An Alternate World War for The Netherlands.

Sorry, I had completly forgotten about you.

To buy some time untill I am done With the next part, here is Australia (which, despite my writing, I do not have anything against).

Part VIIIb: The struggle to create something from nothing.

“Seems I pissed off command, guess it is off to Australia with me.”
Joke among Dutch Soldiers.


Compared to the grand campaigns in Europe and Asia, the liberation of what remained of the Axis colonial empires was barely worthy of a footnote. The fall of French Madagascar for example could be summed up as Boer troops landing at the beginning of May, overthrowing the unpopular regime, establish a pro-Dutch government and leaving the moment additional garrison forces arrived a month later.
The situation in Australia was much worse. There are a civil war had been raging since the Dutch victory at the Sandwich Islands in 1941, with far-right independence groups fighting against far-left loyalists, various groups of extremists, warlords and everyone who was not them.
It was this mess that general Nieuwdorp got the thankless mission of turning into a country, using the small amount of troops command was willing to delegate to this theatre. Begrudgingly he began the gradual process of conquering the better part of a continent and the process of setting up a government, minus the parts that New Holland wanted to annex. Nieuwdorp was in command until 1943, when he placed John Curtin in office as president of Australia (or at least the part under Dutch control) and resigned, stating that the stress had become to much for him.
To replace him marshal Berenschot appointed marshal Pietersz, who was judged to be perfect for this position and would no longer be in the way of more competent commanders. Pietersz didn’t care what command thought about him, the only thing he was interested in was that he got an entire theatre to command and he didn’t have to worry about Van Brugge or his aircraft ever again.
The average soldier serving in Australia did not share Pietersz enthusiasm. For them the war was a miserable experience, far off from civilization, struggling to survive in one of the most hostile environment on Earth and fighting people for no other discernible reason than that they “were the enemy”.
As the war progressed and the borders gradually expanded, so did Menzies’ ambition. He dreamt of creating a pacific empire of his own, an Australian superpower to rule his corner of the globe.
In 1948, when the last warlord was defeated, he took the first step towards fulfilling his vision by demanding that New Holland, New Zeeland and Tasmania all joined as part of his “glorious republic”. All of them refused, after having spent six years fighting expansionist powers they had no desire to roll over and surrender to the newest guy on the block.
Angered by their refusal, Menzies began preparations to take his neighbours by force and declared that he would even support India in their struggle for independence. He never got that far. In order to avoid another disastrous war, Dutch marines from the assault carrier Hr.B.Ms. Indringer took control of the government in a coup, executing Menzies and placing army general John Curtin in charge. Besides being an excellent statesman, Curtin knew his place and was keenly aware of who had put him in the office in the first place.
In the coming years, he would go on to rebuilt Australia into a modern democratic society and become one of his country’s most beloved presidents.

Hurray, off to procerstinate some more.

As global policemen, they are willing to do whatever it takes to maintain the peace.

But look at it from their side: one hundred thousand men had spent six years combing through Australia. Why should they throw all that away when one thousand men could remove the danger in six hours?

The Republic of Australia was formed from New South Wales and Queensland. New Holland could have annexed all the continent but then they would have ended up as foreigners in their own country.

There were some exstremist groups that wanted that to happen. Remember that the war was not just between democracy, nazism and commisism, there were many other fringe groups involved. These ranged from extreme feminism to jihadism, some of the flavour that made the two main groups look downright freindly in comparising.
Despite being a mostly forgotten battlefield in the west, it featured probably some of the nastiest war zones during the war.