The New Order Lore Bible

For team eyes ONLY

By The Pink Panzer and the team

For Trains
 Foreword
The New Order Lore Bible is a resource for team members to consult the lore, history,
and necessary information of the mod. Of course, if you’re reading this you should already know
that this resource is not to be shared outside of the team. If you are reading this and plan to do
so anyway, then you are most likely of the type who will not listen to reason, in which case I
politely ask you to not do so. If this is leaked, we will most likely need to restrict further access,
so let’s keep this in team. For now at least.

The lore bible is separated into sections for the Unity-Pakt, OFN, Co-Prosperity Sphere,
Triumvirate, Russia and Neutrals. While South Africa is normally seen as an OFN aligned
nation, their neutral start at the beginning places them in the Neutrals category. Likewise, any
aligned nation that otherwise starts factionless (sans Chinese warlords and Mongolian states)
should also be included in the neutrals category. Kazakhstan and Central Asia are listed in the
Russia category, due to their placement on development teams.

Otherwise, we should start out this document correctly, by stating what it is and is not. This will
be especially important when you, the contributor, begin adding your own lore. After this section
we will discuss proper formatting and guidelines of adding to the bible. Please make sure you
read them if you are contributing.

What this is:

1. A Guideline: This document is a guide for lore so you can have a good basis in
understanding what you have to potentially know when developing a nation.
2. A Person Finder: A list of all relevant figures to a nation and their status, as well as the
date of their death if they have perished in The New Order will be listed at the bottom of
every national resource.
3. Open Ended: This document is meant to be a living one, and may change, have things
removed, or have things added as development and lore changes.
What this is not:
1. An Alternate History Timeline: The New Order is based on conflicting and obscure
lore, and this bible does not change this. I will list conflicting lore cases where applicable,
but will not always list the ‘true’ solution, especially where I do not feel it is needed.
Often, I myself do not know what is true in the end.
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 Conflicting Lore
Conflicting lore is any backstory scenario where there are two conflicting views of
explanations of it. Conflicting lore can have a ‘right’ view, no known correct view, or multiple
possibly correct views. Examples of the same conflicting lore formatted in all three ways is
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The Interwar
The Second World War
The Postwar
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
 The Unity-Pakt

A Brief History
The Unity-Pakt is a loosely held
coalition of Nazi Germany and its sphere.
Originally the flag of the Unity-Pakt bares a
swastika for all nine members (not counting
nations de jure considered part of the Reich,
such as Burgundy or Moskowien), which are
the German Reich, Bulgaria, England,
Denmark, France, Brittany, Slovakia, Serbia,
and Ireland. The flag originally contained 10
swastikas, two of which have since been
removed with the separation of Romania and Hungary from the Pakt.

The Pakt was formed in 1945 as the German Reich began to reorganize Europe under Hitler’s
New Order. Planned as an economic and military pact that would ensure that Germany’s puppet
and allied states were tied closely to the Reich at all times, German plans envisioned each
nation giving its military and economy to the control of the Pakt’s central office in the Reichstag.
Long term German goals called for the Pakt to eventually ensure that all member nations were
entirely dependent on the Reich, and for the possibility of the Pakt to eventually be subsumed
by the Reichstag’s direct control and for all member state’s eventual annexation into Germany
or transformation into direct puppet states.

While the formation of the Pakt was widely circulated in German propaganda, the formative
years were incredibly troubled, even before the collapse of the Reich’s suzerainty in Europe. An
increasingly estranged Mussolini continually held off on German offers, and then demands, to
join the Pakt, the continual insistence by the Reich’s diplomats further estranging the Italian
dictator from Germany. Francoist Spain refused, citing continued neutrality in foreign affairs
even after Germany had declared victory in the war, and Turkey cited similar reasons. All other
nations in Europe not in any of these three nation’s spheres, and not included Switzerland and
Sweden, would join the Pakt. Sweden and Finland both agreed to observer status in the Pakt, to
potentially join at a later date.

Conflicting lore:
1. Some Germany events cite the ‘14 founding members’ or the ‘17 founding
members’ of the Unity-Pakt, referencing an addition of Scotland and Wales, or
Scotland, Wales, Italy, Spain and Turkey into the founding members of the Pakt.
One event mentions an old flag with 14 stars.
2. None of the above nations are members of the Pakt at game start. Additionally,
Iberia, Italy, and Turkey make no reference to ever having been members of the
Pakt.

While the Pakt’s formation originally involved close cooperation of nations, most of its policies
were never actually instated outside of nations that were already de jure or de facto puppets of
Nazi Germany. Within two months of its founding, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria had already
publicly refused to follow German demands for the adoption of the Reichsmark and
standardized ammunition for all weapons.

The only independent nation that attempted to follow the majority of German demands was the
French State. Rapid attempts to tie the nation closer to Germany and begin transforming the
military to follow the German structure failed, however, and contributed to France’s collapse
before that of the Reich and the rest of the Pakt. Many foreign newspapers cited a massively
devaluing Reichsmark outside of Germany and the forceful and failed attempts to Germanize its
military as a possible prelude to a similar collapse in the rest of the Pakt.

During the chaos of the West Russian War (see The Postwar section, or Germany history in this
section, or A Brief History in the Russia section) the Unity-Pakt faced a sudden and immediate
power-vacuum. German garrisons were forced to withdraw from posts across the Pakt after the
Russians advanced into Reichskommissariat Moskowien nearly unabated for over a month. The
war also brought along a marked downturn in the German economy, rapidly turning into a crash
as Germany was forced to once again tool its industry towards war production with little proper
planning beforehand.
With German attention elsewhere and the Pakt’s economy rapidly falling apart, numerous
contenders to German hegemony took notice, most notably Romania.

Hungary, who had been the second nation in the Pakt to show signs of collapse after France,
was left practically undefended when German attentions turned elsewhere. Its economy, also
the closest to the Reich’s in the Balkans, disappeared seemingly overnight as German
subsidies disappeared and German owned corporations and industries began exclusively
shipping goods to the Reich for the war effort. Romania under the Iron Guard, which was
somewhat spared by the rapidly failing economies both by physical and political distance from
Germany, took notice and soon after struck the Budapest Agreement with Germany alongside
Slovakia.

The Budapest Agreement dictated that Romania would be granted claims on Hungarian
Transylvania, and Slovakia would also be given claims on all of its traditional core territories in
Hungary. In addition, the Unity-Pakt would eject Hungary shortly before the inevitable Romanian
intervention in order to not trigger the Pakt’s co-defense pact. In return, Romania and Slovakia
agreed to remain in the Pakt despite its current state, and to assist the German war effort in the
east with both soldiers and material aide, as the Pakt’s treaties stipulated they were required to
do when a member was faced by foreign invasion.

Romania and Slovakia soon after invaded Hungary in what became known as the Five Day War
internationally, or the Reclamation War in Romania. Hungarian soldiers resisted for three days
before retreating from Transylvania and the north, and further conflict lasted another two days
until Germany brokered a peace treaty between the three nations.

Two months later, when the Romanian economy began to unwind with the rest of Europe’s, and
with Romania having still not followed any of the Budapest Agreement’s assistance guarantees,
the Iron Guard of Romania began looking for another conflict to hopefully ensure popular
support. Bulgaria presented potential military threat to the Romanians, with a smaller military yet
one that had prepared its northern border for invasion along the Danube. Instead, Romania
looked towards German Serbia, which had collapsed into near anarchy even before the West
Russian War.
Romania rapidly occupied Banat, and having violated the laws of the Pakt, quickly left the
organization.

Conflicting lore:
1. Romania claims to have left the Pakt of its own volition before beginning the war.
2. Germany claims that Romania was ejected after the war for violating the Pakt’s laws.
 Großdeutsches Reich

A Brief History

Starting Situation

Paths

Speer
Albert Speer is a man torn between two realities, the falsities of his public life and the
realities of his private one. Within Germany and abroad the liberal movements hail Speer as the
great reformer, the man who is poised to usher in a new kind of Germany. The student
movement in particular has made Speer their champion, crying ‘Speer jetzt!’ at their rallies and
carrying signs and banners with his aging face upon them. It is an image that Speer himself has
played no small part in cultivating, giving speeches at universities across the Reich denouncing
slavery, the oppressive ways of the regime and the ever growing influence of the military in
government affairs. However Speer’s public personality has taken on a life of its own in the
years since Speer first begun denouncing aspects of the Nazi regime, and now his name is
attached to countless hopes and dreams of reforms and changes within Germany Speer himself
has likely never even uttered a word in public regarding.

In reality, Speer is by no means the figure that his public persona has come to represent
entirely. Whilst Speer does strongly disagree with slavery, the role of the military in society and
a number of other issues, these desires to reform come largely from how much Speer has come
to despise the German economy, rather than from a strong moral stance. Having served the
Reich as armaments minister during the Second World War, with Hitler’s blessing Speer left the
position upon the wars conclusion to focus on the mega-projects he and the Fuhrer had
dreamed of for so long. As the Great Architect, Speer rebuilt Berlin into Germania along with
countless other projects across the Reich. Quite content with this life, it was during the West
Russian War that reluctantly Speer was brought back into the government. With the war
becoming a shambles and turning against Germany, Speer was again named as the armaments
minister for Germany to satisfy the bloated Wehrmacht’s supply demands in the way he had the
Second World War. Only just managing to keep the Wehrmacht afloat until the conflict died
down, Speer was named the German Economic Minister at the direct order of Hitler upon the
death of Walther Funk. Supposedly, it was a reward for a job well done. A poisoned chalice in
reality.

In control of the entire economy of the Reich, Speer began to realize just how atrocious and
unsustainable the economic situation of Germany truly was, forming the true basis for his desire
for reform. To solve the unemployment crisis the slave system needed to be abolished, done in
stages to avoid a total labor collapse. The fact that slavery is an immoral practise was only a
secondary factor at best. Despite having the support of the Fuhrer, Speer remained deeply
unpopular with Hitler’s inner circle, the Reichstag, and large elements of German society
however. In order to have a chance of enacting any of the reforms desperately needed to save
the German economy, Speer needed a powerful movement of his own. Speaking at universities,
on the radio and on television across the Reich Speer adopted the disenfranchised youth
movements and reformers in German society as his own to build his influence in society, calling
on ever greater reforms such as to the security services and personal liberties to further win
over the movements. Whilst this has certainly worked in winning Speer a strong powerbase in
Germany he needs to try and achieve real reform, he has come to quickly lose full control over
his public persona as detailed earlier.

Speer is the least powerful out of the four contenders for the German Civil War, and only just
more popular than Reinhard Heydrich to much of German society. In the Civil War Speer will
secure North-East Germany for himself, establishing a capital in Frankfurt for the duration to the
war. It should be noted here however it is entirely possible that Speer will not even make it this
far, with Reinhard Heydrich being able to murder or arrest Speer before the war should Hitler
name Heydrich as his successor. In the Civil War Speer’s forces receive only a scarce amount
of divisions from the Heer, the bulk of his forces being comprised of militia forces largely from
the German youth who have rallied to Speer’s banner. Foreign volunteers and equipment,
including from the United States, will also make their way to Speer during the war in the
international hopes of establishing a more sane, liberalising Germany in the Cold War.

Once the war is won, a monumental task awaits. Speer’s immediate enemies may have been
defeated, but the majority of the civilian population remains against Speer in mind if no longer in
body, and the country itself lays in ruins. On the first issue, Speer will need to babystep
Germany through the stages of reform, knowing that pushing the Germans too far too quickly
will surely lead to his demise. On the second issue, Speer is perhaps most equipt to resolve that
particular crisis. No-matter what else he may be, Speer remains the Great Architect to the
German people, and will undertake significant projects to rebuild Germany and get the German
back into work whilst doing so. Numerous cities lay in utter ruins, a perfect excuse to tear it all
down and rebuild the cities entirely along Speerian architectural lines. Every city shall become a
Germania of its own, and if the German wants a new home after the war then he shall need to
build it with his own hands. There can be no more Germans quite happy to let the slaves do all
the work.

A large part of Speer’s early post-GCW game will be attempting to finally enact the extensive
economic reforms Speer has dreamed about for years, transforming Germany from a largely
closed economy reliant on slave labor towards a freer market with a strong, German workforce
as its backbone. All of this economic reform will, however, be a smoking gun in Speer’s hand
once the Oil Crisis hits and the economy subsequently almost certainly collapses again. Speer’s
reforms are not just limited to economic matters however, and a large focus also exists on finally
trying to end Nazi Germany’s obsession with race as Speer’s desire to reform begins to
snowball once he actually has the power to do so, with secondary guilts he may have faced in
the past increasingly dominating his motivations once his initial desires are achieved.

The largest threat to Speer throughout his Fuhership will come from the military. Speer’s
unpopularity even after the Civil War will require him to pardon large numbers of those he only
recently called enemies, particularly from among the military. Just as Speer will need to
babystep the German public through his reforms, he will also need to ensure that the military do
not become too upset with his actions either. The main battle will between Field Marshals
Speidel and Schorner, who will be constantly competing for leadership of the militarist faction
within Germany. Speidel will largely consistently support Speer’s government, whereas Shorner
will constantly be looking for an excuse to seize power for himself. The more the military is kept
happy, the more likely Speidel will be able to retain control of the faction. On the flip side, the
more Speer offends or tries to sideline the military the more likely it is Schorner will take control
of the faction. A large number of decisions will affect how happy or unhappy the military is with
Speer’s regime at any given time, including actions both within Germany and within the
Reichskommissariats.
The conflict between Speidel and Schorner will come to a head at the Oil Crisis as whether
leading the militarists or not, Shorner will use the crisis to make a last ditch attempt at securing
power before Speer becomes too entrenched as Fuhrer. If Schoerner is already leading the
militarists as Germany goes into this crisis, he will finally be able to force Speidel into retirement,
or arrange for a very tragic accident to befall him. It will then be quite likely that Shorner will
launch a coup if Speer hasn’t built up enough good boy points with the military and they are
powerful enough. If Speidel is leading the militarists, Shorner will launch his last desperate
attempt to take power and have Speer shot, preparing to make his move once Speer dies in
surgery. Except that much to Schorner’s, horror Speer actually survives and Schorner is quickly
implicated and arrested for treason, with the German public quickly rallying behind Speer’s
leadership as they collectively realize how fucked they would have been if Speer had died.

Speer has the largest diplomatic options out of any Germany route, both in terms of how he can
deal with the RKs and how he can deal with other international powers. With the RK’s, Speer
will always have multiple options in how to deal with them once the German Civil War has
concluded. Most often, there will be three: Dismantle the RK and turning power over to local
collaborator regimes in the Pakt, keeping the RK but enacting reforms within it, or calling them
traitors and letting the military kick in the door. The first option is only available if Speer has
managed to negotiate the territories return into the Pakt via diplomacy, something Speer is able
to do with almost every former RK. If the military was sent in to return the territory into the Pakt
by force however, the RK will be re-established at some point once the war is won. They didn’t
just fight a war to let you then give control over to the natives.

Internationally, Speer’s great project is the creation of the Koalition der Nationen. A massive
international organization dedicated towards the reduction of hostilities and peaceful diplomacy
between the major nations of the world. The KN can vary massively in its ability to succeed,
largely dependent upon who you were able to actually get to join it. The big members will be the
US and Japan. Whilst you likely will still be able to achieve decent successes with one of them,
the KN will largely be neutered if neither decide to join. There is incentive for both to join if one
does however, in order to ensure that they are not being left out as two major powers align
against them internationally. The initiatives the KN can attempt will largely remain the same no
matter who you are able to get into the organization, but the organization will have far more bark
than bite if it is just largely just Germany and her puppets. Initiatives the KN can attempt include
establishing International Peacekeepers, negotiating anti-nuclear weapon treaties and forming a
unified international response to Burgundy.

Assuming that Speer is not murdered, which can happen at almost any point throughout his
leadership, Speer will die of natural causes in 1981 at which point what ideology route he was
able to move into and the status of the militarist faction will determine the future of Germany.

Authoritarian Democrat Path

The Authoritarian Democrat route for Speer is the hardest of the three routes to achieve,
and if you are able to move Germany into this path you will likely feel dirty for everything you
had to do and let happen along the way. Chances are, you were able to enact significant reform
throughout Germany and fundamentally change how society works, views itself and its
relationship with the regime in a number of ways. But in order to get the public elections, daily
bread, free press and other liberties most likely you had to do terrible things abroad to prevent
the military from stepping in. The Reichskommissariats likely largely remain intact, albeit with
reforms within them. After they were most likely invaded after the door was kicked in that is.
Proxy wars were likely a playground for the military to go wild and quench its bloodthirst for a
time. You may have given Germany a true chance at a future, but it came at a terrible cost to
everything you touched outside of Germany.

Fascist Path

Fascist Speer is the most likely of the three Speer routes, and will see Speer dissolve
the slave system in Germany, enact significant reforms to the racial policies of National
Socialism, establish a functioning KN and quite likely dismantle a couple of RK’s and reform the
others. At the same time, the military and security services remain strong with a powerful
dictator in charge of the nation. It is largely a route of consistently going down the middle route
and knowing when to push and when to give when dealing with the military. It is a route of
knowing that you did not do everything you hoped you could have done, but knowing that at
least you survived it and were able to do some good for Germany along the way.

National Socialist Path

Throughout a Speer playthrough, it will be entirely possible to slip back into National
Socialism. Most likely, this will have occured during how crises were handled when they
inevitably popped up throughout the playthrough. The Wehrmacht was struggling in a war, so
you gave it utter budget priority to keep the military on side. The German people were turning
against you for all your reforms, and Russia was starting to look like it might be a problem, so
you let the military lead your diplomatic policy to get the people united behind a foreign threat.
The Oil Crisis was going down, social unrest was spiraling and the people were protesting over
lack of fuel, so you sent in the Orpo to crush the protests. The Corporations ran out of money
and were beginning to collapse, so you reorganized them into state co-operations. It will not be
‘easy’ to slip back into National Socialism, but if you take the ‘safe’ route a few times too many
you may find yourself as having fallen back into it without even realizing it and Punished Speer
has slowly given up on trying to reform Germany and has become a silent figurehead wondering
where it all went wrong.

Bormann

Reformer Path

Militarist Path

Göring

Reichsmarschall Göring is a strong contender for the next leader of Germany, possessing the
loyalty of the conservative elements in Germany that consider Bormann too slow to act, and the
hardliners in the military, who feel betrayed by their government after its failures to curb SS
sabotage in the West Russian War. The fact that Romania was allowed to flagrantly violate the
sacred pakt made between Germany and the nations she guided without appropriate
punishment was one of the last straws in their eyes, and they look to Göring to ensure that such
a disgrace will never befall the German people again.

Ferdinand Schörner lies at the head of the militarists. Known to his detractors as the snake of
Munich, Schörner earned a great deal of prestige in the war against the perceived Bolshevik
menace, quickly establishing himself as a competent and brutal commander, earning the
respect of the Fuhrer himself in the process of winning many victories. But his good luck was
not to last, and like many other German commanders he found himself hopelessly outmatched
and outmaneuvered by the forces of the WRRF in the 50s. Schörner followed Hitler's orders that
not a single inch of Germany territory was to be surrendered to the Russians to the letter,
enduring massive losses in hopes of earning yet more favor with the German dictator. To say
that this plan backfired massively would be an understatement, as other German commanders
were far more willing to abandon useless territory to ensure the safety of their men. Their retreat
threatened to leave Schörner’s forces encircled by the Russians, and to prevents such a
catastrophe Shöerner ineffectually tried to take command of the entire front, ordering that any
commander ordering a retreat would be expelled from the Wehrmacht and tried for high treason.

This power play was the straw that broke the back for Schörners power base, as the prompt
arrival of Speidel would soon prove. After rallying the German forces and usurping Schörners
authority, Speidel proceeded to accuse the Field Marshal of sacrificing the lives of his men in a
bid to curry favor with Berlin, demonstrating gross cowardice and negligence in his position.
Schörner could do little to defend himself against these accusations, as his power plays had
earned him few allies within the German high command. He was eventually resigned to a
logistical post for the duration of the West Russian war, and has vowed to reclaim his rightful
position at the top of the German military hierarchy. A feat he intends to accomplish by
supporting Göring.

Göring himself is far from pleased with Schörners support, seeing him more as a potential threat
to his own position than a useful ally. But the militarists have hitched their cart to Görings, and
by now it is far too long to reverse that action.

If Göring is able to win the German Civil War, and capture Germania through diplomacy or
force, then he quickly moves to secure his position as the ultimate leader of Germany. The
policy of treating dissidents and students with velvet gloves ended with the civil war, and he is
quick to send any who oppose him to the camps, or the firing lines. The banks are broken up
and nationalized completely, and the foundations for a personality cult rivaling Hitlers are quickly
established.

As the leader of Germany, Göring will first seek to unite the parts of the old German sphere he
sees as vital to maintaining German national security, namely Bohemia, Poland, Slovakia and
Ostland. Göring can cooperate with Drechsler, Stahlecker and Vituska to bring Ostland back to
the fold, and against any other contenders in Ostland he unleashes the might of the Wehrmacht.
After these first few victories, Göring would be content to focus on Germany's inner problems
before moving on, but the militarists have other plans.
Göring is then lead quite involuntarily on a series of ever escalating military adventures. War
plan A sees him striking against Ukraine, Moscowein, the British Isles, Hungary, Romania and
potentially more nations. Next comes war plan B, which involves amongst other things
Operation Barbarossa 2. It should be stressed that any one of the invasions after war plan 0 has
the potential to completely collapse Göring, as without constant military victories to satisfy both
the economy and the militarists he will find that his throne lies on pillars of salt and sand.
Schörner will be quick to take advantage of such a weakness, and there is a strong possibility
that he will coup Göring. Should he manage to reach war plan C, which involves the invasion of
nuclear superpowers such as Japan and the US, then the resulting global thermonuclear
firestorm will wipe the remains of his regime away quite handily.

There is, however another option. Should the militarists be weakened enough before war plan C
is initiated, and if several foci have been taken, then a hidden path will unlock for Göring. There
he moves against the militarists and attempts to remove Schörner from his position of power,
leading to the second German Civil War.

On the economic side, Göring is an absolute disaster for Germany. This is not done out of
malice or ignorance on his part however, but his fear of losing control of the economy, one of
the last facets of Germany he has full control over, leads him to refuse the advice of any
economists, and to try to manage the entire German economy on his own. Needless to say, this
will not end well.
 Heydrich

DSR

RNW

Speidel

Notable Figures

Leaders
● Adolf Hitler - Führer of Germany and HoS at game start.
● Martin Bormann - Party Chief and HoG at game start.
● Hermann Göring - Reichsmarschall and Security Minister at game start
● Albert Speer - Reformer, architect and Economic Minister at game start
● Reinhard Heydrich - Reichsführer Deutsch-SS

Generals
● Field Marshal Wilhelm Burgdorf (Bormann)

● Field Marshal Rudolf-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (Speer)

● Field Marshal Herbert Otto Gille (Heydrich)

● Field Marshal Karl-Adolf Hollidt (Bormann)

● Field Marshal Johann von Kielmansegg (Goring)

● Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (Speidel)

● Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner (Goring + RNW)

At the head of the militarists lies Ferdinand Schörner,

or the snake of Munich as he is known to his detractors .
Schörner earned a great deal of prestige in the war against the
bolshevik menace, quickly establishing himself as a competent
and brutal commander, earning the respect of the Fuhrer
himself in the process of winning many victories. But his good
luck was not to last, and like many other German commanders
he found himself hopelessly outmatched and outmaneuvered
by the forces of the WRRF in the 50s. Schörner followed
Hitler's orders that not a single inch of Germany territory was to be surrendered to the
Russians to the letter, enduring massive losses in hopes of earning yet more favor with
the German dictator. To say that this plan backfired massively would be an
understatement, as other German commanders were far more willing to abandon
useless territory to ensure the safety of their men. Their retreat threatened to leave
Schörner’s forces encircled by the Russians, and to prevents such a catastrophe
 Shörner ineffectually tried to take command of the entire front, ordering that any
commander ordering a retreat would be expelled from the Wehrmacht and tried for high
treason.

This power play was the straw that broke the back for Schörner’s power base, as the
prompt arrival of Speidel would soon prove. After rallying the German forces and
usurping Schörners authority, Speidel proceeded to accuse the Field Marshal of
sacrificing the lives of his men in a bid to curry favor with Berlin, demonstrating gross
cowardice and negligence in his position. Schörner could do little to defend himself
against these accusations, as his power plays had earned him few allies within the
German high command. He was eventually resigned to a logistical post for the duration
of the West Russian war, and has vowed to reclaim his rightful position at the top of the
German military hierarchy. A feat he intends to accomplish by supporting Göring.

● Field Marshal Hans Speidel (Speidel)

● Field Marshal Carl Szokoll (Speer)

● Field Marshal Eduard Wagner (Göring + RNW)

Eduard Wagner was born in 1894, and served with the

Imperial German Army in the first world war, as well as with
the Reichswehr in the interwar period before joining the
Wehrmacht upon its creation. He ascended the ranks of the
army at a decent pace, becoming a general of the artillery
in 1943 and eventually became a field marshal after his
service in the war. Wagner was as eager as any German to
reclaim the territory the fatherland had lost after their loss in
the first world war, and looked gladly to a future invasion of
Poland. His most infamous act during the war was his work with Heydrich organizing and
coordinating the systematic murder of “undesirables” by ensuring that the army would
fully cooperate with the SS Einsatzgruppen in their operations.

After the Reich’s quick victory against the Bolshevik threat, any lingering doubts he had
for the Nazi system was wiped away in the intoxicating glory of victory. After the war had
concluded, Wagner continued to serve as a quartermaster general within the eastern
Reichskommissariats, ensuring that the proper supplies would reach the vast garrisons
within them, as well as continuing his role of coordinating the Einsatzgruppen and the
army. The West Russian War proved to be quite a shock to the venerable general, as he
struggled to reconcile his belief in the superiority of the German army with the great
losses they suffered. Nevertheless, he eventually managed to rally his forces and ensure
a relatively stable line of supply to the German forces in their desperate fight against the
Russians, earning his promotion to field marshal in the process. After learning of the
sabotage the SS had inflicted upon the proud Wehrmacht during the West Russian War,
he cut off any support he had given the SS, and threw his hat in with Göring and the
militarists, seeking to restore the German army to its proper place as the centerpiece of
German society.
● Field Marshal Walther Wenck (Bormann)

Born in 1900, Wenck spent a year in the famed Freikorps

before joining the Reichswehr in 1920. Holding a variety of
positions during the Second World War, Wenck became best
known for being the youngest officer to be promoted to
General during the war, the rising star within the German
ranks. Having become an instructor at the War Academy
during the war, as well as for the Romanian Third Army, upon
the wars conclusion Wenck chose to remain within the
Wehrmacht as an instructor at the Academy, with a generation
of German officers having now risen under his tutelage.

During the West Russian War, Wenck returned to combat duty appointed commander of
the Twelfth Army. Upon arriving at the front lines, Wenck quickly captured Hitler’s
attention by concluding his initial report with the comment “As you see My Führer, the
Eastern Front is like Swiss cheese, full of holes.”. Despite earning an official reprimand
for the use of informal language, Wenck had endeared himself to the Führer. With the
war dragging on and climbing German defeats, Wenck’s Twelth Army found itself
increasingly saturated with the floods of German settlers fleeing the Russian advance,
which Wenck went to great length to see fed and sheltered, choosing to use the Twelfth
to secure escape routes for refugees and retreating German forces rather than to launch
any offensive of his own. A subsequent investigation of whether Wenck had acted in
cowardness was quickly quashed at the Führer’s orders.

● General Bern von Baer (Speidel)

● General Erich Bärenfänger (Goring + RNW)

● General Ernst Barkmann (Heydrich)

● General Wolf Graf von Baudissin (Speidel)

● General Fritz Bayerlein (Speidel)

● General Alfred Becker (Goring)

● General Georg Bochmann (Heydrich)

● General Georg von Boeselager (Bormann)

● General Philipp von Boeselager (Speer)

● General Philipp Bouhler (Heydrich)

● General Axel von dem Bussche (Speidel)

● General Friedrich Foertsch (Goring)

● General Reinhard Gehlen (Bormann)

● General Heinz Harmel (Heydrich)

● General Leo Hepp (Goring)

● General Hans-Joachim Herrmann (Goring)

● General Adolf Heusinger (Speidel)

● General Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte (Goring + RNW)

● General Harald von Hirschfeld (RNW)

● General Otto Hitzfeld (Speidel)

● General Friedrich Klausing (Speer)

● General Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (Speer)

● General Hugo Kraas (Heydrich)

● General Hans Krebs (Bormann)

● General Otto Kumm (Heydrich)

● General Heinz-Georg Lemm (Göring)

Heinz-Georg Lemm was born in 1919, only a year after

Germany's humiliating defeat in the first world war.
Like many other Germans of his generation, Lemm
joined the Wehrmacht and fought against the Reichs
many enemies in the great war against the Russian
menace. Serving with distinction, and earning the Iron
Cross in the process, he quickly caught the eyes of his
superiors, and was eventually promoted to command a
Panzergrenadier-Brigade within central Germany in
1949. From there, he would slowly but surely ascend the ranks of the military, earning
another promotion within the chaos of the West Russian War. He commanded a panzer
division against the Russians, and managed to outmaneuver and outflank the Bolsheviks
while others fell to their attacks.

At the end of the West Russian War, he earned his promotion to a full generalship after
displaying his expert command of tank formations. After the war, he found many allies
within the so called militarists of Germany, and rather openly supports Göring as the true
successor to Hitler. Lemm stands ready to utilize every asset at his disposal against the
enemies of Germany, be they domestic or foreign.
● General Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (Speer)
● General Ulrich de Maizière (Speidel)

● General Werner Mummert (RNW)

● General Erich Naumann (Heydrich)

● General Friedrich Olbricht (Bormann)

● General Hermann Priess (Heydrich)

● General Otto Ernst Remer (RNW)

● General Alexis von Roenne (Speer)

● General Hans Ulrich von Oertzen (Speer)

● General Joachim Sadrozinski (Bormann)

● General Albert Schnez (Bormann)

● General Werner Schrader (Speer)

● General Gerhard von Schwerin (Goring + RNW)

● General Gunther Smend (Bormann)

● General Claus von Stauffenberg

● General Hellmuth Stieff (Speer)

● General Theodor Tolsdorff (RNW)

● General Heinrich Trettner (Bormann)

● General Alfred Zerbel (Speidel)

 Post Game Start Generals
● General Eckart Afheldt

● General Wolfgang Altenburg

● General Gert Bastian

Born 1923, Bastian volunteered for the Wehrmacht at 19 and

served briefly on the Eastern Front before spending the rest of
the war in a military hospital after being wounded in the arm
and head by a Soviet grenade. Discharged with honors after
 the war, Bastian attempted to start a local business in Munich which failed in the post
war economic troubles, leading to Bastian rejoining the military in the early 1950s.
Serving in an auxiliary role during the West Russian war with no real distinction, Bastian
supported Speer’s candidacy for the position of Fuhrer following the death of Hitler.

Bastian will rise to becoming a full General in the early 1970s, and a couple of years
later will attract the attention of the regime by founding an organization called ‘Generals
for Peace’, a small coalition of Wehrmacht leaders peacefully opposed to large scale
German military intervention in nations and the nuclear arms race. The regime will then
have the opportunity to ban the organization, tolerate it or to support it from behind the
scenes.

● General Jürgen Brandt

● General Horst Brünner

● General Heinz Günther Guderian

● General Heinz Kessler

Born in 1920, Heinz Kessler has managed to become

one of the most controversial officers within the
Wehrmacht by game start. Raised by communist
parents in Lower Silesia, Kessler joined the
Wehrmacht in 1940 and was commended for his
eagerness to join the fighting on the Eastern Front.
After vanishing from his unit shortly after arrival
however, Kessler was tried and found guilty of
desertion and sentenced to death in absentia by a
military tribunal. With the Soviet Union on the verge of collapse, Kessler re-emerged as
the sole German survivor of a Soviet prison camp, claiming that he had in fact been
captured by the Soviets and that the Red Army had shot every prisoner but him.
Providing captured documents to German intelligence, enabling them to secure several
high value targets from the collapsing Union, Kessler’s desertion charges were
subsequently dropped.

Having returned to civilian life following the war, Kessler re-enlisted at the outbreak of
the West Russian War and having been extensively monitored by the Gestapo was
permitted to once again return to the West Russian Front. During the war Kessler was
once again suspected of conspiring with the Bolsheviks by feeding them intelligence of
German troop movements, but no concrete evidence could ever be found to confirm that
he had been the one responsible.
 As Germany descends into the Civil War, Kessler sides with Speer but as a mid level
officer, managing to survive subsequent purges following a Speer defeat by aligning
himself with Field Marshal Schorner. Kessler will become a full General during the early
1970s, and will then be shot and killed in the late 1970s by a former POW who claims to
have known that Kessler deliberately sought to defect to the Soviets and betrayed the
Reich during the Second World War.

● General Günter Kießling

Born in 1925 Kießling joined the Wehrmacht in 1939 at

the outbreak of the Second World War, serving with distinction
on the Eastern Front and again during the West Russian War.
Of no major note during the German Civil War due to his age
and position, Kießling serves as an officer among Speidel’s
Germania forces and chooses to remain within the military
after the war as a Speidel loyalist. Kießling will rise to the
position of full General in the mid 1970s as a rising star within
the ranks, only to become involved in a major scandal in the
late 1970’s called the ‘Kießling Affair’. Having been accused of homosexuality, the
Wehrmacht will claim that Kießling is a security risk and attempt to force him into early
retirement. It will be up to the player whether or not to bow to the demands of the
Wehrmacht on the matter. If Kießling is forced into early retirement, just before game
end it will be found that the allegations were made without foundation and Kießling can
be briefly reinstated before again retiring with full honors.

● General Hans-Joachim Mack

● General Karl-Theodor Molinari

● General Franz Pöschl

● General Günther Rall

● General Johannes Steinhoff

● General Hans Teusen

● General Hermann Wulf

Born in 1915, Wulf joined the Wehrmacht in 1934 and

served with distinction in a number of roles throughout
the Second World War, commanding infantry,
intelligence and panzer companies before finally being
transferred to the prestigious Führerbegleitbrigade, the
armored division tasked with escorting and protecting
the Fuhrer himself. Choosing to remain within the
military after the war, Wulf continued to serve as one of
the officers responsible for ensuring the safety of the
Fuhrer up until his death. Having been arrested by the Orpo after he punched a hardliner
Hitlerjugend leader disrupting services at his Lutheran church, Wulf’s career was saved
after Bormann ordered the case buried, Wulf having enjoyed Hitler’s favor having met
several times during the course of his duties. Extremely loyal to, and effectively owned
by, Hitler following the incident Wulf served in Bormann’s forces during the German Civil
War. A career officer, Wulf will rise to the position of full General in the mid to late 1960s.
 Ministers
● Martin Bormann - HOG at game start
● Walther Hewel - Foreign Minister at game start
● Albert Speer - Economic Minister at game start
● Hermann Goring - Security Minister at game start
● Helmut Schmidt - HOG for Speer
● Walter Scheel - Foreign Minister for Speer
● Karl Schiller - Economic Minister for Speer
● Rudolf-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff - Security Minister for Speer
● Adolf von Thadden - HOG for Goring
● Hermann Esser - Foreign Minister for Goring
● Kurt Schmücker - Economic Minister for Goring
● Ferdinand Schorner - Security Minister for Goring
● Baldur von Schirach - HOG for Bormann
● Walther Hewel - Foreign Minister for Bormann
● Franz Josef Strauss - Economic Minister for Bormann
● Walther Wenck - Foreign Minister for Bormann
● Philipp Bouhler - HOG for Heydrich
● Gunter d'Alquen - Foreign Minister for Heydrich
● Hanns Martin Schleyer - Economic Minister for Heydrich
● Herbert Otto Gille - Security Minister for Heydrich
● Erwin Rommel - HOG for Speidel
● Artur Görlitzer - Foreign Minister for Speidel
● Alex Möller - Economic Minister for Speidel
● Fritz Bayerlein - Security Minister for Speidel

Other

Starting Order of Battle

SS-Ordenstaat Burgund
Denmark
 The Kingdom of England

A Brief History
The United Kingdom fought
valiantly alongside American forces to
defend Great Britain from the seemingly
endless tides of German infantry and
armor. Claude Auchinleck and Dwight
Eisenhower led a now near-mythical
campaign to stem the tide of Fascism and
National Socialism. Unfortunately, despite
their best efforts, the Germans captured
London and the densely-populated south,
pushing the Allied forces to the north.
After Auchinleck’s surrender at Carlyle in 1944, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland was no more, as were the terms that the Germans set. A balkanized Britain
was created, with the new Kingdom of England being the most notable among the new British
Nations. Wales and Scotland were forcibly ripped from what was once the center of power and
wealth in the world, while North Ireland was given to the Republic of Ireland as a reward for their
(reluctant) aid to the Axis Powers during the war. Finally, the beloved George VI was cast off the
throne, while the fascist-sympathising Edward VIII was brought back. Edward wasn’t particularly
keen to become a puppet of the Germans, but he legitimately feared what the Germans would
do to England, and him, if he didn’t play along.

The entire nation was stunned at this radical change. While some like David Stirling immediately
began preparations to resist the new order, most were frozen with uncertainty, as they just
observed the unthinkable happen.

An early and controversial move made by the Germans soon after the surrender at Carlyle
involved them essentially attempting to hijack the Commonwealth of Nations. Attempting to
bring the British dominions into the fold required the Germans and Edward VIII to walk an
incredibly fine line, so Edward VIII invited the Commonwealth for a ‘reconciliation conference’.
The surviving nations of the Commonwealth saw easily through this ruse and turnout to the
conference was comically low. After this, the Commonwealth as the world had known it was
effectively dead in the water.

While the restructuring and shattering of the British Empire was a bitter pill for the English to
swallow, individual punishments were rather light. Auchinleck and many other English generals
that were actively fighting the Germans just a few months prior were let off the hook, and a
number of these military men were let into the new fascist order, willingly or reluctantly.
However, after the Second World War finally wrapped up in 1945, the Reich dropped two more
bombshells on the Kingdom. The first being the selection of William Joyce as Prime Minister
and the de facto act of stripping England of Cornwall and using Truro as a base of operations
for the new German garrison, led by Franz Halder. From this point forward, Cornwall would be a
dagger pointed in the side of England, and would be plunged if they were to defy the new order.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Joyce was instantly hated by nearly every facet of English society,
even the Union of British Fascists who have since gone into open revolt against the realm.
Joyce was chosen by the Germans to bring the kingdom in line both politically and economically
with Germany’s new zone of control, the Unity-Pakt.

PM Joyce set out to undermine England’s democratic institutions. The Labour party was outright
banned while the Conservative Party was brought further and further under direct influence of
the government. Parliament as a whole was becoming a rubber stamp for the Joyce
government, and habeas corpus was suspended indefinitely. Even the English flag was
changed from Saint George’s Cross to the BUF lightning bolt, in an attempt to curry favor with
the few fascists that haven't gone underground with the actual BUF. Just under three
excruciatingly bitter years passed before something had to give.

In 1948, Louis Mountbatten, a number of old guard gentry, and increasing rioting and bombings
convinced Edward VIII to remove PM Joyce himself. After this, Mountbatten became the new
PM to hopefully bring peace and order back to the nation. Mountbatten did an adequate job
during his three year tenure, managing to (somewhat) balance German and Liberal demands,
but in 1951 and under mysterious circumstances, Mountbatten resigned. It is not known why
this happened, but what was known was that a period of chaos was all but guaranteed. Ex-
Joycean fascists worked to get John Beckett to the Premiership, and all hell broke loose when
he started reimplementing fascist policies. It didn’t particularly help that the German economy
nosedived around this time and took the English economy down with it.

The collapse and what to do with the English economy would be the urgent question asked to
every new government during this period of instability. SInce the end of the war, rationing has
still been in place. Though the average Englishmen is fit as a fiddle due to their very nutritious
ration diets, a diet of white bread and powdered egg is not particularly good for morale. What
was even worse for morale was the loss of tea imports. Due to massive trading restrictions on
members outside the Unity-Pakt, tea is now an extremely rare and insanely valuable good. Only
the very wealthy were able to afford tea regularly, and because of this, rumors have swept the
populace about a massive tea cache hidden under Edward’s residence. Because of the
rationing, bread and tea riots became a signature feature of the ‘50’s chaos.

Over the next ten years, the premiership became a revolving door of people, where the
pendulum swung back and forth between democrats and fascists, while assassinations,
bombings, rioting, even an attempted coup or two happened in the meantime. Political parties
would rise and fall sometimes within days of their founding. At the height of this chaos, four
separate individuals occupy Downing Street in a single year. Needless to say, disorder ruled the
1950s in England.

Conflicting lore:
1. King Edward, backed by the Germans, forcibly removed Louis Mountbatten from the
Premiership, and instructed him to resign out of respect for the former commander
(Rebels).
2. Louis Mountbatten was outmaneuvered by his political enemies in Westminster, and
resigned due to his failings (Collabs).

During this chaos, the first elements of an organized and united resistance at last came to
fruition. While on the surface, Claude Auchinleck was a rather unremarkable member of
parliament, he was secretly putting together a democratic resistance front called “Her Majesty’s
Most Loyal Resistance”, or HMMLR for short. The infant rebel group wanted to accomplish
multiple lofty things given the circumstances, such as removing Edward, putting Elizabeth on
the throne, and restoring democracy. HMMLR was made of many older military men and
whatever men they could muster. David Stirling and his followers, who have become slightly
unhinged by years of constant rebellion, also joined HMMLR. Stirling has proven time and again
to be an invaluable asset to the resistance, but his growing cult of personality has many
HMMLR bigwigs concerned. That being said, HMMLR wasn’t the only organized resistance
front. A close second was a socialist front led by former CPGB member William Alexander.
While HMMLR recruited from the gentry and older military men, the “Left Resistance” recruited
from the working class. The LR wants to establish a socialist republic on the island. While their
goals may differ, both groups have been cooperating, since they will need each other when the
final confrontation does finally come. While they had very humble origins, from the 1950s and
into the ‘60s, both groups have been finding an increasing amount of success as more and
more isolated resistance cells have been consolidated into better organized, more cohesive
rebel units. The BUF, while very tiny compared to HMMLR or the LR, is still actively fighting
against the collaborators under Oswald Mosley’s former protege, Jeffrey Hamm. HMMLR and
the LR have rather open hostilities towards the BUF, but strange times make strange
bedfellows.

The chaos of the 1950s finally ended when the Cornwall Garrison forcibly removed PM Peter
Thorneycroft for trying to implement a radical democratic agenda, and the kingdom sent a
delegation to negotiate with the Germans, led by one Enoch Powell. While not a particularly
incredible politician, the member of parliament was the right person at the right time to negotiate
a settlement. Powell and the delegation walked away with a compromise with the Germans,
which effectively combine the fascist and democratic elements that found their way into English
politics over the last decade. Powell was also instrumental in combining multiple parliamentary
factions into the new “Royal Party”. Going forward, while ostentatiously fascist, this party and
the collaboration government as a whole would be made up of individuals who identified as
fascist, but were in actuality center-right to right wing, and only went by the fascist moniker to
stave off another German intervention. The Germans were well aware of this, but they accepted
that installing another ideologically fascist collaborator government would just lead to more
chaos and uncertainty, so they went along with the Royal Party taking over the government. To
prevent another balkanization of parliament, the RP would be mandating to control 51% at all
times. The Germans agreed to these terms and Powell walked out of the negotiations looking
like a political and diplomatic genius. His peers elevated him to premiership in 1959 by an
overwhelming margin. Since then, he hasn’t necessarily proven to be the hero England needed
and thought that they voted into the premiership, but nevertheless, Powell has proven to be a
symbol of stability, at least for now. While the infant Royal Party doesn’t have a popular
mandate by any stretch of the imagination, the desire for peace and for an end to political chaos
has given the RP a shot in the arm that previous collaborator governments didn’t have.

The Royal Party has been further and further factionalizing since its formation, with Harold
Macmillan on the reformist left, A.K. Chesterton on the national front right, and the PM himself
trying to hold the party in the center. While the factions have sheethed their knives for now,
given the increasingly successful presence of HMMLR and the LR, the knives will be drawn in
full force once, and more importantly, if the rebels can be contained.
 Paths

Rebels

United Front Democracy

Socialist Republic

Worker’s Commonwealth

Conservative Democracy

Collaborators

Reformists

Independants

Unity-Pakt Aligned

English Anarchy

Protectorate

BUF Fascists

OFN Mandate of Britain

Notable Figures

Leaders
● Edward VIII - King of England in 1962, more executive powers than his predecessors
but still mostly a figurehead.
● Enoch Powell - Prime Minister of England in 1962. Not a particularly good politician but
holds the Royal Party together.
● Harold MacMillan - Leader of the Reformist faction in the Royal Party. Was often very
amiable towards Powell but their relationship has soured more as time has gone on.
● A.K. Chesterton - Leader of the National Front faction in the Royal Party. Often at odds
with Powell but is in very good with the Germans
● Reginald Maudling - Leader of the Radical Liberals in the Royal Party. Hated by all
right-wing elements of the RP and is despised by the Germans, but is politically shielded
by his mentor and sometimes ally, Harold Macmillan.
● Claude Auchinleck - Secret leader of HMMLR and the main resistance coalition,
representing the old military elite. Suspicious towards his allies but works with them to
overthrow the collaborators out of necessity.
● William Alexander - Leader of the Left Resistance, representing the working class and
new guard leftists.
● David Stirling - Leader of the HMMLR militarist faction, hostile towards the LR but is
held back and moderated by Auchinleck.
● Jeffrey Hamm - Leader of the BUF, hated by the other resistance factions.
The Generalgouvernement
Reichskommissariat
 Serbia

A Brief History
When Yugoslavia fell, its territory was partitioned between the various axis powers that
had emerged victorious over the balkan nation. Serbia was given to the Germans, due to its
mineral resources and due to the key rail and riverine transport routes that passed through it. As
the great war against the Russian menace came to a close, and peace settled upon Europe for
a time, the Germans needed a civilian government to take over from the military administration
in Serbia. Thus, the Government of National Salvation was born, lead by the old Yugoslavian
general Milan Nedić. Milan lead Serbia to the best of his limited ability, but the fact of the matter
was that the Serbian State Guard, the military forces that were ostensibly under his control,
were either requisitioned by the SS for their own uses, or overtly loyal to the various partisan
groups that infested Serbia. Milan would eventually pass away, and command of Serbia would
pass to Milan Aćimović, who remains the official leader of the collaborationist government in
Serbia.

Serbia is consumed by two partisan groups, each ideologically opposed to the other.
First, there are the communist partisans, loyal to Tito and his forces who reside in Croatia. They
seek to restore Yugoslavia under a communist government, lead by Tito. On the other hand,
there are the Chetniks, lead by Draža Mihailović. They seek to restore the kingdom of Serbia,
reinstating the monarchy by inviting Petar II to take his rightful throne, and restore the natural
borders of Serbia. Of course, in their minds, the “Natural” borders of Serbia include the entire
former kingdom of Yugoslavia, which the Chetniks simply see as a natural extension of Serbia.
The Organization of Free Nations
 The Greater East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

A Brief History
The Co-Prosperity Sphere has its roots in Pan-Asian movements that arose around the
turn of the century. With the Japanese victory against the Russians and the ascendancy of
Japan as a power to be reckoned with, political scientists and major figures of the period began
to look towards a path for a greater Japan and an Asia not dominated by European interests.
With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, a militarist and fascist Japan was finally
able to act on these ideals. With the Japanese continuing to defeat Chinese troops and gain
territory at a rapid rate, Japan needed a formal inter-governmental organization to give it’s
puppets a semblance of legitimacy and ease control of client states. While the idea of the Co-
Prosperity sphere was announced by Foreign Minister Matsuoka in the fall of 1940, the First
Greater East Asia Conference, which marked the creation of the Sphere.
As Japan continued to solidify its rule over

Empire of Japan

Reorganized Government of China

Indonesia