0p0 Third Reich Episode 272
Third Reich Episode 272
The French have lost almost a generation of young people, and there is no grass in the war.
For France at that time, the vengeance had been avenged, and what they wanted next was to live in peace and stability.
In addition, France suffered heavy losses in World War I. A generation of young people died on the battlefield. The people were very painful for the loss of their loved ones. The people are unwilling to be involved in the war again, because the price brought by the war is too great.
But the French knew very well that the power of Germany had not been destroyed, but was temporarily restrained. They would break out again at any time, and with the help of the United States and the Soviets, the French had to find allies to ensure their own safety.
After much deliberation, although France already has a group of followers of weak countries behind it, it is still better to find a big brother to be safer.
So France was on par with the superpower at the time, and with Britain.
As for the United States secretly helping Germany, this is not groundless.
As early as the end of World War I, the United States set aside the Versailles Treaty and established the Washington System by itself, in order to strengthen its own strength, and even forcibly equaled itself and the United Kingdom in terms of the tonnage of naval ships.
Later, the United States wisely did not strangle Germany, but instead supported it with loans, allowing it to act as a spark on the European continent, which may ignite the European continent at any time.
And the United States will not worry that the spark of Germany will affect itself. It has made a large amount of loans to Germany and allowed its army and air force to develop. The reason must be guessed.
Even if Germany uses its army and air force to overthrow Europe, but without a strong navy, how can Germany deal with the United States, relying on their tanks to drive across the Atlantic Ocean and land on the east coast of the United States?
All countries secretly supported Germany, and after the failure of the Ruhr World War I, France once again felt that it was wise to confront Germany head-on, so their attitude began to change, and they began to use the secret of success in World War I to build the Maginot Line of Defense.
It doesn't matter if you can't beat you, as long as you can't beat me, this is France's small calculation.
It is a pity that the German army crossed the Maginot line of defense, directly copied the French army's back route, and wiped out their main force, so the French surrendered later.
But did France actually lose?
it's not true!
France is actually betting on both sides. On one side, the Pétain government followed the Vichy French government in Germany, and on the other side, Charles de Gaulle followed the British Free French government.
In today's time and space, they even created a third-party force, that is, Berente's Algerian army.
So, regardless of the end of this war, who wins and who loses, Britain or Germany?
France will be victorious!
It's not so much that this country is too weak, it's better to say that they didn't make up their minds at all and devoted their strength to face World War II...
Text Chapter 434 Mussolini's sincerity
At the beginning, Reinhardt thought of giving Italy and Egypt the benefits first.
Anyway, Egypt is still the sphere of influence of the United Kingdom, so give it.
In addition, Reinhardt also made a promise not to interfere with Mussolini's "New Roman Empire" dream.
In other words, he could not interfere with Italian actions in the Balkans.The premise is that the Italians do not violate the interests of Germany.
Anyway, Reinhardt also knows about Italy's capabilities.Their army is simply the despair of all Italian allies.
If Mussolini wanted to show his talents in the Balkans, it would be nothing more than self-righteously taking Greece as he did in history.
Unlike the Battle of France, Italy was able to defeat 32 divisions by 5 French divisions.
In the incredible Italian-Greek war in history, the performance of the Italian Army was even more breathtaking!
In the Italian-Greek war in the original time and space, the main force on the Italian side was the 25th Main Army under the command of Polaska, under the jurisdiction of the 23rd and 51st Infantry Divisions, the 131st Armored Division, and the Littoral Combat Brigade and the 3rd Alpine Army. Supported by the Mountain Division, the total strength is about 8.5, equipped with 163 tanks, more than 600 artillery pieces and 187 aircraft.
On the Greek front, there is only the 3th Infantry Division commanded by Major General Simitros. The backup and flanking tasks are the West Macedonian Group (division-level troops) and Bandus regiment-level troops. The total strength is only [-] people, and there is a lack of tanks , howitzers and other heavy weapons, as for the air force, it is basically just a decoration.
But what happened?Obviously, Italy invaded Greece on a large scale, using the strong to bully the weak, and using Mount Tai to attack the Kingdom of Greece.
But fighting and fighting turned into a counterattack by the Greek army, forcing Italy to retreat.Then the Greeks occupied a quarter of Albania, which belongs to Italian territory, and besieged nearly 50 Italian troops!
Being beaten by a small country!
Thinking of Mussolini's future embarrassment, Reinhardt felt sympathy for him.
How embarrassing, this is simply rubbing the Italian's face on the ground!
How else can we say that Greece is only willing to surrender to the Germans in World War II?
Surrendering to the Italians seems to be a bit embarrassing.
How did that joke go?Because Greece is only willing to surrender to the Germans, and there are no soldiers of German descent in the Italian army fighting there.In the end, the Italians stumbled across a local prostitute of German descent who accepted the surrender of the Greek army for them.
The Greeks would rather admit losing to a German whore than to an Italian man. …
Oh shit!Reinhard admired who made this good story.
"Führer Reinhardt, are you listening to me?"
Opposite Reinhardt, Mussolini, who noticed that something seemed wrong with him, asked in his fluent German.
"Oh? Oh! I'm listening, I'm listening, please continue." Realizing that he was lost in thought, Reinhard quickly put away the wild laughter in his heart, and put on what he thought was the most serious expression, looking at Follow Mussolini.
Because Mussolini himself spoke German, he did not need an interpreter for every meeting he had with Reinhardt.This made few people in Italy know how pretentious their leader was in front of the German head of state.
"Okay, I'll continue." Mussolini paused, confirming that Reinhardt was serious, at least, after listening to himself, Mussolini continued his declaration.
"We, the Kingdom of Italy, must take 49% of the French oil fields in Algeria." Mussolini was not at all polite, and set his sights on the large oil fields newly developed by the French in Algeria as soon as he opened his mouth.
This is the most important step in Reinhardt's plan to win over France. If it weren't for the French Algeria to see oil first, he would have developed Africa's real largest oil field reserve-Libya.
Algeria, the "pseudo-largest oil field in Africa" deliberately boasted by Reinhardt, was used to seduce Britain and make Churchill sleepless.
The British will not let the Vichy government, a puppet of Germany, develop a huge oil field.Because in this case, it means that Germany will be able to obtain a huge amount of oil from Vichy France, which will continue to supply the powerful war machine of the Third Reich.
The task of the Algerian oil fields is to make Britain and France forge irreparable beams.This is a part of Reinhardt's huge plan that has been planned for a long time, and it is impossible to tolerate Italy breaking.
Even Germany didn't get too involved in the Algerian oil fields, but the Rhine Consortium held 30% of the shares and left most of the shares in the hands of the French to give them hope.
You Italian, why do you ask for 49% of the shares? !
And listening to Mussolini's tone, he didn't want to take 50% of the shares, and he had already saved enough face for Reinhardt!
Co-author Mussolini thinks 51% of Germany and 49% of Italy. Is Italy still modest?
But before Reinhardt could stop Mussolini, the Italian leader spoke again.
"Italy should receive 40% of its reparations after the French campaign to cover Italy's losses in the war."
Reinhardt just felt dizzy for a while. The fight with you was bad and the loss was huge. Should someone else, the French, be responsible?
Looking at the stunned Reinhardt, thinking that the other party was dissatisfied with the compensation paid by Italy, Mussolini suggested "intimately": "If the German side feels dissatisfied with the loss of part of the funds, they can send the French side Increase the compensation by 40%, and give the increased part to Italy."