Chapter 77

WWII part 1

April 5th 1934

Sudetenland

Austrian Empire

On this day the Second World War began German forces launched a full-scale invasion of the fortified frontier of the Austrian Empire to bring hitlers birth Empire into the fold by force as they would not join willingly.

However, Hitler was operating on intelligence that was at least eight years old, the frontier had become a lot more well defended in a time with additional fortifications artillery batteries and additional regiments this would be no easy conquest.

Word spread Quickly across Europe of hitlers invasion of the Austrian Empire France Britain and the Norwegian Empire declared war on Germany, however while hitlers had not calculated the possibility of changes to the Austrian fortifications he had predicted correctly the 3 main powers that would rise against him he gave word for his forces to attack.

And attack they would in May 1st 1934 the German army under the command of field Marshall Rommel would launch an invasion of France and the Low Countries of Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg in what was called a blitzkrieg and it would work to a horrifying effect.

While the Northern army launched its invasion into the Norwegian province of Denmark only to meet stiff resistance from the Norwegian legions, they struggled to gain a good foothold into the province.

It took until July 1934 to push the Norwegian Empire out of Denmark, however it required a lot more troops and supplies then Hitler had approved for the mission forcing him to withdraw troops from France which had officially surrendered in June after the fall of Paris, the people of France however were not finished yet as from the city of Lyon the French Army under the command of General Delacour continued to fight against the German army.

There gorilla attacks on German Convoys and Supply Depot's crippled the German army's missions in southern France so badly that Hitler ordered Rommel to be removed and deployed to Denmark, in this brief change of Command the French Army scattered to Fortified Bunkers and secret facilities built by the Delacour family years before.

August 1934

The German Army prepped its airforce for its air raids on the British Homeland despite still fighting the Norwegian and Austrian Empires, Hitler didn't care as he ordered more German Troops to be pulled from France to fight in Austria.

From August to September Hitlers Airforce bombed RAF Airfields across southern England causing mass devastation to the RAF, it was only due to a lost German Bomber dropping its payload on London itself it caused the RAF to respond in kind by Bombing Berlin.

Hitler in a public address to his people promising revenge to his people the German Airforce was re tasked with Breaking the will of the British by bombing their cities, giving the RAF much needed breathing room so they could reorganise their command structure and try out a new battle formation called big wings.

However, on September 28th 1934 the German Military suffered a huge loss at the siege of Kristiansand, where the Norwegian Army and navy made the German Invaders pay for every inch of land even the German Field marshal Fedor-Von-Bock could not make it look good even if he captured the city, the loss of 4 warships including their crews and the 15,000 men that fell in the invasion.

He was very quickly replaced by Rommel who had worked on gaining Hitlers favour by training the new regiments that were posted in Denmark, ensuring the men were ready for anything he was deployed to the Fount on October 12th 1934.

By December of that year the Germans had given up their campaign against Britain it was costing to much for no results, the Sudetenland had finally fallen to the German Army thanks to the Fallschirmjager being dropped behind enemy Lines so they could disrupt supply convoys to the Austrian Defenders and were now laying Siege to the provincial Capital of Prague.

It was also a victory for Germany as they captured the Norwegian province of Iceland and were now using it as a bace for the U-boat Fleet, which was a good thing as On December 31st the United States declared war against Germany.

The vote however only passed by a single vote and was not popular with the American people who still remembered the war with the Mexican Empire, a US Fleet of 2 cruisers and 6 supply ships were sent out to Britain on January 2nd only for them to be ambushed by the U-boats as they came within there range from there bace in Iceland.

The Cruiser USS Memphis was sunk along with 3 of the transport ships it was only the timely intervention by the British Flagship HMS Hood that forced the U-Boats to withdraw from the battle.

He news was not taken well back home plans were made for a joint US British Invasion of France to end the war before the end of 1936, these plans however would not come to fruition as on the 14th February 1935 The Soviet Union declared War on the Swedish Empire.

It turns out Moscow had been trying to pressure Sweden into surrendering the Nation or they would risk war, but Sweden was not giving up without a fight they had the military mobilised since the start of the war with New Weapons from the Imperial remnant ready to make the Soviets pay dearly for every inch of ground.

Meanwhile in Sparta

Kassandra sat on her Throne listening to the reports of the War, she and the SRU had Declared Neutrality at the start of the war allowing them to sell supplies to any who purchased them however she heard something interesting, the prime Minister of the Italian Empire Benito Mussolini was pressuring King Victor Emmanuel III into supporting the Germans in the war.

However, Victor had refused him repeatedly not wanting to drag his Empire into another war, the Italian Empire Ruled Tunisia, New Judaea, Corsica, Sardinia, and in Africa they ruled the Southern half of Somalia, they had very profitable Trade with the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of the Congo due to the support of the Spartan Empire they were the Superpowers of central and Southern Africa.

Rome Italy

February 10th 1935

Mussolini was getting desperate he needed to get Italy in this war his party had only come to power due to an economic slump that had hit the Empire in the 20s, but now Italy was better off and his party was seen as useless.

He needed to act his followers were ready to move it all had to be perfect if he failed, he and his party would face a firing squad turning to his commanders he gave the all clear to carry out his plan he could only help that he would be alive in the morning.

Across Rome Members of the Blackshirts scoured the city moving on important targets and positions as quickly and with as little bloodshed as possible, the people of Italy would wake up to a surprise tomorrow but what would it be who knows.

Authors Note: hey people I know it's been a while please forgive me; I hope you enjoy Part one of the WWII section of Kassandra's story.

Until next time.

Revan Shan 2077.