The Pomeranian Offensive

In order to gain more ground back from the GGR, Paul von Hindenburg, in the spring of 1924, made a rapid offensive in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in North Germany, moving the front several dozen kilometers westward. The advance was made thanks to the GGR not having entrenched well in the area yet, and the GGR was not yet prepared in the spring due to internal unrest from overextending their forces. After approximately three weeks of fighting, nearly the entire state was back in Imperial German hands.   During this offensive, a record number of GGR forces were captured alive. While being transported, the loyalist troops were listening to the Kaiser's techmaturgically enhanced radio broadcasts. As the captured Republic forces listened, quite nearly all of them rather quickly declared their intentions to defect back to Imperial Germany and fight for the Kaiser.   The Kaiser and the Central Powers quickly discovered that due to the soldiers' previous loyalties, the Kaiser's techmaturgic radio broadcasts were capable of very easily returning the brainwashed soldiers back to their original loyalties. The Kaiser and the Central Powers immediately made it a priority to capture alive as many GGR soldiers as possible, and subject them to the Kaiser's broadcasts to return them to fighting for the Central Powers, and for the Kaiser.   The Central Powers also issued a demand to the Entente to turn over all GGR POWs to them, which the British and French summarily denied. Pope Benedict, however, agreed with the Kaiser's objective, and encouraged all captured GGR soldiers to be sent to the Central Powers to be freed from brainwashing. President Johnson agreed to play the Kaiser's broadcasts to the soldiers, but not turn them over to the Central Powers.