I always saw the British Hanover as a part of Germany accidentally stuck to Britain, district and not as a part of it. The more you know
8mm to the Left: If Hitler Died in 1923
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An interesting butterfly and a nice touch in an already excellent TL.
The model is very attractive, is she AI as well?
The ironic thing is that I'm very far from being a monarchist. The most I'd tolerate a monarch is as a completely powerless figured whose job it is to embody and protect the culture and history of a nation. My ideal post-1918 Germany would be a Socialist-Democratic Germany which pursues territorial expansion without war and which only gets involved in defensive or interventionist wars. That's why I write the SPD so sympathetically, as has been pointed out, despite me finding them (especially today) to be quite spineless.But Action Française has drifted far too right, I follow the Nouvelle Action Royaliste. Plus, as a kaiser I expect you to make monarchy to win
But I also don't need to politically align with a concept or character to write it. I have lots of fun writing von Lettow-Vorbeck, just as I do with Adenauer, Maurras, and Stalin
Yup, it is all AI. And thanks, I feel that the details like film, art, fashion, literature make a world feel far more real than facts or anecdotes.
I agree, small touches like this make a TL seem more real, fuller.
It occurs to me, should I add a thread mark for the fashion bit? It isn't a full part of the story, just a blurb
Ironic indeed, though more ironic is that I am a Monarcho-Socialist
And that is what makes such a great writer, I have been trying to write a few plays, but I have lots of trouble with writing non-monarchist characters.
So how exactly would your ideal system--let's say for France--work? How much power would the monarch have? Where do the powers and influence of nobility reach those of the working class?
What helps for me is trying to get into the heads pace and understand the motivations. Everyone is a hero in their own mind and everyone sees their ideology as "the right one". There are very few viewpoints which can't be, if not empathised with, at least understood on a clinical level, and the major exceptions are the truly crazy ones (like Himmler and his weird paganism) which I also find tricky to write. I usually pretend it is a fantasy novel where this is actually real since otherwise I just feel icky
... These almost look like Reichswehr uniforms. If the military-industrial complex keeps collaborating with the fashion industry, the line between officers' formal wear and runway outfits may start getting very blurry.
Well a lot of the Reichswehr stuff was indeed made by lead designers like Hugo Boss.
Not only will this German army burn your fields and slay your troops, they will slay you with style.
Also relevant is that the Nazi oppression of women and the associated backslide in many women's rights which followed WW2 won't happen. German women in the 1920's were some of, if not the most emancipated in the world, and that won't change. After all, why waste half your population, especially if your ideological opponent is using women? We definitely won't be waiting until the likes of Merkel to see a major female leader in Germany
Ten bucks on female fighter pilots in Round 2 - the Luftwaffe will want to set itself apart from the "traditional" branches, and with somebody more progressive than Das Fatass in charge, Reitsch and others could easily find themselves doing more than just errand runs.
I definitely think that if not L-V himself at least his circle would balk at the idea of women doing "men things", but I do agree that without the sheer cultural oppression of the Nazis that basically killed Weimar culture the feminist movement is not going away anytime soon.
It'll be cool if the next leader after L-V is a female politician just to emphasize the differences between the different regimes.
Also on the 'writing terrible ppl' bit: in my forays of writing fanfiction I find it much harder to write playboy/playboy as a mask type charas than charas who have very twisted views. For me I just have to understand/build their internal (illogical) logic to write it. Whereas I really don't understand playboy type ppl and find it impossible to write them.
"Das Fatass" made me laugh way harder than it should have.
I have another film update planned for 37 or 38 (still quite a few chapters away) which will include a focus on one of the most interesting women from this era--Leni Riefenstahl, and how the lack of ties to the Nazis allows her to flourish as the truly brilliant film director which she was. I intend for her to be considered one of the greatest directors of the 20th century, if not THE greatest.
(For those who don't know, Leni Riefenstahl was the director of Triumph of the Will, the seminal Nazi propoganda film, considered one of the greatest pieces of filmed propoganda ever made. She invented tons of new techniques for it, including most famously having an elevator installed in an empty field before a Nazi rally and then rising in it during the rally, beginning with focus on singular men and slowly showing the enormous scale of the movement
She played with direction, focus, and light to create a very unqiue perspective.)
I would not hold your breath for female German soldiers marching on Paris in 1945, but definitely less of a top-down push for women to stay home and pop out babies. A true major feminist movement won't kick off yet, but German women definitely have a very good chance of getting the sort of rights by 1950 which, in our world, they didn't get till like the 80's or 90's.
So I am writing a speech just on this, trying to grow my local monarchist society so I have some ideas.
The monarch and proletariat(proles to steal a word from Orwell) are natural allies as each finds an enemy in the upper class. In the traditional sense, the aristocrats seek to take power away from the monarch and take enfranchisement away from the proles, thus the monarch is the champion of the proles. In our modern era, the ancient aristocracy is ¨replaced¨ with the capitalists. In reality, I believe that the moderne Scandinavian system is one of the best. There there is a sacred bond between the monarch and the people. I realise that this does not answer your question so I will arrive at the what and cease the why. The monarch would only have the hard power of opening parlement, dissolving parlement, vetoing bills, and signing them into law. Soft power would be immense, for while the representatives of the people are supposed to be the custodians of the people, they are increasingly not and find themselves looking after themselves. Hell, this is seen in your own story where the Prussians refuse to give the Rhinelanders their own estat, The monarch would guide the nation calling out the politicians in their madness and bringing responsibility to the gouvernement. While each voter district would have its own duke to act as a local monarch the rest would have no real powers other than to act on the monarch´s behalf. That is the Monarcho part, the socialist part is here, there are the unions and the bosses and the Monarch, each would come together to strike deals with one another, so if the unions want 50 dollars at minimum wage which the bosses would say no the king would say how about 20 dollars and broker a deal, if anyone breaks the deal they will face the courts, which would have half nobles and half commoners for lack of a better term. Mostly society would be welfare society again like the Scandinavians or Germans. This is just a brief summary, Even I do not know the full scope of it, Every day I refine the idea a bit more, though if you would like to join me then I would love to have a Kaiser
Yes, best not to pretend to be a war criminal.
The Virgin “write ideological wish-fulfillment timelines” vs the Chad “write what you find interesting even if it doesn’t align with your views timelines”.
German version of the Night Witches when?
And on that note, the Hays Code is going to be a blessing for the German film industry, with how we might even see a reverse of what happened IOTL when the Nazis took over.
And TLs which focus on mixing historical plausibility and "what you find interesting" are far more interesting to read than naked wish-fulfillment TLs.