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Hearts of Iron IV (2016)

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Here's a new custom compilation! This time focusing on the various possible German failstates should the United States and OFN succeed in not only winning a war against the Nazis (without sparking nuclear war), but also occupying the Reich. Each showing just how benevolent...or vindictive the victors could be.

This can mean a standard "Provisional Occupation Government/OFN Mandate" similarly to the African ones, or a much more light-handed approach that's a mix of the OTL "Marshall Plan" and how America handled Post-war Japan. Alternatively, the US could give in to vengeance against the Nazis and instigate something akin to the infamous "Morgenthau Plan", which would involve Germany being dismembered, forcefully defanged, and/or much worse. While the last is another small surprise: a remake of my earlier hypothetical Japanese occupation version ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osm99IATE4o ).

For some trivia, the images used for the OFN outcomes are taken from the US Army's Berlin Brigade parades and annual Exercise Reforger wargames from the Cold War. Meanwhile, the Japanese occupation image is taken from the OTL capture of Shanghai's foreign quarters, which also included pro-German areas. The recurring bells heard for the American events, mirroring the GO4 "German Spring" entries, are from Berlin's Freiheitsglocke ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq3mxFCRcq0 ), which is also deliberate when putting into account the worst case scenario. The audio used at the very end of the Japanese remake is from Karl Doenitz's radio address on Hitler's death and Germany's imminent surrender ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6U_5cCoZvM ). And no, I totally didn't slip in a track from Violet Evergarden where you least expect it.

In order:

0:00 - US/OFN Occupation ("Standard" Provisional Mandate) - "The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os )
0:39 - US/OFN Occupation ("Neo-Marshall Plan" Provisional German State) - "Heino - Westerwald (Westerwaldlied)" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEYQzK2FMJM )
1:19 - US/OFN Occupation ("Neo-Morgenthau Plan" Germania Delenda Est) - "Violet Evergarden OST - The Storm" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYi8qhIRvw ), "Over There" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKx9oPyh0KM )
1:58 - Japanese Occupation - "Lili Marleen (Japanese Version)" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YkrQdBS6EQ )

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