History WebOriginal / ThousandWeekReich

In ''Thousand-Week Reich'', the failure of Dunkirk evacuation leads Britain to sign an armistice with Nazi Germany, leaving the war and allowing Germany to defeat both France and the Soviet Union. The United States never goes to war with Germany, but still fights a war with Japan and ends it with atom bombs. World War II ends with the Reich in a shaky control of mainland Europe; Hitler achieved a lucky yet still difficult victory and now controls all of mainland Europe.

The Greater Germanic Reich was [[FascistButInefficient brutal and inefficient]], and struggled to control its massive territories as it faced pressure from within. US, Canada, and UK formed the Atlantic Union in the aftermath of Soviet Union's defeat, trying to counterbalance the power of the Reich. The massive ethnic cleansing and colonization project of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost Generalplan Ost]]'' was launched in Central and Eastern Europe, but local rebels refused to be extinguished. Hitler died in 1952, and his weak successor Hermann Göring leads the Reich along for another few years with their newly developed nuclear weapons. All of the problems of Nazi Germany culminate when Himmler decides to coup Göring in 1958, leading to the Reich torn up in a bloody civil war, joined in by foreign powers and local rebels, collapsing the Nazi regime. Hitler's great Reich lasted not a thousand years, but merely a thousand weeks.

-->'''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/akfrq0/thousand_week_reich_zapadoslavia_map_remastered/ Zapadoslavia Map Lore]]:''' ''...Czechoslovakia and Poland were occupied by Germany in 1939, and suffered 20 years of German colonial rule. Ever since Hitler's troops stormed the two countries, Germany had enacted genocidal policies against its conquered neighbours, and this only accelerated with the defeat of the Soviet Union... The jewish populations were the first to be killed, with over 99% of them dying by the time of the region's liberation. The next target of the holocaust was the slavs themselves, the Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and other smaller groups. Those that could worked were forced into giant slave labour camps and industrial complexes, others that caused trouble went straight to the gas chambers, and others still lived in a wretched state as serfs in rural lands... the populations of Poland and Czechoslovakia fell by up to 60%. West Slavic culture underwent systematic extermination - entire city districts full of rich history was demolished and records of slavic history burned.''

The Greater Germanic Reich was [[FascistButInefficient brutal and inefficient]], and struggled to control its massive territories as it faced pressure from within. US, Canada, and UK formed the Atlantic Union in the aftermath of Soviet Union's defeat, trying to counterbalance the power of the Reich. The massive ethnic cleansing and colonization project of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost Generalplan Ost]]'' was launched in Central and Eastern Europe, but local rebels refused to be extinguished. Hitler died in 1952, and his weak successor Hermann Göring leads the Reich along for another few years with their newly developed nuclear weapons. All of the problems of Nazi Germany culminates when Himmler decides to coup Göring in 1958, leading to the Reich torn up in a bloody civil war, joined in by foreign powers and local rebels, collapsing the Nazi regime. Hitler's great Reich lasted not a thousand years, but merely a thousand weeks.

* TheFifties: The timeline truly kicks off in this decade when Adolf Hitler dies in 1952 and Martin Bormann. Unfortunately for Bormann, Germany will collapse into civil war after Heinrich Himmler and the SS launch a coup attempt by 1958.

* MohsScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility: A firm Type I. The timeline sticks closely to the historical record and remains as grounded as possible.

The Great Germanic Reich was [[FascistButInefficient brutal and inefficient]], and struggled to control its massive territories as it faced pressure from within. US, Canada, and UK formed the Atlantic Union in the aftermath of Soviet Union's defeat, trying to counterbalance the power of the Reich. The massive ethnic cleansing and colonization project of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost Generalplan Ost]]'' was launched in Central and Eastern Europe, but local rebels refused to be extinguished. Hitler died in 1952, and his weak successor Hermann Göring leads the Reich along for another few years with their newly developed nuclear weapons. All of the problems of Nazi Germany culminates when Himmler decides to coup Göring in 1958, leading to the Reich torn up in a bloody civil war, joined in by foreign powers and local rebels, collapsing the Nazi regime. Hitler's great Reich lasted not a thousand years, but merely a thousand weeks.

* CrapsackWorld: Openly acknowledged as a very dark timeline by its creator. Special features include: mass genocide several times worse than the Holocaust and Europe falling into bloody civil war after bloody civil war.

The Germanic Reich was brutal and inefficient, and struggled to control its massive territories as it faced pressure from within and without. US, Canada, and UK formed the Atlantic Union in the aftermath of Soviet Union's defeat, trying to counterbalance the power of the Reich. The massive ethnic cleansing and colonization project of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost Generalplan Ost]]'' was launched in Central and Eastern Europe, but local rebels refused to be extinguished. Hitler died in 1952, and his weak successor Hermann Göring leads the Reich along for another few years with their newly developed nuclear weapons. All of the problems of Nazi Germany culminates when Himmler decides to coup Göring in 1958, leading to the Reich torn up in a bloody civil war, joined in by foreign powers and local rebels, collapsing the Nazi regime. Hitler's great Reich lasted not a thousand years, but merely a thousand weeks.