The doujinshi is to be read from right to left.
It's really important to read my comment!

Cover: [link]
P1 (Prologue): [link]
P2: [link]
P3: [link]
P4:[link]
P5: [link]
P6: [link]
P7: [link]
P8: [link]
P9: [link]
P10: [link]
P11: [link]
P12: [link]
P13: [link]



To explain why Poland always refused to surrender:
"The Polish President and Commander-in-chief escaped to Romania, and the last of the Polish troops surrendered on October 6, five months after the end of the month-long Siege of Warsaw, however the state of Poland never officially surrendered. Under German occupation, the Polish army continued to fight underground, as Armia Krajowa and forest partisans – Leśni. The Polish resistance movement in World War II in German-occupied Poland was one of the largest resistance movements in all of occupied Europe."

I made Poland look battered because I think it seems pretty accurate:
"The Polish September Campaign was an instance of total war. Consequently, civilian casualties were high during and after combat. From the start, the Luftwaffe attacked civilian targets and columns of refugees along the roads to wreak havoc, disrupt communications and target Polish morale. Apart from the victims of the battles, the German forces (both SS and the regular Wehrmacht) are credited with the mass murder of several thousands of Polish POWs and civilians. Also, during Operation Tannenberg, nearly 20,000 Poles were shot at 760 mass execution sites by special units, the Einsatzgruppen, in addition to regular Wehrmacht, SS and Selbstschutz."

As you can see France and England completely failed to support Poland.
They didn't expect Germany to defeat Poland that fast and were now busied mobilizing to be prepared for defending their own country.

Of course, there are a lot of things I left out and some inconsistencies but it's just too complex orz

It was important to me to emphasize how brave Poland was athough being all on his own (and that the poles, in contradiction to the widespread belief, didn't surrender very quickly ).

Well, I think I kinda failed since there was just too much left out by me but I wanted to finish the doujinshi as soon as possible because the longer It took me to complete it the more uncomfortable it made me feel.

Oh, and I gave Germanys and Russias uniforms "slightly" different designs because it didn't feel right to me to draw them in their (canon) casual uniforms. I just wanted to make them appear slightly less recognizable so I don't have to think about the events depicted here everytime I see them. They are based on the Uniforms they did wear in the "To the unfinished tomorrow" -chapter and the uniforms I believe himaruya based the them on.

Russia and germany are usually two of my favourite characters but in this Doujinshi I don't like them at all. It was one of my goals to make them very unlikeable here - the only appropriate option for me when drawing something concerning the Invasion of Poland and other events that left so many people killed or wounded.

I hope this doesn't sound stupid or what, but
it was pretty easy to keep most of them "in character" (or so i hope at least). That applies especially to Poland and Russia.

I hope i didn't offend anyone. After all, this doujinshi is just my attempt to "translate" and interpret the events "into hetalia".


FYI: Axis Powers Hetalia is basically a Webcomic/Manga/Anime where the characters are personificated countries who represent historical events in short comic strip