Germany

Flag of Germany.

Germany is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and Czechoslovakia; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Holland.

History

Germany entered the Great War against the Allied powers when Britain and France jointly invaded the German colony of Togoland in West Africa in August 1914. By October 1918, exhausted by the war, Germany requested a ceasefire. In order to meet peace talk conditions set by the Western Allies, the country became a parliamentary democratic state under the Weimar Republic.

Germany was able to recover relatively quickly from the war due to becoming a member of the European Trade Organization, which also strengthened the bonds of economic necessity with its European neighbours, helping to heal the scars of the war. As a result of the recovery and backing from the ETO, the Weimar Republic government earned unwavering support from the German people and subsequently won reappointment in the Reichstag general elections over the Nationalist Socialist Party in September 1930. As a result of Germany's membership with the ETO, the nation contributed its engineers and scientists to bring about advanced infrastructure developments throughout Europe, such as the Tricon Rail Line. Its international standing was also boosted immensely by the 1936 Olympics, hosted in Berlin, which held the record for most competing countries at any Olympic Games up to that time.

The German government was among the European nations that were concerned by the potential for future aggression from isolationist Russia. In June 1938, German Federal Intelligence agents infiltrated Russian territory across Poland's shared border with Belarus and discovered that all urban communities near the border were totally deserted. This led to the mistaken belief that the Russians were experimenting with either biological or chemical weapons, although this was disproved with the subsequent Chimeran invasion of December 1949.

As a result, millions of refugees from Eastern Europe fled west seeking safety, and with Germany's central position geographically within Europe, it became the focal point of the exodus for many. Even before the Chimera invaded Germany, the German government was on the brink of collapse due to the country's sudden and massive humanitarian burden. After armoured counterattacks along the River Oder failed to stem the Chimeran advance, the German government was forced to order a mass evacuation of the country.

Refugee camps were built along the Rhine River and the military forces of Germany and Luxembourg were ordered to follow a scorched earth policy. From Bonn to Luxembourg, they destroyed anything of value that the Chimera could conceivably use to their advantage. Unfortunately, their efforts were in vain. They failed to grasp that the Chimera had no need for human resources or industry, merely human bodies themselves.

The Chimera quickly occupied Germany, and the remains of the German military and government urgently requested aid from their UED allies. But, the scale of the attack, together with the unprecedented disruption of the political system across the continent, none was forthcoming. Under the Chimera, an enormous conversion center was constructed in Bonn, which completely drained the Rhine River in the process. Extensive industrial works were also built in western Germany near Gerolstein, which became known by the Maquis as the "Chimeran Construction Zone". It was from these facilities that a large portion of the Chimeran fleet which later invaded Africa and the United States was constructed.

Trivia

• The real-life Weimar Republic of 1919–1933 continued to use Deutsches Reich as its official name. Rather than referring to the idea of empire, but to the institutions, officials, affairs etc. of the whole country.
• Germany's scorched earth policy echoes policies considered by Nazi Germany during the end of World War II in Europe. As defeat loomed, Adolf Hitler had ordered a nationwide scorched-earth policy to prevent the Allied forces from using Germany's infrastructure. However, Hitler's decree was widely disobeyed by armaments minister Albert Speer and local army commanders.
• In Resistance: Retribution Johnny Grayson referred German tanks as "Iron Horses". The tank on the intel picture is World War 2 era PzKpfw V Panther.