History Literature / SiegerkranzGermanysPlaceInTheSun

''[[http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?476220-Siegerkranz-Germany-s-Place-in-the-Sun Siegerkranz: Germany's Place in the Sun]]'' is an AfterActionReport of ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIronII''', chronicling an AlternateHistory Germany that manages to be both plausible and unexpected. Currently still ongoing.

* AlternateHistory

* DemocracyIsBad: What some, including Schleicher seem to think. Though given the [[TheThirties time period]] and context of inter-war Germany, it's not like you could blame them.

* EnemyMine: Schleicher's other ''modus operandi.'' He even resorts to bringing in Nazi turncoats.

* GameMod: The AAR makes use of Mod33, which moves the game's starting date to January 1933.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter

* MyCountryRightOrWrong
* NaziNobleman: Many of the leading figures, although none of them have any love for the Nazis.
* NecessaryEvil: Schleider is increasingly seen as this for the Germans, finding his actions questionable at best even while acknowledging the results. [[spoiler:Eventually, the Kaiser decides to have him killed by proxy in Spain just as he starts becoming a liability.]]
* PluckyGirl: Hanna Reattach

* ThoseWackyNazis: Effectively sidelined and suppressed.

* ForWantOfANail

It all begins in [[TheThirties 1933]], with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler ''failing'' in becoming Chancellor. Instead, a Field Marshall by the name of Kurt von Schleicher remains in control. But even as the WeimarRepublic unravels, with both the Nazis and Communists only ''part'' of the problem, he and his colleagues manage to keep it together...only reform it into a more powerful Germany.

The result is a Third Reich that is [[{{Prussia}} very]] [[RightfulKingReturns much]] [[UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany different]] from what our world would recognize. But if there is a trait similar with UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, it's a fierce determination to undo a humiliating defeat and rise back to glory...no matter the cost.

''[[http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?476220-Siegerkranz-Germany-s-Place-in-the-Sun Siegerkranz: Germany's Place in the Sun]]'' is an AfterActionReport of ''HeartsOfIron II''', chronicling an AlternateHistory Germany that manages to be both plausible and unexpected. Currently still ongoing.

* ImperialGermany: Much of the first parts of the AAR was part of a wider plan to restore it via the Constitution. [[spoiler:It worked beyond Schleicher's expectations.]]

* TheSoundOfMartialMusic: The Habsburgs are restored in Austria, at the cost of becoming an autonomous part of the Reich. Given Otto's options however, he considers it a tolerable trade-off at least.

The result is a Third Reich that is [[{{Prussia}} very]] [[RightfulKingReturns much]] [[ImperialGermany different]] from what our world would recognize. But if there is a trait similar with UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, it's a fierce determination to undo a humiliating defeat and rise back to glory...no matter the cost.

* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler: Serves as one of the villains.

* {{Prussia}}: A WorldWarII version of it.

* WeimarRepublic: The first parts of the story take place at the tail end of it.

* BlueBlood

* NecessaryEvil: Schleider is increasingly seen as this for the Germans, finding his actions questionable at best even while acknowledging the results. [[spoiler:Eventually, the Kaiser decides to have him killed by proxy in Spain just as starts becoming a liability.]]

* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler: Serves as one of the villains

The result is a Third Reich that is [[{{Prussia}} very]] [[RightfulKingReturns much]] [[ImperialGermany different]] from what our world would recognize. But if there is a trait similar with NaziGermany, it's a fierce determination to undo a humiliating defeat and rise back to glory...no matter the cost.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The Reich, while decidedly more pleasant (and arguably more liberal) than NaziGermany, is rather paternalistic with shades of sexism being brought up.

* InSpiteOfANail: There are still some similarities with NaziGermany such as the disdain over the Treaty of Versailles [[spoiler:as well as a (later) Anschluss]], though these are relatively few and far between.

It all begins in [[TheThirties 1933]], with AdolfHitler ''failing'' in becoming Chancellor. Instead, a Field Marshall by the name of Kurt von Schleicher remains in control. But even as the WeimarRepublic unravels, with both the Nazis and Communists only ''part'' of the problem, he and his colleagues manage to keep it together...only reform it into a more powerful Germany.

* AdolfHitler: Serves as one of the villains

* DeliberateValuesDissonance

* PluckyGirl: Hanna Reitsch

* MagnificentBastard / ManipulativeBastard: Schleicher's success owes much to being this. He would not hesitate to shift allegiances at the drop of a hat if it serves his goals. Although this does come back to bite him later on [[spoiler:as the Kronprinz effectively ousts him from power ''for that very reason'']].

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: A good deal of the historical characters increasingly fall under this trope due to Hitler and the Nazis never assuming total control. As a result, their reputations in-verse avoid the sort of tarnish and controversy they actually had in real life.

* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Schleider's]] death in the Spanish Civil War is this, although it's shown that it deeply pained the [[spoiler:Kaiser]] despite knowing why ItHadToBeDone.

* FalseFlagOperation: [[Schleider's]] death in the Spanish Civil War is this, although it's shown that it deeply pained the [[spoiler:Kaiser]] despite knowing why ItHadToBeDone.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: A good deal of the historical characters increasingly fall under this trope. Without Hitler and the Nazis assuming total control, their reputations avoid the sort of tarnish and controversy they actually had in real life.

* WeimarRepublic

* ThePurge: Schleicher's has the Nazi and Communist factions banned.

* MagnificentBastard / ManipulativeBastard: Schleicher's success owes much to being this. He would not hesitate to shift allegiances at the drop of a hat if it serves his goals.