3.6.2014

I have been notified by one of our head programmers of the Wunderwaffe team that our newest fleet girl, the Italian destroyer Libeccio, will be completed sometime next week. With this knowledge, I have passed it on to Gernot, who will contact our good friend Marco Santini to send Littorio and Roma, the two Italian fleet girls, up here to Germany to receive their newest comrade. Should all go well, the two Italian battleships should arrive sometime within the next few days, which excites the girls quite so, except for Bismarck. She seems to possess an inherent rivalry with Roma, and admittedly, they are not on the greatest of terms.

During the break of our cabinet conference meeting, Gernot took me aside and spoke to me in private to inform me that he has been having an uncharacteristically difficult time getting into contact with important members of the Japanese Diet, the people with whom he must speak to arrange for a joint fleet exercise program with the Japanese fleet girl fleet. (That sounds a bit awkward to write.) Normally, in the past, he had no trouble contacting persons of interest when it came to German-Japanese relations, so we do not quite understand what the difference is now. Well, we kind of do, actually...this is the military we are talking about, after all, and it would make sense that the Japanese government is doing their best to keep their strongest naval asset secure. But the fact that Gernot, the chancellor of Germany, cannot contact anyone so far in regards to this issue is unreasonable, to say the least. It is almost as though Japan is trying to hide the existence of its ship girls. While it is certainly true that ship girls like theirs and like our own Wunderwaffe girls are of top classification levels, we know for a fact that both countries involved here are fully aware of the existence of each other's ship girls. This should be no secret, yet I cannot help but get the feeling that Japan is trying to make it so. Either this, or somebody in charge is deliberately trying to sell this image.

In other relevant news, the National Democratic Party of Germany is on the move once again. Because this is my own personal journal and I do not have to be anchored to the pedantic stiffness that is political correctness, I shall simply refer to them as Neo Nazis. We received a report of a rally in Leipzig, and it swelled to some several hundred before local police arrived to break up the rally.

NDP rallies like this have been on the rise, numerically speaking, both in terms of number of rallies and number of demonstrators. They have been so since two years ago – at first, it seemed normal, as Germany has seen the occasional Neo Nazi rally every once in a while. But last year was when we first noticed the increasing frequency of such rallies. And somehow, there is no denying that these rallies are becoming more and more popular. And we want to know why. We had commissioned polling groups in the past to gather consensus data on the people's opinions on the NDP and their reactions to such rallies, and the data they gathered overwhelmingly points to a general public disapproval of the NDP and their rallies, and this data has stayed consistent up to the present. Of course, I am aware that we cannot rely on polls to measure such data with perfect accuracy, but given this knowledge, it is undeniably strange for the rallies to be swelling in number. It has gotten to the point where the rest of the Bundestag wishes to pass a law limiting the number and influence of these NDP rallies, which Gernot has refused to address just yet in public, since such a law would still be viewed as infringement upon freedom of speech and expression, but pressure is growing, and both my husband and I know that this issue must be addressed soon, especially if more rallies continue to pop up around the country.

In other words, long story short, there is something else that is causing these rallies to sprout. Perhaps an external influence, an outside group. If the German people in general have no reason to support the extremist views and opinions of an extreme right-wing political party, why does it seem like their rallies are becoming stronger and more influential? It simply does not add up. Therefore, we can only venture to guess that their strength comes not from our own people, but from outside supporters. Our cabinet has decided to request traffic data and statistics from our border security monitoring inbound and outbound traffic, both people and cargo.

Upon sharing these news with the girls upon our return home for the night, the ship girls have all enthusiastically offered up their services to partake in national security. Obviously, Bismarck was the most enthusiastic among them. But Gernot and I calmed them, for the time being. Right now, although the rallies are definitely a concern, they are nowhere near levels of danger that they pose a significant enough threat to national security. And even then, I reminded the girls that as part of the Wunderwaffe, they are all highly classified pieces of military technology, courtesy of the American special forces team that first developed the technology behind making their existences and lives possible. Out of respect for Seal Team Six's wishes to not reveal their existences to the public, we could not assign such tasks to them.

Today has been a long day, so I shall stop here. Retia is already having lots of fun toddling around in my room, so I shall tuck her to bed and prepare for tomorrow as well. Lebe, Max, U, and Prinz Eugen have watched me give good-night kisses to my daughter, and U had the uncharacteristic bravery to ask one for herself, and now the rest of them want to follow suit. I am getting the sense that they are growing to see me as a sort of mother figure, which I can sympathize with. They are, after all, young maidens with no parental figures of their own. Gernot and I are the closest they have to parents, which goes very well with my sense of mothership to the girls. If that is the case, then I shall rise up to the occasion.