This is another parallelism scenario, which takes the old canard that Hitler’s empire would have collapsed after his death like Alexander’s to its logical conclusion. Many thanks to the participants of my Discord for helping give me ideas.





It is the year 2241, three hundred years after Operation Barbarossa, the invasion which secured German cultural supremacy over half the world. They said it couldn’t be done, that the Soviet empire was far too vast and powerful for tiny Germany to conquer, but it fell. With German steel, German blood, and German ingenuity, the Soviets fell to men, machines, and men made into machines. Jets, rockets, and the first atomic weapons brought down the Soviet Union, surprising the whole world.





A few years before, Britain was weakened by civil war, the German-friendly British Union of Fascists taking control while the Royal Family fled to India, and much of the government to Africa. Germany’s western flank was thus secured after the fall of France. Hitler inspired the European continent, deathly afraid of a Soviet invasion, to join him in his crusade. After the conquest of the USSR, the Germans, with their Japanese allies, invaded and conquered the weakened United States. Hitler wanted more, personally overseeing an invasion of Central Africa to root out the last remnants of the Allied powers, but it was there that he contracted malaria and died.





Hitler’s empire fell apart as soon as he died. Goering, Hitler’s designated successor, hardly inspired confidence. Conquered America broke away first, coming under the control of native American Nazis led by SS Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith. Then the SS, under Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler, walked away with the East. Rommel too left with his Afrika Korps, seizing the corpse of Hitler and placing it in a shrine in Hitlerstadt. The wars began soon afterward, although no outside power could challenge the Nazis and bring down any of the individual “reichsleiters.”





The reichsleiters’ domains gradually changed, becoming distinct nations, although Germanic culture and Nazi ideology seeped into the community. The Nazis introduced their version of Norse and Germanic paganism to the world, with Hitler as a deity or an incarnation of one, although adoption of this religion would vary from society to society. The SS, ironically, adopted Slavic culture as a matter of necessity, although the leadership continued to speak German. Gradually, reformist SS members promoted intermarriage with Slavic women, creating a hybrid “race.” In Afrika, Rommel’s descendants intermarried with one another, isolating themselves in Hitlerstadt, refusing to interact with or even learn the language of the people they ruled over.





The Americans stopped the German-mandated genocide against African-Americans, but replaced this with slavery. The pro-German ethnic laws were relaxed to gradually include Anglo-Americans, and rights would gradually be extended to all Americans of European ethnicity. In 1998, Nazi authorities declared the occupation officially over and proclaimed the United Citizens’ Federation. The Federation re-adopted the democratic system of old, although the National Socialists remained the dominant political party. The old Nazi collaborators became the seed of an aristocracy.





As the centuries wear on, the situation shifted in favor of America and the East. America would be humiliated by an invasion from neighboring Mexico, but they would be defeated. The British tried to reassert control over American-occupied Canada, which was repulsed, even though the British won battle after battle. America defeated its longtime rival, Japan, in the First, Second, and Third Pacific Wars. In the First, America seized the Japanese-established puppet state, the Pacific States of America. In the Second, America suffered greatly by a surprise Japanese invasion through Alaska, under the command of the brilliant General Hashimoto. Ultimately, Japan would be defeated, its territories restricted to the Home Islands and Korea. Although demilitarized, Japan became a commercial power, one that challenged American economic dominance. In the Third, American provocations led Japan to declare war against the Americans one final time, and the Americans responded by despoiling the entire Japanese Home Islands with nuclear weapons.





America continued to expand. During the Second Pacific War, Germania had declared war on the Americans, and the Americans succeeded in exacting retribution by defeating Germania in a series of wars that ended with the former heart of the Nazi empire fractured into a series of American puppet states. Sweden, long neutral but now claiming the legacy of Hitler, launched its own wars, nipping away at German-dominated Europe as the Americans defeated them. In the East, the SS regime gradually lost territories to the now-liberated Chinese, eventually being driven to its furthermost western territories.





The Federation’s system began to buckle as it took control of much of the “civilized world.” The old system, which had only those who served in the military able to vote, was no longer working, as American commanders used this to take influence. The influx of slaves also meant that free American labor was being outcompeted. The First Slave War led to past racial injunctions on citizenship being dropped, allowing free non-European Americans to become citizens for the first time, just so they could have enough troops to fight the rebelling slaves. Chaos reached its apex when, after putting down the revolt during the Second Slave War, General Lawrence C. Forrest marched on Washington and declared himself president, after perceiving that he had been wronged by the American political establishment for denying him the conquest of the Swedish Empire. His purges would kill many opponents of the existing order.





After his death, democracy would resume, but Pandora’s Box had already been opened. A billionaire and aspiring conqueror, General Mark Carl, would see his end at the hands of the Chinese in Manchuria. One of his rivals, General Gary Pompeo, would see more success, putting an end to the SS and integrating their last core territories into the United Citizens’ Federation. Most successful of all is General James Sallow, whose conquest of Latin America put an end to that threat once and for all. Sallow and Pompeo would eventually go to war after Sallow marched on Washington and took the Presidency for himself. This civil war would end with the defeat of Pompeo, and the retreat of his loyalists (including much of Congress) to Oceania. Sallow’s dictatorship would last until 2241, when he would be assassinated by his own guards in the Capitol.





Even after Sallow’s death, the United Citizens’ Federation is the undisputed master of the world. It controls both the Pacific and the Atlantic, its only rivals limited to swaths of Eurasia. North America has been core Federation territory, even though former Mexico had long been a thorn in the side of the Americans. South America, beset by coups, counter-coups and even a brief nuclear war between the rival Peruvians and Gran Colombians, collapsed into warlordism that it is still recovering from – if the Federation would let them.





The Federation does have a rival in the form of the Sinic Empire, the empire which conquered Ostland and replaced the SS as the ruling dynasty. The Sinics are a strange people, having been isolated from the Nazi world, and instead having adopted the bushido code and Emperor worship that their Japanese masters had once imposed on them. The Sinics have a weird, monotheistic religion, centering around the Sun-Emperor, who is believed to be the source of all authority on Earth. The Sinics have a singular emperor, although they have many client kingdoms in old China, Central Asia, and the Middle East, and they are tolerant of other faiths and ways of life.





Shielded from the rest of the world by the Himalayas and the wall they built between the mountains of Afghanistan, India is one of the few powers totally independent of the post-Nazi world order. The British Royal Family has endured, although they have become thoroughly Indianized. The British, favoring the Hindu, Indo-Aryan majority, have established them as the dominant class, and have integrated the old Indian caste system into their own empire. The so-called Angrezi Raj has technological wonders that the rest of the world marvels at, such as artificial gravity and energy shields, and it makes conquering the Angrezi all but impossible. For this reason, the Federation respects the Angrezi as a fellow Aryan empire, and an equal not to be trifled with.





State rule has largely deteriorated in the Middle East. The region is beset by nomadic groups, using devastating blitzkrieg tactics against their opponents. The Arabs, most of all, have adapted to this new way of life, not unlike the way of their ancestors.





The Americans remain infatuated with German culture; even Sallow himself spoke German with other leaders, only speaking English when addressing the commoners whose cause he championed. With much of Europe Germanized, almost all Europeans see themselves as Germans. While Germans are still enslaved and considered secondary to “proper” Americans, they are still considered wise and have the knowledge of the ancients.





Afrika largely insulated itself from American conquest by becoming its breadbasket. Through the use of the Green Sahara project, the kings and queens of Afrika have made a killing selling food to the rest of the world. Afrika is still under the absolute rule of the Rommels; the current Queen of Afrika, Lucia VII, is well-known for her beauty, and is rumored to have borne President Sallow’s child. While Sallow and other high-ranking Americans may be taken in, the people of Afrika are regarded as superstitious, worshiping Semitic gods, and racially impure. There are still lingering memories of Rommel giving safe harbor to the Old World’s Jewish populations as the Nazi world-empire fell, and while they were instructed to leave afterwards, this memory lingers on in the minds of the American people.





Much of sub-Saharan Africa was under an Anglo-French colonial regime for less than a century, before this regime collapsed. Sub-Saharan Africa remained mostly unconquered and separate from the Reich; the remnants of the German Fifth Army did seize control of Kamerun for a while, before being conquered by the Degaullians. An invasion from Arabia would bring down the Degaullian Empire, fracturing sub-Saharan Africa into a series of medium-sized empires, all vying for power.





Technology has largely stagnated since the days of the Second World War. With most efforts fed into war machines, most technological innovation has been purely military in nature. Not all of this innovation is, strictly speaking, pragmatic; that the Germanians figured out how to make a tank the size of a large house work isn’t too useful. Nobody has been to the Moon since the 1950s, and the rest of the Solar System remains untouched; the constant wars and political troubles on Earth have led the world’s powers to largely ignore the stars. Computer technology got no further than the vacuum tube era, as the Reich’s successors feared both too much dependence on machinery and widespread electronics disseminating information that could bring them down. Automation never had any appeal, as the widespread reintroduction of slavery made the development of labor-saving devices rather moot. The world is still largely reliant on coal and petroleum, used sparingly for the benefit of the elites; it is a sign of wealth to have electricity in the home. Radioactive materials are used exclusively for nuclear weapons, of which there are a nigh-uncountable amount.





With Sallow dead, those in Congress who opposed him rejoiced. However, he still had many supporters in the Federation, not the least of which is the current Vice President, Mark Tony. Attempts to make peace with him failed, and Sallow’s assassins had to flee to Europe to prevent being killed by Tony’s forces. It seems that the Federation’s civil wars will continue for the foreseeable future, unless one man can bring the entire nation to heel under his will.