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January 30, 1933I am appointed Reichskanzler of Germany by Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg, and immediately set out to create a new political cabinet. Appointing key figures such as Joseph Goebbels as Minister of Propaganda and other positions. With my ascension to power, I set forth to put my Four Year Plan into action, to get our nation back to full employment and out of the depression.· Nationalization of German industries·Nationalization of the Reichsbank; eliminating the use of credit and banning of usury· Reduce unemployment· Return of agricultural lands to peasants· Increase of synthetic fiber production· Undertake public works projects: Construction of new and modern schools, hospitals, factories, bridges, dams etc.· Development of Health and Fitness programs for the youth, free Healthcare for citizens· Introduction of laws for the Protection and preservation of nature and wildlife· Increase of automobile production· Initiate numerous building and architectural projects· Development of an Autobahn road networks and advanced railway systemsThe effects are felt almost immediately, as the nation’s economy begins to grow and recover from the depression at an exponential rate. I spend my first year in office consolidating power, using intimidation, eliminating all opposing political parties, banning trade unions and establishing the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo).With the infamous Reichstag Fire in February, the new German parliament is forced to pass a series of contingency plans and grant me emergency powers in a new law called the Enabling Act. This act allows the government to carry out the necessary procedures to secure German interests, such as the burning of Communist books, sending criminals and political opponents to re-education camps, and the banning of all other political parties and trade unions, effectively transforming Germany into a totalitarian state.Meanwhile , life for the average German is considerably better than before, the German people are united and the tensions between wealthy and poor are virtually eliminated. For the younger citizens, a youth wing of NSDAP is created, the “Hitler Youth”. In order for them to gain greater appreciation for their country, youth hostels are built all across the nation, enabling the youth to hike from one beautiful town to another seeing their fatherland with every effort being made to strengthen their minds and bodies. My Four Year Plan oversees great public works projects across the nation, creating new employment opportunities for the mass millions; building new bridges, hydroelectric dams, canals and roads where there are none. All while ensuring that these projects do not unnecessarily destroy the German landscape or wildlife habitats and forests.In July 1936, a civil war erupts in Spain between the socialist Second Spanish Republic and General Francisco Franco and his traditionalist Spanish nationalists. Almost immediately, I declare my support for the nationalists, issuing the creation of an expeditionary force called the Condor Legion, alongside the Kingdom of Italy’s Corpo Truppe Volontarie Legion and the Portuguese Republic’s Viriantos. The battlegrounds of Spain are also used as testing grounds for new lines of weapons, planes and armor. Under the leadership of three of the most prominent military leaders, German/Nationalist forces are able to decisively defeat Republican forces and draw ever closer towards Barcelona and Madrid.August 1, 1936 - The Berlin Summer OlympicsTo celebrate this historic event, I personally visit in the Olympiastadion to an enthusiastic crowd, in my own VIP box as I open the historic Olympic Games. As many as 348 of Germany’s finest athletes showcase their skills throughout the event, often competing with the U.S. and other nations. By the end of the Summer Olympic Games, the German Reich emerges in 1st with 89 Medals, with the United States coming in 2nd with 56. Calling it a great victory for National Socialism.Later during a state visit to Berlin, I greet Italian Prime Minister and Il Duce of Fascism Benito Mussolini, to discuss the formation of a new axis of power in Europe known as the Rome-Berlin Axis. As well as the increasing threat of the Third Communist International (Comintern) and our efforts to contain Bolshevik influence, signing a treaty known as the Anti-Comintern Pact along with the Empire of Japan and other countries.In 1938, the German Reich annexes Austria in the Anschluss along with the German speaking Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. I along with Il Duce, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French President Édouard Daladier meet in the city of Munich, Bavaria to discuss peace talks. I explain that our recent expansion into surrounding regions is aimed solely at uniting all German-speaking peoples into a Greater German Reich, and promise that the Sudetenland which contains three million ethnic Germans, will be my last territorial demand. Accepting my claims for German-speaking territories and hoping to maintain peace, Chamberlain and Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Mussolini acting as mediator. The event is portrayed as a yet another great victory without a battle, what Prime Minister Chamberlain refers to as “peace in our time”.By early-1939, peace reigns in Europe, in both the German Reich and Kingdom of Italy, our economies continue to prosper reaching full-employment and support for the National Socialist/Fascist governments are at an all-time high. The peace however, is short-lived, as we receive reports that as many as 60,000 ethnic Germans have been brutally murdered by the Poles. Once again, I demand that the Polish Republic cede the port city of Danzig to East Prussia in order to link up with the rest of Germany. This time however, there is no meeting in Munich, Britain and France side with Poland and strongly demand that Germany back down from its demands, claiming they are willing and ready to support Poland militarily should Germany invade.German and Italian delegates meet once more in Berlin, to sign a Pact of Friendship and Alliance known as the Pact of Steel. Later, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop is sent to Moscow where he along with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov sign the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in August, a move of brilliant cunning and a complete surprise to the world. Up to the last moment, we continue attempting to convince the western powers to renew negotiations in order to solve the Danzig question peacefully and avert another unnecessary war.September 1, 1939With all attempts of negotiations with Poland having failed, the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS push aside the Polish frontier barriers, and mobile forces race forward. On September 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany, honoring their promise to stand by Poland. The German Luftwaffe along with new Panzer divisions break through Polish defenses and strike deep, cutting communications and spreading confusion in a revolutionary new war tactic called Blitzkrieg. Enemy strongpoints are bypassed, left for the following infantry to mop up. By September 8th, German armies reach the outskirts of Warsaw and on the 17th, German forces reach the city of Brest-Litovsk. On the same day, the Soviet Union invades eastern Poland in accordance with our Non-Aggression Pact. Upon reaching Warsaw, we offer the Polish government to surrender and cease hostilities, they refuse, so the full fury of the German war machine is turned on them. On September 27th, the Polish government in Warsaw finally surrenders after 29 days of fighting.Within a month, the Polish aggressor is defeated and the massacres have ended. Once again we send more offers to end hostilities and return to 1939 borders excluding West Prussia and Danzig which are formerly German cultivated and with a sizable German population (Danzig). Other than low-scale British and German maneuvers in Norway and Denmark, the great bloodbath known as World War II has not yet begun and can still be avoided.However, the Allies ignore our numerous pleas for peace and for the next eight months, all is eerily quiet in the west. Suddenly our forces intercept an allied message in which we learn that Britain and France are plotting Scandinavian-based maneuvers and are deploying a massive mechanized fighting force in Northern France, in anticipation of invading Germany via, Belgium and Holland, sometime in the spring of 1940. The tiny states of Belgium and The Netherlands (members of the globalist League of Nations) claim to be “neutral”. In reality, under the pressure and influence of the mighty British & French empires (also members of the League of Nations), the two mini-states have been assisting the Allies in their preparation for an attack upon Germany. Which had quit the League of Nations in 1933. Determined to beat the western Allies to the punch, Germany has no choice but to go on the offensive, therefore my generals and I prepare plans to make the first decisive move.Our sights first turn towards Scandinavia. The German war machine relies on iron ore from Sweden. In the winter months, the only way this valuable resource could get to Germany, is by the Norwegian port of Narvik. We know that if the allies landed in Norway, this vital supply could be cut-off, so I order plans be prepared for an invasion of Norway. Denmark which is in the way, will also have to be seized in order to counter possible allied incursions.The Norway Theatre heats up on February 16, 1940 as British destroyer HMS Cossack boards the German transport/supply ship Altmark in a Norwegian fjord to release prisoners. On April 9th, German troops begin landing at five ports: Oslo, Kristiansand, Bergen, Trondheim and Narvik. At the same time, men of our newly formed Fallschirmjäger seize Stavanger and Oslo airfields, the Norwegian defenders are swiftly overwhelmed as are the Danes, German forces occupy Denmark in less than 24 hours in what will become known as Operation Weserübung. With our supplies of iron ore secured and minor allied incursions brushed aside, we continue to make plans for our next major blitzkrieg.May 10, 1940Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain. That same day at dawn, a whole German airborne division parachutes into Holland to seize bridges and airfields. Simultaneously, the massive Belgian fortress of Eben Emael is assaulted, paratroop engineers are dropped on top by swooping German gliders who swiftly silence its guns. Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe attacks Dutch and Belgian airbases and frontier barriers are pushed aside. German Army Group B under Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock, drives into Holland and Belgium. As planned, the French and British armies along the Belgian border move forward to their new defensive line along the Dyle and Meuse Rivers. Meanwhile, Army Group A which consists mostly of panzers, after brushing aside the Belgian frontier troops, begin driving through the hills and woods of the Ardennes forest to their south. Within days, the Dutch capitulate after several bombing raids on major port cities, then comes the hammer, the thing that British and French planners thought impossible happens: German panzers are through the Ardennes and reach the river Meuse by May 12th. Among the first to arrive at Sedan, well north of the Maginot Line are the men of the 19th Panzer Corpscommanded by Generaloberst Heinz Guderian fresh from the triumphs of Poland, who pushes on, not even waiting for his own infantry to catch up. The next day, assault troops cross the river Meuse, engineers begin building bridges for the armor while under heavy French fire.On May 14th, the panzers begin crossing, that evening Generaloberst Guderian’s bridgehead is eight miles deep, the French troops stuck in the Maginot Line are too immobile to intervene. Allied bombers make disparaging attempts to destroy the German bridges but most are shot down. All the while, German artillery pounds the French defenses while our Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers scream in. Just three days after the attack is launched, the French defenders around Sedan break, the panzers begin racing westwards. By nightfall, they advance more than 40 miles behind the northern group of allied armies. By May 19th, after brushing off several allied attempts to counterattack, Generaloberst Guderian’s lead units pass Peronne, on the 20th, in an extraordinary 56-mile dash, Amiens is taken by lunchtime, Abbeville just 14 miles from the English Channel is seized by 9:00 that evening, and at midnight a battalion of the 2nd Panzer Division reaches the coast at Noyelles splitting the Allied front in two.On May 21st, two Allied armored battalions prepare to launch an attack just south of our positions. Our forces have little trouble in repulsing the attack, after a series of crushing defeats, the British Expeditionary Force is pushed back to the ports of Boulogne, Calais, and Dunkirk, trapping them. By May 25th, the situation of the British Expeditionary Force and the French 1st Army is desperate, the port of Boulogne has been overrun and German troops have isolated Calais and the British have been forced back to the port of Dunkirk. Despite wanting to make one final assault to destroy the allied forces believing this could be our only chance to do so, I along with the OKH are fully aware that our panzer crews are exhausted, and our machines need urgent repairs. For two days, the offensive is halted thereby allowing the B.E.F. to evacuate by sea. Even so, the British have lost most of their heavy weapons leaving France to fend for herself.At 4:00a.m. on June 5th, a short German bombardment begins the final destruction of France. Assault troops cross the Somme and Aisne rivers. At first French resistance is fierce and our troops struggle to break out of their bridgeheads but once again, the Luftwaffe helps crush their defenses. Soon the panzers push south and by the 9th they reach the river Seine with the infantry only a few hours behind. Once across the river, the Germans span out into the interior of the country and on the 14th the Wehrmacht triumphantly enters Paris. The city which had eluded the Kaiser in 1914.Discouraged by his cabinet's hostile reaction to a British proposal to unite France and Britain to avoid defeat, and believing that his ministers no longer support him, Prime Minister Paul Reynaud resigns on June 16th. He is succeeded by Marshal of France Philippe Pétain, who delivers a radio address to the French people announcing his intention to ask for an armistice with Germany. When I receive word from the French government that they wished to negotiate an armistice, I’m elated and select the Forest of Compiègne as the site for the negotiations.Compiègne had been the site of the 1918 Armistice, which ended the First World War with a humiliating defeat for Germany; I view the choice of location as a supreme moment of revenge for Germany over France.The German preemptive strike across Holland and Belgium, as well as the earlier occupation of parts of Denmark and Norway in April, have denied the Allies of the opportunity to encircle Germany before invading it.After hearing the news of the French surrender and armistice, we send our most generous offer of peace to the British government in which Britain’s independence is guaranteed and will be allowed to keep its empire, in exchange for a freehand in Europe in order to concentrate our forces on a far greater threat in the east. Prime Minister Churchill declares he will have none of it and makes his famous “Never Surrender” speech to the House of Commons, vowing to continue the war in any way possible. Seeing that he won’t accept any form of peace, we are again forced to allow the Luftwaffe to begin attacks on the British homeland, but I order them to strictly focus on military targets: radar stations, airfields, factories etc. and engage the Royal Air Force clearing the skies in preparation for a proposed invasion of Great Britain, but only to be carried out as a last resort.On June 10, 1940 the Kingdom of Italy under Il Duce Benito Mussolini issues a Declaration of War against Great Britain and France. Upon hearing this and looking to use Italy’s position to our advantage, I request an audience with Il Duce, the Royal Italian Military and Italian Defense Ministries in order to discuss how we can achieve a quick victory or at least an advantage over Great Britain and her allies. After carefully studying the strengths and weaknesses of the British Commonwealth of Nations, eventually it is agreed that the only way to gain superiority over the British in North Africa, is to cut-off the Allied routes in the Mediterranean by occupying the island of Malta, thus allowing faster and more efficient supply lines to the Italian forces without having to cross all of Libya. Especially since we are informed by reconnaissance reports that the British garrison on the island is weak. Over the next several days, we devise plans for an invasion of Malta, with the future of our nations at stake, we plan the attack with great care.June 15, 1940 - Operazione C3In the early morning, in a spectacular action, Italian paratroopers launch themselves on Malta covered by the Regia Marina and Regia Aeronautica who bomb and strafe enemy strongholds. Meanwhile, Royal Italian Marines land on different parts of the island. The British are caught completely by surprise and scramble to man their anti-aircraft and coastal guns. Italian paratroops and marines continue their advance forward and swiftly capture key points around the island, silencing the British guns and taking many prisoner.Overall the resistance of the British garrison is formidable but despite this, they are finally overwhelmed. Within a matter of moments, the banner of the Kingdom of Italy is raised triumphantly over the Maltese capital of Valletta.Following this victory, we deploy Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel along with a German Expeditionary Force designated as the Afrika Korps to Italian Libya. With Malta in Italian hands, we are able to better supply our forces in Libya in order to prepare them for the war ahead. With the capture of British Somaliland shortly after, the Italians have effectively secured the Horn of Africa. Knowing that the Suez Canal will need to be taken in order to further capitalize on our victories, the Italian Supreme Command and the OKH determine that it will first need to be isolated before we can seize it. One way to achieve this is through a joint invasion of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, which according to reconnaissance reports, is garrisoned by about 9,000 British troops as well as 8,500 soldiers in Kenya. Opposing them, are 90,000 soldiers in Italian East Africa along with 200,000 Royal Corps Colonial Troops. In order to retain our advantage and counting on superiority in numbers, Italian forces will need to move swiftly before the British can reinforce these areas.June 22, 1940 - Army Group East Africa under the command of Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta crosses the border into Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Simultaneously, soldiers from Army Group Libya invade from the north, increasing pressure on the British garrison in Sudan. As a precautionary measure, the Italians maintain a strong presence along the Egyptian and Kenyan borders to deter any British attempt to counterattack or aid their forces in Sudan. Fighting a two-front war, facing continuous bombing raids from the Regia Aeronautica, Italian infantry and tank divisions constantly harassing British positions, Italian forces eventually break through their defenses and reach the Nile river. Effectively splitting Sudan in two, and beginning a race towards Khartoum. Meanwhile in the east, Italian Milizia Coloniale and local Askari forces seize the vital port city of Port Sudan. Once the Italian armies reach Khartoum, we send a telegram to the remaining British forces stating that since they are surrounded and there is only one way to save themselves, an honorable surrender. Promising that as long as they cooperate, no harm will come to them. Within moments, the British reject our request, leaving them no choice but to unleash the full might of the Italian Armed Forces upon the British, and despite heavy casualties, Khartoum along with the whole of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan falls.Having conquered Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and linked up our two colonies in Africa, the Italian Empire has successfully isolated the Suez Canal by land and we make preparations for an offensive codenamed: Operazione E. With an increased amount of supplies coming from the mainland along with captured British equipment, we take a moment to replenish our exhausted soldiers and tend to the wounded. After our previous victories, we come to the conclusion that since the Suez Canal is vital to the British Empire, they will spare no expenses in defending it and diverting troops from their overseas colonies to Egypt.Not wanting our forces to invade just yet, we seek to exploit every possible British weakness possible. Il Duce instructs Italian Foreign Minister and his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano to make contact with the Arab governments hostile to the British in view of an attack over the Sinai. Within a week, citizens of the British mandate of Palestine, Transjordan and Kuwait rise in defiance against the British, demanding independence. The unexpected Arab revolts add pressure on the British, forcing them to divert manpower and resources away from vital areas.July 1, 1940 - Operazione ESeizing the moment, with numerical superior and with our armies well-trained, equipped and battle-hardened, Army Group Libya under Marshal Italo Balbo storms through the border and invades the Kingdom of Egypt.Within the first few days, the North African Campaign is excellent, Italian East African armies are following the Nile River and racing towards Cairo from the south. Meanwhile from the west, the increased amount of supplies and better support from the Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica allow Axis forces to break through British defenses and spread in Egypt capturing El Alamein and Alexandria in quick succession. The Egyptian population welcomes the Italo-Germans as liberators and enters in revolt against the British, the allied forces begin to withdraw disorderly behind the Suez Canal and by July 18th, Generalfeldmarschall Rommel captures Cairo. The British manage to organize a defensive line along the Suez Canal. Not wanting to waste any time which could award Britain with new allies or tactics, I order German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop while the Fascist government orders Count Ciano to make contact with the Arab governments hostile to the British in view of an attack over the Sinai.Following the liberation of Cairo, a pro-Axis government is installed in the Kingdom of Egypt. In cooperation with the Italian government, the German Foreign Ministry sends peace proposals to Britain in hopes of reaching a diplomatic solution and a cessation to hostilities. After being informed about the loss of North Africa and the Suez Canal, Prime Minister Winston Churchill describes the event as “The worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history.” The news sends shockwaves throughout the British government and military, who seek to cover it up. Even though some British officials consider the idea of armistice, despite everything, Prime Minister Churchill rejects any/all calls for peace and vows to continue the war in whatever way possible, while continuing to pressure the United States to enter the war.With the Suez Canal in Axis hands, we’ve effectively split the British Empire in two with British troops and supplies being forced to travel around the Cape of Good Hope which takes much longer to reach the British Isles, this also renders any British attempt to reinforce the Middle East extremely difficult if not impossible. While our forces take time to consolidate their holdings, we continue launching bombing raids on British positions in the Middle East. Meanwhile in Europe, I meet with the Italian government to discuss the possibility of capturing the last British stronghold in the Mediterranean, the strait of Gibraltar in hopes of using the Regia Marina in the Atlantic. Simultaneously, we send Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop and Count Ciano to Turkey in order to convince them to join the war on the side of the Axis. While we await a response from the Turkish government, I request a meeting with Il Duce in which I ask for him to accompany me to meet with Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain as we both know the Spanish Caudillo personally and would maximize our chances of victory in the Mediterranean.Shortly after, Il Duce and I meet with Generalissimo Franco in Hendaye, France in which we demand the passage of our troops through Spanish territory, and for Spanish involvement in the war. The Spanish Dictator is forced to accept and promises Spanish aid to the Axis. With Spain now on board, a coordinated attack plan is drafted code-named: Operation Felix. Several Axis divisions march through Spain and take ready positions.August 24, 1940 - Operation FelixAs many as 32 well-equipped divisions from the German Wehrmacht and Royal Italian Army smash through British defenses and advance south. Coordinated attacks from the Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica from the air along with the Kriegsmarine and Regia Marina from both sides of the sea, allow for easier advances from the north with Fallschirmjäger and Paracadutisti spreading more confusion and chaos within enemy lines. After a tremendous battle that lasts several days with heavy casualties on both sides, Gibraltar finally falls. The banners of Germany and Italy are raised together above the fortresses of the city, serving a propaganda. With Gibraltar now in Axis hands, the Regia Marina is deployed into the Atlantic Ocean in order to further harass British supply convoys coming from South Africa alongside the German Kriegsmarine. The fall of Gibraltar also marks the end of British power in the Mediterranean Sea and signals the coming of new era of Italian dominance and the return of Mare Nostrum.With the entire Mediterranean Sea under Axis control, and despite earlier rejections, we send more peace proposals to Britain, calling to end the war now before any more military or civilian blood is spilled. Again Churchill refuses, announcing to the British people: “No matter how long it takes, no matter how much we suffer, we will fight to the very last Briton!” The news of the Axis conquest of the Mediterranean reaches America alerting the U.S. government. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders an increase of Lend-Lease shipments to Britain and goes as far as lending more American naval vessels to Britain in hopes of keeping them in the fight. President Roosevelt without a doubt wishes to enter the war, but understands that 76% of the American people still support neutrality and a declaration of war will be met with serious backlash from the general public, particularly from the America First Committee led by American aviator Charles Lindbergh.Knowing that Churchill will not accept any form of peace and growing concerned about the possibility of American involvement, we are once again forced to go on the offensive. While the Battle of Britain rages on with the Luftwaffe and the Corpo Aereo Italiano engaging in spectacular dogfights against the Royal Air Force in preparation for Operation Sealion, we make plans for our own offensive this time, to push the British out of the entire Eurasian continent permanently. On September 15, 1940 Operazione Libertà Araba the invasion of the Middle East is launched with the intent on capturing the British oil fields while liberating the Arab peoples in the process. Preceded by an intense artillery fire, Axis troops break through incomplete British defenses in the Sinai and enter Palestine. Soon after, we receive word that Turkish government agrees to join the war in exchange for our assurances that Turkish sovereignty will be guaranteed and that Turkey be granted equal status following an Axis victory. Another pro-Axis revolt in Iraq pushes the British out of Baghdad. The revolt in Iraq and the unexpected move of Turkey make the British position in the Middle East unsustainable, the British quickly withdraw from the area to at least try to keep the southern Arabian peninsula, while the oilfields are reached within a matter of weeks. Throughout the Middle East the Italo-Germans are greeted by native populace as liberators, with some even volunteering to join our heroic struggle.Seizing the opportunity, I instruct the Axis forces to allow the Arab populations to enlist into the military as I believe that they can offer limitless potential if trained properly. Upon arrival to the oilfields, we discover that many of them are either heavily damaged or destroyed. Not wanting for our oil supplies to be compromised, Axis engineers work tirelessly day and night to get the oilfields back online and continue production. With Britain’s oversea assets in shambles and her lifelines cut, we know that Britain’s days are numbered.African/Arab Volunteers of the “Legion Freies Arabien” (Free Arabia Legion)By early 1941, with attrition being heavily felt and after the military disasters of 1940, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is left with no choice but to ask for an armistice with the German Reich and the Kingdom of Italy. With his country in shambles and no effective way of continuing the war, Winston Churchill resigns in disgrace, after a vote-of-no-confidence succeeds. Edward Wood, Lord Halifax becomes the new Prime Minister of Great Britain and signs the armistice, restoring peace in western Europe. With the war against Great Britain finally over, both the German and Italian governments are now able to fully concentrate on the battle we believe will eventually determine the final outcome of this war. Maintaining close contact with the Germans, we take the next few months to rebuild our war torn lands and build up strength for what will be our greatest challenge.After issuing Führer Directive No. 21 on December 18th, 1940 - I immediately order the German government to make contact with the Japanese Empire. Once contact is made and a conference is scheduled in Berlin on February 21, 1941 I meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka, informing him that Imperial High Command will need to make plans to aid us in our preemptive strike against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.Upon returning to Japan and informing the Imperial government of our intentions, all members of the Imperial High Command are shocked. The Imperial Japanese government responds by stating that the Japanese Empire would be destroyed if they attacked Russia now as they’re not fully prepared for such a plan. A recent oil embargo from the United States has put a strain on their resources and their war effort against the Republic of China, a clear act of war by America. Understanding this, I explain that in order for our nations and the world as a whole to survive, we will need to make plans for a coordinated attack. Warning them that if Germany falls, Japan will be the Soviet Union’s next target. Convincing them that the U.S.S.R. is far more dangerous than the United States, promising to help them with America later on. Understanding the danger of the U.S.S.R. Imperial High Command reluctantly agrees for a coordinated attack. In order to properly carry out an invasion, we increase reconnaissance missions over Soviet territory. By carefully studying aerial photographs and maps, we identify potential targets, hazards, and exchange vital information and equipment in exchange for goods and raw materials. The benefits are great: new airplane blueprints, radar detectors and Enigma coding machines. These advanced technologies will help us counter the industrial capacity of the Soviet Union.I along with Germany’s finest generals feverishly draft plans for the invasion of the Soviet Union codenamed: Operation Barbarossa. Every detail must be anticipated, a slip now might wreck the whole timetable of the operation and our chances of a swift crushing victory. The plan calls for four simultaneous thrusts: Army Group North commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm von Leeb, is to overrun the Baltics states and seize Leningrad, Army Group Centre commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock, is to advance to Moscow, Army Group South led by Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt, is to liberate and occupy the Ukraine, and Army Groups A & B will overrun the Caucasus and seize Stalingrad. Three months of final preparation go into these plans, three months to determine the history of 1,000 years.In early May 1941, before the invasion can commence, we receive news that the Yugoslav government sympathetic to Germany, has been overthrown by pro-British/anti-Axis forces. Its southern neighbor Greece is also anti-Axis. Not wanting to allow our southern flank to be threatened, I order the Wehrmacht along with Italian forces to attack the two countries and secure the Balkans. As Italian forces in Albania prepare to cross into Greece, in order to better understand and defeat our new enemy, I advise them to order an increase on reconnaissance in order to identify potential enemy strongholds, as well as choke-points and other geographic features they could use to their advantage. Once every potential problem has been addressed and accounted for, with the Italian armies outmatching the Greeks in numbers and quality of troops, they make final preparations for their invasion of Greece. The Italians first send the Regia Aeronautica to soften up defenses and create confusion while infantry and armored divisions cross the border seizing vital areas and capturing many Greek armies. Wanting our forces to share this victory, I send several infantry and panzer divisions to further strengthen the offensive in Greece. With German aid, Athens falls in just two weeks and we invade and occupy strategic Greek islands such as Crete while installing a new pro-Axis government called the Hellenic State. Soon after from all sides, we launch a subsequent invasion of Yugoslavia, with Belgrade falling in a matter of weeks.Although the Balkan campaign ends in another Axis victory, is postpones our planned date for Operation Barbarossa by more than six weeks. Forcing us to reschedule the invasion for the summer. Although the invasion is postponed, this gives us more time to further prepare our strength for what could be our greatest challenge.June 22, 1941At 3:15a.m. German artillery battalions open fire upon Soviet positions all along the eastern frontier, catching Soviet armies’ off-guard. Bewildered Soviet troops scramble to man their defenses but are soon either captured or destroyed by heavy German artillery bombardments. At dawn, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, from Eastern Europe to the Caucasus, thousands of Messerschmitt Bf-109s, Bf-110s, and Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighters along with thousands of Heinkel He-111s, Dornier Do-17s & Junkers Ju-87 Stuka bombers soar across Soviet territory attacking strategic areas such as fortifications, military barracks and airfields. Simultaneously, as many as four German Army Groups along with millions of volunteers from Europe and around the globe all joining our fight against the Bolshevik menace, cross the border into the Soviet Union, quickly overwhelming entire Soviet armies. The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact is officially over, Operation Barbarossa has begun.That same day in the Far-East at 4:00a.m. From the waters of the Sea of Japan, the Imperial Japanese Navy from their aircraft carriers and battleships open fire and begin bombarding Soviet coastal cities such as Vladivostok and Yakutsk and launch their Kaigun Tokubetsu Rikusentai (Special Naval Landing Forces) to capture vital ports and establish beachheads. The Soviet Far-Eastern armies are caught completely off-guard as they were expecting the Japanese to turn their attention towards the United States. Even still, the Soviets scramble to man their heavy coastal guns and open fire upon Japanese ships. From the Japanese aircraft carriers, hundreds of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters along with hordes of Mitsubishi Ki-51 & Ki-21s as well as Kawasaki Ki-48s & Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu bombers soar across the Far-East attacking strategic railways, airfields, industrial centers, and military installations. At dawn, three Imperial Japanese Army Groups led by the mighty Kwantung Army, cross into communist territory from Manchukuo and Mengjiang. Japanese mechanized divisions are able to quickly overrun and inflict heavy casualties on the Red Army, the Japanese offensive drives towards the west in an attempt to reach Lake Baikal beginning their own invasion codenamed: Operation Kantokuen.Brutal battles rage all across the European and Far-Eastern theaters, the Luftwaffe/IJA Air Forces engage the Red Air Force in spectacular dogfights in an attempt to achieve air superiority. Throughout the course of a few days to weeks, German armies thrust deep into Soviet territory. Ill coordinated Soviet counterattacks are swiftly brushed aside resulting in the capture of tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers. By June 29th, seven days after the start of the assault, two panzer thrusts meet up near Minsk, surrounding huge pockets of Soviet troops. As the follow-up infantry arrive, more than 300,000 prisoners are taken into captivity.The deeper we advance into the Soviet Union, the more we often find ourselves being welcomed as liberators particularly in the Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Baltic states, where anti-Soviet feelings are widespread. Meanwhile in Moscow, Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin is informed about the Axis invasion from both East and West. Upon hearing the news, he falls into a state of shock and disbelief, almost suffering a near breakdown as the day he has feared for so long has finally arrived. He remains silent for more than a week. Red Army High Command (STAVKA) is now caught in a conundrum: Fight a two-front war and risk losing more ground, or concentrate the majority of the Red Army on fending off one enemy first. Not until July 3rd, does Stalin appeal to his people’s patriotism in an effort to save the Motherland. Shaken but determined, Stalin orders his generals to concentrate the majority of their forces on the Germans and divert a large portion of the Red Army to the Caucasus in order to halt the German-Turkish forces from seizing the vital Soviet oilfields and a smaller force to the Far-East to halt and push back the Japanese.As June turns to July, the German Blitzkrieg slashes deeper into Soviet territory. It’s beginning to look as if nothing can stop us, as more battles are being won and more prisoners are being taken. In mid-July following the capture of Minsk along with 300,000 Soviet prisoners, several panzer commanders in particular Generaloberst Heinz Guderian, beg to be allowed to race on. Operation Barbarossa is working like clockwork. Within a week, panzers reach the city of Smolensk, deep inside Russia and only a couple hundred miles from Moscow. On July 18th, a panzer pincer movement meets to the east of Smolensk trapping another 310,000 of Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timosheko’s troops. After which, I order a brief pause to allow the rest of the army to catch up. Though our tanks can move at spectacular speeds, most of the army still has to walk or rely on horse drawn transport. But it still only takes them five days before they arrive and begin mopping up, the operation is completed in just nine more days. Vast columns of Soviet prisoners begin trudging west to captivity.With all the captured enemy soldiers, many German officials wonder exactly what we’ll do with all of them. While most believe and agree that they should all be used for compulsory labor to strengthen the German war machine, others like myself disagree and offer an alternative solution. Looking to use their numbers and familiarity of the lands to our advantage, I instruct all Axis forces to attempt to convince captured soldiers that their leader Joseph Stalin has simply been using them as mere pawns. Explaining to them that the Bolsheviks never aimed at serving the interests of Russia or any other country. Communism does not limit itself to acquire chunks of territories, but aims at total world domination. Explaining that Stalin has been using all of them as cannon fodder only for his regime to survive, we even go as far as displaying all the horrors Stalin had committed in the name of Communism to the Soviet people. Eventually, the people realize what they have gotten themselves into and gradually begin siding with us, with many people of various ethnic backgrounds asking to be allowed to form their own Wehrmacht/Waffen-SS regiments. Seizing the moment, I instruct the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS to re-arm captured soldiers and if necessary train them, creating new Russian, Armenian, Ukrainian and numerous other anti-Communist armies, while civilians serve as compulsory labor in factories or serve as medics or other professions. As time passes, more and more Russian soldiers and citizens rally to our cause while similar instructions are advised to the Japanese in the Far-East.Soldiers of ROA, (Russian liberation Army)With the fall of Smolensk, Moscow is now only 200 miles away, and the road lay open. With our previous successes, it seems certain it will fall by the end of the summer, as planned. But elsewhere, the German advance is finding the going more difficult. The Red Army is counterattacking more effectively and by mid-July, the German-Turkish offensive in the Caucasus has been bogged down. Meanwhile to its north, Army Group South is still more than 50 miles from Kiev. On a visit to the front, I’m informed about our current situation.“Mein Führer, at the conclusion of the Battle of Smolensk, Army Group Centre has destroyed the bulk of the Soviet forces between it and the vital railway and industrial hub of Moscow. Which along with the pummeling of the Soviet Southern Front earlier on, renders the Soviets incapable of stopping an Unternehmen Taifun launched no later than the end of August, the success of which would allow a southern turn and the seizure of Kiev before the end of the campaigning season.”Making the connections, and looking to end the war as quickly as possible, I decide to take a gamble and capitalize on his victory at Smolensk. Allowing Army Group Centre to continue its advance towards Moscow. This decision is further reinforced upon receiving information that the Soviets have evacuated their government to Kuybyshev along with as many as 2,500 factories and 17 million Soviet citizens to Siberia. These factories still have to be assembled, and natural resources have to be acquired, 70% of Soviet industrial power, while the remaining 30% of Soviet industries are located in or around Moscow.I order all German/Axis personnel to push forward towards their objectives with lightning speed. Knowing full-well that everything produced in Russia passes through Moscow via transport lines, if we allow the Soviets to reassemble their factories, our offensive would be in serious danger of failure. But if we were to capture the Soviet capital, we would effectively cut-off Soviet transport and supply lines.Yet the closer we get to the Soviet capital, there are already worrying signs that the Red Army is not going to be the pushover we had been expecting. Soviet manpower seems endless, with recent reports revealing that more than 16 million troops are now mobilized ¾ of which are facing us, and the Red Army now has some formidable new weapons. In particular a new tank, the 37 ton T-34 which is faster and better cross-country than the PzKpfw IV. Yet for many as the blitzkrieg continues, it is easy to miss the warning signs. Soon after, we receive reports that Army Groups A & B in the Caucasus have been reinforced by the battle-hardened Africa Korps, along with Italian divisions, and thousands of volunteers from Africa and the Middle East.With superior numbers combined with clever tactics and strategies of Generalfeldmarschall Rommel, Axis forces are able to break through Soviet defenses and reach the oilfields of Baku. Upon arrival, they discover that most of the oil wells have been disabled or destroyed, but like in the Middle East, German engineers begin working to repair or rebuild the oil wells while the rest of the army pushes north towards Stalingrad. The loss of the oilfields is a serious blow to Soviet industrial power, as Soviet oil production falls to 12% of the 1939 production level (from 32,168,000 tons to 3,901,000 tons). By July 25th, Army Group North surrounds the city of Leningrad, immediately cutting it off from the rest of the Soviet Union. The city is besieged, despite the temptation, I decide not to storm the city and instead instruct the German troops to settle down and starve it into surrender. Conditions in the city become dire, the only link to the rest of the Soviet Union is across Lake Ladoga to the east, but only a small amount of food can come in by water.Meanwhile, Army Group Centre now prepares for the final assault on Moscow. Generaloberst Guderian’s panzers now repaired, refueled and rearmed, lead the armored blitzkrieg while I lead the infantry. German forces have a 2:1 superiority in tanks and men at the front and 3:1 in aircraft. The assault starts on August 1, 1941. Once again Generaloberst Guderian’s panzers slash deep through the Red Army. By the 8th, yet more Soviet troops are surrounded, but Stalin is determined to defend Moscow to the last, he appoints General Georgy Zhukov to organize the defense of the city. The people of Moscow are mobilized to dig a series of defensive lines.In the Far-East, after a series of costly battles, Imperial Japanese forces break through Soviet lines reaching Lake Baikal and successfully occupy the whole of Mongolia. This is made possible with the aid of collaborative Russian and Mongolian citizens who’ve become disillusioned with Communism, as well as many Soviet divisions having been diverted westward to counter our advances. Although Japanese generals wish to continue the offensive, shortages on vital supplies in particular oil, causes further major assaults to be delayed or cancelled. Instead, the Japanese dig-in and set up defensive positions.On August 12th, I launch Operation Typhoon, the final drive along the route to Moscow. 14 German tank and 74 infantry divisions a total of 1,929,406 officers and men, take part in the offensive. Stalin has good cause for panic now, facing a disaster which might sweep away the whole Soviet Union, he has one last hope that the weather will save them. By mid-August, lack of paved roads and increasingly stubborn Soviet resistance, leads to Army group Centre still being some 50 miles short of Moscow. Angered by these delays, I order the Luftwaffe to bomb and strafe any/all Soviet positions around Moscow and for the panzers to charge forward clearing the way for our infantry. By August 15th, our Caucasian troops capture the port city of Astrakhan at the mouth of the river Volga, Stalingrad follows soon after. On the Moscow Front, Army Group Centre now begins its final push to capture the Soviet capital.On August 16th, the leading units are just 19 miles from Red Square, some reconnaissance patrols claim they can see the golden domes of the Kremlin glinting in the distance. The generals realize we must act swiftly before Russia’s infamous Rasputitsa, severely hampers our offensive. To soften up defenses, German artillery battalions open fire upon Soviet positions, the first German shells strike at or around Red Square, while the Luftwaffe engages the remnants of the Red Air Forceover Moscow. With German morale at its peak and with a determined battle cry of “Deutschland über alles”, German panzers race forward at full speed while Axis infantry units follow closely behind, engaging the cities defenders in brutal hand-to-hand combat.The Soviets attempt several well-prepared counterattacks and while some are successful, they’re simply outmatched and outgunned and are eventually pushed back. More prisoners are taken, however, we notice that unlike before, these prisoners are younger than most and are members of a recently formed People’s Militia. Many are as young as the age of 17, a sign that the Soviets are getting desperate and are willing to use anything and anyone to defend their capital. Another thing we notice is that there are far less tanks and aircraft than we anticipated, a sign that our recent capture of Soviet oilfields is taking its toll. After three days of hard fighting, our forces finally break through the last of their defensive lines and by August 20th, German armies reach the outer workings of Moscow. Now it is street fighting, house by house, building by building. Everyone a natural redoubt for desperate defenders. Casualties mount, resistance stiffens, but the German armies cannot be halted now. Within hours, German attacks force the remaining resistance to retreat further into the city. German forces follow, and soon stumble upon a well-fortified capital. The Soviets spared no expense in setting up defenses. Determined to end this war here and now, I call for every German/Axis soldier, to fight like they’ve never fought before for Europe and the Fatherland.Later as Axis forces converge on the center of Moscow, the fighting embraces everything and everyone in the battlefield. Military and civilian casualties continue to rise while the Luftwaffe pounds the city to rubble. Eventually, no longer able to bear such losses, several Soviet officers and generals within the city, either surrender or commit suicide. Unable to bear the idea of a German victory, while others continue to fight valiantly alongside their soldiers.After three days of intense battle, the last desperate resistance in Moscow collapses. German PzKpfw IV tanks roar into Red Square and turn on the Kremlin, providing cover fire for Elite European Waffen-SS divisions who assault the Kremlin with flame throwers and frag grenades. The desperate defenders hold out for one heroic hour in savage hand-to-hand fighting, entering room after room and clearing them of Red Army soldiers. Breaking out into the shell torn roof, German troops raise the Hakenkreuz banner over the Kremlin. German soldiers break out in a thunderous cheer and some perform the Roman salute which is captured on film by Axis war correspondents - invaluable propaganda. Fighting continues in several isolated pockets. General Georgy Zhukov is killed in one of the last pockets of resistance. Joseph Stalin is soon found hiding within his secret bunker in a state of depression attempting to commit suicide. Through quick action, he is quickly apprehended and transported to the remains of the captured Kremlin by the triumphant Gestapo. Following the fall of Moscow, Army Group Centre turns now south towards Kiev. Within two days upon arrival, I along with the assistance of Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein successfully draw Kiev’s defenders out into the open where they are decimated. Two more soviet armies are utterly destroyed, more than 665,000 of Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Budyonny’s men are killed or captured with Kiev being taken on August 30th.With his country in ruins and no effective way of continuing the war, Joseph Stalin is left with no other alternative and surrenders unconditionally to the Axis Powers on September 1, 1941 with the remnants of the Soviet government in Kuybyshev following soon after.Upon hearing of the Soviet Union’s surrender, I hold a massive rally in the Kroll Opera House (temporary Reichstag), where I makes a jubilant speech which is broadcast on radios throughout Europe and around the world where I announce the fall of Moscow and rejoice in the immense defeat of the Soviet Union. Predicting that the whole rotten Bolshevik house of cards will come tumbling down. My speech ends with a solemn “Gott ist mit uns - Amen.” The crowd replies with enthusiastic “Sieg Heil” for fifteen minutes.With the whole of continental Europe liberated, the victorious German/Axis armies return to Germany to a hero’s welcome and with a new sense of pride and honor the likes of which the world has never seen before. With the Axis Powers victorious, and following the Declaration of a new United Europe, I have fulfilled my promise of victory for Germany and have succeeded in creating a Greater German Reich. In the years following the war, I continue to lead the United Europe and post-war world into a new era. An era of order, peace and prosperity that will last for 1,000 years, if not forever.

If I could wake up tomorrow as the leader of any existing or former global power, I would choose National Socialist Germany. Depending on exactly what year I wake up in, for the most part it be more-or-less the same in terms of how I lead the National Socialist government. If I woke up as the Führer & Reich Chancellor of the Greater German Reich in 1938, through the Munich Conference, I annex Austria and the Sudetenland into the Reich. Seeing that Great Britain under Prime Minister Chamberlain and the French Third Republic under President Édouard Daladier are beginning to dislike the expansion of our borders, I order a massive build-up of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in case the worst were to come.By mid-1939, we have heard that as many as 60,000 ethnic Germans have been brutally murdered by the Polish. In response, I demand time and time again for the Polish government to return the Free City of Danzig to East Prussia so it can be linked up with the rest of Germany. In case Poland were to refuse, I order the Wehrmacht be stationed near the German-Polish border, I’m also informed by the Oberkommando des Heeres that Great Britain and France have declared their support of Poland and promise to aid them if Germany were to attack. As in our timeline, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop is sent to Moscow where he along with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov sign the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact shocking the British and French. To the last moment, we continue to pressure the west to renew negotiations in order to solve the Danzig question peacefully and avert another unnecessary war.September 1, 1939 with all attempts of negotiations with Poland a failure, the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS push aside the Polish frontier barriers and mobile forces race forward. On September 3rd, Britain and France declare war on Germany, honoring their promise to stand by Poland. The German Luftwaffe along with new Panzer divisions break through Polish defenses and strike deep, cutting communications and spreading confusion in a revolutionary new war tactic called Blitzkrieg. Enemy strongpoints are bypassed, left for the following infantry to mop up. By September 8th, German armies reach the outskirts of Warsaw and on the 17th German forces reach the city of Brest-Litovsk, on the same day, the Soviet Union invades eastern Poland in accordance with our Non-Aggression Pact. Upon reaching Warsaw, we offer the Polish government to surrender and cease hostilities, they refuse, so the full fury of the German war machine is turned on them. On September 27th, the Polish government in Warsaw finally surrenders after 29 days of fighting.Within a month, the Polish aggressor is defeated and the massacres have ended. Once again we send more offers to end hostilities and return to 1939 borders excluding West Prussia and Danzig which are formerly German cultivated and with a sizable German population (Danzig). Other than low-scale British and German maneuvers in Norway and Denmark, the great bloodbath known as World War II has not yet begun and can still be avoided.However, the Allies ignore our numerous pleas for peace and for the next eight months, all is eerily quiet in the west. Suddenly our forces intercept an allied message in which we learn that Britain and France are plotting Scandinavian-based maneuvers and are deploying a massive mechanized fighting force in Northern France, in anticipation of invading Germany via, Belgium and Holland, sometime in the spring of 1940. The tiny states of Belgium and The Netherlands (members of the globalist League of Nations) claim to be “neutral”. In reality, under the pressure and influence of the mighty British & French empires (also members of the League of Nations), the two mini-states have been assisting the Allies in their preparation for an attack upon Germany. Which had quit the League of Nations in 1933. Determined to beat the western Allies to the punch, Germany has no choice but to go on the offensive, therefore my generals and I prepare plans to make the first decisive move.Our sights first turn towards Scandinavia. The German war machine relies on iron ore from Sweden. In the winter months, the only way this valuable resource could get to Germany, is by the Norwegian port of Narvik. We know that if the allies landed in Norway, this vital supply could be cut-off, so I order plans be prepared for an invasion of Norway. Denmark which is in the way, would also have to be seized in order to counter possible allied incursions.The Norway Theatre heats up on February 16, 1940 as British destroyer HMS Cossack boards the German transport/supply ship Altmark in a Norwegian fjord to release prisoners. On April 9th, German troops begin landing at five ports: Oslo, Kristiansand, Bergen, Trondheim and Narvik. At the same time, men of our newly formed Fallschirmjäger seize Stavanger and Oslo airfields, the Norwegian defenders are swiftly overwhelmed as are the Danes, German forces occupy Denmark in less than 24 hours in what will become known as Operation Weserübung. With our supplies of iron ore secured and minor allied incursions brushed aside, we continue to make plans for our next major blitzkrieg.May 10, 1940 Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain. That same day at dawn, a whole German airborne division parachutes into Holland to seize bridges and airfields. Simultaneously, the massive Belgian fortress of Eben Emael is assaulted, paratroop engineers are dropped on top by swooping German gliders who swiftly silence its guns. Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe attacks Dutch and Belgian airbases and frontier barriers are pushed aside. German Army Group B under Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock, drives into Holland and Belgium. As planned, the French and British armies along the Belgian border move forward to their new defensive line along the Dyle and Meuse Rivers. Meanwhile, Army Group A which consists mostly of panzers, after brushing aside the Belgian frontier troops, begin driving through the hills and woods of the Ardennes forest to their south. Within days, the Dutch capitulate after several bombing raids on major port cities, then comes the hammer, the thing that British and French planners thought impossible happens: German panzers are through the Ardennes and reach the river Meuse by May 12th. Among the first to arrive at Sedan, well north of the Maginot Line are the men of the 19th Panzer Corps commanded by Generaloberst Heinz Guderian fresh from the triumphs of Poland, who pushes on, not even waiting for his own infantry to catch up. The next day, assault troops cross the river Meuse, engineers begin building bridges for the armor while under heavy French fire.On May 14th, the panzers begin crossing, that evening Generaloberst Guderian’s bridgehead is eight miles deep, the French troops stuck in the Maginot Line are too immobile to intervene. Allied bombers make disparaging attempts to destroy the German bridges but most are shot down. All the while, German artillery pounds the French defenses while our Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers scream in. Just three days after the attack is launched, the French defenders around Sedan break, the panzers begin racing westwards by nightfall they advance more than 40 miles behind the northern group of allied armies. By May 19th, after brushing off several allied attempts to counterattack, Generaloberst Guderian’s lead units pass Peronne, on the 20th, in an extraordinary 56-mile dash, Amiens is taken by lunchtime, Abbeville just 14 miles from the English Channel is seized by 9:00 that evening, and at midnight a battalion of the 2nd Panzer Division reaches the coast at Noyelles splitting the Allied front in two.On May 21st, two Allied armored battalions prepare to launch an attack just south of our positions. Our forces have little trouble in repulsing the attack, after a series of crushing defeats, the British Expeditionary Force is pushed back to the ports of Boulogne, Calais, and Dunkirk, trapping them. By May 25th, the situation of the British Expeditionary Force and the French 1st Army is desperate, the port of Boulogne has been overrun and German troops have isolated Calais and the British have been forced back to the port of Dunkirk. Despite wanting to make one final assault to destroy the allied forces believing this could be our only chance to do so, I along with the OKH are fully aware that our panzer crews are exhausted, and our machines need urgent repairs. For two days, the offensive is halted thereby allowing the B.E.F. to evacuate by sea. Even so, the British have lost most of their heavy weapons leaving France to fend for herself.At 4:00a.m. On June 5th, a short German bombardment begins the final destruction of France. Assault troops cross the Somme and Aisne rivers. At first French resistance is fierce and our troops struggle to break out of their bridgeheads but once again, the Luftwaffe helps crush their defenses. Soon the panzers push south and by the 9th they reach the river Seine with the infantry only a few hours behind. Once across the river, the Germans span out into the interior of the country and on the 14th the Wehrmacht triumphantly enters Paris.Discouraged by his cabinet's hostile reaction to a British proposal to unite France and Britain to avoid defeat, and believing that his ministers no longer support him, Prime Minister Paul Reynaud resigns on June 16th. He is succeeded by Marshal of France Philippe Pétain, who delivers a radio address to the French people announcing his intention to ask for an armistice with Germany. When I receive word from the French government that they wished to negotiate an armistice, I become elated and select the Forest of Compiègne as the site for the negotiations.Compiègne had been the site of the 1918 Armistice, which ended the First World War with a humiliating defeat for Germany; I view the choice of location as a supreme moment of revenge for Germany over France.The German preemptive strike across Holland and Belgium, as well as the earlier occupation of parts of Denmark and Norway in April, have denied the Allies of the opportunity to encircle Germany before invading it.After hearing the news of the French surrender and armistice, we send our most generous offer of peace to the British government in which Britain’s independence is guaranteed and will be allowed to keep its empire, in exchange for a freehand in Europe in order to concentrate our forces on a far greater threat in the east. Prime Minister Churchill declares he will have none of it and makes his famous “Never Surrender” speech to the House of Commons, vowing to continue the war in any way possible. Seeing that he won't accept any form of peace, we are again forced to allow the Luftwaffe to begin attacks on the British homeland, but I order them to strictly focus on military targets: radar stations, airfields, factories etc. and engage the Royal Air Force clearing the skies in preparation for a proposed invasion of Great Britain, but only to be carried out as a last resort.On June 10, 1940 the Kingdom of Italy under Il Duce of Fascism Benito Mussolini issues a Declaration of War against Great Britain and France. Upon hearing this and looking to use Italy’s position to our advantage, I request an audience with Il Duce, the Royal Italian Military and Italian Defense Ministries in order to discuss how we can achieve a quick victory or at least an advantage over Great Britain and her allies. After several hours of discussions and carefully studying the strengths and weaknesses of the British Empire, eventually we agree that the only way to gain superiority over the British in North Africa is to cut-off the Allied routes in the Mediterranean by occupying the island of Malta especially since we are informed that the British garrison on the island is weak. Thus allowing faster and more efficient supply lines to the Axis forces without having to cross all of Libya. Over the next several days, we devise plans for an invasion of Malta, with the future of our nations at stake, we plan the attack with great care.On June 15, 1940 Operation Herkules/Operazione C3 is put into effect. In a spectacular action, Italo-German paratroopers launch themselves on Malta covered by the Italian Regia Marina, the Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe who bomb and strafe enemy strongholds. Meanwhile, Axis ground troops land on different parts of the island, the resistance of the British garrison is formidable but despite this, they are finally overwhelmed.Following this victory, we deploy Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel along with a German Expeditionary Force designated as the Afrika Korps to Italian Libya. With Malta in Axis hands, we are be able to properly supply our forces in Libya in order to better prepare them for the war ahead. With the capture of British Somaliland by Italy shortly after, the Axis have secured the Eastern Horn of Africa. Knowing that the Suez Canal would need to be taken in order to put further pressure the British, the OKH, the Italian Supreme Command and I determine that we need to isolate it before we could seize it. One way to achieve this is for the Italians to launch an invasion on Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, according to Italian reconnaissance reports, the British have stationed about 9,000 soldiers in Sudan and 8,500 soldiers in Kenya. Opposing them are 90,000 soldiers in Italian East Africa along with 200,000 native volunteer troops. In order to retain our advantage and counting on superiority in numbers, we know we need to act swiftly before the British can reinforce these areas.June 22, 1940 Italian East African troops cross the border into Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Simultaneously, the Afrika Korps and the Royal Italian Army invades from the north putting more pressure on the British forces. As a precautionary measure, the Italians maintain a strong presence along the Egyptian and Kenyan borders to deter any British attempt to counterattack or aid their forces in Sudan. Fighting a two-front war, facing continuous bombing raids from the Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica and with Axis infantry and panzer divisions constantly harassing British positions, eventually our forces break through British defenses reaching the Nile river and splitting Sudan in two, resulting in the subsequent fall of Khartoum.Having conquered Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and linked up Italy’s two colonies in Africa, the Axis Powers have effectively isolated the Suez Canal by land and we begin making preparations for another offensive codenamed: Operazione E. With the loss of Sudan, we determine that since the Suez Canal is vital to the British Empire, they would spare no expenses in defending it by fortifying key areas and diverting troops from their overseas colonies to Egypt.Not wanting our forces to invade just yet, I seek to exploit every possible British weakness available. I order a plain-text radio message be sent out, detailing plans for Italian East African forces to invade British possessions in the south of the Arabian Peninsula and move north towards the oil fields. Assuming everything goes according to plan with the British intercepting and believing the message, this forces them to divert manpower and resources away from vital areas. Seizing the moment, with superior numbers and with our troops better equipped, supplied, and experienced, on July 1, 1940 Operazione E is put into action with the Afrika Korps and the Royal Italian Army storming through the border and invading Egypt from both Italian Libya and Sudan.Meanwhile in mainland Europe, as Italian forces in Albania prepare to cross into Greece, in order to better understand and defeat our new enemy, I advise them to order an increase on reconnaissance in order to identify potential enemy strongholds, as well as choke-points and other geographic features they could use to their advantage. Once every potential problem has been addressed and accounted for, with the Italian armies outmatching the Greeks in numbers and quality of troops, they make final preparations for their invasion of Greece. The Italians first send the Regia Aeronautica to soften up defenses and create confusion while infantry and armored divisions cross the border seizing vital areas and capturing many Greek armies. Wanting our forces to share this victory, I send several infantry and panzer divisions to further strengthen the offensive in Greece. With German aid, Athens falls in just two weeks and we invade and occupy strategic Greek islands such as Crete while installing a new pro-Axis government called the Hellenic State. Soon after, we launch a subsequent invasion of Yugoslavia as we learn that the British have begun funding an anti-Axis coup.Back in North Africa, news from the North African Campaign is excellent, Italian East African armies are following the Nile River and racing towards Cairo from the south. Meanwhile from the west, the increased amount of supplies and better support from the Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica allow Axis forces to break through British defenses and spread in Egypt capturing El Alamein and Alexandria in quick succession. The Egyptian population welcomes the Italo-Germans as liberators and enters in revolt against the British, the Allied forces begin to withdraw disorderly behind the Suez Canal and by July 18th, Generalfeldmarschall Rommel has taken Cairo. The British manage to organize a defensive line along the Suez Canal. Not wanting to waste any time which could award Britain with new allies or tactics, I order German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop while the Fascist government orders Italian Foreign Minister and Il Duce’s son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano to make contact with the Arab governments hostile to the British in view of an attack over the Sinai.Following the liberation of Cairo, a pro-Axis government is installed in Egypt. In cooperation with the Fascist government, I instruct the German Foreign Ministry to send peace proposals to Britain in hopes of reaching a diplomatic solution and a cessation to hostilities. After being informed about the loss of North Africa and the Suez Canal, Prime Minister Churchill describes the event as “The worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history.” The news sends shockwaves throughout the British government and military who seek to cover it up. Even though some British officials consider suing for peace, despite everything, Prime Minister Churchill rejects any/all calls for peace and vows to continue the war while continuing to pressure the United States to enter the war.With the Suez Canal in Axis hands, we’ve effectively split the British Empire in two with British troops and supplies being forced to travel around the Cape of Good Hope which takes much longer to reach the British Isles, this also renders any British attempt to reinforce the Middle East extremely difficult if not impossible. While our forces take time to consolidate their holdings, we continue launching bombing raids on British positions in the Middle East. Meanwhile in Europe, I meet with the Italian government to discuss the possibility of capturing the last British stronghold in the Mediterranean, the strait of Gibraltar in hopes of using the Regia Marina in the Atlantic. Simultaneously, we send Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop and Count Ciano to Turkey in order to convince them to join the war on the side of the Axis. While we await a response from the Turkish government, I request a meeting with Il Duce in which I ask for him to accompany me to meet with Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain as we both know the Spanish Caudillo personally and would maximize our chances of victory in the Mediterranean.Shortly after, Il Duce and I meet with Generalissimo Franco in Hendaye, France, demanding the passage of their troops through Spanish territory. The Spanish Dictator is forced to accept and promises Spanish aid to the Axis. With the Spanish State now on board, a coordinated attack plan is drafted code-named: Operation Felix. Several Axis divisions march through Spain and take ready positions. On August 24, 1940 Operation Felix is put into effect, as many as 32 well-equipped divisions from the German Wehrmacht and Royal Italian Army smash through British defenses and advance south. Coordinated attacks by the Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica from the air along with the Kriegsmarine and Regia Marina from both sides of the sea allow for easier advances from the north with German Fallschirmjäger spreading more confusion and chaos within enemy lines. After a tremendous battle that lasts several days with serious casualties on both sides, the strait of Gibraltar finally falls and the banners of National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy are raised together above the fortresses of the city. With Gibraltar under Axis control, the Regia Marina is deployed into the Atlantic Ocean in order to further harass British convoys coming from South Africa alongside German U-Boats. The fall of Gibraltar also marks the end of British power in the Mediterranean and signals the coming of a new era of Italian dominance and helps fulfill Il Duce’s dream of recreating Mare Nostrum.With the Mediterranean Sea under Axis control, and despite earlier rejections, we continue sending peace proposals to Britain calling to end the war now before any more military or civilian blood is spilled. Again Churchill refuses, announcing on radio to the British people: “No matter how long it takes, no matter how much we suffer, we will fight to the very last Briton!” The news of the Axis conquest of the Mediterranean reaches America alerting the U.S. government. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt orders an increase of Lend-Lease to Britain and goes as far as lending more American naval vessels to Britain in hopes of keeping them in the fight. President Roosevelt without a doubt wishes to enter the war but knows that 76% of the American people support neutrality and a Declaration of War would be met with serious backlash from the public, particularly from the America First Committee led by American aviator Charles Lindbergh.Understanding that Churchill will not accept any form of peace and worrying about the possibility of American involvement, we are once again forced to go on the offensive. While the Battle of Britain rages on with the Luftwaffe and the Corpo Aereo Italiano engaging the Royal Air Force in spectacular dogfights in preparation for Operation Sealion, we prepare plans for another offensive, this time to push the British out of the entire Eurasian continent permanently. On September 15, 1940 Operation Arab Freedom the invasion of the Middle East is launched with the intent of capturing the British oil fields while liberating the Arab peoples in the process. Preceded by an intense artillery fire, Axis troops break through incomplete British defenses in the Sinai and enter Palestine. Soon after, we receive word that Turkey agrees to join the war in exchange for our assurances that Turkish sovereignty will be maintained and that Turkey be granted equal status following an Axis victory. A pro-Axis revolt in Iraq pushes the British out of Baghdad. The revolt in Iraq and the unexpected move of Turkey makes the British position in the Middle East unsustainable, the British quickly withdraw from the area to at least try to keep the southern Arabian Peninsula while the oilfields are reached within a matter of weeks. Throughout the Middle East, the Italo-Germans are greeted by the native populations as liberators with some even volunteering to join our heroic struggle. Seizing the opportunity, I allow the Arab populations to enlist into the military believing that if trained well they could offer limitless potential. Upon arrival to the oilfields, we discover that many of them are either heavily damaged or destroyed. Not wanting to have our oil supplies jeopardized, Axis engineers work tirelessly day and night to get the oilfields back online and continue production. With Britain’s oversea assets in shambles and her lifelines cut, Britain’s days are numbered.By early-1941, with attrition being heavily felt and after the military disasters of 1940, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has no choice but to ask for an armistice with National Socialist Germany and the Kingdom of Italy. After a humiliating peace treaty, Winston Churchill resigns in disgrace, after a vote-of-no-confidence succeeds. Edward Wood, Lord Halifax, becomes the new Prime Minister of Great Britain and Peace is restored in Western Europe. With the war in the West finally over, both the National Socialist and Fascist governments are now able to fully concentrate on the battle we believe will eventually determine the final outcome of this war. Maintaining close contact with the Italians, we take the next few months to rebuild our war torn lands and build up strength for what will be our greatest challenge.After issuing Führer Directive No. 21 on December 18th, 1940 I immediately order the German government to make contact with the Japanese Empire. Once contact is made and a conference is scheduled in Berlin on February 21, 1941 I meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka, informing him that Imperial High Command will need to make plans to aid us in our preemptive strike against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.Upon returning to Japan and informing the Imperial government of our intentions, all members of the Imperial High Command are shocked. The Imperial Japanese government responds by stating that the Japanese Empire would be destroyed if they attacked Russia now as they’re not fully prepared for such a plan. A recent oil embargo from the United States has put a strain on their resources and their war effort against the Republic of China, a clear act of war by America. Understanding this, I explain that in order for our nations and the world as a whole to survive, we will need to make plans for a coordinated attack. Warning them that if Germany falls, Japan will be the Soviet Union’s next target. Convincing them that the U.S.S.R. is far more dangerous than the United States, promising to help them with America later on. Understanding the danger of the U.S.S.R. Imperial High Command reluctantly agrees for a coordinated attack. In order to properly carry out an invasion, we increase reconnaissance missions over Soviet territory. By carefully studying aerial photographs and maps, we identify potential targets, hazards, and exchange vital information and equipment in exchange for goods and raw materials. The benefits are great: new airplane blueprints, radar detectors and Enigma coding machines. These advanced technologies will help us counter the industrial capacity of the Soviet Union.I along with many German generals feverishly draft plans for the invasion of the Soviet Union codenamed: Operation Barbarossa. Every detail must be anticipated, a slip now might wreck the whole timetable of the operation and our chances of a swift crushing victory. The plan calls for four simultaneous thrusts: Army Group North commanded by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm von Leeb, is to overrun the Baltics states and seize Leningrad, Army Group Centre commanded by GeneralfeldmarschallFedor von Bock, is to advance to Moscow, Army Group South led by Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt, is to liberate and occupy the Ukraine, and Army Groups A & B will overrun the Caucasus and seize Stalingrad. Three months of final preparation go into these plans, three months to determine the history of 1,000 years.May 15, 1941 at 3:15a.m. German artillery battalions open fire upon Soviet positions all along the front, catching Soviet armies’ off-guard. Bewildered Soviet troops scramble to man their defenses but are soon either captured or destroyed by heavy German artillery bombardments. At dawn, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, from Eastern Europe to the Caucasus, thousands of Messerschmitt Bf-109s, Bf-110s, and Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighters along with thousands of Heinkel He-111s, Dornier Do-17s & Junkers Ju-87 Stuka bombers soar across Soviet territory attacking strategic areas such as fortifications, military barracks and airfields. Simultaneously, as many as four German Army Groups along with millions of volunteers from Europe and around the globe all joining our fight against the Bolshevik menace, cross the border into the Soviet Union, quickly overwhelming entire Soviet armies. The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact is officially over, Operation Barbarossa has begun.That same day in the Far-East at 4:00a.m. From the waters of the Sea of Japan, the Imperial Japanese Navy from their aircraft carriers and battleships open fire and begin bombarding Soviet coastal cities such as Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, and Yakutsk and launch their Special Naval Landing Forces to capture vital ports and establish beachheads. The Soviet Far-Eastern armies are caught completely off-guard as they were expecting the Japanese focus their attention on the United States, even still the Soviets scramble to man their heavy coastal guns and open fire upon Japanese ships. From the Japanese aircraft carriers, hundreds of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters along with hordes of Mitsubishi Ki-51 & Ki-21s as well as Kawasaki Ki-48s & Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu bombers soar across the Far-East attacking strategic railways, airfields, industrial centers, and military installations. At dawn, three Imperial Japanese Army Groups led by the mighty Kwantung Army, cross into communist territory from Manchukuo and Mengjiang. Japanese mechanized divisions are able to quickly overrun and inflict heavy casualties on the Red Army, the Japanese offensive drives towards the west in an attempt to reach Lake Baikal beginning their own invasion codenamed: Operation Kantokuen.Brutal battles rage all across the European and Far-Eastern theatres, the Luftwaffe/IJA Air Forces engage the Red Air Force in spectacular dogfights in an attempt to establish air supremacy. Throughout the course of a few days to weeks, the German armies thrust deep into Soviet territory. Ill coordinated Soviet counterattacks are swiftly brushed aside resulting in the capture of tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers. By May 22th, seven days after the start of the assault, two panzer thrusts meet up near Minsk, surrounding huge pockets of Soviet troops. As the follow-up infantry arrive, more than 300,000 prisoners are taken into captivity.The deeper we advance into the Soviet Union, we often find ourselves being welcomed as liberators particularly in the Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Baltic states where anti-Soviet feelings are widespread. Meanwhile in Moscow, Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin is informed about the Axis invasion from both East and West. Upon hearing the news, he falls into a state of shock and disbelief almost suffering a near breakdown as the day he has feared for so long has finally arrived, he remains silent for more than a week. Red Army High Command (STAVKA) is now caught in a conundrum: Fight a two-front war and risk losing more ground, or concentrate the majority of the Red Army on fending off one enemy first. Not until June 1st, does Stalin appeal to his people’s patriotism in an effort to save the Motherland. Shaken but determined, Stalin orders his generals to concentrate the majority of their forces on the Germans and divert a large portion of the Red Army to the Caucasus to halt the German-Turkish forces from seizing the vital Soviet oilfields and a smaller force to the Far-East to halt and push back the Japanese.As May turns to June, the German Blitzkrieg slashes deeper into Soviet territory. It’s beginning to look as if nothing can stop us as more battles are being won and more prisoners are being taken. In mid-June following the capture of Minsk, several panzer commanders in particular Generaloberst Heinz Guderian beg to be allowed to race on, Operation Barbarossa is working like clockwork. Within a week, panzers reach the city of Smolensk, deep inside Russia and only a couple hundred miles from Moscow. On June 15th, a panzer pincer movement meets to the east of Smolensk trapping another 310,000 Soviet troops. After which, there is a brief pause to allow the rest of the army to catch up. Though our tanks can move at spectacular speeds, most of the army still has to walk or rely on horse drawn transport. But it still only takes them five days before they arrive and begin mopping up, the operation is completed in just nine more days. Vast columns of Soviet prisoners begin trudging west to captivity.With all the captured enemy soldiers, many German officials wonder exactly what we’ll do with all of them. While most believe and agree that they should all be used for compulsory labor to strengthen the German war machine, others like myself disagree and offer an alternative solution. Looking to use their numbers and familiarity of the lands to our advantage, I order all Axis forces to attempt to convince captured soldiers that their leader Joseph Stalin is simply using them as mere pawns, explaining to them that the Bolsheviks never aimed at serving the interests of Russia or any other country. Communism does not limit itself to acquire chunks of territories, but aims at total world domination. Explaining that Stalin has been using all of them as cannon fodder only for his regime to survive, we even go as far as displaying all the horrors Stalin had committed in the name of Communism to the Soviet people. Eventually the people realize what they have gotten themselves into and begin siding with us, with many people of various ethnic backgrounds asking to be allowed to form their own Wehrmacht/Waffen-SS regiments. Seizing the moment, I instruct the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS to re-arm captured soldiers and if necessary train them, creating new Russian, Armenian, Ukrainian and numerous other anti-Communist armies while civilians serve as compulsory labor in factories or serve as medics or in other professions. As time passes, more and more Russian soldiers and citizens rally to our cause while similar instructions are advised to the Japanese for the Far-East.With the fall of Smolensk, Moscow is now only 200 miles away, and the road lay open. With our previous successes, it seems certain it will fall by the end of the summer, as planned. But elsewhere, the German advance is finding the going more difficult. The Red Army is counterattacking more effectively and my late-June, the German-Turkish offensive in the Caucasus has been bogged down. Meanwhile to its north, Army Group South is still more than 50 miles from Kiev. On a visit to the front, I’m informed about our current situation by my general staff.“Mein Führer, at the conclusion of the Battle of Smolensk in the end of June 1941, Army Group Center will have destroyed the bulk of the Soviet forces between it and the vital railway and industrial hub of Moscow, which along with the pummeling of the Soviet Southern Front earlier on, renders the Soviets incapable of stopping an Unternehmen Taifun launched no later than the end of July, the success of which would allow a southern turn and the seizure of Kiev before the end of the campaigning season.”With this vital piece of information, I make the connection, seize Moscow and crush another significant portion of the Red Army, and then turn south and crush Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Budyonny at Kiev. By next spring, we can open up with a new offensive, against an enemy that still possesses very fragile supply lines, with very little or no rail connection between the north and southern halves of the country. Knowing the risks but not wanting to jeopardize the operation, I allow Army Group Centre to advance towards the capital but insist that they at least wait until supplies catch up. With the my blessings, Generalfeldmarschall von Bock orders all German/Axis forces to push forward towards their objectives as fast as possible. Knowing full-well that everything produced in Russia first passes through Moscow via transport lines, if we turn south now and allow the Soviets to regroup, our offensive would be in serious danger of failure. But if we were to capture the Soviet capital, we will effectively cut-off Soviet transport and supply lines.Yet the closer our forces get to the capital, there are already worrying signs that the Red Army is not going to be the pushover many of us have been expecting. Soviet manpower seems endless, and recent reports show that more than 16 million troops have been mobilized ¾ of which are facing us, and the Red Army now has some formidable new weapons. In particular a new tank, the 37 ton T-34 which is faster and better cross-country than the PzKpfw IV. Yet for many as the blitzkrieg continues, it is easy to miss the warning signs. Soon after, we receive reports that Army Groups A & B in the Caucasus have been reinforced by the battle-hardened Africa Korps, Italian divisions, and thousands of volunteers from Africa and the Middle East.With superior numbers combined with clever tactics and strategies of Generalfeldmarschall Rommel, Axis forces are able to break through Soviet defenses and reach the oilfields of Baku. Upon arrival, they discover that most of the oil wells have been disabled or destroyed, but like in the Middle East, German engineers begin working to repair or rebuild the oil wells while the rest of the army pushes north towards Stalingrad. The loss of the oilfields is a serious blow to Soviet industrial power, as Soviet oil production falls to 12% of the 1939 production level (from 32,168,000 tons to 3,901,000 tons). By June 25th, Army Group North surrounds the city of Leningrad, immediately cutting it off from the rest of the Soviet Union. The city is besieged, despite the temptation, I decide not to storm the city and instead instruct the German troops to settle down and starve it into surrender. Conditions in the city become dire, the only link to the rest of the Soviet Union is across Lake Ladoga to the east, but only a small amount of food can come in by water.Meanwhile, Army Group Centre now prepares for the final assault on Moscow. Generaloberst Guderian’s panzers now repaired, refueled and rearmed, lead the armored blitzkrieg. German forces have a 2:1 superiority in tanks and men at the front and 3:1 in aircraft. The assault starts on July 1, 1941. Once again GeneraloberstGuderian’s panzers slash deep through the Red Army. By the 8th, yet more Soviet troops are surrounded, but Stalin is determined to defend Moscow to the last, he appoints General Georgy Zhukov to organize the defense of the city. The people of Moscow are mobilized to dig a series of defensive lines.In the Far-East, after a series of costly battles, Imperial Japanese forces break through Soviet lines reaching Lake Baikal and successfully occupy the whole of Mongolia. This is made possible with the aid of collaborative Russian and Mongolian citizens who’ve become disillusioned by Communism, as well as many Soviet divisions having been diverted westward to counter our advances. Although Japanese generals wish to continue the offensive, shortages on vital supplies in particular oil, causes further major assaults to be delayed or cancelled. Instead, the Japanese dig-in and set up defensive positions.By July 12th, I launch Operation Typhoon, the final drive along the route to Moscow. 14 German tank and 74 infantry divisions a total of 1,929,406 officers and men, take part in the offensive. Stalin has good cause for panic now, facing a disaster which might sweep away the whole Soviet Union, he has one last hope that the weather will save them. By mid-July, lack of paved roads and increasingly stubborn Soviet resistance, leads to Army group Centre still being some 50 miles short of Moscow. Angered by these delays, I order the Luftwaffe to bomb and strafe any/all Soviet positions around Moscow and for the panzers to charge forward clearing the way for our infantry. At around the same time, Army Group South reaches the Black Sea trapping yet more Soviet soldiers, another 100,000 prisoners are taken. And by July 15th, the city of Kharkov is captured meanwhile, our Caucasian troops capture the port city of Astrakhan at the mouth of the river Volga, Stalingrad follows soon after. On the Moscow Front, Army Group Centre now begins its final push to capture the Soviet capital.By July 16th, the leading units are just 19 miles from Red Square, some reconnaissance patrols claim they can see the golden domes of the Kremlin glinting in the distance. The generals and I realize we must act swiftly before Russia’s infamous Rasputitsa, severely hampers our offensive. To soften up defenses, I order German artillery to open fire upon Soviet positions, the first German shells strike at or around red Square, while the Luftwaffe engages the remnants of the Red Air Force over Moscow. With our morale at its peak and with a determined battle cry, German panzers lead a massive charge towards Red Square, racing forward at full speed while German infantry units follow closely behind, engaging the cities defenders in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Soviets attempt several well-prepared counterattacks and while some are successful, they’re simply outgunned and are eventually pushed back. More prisoners are taken, however, we notice that unlike before, these prisoners are younger than most and are members of the People’s Militia. Many are as young as the age of 17, a sign that the Soviets are getting desperate and are willing to use anything and anyone to defend their capital. Another thing we notice is that there are far less tanks and aircraft than we expected, a sign that our recent capture of Soviet oilfields is taking its toll. After three days of hard fighting, our forces finally break through the last of their defensive lines and by July 20th, German armies reach the outer workings of Moscow. Now it is street fighting, building by building. Everyone a natural redoubt for desperate defenders. Casualties mount, resistance stiffens, but the German armies cannot be halted now. Within hours, German attacks force the remaining resistance to retreat further into the city. German forces follow, and soon stumble upon a well-fortified capital. The Soviets spared no expense in setting up defenses. Determined to end this war here and now, I deliver a short speech to the soldiers at the front, calling for every German/Axis soldier, to fight like they’ve never fought before for the Fatherland.Later as Axis forces converge on the center of Moscow, the fighting embraces everything and everyone in the battlefield. Military and civilian casualties continue to rise while the Luftwaffe pounds the city to rubble. Eventually, no longer able to bear such losses, several Soviet officers and generals within the city, either surrender or commit suicide unable to bear the idea of a German victory, while others continue to fight valiantly alongside their soldiers.After three days of intense battle, the last desperate resistance in Moscow collapses. German PzKpfw IV tanks roar into Red Square and turn on the Kremlin, providing cover fire for Elite European Waffen-SS divisions who assault the Kremlin with flame throwers and frag grenades. The desperate defenders hold out for one heroic hour in savage hand-to-hand fighting, entering room after room and clearing them of Red Army soldiers, the battles are decided with submachine guns, grenades and even knives. Breaking out into the shell torn roof, German troops raise the Hakenkreuz banner over the Kremlin. German soldiers break out in a thunderous cheer and some give the Roman salute which is captured on film by Axis war correspondents - invaluable propaganda. Fighting continues in several isolated pockets. General Georgy Zhukov is killed in one of the last pockets of resistance. Joseph Stalin is soon found hiding within his secret bunker in a state of depression attempting to commit suicide. Through quick action, he is quickly apprehended and transported to the remains of the captured Kremlin by the triumphant Gestapo. With his country in ruins and no effective way of continuing the war, Joseph Stalin is left with no other alternative and surrenders unconditionally to the Axis Powers on August 1, 1941 along with the remnants of the Soviet government in Kuybyshev.Following the fall of Moscow, as planned, Army Group Centre turns south towards Kiev. Within two days upon arrival, Generalfeldmarschall von Rundstedt with the assistance of Erich von Manstein successfully draw Kiev’s defenders out into the open where they are decimated. Two more soviet armies are utterly destroyed, more than 600,000 men are killed or captured with Kiev being taken on August 10, 1941.Upon hearing of the Soviet Union’s surrender, I hold a massive rally in the Kroll Opera House (temporary Reichstag), where I makes a jubilant speech which is broadcast on radios throughout Europe and around the world where I announce the fall of Moscow and rejoice in the immense defeat of the Soviet Union. Predicting that the whole rotten Bolshevik house of cards will come tumbling down. My speech ends with a solemn "Gott ist mit uns - Amen." The crowd replies with enthusiastic "Sieg Heil" for fifteen minutes.With the whole of continental Europe liberated, the victorious German/Axis armies return to Germany to a hero’s welcome and with a new sense of pride and honor the likes of which the world has never seen before. With the Axis Powers victorious, and following the Declaration of a new United Europe, I have fulfilled my promise of victory for Germany and have succeeded in creating a Greater German Reich. In the years following the war, I continue to lead the United Europe and post-war world into a new era. An era of order, peace, and prosperity that will last for 1,000 years, if not forever.

COST, INTERMITTENCY AND SEVERE WEATHER. Wind and solar power are the most expensive power because they must double up with fossil fuels lack of storage and to cover up intermittency so the lights can stay on. The public are fooled by the deceit of the industry that ignores the reality although Michael Moore figured it out. What has happened across the Northern Hemisphere this February with the massive winter snowstorm has exposed the frail reality of these old fashioned technologies.Coal Rescues Germany from Its Renewable FollyBY IERFEBRUARY 17, 2021Germany’s millions of solar panels are blanketed in snow and ice and its 30,000 wind turbines are doing nothing as the freezing weather has no wind resource to keep the turbines operating. Instead, the solar and wind units are drawing power from the grid powered mainly by coal to keep their internal workings from freezing up. Despite Germany being the poster child of Europe’s renewable future, the country’s Energiewende—transition to wind and solar power—is not working. The Germans have found that dependable, dispatchable coal can work in any weather and is the savior during these cold months. The plan is that Germany will have to rely more on natural gas from Russia, coal power from Poland and nuclear power from France, importing power along huge cables, instead of building a huge fleet of batteries to back up its intermittent renewable power.However, for this unreliability of wind and solar power during this year’s snowy and icy winter, German consumers paid $38 billion ($30.9 billion euros) in subsidies for its renewable energy growth in 2020, despite the financial needs of other sectors of its economy afflicted by the coronavirus pandemic. The renewable energy subsidy is paid directly by consumers in their electricity bills, helping make German residential retail power costs the highest across the European continent and 3 times higher than those of the United States. Americans need only triple their utility bills to get a sense of the burden Germany’s system places on its citizens. The U.S. economy is about 5 times the size of Germany’s, to compare relative expenditures for similar practices. The subsidy only raised renewable energy’s share of Germany’s electricity mix by 3 percentage points—from 43 percent in 2019 to 46 percent last year.Source: BloombergOver the next two years, the German government plans to take a third off the costs that consumers pay by using some of the nation’s budget to share the burden. The costs of the subsidy, known as Renewable Energy Law aid, are expected to peak in 2022-2023 before stabilizing. Germany switched to auctions to expand wind and solar capacity in 2017, abandoning the system of guaranteed feed-in tariffs for all new renewable projects to reduce the increasing expense burden.Joe Biden needs to use caution on his plans for a 100 percent carbon free electricity sector by 2035 and his carbon free U.S. energy sector by 2050 as Germany—the first country to take on the 100 percent carbon free electricity future in Europe—is failing in its ability to keep the lights on using solely carbon free power. Solar and wind power achieve less than half of the energy carbon sources achieve, despite massive subsidies.Europe’s Power Grid Avoids BlackoutExtremely cold weather caused power demand to surge across Western Europe on January 8 and the continent’s electricity network came close to a massive blackout. Europe’s grid, which is usually connected from Lisbon to Istanbul, split into two as the northwest and southeast regions struggled to keep the same frequency. The problem originated in Croatia due to a fault at a substation that caused overloading on other parts of Croatia’s grid. It led to the equivalent of 200,000 households losing power across Europe. Supply to industrial sites was cut in France and Italy.Source: BloombergAs Europe replaces large coal and nuclear stations with thousands of smaller wind and solar units and as sectors electrify via intermittent sources due to policy edicts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the possibility of blackouts is likely to become more frequent.Large amounts of intermittent electricity create huge swings in supply, which the grid has to be able to handle. European transmission grids need to stay at a frequency of 50 hertz to operate smoothly and any deviations can damage equipment that is connected. The frequency swings on January 8 were reduced within minutes, avoiding damage across the entire European high voltage network, which potentially could have caused blackouts for millions.Europe has not had a major blackout since 2006 when over 15 million households were out of power for hours. In 2019, there was another narrow escape when the frequency dropped dangerously low. Europe’s grid operators have put in automatic responses like splitting the network and triggering standby generation or demand reduction. Spinning turbines of thermal plants connected to the grid create kinetic energy called inertia which helps keep the network at the right frequency. The spinning cannot be created by wind turbines or solar panels.The European near-blackout shows that problems in one nation can rapidly cascade as states become more reliant on their neighbors for power. Continental Europe was separated into two areas due to outages of several transmission network elements in a very short time. Longer, harder to fix disturbances that rip across countries are a real threat.Europe is Not AloneIn Australia, wind power was blamed for a blackout in 2016 that cut supply to 850,000 homes. Australia was the first country to install a 100-megawatt mega battery in 2017, hoping that high-cost battery storage could be the solution.In California, where about a third of its generation is from renewables, record-breaking temperatures caused rolling blackouts as the state’s electricity supplies could not keep up with demand, particularly when solar plants stopped generating for the day and were 33-percent less effective due to the smoke from the state’s wildfires. Like Australia, California utilities are looking to large batteries to help solve the problem of intermittent electricity from wind and solar power, though the state also imports a large amount of power from neighboring states that were also having record-breaking temperatures this past summer and thus, not able to help with California’s energy demandConclusionCountries and states with a great deal of intermittent electricity from wind and solar power are having problems keeping the lights on when the weather does not cooperate. Germany had to turn to coal this past winter when freezing temperatures made its solar and wind units inoperable and it plans to import from neighboring countries to back-up its renewable electricity in the future, as its continues to retire its coal plants. Australia’s answer to its 2016 blackout caused by lack of wind power is to obtain high-cost batteries to store excess energy when the wind does not blow. California, which already imports electricity from neighboring states, got hit by record breaking temperatures and had to use rolling blackouts when the country’s solar and wind units could not meet demand. The state is also planning on using high-cost batteries to store its excess power for later use.Joe Biden’s plans are to put the United States into the same situation as Germany, Australia, and California by his campaign promises to make the U.S. electricity sector carbon free by 2035—10 years earlier than even California has planned—and the U.S. energy sector carbon free by 2050. Americans need to be aware of the situation that other countries are facing when they turn to intermittent renewables. The record so far is not good.Coal Rescues Germany from Its Renewable FollyWhat does this mean? ANSWER wind and solar are a failure to generate much needed grid electricity around the world.10 of 10 “highest-generating U.S. power plants were” not renewables.David Middleton / 22 hours ago September 25, 2020Guest “No energy transition for you!” by David MiddletonSEPTEMBER 25, 2020In 2019, 9 of the 10 highest-generating U.S. power plants were nuclear plantsAccording to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data on power plant operations, 9 of the 10 U.S. power plants that generated the most electricity in 2019 were nuclear plants. These 10 plants generated a combined 230 million megawatthours (MWh) of electricity in 2019, accounting for 5.6% of all electricity generation in the United States. The makeup of power plants that generate the most electricity has shifted in the past 10 years from a mix of nuclear and coal plants to almost all nuclear in 2019.In 2010, the top 10 highest-generating power plants in the United States were a mix of nuclear and coal-fired generators. In 2010, coal’s share of U.S. electricity generation was 45%, compared with 23% in 2019. Decreased cost-competitiveness relative to other power resources, especially natural gas, has made coal less economical for electricity generation. Coal plants are also run at lower levels because of tighter air emission standards, which is the primary reason coal plants fell from the top 10.The Palo Verde, Browns Ferry, and Oconee nuclear power plants have consistently been among the 10 largest generators of electricity in the United States because they are the only nuclear plants with three reactor units, which gives them more generating capacity. A plant’s refueling and maintenance schedules may also affect annual electric power generation capacity. For example, Comanche Peak was one of the top 10 highest-generating power plants in 2010 but was not one in 2019 because scheduled refueling and maintenance reduced plant availability in 2019.Electric power plants that have relatively large electricity generating capacities generally also operate at high capacity factors, or utilization rates. The capacity (the maximum amount of electricity a power plant can produce) of the top 10 highest-generating power plants in 2019 ranged from 2,300 megawatts (MW) (Byron) to 3,937 MW (Palo Verde). Although these plants have a lower nameplate capacity than the Grand Coulee hydroelectric facility (6,809 MW of capacity) in Washington, they generate more electric power each year. Grand Coulee operated at a lower utilization rate and generated 16.6 million MWh of electricity in 2019.Nuclear power plants have the highest capacity factor of any energy source in the United States, at 94% fleet-wide in 2019, because nuclear plants generally operate around-the-clock until they are taken offline for maintenance or refueling. Capacity factors for the nine nuclear plants in the top 10 range from 89% (Browns Ferry) to 99% (Byron and Peach Bottom). Natural gas combined-cycle units have the second-highest capacity factor in the United States, at 57% fleet-wide in 2019. The natural gas plant that was among the top 10 highest-generating power plants in 2019, West County Energy Center, operated at a capacity factor of 65%, slightly higher than the fleet-wide capacity factor.Almost all of the U.S. power plants that generated the most electricity in 2019 were in the eastern half of the country, and they tended to be close to areas with high electricity demand such as major cities or industrial production centers.More information about the fleet of power plants in the United States is available in the latest Annual Electric Generator Report, released on September 15, 2020.Principal contributor: Paul McArdleTags: nuclear, power plants, electricity, generationUS EIANatural gas combined cycle power plants can actually deliver 85% or better capacity factors, but generally aren’t operated 24/7 at full capacity.Over the same time period, renewables generation doubled in the US, due to “massive” solar and wind capacity additions. Despite this and the lack of nuclear power capacity additions…Top Ten Power Plants 2008Figure 1. 6 Nuclear generating stations and 4 coal-fired power plants.Top Ten Power Plants 2018Figure 2. 9 Nuclear generating stations and 1 natural gas-fired power plant.To paraphrase The Soup Nazi from Seinfeld:No Energy Transition for You!Figure 3. Can you spot wind and solar on this chart?Figure 3. Too fracking funny! US EIA10 of 10 “highest-generating U.S. power plants were” not renewables.Advancing subsidies for renewables is a deadly mistake when they cause heat poverty and brown outs that threaten hospital safety.Adelaide Hills pharmacist Kirrily Chambers forced to throw out medicine from the fridge after a blackout. Picture: Kelly Barnes/The AustralianWind and solar fail to replace fossil fuels and when added to the grid increase the cost causing fatalities from heat poverty. Also there is no grave problem of climate change because it is natural. The term climate change does not mean human caused global warming as words matter. Renewables are irrelevant to that debate because of their abysmal performance.Transition to wind and solar renewables makes electricity go up. :..people will die if this renewable energy idiocy continuesSolar and wind taking over the world We hear it all the time Only it is wrong Now: 0.8% 2040: 3.6%Wind Power: Unfolding Environmental Disaster – Entire Ecosystems CollapsingNovember 9, 2017 by stopthesethings 8 CommentsAs STT followers are well-aware, this site doesn’t mince its words: wind power is the greatest economic and environmental fraud in human history.Pull the subsidies, and this so-called ‘industry’ would disappear in a heartbeat.For the best part of 20 years, the wind cult has attempted to justify the hundreds of $billions squandered on subsidies for wind power, as being all for the greater good.Armchair environmentalists – who have never planted trees to prevent erosion on creek lines or dragged junk and gunk out of polluted waterways – claim ‘mission accomplished’, every time a new wind turbine whirls into (occasional) action.Obsequious charlatans (like Simon Holmes a Court) even encourage naïve and gullible virtue signallers into ‘investing’ in so-called community wind farms (see our post here). They never get their money back, but at least they can tell their mates at Getup! that they’ve done their bit for the environment.And yet, when the trifling amount of electricity generated by these things across the planet is compared with the grief caused to communities, neighbours and the environment itself, it’s hard for anyone gifted with our good friends, logic and reason, to make a case for wind power. Here’s why.Scientists: Expansion Of Wind Turbines ‘Likely To Lead To Extinction’ For Endangered Vulture SpeciesNo Tricks ZoneKenneth Richard5 October 2017When pondering the future of wind power and its ecological impacts, it is well worth re-considering this seminal analysis from Dr. Matt Ridley.[W]orld energy demand has been growing at about 2 per cent a year for nearly 40 years. Between 2013 and 2014, […] it grew by just under 2,000 terawatt-hours.If wind turbines were to supply all of that growth but no more, how many would need to be built each year? The answer is nearly 350,000, since a two-megawatt turbine can produce about 0.005 terawatt-hours per annum. That’s one-and-a-half times as many as have been built in the world since governments started pouring consumer funds into this so-called industry in the early 2000s.At a density of, very roughly, 50 acres per megawatt, typical for wind farms, that many turbines would require a land area half the size of the British Isles, including Ireland. Every year.If we kept this up for 50 years, we would have covered every square mile of a land area half the size of Russia with wind farms. Remember, this would be just to fulfill the new demand for energy, not to displace the vast existing supply of energy from fossil fuels, which currently supply 80 per cent of global energy needs.The profound costs to wildlife of future-planning to expand wind energy to the levels demanded by “green” advocates — just to meet the world population’s additional energy demands with 350,000 more turbines each year — has been increasingly documented by scientists.The last remaining vulture species native to southeastern Europe is “likely” faced with extinction in the next few decades due to an “eight to ten times greater” mortality rate associated with the rapid expansion of wind energy projects in the region (Vasilakis et al., 2017).Bat species can be found dwelling in a wide variety of terrestrial habitats, including deserts and along sea coasts. Each species may play a fundamental role in its local ecosystem. For example, Kuntz et al., (2011) indicate that 528 different plant species rely on bat pollination and seed dispersal for sustainability. Boyles et al., (2011) estimated that by controlling pest populations (insects), the agricultural benefits of bats may reach $22.9 billion (U.S.D.) annually in the continental U.S. alone.In addition to White Nose Syndrome, deaths connected to collisions with wind turbines are now the leading cause of multiple mortality events in bats (O’Shea et al., 2016). Roughly 25% of North American bats are now classified at risk for extinction (Hammerson et al, 2017), in large part due to the explosion of wind turbines across the landscape. If the expansion of wind turbines continues at its current pace, the hoary bat population is projected to be reduced by 90% (Frick et al., 2017) within the next 50 years. As Hein and Schirmacher (2016) conclude, the “current and presumed future level of fatality [for bat populations] is considered to be unsustainable.”Even large mammals like the already endangered Portuguese wolf (“between 200 and 400 individuals” left) has had its reproduction rates reduced by the recent addition of nearly 1,000 new turbines in their shrinking habitat range (Ferrão da Costa et al., 2017 ).So what, exactly, are we gaining in exchange for increasingly endangering critically important wildlife species? Slightly above nothing.According to the IEA, wind energy provided for 0.39% of the world’s total energy demands as of 2013.At what point may we ask: Are the benefits of wind energy worth the ecological and wildlife costs?Wind Power: Unfolding Environmental Disaster – Entire Ecosystems CollapsingLawrence Solomon: Are solar and wind finally cheaper than fossil fuels? Not a chanceVirtually every major German solar producer has gone underA wind turbine spins amidst exhaust plumes from cooling towers at a coal-fired power station in Jaenschwalde, Germany.Getty ImagesLawrence SolomonApril 27, 2018“’Spectacular’ drop in renewable energy costs leads to record global boost,” The Guardian headline reported last year. “Clean Energy Is About to Become Cheaper Than Coal,” pronounced MIT’s Technology Review. “The cost of installing solar energy is going to plummet again,” echoed Grist, the environmental journal.Other sources declare that renewables are not only getting cheaper, they have already become cheaper than conventional power. The climate-crusading DeSmogBlog reports that “Falling Costs of Renewable Power Make (B.C.’s) Site C Dam Obsolete” and that “Coal Just Became Uneconomic in Canada.” It implores us to discover “What Canada Can Learn From Germany’s Renewable Revolution,” as does Energy Post, an authoritative European journal, which described “The spectacular success of the German Energiewende (energy transition).”Virtually every major German solar producer has gone underHere’s what Canada can learn from Germany, the poster child for the global warming movement. After the German government decided to reduce subsidies to the solar industry in 2012, the industry nose-dived. By this year, virtually every major German solar producer had gone under as new capacity declined by 90 per cent and new investment by 92 per cent. Some 80,000 workers — 70 per cent of the solar workforce — lost their jobs. Solar power’s market share is shrinking and solar panels, having outlived their usefulness, are being retired without being replaced.· Wind power faces a similar fate. Germany has some 29,000 wind turbines, almost all of which have been benefitting from a 20-year subsidy program that began in 2000. Starting in 2020, when subsidies run out for some 5,700 wind turbines, thousands of them each year will lose government support, making the continued operation of most of them uneconomic based on current market prices. To make matters worse, with many of the turbines failing and becoming uneconomic to maintain, they represent an environmental liability and pose the possibility of abandonment. No funds have been set aside to dispose of the blades, which are unrecyclable, or to remove the turbines’ 3,000-tonne reinforced concrete bases, which reach depths of 20 metres, making them a hazard to the aquifers they pierce.The cost to the German economy of its transition to renewables is estimated to reach 2 to 3 trillion euros by 2050Those who hoped that Germany’s newest coalition government would provide the renewable industries with a reprieve were disappointed last week when Germany’s new economic minister indicated that there would be no turning back. All told, the cost to the German economy of its much-vaunted energy transition to renewables is estimated to reach 2 to 3 trillion euros by 2050.Germany’s experience is being replicated throughout Europe — as subsidies fall, so does investment in wind turbines and solar plants, and so do jobs in these industries.As Warren Buffett said wind farms don’t make sense without the tax creditIn the real world of business and commerce, the cost of renewables makes them unaffordable without intervention by the state. As Warren Buffet explained in 2014, “on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.”In the imagined world of politicians and environmental ideologues, renewables are not only affordable, they are inevitable. The difference in cost cited by those in the real and imagined worlds is called wishful thinking. This wishfulness is propped up through academic exercises that provide a stamp of authority on the ideologues’ beliefs.One method for proving that renewables have arrived is something called “levelized cost of electricity,” which the U.S. Energy Information Administration says is “often cited as a convenient summary measure of the overall competiveness of different generating technologies.” Environmentalists cite levelized costs as if you can take them to the bank, but they are really no more than predictions of what the costs of various technologies will be over subsequent decades. By assuming that costs of producing solar panels and wind turbines will drop and the costs of fossil fuels will rise over the 30-, 40- or 50-year lifetime of a new plant a utility must build, and describing those levelized costs as if they were current costs, studies state authoritatively that renewables have become cheaper than fossil fuels.Today’s claims that renewables are cheap and getting cheaper are familiar. They harken back to the first Earth Day in 1970, whose message of “New Energy for a New Era” was all about accelerating the transition to renewable energy worldwide. Then, as now, the belief in the viability of a renewable energy future was twinned with the conviction that fossil fuels, being finite, would inevitably become scarce and price themselves out of the market. To the ideologues’ never-ending dismay, peak oil never comes. Instead comes shale gas, shale oil, and peak renewables.Lawrence Solomon executive director of Toronto-based Energy [email protected] Grant Matkin ·In the real world of business and commerce, the cost of renewables makes them unaffordable without intervention by the state." The data supports this conclusion of Lawrence Solomon. Australia, Denmark, Germany and Italy are highest in electricity costs and wind and solar output: > 40 Euros / Kwh. US is lowest in renewables and lowest in electricity costs: 15 Euros / Kwh. In a paper for Energy Policy, Leon Hirth estimated that the economic value of wind and solar would decline significantly as they become a larger part of electricity supply.The reason? Their fundamentally unreliable nature. Both solar and wind produce too much energy when societies don’t need it, and not enough when they do.Solar and wind thus require that natural gas plants, hydro-electric dams, batteries or some other form of reliable power be ready at a moment’s notice to start churning out electricity when the wind stops blowing and the sun stops shining.And unreliability requires solar- and/or wind-heavy places like Germany, California and Denmark to pay neighboring nations or states to take their solar and wind energy when they are producing too much of it.Hirth predicted that the economic value of wind on the European grid would decline 40 percent once it becomes 30 percent of electricity while the value of solar would drop by 50 percent when it got to just 15 percent.https://climatism.blog/.../climate-activist-if-solar-and.../http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/lawrence-solomon-are-solar-and-wind-finally-cheaper-than-fossil-fuels-not-a-chanceRenewable energy’s dreadful costs and awful electricityUnreliable capacity and excessively high costs make renewable energy nothing more than a ‘green’ idealogue’s dream. Subsidies are a great waste and are being abandoned around the world so market forces will be the death nell of this nonsense.12 DECEMBER 2018 - 13:55 ANDREW KENNYWind turbines are not the way to go, says Andrew Kenny, just ask Germany.Picture: THINKSTOCKSA is stumbling towards energy disaster. On top of Eskom’s failures comes the calamitous Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2018, a plan for ruinously expensive electricity. (The IRP 2018, drawn up by the department of energy, plans SA’s electricity supply.) The IRP is mad, based not on the real world but on a fantasy world of computer models.The IRP’s “least-cost option” is in fact the most expensive option possible, which has seen electricity costs soaring wherever it has been tried. This is a combination of wind, solar and imported gas. It was drawn up by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and supported by the IRP. It is a recipe for calamity.It seems strange that SA should forsake its own huge resources of reliable energy and depend on foreign sources. Worse is its reliance on unreliable solar and wind.South Australia actually did implement something like the CSIR’s “least-cost option”. It closed coal stations, built wind turbines and some solar plants, and supplemented them with natural gas, which Australia, unlike SA, has in abundance. The result was soaring electricity prices, reaching, at one point in July 2016, the astonishing figure of A$14,000/MWh (R140/kWh). Eskom’s average selling price is R0.89/kWh. The “least-cost solution” resulted momentarily in an electricity price more than 150 times Eskom’s. It would be worse here because we don’t have much gas.The renewable energy companies and the greens seem to have captured the department of energy (quite legally, quite differently from Gupta capture)It also caused two total blackouts for South Australia. In panic it ordered the world’s biggest battery from Elon Musk. Jaws dropped when people discovered how expensive it was and how inadequate (with 0.5% of the storage capacity of our Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme).The IRP and CSIR refuse to recognise the essential cost that makes renewables so expensive. Here is the key equation: cost of renewable electricity equals price paid by the system operator plus system costs.The system costs are the costs the grid operator, Eskom in our case, has to bear to accommodate the appalling fluctuations of wind and solar power so as to meet demand at all times. The renewable companies refuse to reveal their production figures but I have graphs of total renewable production since 2013, the beginning of renewable energy independent power producers (IPPS) procurement programme. The graphs are terrible, with violent, unpredictable ups and downs.In March 2018, power output varied from 3,000MW to 47MW. To stop this dreadful electricity shutting down the whole grid, Eskom must have back-up generators ramping up and down to match the renewables; it must have machines on “spinning reserve” (running below optimum power), and extra transmission lines. These cause system costs, which can be very expensive. The renewable companies don’t pay for them; Eskom does, and passes them on the South African public.NonsenseThe system costs, ignored by the IRP and CSIR, are one of the reasons their models are nonsense. They explain an apparent paradox. Week by week we hear that the prices of solar and wind electricity are coming down; but week by week we see electricity consumers around the world paying more as solar and wind are added to the grid. Denmark, with the world’s highest fraction of wind electricity, has just about the most expensive electricity in Europe. Germany, since it adopted the absurd Energiewende (phasing out nuclear and replacing it with wind and solar) has seen electricity costs soaring.The answer lies in the green desire for conquest. Nuclear power, as you can see driving past Koeberg, works in harmony with nature. The greens don’t like that. They want to conquer and dominate natureThe renewable energy IPP procurement programme, hailed by renewable companies as a huge success, has forced on SA its most expensive electricity ever — and its worst. Eskom’s last annual report, for the year ending 31 March 2018, revealed it was forced to pay 222c/kWh for the programme’s electricity compared with its selling price of 89c/kWh. But the system costs make it even more expensive.We get an idea how much more from the one renewable technology that does provide honest electricity and covers its own system costs. This is concentrated solar power (CSP) with storage, where sunshine heats up a working fluid, which is stored in tanks and used for making electricity for short periods when required. The latest such plants charge about 500c/kWh at peak times. So the best solar technology, with an award-winning project, in perhaps the world’s best solar sites, produces electricity at more than 10 times the cost of Koeberg and about five times the cost of new nuclear.Carbon dioxide realityAfter the procurement programme proved a failure, Lynne Brown, then public enterprises minister, ordered Eskom to sign up for a further 27 renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs), each lasting 20 years. Malusi Gigaba, then finance minister, endorsed her.Nuclear reduces carbon dioxide emissions; renewables don’t. The Energiewende has turned Germany into the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in Europe, because wind and solar, being so unreliable, had to be supplemented with fossil fuels, especially coal.Two reasons drive renewables: money and ideology. Renewable energy companies make a fortune when they persuade governments to force their utilities to buy their awful electricity.But why do the green ideologues love wind and solar? Not because of free energy, which is actually very expensive. Tides, waves, solar, wind and dissolved uranium in the sea can all provide free energy but, except for the uranium, it is always very costly to convert it into usable power. (Uranium from the sea would be naturally be replenished but it is cheaper to buy it from a commercial mine.)I think the answer lies in the green desire for conquest. Nuclear power, as you can see driving past Koeberg, works in harmony with nature. The greens don’t like that. They want to conquer and dominate nature. They love the idea of thousands of gigantic wind turbines and immense solar arrays dominating the landscape like new totems of command. Wind and solar rely entirely on coercion by the state, which the greens also love (in a free market nobody would buy wind or solar grid electricity).SA NEEDS TO DIVERSIFY ENERGY SOURCES TO DELIVERSA is not taking advantage of the clear lead the country has in solar and wind resources.OPINION 2 months agoThe renewable energy companies and the greens seem to have captured the department of energy (quite legally, quite differently from Gupta capture). If they get their way, the rest of us are going to suffer.Since 1994, Eskom has been wrecked by bad management, destructive ideology and corruption. Because it didn’t build stations timeously, the existing stations have been run into the ground and are failing. Its once excellent coal supply has been crippled. There is massive over-staffing and Eskom is plunging into debt. Seasonable rains threaten another fiasco to match January 2008, which shut down our gold mines.The last thing Eskom needs now is to be burdened by useless, very expensive renewable electricity. Recently, the parliamentary portfolio committee on energy, after listening to submissions on IRP 2018, recommended that coal and nuclear should remain in our energy mix. Perhaps a ray of hope for sanity.• Kenny is a professional engineer with degrees in physics, mathematics and mechanical engineering.Let’s look at the current picture, according to the Energy Information Administration.So-called renewables comprised just over 11% of U.S. energy consumption in 2017. Of the renewable sources, hydro, geothermal, and biomass aren’t going to grow enough to achieve any of the Green New Deal’s goals.Rep.-elect Ocasio-Cortez must be counting on wind and solar to power her plan. Together they supply just 3% of total energy consumed.If we confine the discussion to power generation, wind and solar comprise just 7.6% of the 4 trillion kilowatt-hour total. (Source: What is U.S. electricity generation by energy source?)If Solar And Wind Are So Cheap, Why Are They Making Electricity So Expensive?Wind intermittency makes coal a necessary and expensive partnerMichael Shellenberger via ForbesOVER the last year, the media have published story after story after story about the declining price of solar panels and wind turbines.People who read these stories are understandably left with the impression that the more solar and wind energy we produce, the lower electricity prices will become.And yet that’s not what’s happening. In fact, it’s the opposite.Between 2009 and 2017, the price of solar panels per watt declined by 75 percentwhile the price of wind turbines per watt declined by 50 percent.And yet — during the same period — the price of electricity in places that deployed significant quantities of renewables increased dramatically.Electricity prices increased by:51 percent in Germany during its expansion of solar and wind energy from 2006 to 2016;24 percent in California during its solar energy build-out from 2011 to 2017;over 100 percent in Denmark since 1995 when it began deploying renewables (mostly wind) in earnest.What gives? If solar panels and wind turbines became so much cheaper, why did the price of electricity rise instead of decline?Electricity prices increased by 51 percent in Germany during its expansion of solar and wind energy.One hypothesis might be that while electricity from solar and wind became cheaper, other energy sources like coal, nuclear, and natural gas became more expensive, eliminating any savings, and raising the overall price of electricity.But, again, that’s not what happened.The price of natural gas declined by 72 percent in the U.S. between 2009 and 2016 due to the fracking revolution. In Europe, natural gas prices dropped by a little less than half over the same period.The price of nuclear and coal in those place during the same period was mostly flat.Electricity prices increased 24 percent in California during its solar energy build-out from 2011 to 2017.Another hypothesis might be that the closure of nuclear plants resulted in higher energy prices.Evidence for this hypothesis comes from the fact that nuclear energy leaders Illinois, France, Sweden and South Korea enjoy some of the cheapest electricity in the world.The facts are the most expensive retail electricity comes from countries with the most renewables!Bill Gates Slams Unreliable Wind & Solar: ‘Let’s Quit Jerking Around With Renewables & Batteries’February 18, 2019 by stopthesethings 21 CommentsBill says it’s time to stop jerking around with wind & solar.When the world’s richest entrepreneur says wind and solar will never work, it’s probably time to listen.Bill Gates made a fortune applying common sense to the untapped market of home computing. The meme has it that IBM’s CEO believed there was only a market for five computers in the entire world. Gates thought otherwise. Building a better system than any of his rivals and shrewdly working the marketplace, resulted in hundreds of millions hooked on PCs, Windows and Office. This is a man that knows a thing or two about systems and a lot about what it takes to satisfy the market.For almost a century, electricity generation and distribution were treated as a tightly integrated system: it was designed and built as one, and is meant to operate as designed. However, the chaotic delivery of wind and solar have all but trashed the electricity generation and delivery system, as we know it. Germany and South Australia are only the most obvious examples.During an interview at Stanford University late last year, Bill Gates attacks the idiots who believe that we’re all just a heartbeat away from an all wind and sun powered future.Gates on renewables: How would Tokyo survive a 3 day typhoon with unreliable energy?Jo Nova BlogJo Nova14 February 2019Make no mistake, Bill Gates totally believes the climate change scare story but even he can see that renewables are not the answer, it’s not about the cost, it’s the reliability.He quotes Vaclav Smil:Here’s Toyko, 2p7 million people, you have three days of a cyclone every year. It’s 23GW of electricity for three days. Tell me what battery solution is going sit there and provide that power.As Gates says: Let’s not jerk around. You’re multiple orders of magnitude — … — That’s nothing, that doesn’t solve the reliability problem.Bill GatesDuring storms, clouds cut solar panel productivity (unless hail destroys it) and wind turbines have to shut down in high winds.The whole interview was part of a presentation at Stanford late last year:Cheap renewables won’t stop global warming, says Bill GatesThe interview by Arun Majumdar, co-director of Stanford Energy’s Precourt Institute for Energy, which organized the conference, can be watched here.When financial analysts proposed rating companies on their CO2 output to drive down emissions, Gates was appalled by the idea that the climate and energy problem would be easy to solve. He asked them: “Do you guys on Wall Street have something in your desks that makes steel? Where is fertilizer, cement, plastic going to come from? Do planes fly through the sky because of some number you put in a spreadsheet?”“The idea that we have the current tools and it’s just because these utility people are evil people and if we could just beat on them and put (solar panels) on our rooftop—that is more of a block than climate denial,” Gates said. “The ‘climate is easy to solve’ group is our biggest problem.”If he only looked at the numbers in the climate science debate…Jo Nova BlogGreen New Deal? Wind Power ‘Dropped Off’ The Grid During Polar VortexAs Congress debates the Green New Deal, which calls for a massive increase in renewable energy use, new reports show wind energy “dropped off” as frigid Arctic air descended on the eastern U.S. earlier this year.“An earlier than expected drop in wind, primarily caused by cold weather cutoffs, increased risk of insufficiency for morning peak,” according to a report from the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), which oversees electricity delivery across 15 states.The wind power shortfall triggered a “maximum generation event” on the morning of Jan. 30 when temperatures plummeted, MISO reported Wednesday of its handling of the historic cold that settled over the eastern U.S. in late January.Unplanned power outages were higher than past polar vortex events, MISO reported, much of it because wind turbines automatically shut off in the cold. Coal and natural gas plants ramped up production to meet the shortfall and keep the lights on.“This what happens when the government starts mandating and subsidizing inferior energy sources,” Dan Kish, a distinguished senior fellow at the Institute for Energy Research, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.Kish, a Green New Deal opponent, said the proposal would “double down with more ‘Rainbow Stew’ sources” that “don’t work when you need them the most.”Kish isn’t alone in his concern. Energy experts for years have been exploring the feasibility of integrating more solar and wind power onto the grid. The Green New Deal brought that debate to the forefront.While the Green New Deal doesn’t explicitly ban any fuel sources, it does call for achieving “net-zero” emissions within 10 years by “dramatically expanding and upgrading renewable power sources.”The bill’s main champion, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said the Green New Deal was about “transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy,” at a press conference introducing the resolution in early February.Green New Deal supporters say wind and solar are necessary to fight global warming, but critics say increasingly relying on intermittent renewables poses a threat to grid reliability.The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a report Tuesday that detailed how “[w]ind generation dropped off … mainly caused by wind plants reaching their cold weather cutoff thresholds.”Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on MISO dataWind turbines are shut off when temperatures dip below minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit, as happened in the upper Midwest and Great Plains — an area often dubbed the “Saudi Arabia” of wind energy. On top of that, when it gets, say, minus 45 degrees Fahrenheit, there’s not much wind.EIA said that “wind accounted for an average of 5%, ranging from 5% to 15% on surrounding days” on Jan. 30, while “coal supplied about 41% of MISO’s load and natural gas supplied about 30%.”The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) did not respond to TheDCNF’s request for comment, but the group did publish a blog post in February on the polar vortex.AWEA’s research director Michael Coggin said wind energy’s performance was “strong” during this year’s polar vortex. Coggin said high voltage power lines allowed wind power from the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic to send power westward.Read more at Daily CallerJanuary 21, 2019Why 'Green' Energy Is Futile, In One LessonAustralia’s poor left powerless by soaring prices and green energyIT’S 100 years ago next month that Lenin forced communism on to Russia, sending armed thugs to storm the Winter Palace in St Petersburg.Yet even though he, Stalin, Mao and Castro then put their people in chains and kept them poor, faith in Big Government is miraculously on the rise again in Australia.See, green is the new red. Global warming is the excuse that has brought back the commissars who love ordering people how to live, even down to the things they make and the prices they charge.All big parties share the blame. Even the Turnbull Government forces us with its renewable energy targets to use more electricity from the wind and solar plants it subsidises.True, this green power is expensive, unreliable and driving cheap coal-fired power stations out of business, leaving us dangerously short of electricity for summer.But the government now has an equally crazy $30 million scheme to fix that, too: it will bribe Australians with movie tickets and $25 vouchers to turn off their electricity when they most need it — like during a heatwave, when a million air conditioners are switched on.Movie tickets are a bribe only the poor would take.That’s a bribe only the poor will take. Would Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull really turn off the switches at his Point Piper mansion for two free tickets to Hoyts?And with power prices so high, the very poor would have little real choice. Conclusion: the poor will sweat so the rich may have air con.But it was actually Greens leader Richard Di Natale who last week took out the Lenin Prize for useful idiocy.Asked on the ABC about our soaring gas prices, Di Natale suggested a solution once found in a Soviet Five Year Plan: “The simple way of dealing with the problem … is government has got to step in and regulate prices.”Same deal with electricity prices, which Greens MP Adam Bandt has urged be “capped”.“Governments absolutely need to step in,” insisted Di Natale.“They can regulate prices. We’ve got a plan … We build battery storage technology. We get more solar and wind in the system …“It’s good for prices, it’s good for jobs and most of all, it’s good for the planet.”All lies, of course. Look at South Australia: the state with the most wind power has the world’s most expensive electricity and Australia’s worst unemployment.Adelaide’s Salamon family reading by candle and torch light during South Australia’s frequent blackouts.And it’s all for nothing, because our emissions are just too tiny.As Chief Scientist Alan Finkel has admitted, even if Australia ended all emissions from cars, power stations, factories and cows, the difference to the climate would be “virtually nothing”. But the difference to the economy would be devastating.To Commissar Di Natale, it all sounds simple: just force business to charge less for the product they risked a fortune to find, extract, market and transport. But which business would risk a dollar to find more gas if they were then forced to charge prices so low that they’d lose their shirts?Already, Labor and the Greens have frightened off investment in new coal-fired power stations or even in big upgrades to existing ones, which is why we now face summer blackouts.That’s dragged even the Turnbull Government into considering whether to itself finance a new coal-fired plant, just as Lenin would have done and as Nationals MPs now demand.But Labor last Saturday proposed its own Big Government fix. In a speech in South Australia, federal leader Bill Shorten actually praised the state government for having “climate-proofed” the electricity supply.Adelaide Hills pharmacist Kirrily Chambers forced to throw out medicine from the fridge after a blackout. Picture: Kelly Barnes/The AustralianNever mind that it’s left the state with power prices so high that businesses have been driven broke.Shorten on Saturday promised South Australia relief, but not by dropping his own lunatic promise to force all Australia by 2030 to take 50 per cent of its electricity from renewable energy.No, he simply promised more subsidies — a $1 billion Australian Manufacturing Future Fund to hand out cheap business loans no bank would risk.Shorten said this new fund for manufacturers would be like the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, which hands out cheap government loans for the kind of renewable energy schemes that have helped to destroy our electricity system.The circle is complete: Labor in effect promises to subsidise business to survive the electricity crisis caused by subsidising green power, while the Liberals subsidise the poor not to use it at all. Meanwhile, we all pay. And all for nothing.Only Big Government could cause such a dog-chases-tail circus. We didn’t learn from Lenin, did we?Andrew Bolt on energy crisis: Poor will be left powerless by soaring prices and green energy | Herald SunjamesmatkinwritingsNovember 2, 2017 at 7:09 amWhat a mess we have from the political distortion of climate science. The AGW theory is “thought experiment” dubbed “meritless conjectures” by major research relying on > 100 peer reviewed references. See http://www.scirp.org/journal/Pap...The alarmists have been duped by the hidden role of chance. See –https://www.academia.edu/3363839...https://climatism.wordpress.com/...RENEWABLES AND CLIMATE POLICY ARE ON A COLLISION COURSEDate: 09/12/18Dr John Constable: GWPF Energy EditorThose advocating climate change mitigation policy have hitherto wagered everything on the success of renewable energy technologies. The steadily accumulating data on energy and emissions over the period of intense policy commitment suggests that this gamble has not been successful. Pragmatic environmentalists will be asking whether sentimental attachment to wind and solar is standing in the way of an effective emissions reduction trajectory.For almost as long as there has been a climate policy, emissions reduction has been seen as dependent on the replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy sources. Policies supporting this outcome are ubiquitous in the developed and developing world; markets have been coerced globally, with varying degrees of severity it is true, but with extraordinary force in the OECD states, and particularly in the European Union. The net result of several decades of such measures has been negligible. Consider, for example the global total primary energy mix since 1971, as recorded in the International Energy Agency datasets, the most recent discussion of which has just been published in the World Energy Outlook (2018):Figure 1: Global Total Primary Energy Supply: 1971–2015. Source: Redrawn by the author from International Energy Agency, Key World Energy Statistics 2017 and 2018. IEA Notes: 1. World includes international aviation and international marine bunkers. 2. Peat and oil shale are aggregated with coal. 3. “Other” Includes geothermal, solar, wind, tide/wave/ocean, heat and other.It is perfectly true that the proportional increase in modern renewables, the “Other” category represented by the thin red line at the top of the chart is a significant multiple of the starting base, but even this increase is disappointing given the subsidies involved, and in any case it is almost completely swamped by the increase in overall energy consumption, and that of fossil fuels in particular. Renewables in total, modern renewables plus biofuels and waste and hydro, amounted to about 13% of Total Primary Energy in 1971, and in 2016 are almost unchanged at somewhat under 14%. Thirty years of deployment, almost half of that time under increasingly strong post-Kyoto policies, has seen the proportion of renewable energy in the world’s primary energy input creep up by about one percentage point.Furthermore, what is true at a global level is also true in every national jurisdiction of importance, with the exception that in the less economically vibrant parts of the developed world, including the EU and the UK, energy consumption is actually declining, largely due the transfer of much manufacturing to other parts of the world, principally China.It should therefore come as no surprise to anybody that emissions not only continue to rise, but have recently started to increase at the highest rate for several years, a point that is revealed in the latest release of the Global Carbon Budget, 2018, and can be conveniently illustrated in the chart derived from this paper’s data and published in the coverage of the Financial Times:Figure 2: Global Emissions 1960 to 2018. Source: Financial Times, 6 December 2018, drawn from Global Carbon Budget Report 2018.These dismal facts are producing the obtuse reaction that the current renewables dependent policies are insufficiently aggressive, or, to use the accepted jargon, ambitious, and that the world must try harder. The reaction of the BBC’s Matt McGrath may be typical. He asks: “Why are governments taking so long to take action?”.But this is a misplaced question. The plain reality is that the global market coercions, and related policy pressures favouring renewables are already intense and incessant, and have been so with growing intensity for over fifteen years. Many economies, large and small, have tried very hard indeed, but the global energy markets have barely moved. Why? Because the effort is wasted; the picked winners, the renewable technologies, remain stubbornly uneconomic, with the consequence that spontaneous, uncoerced and rapid adoption remains a dream.This is what policy failure looks like. At what point do those sincerely concerned to see prompt and sustainable emissions reductions begin to wonder whether the renewables industry is a liability and an obstacle to the aim of climate change mitigation?Instead of blaming lazy governments, or the irrational consumer, now rioting in the streets of Paris in protest at climate policy impositions on transport fuels, environmentalists and campaigning analysts might spend their time more fruitfully by reviewing the wisdom of the policies that they have pressed on decision-makers. In doing so they could reflect that climate change mitigation is in certain important respects no different from other insurance policies, and must therefore pass the same tests: Is the policy providing real cover and is the premium affordable and proportional to the risk?Since the rising trend in emissions leaves no doubt that the current policies have as yet provided no real insurance, discussion of affordability becomes in a sense academic, though we can note in passing that it is also true that the emissions abatement cost of renewables is so great that it exceeds even high end estimates of Social Cost of Carbon, meaning that the policies are more harmful than the climate change they set out to mitigate. – This is not only wasted effort, it is counterproductive to human welfare.It will take time for this evidence and reasoning to change minds. Many environmentalists have a sentimental attachment to renewable energy flows in spite of their evident thermodynamic inferiority as fuels. They see them as Goop energy, pure heavenly gifts, handed down, naturally, from a benevolent sun, as opposed to the dirty and artificial earthly products of the soil that are fossil fuels and nuclear. But such feelings must be set aside in the interest of practicality. Climate campaigners must now ask themselves which they prefer, renewables or the stable and long-term reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, for it is increasingly clear that they cannot have both. The renewables industry, the vested interests of Big Green, and the widely endorsed imperative for climate change mitigation cannot co-exist for much longer. One or the other, or perhaps both, has to give way.Renewables and Climate Policy Are On A Collision Course - The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)HEAT POVERTY RESEARCH BLAMES UK SUBSIDIES FOR 50% INCREASE IN FUEL.Elaine Morrall died in a freezing home – the state is tossing away people’s livesFrances Ryan‘Elaine Morrall’s body was found at her home in Runcorn wrapped up in a coat and scarf.’ Photograph: FacebookWhen Elaine Morrall’s body was found at her home in Runcorn this month, she was wrapped up in a coat and scarf. That Elaine was only 38 and has left four children behind are heartbreaking details to a case that has rightly been shared widely on social media. But one aspect is particularly haunting: Elaine’s home was cold because, unable to pay the bills, she only turned the heating on when her children came home from school.