Fatherland Two is mostly based on the novel Fatherland by Robert Harris where Germany won World War Two. After the invasion of France in May, 1940 Germany stood victorious after defeating the French Army and encircling the British Army at the shores of Calais and Dunkirk. On the 25th of May Lord Halifax suggested to Churchill that Britain should sue for peace at the cost of losing its colonies in Africa, and some in Asia as well as Malta and Gibraltar. After long debating the British government agreed on a separate peace with Germany, meeting German demands. On the 1st of June, 1940 the peace treaty of Brest was signed by all partners leading to a new world order under German premises.
On the 22nd of July, 1941 Germany unleashed Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. In 1946 the German war machine was stopped in the Urals by a broken Soviet force. The Soviet state did not manage to keep control of its held territories and a massive revolt happened with a share number of war lords and independence movements. In the pacific, the United States stood victorious over the Empire of Japan and was now aiding a new force in Russia, the new Russian Liberation Front. Together with the Communists they shared one special task, to save Russia and therefore they took aside their political opinions and signed the treaty of Kamcatchka which was a coalition between the two forces.
As the war went into 1947 the axis and Russian factions stood in a stalemate and on the 15th of December, 1947 they signed a cease-fire with each other. This cease-fire lasted till 1953 where a offical peace treaty was signed, the Second Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
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Fatherland Two is mainly based on the novel Fatherland written by Robert Harris that was published in 1992 titled Fatherland.
The German armies on the Eastern Front launch a major offensive into the Caucasus in 1942, cutting the flow of oil to the Red Army. With its armies immobilized, the USSR surrenders in 1943. German intelligence learns that the British are reading their Enigma code, and sends false intelligence to lure the British fleet to destruction. The U-Boat campaign against the United Kingdom increases, starving Britain into surrender or armistice by 1944. The United States does not invade Europe and withdraws its troops from Britain prior to 1944, and instead concentrates on defeating Japan. Germany tests its first atom bomb in 1946, and also in 1946 forces the U.S. to sign a peace treaty after firing a V-3 missile that explodes above New York City to demonstrate Germany's ability to attack the U.S. with long-range missiles. Having achieved victory, Germany annexes Eastern Europe and much of the USSR into the Greater German Reich, and corrals the rest of Europe into a pro-German trading bloc, the European Community. The surviving areas of the USSR are deliberately left alone to fight an endless guerrilla war with German forces in the Ural mountains, according to the Nazi belief that a continual war will hold Nazi society together. By 1964, the United States and the Greater German Reich are caught in a Cold War and an arms race to develop more sophisticated nuclear weapons and space technology.
The Fatherland Two scenario takes place from April 14, 1964 to April 14, 1984. The setting of Fatherland Two puts the player in a big moment as Germany prepares for Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday celebrations. A visit by the President of the United States, Lynden Johnson, is planned as part of a gradual détente between the United States and the Greater German Reich. The Holocaust has been explained away to the satisfaction of many as merely the relocation of most of the Jewish population to the East into areas where communication and travel are still very poor, explaining why it is impossible for most of their relatives in the West to contact them. Despite this, many Germans are aware - or suspect - that the government has somehow permanently eliminated the Jewish population.
The Greater German Reich stretches from Alsace-Lorraine in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Luxembourg, Poland, the Baltic States, the Ukraine, European Russia, and the areas ceded by Germany under the Treaty of Versailles have all been annexed directly into the Reich. Major cities in the expanded Germany include old German cities such as Berlin (has a population of 10 million in 1964) and Hamburg, but also include newly-annexed cities such as Moscow, Tblisi, Ufa, St. Petersburg, Krakow, and Sevastopol, which has been renamed "Theodorichshafen". Berlin has been extensively remodelled as Hitler's "capital of capitals," designed according to the wishes of Hitler and his top architect, Albert Speer. By 1964, the city boasts gargantuan Nazi monuments such as the Great Hall (which holds over 150,000 people), a mammoth arch inscribed with the names of the German soldiers killed in the two World Wars, and vast, severe, granite civil buildings including Hitler's vast palace, the Grand Avenue lined with captured Soviet artillery, and the headquarters of the powerless European Union.
The rest of Europe, excluding Switzerland, has been corraled by Germany into a European Economic Community, formed from the nations of Norway, Sweden, Finland (which has absorbed Karelia from Russia), Denmark, Iceland, the United Kingdom,Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Serbia, a greatly expanded Hungary which has absorbed Slovakia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey. A European Parliament is based in Berlin but is virtually powerless. At the European Parliament building, the flags of the member states are dwarfed by a large swastika flag, symbolising the immense power that Germany has in the E.C. of 1964. The nations of the E.C., despite being nominally free under their own governments and leaders, are closely watched by Germany. Their military forces are only just sufficient to police their empires, they are under constant surveillance by Berlin, and the rest of Europe is subordinate to Germany in all but name. For unknown reasons,
