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NEW TURN cutting our losses May - Aug 1935

- As Elbardy explodes into rebellion, the cracks in the HRE state finally shatter. Judging the government of Franz Ferdinand to be too incompetent, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel announces the formation of a military government based at Berlin, and German armed forces, now identifying as the Freikorps, attempt to seize control of major HRE cities.

- In the Rhineland, Freikorps attempts to usurp control of cities are met with armed resistance by citizens. Socialist politician Karl Liebknecht proclaims the formation of the Ruhr Red Army, and hastily draws up workers militias who seize control of much of the industrial Rhineland and Ruhr area.

- With this advent of chaos, the UltraNats seize their opportunity. The most prominent UltraNat group, the Thule Society lead by Heinrich Himmler, proclaim the beginning of a new Second Reich. The paramilitary forces of Himmler's Schutzstaffel take control of areas of central Germany and Bavaria.

- The remains of the Holy Roman government withdraw into held territory in the south of the country, in the Alps and in Austria. Some army groups hold onto cities in the north of the country, and the HRE maintains control of her colonies. This government is without their Kaiser however; Franz Ferdinand has been captured by the Freikorps, awaiting trial for supposed treason against his country for accepting peace with Angevin at the end of the Great War.

The Holy Roman Civil War has begun.