It had been decades since the de Valois dynasty was executed, and the Kingdom of France was partially annexed as the Dominion of Frankia. And during this time, the German Reich had spent an enormous amount of effort and resources converting the local population into Germans.
By now, plenty of German men had moved to Frankia, and married French wives, where they imported their culture and customs to the French people. And after nearly thirty years of this process of Germanization, the Kingdom of France and the French culture were nearly dead.
What remained was a strictly German populace, speaking the German language, and partaking in German customs. And because of this, Hans now stood in the city of Paris, where he raised the flag of the German Empire over the old castle where the previous ruling dynasty lived.