The National Socialist States of America

Though nominally under the leadership of Fritz Julius Kuhn, Occupied America found itself in the grip of Reinhard Heydrich. Far from an incompetent leader, Heydrich proved adept at building support among the American populace. Through minor concessions, intelligent planning, and the achievement of true economic results which served to stimulate the areas under his authority, Occupied America began to turn further and further away from the free states west of the Mississippi.

It was not unexpected. The situation in America had been bleak throughout the Depression. Under the Hoover and Garner administrations little economic headway had been gained. The national economy had contracted to between 25%-50% of its worth in 1929 with rampant unemployment and stagnated ever afterwards. Millions starved or sacrificed their pride and accepted government handouts. When Dewey was elected on the promise of turning the nation around, he instead pushed America into a war it was not ready for worsening an already bleak situation. Many Americans had expected to be crushed beneath the heel of Nazi oppression much like Poland, the Soviet Union, and other occupied territories. So it was with shock that most Americans discovered their situation improving throughout the fourties and fifties. Jobs were created, the hungry were fed, and the scars of war disappeared beneath an increasingly frenzied phase of reconstruction.

Heydrich had his reasons to push for a renewed America. It would serve as his powerbase in the years to come, a counterbalance to those states under his rivals in the Party. Economically it filled the coffers of the SS, that money used to bribe the proper officials in Heydrich's clandestine scheme to build enough support for his eventual coup in 1965 as well as to strengthen the SS for a possible showdown with the military. A second reason was Heydrich's desire to prove his administrative capabilities. Third, Heydrich attained numerous allies among the American population using it as a labor pool for his forces. Brilliant SS leaders would emerge from the occupied territories filling his ranks.

Of course negative repercussions arose from Heydrich's influence. A streak of racism would creep across Occupied America leading to the establishment of camps which were quickly filled with blacks, Poles, Jews, and others who did not slip across the Mississippi before the crackdown. These debilitating races were deemed responsible for the weakening of the American character and wiped from the face of her shores. America's cooperation in genocide served to cement a stronger bond between occupier and occupied and also to purge defeatist feelings as all that was weak was scapegoated; a sacrifice to regain a dark pride.

In 1954, Occupied America officially broke from the rump United States to form the National Socialist States of America. The United States recognized her independence under the terms that payment for occupation by German troops would end, reparation payments would likewise cease, and the border between the two nations would be demilitarized.

The National Socialist States of America would adopt the Reichmark as its currency and join the Economic Union. It would also include Canada which had also been occupied by Germany following the war. This new nation would be a powerful ally of Heydrich's in the years to come, its leadership personally chosen by the SS Reichsfuhrer to ensure his subtle control.

SOURCE: Arnold, Kevin The Dissolution of the United States