March 1941
Report der Oberbefehlshaber der Wehrmacht
Events of the last year and a half
Within 2 weeks of the start of the Warm Poland was entirely in our hands, and the offensive in the west could begin. The Netherlands and Belgium were overthrown in less than 5 weeks, and shortly after Christmas 1939 Paris fell to our glorious Panzer divisions. By in another few months in 1940 France had been pushed off the continent. A short campaign in the Balkans gave us control of that region, all the way down to Athens, while Italian troops took Crete.
During the France campaign preparations for the invasion of the British Isles had already started, but the invasion was delayed for weeks, by bad decisions of some admirals, resulting in the loss of most submarines and several Heavy Cruisers. The admirals responsible were immediately executed and replaced. After several months of rebuilding and preparations, and a short shooting war with the Soviet Union, London was the first British city to fall, and also the hardest one to take, there were massive amounts of troops there, and it took several weeks. In the remaining cities resistance was not as bad, and it only took a month and a half to take the Main Land, another 3 weeks for Ireland. All the time operations were disturbed by aerial bombardments, which Hermann Goering was unable to prevent, after the main force of the Luftwaffe had been blown to bits in its hangars in London.
After several weeks of preparation, near the end of the summer of 1940, the destruction of communism, the great war against the Soviet Union, was initiated, and has not stopped yet. The first Soviet City to fall into our hands was Vilnius, followed by Brest-Litovsk, Lwow, and Liepaja. Soviet forces had been concentrated elsewhere, for unknown reasons. Losing the income from selling french spices to the Russians stung, but we were able to sell them to other trading partners for not much less. A short 1 week ceasefire was broken by the Soviet Union, when they attacked the Japanese again, and the war went on.
In the beginning of January 1941 the mass production of Panzer IVf2 had begun giving us the firepower needed to break through at Sevastapol and Odessa, in February after weeks and weeks of massive aerial and landbased bombardment. The Russian Airforce is no more, and the majority of its navy has been destroyed by the Bismarck Class Battleships Bismarck, Tirpitz and Luetzow, and numerous submarines, which now control the North Sea, the Arctic Sea, the Mediterranean and the entire Northatlantic.
Las week we took Moscow, and now control the entire European part of Russia up to St Petersburg ( we renamed it from Leningrad, no German city will bear that name!), including Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk. Our next goals are Stalingrad ( Wolgograd to be ), and the Caucasian cities, after we hope to negotiate peace, in order to start the subjugation of the Muslim countries, and repulsing the British and French from North Africa.
The Soviets have 13 T 34s left, 206 Soviet Infantry units, and 21 Mot Rifle Divisions. Their other forces are not worth mentioning.
During 1940 the Americans had sent several Battleships and Carriers which were intercepted and destroyed, albeit with great losses. Singl transports were destroyed instantly by submarines stationed near the American coast. The remaining French Submarines were just spotted off the Western coast of Africa, and several Type IX were assigned to seek them out and destroy them. The Bismarck destroyed what we believe was the last British battleship in the Western hemisphere, while surprising it near Tobruk. Mediterranean Islands are still under control of the British, and French, with a few Italian exceptions. We have not been paying enough attention to developments in the East, but Japan seems to be on the march, with American forces decreasing dramatically by the week, and new cities being captured weekly as well.
This is all a little confused, because it's been a few weeks since I started. But I will try to keep up a little more frequently.