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!
Reactions to Bruno's Rise
With William Howard Taft being elected to the position of U.S. President, a man who was beholden to his donors within the America First Committee, which itself was a lobbying group designed by Bruno to keep the United States out of the war, the United States and its official stance on the Great War was one of pure neutrality.
Unlike in Bruno's past life, they did not even attempt to provide material aid to the Allied Powers, believing that any attempt to get involved, even indirectly, was a dereliction of their patriotic duty and a violation of the Founding Fathers' vision for the nation.
To put it simply, the United States maintained open trade with nations from both alliances while neither favoring one nor the other in any official or unofficial capacity. Meanwhile, newspapers printed the ongoing happenings of the war.