Die Neuordnung
Part II
1950-1953
In the year after the Second World War, an armistice was signed in Versailles France between the US and the Greater Germanic Reich, officially ending hostilities between the two superpowers but not ushering in an official peace.
The Cold War begins in earnest. As the world stands on a precept it's possible one threat of tension could destroy the world. Five years prior the United States dropped nuclear arms on Japan which helped put an end to the War of the Pacific. The Soviet Union followed suit and tested its very own in 1949. Hitler, seeing that the nuclear weapon might be a threat, even something that Esdeath may not be able to handle, begins to set out to research nuclear armaments. Though he was disdainful when giving the idea his approval, seeing that nuclear weapons and technology are Jewish sciences if he wants the Reich to be a dominant power in Europe then this is the only way to compete against both the US and the Soviets, who are on the border of the Reich and ready for revenge.
In Asia, without the full intervention of the Red Army after the war, Korea entirely becomes a republic state. Yet communist guerrillas campaign against the new Korean Republic as mass protests ensue against the political corruption in the nation. In response, China sends an intervention force of the People's Liberation Army to the border of the Republic with the purpose of keeping the nation "stable" should it fall to civil war.
India, without British oversight, gains independence. Without the British Empire intervening to carve India into three nations, India remains united but religious and ethnic tensions begin to arise in the new nation as an Axis-friendly leader is installed as the president of India. Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in order to place the blame on the Muslim population, drastically increasing the current high tensions between Hindus and Muslims.
Iran, though remaining neutral, builds friendly relations with its three neighbors but still remains weary of the Reich to the west, the Soviets to the north, and the Chinese to the east.
In the Americas, independently, the South American nations begin to build peaceful relations with the Greater Germanic Reich and the US. Yet this form of peaceful relations goes against the US influence in South and Central America, leading to greater involvement in that region of the world.
Yet within the US, the economy begins to stagger under president Dewey. Though being a progressive Republican, his handle on the economy is becoming sluggish as the economy reaches the level during President FDR's presidency. Foreign-policy-wise, he becomes more involved to keep the world at peace but still shy away from topics involving UFN relations with the Einheitspakt and the Global Communist Union. Figuring out what is possible to do in order to prevent an all-out nuclear war, even some of his generals like McArthur and Patton want more involvement in Asia and strike up countermeasures against the Reich to the point that nuclear war is considered to end the Reich.
Yet with these matters in hand, in the 1952 election Dewey loses out to his competitor, democrat nominee and former general of the Union of Free Nations, now President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Now President Eisenhower begins to bring reform into the US, especially by keeping generals Patton and McArthur in check, by firing the latter.
With the passing of her father, King George VI in 1952, two candidates move forward to take the throne of England, Elizabeth and her uncle King Edward VIII. The crown jewels and remaining members of the British parliament and the Church of England who didn't return to England after the Second World War announced that Queen Elizabeth II is the crown ruler, going into conflict with her uncle. With her speech in the presiding year, she denounces her uncle for being a false fascist-controlled king who had no right nor claim to the crown, causing an uproar all over England against the King. But many were quelled before it became major with the assistance between the Wehrmacht and the English Army.
With the new European order, decolonization in Africa is slow to take place. With the collapse of the British Empire, the Greater Germanic Reich incorporates several of the British African colonies into the Reichkommissariat system, even reclaiming African territories that were a part of the German Empire but given to the British after the Treaty of Versailles in the aftermath of the Great War. Decolonization being slowed gives rise to small communist and nationalist guerilla groups.
1953
March 1953
Moscow, Soviet Union
Stalin's Dacha
Time has not been friendly for the Soviet Union nor to Stalin. Eight years have passed since the signing of a peace treaty with the Reich and problems set in almost immediately. Aside from the influx of deportees from Ukraine and Belarus, Stalin had to contend with his own staff and generals who might be plotting against him. Commissars, politicians, Red Army staff, etc. any man who failed to push for Soviet victory or keep the Soviet Union safe he had purged, with several exceptions. He can't get rid of all of the traitors, just a few to make a statement, to not disappoint Stalin.
Stalin is partially relieved, thankful that the war was over but still ired by how they pretty much lost a lot of land and people. Stalin pushed the Soviet industry forward to compete against the Reich as well as needing ways to counter the Wehrmacht, SS, and their Ice Demon. But Stalin is most proud of his three five-year plans that elevated the Soviet Union from that of a backwater country to an industrial powerhouse. But for now, Stalin relaxes in his dacha near Moscow. He retired his cabinet for the night after a meeting that lasted the entire day and to end the day, a dinner and a cowboy movie.
Stalin hears loud footsteps, it's his NKVD officers. Almost a couple of hours before he ordered a recording of Radio Moscow's performance of his favorite pianist, Maria Yudina. But it has been delayed for over an hour and now the NKVD has just arrived with a recording. Stalin opened the door to his office, "What took you so long, you'd fuckin' walked here?" Stalin criticizes the NKVD officer's tardiness before taking the recording and slamming the door behind him. After reading the letter, from Maria Yudina, that was inside the sleeve of the vinyl recording Stalin simply laughed at this mini act of rebellion of his favorite pianist. As the recording played, Stalin begins to cough heavily before choking and collapsing onto the floor.
Outside Stalin's office, two Red Army guards stand at post-hearing. One of them hears a loud thud coming from Stalin's office. "Should we investigate?" The younger Red Army guard whispers. "Should you shut the fuck up before you get us both killed." The older Red Army guard whispers back. In Stalin's office, Stalin lies motionless, crying out for help but could not as his voice is blocked by his gargling.
After his death, the committee convened for an ultimate question, who would lead the Soviet Union after Stalin? Malenkov was next in line but his succession was immediately in question by both Nekita Kruschev and Lavrenti Beria.
During Stalin's funeral, mostly went well, keeping aside from the fifteen hundred who were shot by the NKVD when they were leaving the trains to see Stalin, Vasily Stalin's rambling with a conspiracy that they took his father's brain to the US, etc. Yet all of this was merely a face to put on for the wider Soviet population and the world, Stalin was the glue that held the Soviet Union together, having survived the mass protests against his regime in 1947, yet many can see that the Soviet Union is crumbling and all that is needed is for one to betray the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
In the wake of tragic events after Stalin's death, the deaths of over fifteen hundred civilians getting off of the trains, and Beria threatening the other members of the party, have led to drastic measures against Beria. Yet Beria sees his ultimate mistake of alienating all potential support from the rest of the central committee. In a last-ditch attempt, he increased NVKD guards to match the amount of Red Army guards there are in Red Square, that way Kruschev might think twice.
On the final day of Stalin's mourning period, after the speeches and fly-bys, the committee assembles once more to put the blame on someone who screwed up with the trains. Kruschev's plans of removing Beria are now on halt with the number of NKVD guards present. At the end of the day, the group comes to several agreements on reforms for the Soviet Union yet the tension is still uneasy between all three. For now, as acting General Secretary, Georgy Malenkov runs the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
In May, as tensions begin to rise in the Soviet Union, with reforms ranging from failures to barely keeping the economy afloat, Beria, Malenkov, and their supporters depart for Leningrad. Once they appeared it was almost clear as day, Beria is usurping power from his rival Khrushchev. Secretly the Red Army guards in Leningrad, Kazan, Saratov, Samara, and the Caucuses were replaced by the NKVD, and they too rebelled to Beria's cause. Beria proclaims and lays the blame for failures of reform on Khrushchev and those remaining on the central council committee.
Now the Soviet Union falls into factionalism as signs of civil war is imminent. Beria and Malenkov form the Bolshevik Proletariat, following the Leninist-Stalinist thought. Without a central leader leading the central committee, Nikita Khrushchev leads the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. But problems arose when a fifth of the Red Army also defected to Beria's cause as well. Soon, the Soviet Union falls into civil war.
1953-1955
In the same year, in October the Greater Germanic Reich launches its first ever satellite into orbit of space, the Einigkeit 1. Marking the beginning of the Space Age for the Germans. Taking advantage of the Soviet Civil War, the Wehrmacht builds up support for both sides, knowing that if either Beria or Khrushchev won then the Soviet Union would be easy to conquer or to manipulate.
In 1954, seeing how western Russia is actively in a civil war, the central Asian soviet nations too rebelled. Forming the Central Asian People's Republics in late 1954. Though the central Asians have now proclaimed independence, Khrushchev and the Red Army reannexed and ended the new nation in mid-1955. With the existence of the CAPR, though it existed for a few months, it successfully depicted the weakness that the Khrushchev government is in by Beria's rebellion, yet Khrushchev will not stop him until Beria is dead.
The Axis powers: Germany, Italy, and Japan, had long been dead since Japan's collapse. Yet the relationship between the two remaining Axis members becomes strenuous. Benito Mussolini, the Duce of the Italian Empire, in the remaining years of his life takes the first steps of balancing German control of Europe. Officially having removed the Italian Empire from the Axis Pact, Mussolini begins talks with Franco's Spain and Turkey, officially creating the Mediterranean Triumvirate. Greece officially joins as well, being given independence from Italy and having its pro-Fascist monarch in charge.
Though the Triumvirate is supposed to be a cooperation of trade and military between the Italian Empire, Spain, and Turkey, many see that in reality it's only the Neo-Roman Empire without calling itself by that title, only because of its Italian domination.
Another on Mussolini's agenda to secure a better perception of Italy is the question of what to do with the Jews in Italy and the Mediterranean. It's bad that Hitler has demanded multiple times for Italy to give up its Jewish population, even threatening to invade. Mussolini begins to take the steps to turn the Levant, an Italian colony, into a Jewish colony. Where the Jews of Europe can now be housed in the homeland of their ancestors. This action angers Hitler, seeing the extreme multitudes of significance and legitimacy Mussolini has done, and in the end, both nations and leaders begin to leave each other alone and only work together in military affairs. Finally, Benito Mussolini, having done much in the remaining years of his life passes away and names his son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano, the new Duce of the Italian Empire and the Mediterranean Triumvirate.
Following similarly in Mussolini's footsteps, King Edward VIII of the Kingdom of England: begins talks with the Republic of Scotland and the Republic of Wales into a military defense alliance. Though ambitious to regain control of the two republics in order to rebuild the United Kingdom and gain more legitimacy for his reign, he succeeds in getting into a voluntary military alliance with the republic instead of a compliant one, only buying time to reclaim control over the republics.
With the Reich distracted by observing the Soviet civil war, the French State begins to call for aid. Algeria, France's best colony begins to openly rebel against The French State's rule in November of 1954. The FLN: National Liberation Front, begin to commit acts of terror against the French to create support of Algerian independence. Even members of Free France are involved in several attacks against military and police stations, primarily targeting German military targets. Seeing how the French State is slowly losing grip, martial law is put in place and in mid-1956 a couple of Wehrmacht divisions and a handful of Waffen SS divisions are sent to end the uprisings, including the 9th SS Panzergenadier Eis Division
August 1956
Algiers, The French State of Algeria
The morning sun rises over the horizon of the city of Algiers. Throughout the city, the city's air raid sirens announce the morning Islamic call to prayer. Many of the devoted arise and perform their religious obligations while many others sleep in, to the French and German reinforcements sent to quell the uprisings, its another facet of life they have to put up with since many haven't been out of their home nations in years or deployed at all.
To Esdeath Partas, it brings her some recollection of her stay in Kyroch in the Empire. Much of the buildings, culture, customs, and people are similar to the Kyroch but one thing is made clear to her, she can't exactly communicate with the local residents and her famed reputation in Europe garnered her different differing reactions from the locals.
One feeling does keep returning for Esdeath though, the feeling of loneliness. She hadn't garnered that loneliness when she first arrived into this world but its different now. Yet nostalgia also kicked in. Previously in the city of Kyroch she was tasked in being the bodyguard of a spy in a religious group that gained immense power and could even threaten the Empire. Yet in Algiers her task is to keep the peace, no special spy infiltrating the Islamic religion that needs protecting, no assassination attempts on major figures, no Night Raid, no Tatsumi.
As Esdeath patrols the French sector of Algiers, a separated French and German community from the Algerian Arabs, she begins to pick up the sense of intimidation by some of the people in her area. The Germans, both military and civilian, are happy to see Esdeath walk amongst them, but the French are mixed in their feelings for Esdeath. Esdeath, dressed in a white version of her SS uniform for her rank, reaches a checkpoint that allows entry and exit into the native Algerian community. At first the French border guards didn't allow her but decided to do so. For her, its only a stroll around the town, might as well try to communicate with the locals and understand the similarities and differences between Algiers is to Kyroch.
"*Sigh* What I would give for some literal action right now. To the west there is the civil war in the Soviet Union right now. Now I'm here, crushing some revolt that would end up being like any other revolts. A massive disappointment." Esdeath states mentally. Over the past decade she has been able to recruit more and more troops. Leading multiple regimants in her 9th SS Panzergrenadier Eis Division, yet in this revolt she only brought around 500 of her best. Aside from training, she did allow herself to deluge a bit in her sadist and huntress tendencies. Being allowed to torture spies from both the US and the USSR as well as slaves from Eastern Europe who decided to kill there masters.
As Esdeath continues to walk through the streets of Algiers, she senses a few people, covered in white burkas walking behind them. It's not the same as everyone else as these one's have an intent to kill. Feeling this, Esdeath simply smirks.
Seeing this, one of Esdeath's escorts glances at Esdeath with a hint of concern in his face. "Is there a problem, SS-Gruppenführerin?" An SS-Oberscharführer asks.
"Not a single problem, SS-Obschaf." Then Esdeath stops walking, and so do her escorting NCOs, then a few paces behind them the three people dressed in a white burka continue to keep walking "That's if, you still wish to live?" Esdeath asks the two SS-Oberscharführers. The two are confused by Esdeath's phrasing.
In a blink of a moment, the three cloaked assailants turn around and each produces a pistol. "! الله أكبر! الجزائر الحرة" (God is great! Free Algeria!) The three assailants open fire, but they only could get a few shots in. Injuring one of her escorts.
"Weissschnabel" Esdeath then produces several icicles and fires them at the three assailants. Wounding all three. The crowd begins to run and scream in panic by the sound of gunfire. "How tragic, I was hoping for some action today that would risk my life. That was a good trick though Yet if you were in my world, you would've been failures for an assassin." Esdeath tells to three assailants as she walks up to the bodies of her would-be assassins, while the other SS- Oberscharführer tends to the wounds of his comrade. She uncloaks each one, one by one, revealing themselves to be two men and a woman, all members of the FLN. "Tch. How idiotic the three of you. It be better to face me properly instead of trying to shoot me from behind. Now all of your people are too scared to face me." Within mere moments, two French patrol vehicles rush to the scene of the failed assassination attempt. They reached the scene and see Esdeath kneeling over her victims
"What happened here?" A French officer asks. He turns to look at the bodies as they begin to crawl away slowly in pain. But instead of being terrified of the French officers, they're now more terrified of Esdeath. Soon all three were loaded up onto one of the French patrol cars. Driven away to be treated and later questioned, while a medic tends to the wounds of one of Esdeath's escorts. "What happened here? Why did you allow yourself to get yourself become a target? You know well that these Algerians are looking for an opportunity to kill anyone against their cause."
"One might say it's because I decide to act a bit reckless. But I'm still seeing whether or not I'm still worthy of living." Esdeath reports, "Even seeing if my Imperial Arms is still working or not." Esdeath tells the French officer. "Well then. I believe you will take to interrogating those terrorists, would you?"
"As per protocol. Yes, they're in the French jurisdiction, and are subject to our laws." The French officer responded.
"Have I wandered that far off?" Esdeath remarks. "Either way. Don't hurt them to bad, because I want to have some fun myself." Esdeath turns and continues to walk through the streets of Algiers, this time unprotected and without an escort. Earning herself a reputation amongst the Algerian population and the FLN as well as Free France Forces in the entirety of the Algerian colony.
1956-1960
With the Soviet Civil War engulfing parts of the Soviet Union. The Greater Germanic Reich, seeing an opportunity to expand the Lebensraum and its influence deeper into the Soviet Union, begins its invasion once more. Having been provoked by Beria, the GGR begins to overtake Beria's territories. Leningrad, Saratov, the Caucuses, and northwest Russia have fallen in a matter of weeks. With the Soviet civil war has come to a close in the next years Khrushchev: the now recognized leader of the Soviet Union begins to deal with massive unrest in his nation. As his popularity begins to deeply decline, yet the question of Beria's location remains a mystery, as he had disappeared in the Caucuses mountains. His second: Malenkov, was captured by the Soviets and was promptly put in prison.
Yet as the problems of the Soviet Union begin to quell, the world is not.
In the US, the economy begins to boom but still lags behind the Reich in technology. The US, to carry its nuclear arsenal of over 13,000 nuclear bombs, still relies on B-29 bombers as well as other bombers. Compared to the Reich's V4 rocket systems, capable of dealing with a nuclear and non-nuclear payload similar to that of Hiroshima and capable of reaching over 100 km. Yet German nuclear stockpile is still limited to around 900 nuclear weapons as Hitler is not keen in using nuclear weapons, even becoming a global advocate for a reduction in such weapons, citing the immense cost of financial and infrastructure it would have.
Peace talks between Hitler and Khrushchev largely fail and both sides begin to contest for the lands that were formally Beria's. Neither one wants to give up their claims but internal struggles begin to fester in the Soviet Union. Within the newly acquired territory of the Reichskomissariat Russland, many White Russians: many of whom were exiled Russians after the Russian Civil War, begin to migrate back to Russland. Several White Russian military officers are now put in charge of rebuilding the army and to act as the bulwark against the Soviet Union, should they invade.
With the Soviet civil war being over, the Reich begins to implement troops within the new borders of the Reichskommisariat Russland, whilst keeping up with support against the Communist Rebels in the African Reichskommissariats and colonies owned by France. Even crushing the Algerian Revolt in Algiers and other parts of North Africa, scrambling parts of the Free France Forces further into the desert of Algeria and back into the Ivory Coast, as well as sending Wehrmacht and SS troops to the French Indochina colony to quell revolts happening there. But with the amount spent in fighting these wars, the French State economy begins to crack into shambles.
The Luftwaffe, in its combat against the Vietcong, and their competition against the US Airforce, unleashes its new series of fighters: The Messerschmitt F-435 Sternenlicht, and bombers: Heinkel D-4. Yet due to these aircrafts being new models and not much was dealt in training, several of these aircraft fell to the Vietcong forces in China.
But as the Reich continues its fight all over the world, putting down rebellions, and supporting National Socialist doctrine the economy begins to take a steep downfall. With the economy collapsing all around the Reich, many don't know what to do, yet a few decide to rise to the occasion. The Reich, in part, supports several groups and nations that support the National Socialist cause and has even begun to build friendly ties with the US. Yet with the economy crashing in the Reich, worries begin to amount.
April 1957
Berlin, Greater Germanic Reich
The majority of the city of Berlin had been rebuilt according to the Germania project. The architecture stands grand, enormous, and an awe to see. Though the city is still under construction, in two years' time, during the Führer's 70th birthday, Berlin would be officially renamed Germania. Yet it would have to wait. Due to the economic downfall, and seeing few viable alternatives, Henrich Himmler and his SS begin to march onto the Volkshalle. Hitler and Himmler rarely saw eye-to-eye since the end of the Second World War, causing strain in their relationship as leaders. Esdeath is sent to the east in order to assist the White Russian officers to help retrain Red Army soldiers of Beria and Khrushchev into obedient soldiers of the Reich as well as crushing Soviet partisans.
Throughout the streets of Berlin, thousands of SS men begin to march through the streets, waving the black flag with the white SS symbol. With the majority of the Wehrmacht fighting to keep German interests internationally, Himmler and his SS march through the streets, weapons drawn and vehicles at the ready. All for an attempted coup.
With the collapse of the German economy, Himmler blames the decadence of the German people, forgetting the warrior ways of their forefathers and languishing in a time of peace. Desiring in transforming the Reich into a spartanist state. Yet before any major fighting breaks out, Hans Spiedel: General of the Wehrmacht of Berlin, stops Himmler and his SS. Spiedel, a former leader in the 20 July plot to kill Hitler, was given command of the Wehrmacht defenses in and around Berlin recommended by Göring, in order to keep him close to Berlin and under the close eye of other Wehrmacht generals and the Führer himself. Only being spared after a final intervention by Göring and other Wehrmacht generals.
The Wehrmacht had put an end to the SS rebellion, and skirmishes had broken out, but they were far from the center of Berlin. In turn one major SS division, in the contested border zone of the Reichskommissariat Russland and the Soviet Union, the 36th SS Panzergenadier Division becomes a roaming band of SS bandits, raiding and pillaging in both the Reichskommissariat and the Soviet Union.
Not wanting to get rid of Himmler, and in turn, prevent a civil war. Hitler and Himmler come to a deal, in return for not being involved in German affairs as well as keeping a few of the SS divisions in the Greater Germanic Reich proper, Himmler and his SS get to create a new state. The Reichskommissariat Belgien-Nordfrankreich, Luxembourg, and the French State territories of Alsace, Lorraine, Rhône-Alpes, Franche-Comte, Champagne, Bourgogne, Picarde, and Noro-Pas-de-Calais, all states being sold to Himmler and his new state in order to keep the Reich economically afloat. With his newfound nation, the SS State of Burgundy or Ordesstaat Burgund, Himmler begins to put into action his views of the National Socialist ideal, Esoteric National Socialism, breaking off from the original National Socialism still practiced in Berlin.
April, 1959
Heligoland, Greater Germanic Reich
It's been over twenty years since Esdeath had first appeared in her new home. In that span of twenty years, she mostly saw war and was in the heart of much of the fighting she can get herself into. Her 9th SS Panzergrenadier Eis Division had suffered casualties in its fighting against the Algerian nationalist and Islamist rebels in North Africa, and the partisans of Russia and Ukraine Eastern Europe, many of whom are Slavs and Jews fighting against the Reich who had enslaved them. Yet there is no shortage of recruits from the general population and the ranks of the Wehrmacht Heer and the SS who want to join a prestigious division, only to be met by the reality of its difficult training period.
On Hitler's 70th birthday, the Germania project was completed and Berlin was officially renamed Germania. Esdeath herself was in attendance, yet she herself saw firsthand of Hitler's declining health, and why she herself is starting to agree with Himmler's views of National Socialism. Politics was never her game as it's more cutthroat than one may think, especially in a society of despotic ruler that has the ultimate say in many affairs of the state. Perhaps it's why she didn't accept Himmler's offer to be a representative for the Ordenstaat in Germania, seeing it would take her away from much of the fighting.
On the beach of Heligoland, Esdeath sits alone, taking in the salty and cool breeze of the North Sea. She had reserved the island for a couple of nights for herself to relax and unwind. Yet, in her heart, she remains alone. The majority of the soldiers she had gotten close with and befriended, from the first days of the Eis Jägers in the beginning of the invasion of France to the last days of the war had passed in those few years of fighting. Those who remained alive retired from military service, only for a couple to return to help train new recruits.
"It's been over twenty years. All has changed." Esdeath speaks to herself. "I'm still the same as ever, and yet people changed. Himmler rebelled and now he has his own nation, but seeing how it goes, I can still work well with him." "I guess it's true about nature. The strong overtaking the weak." Esdeath continues to ponder. "Yet even then, the strong loses out to the weak."
"My men of today aren't the same as those twenty years ago. Yet are still loyal, just like the ones of my previous world." Esdeath continues to think. "I wonder how they're doing after their revolution? Perhaps whatever plans Himmler has might be able to allow me to return over there, or at the very least bring some people in this world to, as well as some Imperial Arms." Esdeath continuedly thinks. It's a possible idea since her appearance and her showing her Imperial Arms to Hitler and his inner circle, Himmler and a few other generals have gained an interest in finding a way to use teleportation to gain access to her old world or being able to connect directly to dimensions beyond this universe.
"That is only hopeful imagination, yet if it were possible. Then I would give anything to see Tatsumi one last time." Esdeath begins to imagine Tatsumi's face once more. "I don't doubt he would hate this world, but I would help to teach him how to love it and live in it." "If that occurs, then perhaps I can bring back the Jaegers. But that in itself is a stretch." Esdeath looks out to the sea once more.
"Yes, I know that my heart would be whole once more if Tatsumi was here. Perhaps we could even have a family. That is if my clock in this world doesn't run out. But that won't matter." Esdeath stands up once more and looks further into the sea. "Because I know for one, when the time comes. I may even create my own Reich that arises from the ashes of war." Esdeath turns around and begins to walk away. "I would simply give it time, time for the world here to run its course." Esdeath continues to walk.
Author's Note:
Finally done with this chapter. Apologies for not uploading this chapter any earlier. Mostly due to time being away and not coming up with good ideas. But after writing it all down, I suddenly got much more inspiration. Next chapter is coming soon, and will Eseath no longer be alone in a foreign world?
For the most part, the year 1953 is mostly based on the movie The Death of Stalin (2018). I recommend watching the movie first but it's not necessary, there are clips on YouTube to watch. I just really liked the film and its dark humor. I would also recommend the film The Battle of Algiers (1966).
Heinkel D-4 = A-5 (A3J) Vigilante
The Messerschmitt F-435 Sternenlicht = Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
Aside from that. The next chapter is coming soon, and I'm planning to expand more into the story and involve events that happen in our timeline as well as ones that didn't happen but will. Comments and reviews are well appreciated.