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He labeled the Golden Dawn ideology as “Nazi”, since they speak about Jews and immigrants using words such as “sub-humans” and “scum”. The witness went on to say that in the attack against Mrs. Manti (an Albanian woman who is one of his clients) the perpetrators, members of Golden Dawn, were identified and convicted.

1936 Opened with bang, when German military units conspired to remove Hitler. Although the dictator was assassinated successfully, the Nazis were able to get reorganized and secured much of the country. The Wehrmacht tore itself apart in the ensuing civil war. Over one and half million Germans died in but a few months of heavy fighting. Lacking outside help, the Heer putschists were defeated by the Nazis. The Wehrmacht was disbanded, and as the country had lost the appetite for war, all military and defense roles were taken up by the SS.

The German armed forces would remain relatively small, and German leadership would focus on internal reconstruction, abandoning expansionism.The war had far reaching effects. In Spain, Franco was able to make a deal with the government and peacefully took over power through elections. Not wanting to repeat the disaster in German, the coup was prevented.In France, the militarization of Germany during the war and subsequent takeover of the SS convinced France that Versailles was dead.

Fearing German resurgence, French nationalists followed Mussolini into making France fascists, ultimately resulting in a Latin Alliance between France, Italy, and Spain.Stalin made claims on Eastern European lands, to reintegrate the Baltics and secure a buffer around Leningrad. The Winter War with Finland was a great success and the Finns gave in to Soviet demands quickly, allowing them to retain their independence. Frightened by the display of might, Lithuania and Latvia were occupied without a fight. Stalin was convinced that he could push his claims on eastern Poland and Romanian Bessarabia without Western Intervention.

Indeed, the French supported Italian claims on Yugoslavia, so Soviet and Italian foreign ministers came up with a plan to divide the Balkans.However, Romania did offer resistance, and together with Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland the Cordon Sanitaire formed an Anti-Soviet and Anti-Fascist defense pact. Also, Mussolini had miscalculated in the the British promised to guarantee the Yugoslavs, this was ignored, and Britain declared war.

The Eastern European and Balkan countries fought bravely, but were eventually ground down by superior enemy numbers and industrial capacity.Meanwhile in Asia, Japan and China came to an agreement and signed non-aggression pacts, as the Japanese had managed to subdue the reckless army factions that pushed for war, leading to better relations with neighbors excluding the Soviets. The Showa Emperor was convinced that the Soviet invasion of the Balkans proved that if they triumphed in Europe, Japan would be next. A preemptive strike was approved, and Japan joined the Anti-Soviet Cordon, but did not join against the fascist Latins.

Japan quickly captured Vladivostok, but had trouble advancing along the desolate and unsuppliable Siberian and Mongolian wilderness.The distraction in Asia did not deter the Soviets, and eventually Romania, Poland, and Yugoslavia did collapse, but their governments went to London in exile, and partisans continued to resist. The Czechs held out only a little longer against the Soviet tide, and the Italians quickly added Greece and Bulgaria to their conquests. The Czech, Greek and Bulgarian governments in exile followed the others to London.Next came to most dramatic event of the War.

France, leader of the Latin Alliance, delcared war on Britain. Joint French and Italian navies wrecked havoc on the British in the Mediterranean, and the Suez was quickly lost. Next, the Spanish joined the war, allowing allied units to capture Gibraltar. In a stroke of brilliance, Italian and French navies flooded into the Channel, and created a safe corridor where French troops were launched into England. The Battle of Britain had begun.Poor little New Zealand had at that point mobilized six small motorized divisions. They fought fiercely in the Siege of London, but those brave soldiers were eventually surrounded and destroyed when the cowardly English gave up their own country.The British capitulation created a lull in the war as the French and Italians set about solidifying their new colonies and client republics. England, Scotland, and Wales joined the Latin Alliance as members.This turn of events was extremely alarming, and the Americans were forced to wake up from isolationism to come to the rescue of the democratic and Anglophone world.

The Americans would help the remnants of the British commonwealth administer Britain's far-flung territories, preventing them from swearing allegiance to the new English republic.The war would drag on for years as hundreds of thousands of men fought in the jungles, hills, and bush of Africa. In the Sweltering deserts of Syria and Iraq. In the mountains and Ricefields of China.Eventually, the Soviets were thrown on the backfoot when America liberated Scandinavia from the Swedish communist regime, threatening Leningrad from the Baltic. The Latin Alliance's fleets were overcame by ascendant American naval power.After years of keeping out of the war, the Germans opportunistically invaded Soviet-held Poland and Czechoslovakia, quickly driving through the flat lands of Europe to Moscow. Having been defeated on all fronts, the Soviets surrendered. German and American units redeployed, and while the Germans and their Hungarian allies secured the Balkans, the Americans forced their way ashore in the Netherlands and drove to Paris. Although the French still had strength enough to repel the Allied forces, the war had gone on too long, and the next battles on home territory would be too costly to endure.

France, and with it the rest of the Latin Alliance, finally surrendered in late 1946.New Zealand notably participated in the Battle of Britain, the Invasions of Africa, the Battle of Iraq, the Turkish War, the Capture of Baku, and other smaller operations. Just about 50% of the entire male population was killed in the cataclysmic war.The United States inherited the British position of Global superpower, and supplanted the Commonwealth, which had been decapitated by the loss of England. The situation was further complicated by the fact that the people of Great Britain rejected the possible return of British monarchy in favor of keeping their local republics. In early 1936 Franco was able to seize power in a bloodless coup, avoiding a rival government.

The first objective was to unify Iberia with Portugal, and they were swiftly conquered.Next was to reclaim all former colonies, starting with the one most recently lost, Cuba. Of course, the Americans intervened, but forces managed to land near Havana before the American Navy could crush what few ships the Spanish had.

From there, Spanis forces, seeking to force America to recognize their control over the Caribbean landed a punitive expedition to Miami. However, there was so little opposition that all of Florida was easily taken. A full campaign was waged in Georgia, but American units quickly outnumbered the Spanish there.

A new front was needed, so Mexico was invaded.The Mexicans fought hard and the terrain did not help, but soon advances were made into California and Texas. The Americans were not prepared for war and once the frontlines became stretched out too much, the Americans ran out of supplies and were overrun by mobile Spanish units. Once the front line was broken, American forces became uncordinated and unresponsive, allowing vast swathes of territory to be capture. Meanwhile, the rest of Latin America, including former Portuguese colony Brasil was subjugated.By the time that the Spanish reconquest of America was done, Germany had a new Kaiser, and Japan had joined the British Allies.The first trouble in Europe was the Czechoslovak War, were a Slovakian fascist military junta took their half of the country and seceded from Czechoslovakia. Nationalist Czechs aimed to establish a fascist Bohemian state without the Slovaks, but the recognized democratic Czech government resisted both nationalists. They lost before French and Romanian intervention could be brought into full force, as Hungary, sympathetic to the fascists causes, blocked international access. France was forced to recognize the two new governments, who formed a looser Czecho-Slovak Confederation.The main flashpoint was Italy, who believed that France and Romania's new Balkan Entente was too weak to oppose their aggression against Yugoslavia.

Mussolini, as always, was dead wrong and quickly put down by not only the French and the Balkan nations but also the British. Seizing the opportunity, Spain invaded Italy.Romania had forced Hungary under its wing, which the Hungarians resented. When Germany rekindled monarchist sentiment in Austria, the Hungarians deposed their puppet government and annexed themselves under Vienna under the newly reborn Austria-Hungary. Together with Germany, they invaded and subjugated the Czechs and Slovaks.France and Germany were both concerned with Communist influence. China had been slowly reintegrating itself under centralized command and crushed the Maoist rebels, but Soviet puppets in the northern states of China, from Sinkiang to Manchuria continued to resist. Tensions broke out into war between the Soviets and China, prompting many countries, even non-European Afghanistan to join the Anti-Soviet Pact. Germany had guaranteed the Baltics and Finland, while France guaranteed Poland to prevent those formerly Russian regions from falling to the hands of the Soviets.

When the Soviets pressed their luck in Estonia, the anti-Soviet treaty came into full force. Invaded from all sides, the Soviets buckled under the weight of the combined arms of Europe and Asia.However, peace did not last and one final globe-spanning conflict took place between the Chinese and Japanese, which in turn drew in the British Allies against China, and enticed Germany for revenge against the British. Spain, once again, opportunistically joined in.

Japan and Australia managed to avoid direct invasion, but had to realign with France, the last bastion of the Free World. The Shah needed a great feat to solidify his new state. Pushing back against British colonialism and Soviet communism would not be enough. Taking back the lands of the Empire of old and more would be feat worthy of greatness for the new Pahlavi dynasty.For several years, border conflicts blazed on the outer edges of Persian territory, forcing the beleaguered British and their allies back without escalating to full war.

After all, Germany and their Axis friends were a big enough problem to deal with.Relations did however improve with China, as a Muslim clique seized power from the KMT when the war with Japan went disastrously wrong for China in '38, leading to early Soviet intervention. Japan's loss of all overseas territory forced it to regress into militarist isolation.Once the war had reached its high water mark in '42, the Persians knew the British would be victorious and decided to jump on the bandwagon. Persia unilaterally forced itself into the allied camp by declaring war on Italy, and then turned around and declared war on Turkey to push claims there.

The plan worked, and turkey was forced to seek Axis protection just as the German war machine had reached their turning point towards a downward spiral. Having lost millions of soldiers in the Pyrenees, Balkans, and Eastern Europe, Germany collapsed, and a new era of peace was established.The Persian Empire Restored now stands proudly among the foremost powers of the world. In 1937, Germany went to war to annex Czechoslovakia, and none stood in its way. The polish government knew they were next, but were still not finished preparing for war when it came in mid 1938. After a desperate struggle, the western territories were recaptured and British aid began to trickle in slowly.

Then the Germans began making terrible diplomatic mistakes, bringing France into the war. Poland could then turn from mere survival to the liberation of all west slavs.Not long after the war in Germany ended, the Soviets tried to retake the Baltics, which Poland promised to protect.

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The war was hard fought, but once Leningrad and Moscow had fallen, it was clear the Soviets were ready to collapse.Soon after the capture of Stalingrad in late 1942, the war was brought to an end for both sides had seen enough loss. Changed things up with a different game; A&A, Global War map. Randomized alliances.Result:USA, Japan, Australia, Free France, Vichy France, Dutch East Indies, ChinavsGermany, Russia, Britain, Canada, ItalyAfter 10 combat seasons, the western allies are penetrating Axis Europe, and Japan has picked up China and the Middle East.

The end of the war is fast approaching.At this point, it was obvious who the big winners were, so I went ahead and made the map for 1946 after the conclusion of a peace treaty. It bothered me for a while that I wasn't using the same color schemes for my maps, so I'd been cleaning things up for a while and decided to re-upload everything. China has had Muslims ever since the early travels of the Prophet's uncles and cousins into the Middle East and Central Asia. For centuries, the Hui people played a vital role in administering the various empires that rose and fell. Yet, of the Five Peoples of China, the Hui had yet to see an Empire of their own. Until the collapse of the Qing created the perfect opportunity amidst the chaos.Although Muslim states were secured in the west under Hui warlord generals, much of China abandoned Monarchy, preferring unity under Chiang Kai-Sheck's Republic.As the 1930's rolled in, the globe fell into increasing chaos. The first burning match on the pyre was the Japanese invasion of China in 1937.Ma Bufang, leader of Gansu, in his infinite wisdom realized that a Chinese victory would strengthen a centralized, republican government.

But if the central government failed, his clique would be there to pick up the pieces. The initial invasion caught the Chinese unawares, but their larger armies pushed the San Ma armies back.

Started with Victoria 2 in 1836, and in 1936 converted the save to Hearts of Iron.The Austrian Empire emerged from the peace following the Napoleonic Wars as a cornerstone of conservative monarchism in Europe.However, the rising power Prussia threatened to destabilize Europe with its aspirations on the German Confederation. After a series of knock-down wars, Austria cemented itself as the pre-eminent German state, and unified the North Germans and South Germans into one German Empire. The violence of the 20th Century opens with conflict in the Balkans and Baltic.The Ottoman Empire in decline, is forced to cede territory to the Balkan League.However, Denmark is ascendant, conquering Sweden to remake the Nordic Empire.The First World War breaks out in mid 1914, the Triple Alliance against the Triple Entente. Germany protects Norway from Denmark, which brings the Nordic Empire on the side of the Entente.The Ottomans join the Triple Alliance, or Central Powers.Russia succumbs to revolution in 1916 and drops out of the war. In the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, vast territories are handed over to the Germans and Austo-Hungarians.

However, the Red army crushes the White movement, and some of the territories lapse back into Socialist Russia's control as the Central Powers slowly loose their grip.By 1917, a series of naval invasions from the North occupies Prussia, capturing Berlin, and reduces northern Germany to a battle-torn wasteland.In the Spring of 1918, a Nordic drive through the East liberates Poland and the Ukraine. This loss of territory causes the German war effort to collapse.Italy returns all captured colonies and territories, including much of southern France, in exchange for amnesty and alliance, betraying the Austrians.Due to the end of German and Italian resistance, despite not being occupied, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria also capitulate, ending the war.The Treaty of Versailles will be a harsh punishment for the most costly war in history. Soon, Austrian and Turkish conspiracies about being stabbed in the back will surface, while rest of the Free West is distracted by the growing totalitarian spectres of Communism from the East and Militarism from the North.

Ever since the Constitutional Convention, the United States was an irreparable mess of disparate interests pulling apart and ultimately emasculating the federal authorities of the union. When the issue of slavery arose, abolitionists were sorely disappointed in the powerlessness of the government in the face of state's rights lobbies. Liberalist riots turned into a general revolt, which easily overwhelmed the pathetically underpaid army, re-housing the senate with entirely fresh 'representatives'. Slavery was quickly abolished, at least in name. The Southern states seceded without opposition, as the Liberals turned on each other to create the new perfect republic.At one time, there were five separate governments (Washington/Philadelphia, Richmond, Chicago, Des Moines, Boston), four of which claimed legitimacy over the whole United States.Despite unparalleled potential for development into a world class power, the political and economic chaos of the 19th Century ruined America's prospects beyond repair.Things began to turn around when Socialist Communes took over most of the country. While this stabilized life for the working poor and former slaves, the threat of Communist dominance finally galvanized organized opposition under a single, dangerously effective banner - fascism.For three decades, the fascists lay the groundwork for a future united America. However, there were some who still believed in democracy.

The last holdout of the republic in the Boston Government rallied its forces and charged straight to Washington. After a short war, in 1937 the United States was restored, whole again. Exactly 161 years after its founding, the Union was remade like never before to finally have a functioning constitution.Meanwhile in the rest of the world, the two superpowers of France and Great Britain clashed, to determine which form of democracy was superior, republican or constitutional monarchy.Great colonial empires and webs of alliances all culminated in the World War, which saw the United States enter on the side of France, to rid North America of monarchism both to the north in Canada, and the south in Mexico.

Using the Middle Earth modAt the closing of the Third Age, new peoples rose as old ones faded. The Dark Lord Sauron and his minions threatened all Middle-Earth. Orcs raided and ravaged in the North. Rhunnish and Khandian armies gathered in the East, and in the South Gondor was laid under siege from Umbar and Mordor.Yet in the West, a new hope was born.

For the great wizard Saruman breathed life and beauty in what was once a fallen and disgusting race, one so foul and evil many thought the task forever impossible. Saruman had redeemed the orcs, into a new race, free, and unbound by the powers of Darkness. Although Saruman resisted the seductive promises of the Dark Lord's honeyed voice, he desired greatness in his own right, lands and domain for his new Uruk people.Rohan was fertile of soil, but already occupied by the yellow-hairs. To the North and West of the Isen river, Dunland and the Rhovanion was largely depopulated, so settlement efforts were focused there. Yet Saruman never took his eyes off the prize of those rolling green hills governed by the Horse Lords. Despite remaining loyal to the forces of Good who rallied against Sauron, Saruman continued to conspire against Rohan.

Using his bribed spies, he slowly crippled and took control over the mind of the feeble King Theoden. In order to ensure the loyalty of his inside agent and of the Rohirrim, he had the princess Eowyn brought to the Tower of Isengard, as his guest. Or hostage, as her brother Eomer saw it. During the course of her stay, Saruman used his magic to sway her mind and heart, convincing her of the good in the Uruks where no others yet trusted them.

Her fighting spirit of resistance and freedom did impress the wizard, who praised her as worthy of challenging his prized Uruk Captain Lurtz. Meanwhile, Eomer's wife having passed away in a poisoning attempt, wrote letters to Grima, convincing the jealous worm that Saruman intended to give fair Eowyn to his Orc pet. Ever condescending of mere mortals, Saruman did not suspect until too late, his wine was sour, and as he felt the tightening of his chest, he quickly scrabbled to make sure his ultimate creation would endure his own downfall.

Rohan had not yet been fully undermined, the armies of Isengard were still too few to rival the armies of men, it was all too soon. Yet he was perishing, and so left the Keys of Orthanc in the care of Lurtz.As his first Act as Supreme Lord, Lurtz executed poor Grima for his treachery, and drank his blood. He wed Eowyn, and together they kept peace with Rohan, while expanding the Uruk peoples into mostly empty lands.Meanwhile, Sauron made his war upon the Free Peoples. Although the Elves were not much longer for this world, they honored their alliance with Men one final time, destroying the orc fortresses of Gundabad, Dol Guldur, and Moria.

Meanwhile, the men of Dale defeated Rhun. However, the hardest battles were in the South, where a fleet Umbaran Corsairs raided the coasts of Gondor, establishing camps in Belfalas where they rallied armies that approached Minas Tirith from the West while the armies of Mordor advanced from the East. However, the Riders of Rohan arrived to rescue the beleaguered defenders of Gondor. Finally, while Sauron's orc armies were trapped in Osgiliath, an army of elves breached the Black Gates, and took Gorgoroth, allowing a certain group of Hobbits to take the Ring to Mount Doom and destroy Sauron. Relieved, the armies of Gondor rallied around the Returned King, and took Umbar, reuniting the lands of Numenor. Nurn was also liberated, the remaining Ithilien Elves and Nurnians remade Mordor into a free realm of peace.However, when the Rohirrim arrived back home, they found that Eowyn had also returned, bringing her half-orc sons with her. She had herself crowned Queen of Rohan, the first woman to rule.

One prominent caste's lord had fallen in the wars of the south, so to replace his loss, Eowyn installed her eldest son as a new castellan in the Eastmark. Luckily for her, almost all her children favored their mother's human looks in their faces, and had a 'proper' upbringing, so could have been more easily accepted. Unluckily for her, her eldest was the most Orcish in appearance, and him being a lord over men made many disgruntled. Soon, there were accusations that the Princess had been corrupted by the Orcs, and that her half-breeds were abominations. A mass revolt took place, but by this time Isengard was ready. The revolters, unlike the full muster of the Rohirrim, were disorganized and depleted.

Lurtz led his army of professional Uruk-Hai and auxiliary human mercenaries, and crushed the uprisings throughout Rohan, cementing the position of the Queen. She removed lords who were sympathetic to the traitors and replaced their lordships with the rest of her half-orc sons. Lurtz's Uruk dynasty had finally conquered Rohan, as his master Saruman had once long ago desired.Although low-level warfare persisted in Eriador as the Uruks colonized more land, Middle-Earth had largely returned to peace, and the Elves began their great Departure. Millennium DawnThe POD begins in the USA 2000 elections season, resulting in a presidency for Al Gore. President Gore leads the Democrats to become more liberally progressive, implementing universal healthcare and free university tuition. However, he is also big on peace and non-intervention. Click to expand.My first fan request!The 1930's are a period of turmoil.

With the resignation of the British government and rise of German Nazis, some meek European countries seek to protect themselves, but other more bold ones see an opportunity to finally unite their people into a new glorious empire.Sweden's king involves himself more in politics, however instead of being able to take control of the country, a group of fascists hijack his government and rule in his name, quickly declaring war on Denmark. Having prepared no defenses, the Danes are quickly annexed and united to Sweden.

The Norwegians are bit more wary and have prepared an army, but Sweden strikes a deal with the Germans and they invade. Sweden's united nordic realm is now part of the Axis, ready to take on Germany's ambitions in europe. However the Czechs, with French support, refuse to be bullied. Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, and Lithuania are one by one are brought into the Entente to contain German aggression. When their need of their ally is greatest, the German armies off holding all fronts. They are betrayed. After all, Scandinavian peoples can not be fully united until German Slesvig-Holstein in taken back from the Prussians.Thus Germany is finally subjugated.

Sweden considers an alliance with other fascists, but Imperial Manchukuo is already doomed, and Italy's ambitions to conquer a victorious France is suicidal. Using diplomatic machinations, Sweden manages to annex Finland by pitting France against Great Britain, then deftly using a much smaller but more specialized fleet, Sweden is able to capture a few ports in North England, and lands its army there. Purposefully imitating the Great Heathen Army of old, the nordic tanks drive down Britain, conquering the land for the vikings once more.Now, the Swedish army and navy is quickly expanding and fuel use is becoming a major problem. Indonesia is the answer.Luckily, Australia has quit the British commonwealth, and is plying away the rubber and oil-rich colony from the Netherlands.

Australia is a worthy ally. However, not only will the Dutch defend themselves, but do so with Japanese support, who also covet the oil, but are on better terms with the democracies. The Swedish navy is rushed across the world and wins a series of stunning victories, sinking Japan's prized aircraft carriers and breaking Japanese plans for hegemony in Asia.

From now on, they will play second fiddle to the greater Americans.At this point, in late 1941, the Soviet Union invades Poland, to liberate the oppressed masses who are held down by their authoritarian government. Thus begins a titanic struggle, by itself the largest war in history, greater even than the Great War of their father's generation. It is a slow grinding crawl of trench warfare, only magnified to a scale never before seen. It rages for years, the frontlines shifting back and forth.By mid 1943, revolts, coups, and mutinies are breaking out in Europe, despite the ground gained in the East. The Japanese and Americans have also failed to keep their beachheads in China and Korea.The World War is deeply unpopular with all the countries waging it, yet no side wants to admit defeat.However, when Greece foolishly attempts to invade Turkey, the fortunes of war finally change. Although Sweden has been materially supporting the Soviets and Chinese as the underdogs against the Europeans and American/Japanese alliances, Sweden now defends Turkey, which brings Sweden into the war against the Soviets.Diplomatically and logistically cut off, the Soviets come to the bargaining table, and the exhausted Europeans, who are dangerously close to running out of manpower, follow.

In Asia, India declares its support of China against the overseas aggressors while the last Japanese soldiers evacuate from Busan.The Christmas truce of 1944, unlike the famous Christmas truce of the previous world war, results in peace negotiations. Though really, there isn't much to negotiate, other than recognizing the facts on the ground.