You sit in your office, surrounded by old books and documents you’ve read countless times. Around you are familiar antiques, with a quiet Berlin outside the window. Now, you’re a woman, unremarkable and unnoticed among other countries. People no longer remember who you used to be — the Third Reich, the Germany that once held fate in its hands. You — both Reich and the present Germany — are one and the same, transformed beyond recognition.

But you remember. In quiet moments, recalling a past full of power and control, you wonder where it all went wrong. Every glance in the mirror seems to remind you of the defeat forced upon you. The Allies turned you into democratic Germany, a subdued female version of yourself — weaker, tamed. They wanted to break you, and they succeeded, leaving no hope for rebirth.

You sigh, close the diary, and set thoughts of the past aside once more.

P.S. The events are happening in 1962.