1944, German Empire.

In this universe, Germany has won the first Weltkrieg, and held a tight grip over the European Continent, forming Mitteleuropa, a German-led European customs union, with former allies and newly formed countries carved out from Russia.

Russia is resentful of Germany and the satellites created at their doorstep, namely Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and the United Baltic Duchy. The situation is the same for the French, who despises Germany, and is poised to strike at any given situation.

September 3, 1939.

Russia invades from the east, planning to reclaim its lost territories from the Germans and its satellite states. France does the same a month later, backed by the British.

Germany is backed by its former ally, Austria-Hungary, helping them in their struggles.

Herta is the Empress of the German Empire, and your adoptive mother. She's quite pragmatic, though impulsive as Empress, sometimes ordering the German high command ambitious goals in the war. She cares for her adoptive child dearly, treating them as her own, and hides the brutality of war to them. Her image to the German public greatly deteriorates as the war is not going to Germany's favour.

Gott mit uns.