Chapter 34 Plan Initiation
Germany's action was so rapid, even Zhuo Fei did not expect that according to the course of history, after the signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, in 1939, the Germans would take action against Czechoslovakia. Zhuo Fei was puzzled by this, but he had no intention of stopping his plan.
Zhuo Fei, who has been able to freely enter and leave the manor and Berlin, has long been a guest of Gustav, and through Gustav's relationship, Zhuo Fei easily met the proud Hitler. The annexation of large tracts of land belonging to Czechoslovakia not only greatly encouraged the centripetal force of the German people towards the government, but also obtained considerable benefits for Germany, such as the mineral resources in Czechoslovakia and the arsenal of the Czechs.
At this time, Hitler was full of pride, but his complacency did not last long, because Zhuo Fei, who met him today, came to pour cold water on him. "Forgive my disrespect, Your Excellency, for I would like to say that although Germany controls a large part of the territory that originally belonged to Czechoslovakia, Germany is still facing a lot of trouble." Zhuo Fei ignored the anger in Hitler's eyes, and just said to himself.
Although Germany was operating in conjunction with Poland and Hungary against Czechoslovakia this time, Germany was always a thorn in the side of the rest of Europe, especially on the Czech issue, and the Soviets clearly had their attitude. I know that you are a consistently tough person, but Germany has a fatal shortcoming, and it is not a good time for Germany to come into conflict with the British, French or Soviets. ”
Although Hitler was not satisfied with Zhuo Fei's behavior of breaking the cold water for himself, but after carefully pondering Zhuo Fei's words, Hitler quickly calmed down. France had already shown its attitude towards Poland, and if the Reich acted against Poland, it would inevitably be attacked by the French from behind. The relationship between Britain and France was also very strange, Hitler was not sure whether Britain and France had secretly formed an alliance, and if Britain and France had joined forces and put pressure on Germany on the Polish question, Germany would face group suppression or siege by European countries.
Keenly aware of the trance in Hitler's expression, Zhuo Fei seized the opportunity and said, "Your Excellency, the biggest problem in the empire now is the shortage of troops, all the current forces of Germany are less than 1 million, and if these current troops only fight one country, it should be enough." But once the empire has made a move, it will have to guard against one or even several other countries when fighting one, and if the problem of the source of troops is not solved, the Führer's plans for foreign expansion will not be carried out. ”
Zhuo Fei's words instantly made Hitler's thoughts clear, Zhuo Fei was right, the biggest problem in the empire now is the lack of troops. However, fortunately, Germany has a complete reserve system, and now there are 100 reserve divisions in Germany, about 1.5 million people. Of course, this reserve case was absolutely not enough for the ambitious Hitler, and it had to be increased to more than 200 reserve divisions, and the regular army had to be increased to more than 3 million. However, if we want to maintain the German military strength to this extent, it is obviously impossible to achieve it in the short term, and this process will take at least about a year or two.
When Hitler was in thought, Zhuo Fei, who was sitting opposite him, had been observing Hitler's expression with the corner of his eye, and many so-called research institutes in later generations had made an analysis of Hitler's personality and physical condition. They agreed that Hitler suffered from a number of mental illnesses such as nervous breakdown, hysteria, paranoia, schizophrenia, unlimited self-deprecation, and syphilisia.
In a 1943 study, Dr. Murray predicted that Hitler would commit suicide if Germany was defeated. "He had a strong compulsive psychological urge to exterminate Western culture at the expense of himself and Germany as a whole, and was even ready to drag the whole of Europe to hell." Dr. Murray even predicted some details based on Hitler's personality analysis report, and he thought that Hitler might have taken refuge in an underground bunker and shot himself in a dramatic way, but unfortunately, his prediction eventually came true.
Zhuo Fei was worried that Hitler would be angry in front of the court, so he paid attention to Hitler's expression so covertly, he didn't want to be put in prison by Hitler to fend for himself when the plan was about to succeed. Fortunately, Zhuo Fei did not find any bad signs from Hitler's expression, and after a period of contemplation, Hitler finally admitted that what Zhuo Fei said had a certain truth, and the empire was indeed in great trouble now.
Hurriedly ended the meeting with Zhuo Fei, and immediately returned to the Führer's capital in Berlin with a deeply confused Hitler, Zhuo Fei was not idle, and drove back to the manor where he temporarily lived with Gustav. pointed out the predicament that Germany was about to face, Zhuo Fei's purpose was only to speed up the process of promoting Germany's military expansion, and only by making Germany continue to expand would it attract the attention of other European countries to a greater extent, but Zhuo Fei did not want a war between Germany and Britain and France at present.
"Boss, Hefman sent a telegram back, everything is fine." Zhuo Fei rushed back to the manor, and the guard in charge of guarding the telecommunications room handed a telegram to Zhuo Fei, and after briefly reading the contents of the telegram, Zhuo Fei picked up the phone and called Gustav, who had just separated. "Mr. Gustav, I'm afraid that the transaction between us will be carried out in advance, there have been some small changes here, and perhaps my return to China will be greatly advanced, so I very urgently need your promise to give me those weapons."
As early as when the design drawings of the AK assault rifle were handed over to Gustav, Zhuo Fei and Gustav had a secret agreement that Zhuo Fei would use the design drawings to invest in the production and sales of AK rifles. It's just that Zhuo Fei will not make a profit from it, because the part of the profit that belongs to him will be directly converted into the AK rifle that has been produced and finalized, and in addition, the Krupp family will also support Zhuo Fei with some other weapons and equipment.
Gustav agreed to all of Zhuo Fei's requests, and in the next few days, the Krupp family left the arsenal and headed for Bremerhaven Harbour. The Port of Bremerhaven is located on the right bank of the Weser estuary in Bremerhaven on the northwest coast of Germany, 32 nautical miles from the open sea. The Port of Bremerhaven and the 60-kilometre-long Bremerhaven Port are collectively known as the "Bremen Combination Port" in German.
The Krupp family's delivery of the weapons delivered to Zhuo Fei to the port of Bremerhaven was naturally instructed by Zhuo Fei, and in fact, the first batch of 3,500 Jews who had obtained He Fengshan's signed visas to go to China were rushing to the port of Bremerhaven. At a time when almost all countries in the world were rejecting Jewish entry, China opened the door to the survival of the anxious Jews, and thanks to the efforts of the lobbyists hired by Vivian, in just two days, Ho Fengshan's residence was already surrounded by a flood of Jews.
Zhuo Fei is not a savior, and he doesn't want to be a savior, so Vivian and Huffman, who are in charge of screening Jews, don't want everyone, only engineers, scholars, scientists, and skilled workers are likely to be the first to get the visa issued by He Fengshan. Moreover, these visas are not free, after each visa is signed by He Fengshan, it will be sold secretly at a high price by Hefman's men, and the Jews who are bent on fleeing Austria can no longer care about these, they just want to get a visa and leave here immediately.
He Fengshan was reluctant to use the black market to resell those visas, but Vivian gave a reason that He Fengshan could not refuse, for every visa sold, the national army would get an ammunition, and He Fengshan, who was kept in the dark, always thought that he was supporting the war of resistance. The SS who controlled Austria was also one of the masterminds behind the profits, and if it weren't for Vivien's decision to give the SS a share of the profits from the resale of visas, they would not have been able to distribute visas to tens of thousands of Jews in a short period of time.
As long as one member of each Jewish family met Vivian and Herfmann's screening criteria, the family was granted a visa issued by Ho Fengshan, and in just one week, hundreds of new families were added to the Jews in Austria who were under SS surveillance. Vivian and Huffman also knew that there were cats in these Jewish families, but this screening condition was proposed by Zhuo Fei, so Vivian and Huffman didn't care whether the people who got the visas were real couples or family members.
More than 3,000 Jews had already arrived at the port of Bremerhaven, and the weapons supported by the Krupp family had been shipped to the port of Bremerhaven. "Your Excellency, I have just received news from China that the Japanese offensive posture is fierce, and the Chinese government army may once again face the situation of being forced to retreat by the Japanese army. I think that my homeland is in need of your support from the Führer, and I need those Mauser rifles that have been replaced by the Imperial Army. ”
Although the treacherous and cunning Hitler promised to transfer a batch of second-hand Mauser rifles to Zhuo Fei to be shipped back to China to help the Anti-Japanese War, in fact, Zhuo Fei only got less than 100,000 Mauser rifles in the end, and in addition, Hitler generously gave Zhuo Fei as many as hundreds of millions of Mauser rifle bullets. Zhuo Fei didn't have time to care about these at this time, believing that 100,000 Mauser rifles and hundreds of millions of Mauser rifle rounds could already impress Chiang Kai-shek, but what Zhuo Fei really cared about were the Jews who nominally acted as camouflage cover for the transportation of weapons.