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!
A Trip to Vienna
While Bruno was enjoying the peaceful days with his family, and Heinrich was struggling to figure out how to become a proper father figure to an adolescent girl he had suddenly found himself the adopted parent of. Things were progressing on the global stage in accordance with the changes Bruno had made to it.
The Tsar retained his power in Russia, and though he was forced to compromise insofar as to create a fully functional constitutional monarchy, one based largely upon that of the German Reich, he still retained significant authority as a monarch, unlike the modern liberal democracies of the 21st century which had "monarchs" as the "heads of state" for largely ceremonial purposes.
Russia began a state of rapid industrialization, having realized how much they had lagged behind the other foreign powers. At the same time, the wounds created by the Bolsheviks during their insurrection had slowly begun to heal. Something that time would eventually solve by itself.