![]() ![]() Balkanize Me: The Rhineland was carved from the old German Empire as a mandate controlled by the Entente after their victory in the Great War.The difference is that these events historically happened in 1923 (long before the rise of the Nazis), after which Dorten and Matthes were forced to flee to France, while in this timeline, the movement took place nine years later (after Adam Dressler seized power), and was revitalised by the French against the Valkists and communists. Allohistorical Allusion: In this timeline, Hans Adam Dorten's Wiesbaden Proclamation, in which he proclaimed the independence of the Rhenish Republic, and the simultaneous Mainz Putsch happened like they did in real life, the movement quickly fizzling out after Dorten and Matthes discovered that they had vastly overestimated their own popularity.His name is based on Anton Drexler, his likeness on Konrad Henlein, and his role on Adolf Hitler. No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Unusual for a Hearts of Iron mod, Dressler is a fictional character who was originally mentioned in Kaiserreich's original blurb about the Double-Blind What-If. ![]() Lighter and Softer: He's what would happen if Hitler was a cultural rather than ethnic nationalist, as well as being okay with some socially progressive movements.However, Konrad Henlein still exists in the Führerreich universe, and is represented in an event by a photograph of the similarly-named Anton Drexler. Celebrity Paradox: Adam Dressler uses the likeness of Sudeten Nazi Konrad Henlein as his portrait.In contrast, this Dressler focuses on cultural supremacy rather than racial supremacy, and the worst he does with minorities is deporting them. Adaptational Heroism: In Kaiserreich, the novel from which Führerreich takes inspiration depicts Dressler with the racial views of real life Nazis, even wanting to commit genocide on inferior peoples.He founded the Valkist Party and overthrew the government in 1932, making his first steps in world dominance. Many Germans disliked that, and Dressler was amongst them. Ideology: ValkismAfter the Entente victory in the Great War, Germany was restructured into the weak Weimar Republic. They can be shaped into an elite fighting force, a support unit, an internal Secret Police, or an anti-partisan force. State Sec: The Thuleschutztruppe is the Valkist Party's official paramilitary.They are also totalitarian, revanchist ultranationalists who will send thousands to their deaths to make Germany great again through military conquest, and force everyone conquered by them to adapt the superior German culture. Politically Correct Villain: The Valkists defend socially progressive ideals, including rights for women, LGBT people and non-whites.Justified, as the Valkists care more for German culture than ethnicity, while the swastika is a symbol of Indian culture, where the Aryan race supposedly originated. No Swastikas: The Valkists' symbol is the Valknut, which was believed to represent Odin and the slain warriors that ascended to Valhalla in Germanic paganism.A far-right police state that arose in Germany with the goal of uniting all Germanic peoples into one state, though its social policies are more in line with those of Fascist Italy, focusing more on a unified culture than ethnicity. No Communities Were Harmed: This version of Germany is clearly based on the Greater German Reich.However, outside of being both ultranationalist, revanchist dictatorships, the Valkists are far more socially progressive and tolerant towards minorities than the Nazis are, and have no reason to commit an atrocity akin to The Holocaust. Historical Villain Downgrade: The Valkists are a clear stand-in for the Nazis, and many real life high-level Nazis are Valkists in this timeline.Fictional Political Party: Germany is currently ruled by the Valkistische Deutsche Volkspartei (Valkist German People's Party), this timeline's counterpart to the NSDAP.The Empire: Valkist Germany is a revanchist fascist dictatorship that seeks to make Germany great again through conquest, and is the main threat to peace in Europe.Practicing a variant of National Populism called "Valkism", the Third Reich now stands in opposition to both the Soviet Union to the east and the former members of the Entente to the west to carve its name in history as a Reich that will last 1000 years. Ideology: ValkismAn ultranationalist dictatorship that arose out of a weakened Germany after their loss in the Great War. ![]()
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