SS Oath
I swear to thee, Adolf Hitler
As Fuhrer and Chancellor of the German Reich,
Loyalty and Bravery,
I vow to thee and to the superiors
Whom thou shalt appoint
Obedience unto Death,
So Help me god
| DATE | EVENT |
| 1911 | Reinhard Galt Born |
| 1919 | Hitler befriends Theodor Eckhart of the Thulegesellschaft |
| 1923 | Eckart dies, saying "It is Hitler who will dance, but I will call the tune." |
| 1929 | astro-archaeologist and nationalist Wilhelm Teudt, publishes "Germanische Heiligtumer" (German Sanctuaries, 1929), claiming (among other things) that astronomy is a German invention DM |
| 1933 | Ahnererbe begins performing "occult" research |
| circa 1934 | Teudt appointed by Himmler as head of a SS programme "for developing the Extersteine sanctuary as a monument to the native genius and a centre for racial regeneration".DM |
| 1935 | Himmler creates Sonderkommando H (H for hexen, or witches) |
| 1936 | Karotechia (or pre-Karotechia) recruits "Dr." Olaf Bitterich |
| 1939 | Karotechia officially formed. Schwabenland expedition launched, leading to Aktion Eisschloss. Wehrmacht conducts world's first Blitzkrieg in Poland. |
| early 1940 | Teudt effectively loses control over the Extersteine excavation complex and program, now under SS Ahnenerbe direct orders.DM |
| 25 JUNE 1940 | Fall of France, Marshall Henri Petain sets up the collaborationist government at Vichy. |
| JULY-OCT 1940 | Battle of Britain, Luftwaffe fails to destroy the RAF. Germany effectively abandons plans to invade the United Kingdom. |
| 1941 | Karotechia conducts first Mass Sacrifice of Jews and Gypsies to the Deep Ones of Ahu-Y'hloa |
| 6 FEB 1941 | Rommel assumes command of the Deutsches Afrika Korps. By May, British Army has lost all gains made against the Italian Army. |
| 24 MAY 1941 | Bismarck blows up the Hood, and is sunk herself by Biplanes from the Arc Royal three nerve-wracking days later. |
| 22 JUNE 1941 | Operation Barbarossa, Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. This is the largest land operation in history, involving over three million troops along a 1,800 mile front. |
| 15 SEPT 1941 | Siege of Leningrad. The "ice-road" of Lake Ladoga offers the only route of resupply. By the time the siege is broken in 1944, 500,000 citizens of Leningrad have starved to death. |
| 10 OCT 1941 | Soviet General Georgi Zhukov assumes command of Moscow's defenses. 250,000 Russians, mostly women, mobilized to dig defensive trenches around the communist capital. |
| 20 NOV 1941 | Rostov, gateway to the oil fields of the Caucasus, captured by German Army Groups "A" under von Kleist and "DON" under von Manstein. |
| 1942 (exact date unknown) | Goering-sponsored mission to Rugen Island (Baltic Sea) to
test the Neupert theory of the Hollow Earth. Heinz Fischer,
infrared and microwave expert, leads the team. After five days,
the mission is cancelled. Neupert will die in a concentration camp.DM |
| 12 FEB 1942 | Lt. Cmdr Martin Cook forms Delta Green, using evidence of Karotechia activities to support his point. |
| 1942 | Alexis Ladeau disinterred by Bitterich. Von Junzt's second untitled manuscript found in his grave. Bitterich soon contacts Nyarlathotep who appears as Friedrich the Great and, over time, as sundry other mythic German figures. |
| 30 MAY 1942 | One Thousand Bombers destroy over one-third of Cologne. This is the first of many "thousand bomber" raids. |
| 19 AUG 1942 - 2 FEB 1943 | Battle of Stalingrad. A starving and ruined German Sixth Army surrenders against Hitler's orders. After the war the city expands and rebuilds over the unmarked graves of German and Russian soldiers. |
| 23 OCT 1942 | El Alamein lost by Rommel, who begins to retreat across North Africa. By May 1943, the Axis is no longer present on the African Continent. |
| DEC 1942 | Deep One mass sacrifices halted by Delta Green commandos and French Partisans. Several important Deep Ones slain. |
| 5 JULY 1943 | Operation Citadel, largest tank battle in history, fought at Kursk. This is the Third Reich's last major offensive on the eastern front. |
| 8 SEPT 1943 | Italy Capitulates. Italian Forces not under German control re-enter the war on the allied side. Over the next few months, Allied forces under Montgomery and Clark make a slow bloody crawl across the Italian peninsula. |
| Spring 1944 | Gothic Necronomicon discovered by Karotechia. |
| 6 JUNE - 13 AUG 1944 | Operation Overlord, D-Day invasion of Normandy Beach. |
| 16 DEC 1944 - 16 JAN 1945 | Battle of the Bulge, largest land combat fought by US troops. |
| Winter 1944 | Karotechia Necromancers use "Resuscitated Casualties" on the eastern front, to no avail. |
| 13-15 FEB 1945 | Dresden firestorm caused by unrelenting allied bombardment. "Who knows the number?" is the question posed by the inscription on the mass grave. Some 60,000 civilians incinerated during three days of constant explosions rest under the lingering query. |
| April 25 1945 | Cosmic Ice ritual: thousands die in the Berlin underground as the Landwher channel is dynamited upon Hitler's orders; the tragedy is centered in the Anhalter Banhof area, where 35.000 berliners (over 70.000 according to other sources) drown in the tunnels. The ritual should bring frth a new ice age and cause the end of Umanity. It clearly does not work.DM |
| 8 MAY 1945 | Berlin surrenders to Soviet Marshall Zhukov after Hitler's suicide. V-E Day is proclaimed by the allies. |
| JUN - SEPT 1945 | Operation Lunacy destroys WEREWOLF organization. Naudabaum Castle destroyed during Aktion Gotterdammerung by what appears to be a botched (or successful) summoning of AZATHOTH. |
| 1945 | Reinhard Galt sacrifices his men to the Anziques and joins the cannibal tribe in their endless feasting. |
| 1946 | Dr. Gunter Frank purchases La Estancia in exchange for several paintings looted from private collections in Krakow and Paris. |