Re: Blood and Iron
Karl Wagner is a disgruntled middle-aged instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. He finds himself concerned about the direction which the German nation is headed in—just as he is killed by a terrorist attack. Only to awaken and find himself reborn as an infant, Bruno von Zehntner, the youngest son of a noble family renowned for its part in the German war industry a few years after the founding of the German Empire. Bruno, as he is now known, desires to rewrite history and ensure the German Empire emerges victorious in the coming century. And in doing so, finds himself entrenched in a world filled with Blood and Iron!
Rise of the Progressive Party
There was a saying that Bruno had once heard in his past life, and the older he got the more it made sense. "A society only has the amount of crime it is willing to tolerate…" Why did the black market arms trade exist in this world, despite the measures that could be taken to effectively eradicate it?
Because sometimes the great powers needed to supply the enemies of their enemies with weapons and munitions. Only that it could be quite embarrassing to have their finger prints on the guns… This was exactly what Bruno had down to help aid the various rebel groups in the Balkans in their aims to throw off the yoke of Ottoman oppression.
Was the Kaiser aware of these activities? Not at all, nor the German High Command, for that matter. This made it all the easier to put up a convincing façade to the world who began pointing fingers at the Reich.