as he may never comeback he wants to write his letters to an unlikely girl in his hometown.
The story will cover more than just Hans and Elsa's connection, but Kristoff and Anna's, and Eugene and Rapunzel's as well.
I will have some fun writing this story, for I think it's one of the better ones I have come up with. Don't forget to read and review, please, I spend a while on these chapters; only five minutes of your time is all I ask.
Enjoy the story.