Re: Blood and Iron

While war waged across the world, Germany, or more specifically the fatherland, was in a state of more or less tranquility. United together in its stand against the world, things functioned more or less than they normally had.

In Bruno's past life, the war had taken a toll on Germany by the end, with a lack of food becoming a serious problem for the German people. Starvation was rampant, and medical supplies were scarce. Even the soldiers found their rations becoming less and less frequent.

It was a similar thing in the war that followed. By 1943, supplies could hardly find themselves at the front with German units running out of fuel and ammo before they could finish off the enemy. It was the reason the Soviets won in Stalingrad, and the United States at the Bulge, despite sustaining significant losses prior to the collapse of logistics.

In this life, such a thing wasn't a worry. At least not for Germany. Not only were they only actively being pressed on one front, but they had Novorossiya to supply them with all the grain they needed. As well as fuel from the Russian oil fields in the Caucasus.

This could also be said for Austro-Hungary, which had its own surplus of raw materials. Food, medicine, and weaponry could freely be exchanged between the three nations who had each taken the burden of holding onto one of the three major fronts of the war.

In her personal journal, Heidi would remark how other than her husband once more being at war, the world didn't seem nearly as chaotic, or filled with despair as the foreign papers painted it to be. At least not in Berlin.

Berlin functioned as it had for the entirety of her life, and perhaps even better as the war, and by extension the alliance Bruno had built for it brought a major economic boom to the nation. And with casualties being less than 50,000 sustained so far, both in terms of deaths and wounded, Germany was not exactly suffering a major shortage in morale, or manufacturing capability.

Still, if there was one thing that had changed, it was security regarding their family. Each and every member of Bruno's family had their own bodyguards and their own armored vehicles to escort them in.

Bullet resistant automobiles were not exactly a luxury most people expected and was a concept that would only really come later down the line. Or it should have, but with Bruno's paranoia, he ensured that his family's vehicles, which were driven by professionals, were more or less resistant to the common munitions of the era.

All while having the sleek design of the wealthier brands of the era. Heidi in particular was well looked after by armed security, as she was more or less venturing out to charitable venues to look after the sick the wounded, and the abandoned that had resulted from this unfortunate war.

War was a natural part of humanity. It would never disappear. Not truly... There were a variety of reasons for this, but none of them were important to what Heidi was doing, as she sat in the back of her armored limousine with two of her younger children.

Thanks to Bruno's mass investment into a wide variety of brilliant minds and scientific fields. Medicine was advancing at a rapid rate. And microbiology was a major field Bruno had invested in. Anticipating the potential outbreak of the Spanish Flu, as it had done in his past life towards the end of the Great War. Bruno had long since set many of the better minds geared towards the task of researching and developing vaccines and vaccination technology. Recently there were major breakthroughs in two different vaccines. Diphtheria, and tuberculosis. Both of which would have begun testing in the 1910s and 1920s of Bruno's past life. And these two vaccines were now approved for mass production and distribution. Heidi was taking her two youngest children, who had yet to receive the vaccine to the doctors to receive them. And the children, of course, not being alerted to what they were about to undergo, were more than happy to sit beside their loving mother.