The year is1946 and the Reichstag is burning. What had been the culmination of European Imperial ambition almost a decade ago, laid low. Its worker’s chains unshackled from its machines. Its colonial subjects were freed from its grasp. Its heart pierced by the flag of the sword and wreath. How could within a decade such a mighty titan fall. An apocalypse befell the German Empire and all European imperials and with it four horsemen rode into the sunset of Empires.