For Want of A Sandwich - A Franz Ferdinand Lives Wikibox TL
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It depends from the origin. European ones have issues, but not as much as the Asian ones.
There is a communist party and it has not a lot of influence, the main left-wing party remains the Kuomintang. As of the Yan Xishan Thought, it has been removed long ago and there is no ideology enshrined, save from Sun Yat-Sen's.
He has a namesake, but he is fictional.
Osman IV
Osman IV (Istanbul, Ottoman Empire 24 February 1895 - Munich, Germany 19 May 1973) was the 39th Ottoman Sultan and 31st Ottoman Caliph from his accession on 4 June 1954, succeeding his half-brother Ahmed IV, until his deposition on 12 March 1971.
Son of Prince Mehmed Selaheddin and grandson to Murad V, Prince Osman Fuad lived in confinement until the passing of his grandfather before serving with distinction in the Ottoman Army as young as 16, volunteering for the Italo-Turkish War before being trained in Germany and serving in the Great European War and the Continuation War against Greece. Osman was a General at 30 when he was forcibly retired from the Army during the purges led by Enver Khan in 1926, as his influence and personal prestige were perceived as threats against the New Era. Joining the reserve army, he attained the rank of Field Marshal ; the Prince married an Egyptian princess after the Great European War, although their marriage remained childless.
When Osman IV succeeded his half-brother as Ottoman Sultan in 1954, the position had been reduced to a purely ceremonial one, the reality of power being held by the military junta that had succeeded Enver Khan and later in his reign, the resurgent New Turk government of Mehmed Nail Pasha. Nevertheless, the veteran Sultan showed an independent and modernist streak, shown by his love of fast cars, his laidback approach to Islam and his sponsoring of Turkish football. The Sultan went as far as suggesting to Nail Pasha to have Turkish adopt a Latin alphabet, an old idea for Turkish reformists that was never implemented.
On 27 May 1960, the trajectory of the Ottoman monarchy made a total upheaval when Osman IV, accompanied by General Rageep Gumushpala and his personal guard, entered the Council of Ministers and ordered the arrest of Grand Vizier Mehmed Nail Pasha for “imcompetence during the recent war against Greece (1957-1959) and betrayal of the subjects of the Ottoman Sultan”. After the New Turk ministers were arrested, Gumushpala was appointed Grand Vizier on the spot by the Sultan and announced, the following day, on radio, that free elections, a first since 1914, would be held within a year in order to “give back to the Turks the power to decide of their destiny”. The Royal Coup, and the period that followed, known as the Osmanian Decade or the New Tanzimat, ushered in a period a democracy that proved to be a parenthesis for the Ottoman Empire, never seen until the XXIth Century.
The 1961 elections, that had been preceded by a new Constitution, were the first free elections in the history of the Ottoman Empire and saw the victory of Sami Suleiman, the leader of the Justice Party, a monarchist and liberal conservative party formed with close assent of the Sultan ; the Constituton guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of press, political representation, freedom of cult and restricted the legislative arsenal of censorship put in place during the Enver and Nail eras ; Ankara was heralded in international press as “the center of a new cultural revolution” as wreaths of foreign literature poured in within the borders of the Old Empire and peace and democracy seemed at bay in a truly democratic Ottoman Empire. Even when war happened in the agitated Middle East, it was with the Second Armenian-Turkish War (1962-1965), trigerred by Armenia, that saw the reconquest of Cappadocia and Cilicia by the Ottoman Empire.
Nevertheless, the 1965 election saw the breakthrough of the islamist Caliphate Party along with the pyrist Nation and Justice Party ; the former criticized the current era of reforms and called by a restablishment of cha’ria along with the assertion of the Caliphate, a move that would trigger bad relations with the Arabs ; the latter, formed by former New Turk members, called for a Turkish ethnostate that would claim the whole Anatolia, a move that would also start anew the tensions with Armenia, Kurdistan, Arabia and Greece. The 1969 elections forced Osman IV to appointed the Justice Party’s leader, Necmettin Erbakan Pasha as Grand Vizier, on a staunchly conservative agenda that closed the era of freedom started in 1960, with cha’ria subsituting itself for law and repression launched against democrats and reformists. The Erbakan government proved a house of cards when Ali Arslan Pasha, leader of the Nation and Justice Party, helped by anti-islamist and conservative military officers, launched a military coup on 12 March 1971, ending for good the Osmanian Decade and throwing back a leaden shroud over Turkish politics. As a reformist and investigator of a democratic era, Osman IV fled Ankara during the coup, going into exile in Germany, where he passed away in poverty two years later. He had been succeeded by Abdulaziz II, a puppet Sultan in the hands of Arslan Pasha.
Retrospectively, the Osmanian Decade has been seen as an anomaly in Turkish politics ; for one, the Ottoman Sultan, that had been devoid of executive powers for half a century, supported a coup in favor of democracy ; for second, the decade was only a transition between the repression of the New Turks and the iron-fisted rule of the Ilkists, that proved even worse than Enver Pasha’s. Scholars, both in Turkey and abroad, have done much to reevaluate the scope of the Osman IV era, considering it as one of the steps of Turkish identity, one concentrated on the Sultan, announcing the Shukurist era.
The main right-wing party is inspired by Neo-Confucean tenets and Chinese irredentism, while the centrist are concentrated on economic laissez-faire. There is a growing Han ultranationalist movement, focused against Western values.
On that note, I am honestly interested in what became of her sister ITTL and the other people who were in the attic (and those who helped them), including what became of Peter van Pels after the divorce.
Alas, as of the other who hid with the Franks, they have long and happy lives but are virtual nobodies.
Elie Wiesel immigrated to Germany in face of the persecution in Romania and became a succesful politician and author.
Hans von Lichtenberg
Hans von Lichtenberg (born Hans Lichtenberg on June, 18 1943), who also claimed the name of Hans, Prinz von Hohenzollern, is a German socialite, known for his implication in the Lichtenberg Affair.
Born in Prussia just before the World War, he played a few heartthrob roles in German low-tier romantic comedies in 1960s while operating several saunas throughout Germany, Lichtenberg first came to prominence when he changed his name in 1980 to Hans von Hohenzollern, claiming to have been adopted as an adult by Princess Marie-Auguste von Hohenzollern (née Anhalt), widow to Prince Joachim of Georgia and aunt-in-law to Kaiser Franz Ferdinand. The Imperial and Royal Household made nothing to deter the claim, believed now to have been a selling of a certificate of nobility by the aging Princess, but as such, Lichtenberg became acquainted to then Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm, the future Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm V, who knighted him in 2000. From then, he became a favourite of German tabloids, his flamboyant lifestyle and publicized affairs (and numerous marriages, as he was married 7 times) being scrutinized by the media.
The Lichtenberg Affair was exposed in 2009 by magazine Der Spiegel, when it revealed that the so-called Prince had used his connexions to the Kaiser to sell fake certificates of nobility, private meetings with the Kaiser and receptions in Hohenzollern-owned palaces ; it appeared that the Kaiser had given his approval, his civil list having been restrained by the Steinbrück Cabinet. The scandal was huge and forced the Tusk Cabinet to further restrain the Kaiser’s civil list, going as far as Chancellor Donald Tusk calling Lichtenberg “a small-time con man and a fake noble”. Lichtenberg ran under his Hohenzollern pseudonym as an independant for the Reichstag in 2011, stopping when the Imperial and Royal Household ordered him to stop using his assumed name. Since, Lichtenberg has renounced his claim, continuing to appear in tabloids and in reality TV.
Ali I
Ali I (Istanbul, 14 October 1903 - Ankara, 9 December 1983) was the 41st Ottoman Sultan and the 33rd Ottoman Caliph from 19 January 1977 until his death, having succeeded his cousin Abdulaziz II.
The son of Sultan Ahmed IV (1944-1954), Prince Ali Vasib enjoyed a career in the Ottoman Army, serving during the First and Second Arab-Ottoman Wars, the second Kurdish-Ottoman War, the Fourth and FIfth Greco-Turkish Wars and the Second Armenian-Turkish War, retiring from the Army in 1965 with the rank of Field Marshal. marrying his half-second cousin Mukbile Sultan, granddaughter of Mehmed V and having one son, known in Ankara as a socialite, Ali was 73 when he acceeded to the throne as the eldest Ottoman Prince, taking the unprecedented regnal name of Ali.
As his successor, Ali I, even he was nothing far from being a frail old man, had only a ceremonial role, having to be witness to the repression of the Ali Arslan Pasha’s regime if he wanted to avoid the fate of his predecessor Osman IV. After the 1978 coup attempt by Osmanist officers against Arslan, Ali I was virtually placed under house arrest in his Ankara palace, as the Ilkists feared that the Sultan had approved of the plot. Nevertheless, the Sultan was associated in official celebrations with the delivery of nuclear weapons to Turkey in 1980 and the very successful start of the Third Armenian-Turkish War in 1981… Nevertheless, Ali I lived long enough to see the Ottoman armies rooted by the Kurds and Armenians, and their nuclear arsenal destroyed by German commandos ; the war had stopped in a ceasefire when Ali I died at 80 ; he was succeeded by his cousin Mehmed VII.
Destruction of Copenhagen
The Destruction of Copenhagen was a Syndicalist-ordered ground bombing attack during the World War, that took place during the retreat of Syndicalist forces from Scandinavia. On 18 September 1948, as Allied troops were prepared to enter Danish territory, coming from Malmö (Sweden), Syndicalist occupying forces detonated dynamites charges throughout Copenhagen, blowing up the city’s bridges, strategic objectives and landmarks (such as the Amalienborg, Christiansborg, Frederiksborg and Rosenborg Palaces and numerous churches) while retreating to the Schleswig peninsula, obligaterating residential areas in the process.
Denmark had been occupied and annexed by the Syndicalists since 9 August 1945, during Operation Août Rouge, surrendering in a day ; its government had joined the World War in exile from London and the Danish resistance proved particularly vehement against the occupiers ; the Allied invasion of Norway, followed by the Liberation of Sweden, engineered a large-scale uprising in Copenhagen, as the Danish Army in exile was among the Allied troops.
General Henri Tanguy had taken over the position of military governor of Copenhagen, after retreating from Stockholm ; a devout Sorelian, he followed Doriot’s orders to plant explosive charges throughout the city, as the Syndicalist leader pursued a scorched earth policy to slow down the advancing Allied forces. The planting and detonation of the charges was personally led by Tanguy, along with the violent repression of the Danish resistance.
Copenhagen had had more than 700,000 residents before the Syndicalist invasion ; it is estimated that 57,000 died in the destruction of the city, unparalleled in the history of Denmark and considered as a war crime. Tanguy was captured in Hamburg in December 1948 as he prepared to follow the same plan for the German city, and executed for war crimes by German and Danish courts in 1952.
The Reconstruction of Copenhagen was the main objective of the Danish government in the 1950s, encouraged by the international community ; the extensive project, that costed for than 2 billion dollars, had been funded by the selling of Greenland to the United States, the independence of the Faroe Islands and the renunciation of Denmark to neutrality in order to benefit of the Lodge Plan. The Danes reconstructed their city to the indentical, taking advantage of the works to modernize it, and the Reconstruction was deemed complete with the inauguration of the New Amalienborg Palace on 15 June 1960 by King Frederik IX and Prime Minister Viggo Kampmann. Considered a high feat of modern architecture and of Danish resilience, the Reconstruction nevertheless indebted Denmark for decades, as evidenced by the violence of the 1983 Crisis in the country.
No, Osman IV was overthrown, while Ahmed IV was his father.
It applies well, in fact.
Sorry if there was confusion, I was talking about Ahmed IV being listed as winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961. I think you meant to place Osman IV on that list because
Ahmed IV died in 1954
Osman IV democratized the Ottoman Empire
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What are popular tropes in CWR Victory TLs when it comes to PODs and the state of the world there in TTL's AH.Com?
Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Ernst II von Wettin (Altenburg 31 August 1871-Mexico 22 March 1955) was the Duke of Saxe-Altenburg from 7 February 1908 , succeeding his uncle Ernst I, to his abdication on April 14 1945, and, under the name of Ernst Rieseneck, Regional Commissionner for Saxony under the Confederation of Workers’ Republic, from May 1 1946 until he abandoned his position on 15 July 1949. Also known as the Red Duke, he is one of the few exemples of a reigning monarch actively collaborating with the Syndicalist occupation forces.
Acceding to the throne of the small Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg after the death of his father, Ernst II von Saxe-Altenburg served for a time during the Great European War as General der Infanterie on the Eastern Front, before having to relinquish his command due to illness. A great lover of science, he was known as a great supporter of wireless telegraphy, telephony and aeronautics. Nevertheless, he also pursued a great interest into Sorelian theories and advocated for a Syndicalist regime in Imperial Germany, distancing himself from his wife and children ; his status as a reigning prince protected him from any prosecution.
As such, Ernst II took the occupation of Germany by the Syndicalists with great enthusiasm ; as his peers and his family fled Germany to continue the World War, he happily abdicated his throne and divorced his wife, becoming a proud private citizen under the name of Ernst Rieseneck, committing himself to the CWR. His zeal convinced Doriot to appoint him as Regional Commissionner for Saxony in 1946, a figurehead title where he could be heralded as a major success for propaganda, inviting the elderly former prince to mass meetings, while all matters were directly addressed by the occupation forces. Behind the scenes, the Syndicalists distrusted the elder ; his offer to return to active service in the Syndicalist Army in 1947 wasn’t granted, owing both to this concern and his great age at the time (75).
As the Allied forces reconquered Germany, Commissionner Rieseneck saw the tide turning and hastily fled Weimar, embarking on a plane throughout Southern Europe, before settling himself as a fugitive in Mexico along with other exiles. Hated by the exiled community, living in poverty, old and sick, the former DUke of Saxe-Altenburg died at 83 in a hotel in Mexico City.
Due to this quite unusual status of an aristocrat who adhered with devotion to the Syndicalist cause, as opposed to the many nobles who fought gallantly during the World War, Ernst II von Saxe-Altenburg was condemned to death in absentia by a German Court in 1950. His portrait was removed from the Palace of the Dukes of Saxe-Altenburg by his own son, and to this day, “Rieseneck” remains in the German language as a synonym for “traitor”. However, recent studies tended to consider that the Duke’s change of heart had more to do with opportunism and eccentricity.
He was succeeded as Duke by his second son Friedrich II. Ernst’s eldest son and former heir, Georg Moritz von Wettin abdicated his position in 1931 in order to pursue his interest in anthroposophy, founding a school in Hamborn Castle. Friedrich II was the last Duke, dying childless in 1985, at which the Reichstag decided to merge the small Duchy with the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, ruled by his heir, Grand Duke Michael.