Editing SS-GB (section)

===Setting===
''SS-GB'' is set less than a year after the British surrender following a successful [[Operation Sea Lion]]. In 1940, the Germans landed near [[Ashford, Kent|Ashford]], and [[Canterbury]] was declared an [[open city]]. The German advance captured [[London]], but a British rear guard around [[Colchester]] slowed down the Germans for long enough to enable [[Royal Navy]] ships to escape from [[Harwich]]. [[King George VI]] and [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Winston Churchill]] became prisoners of the Germans. The British gold and [[foreign reserves]] were shipped to [[Canada]].<ref name="Shimmin review">{{cite web|publisher=Graeme Shimmin|url=http://graemeshimmin.com/ss-gb-book-review/|title=SS-GB Book review|date=6 December 2013}}</ref>

In 1941, the [[British Armed Forces]] surrendered, Churchill was tried by court-martial in [[Berlin]] and executed while the King was imprisoned in the [[Tower of London]]. [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Elizabeth]] and her daughters [[Queen Elizabeth II|Princess Elizabeth]] and [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon|Princess Margaret]] escaped to [[New Zealand]] while the [[Edward VIII|Duke of Windsor]] escaped to [[The Bahamas]]. A naval officer, Rear Admiral [[Conolly Abel Smith]], formed a British [[government-in-exile]] in [[Washington, DC]] but struggles to gain [[diplomatic recognition]].<ref name="Shimmin review" /> Conolly is also forced to fight off an attempt by the Germans to take over the [[embassy of the United Kingdom, Washington, D.C.|British embassy in Washington]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Deighton |first=Len |date=1978 |title=SS-GB |pages=118-19; Chapter 14}}</ref>

The United Kingdom still has an unidentified puppet Prime Minister and [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]], but true power lies in the hands of the German Military Commander GB and the Military Administration Chief GB. Parliament has passed an "Emergency Powers (German Occupation) Act", giving the German authorities executive power over occupied Britain.  There is also considerable [[interservice rivalry]] between the German Army, the [[Schutzstaffel]] and the [[Gestapo]]. [[Hitler]] held a victory parade in London while [[Hermann Göring]] and [[Joseph Goebbels]] were on board the first nonstop [[Lufthansa]] flight from London to [[New York City]].<ref name="Shimmin review" />{{sfnp|Deighton|1978|pp=70-71|ps=; Chapter 9}}

The [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]] is still in force and the [[Soviet Navy]] was given bases at [[Rosyth]], [[Scapa Flow]] and [[Invergordon]]. The [[Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda|German Propaganda Ministry]] claims that the Soviet-German friendship is genuine, but cynics claim that Hitler is using the Soviets to counterbalance the Americans. As part of the German-Soviet Friendship Week, [[Karl Marx]]'s body is to be taken from [[Highgate Cemetery]] to the Soviet Union.{{sfnp|Deighton|1978|pp=70|ps=; Chapter 9}} 
 
[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] is still the US president and [[Joseph P. Kennedy]] the [[United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom|American ambassador]].{{sfnp|Deighton|1978|pp=216|ps=; Chapter 22}} The United States is still officially [[neutral country|neutral]], the Roosevelt administration is seeking to acquire German [[German nuclear weapons program|atomic research]] from the Bringle Sands Atomic Research Establishment. The United States had also launched an amphibious invasion of the French colony of [[Martinique]] after it sided with the regime of [[Vichy France]]. British personnel who managed to escape the German occupation have also enlisted in the US Armed Forces.{{sfnp|Deighton|1978|pp=326-330, 290-297|ps=; Chapters 37, 34}}