Re: Blood and Iron

The untimely demise of Winston Churchill would affect the entire world, and in ways that were completely unpredictable. Even with his knowledge of future events, and a much higher ability to see patterns and predict their outcomes well in advance. Bruno could not accurately pin down what exactly would result as a result of the would be future British Prime Minister’s assassination.

Granted his own actions had directly changed the course of history much in the same vein, but this... This was completely unexpected, and when Bruno heard the news, well it was easy to understand why he was shocked, that is, if you understood his perspective.

Which nobody besides his wife truly did. In fact, Heidi herself could easily surmise that this was not something that was supposed to happen, as it flooded the news. She might not be an unmatched genius. Nor had she been college educated.

But she had grown up in Bruno’s family library along with him and had received a proper education herself up until the age of marriage. She was more than capable of understanding the reality that this was something which was not supposed to happen.

Even if Bruno had not mentioned once or twice Churchill’s name in the context of future events that had yet to transpire in this life, something Heidi was immediately able to conjure from memory, she would have known that this was an event that was not supposed to have occurred.

She wanted desperately to try to get ahold of her husband to figure out what was going on, but the man was obviously quite busy with the war in Italy and it would be difficult even with her resources to take him away from that.

All she could do as she listened to the radio broadcast depicting the assassination in the most gruesome light, was a hope that Bruno would have a way to adapt, improvise and overcome the challenges this would no doubt force him to undergo as the war continued to wage on.

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The German High Command was rather shocked to learn that Churchill had been slain in the streets of London. The weapon used was said to have been chambered in .303 British, and had supposedly from the ballistics science, fired out of a 640mm barrel.

Which meant it very well could have been a Lee Enfield SMLE, which was currently seeing service in the field. Or... It could have been one of the sanitized Mauser 98s that was re-chambered, re-barreled and given a new stock as well as scrubbed of all manufacture markings, and proof marks to conceal where it had come from.

If this was the case, then the German Reich would, in some part, be held responsible for the death of Churchill. But... There was really no way to tell as the assassins had escaped, and they were said to have been wearing red masks and armbands. Symbolizing them as a member of the British Union of Socialists.

A radical Bolshevik organization inspired by the Red Army that had emerged in Great Britain as a result of Bruno’s interference in the timeline. And if that were the case, then the Germans were in the clear, as they would never arm Marxist revolutionaries after seeing what they did to Russia a decade prior.

The reality was that the communists ended up taking the blame, despite the men who conducted the attack being a patriotic yet isolationist group which wanted an end to the war. Churchill, being among the most hawkish of the British Government needed to die for them to get what they wanted.