From Paris to London, to Ottawa, to the various capitals that emerged from the ruins of Old America, and across the oceans to the ANZAC countries.
What had once formed the spine of the "allied powers" or the "free world" as it was often used in some forms of propaganda, all collectively sighed when they witnessed the feat of the Reich.
The moon, the closest celestial body to the Earth which they all shared, was unilaterally and decisively claimed by a single power. The enemy who had defeated them and brought their nations beneath their heel.
Nobody else possessed the means to challenge the Reich for control of the cosmos that existed beyond the confines of Earth.
Perhaps the Russians would be able to in a few years, but that would require financing a space program of their own, when currently their best scientists were in Berlin working with the Germans under joint-research pacts towards goals that primarily benefitted the Reich.
